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Now feeling more motivated to actually sort through the thousands of photographs from my holiday! Am now feeling settled in my new student house, am enjoying having a massive room, it even has two double wardrobes.... so good!
My Mum let me have a load of her old clothes, from the 70's, so have quite a few taking up room in the other wardrobe, it's like my prop and pretty dress and stuff for photography cupboard :)
I went to London, took pictures on my holga camera, its so cool, its actually a PINK camera! someone actually came up to me in Camden market asking if was a toy or a real camera, was funny. Also I've been using my dad's Zenith medium formate, just waiting on getting them developed. Leaving a few films to develop for when I'm taught how to in uni :D
I start my degree on the 22nd :D Commercial photography :D yey
These little fish look like they don't stand a chance - but actually they swim faster than the shark.
Feeding frenzy on Pittville Lake...
Opened in 1825, Pittville Park is the largest ornamental park in Cheltenham and features the magnificent Pump Room and lakes. This park is given a grade 2 listing under the English Heritage register of historic parks and gardens, with the Pump Room as a grade 1 historic building.
Pittville Park is divided in two by Evesham Road. Most people are familiar with the eastern side of the park, which is overlooked by Pittville Pump Room, and home to the main children's play area and the aviaries where you'll find our popular birds and bunnies. However, to the west of Evesham Road lies the much larger western park with its more natural layout and small areas of woodland. Here you will find the larger 'lower lake' where you can fish during the fishing season, and there is a smaller children's play area along with tennis courts, a pitch and putt golf course and a skate park.
This photo apeared in the local Press and some national papers (I remember it being in the Express). The Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team were coming off the Ben when they came across this lamb dying in a deep snow drift. Yours truly had to look after it (it finished the bottle before the pic was taken by Anthony MacMillan - local pressman alongwith his father Alistair "Scoop" MacMillan). The lamb was back to the farmer in the morning.
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The recently fledged 2nd Brood of Swallows at the Black Hole Marsh provided a perfect opportunity to photograph the adults feeding the juveniles. To the eye it all looks fine, the camera can highlight when things do not go to plan. As this sequence shows the adult does not always get it right. In the final image, the adult is coming around for a second attempt.
I used a Canon 5D for these images and the speed of the High Speed Continuous mode wasn't fast enough to capture more of the sequence. In particular the gap between images 2 and 3.
A Pristine Monarch, probably just recently out of its chrysalis, from a nearby Milkweed bush festoon with chrysalis. decides to feed.
Note a do not have a cocoon but a chrysalis, a cocoon is spun of threads.
A lucky snap on their endless flights to feed the young in the barn. There were 5 in total, All left the nest now :)
I went with some friends and had a nice walk through the gardens. I had not been there in some years.
The earlier shots are the same album.
April 23rd 2025 # 421
Plan A today was to get up early and go to Bradgate Park, but I was too cosy in bed. Plan B then was a mid morning trip to Attenborough Nature Reserve. Saw this mum and babe as I was just ready to come home.
Photo 14/31 October Picture a Day.
The well known nesting tree at Huntley Meadows is now active with both a Bluebird family AND a Swallow family. I caught this male bringing home some food yesterday morning.
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A lot of flapping before the parent came along to feed this little one.
Catching up soon - busy gardening and making the most of the dry weather xxx
Blue tit feeding on nuts, always hanging upside down, they can do it effortlessly, they are so tiny.
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Baby robins ( I think ) in their nest waiting for mom to come back with some food. I had been hiking the Drinking Horse Mountain Trail in Bozeman Montana when I came around a corner and saw the mother feeding her chicks. I tried waiting for her to come back but to no avail, so I settled for a picture of just the chicks instead
Photographed in Tanzania, Africa
This is from one of the rare times where we got close enough to the feeding flamingos to get a decent photo. Their delicate pink color comes from beta-carotene, a red-orange pigment that’s found in high amounts within the algae, brine fly larvae, and brine shrimp that flamingos eat in their wetland environment.
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From Wikipedia: The lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor) is a species of flamingo occurring in sub-Saharan Africa and western India. Birds are occasionally reported from further north, but these are generally considered vagrants.
Characteristics:
The lesser flamingo is the smallest species of flamingo, though it is a tall and large bird by most standards. The species can weigh from 1.2 to 2.7 kg (2.6 to 6.0 lb). The standing height is around 80 to 90 cm (31 to 35 in). The total length (from beak to tail) and wingspan are in the same range of measurements, from 90 to 105 cm (35 to 41 in). Most of the plumage is pinkish white. The clearest difference between this species and the greater flamingo, the only other Old World species of flamingo, is the much more extensive black on the bill. Size is less helpful unless the species are together, since the sexes of each species also differ in height.
The lesser flamingo may be the most numerous species of flamingo, with a population that (at its peak) probably numbered up to two million individual birds. This species feeds primarily on Spirulina, algae which grow only in very alkaline lakes. Presence of flamingo groups near water bodies is indication of sodic alkaline water which is not suitable for irrigation use. Although blue-green in colour, the algae contain the photosynthetic pigments that give the birds their pink colour. Their deep bill is specialised for filtering tiny food items.
Predators:
Lesser flamingos are prey to a variety of species, including marabou storks, vultures, baboons, African fish eagles, jackals, hyenas, foxes, Great white pelicans, Martial Eagle, and big cats.
Breeding:
In Africa, where they are most numerous, the lesser flamingos breed principally on the highly caustic Lake Natron in northern Tanzania. Their other African breeding sites are at Etosha Pan, Makgadikgadi Pan, and Kamfers Dam. The last confirmed breeding at Aftout es Saheli in coastal Mauritania was in 1965. Breeding occurred at Lake Magadi in Kenya in 1962 when Lake Natron was unsuitable due to flooding. In the early 20th century, breeding was also observed at Lake Nakuru.
The species also breeds in southwestern and southern Asia. In 1974, they bred at the Rann of Kutch, but since then, only at the Zinzuwadia and Purabcheria salt pans in northwestern India. Some movement of individuals occurs between Africa and India.[
Like all flamingos, they lay a single chalky-white egg on a mound they build of mud. Chicks join creches soon after hatching, sometimes numbering over 100,000 individuals. The creches are marshalled by a few adult birds that lead them by foot to fresh water, a journey that can reach over 20 mi (32 km).
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