A Bee-eater with it's feathers ruffled!

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This beautiful material is produced by a Cotinus (var. Grace), also called Smoke tree. Here it is captured in the Californian late afternoon sun.

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Big Blue Heron,Fluffing up to stay Warm.

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Little Owl (Athane noctau)

The Little Owl is not a native species, having been introduced to Britain in the 1870s, but it appears to have occupied a vacant niche without having any detrimental impact on other species. Numbers and breeding distribution increased gradually, reaching an estimated breeding population of between 4,000 and 8,500 pairs at the time of Project Barn Owl. The current distribution extends across England, north to the Scottish borders and west into Wales, where it is largely confined to Anglesey and to eastern parts of the country. There have been very few records from Ireland.

Pairs remain on their breeding territories throughout the year, with territorial calling evident during autumn – when young birds are searching for breeding territories – and again during spring. Small cavities are favoured for breeding, these often located within hedgerow trees or the walls of old agricultural buildings. Favoured nesting chambers tend to be located some distance from the cavity entrance and with little daylight reaching them. The male will often perch close to the nest cavity while his mate is incubating her clutch of eggs.

Little Owls often hunt from a perch, taking small mammals and large invertebrates, including earthworms, cockchafers and other beetles. There is evidence to suggest that breeding success is linked to the availability of small mammals, though some pairs evidently do well on other prey; a pair breeding on the island of Skomer, for example, took a large number of Storm Petrels (Courtesy BTO).

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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.

A previously unpublished shot from April 2018. Enjoy.

Great blue heron landing and fluffing out those cool feathers.

ITS SO FLUFFY

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A Green heron doing some grooming. Wildwood, Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Juvenile house sparrow (Passer domesticus) perched ona fance and all fluffed-up.

Młody wróbel domowy (Passer domesticus) siedzący na ogrodzeniu i cokolwiek rozczochrany.

house finch....

Kingsburg, Ca.

The Dragon isn't as chubby as he looks in this photo. He weighs a bit more than in summer but in fact there still isn't much fat under all this fluff. Even the vet was suprised when she weighed him on Monday and realised that he is only slightly above his ideal weight. The Dragon feels much better now but only stayed outside for a short moment. He was only in the garden because I went out to refill the birdfeeder but it was too cold and wet for his taste and he happily returned inside wirh me.

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Gold keeping warm by fluffing up its feathers!

Taken in local woods,Devon

A Dark-eyed Junco and fluffed up on a cold morning in Republic, WA.

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Female Bushtit fluffed up in the morning chill.

Vandaag foto's gemaakt met een pluis van de gele morgenster en een bloem op de achtergrond.

Ik heb een tussenring op mijn macro lens geschroefd en een stack van 11 foto's gemaakt.

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Vermilion Flycatcher

Snowy Egret

Egretta thula

I watched for several minutes as this egret fished from is perch on a rock in perfect late afternoon light. It suddenly decided to fluff up all its feathers, apparently in breeding plumage. It only lasted a few seconds, I was fortunate to capture it mid-fluff.

Circle-B-Bar Reserve, Polk County, FL

Bald Eagle

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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.

Previously unpublished shot from March 2019. Enjoy!

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Fluff

Golden-crowned kinglet

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A very late downy Moorhen chick. This was probably a replacement clutch after one (or more) failures

Red-shouldered hawk...Corkscrew Swamp

I thought Jasper looked particularly fluffy in this shot. And in fact, he is a pretty fluffy boy. Here he is on the trail at Lost Dutchman State Park, concerned that his human mom makes it down the trail OK (she's a trooper, but she's no mountain goat)