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One more day until 2020 ends!!
2019: Stay away from negative People
2020: Stay away from positive people
According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2020 was the Year of the Rat🐭 ...and it will last till February!!
So we've been spending the entire year holed up, only briefly leaving to get food, running at the sight of other humans, and transmitting infection.
Thanks for your visit and comments, much appreciated! Have a great day!
The last time I photographed a laughing kookaburra, I was in Australia ... Pandemic obliges, I was closer ... to a bird park, (Parc des Oiseaux, Villars-les-dombes, France), and I met this amazing character who seemed to take pleasure in being observed.
The laughing kookaburra is well known both as a symbol of Australia’s birdlife and as the inspirational “merry, merry king of the bush” from the children’s song.
According to an Aboriginal legend, the kookaburra's famous chorus of laughter every morning is a signal for the sky people to light the great fire that illuminates and warms the earth by day. The legend captures the imagination, but the true function of the familiar cacophony is to advertise the territory of this bold bird.
The Laughing Kookaburra is the largest of the kingfisher family, but unlike most of its relatives, it is sedentary and occupies the same territories the year round. Before spring breeding season, when family groups adjust their boundaries, an observer can actually locate the territories by listening to the noisy choruses at dusk as each group calls in turn and awaits the replies of neighbouring groups.
Taken on August 19, 2007 at 4.48pm, Barigui Park, Curitiba City, Paraná State,
Southern Brazil. See in LARGER
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En traversant l’Univers
Jeune, j’aimais regardé les étoiles
Avec un télescope
Les gens me cherchaient ici
Mais j’étais souvent là-bas
Là-bas, c’est aussi en chacun de nous
Il s’y trouve bien des mondes inexplorés que nous ignorons
Prisonniers consentants de notre réalité quotidienne
En traversant l’univers, celui qui m’habite,
Je n’ai jamais manqué de lumière
Pour aimer passionnément
Les couleurs de ce petit monde
Les choses inutiles
Les chemins peu fréquentés
Les enfants qui rient
L’humeur de tes yeux
Je suis encore là-bas, dansant avec les étoiles
Plus que jamais
Mais, je n’ai plus besoin de télescope
Et les gens ne me cherchent plus
En traversant l’univers, j’ai découvert …
Le rêveur qui regardait dans le télescope
Patrice
Photo originale : Plage Marconi, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts, É.U.
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Across the Universe
When I was young, I loved watching the stars
Through a telescope;
People thought I was here,
But often I was up there.
There, is also in each of us,
There are up there unexplored worlds that we ignore,
Consenting prisoners of our daily reality.
Crossing the universe, the one that lives inside me,
I never failed to find the light
To love passionately
The colors of this little world,
The useless things,
The remote roads,
The children that laugh,
The mood of your eyes.
I am still up there, dancing with the stars
More than ever
But, I don't need a telescope anymore
And people are not looking for me anymore.
Crossing the universe, I discovered. . .
The dreamer who was looking through the telescope
Patrice
Original photo : Marconi Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts, USA
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
This wild laughing kookaburra accepted hand held raw meat and it allowed my daughter to pat its head and back.
At one stage it had a piece of raw meat in its beak and another between its legs on the balcony handrail and I could see it thinking "what do I do now". After about 20 seconds it flew off and left the first piece in a safe place and then quickly returned to collect the second piece.
It is a native of eastern Australia and belongs to the Kingfisher sub-family Halcyonine. It is almost exclusively carnivorous and preys on a variety of small animals and snakes. . . .Sigma 70 -300mm f4 -5.6 APO DG Macro.
This is a very merry couple of Laughing Kookaburras, annoucing every new day with lots of laughs before the sunrise.
(Dacelo novaeguineae)
Laughing Kookaburra (wiki)
It was on the clothes line in our backyard this morning.
They laugh. It was slightly rainy yesterday evening and they were laughing so seriously. When they laugh, they laugh so super hard that if you hear multiple kookaburras laughing together you'll laugh so much till falling down 😆
Above Wikipedia's link or this Youtube video show seriously laughing Laughing Kookaburra
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*They're a type of kingfisher but so big.
Much bigger than our parrots.
This kookaburra was sitting in the tree in our front yard. The photo was taken through our open balcony door and the kookaburra was at about eye level.
Fort Fisher - This jetty seems to be a popular "hook-up" spot - just the other day I photographed Plovers in almost the same location! It's great for me cause I can can photograph from a slightly lower vantage point than the height of the jetty!
Thanks for the visits, faves and comments its greatly appreciated.
Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson SP
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