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Here is a mating pair in the wheel position. Seen at a pond in Desert Hills, Green Valley, Arizona, USA
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Green Heron 0524
Anybody play the Mac platform game of the same name where you had to fly a paper airplane through a house full of obstacles??
A pano for Sunday HSS I looked at this in black and for those that remember it will look like an imminent head on with Jimmy Durante..enjoy :0)
Ružičasti plamenac / Phoenicopterus roseus / Greater flamingo
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Planeur sur fayence.
Fayence is famous for gliders, the first European gliding center is located in Fayence.
Neptis sappho
Taken in the Pirin Mountains (Bulgaria).
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Another DIF (dragonfly in flight) - This little hunter gave me a break. It kinda went round and round this little lakeside area, instead of the supercharged zip-zip high-speed directional flight changes on a dime. I'm quite fascinated with them. I watched a really cool youtube movie about "the greatest hunter" that furnished fact after mind-boggling fact, none of which did I remember. Well, a couple of things: they have direct flight muscles for each wing, so they can move all 6 directions up/down, left/right, forward/backward. And here's something really cool: their teeny little brain can choose which hunting approach - tracking (chasing), or interception - to run down its prey. Remarkable stuff, summer entertainment at the "pond".
The background is indeed the lake, I was a little elevated on the shore bank. Be sure and check it large, cropped a lot, but not too shabby.
Neptis sappho
Taken in the Pirin Mountains (Bulgaria).
More photos can be seen at alexperryphotography.blogspot.com
Just getting in some playtime with an otherwise garbage shot of some hang-gliders at Ft. Funston in San Francisco.
The sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) is a small, omnivorous, arboreal and nocturnal gliding possum belonging to the marsupial infraclass. The common name refers to its preference for sugary foods like sap and nectar and its ability to glide through the air, much like a flying squirrel. Sugar gliders are found throughout the northern and eastern parts of mainland Australia, Tasmania, and the island of New Guinea.