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"Macro Mondays" this week's theme "Summer Olympic Sports" HMM
Since 1992, badminton has been a Summer Olympic sport with five events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles.
The shuttlecock cone is formed from 16 or so overlapping feathers, usually goose or duck, embedded into a rounded cork base. The cork is covered with thin leather. To ensure that shuttlecock rotate consistently, only feathers from the birds' left wings are used. Feather shuttles may come off the strings at speeds in excess of 320 km/h (200 mph).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttlecock
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I found these little feathers on the grass that were plucked out together during a fight between two house sparrows while I was visiting my friend. The screeching of them called our attention but luckily they stopped fighting then went their own way.
Macro Monday's theme is "low key".
These are three macaw feathers (two down feathers from our Green Wing and one small feather from our Hahns-mini macaw). The total frame measures about 1 1/2 inches. I placed a measurement photo in the first comment box.
Feeding birds are forever retreating suddenly to their hideyholes when spooked on our patio. But there is no need to call in Scotland Yard's Flying Squad... A tiny telltale feather clinging to the leaf of our Clematis montana has given away one of their haunts ... :-))
Marisma de Santoña
Santoña, Cantabria, España (Spain)
Canon EOS 7D Mark II
TAMRON SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2 AO22
Æ’/8.0, 600.0 mm, 1/1000, ISO400
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Gigaset GS290
Æ’/2.0
3.5 mm
1/33 Sec
ISO 487
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all...................... Emily Dickinson
Often Herring Gulls can look pretty mucky because of their foraging but this glorious adult was immaculate.
Art - Dry brush and layers from photo image
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Mute Swan [Cygnus olor]
Cold, blustery and very windy day...lots of swans in the harbour doing just this!
They weren’t actually asleep - their legs and feet were still paddling. Every now and then one would stick his head up, have a look around and then snuggle back down.
Maidens Harbour
SW Scotland
Glass eyes and porcelain skin
Look to her and think of sin
Her touch is like a hazy dream
Her mind is in a world unseen...
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A stern looking Javan myna is protecting a feather it found. In Fort Canning, Singapore. It got too hot for sightseeing. So I stopped to look for birds in the shade.
Explored on July 1, 2021 at #173
Carribbean Flamingo, aka American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) in the Urban Jungle habitat of the San Diego Zoo. Conservation status: Least Concern
Early morning dew drops on a Collared Dove feather, magnifying those intricate details quite nicely too!
With the feathers you are found, you can build yourself something beautiful. I was lucky to get some pale lens flares too.
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Taken with Helios 44 M, posted for this weeks HSoS theme,
"smile on saturday" "feathers".
~HSoS~ , nice weekend all!