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Usually I see these Reddish Egrets back lit. At first this one was back lit too, but then he flew away.
It took me about 20 minutes to to reach him in his new fishing grounds. Luckily for me, the light was good there.
Reddish Egret
Egretta rufescens
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Cold temperatures during Minnesota winters is responsible for many actions that are not needed in warmer months.
For us humans, we put on layers of clothing to ward off the cold. We find it more difficult to move around freely as we did last summer and as an added negative, we tend to eat more resulting in many life-like Santa Claus profiles.
Wildlife similarly adjust as well. Some species can go days without eating during severe stretches of winter. Others head south before the cold sets in.
For birds like this Goldfinch, fluffing up their feathers is their way of simulating Thinsulate wear. For this wee bird that weighs about the same as a ketchup packet in a cafe, the fluffing traps their body heat so that during the worst of the winter helps them survive temperatures lower than -40F for nearly a day at a time.
I do worry a little about how they keep their feet warm. I may know somebody in our house that wouldn’t let them in bed.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
Fluffed up or impressive cleavage, other images of this same bird show a fairly round bird. The morning was a little cool and flying birds just do not get that fat.
All our snow has more or less gone now, replaced by wet & mud :( Evie misses it and so do I, so much cleaner! Fluff and snow go well together I think & I love this capture of her, all fur & big brown eyes.
last light on the scafells. lovely colour after a somewhat dull start. always worth hanging around just to see what happens.
The Typha family has 30 species. They are perennials that grow in wetlands. When they are ripe, the heads disintegrate into a cottony fluff from where the seeds disperse by wind. Cattails are also called bulrushes, reedmace, or just reeds.
This is another Take of my "BROOKS"- Shootings in Berne, Switzerland last Year. The "BROOS" Story goes on and on.....
Shot with the Meyer-Optik-Goerlitz Primoplan 1.9/75mm neo attached to the Sony ILCE-6300 (Alpha 6300). I do love the Bokeh and Quality of this manual Lense. Shot at F=1.9 and analogue processing.
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The beautiful osprey had just flown in to the snag when this image was captured. It looked like he had just finished a dive and was get rid of some of the excess water on his feathers. Taken with the Nikon 850.
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