A shot from Howick this morning and the smaller rocks that a great for long exposure work, looking like miniature mountains, still with the older d3s, can't wait to get me d810 back today

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Many of my contacts who live in southern North America are already posting images of Butterflies on flowers. We are still a few weeks away from those opportunities, so I went back into my archives to find a similar shot that I haven't posted.

This was taken in in September, 2019. Painted Ladies were everywhere around Alberta then, but not seen here for the past four years. I hope to see them again this summer. They are an irruptive species here.

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Many years ago a friend of my father's gifted this rattlesnake skin to him. I was so taken by the beauty of it that my dad told me it should belong to me. What a glorious treasure! The skin, with its overlapping scales, provides protection from a variety of threats including dehydration and physical trauma. An important function of the skin is the sensation of changes in air temperature, which can guide the snakes towards warm basking/shelter locations.

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Peter does exercises to get stronger muscles

PETER:

Look my Princess Rosie...I'm about to jump the horizontal bar!

I now train my back and chest muscles

I feel myself getting stronger and stronger

There I go....one, two three....wheeee!

I do it all for you!

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Two swan couples and a goose as chaperone

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Hbw! =)

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Hair - Studio Exposure Hello Gorgeous Ponytail (Genus)

Top / Shorts - RKKN - Maggie's Closet - T-Shirt / Shorts

Socks - Zenith - Lazy Socks

Headphones - Promagic - Mishti Headphones 1

Slippers - Reign - Beary Cosy Slippers

Pose - LW Poses - Cats are like music

Backdrop - Foxcity Photo Booth - The Book Nook

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Buff-banded Rail

Scientific Name: Gallirallus philippensis

Description: The Buff-banded Rail is a medium-sized stout rail with short legs. It has a distinctive grey eyebrow and an orange-brown band on its streaked breast. The lores, cheek and hindneck are rich chestnut. The chin and throat are grey, the upperparts streaked brown and the underparts barred black and white. The eye is red. Young birds are much paler to white underneath, with indistinct bars and only a faint orange-brown tint on the breast. Downy chicks are fluffy black. This rail walks slowly, with tail raised and flicking constantly.

Similar species: The orange-brown breast band distinguishes the Buff-banded Rail from the similar but smaller Lewin's Rail,Dryolimnas pectoralis, which has a rich chestnut crown and nape and a proportionally longer pink bill.

Distribution: The Buff-banded Rail is widespread in mainland Australia, particularly along the eastern coast and islands, and on Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands. It is also found in south-east Asia, New Guinea and New Zealand.

Habitat: The Buff-banded Rail is seen singly or in pairs in dense reeds and vegetation bordering many types of wetlands or crops. It makes widespread use of artificial wetlands like sewage ponds and drainage channels.

Seasonal movements: The Buff-banded Rail is resident and possibly locally nomadic, though little is known of these movements.

Feeding: The Buff-banded Rail feeds on crustaceans, molluscs, insects, seeds, fruit, frogs, carrion and refuse. It mostly feeds early in the morning and the evening.

Breeding: Breeding is poorly known, but the Buff-breasted Rail nests in long grass, tussocks, rushes or crops. It makes an unlined cup-shaped nest of grasses or reeds. Both parents incubate and the young will leave the nest within 24 hours. Both parents remain with the young, which usually feed themselves, though the female may feed them as well. Two broods may be raised in some seasons.

Calls: Loud creaky squeak when breeding but usually silent.

Minimum Size: 28cm

Maximum Size: 33cm

Average size: 31cm

Average weight: 130g

Breeding season: September to February

Clutch Size: 5 to 8 eggs

Incubation: 19 days

Nestling Period: 1 days

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I have a pot of fall!

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The brown pelicans were really working the surf while we were at the Oregon coast. Usually in small flocks, this was an individual on its own.

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Many things happen around us every second, often its beautiness may went by before noticing.

身邊每一秒發生的事情多不勝數，很多時候美好的事情很容易被忽略了。

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He took all of them at once.

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One of many waterfalls in Krka National Park, Dalmatia, Croatia.

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Many years ago I found a Ladybird (Scymnus interruptus) that had never before been seen in this country .

This one and another three specimens I found combined with later trips by my Dad and fellows from the Natural History Museum proved there also to be a established breeding colony . My Dad did the I.D. almost instantly and all the writing up and again later in the Coleopterist (vol 21 pt 2 p 47) He took no credit for the finding .

I retold the whole story to him last night and thanked him for many other things he had done for me a few hours before he peacefully passed away ( December 8 2019.

Today I spent a quiet day and was lucky to be the one to see this Glossy Ibis arrive at Dungeness today .

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How many puppy?

I took this in Grand Teton National Park close to Colter Bay Village. There are many spots like this along the John D. Rockefeller, Jr Memorial Parkway.