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🆔 Green Honeycreeper - Chlorophanes spiza
©️ Susanna Lewis de Amable
🌎 Valle del Cauca, Colombia
📅 March, 2020
📷 Fujifilm X-T3 - Fujinon 100-400mm
f/ 5.6 - 1/500 - iso 320
Untamed Birds of Colombia Expedition
Did you know honeycreepers are part of the tanager family? And as far as we are aware, they don't actually eat honey but they do like sweet things - like nectar, sugar water and bananas!
We will have plenty of fun capturing beautiful images of these birds on the Untamed Birds of Colombia Expedition, working towards that perfect picture you can go home and frame on your wall.
An adult Spotted-thighed Tree Frog (Litoria cyclorhyncha) basks in the morning sun along the margin of an artificial water supply on the elevated limestone plateau overlooking the Nullarbor basin and Indian Ocean at Eucla, WA.
It appears likely that this species has been transported inadvertently here from the west, as disjunct populations centred on settlements have been recently found and occur eastwards and well into South Australia. There are a number of issues raised concerning the ramifications of these potential movements, as the species has the ability to be a highly adaptable coloniser.
Taken on a Canon EOS 5D Mark 3 DSLR coupled to a Carl Zeiss ZE 50/2.0 Makro Planar lens. Hand-held and reflected side-lighting utilized.
I gave up on insects and shifted my focus to the flowers. I'm not sure what this one is but it is pretty.
Cerro Azul, Panama
This is kind of an odd portrait of the Green Hermit, as the bird is veering away from the camera, sideways. That foreshortens the lower body and tail - it is a very large hummingbird.
Please don't use this photo on websites, blogs or other media without my written permission. (c) Yago Veith www.yago1.com - Flickr Interesting
"Green, green, it's green they say, on the far side of the hill" -the song by the New Christy Minstrels came to mind the other day. All the hills here are green, near or far. Hope you all have a great rest of the weekend.
Another part of my Old Town Center is done!
It's a Green Grocer, situated next to the water (river) and bridge.
Miss Clementine greets her customers buying her fresh produce. Outside she has apples, pineapples, strawberries, bananas, cherries, pumpkins, chilies, juice and more on display.
Mr. Jonah Gold brings a fresh batch of bright red apples, straight from his farm! Artie Choke, the stock clerk, comes out to help him unload.
Around back is the old little wharf, where produce can be brought by boat, straight into the cellar.
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The ugly black mess hides some even uglier scaffolding. None of this will be visible as I build more around this part of the Town Center.
The Interior isn't done yet.
I was so pleased to find this male green woodpecker feeding the fledgling on the edge of the path...a special moment and series of photographs for me as I really like green woodpeckers but have had so few opportunities to observe them up close.....
The rambutan is one of my favorite local fruit, but these seeds are a little to early to consume. Most rambutan fruit turn red or yellow and sweet when they are ripe while the green ones are usually sour in taste.
Macro mode capture taken with my trusty (old) PowerShot S120 compact camera. I still use it when I only want to carry the lightest and smallest digital camera without resorting to my smartphone.
My oldest compact - the PowerShot S95 has been in semi-permanent retirement since I had the S120.
Stodmarsh - first visit to Stodmarsh for 4 years, I was hoping to see the Wood Sandpipers, certainly saw them but never close enough for a decent image.
Green ‘Big’ Deal
For the First Time, Green Power Tops Coal Industry in US Energy Production in April. Renewable energy outworked coal in April—and will likely continue that way.
…the tipping point where green energy overtakes coal energy permanently may have already taken place in a surprising location: Texas. Wamsted writes that wind and solar in the state topped the production of coal for the entire first quarter of 2019. Almost three hundred renewable energy projects slated for Texas in the near future should boost its numbers in the coming years. (smithsonian,com)
This picture however is from California and that Wind Farm is the oldest wind farm in the United States and once produced half of the world’s wind-generated electricity.
I pulled over to shoot this picture by the road side as the low clouds rolled on the hills revealing the Wind Turbines.
Sony a7RII
SMC Pentax 645 120mm f/4 Macro (Macros are surprisingly good for landscape photography!)
ISO 400, 120mm 1/320 at f/32 (not a typo)
Green-flowered Helleborine / epipactis phyllanthes. Lincolnshire. 22/07/19.
This was the plant bearing the most number of flowers that I managed to find in the entire Green-flowered Helleborine colony. Only the top half is shown.
As GFH flowers are self pollinating, they don't need to open in order to attract insects to do the job. If the image is viewed larger, you can see that only one of the flowers is fully open. It reveals it's small, creamy-white lip tipped with green. Few of the others were likely to have opened, so It was a pleasing reward to get this peep into the interior of a tiny, (usually secretive) flower.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.