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Red Kite - Milvus Milvus
Persecuted to near extinction in the UK, the Red Kite has made a tremendous comeback thanks to reintroduction programmes and legal protection. Seeing one of these magnificent birds soaring high in the sky is a true delight.
Once a very rare bird that could only be found in Central Wales, the Red Kite has been successfully reintroduced to several areas of the UK and can now be seen in Wales, Yorkshire, the East Midlands and the Chilterns. A large, graceful bird of prey, it soars over woods and open areas, its distinctive shape and 'mewing' calls making it easy to identify. Red Kites were routinely persecuted as hunters of game and domestic animals, but they are in fact scavengers, eating carrion and scraps, and taking only small prey like rabbits.
Red kites were common in Shakespearean London, where they fed on scraps in the streets and collected rags or stole hung-out washing for nest-building materials. Shakespeare even referred to this habit in 'The Winter's Tale' when he wrote: 'When the kite builds, look to lesser linen'. The nest of a red kite is an untidy affair, often built on top of an old Crow's nest. It is lined with sheep's wool and decorated with all kinds of objects like paper, plastic and cloth.
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And sooooo after a helluva long time away, me is back! At least in part, been so preoccupied with DIY, Home Improvements and painting, as well as just wanting to take a break from photography, I decided to take advantage of the sudden nice weather after a mild start to Spring. Went for my usual walkabout, which means wondering for miles in no particular direction in search of no particular shot and I accidently happened upon this cemetery.
I have to say, and in well meaning respects, graveyards are actually beautiful places, I do however draw the line somewhat, as I never take shots of actual grave stones identifying people, I never step over nor onto an actual gravesite and always say a quiet thank you, in respects for deceased occupier of the grave.
These flowers were at such an angle I caught the sun rays, which felt like life upon death, hence the word serenade came to mind.
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Florida’s Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna) is a songbird found throughout rural areas of Florida. Its breeding range covers most of eastern North America and parts of South America. Experts say it is difficult to distinguish between the Eastern and Western species as it can be determined only by voice and location. Seventeen subspecies of the Eastern Meadowlark are documented.
Actually, the meadowlark is not a lark at all. It is a member of the blackbird family (Icteridae) which also includes cowbirds and orioles. Meadowlarks are easily identified by the bright yellow throat and belly. However, the most distinguishing mark in adults is the black “V” on its chest. It can often be seen on a fence post belting out its clear, melodious songs and whistles.
Adult birds weigh just over five ounces, are seven to ten inches tall with a wingspan of 14 to 16 inches. Both sexes are similar in size, although females are normally smaller with a shorter wingspan.
This bird prefers grassy fields, pastures, cultivated fields, golf courses and other open habitats. It is a good friend to the farmer/rancher and a bug-eating machine. Insects comprise more than 75 percent of its diet, with grains and seeds making up the balance. It is especially fond of grasshoppers and crickets, as well as insect larvae and grubs. It feeds on the ground, picking insects from the surface or probing the soil to reveal its prey. Meadowlarks also eat the seeds of many weeds.
Males have two, sometimes three, mates at a time. Females build nests on the ground using soft woven grasses and hide them in the taller grass of an open field. The nest usually has an arched “roof” with a side entrance. A clutch of two to six grayish-white eggs speckled with brown and lavender may be laid any time from late March through July. Eggs are incubated by the female for 13 to 15 days. The young fledge at 12 days. The parents continue to tend them for about two weeks until they are able to fly. Juveniles are similar to adults, but the black “V” becomes prominent in adulthood. The meadowlark has been known to live ten years in captivity.
I found this one along Joe Overstreet Road in Osceola County, Florida.
Brown Shrikes are migratory birds and sighted in winters across the country. I suppose they migrate from Northern Asia / China. They are not common as compared to their other cousins, the Long Tailed Shrike and the Bay Backed Shrike which are seen lot more. This year, we have seen several Brown Shrikes during the summer too much to my surprise.
This kind of surveying from a tall perch is a typical behavior demonstrated by Shrikes. This bird family prefers to perch on dry branches around 2-3 meters high and survey the nearby area, often within 10 meters for any insects or small larvae etc... Once it identifies the prey, it quickly dives, catches and gets back to the perch. On this occasion, this juvenile was excited, fluttered its wings several times, but think it lost sight, so it didn't make the jump.
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A large duck species easily identified due to their bright white and brown plumage. The birds are migratory from South Eastern Europe and much of Central Asia during winters to India. They are not so common in our state, but common in our neighbouring western state.
Found them in a shallow lake in the middle of a grassland where there was a group of 6 along with dozens of Pintails, Garganeys and Pochards. The rest of the ducks flew away by our presence, but these Shelducks stayed put cautiously and after a short while ignored us entirely. The birds were chasing each other and seemed to have fun for a short while. The presence of 3 large raptors distracted us and the birds which flocked together to probably feel more secure.
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Also known as the Golden Browed Bulbul, this is an endemic bird of South India and Sri Lanka. The bird is bright yellow and easy to identify in the bush and canopy where they are sighted. Apparently, this subspecies of the bird we shot in the Malabar region / Western Coast is a bit paler than the subspecies on the other coast - though I haven't seen it yet.
The birds are of the same size as other bulbuls - maybe 20 cms - and are found in small groups. We sighted several around fruiting trees such as wild berries, Figs and they were quite loud during the time. The calls were a tad easy to remember and just like other bulbuls they were noisy. This is the start of their breeding season and hence I think they were out more than usual.
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Hopefully I have identified this correctly - butterflies are not my specialty but when I was researching it, that one looked the closest.
I took this photo on my hike at Granite Creek last weekend. The butterfly was very kind to pose on the fern long enough for me to get my camera out since I was standing on a rock in the middle of a stream crossing!
The Beachcomber or ‘Stone Me’ and Others
I have over the years come across a few of these stone characters, and not only confined to the East Coast of England where I found the majority. They have been discovered in The States, France and Kent. A bit of a random order I know. Some have come home with me but in the main I have left them in situ. No stones were harmed in the making of these images and the ones who did come home did it willingly.
There has been a development, I have noticed faces looking at me embedded in other materials. I know, a bit left field. But I thought they needed to be identified. I haven’t yet seen any walls with ears but you never know. Is ‘Big Brother’ still watching?
I was unable to identify this plant, but two commenters (see below) have done so for me. It's an evening primrose (Oenothera speciosa).
The plant was growing wild, with the flowers, which were about 2 in/5 cm across, fairly close to the ground. Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?
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A grave for an unknown American soldier buried at the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery.
This American war cemetery from the First World War has 6012 graves (597 of which are over unknown persons) and commemorates 241 soldiers who died in the area, but whose remains have never been identified.
The soldiers here mainly lost their lives in the Second Battle of the Marne (15 July - 6 August 1918) and the American Oise-Aisne campaign (18 August - 11 November 1918). The cemetery was at first just a temporary solution, but was properly consecrated in 1921.
Confusingly enough, in French the name of the cemetery is (in translation) The American cemetery of Seringes-et-Nesles.
This is one of Europe's largest dragonflies. The male is easy to identify with its apple green thorax and bright blue abdomen and blue eyes.
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According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Rusty Blackbird is one of North America’s most rapidly declining species. The population has plunged an estimated 85-99 percent over the past forty years and scientists are completely puzzled as to what is the cause.
They are relatively uncommon denizens of wooded swamps, breeding in the boreal forest and wintering in the eastern U.S. In winter, they travel in small flocks and are identified by their distinctive rusty feather edges and pallid yellow eyes.
Sturgeon County, Alberta.
My best effort identifies this damselfly as a Powdered Dancer in blue form. Still with the morning's dew on its back, it rests upon the bloom of an American Water Willow. Water Willow is a perennial which commonly colonizes along the edges of Ozark streams and is a host to many dragonflies, damselflies, bees and butterflies. If you would like to see the colonization of water willow along a stream and discover some of an Ozark stream's beautiful and amazing inhabitants, above and below the water, I would be honored if you took a look at my latest blog post here: www.gmichaellewis.com/blog/2015/6/life-of-an-ozark-stream
I have taken this photo in Museum of Illusions located in Lower Manhattan, New York during my visit to the museum on January 10, 2020.
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A beautiful and colorful Swallow resident in the country, but locally migratory around the nearby birding spots around us. I have seen in many places the last month - mostly in flight. I prefer some sitting shots sometimes though which they do on perches near waterbodies. They are very very challenging in shoot in flight as they are the fastest flying swallows here - and shooting them only works in very few places with good vantage points. Shot this at one such a place - a quarry where I think they maybe nesting too.
There were 3-4 types of Swallows / martins in that place, but this bird is easy to identify due to the metallic blue plumage while the other swallows we have here sport a dark brown blackish plumage.
The biggest attractive feature and identifier in the mature birds is the tail - which is just like a wire. These grow long and indicate the sexual maturity of the bird - the longer the better. Both males and females sport a tail, but female tails are much shorter.
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Fall plant detailed by frost. If anyone can identify this, let me know. I don't have enough botanical knowledge to make an efficient enough search right now.
One job, identified by many who have worn the "Yellow Shirt," is the Arresting Gear Officer. AKA "Shooter". So important is this role in an aircraft carrier that they even immortalize themselves in The Tailhook Daily Briefing, which is a naval aviation community. We all know that we have seen "that attitude" or postures on the covers of an aircraft carrier and what that means, this for those who do not know, it is simply. You're going to fly! Like it or not!
Un trabajo, identificado por muchos que han llevado la "Camisa Amarilla", es el del, Arresting Gear Officer. AKA "Shooter". Tan importante es este papel en un portaaviones, que incluso se inmortalizan en The Tailhook Daily Briefing, que es una comunidad de la aviación naval. Todos sabemos los que hemos visto "esa actitud" o posturas en las cubiertas de un portaaviones y lo que significa eso, esto para los que no saben, es simplemente. ¡Vas a volar! ¡Te guste o no...!
(Glaucidium cuculoides)
Mandal
Uttarakhand
Índia
We were photographing the species that appeared when the guide excitedly told us that an owlet was vocalizing. Since we hadn't photographed an owlet before, we tried with renewed enthusiasm to identify the origin of the sound, but quickly became discouraged as it seemed beyond our capacity to identify a bird that we already knew to be very small, although we had never seen one before. We refocused on what was displayed before our eyes and didn't think about it anymore.
After about 15 minutes, the guide exclaimed excitedly, "it's over there". However, even with the explanation of where to look, it was not easy and some of us took a few minutes to follow the instructions of the trunks to find this small, but beautiful, ball of feathers!
We spent another 10 minutes photographing this beauty, searching for possible angles, backgrounds, and frames. I even managed to find a second bird by myself. The difficult part is finding the first one :)
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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.
So, you may find:
- All the photos for this trip Índia (2023) (213)
- All the photos for this order STRIGIFORMES (66)
- All the photos for this family Strigidae (Estrigídeos) (61)
- All the photos for this species Glaucidium cuculoides (1)
- All the photos taken this day 2023/03/08 (16)
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One job, identified by many who have worn the "Yellow Shirt," is the Arresting Gear Officer. AKA "Shooter". So important is this role in an aircraft carrier that they even immortalize themselves in The Tailhook Daily Briefing, which is a naval aviation community. We all know that we have seen "that attitude" or postures on the covers of an aircraft carrier and what that means, this for those who do not know, it is simply. You're going to fly! Like it or not!
Un trabajo, identificado por muchos que han llevado la "Camisa Amarilla", es el del, Arresting Gear Officer. AKA "Shooter". Tan importante es este papel en un portaaviones, que incluso se inmortalizan en The Tailhook Daily Briefing, que es una comunidad de la aviación naval. Todos sabemos los que hemos visto "esa actitud" o posturas en las cubiertas de un portaaviones y lo que significa eso, para los que no saben, es simplemente. ¡Vas a volar! ¡Te guste o no....!
You can identify this specific butterfly as a female because it features two distinct black spots near the middle of its forewing. Males of this species possess only a single spot.
Identified by the white malar stripe and postocular patch; the spotting on throat is blue but this is H. jacula nevertheless. The species is restricted to limited areas of moist forest in Ecuador, Colombia and Panama.
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Despite the information elsewhere on this page, the lens was a 150-500mm, probably set to 500mm
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A whatchamacallit flower in the Victoria Esplanade Gardens - a bit triffid like I thought!
Maurice in the comments below has identified the flower as a Beschorneria yuccoides for me.
Another shot taken on an old Minolta MD lens.
Sony A7M3 / K&F Lens Adapter
Minolta MD 35-70 f3.5 Lens
© Dominic Scott 2022
Managed to snap an image of this classic American car in a local supermarket parking lot recently.
Didn't get a chance to identify it, seems to be a custom rebuild.
Any car buffs out there?
A Chevrolet perhaps?
Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus), South Greenland.
Many thanks to Flickr friend Michael Potter for helping identifying the gull correctly.
Epinome Cracker butterfly #lepidopteragallery #vero
When we visited the falls area of Iguazú national park on our birding trip, as we were coming out along a trail I spotted this Epinome Cracker butterfly on a tree trunk alongside the trail. (At first I thought it was perched like an "emperor" butterfly, like we have in Florida, but a helpful person with more knowledge than I have of the butterflies of Argentina was able to identify the actual species.) In any case, I liked the way it was looking at me as I took its picture and the tree trunk with all the lichen where it was perched.
Scientific name: Hamadryas epinome.
Date: December 25, 2022
Location: Área Cataratas of Iguazú national park, Misiones, Argentina
#butterfly #cracker #nymphalidae #lepidoptera
Although identifying speakers in these weeping poems is tenuous at best, I am suspicious of commentators who do not want a weeping God, a poetic character with human-like emotions. Perhaps such a God may not appear godly or macho enough. Perhaps a weeping deity is too vulnerable. But a weeping God, like an angry one, arises from human experience to name the One beyond every name. Half a century ago, Rabbi Abraham Heschel rightly insisted that the God of Israel is not a Greek deity of stoic power and unchangeableness but a fluid being filled with pathos and emotionally engaged in the life of the people.
-Jeremiah PAIN AND PROMISE, Kathleen M. O’Connor
Why fly? A pair of Canada Geeese waiting ffor the train.
CN Engine 5621 is primarily identified as an EMD SD75I or SD70I locomotive operated by Canadian National Railway (CN). It is a modern diesel-electric locomotive frequently seen in service across Canada and the US Midwest, including service in Wisconsin in 2021-2024, Manitoba, and previously in the Maritimes. Currently in British Columbia, Canada
Key details regarding CN 5621:
Locomotive Type: EMD SD75I (4300hp) or SD70I (4000hp).
Active in freight service across various parts of the CN network.
Acts as motive power for freight trains often found in "lashups" (sets of locomotives) hauling freight.
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The Canadian National Railways (CNR) was incorporated on June 6, 1919, comprising several railways that had become bankrupt and fallen into Government of Canada hands, along with some railways already owned by the government. Primarily a freight railway, CN also operated passenger services until 1978, when they were assumed by Via Rail. The only passenger services run by CN after 1978 were several mixed trains (freight and passenger) in Newfoundland, and several commuter trains both on CN's electrified routes and towards the South Shore in the Montreal area (the latter lasted without any public subsidy until 1986).
Reference: Wikipedia
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The Canada goose (Branta canadensis) is a large species of goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. It is native to the arctic and temperate regions of North America, and it is occasionally found during migration across the Atlantic in northern Europe. It has been introduced to France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Scandinavia, New Zealand, Japan, Chile, Argentina, and the Falkland Islands. Like most geese, the Canada goose is primarily herbivorous and normally migratory; often found on or close to fresh water, the Canada goose is also common in brackish marshes, estuaries, and lagoons.
Reference: Wikipedia
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Canada
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Abandoned house, car and water tower in Quinn, South Dakota, population 63 at the edge of The Badlands.
Car identified as a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air by Rick Gulden.
Situated at the Gold Coast Botanical Gardens - Queensland _ Australia.
They are not Ducks and have been identified as Dusky Moorhens by a dear flickr friend.
First identified from dinosaur-age fossils and was thought to be extinct. The dawn redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides.
Then, in 1941, a living specimen was discovered during a survey of Sichuan and Hubei provinces, China. Seeds were later collected and raised in arboreta worldwide. Young trees are now readily available. It exists in the wild as only a few scattered stands in China where it is has protected status.
This old and tall tree at Sandringham may well have grown from one of the original seeds brought from China.
The dawn redwood is one of the few deciduous conifers.
Not 100% sure on this one but I believe it is a hibiscus. Very delicate crepe paper like petals.
Newly identified as a purple flowered rock rose! Thanks to David Nice for the ID.
The actual identify of this species remains under investigation. In the year that I first posted this situation, no new developments have appeared to have been finalized.
See - mountainscholar.org/bitstream/handle/10217/84940/Papilio_.... At present the Pelham Cataloge IDs these as Dorcas Copper (Lycaena dorcas). A petition has been filed to have it recognized as Mountain Copper (Lycaena Florus). I will update to this once the Pelham Catalog reflects the new status. Clear Creek County, CO.
...at Pulborough Brooks.
I've done my best to correctly identify this lovely dragonfly, but will happily be corrected.