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Interesting behaviour. These Hoopoes were chattering and displaying while the same time feeding their nestlings in hole of a tree. The green wood hoopoe is a cooperative breeder and common resident in most of sub-Saharan Africa. It is found in groups of up to a dozen or so birds with only one breeding pair. The breeding female lays two to four blue eggs in a natural tree hole or old barbet nest and incubates them for about 18 days. On hatching, she and the nestlings are fed by the rest of the group, even after they have fledged and left the nest hole. The group is fearless in defence of the nestlings against intruders.
Another one of Sam's from the butterfly house at Longleat.
Happy Birthday to my sister in law Debs, hope you enjoyed your day and you and Kev have a lovely weekend away xx
I hope you all have a lovely weekend, I will catch up with you all over the weekend. Enjoy yourselves.
Some people had some problems with the face and I agreed the eyes and mouth were too low. I think it looks a lot better now
self-portrait
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A green heron scratching the itch in the top of a cypress at the Nonconnah Greenbelt at Germantown, Tn in late afternoon.
Happy Bokeh Wednesday, Friends !!!
"EID MUBARAK" for the flikr friends who celebrate "RAMZAN"
Explored.
This green anole was keeping an eye on me. I think I was into his territory.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas
EIN NATURPHÄNOMEN – Der Große Ahornboden im Karwendelgebirge
Am Talgrund des Rißtales, wo der Rißbach eines seiner Quellgebiete hat, formen über 2.000 Berg-Ahornbäume einen lichten Wald. Diese botanische Rarität auf 1.200 Meter Seehöhe erstreckt sich über eine Fläche von 240 Hektar! Ahornbäume jeden Alters, von jungen Keimlingen bis zu 600 Jahre alten Baumriesen geben dem Großen Ahornboden seinen Namen...
fotografiert von der Hasentalalm
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The Great Maple Ground (Großer Ahornboden)
On the valley floor of the Risstal Valley, where the Rissbach creek has one of its source areas, over 2,000 mountain maple trees form a light forest. This botanical rarity at 1,200 metres above sea level covers an area of 240 hectares! Over 2000 maple trees of all ages, from young seedlings to 600-year-old giant trees, give the Great Maple Ground its name....Karwendel mountain range, Tyrol / Austria
Dark Green Fritillary / mesoacidalia aglaja. Longstone Edge, Derbyshire. 30/06/20.
'CAN YOU FEEL THE SWAY?'
When I reached the top of Longstone Edge, the light was great but there was a fresh, gusty wind which set the vegetation rocking in every direction. Far from ideal for photographing Dark Green Fritillaries ... and these hyper-active butterflies were my target that day!
There were a pleasing number of them on the wing but all very mobile. Eventually I found a small group of Musk Thistles which were favoured (occasionally), as a source of nectar. I decided to wait there.
Sure enough, single butterflies powered their way in to them but on landing, became either obscured or just made the briefest touchdown ... and off. Finally this individual landed and stayed. S/he worked around all the flowers in turn, coping very well as the wind tossed them about. It was impossible to make the sort of images I had planned, so I just fired away and hoped that I'd get something in focus. This is about the best left in a small set after the majority were assigned to the Trash bin!
Have just noticed it had lost one of it's antenna.
Juvenile green woodpecker.
Very pleased with this one, for they are one of the shyest birds we have in the Netherlands.
From a hide, on tripod.
More gray skies yesterday, but I was happy to have a relatively close encounter with a green heron, a species I've seen only a handful of times in CT, usually partially hidden near the water's edge. This one (a juvenile I think) was running around in the middle of a pond on top of the lily pads.
Voigtländer Macro APO-Lanthar 65mm 2.0 Aspherical
I can very highly recommend the Lens I used for this Photo, it is build like a tank, fous very nice, can be used for just about any kind of Photography
The corn is starting to be picked - this tractor sits idle overlooking the crops it earlier plowed the ground for. Like Henry Ford's dream to have a car in every home - there is just about a classic John Deere green and yellow tractor in every barn.
A macro of a white coneflower's center...
There were plenty of full blossoms, but this young bud just preparing to bloom was awesome with that green color!
Settled in green, a Song Sparrow looks up towards the sky watching out for any predators or insects flying about.
I originally had intended to photograph just the greenery with a soft bokeh background giving the photo a sort of hazy look to it, the bird was just a bonus but it drew the whole photograph together.