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Just a little fly hanging out on one of my holly bushes. I have no idea what kind of fly this is, if someone knows I'd love to be informed.
I was mystified by the amount of color and iridescence on this little guy. Thanks for looking.
The Yellow-billed Magpie (Pica nuttalli) is a bird of open country in the Central Valley of California; It's Black-billed relatives live across Europe, Asia, and North Africa as well as Western North America. The Yellow-billed, however, lives ONLY in California--in an area about 500 miles north to south and less than 150 miles wide. Within this limited region, the Yellow-billed Magpie nest in colonies in groves of tall trees. Surveys suggest a population decline in recent decades-much of it due to the West Nile Virus (Audubon Guide to North American Birds); San Miguel; CA; USA: Sony a9; Sony 200-600 mm lens at 600mm; 1/2500 sec; f/8; ISO 1250; handheld shot through open car window
Fazenda Grotão - DF, Brazil.
These beautiful blue shades on the wings of Heliconius sara are purely iridescence, or structural coloration. The wings need to be at just the right angle to fully reveal these stunning colors.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Heliconiinae
Tribe: Heliconiini
Genus: Heliconius Kluk, 1780
Species: H. sara (Fabricius, 1793)
Binomial name: Heliconius sara
Spinnen gehören ja nicht gerade zu meinen Kuscheltieren.
Aber ihre Spinnennetzte, egal ob von der Sonne angestrahlt, oder mit Wassertröpfchen benetzt, flashen mich jedesmal.
Betrachtet durch ein Makroobektiv taucht man in eine Welt der Wunder ein.
Spiders are not exactly my cuddly toys,
But their cobweb, whether touched by sun rays or wetted with water droplets, flashed me every time. Seen through a macro-objektive, you experience a world of miracles.
In daylight Streptocarpus caulescens bobs about in a hanging pot swaying in the breeze. They are eye catching because of their colour and constant movement. Evening and a camera flash reveal there is more to treat the eye — sparkling iridescence — the joys of wandering about in the dark with a macro lens, worthy camera and a flash.
16:52 Texture – Find your artistic inspiration in textures – you should almost be able to feel the image.
The iridescent multi-colored Straw-necked Ibis reminds me of of their distant relation to dinosaurs. Mostly when I look at their head and legs.
Straw-necked Ibis are the most common ibis in Australia, a fact not always appreciated because the Australian White Ibis has become so common in built-up areas as opportunistic scavenger.
The Straw-necked ibis is feeds mainly on terrestrial invertebrates, especially grasshoppers and locusts. It will also take frogs, small reptiles and mammals.
Its preference for grassland insects such as grasshoppers and locusts have earnt it the name of Farmer's Friend.
These birds Named for the straw-like feathers on their necks.
- Threskiornis spinicollis
A photometeor designates an optical object or phenomenon that appears in the Earth's atmosphere when solar or lunar light undergoes a reflection, refraction, diffraction, polarization or interference determined by particular circumstances.
The most common are the halo, the rainbow, the crown, the iridescence, the glory, the parhelion, the Bishop's ring, the mirage, the flicker, the scintillation, the green ray, the tints and the crepuscular rays.
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Glossy Ibis at the perfect angle to show the wonderful iridescence in their wings, while landing at Ocean City
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Have a great day today you wonderful folks out there. Looks like the rain may have stopped for a while here. HWW ;0)
One of the odd things about Anna's Hummingbirds is that their beautiful crests can iridesce in so many different colors. Typically the iridescence in the feathers is red or deep pink, even though the feathers are actually black, sometimes lighter pink, but occasionally gold or apricot, and as you can see here - olive green.
Wild Wings at Woodland, March 2021.
A Mexican longwing (I think!) or Heliconius hortense in the Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservatory. Small focus stack - couldn't resist highlighting that iridescence! :)
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"Have you ever tried to follow a dragon fly?" He asked.
"Uhm, no? Butterflies, fireflies...but dragon fly?" The little girl frowned in confusion. "They are scary and they are loud..." she mumbled, releasing a zzzzzz sound that dragon flies make.
He laughed, shaking his head, ushering her to move on ahead into the wide forest.
"Do you see that?" he asked, pointing ahead, towards tiny splashes of colors circling the sky, reflecting its colors over the lonely pond.
"Oh! Yes!" she exclaimed, running ahead to get a closer look at the beautiful colors. She stopped dead as soon as she heard the familiar sound she earlier tried to mimic. "Oh oh..." she uttered, turning to look back at him but doing a double take and eyeing the dragon flies up close. "They are different here..." she trailed.
He winked, "Yes, they are in their natural habitat, not in the fountain of the cities or the park." he teased her. "They are a reflection of what is around them. They can easily blend with their surroundings."
She looked lost in thought, standing too close to the pond's edge. The sound of a tiny waterfall agaisnt the stream seemed to grow louder as seconds turned into minutes. She grew quite fascinated with how different and yet similar they looked to the ones she knew from back home in the midst of traffic, people and skyscrapers.
"Why is everything looking more...colorful here in the forest?" she asked.
He inhaled a breath, releasing a sigh, "I don't know, darling. Maybe because the forest feels more like home?" he questioned.
"..it sure won't be as comfy to sleep on the grass or take a bath in the pond." she giggled at her own joke but looked on at the trees and smiled.
There was just something there... Maybe not home but belonging. A sense of welcome, stay here forever.
This male Anna’s Hummingbird shows colourful and extensive iridescence in the right light. The lichen growing on its perch gives an idea of the diminutive size of this species. This bird was at Whiffin Spit near Sooke on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
This handsome and colorful chap is a broad-billed hummingbird at Boyce Thompson Arboretum. Like most other hummingbirds, he'll consume 1.6 to 1.7 x his weight in nectar each day (so sayeth the Cornell Lab of Ornithology). And, like other hummingbirds, he's incapable of walking or hopping - it's flight or nothing!
Lappland Sweden
Polar stratospheric clouds or PSCs, also known as nacreous clouds (/ˈneɪkriː.əs/, from nacre, or mother of pearl, due to its iridescence), are clouds in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000–25,000 meters (49,000–82,000 ft). They are best observed during civil twilight when the sun is between 1 and 6 degrees below the horizon as well as in winter and in more northerly latitudes
Normally, fair weather cumulus clouds don't exhibit iridescence but this one did while it drifted within 20 degrees of the sun.
What is more remarkable was that I was able to capture it with my iPhone.
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The female Blue-throated Starfrontlet looks quite different from the male www.flickr.com/photos/luminouscompositions/51868699155/in... with a cinnamon throat area and pinkish underparts. This bird was at the Observatorio de Colibries, a private sanctuary at higher elevation east of Bogota that is an excellent place to observe a good number of hummingbird species as well as other members of the local avifauna.
These two male Eurasian Wigeon are at different stages of moult. The lower bird has completed it moult and the angle of the light shows off the patch of green iridescence on the head which is not often seen as it will almost certainly wear off as the winter progresses. The bird above is not so advanced and still showing quite a lot of eclipse plumage
This Anna’s Hummingbird was still getting nectar from the small yellow flowers of Bracted Honeysuckle Lonicera involucrata (also known as Black Twinberry,) even though there were few in bloom at the late July time of this image taken in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. As the photo shows, some recently blossomed flowers have brown, wilted petals, while other earlier flowers have gone to fruit with shiny black berries within reddish bracts. This individual was seen at the renowned Reifel Bird Sanctuary, near the city of Vancouver — which named this species its official bird in 2017.
With a touch of iridescence. Possibly a Black Lace-weaver Spider - Amaurobius ferox (in defensive pose). Photographed in Dorset, UK.
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How DID these birds get through the NoCal winters, before people started planting flower gardens? They're the only species of hummingbird that overwinters here.
U.C. Davis Arboretum, Jan. 2020.
Beautiful Iridescence
The very diffuse lighting showed off the lovely green, blue and purple iridescence on this Boat-tailed Grackle at the Indian River Inlet in Delaware
The cold gusty North West wind was so strong that I I struggle to keep the bird in frame, so it was fun to watch this bird struggling to remain on this perch
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Gusty winds this afternoon created some short lasting lenticular clouds. Some iridescence appeared which is not uncommon with these mid-level clouds.
These beautiful butterflies can be seen in rain forests around Central and Southern America. I saw many of them during last winter's trip to Costa Rica....but it took going to the UK to get a decent shot of one. Go figure!! :)
Pretty patch of clouds with a bit of iridescence around the sun.
Time lapse of this event: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2k4Hdfv6jg
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Yellow autumn leaves highlight the black-and-white plumage of a Black-billed Magpie (whose iridescence is not showing in this image). This bird, a member of the Crows and Jays family, is adept at finding food year-round and so can make it through the Canadian winter in Calgary, Alberta.
In the serene woodlands of Hacienda Montecristo, near the culturally rich Santa Rosa de Copán, I captured a tender moment between an Azure-crowned Hummingbird, Saucerottia cyanocephala, and her fledgling. This photograph embodies the essence of a mother's care, set against a backdrop where the verdure of Honduras unfolds in harmony with the simplicity of these birds' existence. The adult's vibrant azure crown, a stark contrast to the juvenile's developing plumes, speaks volumes of the life stages that I, as a photographer, am privileged to witness.
Utilizing a shallow depth of field, I sought to crystallize the duo's interaction while allowing the lush environment to softly blur into bokeh, highlighting the birds as the focal point. The diffused lighting of the canopy gently illuminated the iridescence of the mother's feathers, while the careful composition preserved the integrity of their natural behavior. This image is not just a visual record; it is a story of survival and continuity in the avian world, a narrative I strive to share through my lens. ©2022 Adam Rainoff
Beautiful Green Iridescence
First male Anna's Hummingbird recorded in Pennsylvania
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Sunbirds have multiple adaptations to their primary source of nutrition, which is the nectar of flowers. The most prominent one is the long curved bill, which allows them to get deep into the flowers to suck out the nectar. Another one is their tongue, which is tube-shaped with some microscopic brushes at the tip, that can be extended even beyond the end of their bill, which allows them to drink nectar even from flowers that are deeper than their bill length. You can see the tongue of a brown-throated sunbird in this picture, it is the translucent part that seems to extend from its upper mandible.
This is the same bird that I posted a picture of two days ago, in which it shook so rapidly that there was only a very colorful blur visible. In this picture you also get an idea how much the iridescence of the bird's feathers changes with even slight differences in angle of observation.
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Not sure what kind of butterfly this is, I do not have a shot of the other side of its wings. I don't really find it to be the most attractive butterfly by any means but in this shot I liked how there was iridescence on its body. I believe it must be some type of Fritillary. Bright light turned out to be good for something here after all.
It seems that light is always perfect for something. One either has to simply do the best with what is presented or search for a subject or scene where light works out to be flattering.
EDIT:, thanks to everyone for their suggestions of the ID. I believe Marilyn Lemmon is correct, a Tawny Crescent.