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at the ancient Mayan ruin os Imixche, Guatemala

Great Crested Grebe - Podiceps Cristatus

BIRD GUIDES NOTEABALE PHOTO May 26-4 June 2019

The great crested grebe has an elaborate mating display. Like all grebes, it nests on the water's edge, since its legs are set relatively far back and it is thus unable to walk very well. Usually two eggs are laid, and the fluffy, striped young grebes are often carried on the adult's back. In a clutch of two or more hatchlings, male and female grebes will each identify their 'favourites', which they alone will care for and teach

Unusually, young grebes are capable of swimming and diving almost at hatching. The adults teach these skills to their young by carrying them on their back and diving, leaving the chicks to float on the surface; they then re-emerge a few feet away so that the chicks may swim back onto them.

The great crested grebe feeds mainly on fish, but also small crustaceans, insects small frogs and newts.

This species was hunted almost to extinction in the United Kingdom in the 19th century for its head plumes, which were used to decorate hats and ladies' undergarments. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds was set up to help protect this species, which is again a common sight.

The great crested grebe and its behaviour was the subject of one of the landmark publications in avian ethology: Julian Huxley's 1914 paper on The Courtship‐habits of the Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus).

Population:

UK breeding:

4,600 pairs

UK wintering:

19,000 individuals

♪♫ The White Buffalo - Guiding Light ♪♫

The Milky Way

[Aleutia] Zoe Blindfold

S&P Ballet leotard

Sometimes, in difficult waters, we may all need a little extra guidance.👍

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Portland Head Lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine

For my Mother on Mother's Day 2023.

I wish all mothers a happy day today. They often do not realise how much they are a guiding light in our lives, shaping our hopes and dreams from the earliest of days. Today is particularly poignant for my Mum. This is her first Mother's Day in 67 years that she has not shared with my late father. Hard to believe it has been six months already since he died. You are loved Mum.

When the light of the day passes, the Cape May Lighthouse guides the weary fisherman back home. What is *your* guiding light when the world gets dark?

The Portland Light

Relaxing time yesterday evening on the dunes around Blåvand Fry, Jylland, Denmark

well our guide seemed relaxed, he was more interested in texts than anything else... if only we knew if he was guiding the shadows to us or showing our way out... oh... it would be so much more comforting if the exit was up rather than down... was crystal city above us or below?

Great guide and great alpinist.

Here leading the 3rd pitch of the classic Rebuffat-Baquet on the south face of Aiguille du Midi, on one of the most beautiful granite of the Alps.

Unfortunately often difficult to take a real camera on our climbs...

The guiding light at the entrance to Aberdeen Harbour, NE Scotland

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L'espoir d'un monde meilleur pour des milliers de migrants, mirage ou réalité.

2018

One light,

one direction,

one love.

Sunset at Rodeo Beach

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Elie Ness Lighthouse, just before dawn.

Taken @ Gale Storm Retreat, Aphrodisia Isle

star shaped blossoms from allium liberosum for #MacroMondays theme #Star

Actually I didn't want to post any photos while I'm on holiday, but since today's topic is a last greeting for Hans Holt, longtime member and admin of Macro Mondays Group, it was of course a matter of honour 😉 These stars shall shine for you, Hans. Rest in peace and may the light be with you.

Olympus E-M1 Mark II + Olympus 60 mm F2.8 Macro @f4.0

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Love the sun shining here on the bridge !!

Little Samphire Island Lighthouse, off the Kerry coast, near Fenit. This really looks like a ship from this angle.

Ali Surong, Alikodom, Bandarban, Chittagong, Bangladesh

Two lighthouses on the South pier at Grand Haven, Michigan USA, guiding Lake Michigan fishing and pleasure boats safely to the Grand River.

Guiding ceiling joists into place at townhomes under construction in San José, California.

Guide To Antelope Canyon, A Travel Photographers Dream

A few more of the same place at different times are in the first comment box.

- Lake Erie, Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada -

Perast, Montenegro