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Wakodahatchee Wetlands.
Great blue heron
No crop full frame shot
... and showing off his glorious mohawk.
Explore - September 15, 2025
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Gull and Goosander at Nottinghamshire WT Attenborough Reserve.
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Goats in the Children's Petting Zoo at SF Zoo
This Osprey and I got quite comfortable with each other. By ever so slowly inching forward, he let me share his company for quite awhile.
This young grizzly who was rooting around for breakfast, stopped to scratch an itch. Appropriately I found this bear at Grizzly Creek in Kananaskis Alberta.
Tri-Colored Heron
From Audubon:
On the southeastern coastal plain, the Tricolored Heron is a characteristic bird of quiet shallow waters. Strikingly slender, with long bill, neck, and legs, it is often seen wading belly-deep in coastal lagoons. Although it is solitary in its feeding, it is sociable in nesting, often in very large colonies with various other herons and egrets. Formerly known as Louisiana Heron.
Migration
Northward wandering after breeding not as pronounced as in some southern herons, but has strayed far to the north on occasion. Withdraws in winter from northernmost breeding areas, with some migrating far south; birds banded in South Carolina recovered in Cuba and Panama. Common all winter in south Florida and parts of Gulf Coast, where some are probably permanent residents.
My favourite castle in England. This is Bamburgh Castle which lies on the north east coast in Northumberland. I have photographed this castle many times but this has a different mood. It was the first time I have been anywhere since November 2019 and I only had two days there. I was so happy to be there even in August. There were more people on the beach than I am used to as I usually go out of holiday season. I went because I had the chance to be there and I couldn't really turn it down. I've been itching to just be able to go somewhere and it was wonderful to have the opportunity to scratch that itch however briefly. This was taken on Sunday and it was a moody kind of day. It is certainly not among my favourite pictures I have taken here but the mood kind of feels right for the times we are living in.
And everyone started to come after me
And everyone started to touch me
I don't understand, whoever I meet
They always reach out to touch me
A tricolored heron was preening on the board walk. It was the first of several beauties we saw that day...
Soepganzen
Een soepgans, tamme gans of een parkgans (Anser anser forma domestica) is een gedomesticeerde variant van de grauwe gans (Anser anser) of de zwaangans ...
Tri-colored heron.
For a great 'Scratch' Gallery -
www.flickr.com/photos/24580998@N08/galleries/721576260797...
The Tricolored Heron is a medium egret that feeds in open shallow coastal waters for small fish. Its long bill and neck are a characteristic feature of fish-eating herons. Its wide repertoire of passive and active feeding behaviors allows it to find, run down if necessary, and capture these fish.
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Explored.
A female Mallard is seen here on a footpath at Dearne Valley (Old Moor). We walked past it and it didn't seem to take any notice of us whatsoever. Needless to say I decided to get low and photograph it. Thankfully it chose that moment to scratch an itch.
It was an itch I had to scratch. A couple of days ago on a lovely afternoon walk with Carla and dogs I was just loving the soft mist looking out to sea. I was carrying my fuji with a long lens which I set up to take black and white squares of the lighthouse. It then hit me that it would be a neat photo if the pier, nice as it is, wasn’t there and lighthouse just floated in the mist. The idea was embedded then I couldn’t shift it. I was messing around visualising the photo trying to get the right angle on the lighthouse, walking this way and than, striding to different vantage points, gaging the position of the door, the reflection in the water. It all put a damper on the lovely walk for Carla, the dogs didn’t matter as they were out, apart from when I left Toby tried to the some railings and wander off another 100 metres chasing than right angle. After all that the photo I decided to use was the first one I took when I visualised the photo in the first place. Anyway here is that scratched itch.