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The expectant looks on the faces of these two chicks as they search for signs that mum has food to give them.
Each chick has a dot of white near the tip of their beak and it was fun watching them walking quickly across the lily pads to get to the food bought to them.
It is interesting how the tip of mum's open beak has cast its shadow on the lily pad located immediately behind her and the first chic.
I spent over an hour photographing these coots and watching mum and dad foraging for food. Every now and again dad would wander off, up or down the river attending to perimeter defense.
As adults, [all] coots have a drab color scheme, with black bodies and white bills. Their chicks, however, have an aesthetic that’s part drunk friar, part disheveled lion, and part tequila sunrise. Their faces and bald pates are bright red, while their necks are encircled in scruffy yellow-orange plumes - extract from an article by Ed Yong, "The Survival Advantage of Being a Fancy Baby Coot" printed in 'The Atlantic', date unknown
slider sunday... on the off chance that there might be someone on the planet that hasn't seen this or one of its kind, here is a picture of some lilypads that were along the canal at kinderdijk in the netherlands and this is my favorite picture of the week!!! i'd always wanted to PP a picture this way ~grin~ :)
ODC transform
A most humble bow of respect to the painters and woodblock artists who created the "ukiyo-e" celebrating the original "floating world" of the Edo period of Japanese history. (From the series: "The secret life of lily pads")
i’m writing while
murmurings meet each other
introduce themselves and form
pods of murmurs murmurpods lilypads that i sense see feel
do you?
they drift lazily around
the chairs and fall into planters and onto
the floor, collecting, breeding
moremurmurs
layers and layers of them
[from my just published book, cancerwords]
cancerwords
by Ellyn Peirson
Link: amzn.com/1519586744
with a very light dusting of my texture
While I waited for my eagle to fly back from the treetop he had landed in, I noticed that the lilies are reaching for the top of the water. This is one of the first to have made it up.
Unfortunately, this is already a very rare dragonfly in Austria. Flight time: beginning of May to end of June - lucky - seen
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in Österreich leider schon eine ganz seltene Libelle. Flugzeit: Anfang Mai bis Ende Juni - Glück gehabt - gesehen
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Zierliche Moosjungfer - Lilypad Whiteface -Leucorrhinia caudalis
Nuphar variegatum ( Nynphaeaceae)
View from my street on the Ottawa River
Vu de ma rue sur la Rivière des Outaouais
Fledgling green heron floating on a lilypad in the lake. Each time he climbed onto a lilypad it began to sink, and he moved to another one, which also began to sink. Eventually he gave up and swam to the nearby nest tree. Wildwood Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
This is a photo of the reflection of autumn trees on a pond with floating lily pads. I love the painterly Monet impressionism quality of this image.
Maybe it's just me, but I thought these lily pads looked like a mom and baby fish having fun together.
Hello All!
From my early Summer 2019 Archives:
This is a young Wood Duck that was scampering around on the lily pads. The only reason I spotted the fledgling was that I noticed a woman looking at the lily pads and smiling, so I scoured the scene to see what she was smiling about.
Eventually mom called from across the pond, presumably to give the poor duckling some directions. The young one made it safely to the other side then swam away with mom and the other ducklings. A happy ending, thank goodness!
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La nature a beaucoup à nous apprendre. L'architecte Vincent Callebaut s'inspire de notre environnement pour concevoir ses structures avant-gardistes. Sa création conceptuelle Lilypad en est un parfait exemple. Lilypad est une île flottante inspirée du gigantesque nénuphar Victoria, une espèce de nénuphar connue pour ses feuilles les plus grandes de toutes les plantes aquatiques. Leurs limbes (feuilles) peuvent atteindre près de 3 mètres de diamètre. De même, Lilypad de Callebaut est une immense structure autonome entourée d'eau.
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We can learn a lot from nature. Architect Vincent Callebaut looks to our environment as a guide for designing his forward-thinking structures. His conceptual creation Lilypad is a prime example. Lilypad is a floating island that draws inspiration from the gigantic Victoria amazonic, a species of water lily known for having the largest leaves of any water plant. Their lamina (leaves) can grow up to nearly 10 feet in diameter. Similarly, Callebaut’s Lilypad is a massive self-sustaining structure surrounded by water.
credit : Vincent Callebaut Architectures