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This is a bronze statue of a boy leapfrogging a post in the Duke of York's Square, Kings Road, near Sloane Square in London.
This is part of the 'Two Pupils' statue by Allister Bowtell (1940 - 2006), made in 2002 at the entrance to Duke of York Yard at the site of the Royal Military Asylum.
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The other morning it was -7C; a shocking revelation for a frog I imagine since the previous days were like summer. I found this frog on my driveway just before I almost ran him over so I picked him up to find his little body half frozen and his heart faintly beating. I did what I always do which comes natural to me is leap in and save anything in nature. I warmed him up in my hands until he came to life and leaped away. Now, I'm guessing most of you are saying it is just a frog, but hey, I have been trying to catch a proper leap for years so of course I got all excited when I saw this and had to share. Ribbet* It is the little things....That night I heard a frog singing through my window and I was wondering if it was him :-)
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Episyrphus balteatus, the marmalade hoverfly, probably a female, a relatively small hoverfly in the Syrphidae family, widespread throughout Europe, North Asia and North Africa, with some other wildlife as well. Thanks to Leapfrog (Art) for the identification.
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This is a bronze statue of a boy leapfrogging a post in the Duke of York’s Square, Kings Road, London. The statue is by Allister Bowtell.
I uploaded another street image showing the full statue on the 17th October 2022 should you be interested.
This inquisitive girl could not resist touching the statue.
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Leapfrog is a children game. If you don't know it .. see the following video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj0JBiknaPg
It is not an easy game, by the way .. see here
I tried to make two fences look 'beautifully fun' yesterday when doing an image for 'Fence Fridays' on my boundary of freedom.
I was unsure which to share yesterday, but this morning I thought I'd this one too, hope you don't mind too many fences and daffodils gracing your photo streams ~ KissThePixel2020
No, Bastian is not attacking Rags, but jumping for the feather toy in swirling above them...
Posted for the "Happy Caturday" theme "Spring".
Bastian (mixed breed) & Dushara Tatters and Rags (Somali), 24.03.2017.
Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera
I went to look for our little herd of chamois again and found a mother with her half year old kid. Mom was chilling in the snow while her kid was leapfrogging around her in circles. I didn’t want to startle them by getting closer, so unfortunately there were always a few twigs and leaves between us.
Downpatrick Head, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland
During a recent visit to Dún Briste sea stack I was fascinated on how the grass & soil is shaped across this headland! I’ve yet seen anything quite like it elsewhere across Ireland. These lumps resemble green mossy turtle shells scattered across the ground 🐢 When walked across they are surprisingly very spongy & springy.
Whilst curiously checking out these grassy lumps, I was secretly being stalked by ‘The Guardians of Dun Briste’ 🐑 This beautiful curious sheep had snuck up on me, so I decided to capture her portrait. She then joyfully bounced off across these mossy humps, like a frog hopping across giant Lily pads in a pond 😂
Ireland can be so unusual at times but there’s always joy to be found no matter what you come across 💚
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Thanks to "LeapFrog!" for identifying this dragonfly for me. We're heading out to take Jasmine hiking. It's going to be a hot one today. Have a great Saturday everyone!
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Looks easy, leapfrog the tee's to leave just one remaining, gave up years ago!
Parque, Playa de las Américas, Tenerife
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The Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) is a highly adaptable, medium-sized bird known for its rapid global expansion. Originally native to warmer regions of Asia, it has become a common sight in urban, suburban, and agricultural areas across Europe and North America.
Key Identification Features
Appearance:
They have a plump, sandy-gray or buff-colored body with a distinctive black half-collar on the nape of the neck.
Distinctive Tail:
Unlike the pointed tail of a Mourning Dove, the Eurasian collared dove has a broad, squared-off tail with large white patches at the corners.
Eyes and Bill:
Adults possess striking dark red eyes and a thin black bill.
Vocalizations:
Their primary call is a rhythmic, three-syllable coo (koo-KOO-kook) with the middle syllable emphasized. They also emit a harsh, nasal screeching sound just before landing.
Behavior and Diet
Diet:
These birds are primarily granivores, feeding on seeds, grains, and cereal crops, though they occasionally eat berries and small insects. They are frequent visitors to backyard bird feeders, where they often forage on the ground.
Territoriality:
They can be aggressive competitors at feeding stations, often chasing away smaller birds or native species like the Mourning Dove.
Flight Display:
Males perform a ritualized mating flight, flying nearly vertically before gliding down in a spiral with fanned tails.
Breeding and Life Cycle
Rapid Reproduction:
A monogamous pair can raise up to six broods per year in warmer climates.
Nesting:
They build simple, often flimsy platform nests made of twigs in trees, on buildings, or even on man-made structures like satellite dishes.
Parental Care:
Both parents share incubation duties and feed their young "crop milk," a nutrient-rich fluid secreted from their esophagus.
Global Colonization
The species is famous in ornithology for its "leapfrog" colonization style—new populations often spring up hundreds of miles away and eventually "backfill" the space in between. After being introduced to the Bahamas in the 1970s, they reached Florida by the 1980s and have since spread across most of the continental United States and into Canada.
Parque, Playa de las Américas, Tenerife
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The Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) is a highly adaptable, medium-sized bird known for its rapid global expansion. Originally native to warmer regions of Asia, it has become a common sight in urban, suburban, and agricultural areas across Europe and North America.
Key Identification Features
Appearance:
They have a plump, sandy-gray or buff-colored body with a distinctive black half-collar on the nape of the neck.
Distinctive Tail:
Unlike the pointed tail of a Mourning Dove, the Eurasian collared dove has a broad, squared-off tail with large white patches at the corners.
Eyes and Bill:
Adults possess striking dark red eyes and a thin black bill.
Vocalizations:
Their primary call is a rhythmic, three-syllable coo (koo-KOO-kook) with the middle syllable emphasized. They also emit a harsh, nasal screeching sound just before landing.
Behavior and Diet
Diet:
These birds are primarily granivores, feeding on seeds, grains, and cereal crops, though they occasionally eat berries and small insects. They are frequent visitors to backyard bird feeders, where they often forage on the ground.
Territoriality:
They can be aggressive competitors at feeding stations, often chasing away smaller birds or native species like the Mourning Dove.
Flight Display:
Males perform a ritualized mating flight, flying nearly vertically before gliding down in a spiral with fanned tails.
Breeding and Life Cycle
Rapid Reproduction:
A monogamous pair can raise up to six broods per year in warmer climates.
Nesting:
They build simple, often flimsy platform nests made of twigs in trees, on buildings, or even on man-made structures like satellite dishes.
Parental Care:
Both parents share incubation duties and feed their young "crop milk," a nutrient-rich fluid secreted from their esophagus.
Global Colonization
The species is famous in ornithology for its "leapfrog" colonization style—new populations often spring up hundreds of miles away and eventually "backfill" the space in between. After being introduced to the Bahamas in the 1970s, they reached Florida by the 1980s and have since spread across most of the continental United States and into Canada.
Parque, Playa de las Américas, Tenerife
What3Words
///fail.talents.occulted
The Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) is a highly adaptable, medium-sized bird known for its rapid global expansion. Originally native to warmer regions of Asia, it has become a common sight in urban, suburban, and agricultural areas across Europe and North America.
Key Identification Features
Appearance:
They have a plump, sandy-gray or buff-colored body with a distinctive black half-collar on the nape of the neck.
Distinctive Tail:
Unlike the pointed tail of a Mourning Dove, the Eurasian collared dove has a broad, squared-off tail with large white patches at the corners.
Eyes and Bill:
Adults possess striking dark red eyes and a thin black bill.
Vocalizations:
Their primary call is a rhythmic, three-syllable coo (koo-KOO-kook) with the middle syllable emphasized. They also emit a harsh, nasal screeching sound just before landing.
Behavior and Diet
Diet:
These birds are primarily granivores, feeding on seeds, grains, and cereal crops, though they occasionally eat berries and small insects. They are frequent visitors to backyard bird feeders, where they often forage on the ground.
Territoriality:
They can be aggressive competitors at feeding stations, often chasing away smaller birds or native species like the Mourning Dove.
Flight Display:
Males perform a ritualized mating flight, flying nearly vertically before gliding down in a spiral with fanned tails.
Breeding and Life Cycle
Rapid Reproduction:
A monogamous pair can raise up to six broods per year in warmer climates.
Nesting:
They build simple, often flimsy platform nests made of twigs in trees, on buildings, or even on man-made structures like satellite dishes.
Parental Care:
Both parents share incubation duties and feed their young "crop milk," a nutrient-rich fluid secreted from their esophagus.
Global Colonization
The species is famous in ornithology for its "leapfrog" colonization style—new populations often spring up hundreds of miles away and eventually "backfill" the space in between. After being introduced to the Bahamas in the 1970s, they reached Florida by the 1980s and have since spread across most of the continental United States and into Canada.
I leapfrogged H88 and set up at the Plummer ESS (east siding switch). To my surprise, the train slowed to a stop. I was thinking that maybe there was going to be a meet. Nope. The train paused for a couple minutes before continuing on towards Brooks. Thanks for the photo op guys!
Snowy conditions seemed like the perfect opportunity to get a photo from the US 12 overpass east of Sono Junction, so I rushed from Bayport, over the St. Croix, and onto US 12 to leapfrog the Union Pacific MNPAL seen here in snow showers.
I'm always looking for frogs on lily pads, but this evening I was treated to a game of leapfrog at the Royal Botanical Gardens!
This photo is dedicated to my flickr friend Leapfrog! who has a sharp eye & a beautiful mind. again this is photoshopped, couldn't zoom enough to capture the detail of this beautiful bird. hope you like it Art!
While Brian Plant and I paced the train for a bit, Barry Lennon was heading south to the next shot north of Kelsey, MN.
With it being a straight shot with a highway parallel to it, we played leapfrog with the train all afternoon.
To avoid the vast amount of wedge shots the line allowed, we stopped at every overpass we could. This shot off the US-81 overpass at Fairmont was my favorite of the bunch.
BNSF GP50 3132 leads the 605 local westbound on the Hastings Subdivision through Fairmont, Nebraska, January 8, 2023.
KCS 1 and company look wonderful in the beautiful morning sunlight as they cross a small wooden trestle near Anacoco, Louisiana. The Business train is on day 3 of its multi-day trip to Laredo, Texas. Here it is scorching down the KCS' Beaumont Subdivision towards the days destination of Kendleton, Texas. Thanks especially to David Hawkins for messaging us that the OCS was out of the yard in Shreveport early that AM. Sunrise was at 6 and they were not far behind. We leapfrogged them this day to start shooting in a cloudy Zwolle, La, but quickly were blessed with some wonderful sunny angles of the train. This one at Anacoco takes the cake. Wooden trestles on class one railroad main lines are rare these days, and this scene with the passenger F's looks stuck right in the mid 1950's. More to come soon!
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Another shot from my park outing. saw this tree with the bark peeling away & water condensing on it. best viewed in large-still working on my macro skills! Thank you to my friend Leapfrog for identifying this as a Birch tree-he's my nature encyclopedia!
Meadow Pipit / anthus pratensis. Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. 02/08/22.
'THE STRAGGLER.'
I had followed a family party of Meadow Pipits feeding alongside one of the tracks on Salisbury Plain. They leapfrogged their way down it, either landing on the ground or in tall vegetation to search for food.
This juvenile must have been so engrossed that it failed to see the rest fly off a short distance. In a panic it flew up to the fence, unsure what to do as it craned forward to check me out.
I managed to make this grab shot before it zipped off to join the others. If viewed large you will see the bird is carrying three ticks directly below its eye.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.