Egret early morning fishing - Daytona

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I've been watching mum for a few weeks now on my evening owl trips. Although I have seen the youngsters I haven't had an opportunity for a decent shot until now.

Still no sign of the owls sadly, but we came across a hunting female nearer to home this morning.

Pics of the new lady barnie to follow.

Curlew - Numenius

Yorkshire Dales -Near lower barn

Many thanks as always to all those who stop by and are kind enough to comment on or fave my photos. It is sincerely appreciated and welcome.

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Great Blue Heron with its prey. Kinda tricky to get the whole thing sharp when too close to the subject.

Canon EOS 6D @ 400mm ---- 1/3200s--- f/8 --- ISO 640

Really impressed with the Canon R5's ability to focus and the large file size makes large crops possible.

We went out on a boat trip whilst we were on holiday. The Farne Island, off the coastline near to where we were staying, are habitat to lots of birds, including puffins. We were not able to land because of Covid-19 but did sale around the islands. We were so delighted to see lots of puffins as the skipper of the boat had said that the 'bird' season there was all but over. This little one had a mouth full of sand eels. I was delighted to be able to get a shot of it, whilst bobbing up and down in a boat

Little Egret

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Poweful storms a few months back changed the mudflats along the shoreline. Most of the sand and seaweed was cleaned away leaving clear pools among the rocks.

Ideal for fish to gather in, and of course for an enterprinsing Egret to ply its talents.

So here I was Christmas morning - enjoying 70 (+20) degrees, catching sunlight on tiny insects and then just taking pictures of everything around the house. Nothing better found to do was taking a pic of my reflection in the window. And here he was - my amazing husband - setting the mood for a fantastic day to follow.

Have wonderful day everybody!

Smile!

xoxo

This guy was very successful and caught several fish while i was there , the weather was terrible , windy and dull.

Finally, after many tries, catch your fish !!

I just barely caught this sulphur before it got away.

I added on a couple of unrelated shots.

Bald Eagles on Lake Potter enjoying the warm weather and good fishing.

Continued warmth is quickly depleting the eagle viewing as the birds began their migration north. Even had thunder, lightning and hail last night. baseball size hail just south of us!

Final post for a while. Took this on the last trip. Taken in the Namib desert and this is a wild Namib Chameleon catching a meal worm (I managed to get a few different shots of this and posted a very different one before). Fingers crossed for the Northern lights weather forecast is not looking to good! Adios amigos!

Happy Web Wednesday have a great day ;0)

Session with a serious Star Wars fan

Yesterday at a working gun dog event -

Just discovered this as I was cleaning up my computer....taken a few weeks ago at Brighton Beach just North of Brisbane. There is always something to discover in a true sense.

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Robb Field, San Diego River

Nuthatch, not quite escaping the camera in time.

My neighbour.

Martin's 30 b-day party @ du-bop

Globeflower and bud

Have been trying since Spring to capture one.

Yessiree Mart .... your secret is safe with me buddy ..... October you say !!!!! gottcha..

I love to do candids ..... but from animals....How cool is this.....

Enjoy my friends....wink wink..... ;-)

Martin carved this pumpkin...right out of "Sleepy Hollow!"

Female Belted Kingfisher

Ceryle alcyon

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Member of the Flickr Bird Brigade

Activists for birds and wildlife

I hope that you all can visualize or try to see what goes on here in our wetlands. There are islands with many many species and nests of different species and sometimes it get just a little to crowded and one get to close to the others condos and sometimes an argument ensues ot some type of altercation, nothing ever comes of it usually and the worst thing is when a chick falls out oif the nest, then he's in trouble. But here the Egret was bouncing around feeling his oats when he came to close to the Anhinga nest, they started to nip at his feet and the Egret couldn't pull them up fast enough, this folks is why I shoot like a lunatic, many many deletes yes, but an awful lot of keepers, the story a little long but so hope you can see just what happens sometimes.Have a great weekend and that you so much for your patience and for stopping by.

I saw two unsuccessful attempts by this osprey in different areas of the lake. That lead me to think either cataracts or Alzheimers. However this grab yielded a nice reward.....so it is batting .333 , and that's not bad in the majors!!!

Estate Consultant for the Costa Rica Sims

Partnered with Giancarlo Takacs

All around hottie :)

Total sneak attack...gottcha you little shit! I always see your man, but never you, so this was my chance! hehe

..... using the Lot's wife technique!

The catch of a wasp!

Hello everyone...hope you're all doing well...sorry I haven't been around for a couple of days...was busy and enjoying the weather, as it's now back to clouds and rain....had a great 2 days off...have a great day/night and thanks so much for your visits!

Beware..... They stalk the night!

Happy Furry Friday! A little healing laughter to all our Flickr friends :-)

the wedding photographer

These two does were playing out by the pond the other day... "Not it..." "Gottcha"

Off to a tree to enjoy its lunch.

Still playing with candid portraits...decided to give a few the punch of b/w ......

I hope you guys like my decision to move to another facet .... I do.....

we are in the middle of a snow storm today,

but I'm taking a little break from winter anyway......;~)

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

~ Albert Camus ~

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This was shot with a little wooden pinhole camera on medium format film. Exposure time was approximately 5 seconds.

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A goldfinch at last ! I have heard them for ages twittering away as they do , but they have always been out of sight until this one flew into another tree high up higher than the house - gottcha !

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Gold , that's a good enough reason !