Aquariums, Water, Moist Life!
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What may look like a milky cloudy eye here is in fact the nictitating membrane or sometimes known as the third eyelid. This membrane is transparent and will help to keep the eye moist and protect the eye from wind, dust and potential hazards. As well as birds having a nictitating membrane other animals such as reptiles and some mammals also have them.
at day's end. We've been having warm humid days and lovely short rains almost every afternoon. The soft moist fragrant air is delightful.
前夜から終日の雨模様。
雨の中のブナ林はしっとりとして美しいです。
何が苦手かというと傘をさしての撮影と、レンズが湿ることです。
It rained all day from the night before.
The beech forest in the rain is moist and beautiful.
What I'm not good at is shooting with an umbrella and the lens getting wet.
Nikon D810
24.0-120.0 mm f/4.0
ƒ/5.6
55.0 mm
1/8
ISO800
Tufted Titmouse.
Sparrow-sized at 6 inches. Gray above and whitish below, with rust colored sides and a conspicuous gray crest. The "Black-crested Titmouse", a species found in southwestern Oklahoma and Texas is similar but has a black crest.
Their habitat includes swampy or moist woodlands, and shade trees in villages and city parks. In winter, at feeders.
They range from eastern Nebraska, southern Michigan, and Maine south to Texas, the Gulf Coast and central Florida.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
Tufted Titmouse.
Sparrow-sized at 6 inches. Gray above and whitish below, with rust colored sides and a conspicuous gray crest. The "Black-crested Titmouse", a species found in southwestern Oklahoma and Texas is similar but has a black crest.
Their habitat includes swampy or moist woodlands, and shade trees in villages and city parks. In winter, at feeders.
They range from eastern Nebraska, southern Michigan, and Maine south to Texas, the Gulf Coast and central Florida.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
Don't eat its leaves. Don't eat its roots. Don't eat its stems. They are toxic. But, supposedly the "apples", which are not really apples, are edible.
Mayapple is a native perennial wildflower of the moist woods, often found in large colonies in Michigan. They have two large leaves, and a single white flower on nodding stems.
I always listen his singing before I see him and that makes me run to photograph him.
The Slate-throated Redstart is found from northern Mexico south to northern Bolivia, always in temperate montane habitats. In the north it lives in Pine-Oak forests, farther south in cloud forests and moist montane slopes.
It is a species which shows a high degree of geographic variation. In fact this largely grayish-blue bird with a dark chestnut cap has a striking red belly in the north, and in South America it is yellow-bellied, with orange-bellied forms in-between.
La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes, 2300 meters above sea level.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/...
Tufted Titmouse.
Sparrow-sized at 6 inches. Gray above and whitish below, with rust colored sides and a conspicuous gray crest. The "Black-crested Titmouse", a species found in southwestern Oklahoma and Texas is similar but has a black crest.
Their habitat includes swampy or moist woodlands, and shade trees in villages and city parks. In winter, at feeders.
They range from eastern Nebraska, southern Michigan, and Maine south to Texas, the Gulf Coast and central Florida.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Euphonia laniirostris
(Thick-billed Euphonia / Eufonia piquigruesa)
The Thick-billed Euphonia is found in Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
This euphonia measures 10 cm (3.9 in). The female, like many euphonias, is dull olive above and yellow below. The male has entirely yellow underparts from throat to vent save for a small terminal patch of white on the undertail. Upperparts are a dark blue-black except for the yellow crown patch which extends from the bill over the head to just past the eye.
♂ Diglossa albilatera
(White-sided Flowerpiercer / Pincha flor)
In my garden. La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
The White-sided Flowerpiercer (Diglossa albilatera) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. The hooked, upturned bill is used to puncture the bases of flowers for the purpose of feeding on nectar. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest at altitudes between at least 1800 and 2800 m.
Source: Wikipedia
Tufted Titmouse.
Sparrow-sized at 6 inches. Gray above and whitish below, with rust colored sides and a conspicuous gray crest. The "Black-crested Titmouse", a species found in southwestern Oklahoma and Texas is similar but has a black crest.
Their habitat includes swampy or moist woodlands, and shade trees in villages and city parks. In winter, at feeders.
They range from eastern Nebraska, southern Michigan, and Maine south to Texas, the Gulf Coast and central Florida.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
I have often told you stories about the way
I lived the life of a drifter
Waiting for the day
When I'd take your hand and sing you songs
Then maybe you would say
"Come lay with me and love me"
And I would surely stay
But I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill going round
Guess I'll always be a soldier of fortune
Many times I've been a traveller
I looked for something new
In days of old when nights were cold
I wandered without you
But those days I thought my eyes had seen you standing near
Though blindness is confusing
It shows that you're not here
Now I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill going round
Guess I'll always be a soldier of fortune
I can hear the sound
Of a windmill going round
Guess I'll always be a soldier of fortune
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
Which I thought for so many years
That I would forever be
But I found you, you found me
I'm no soldier of fortune anymore
That's history, that's past
Light is always ahead
Even angels are around us
Like in this photo
Amen
Loveeeeeee these re-textured leather joggers by Noche on sale during this weekend's Happy Weekend thing. They're at the mainstore ;) wink.
Petunia is a genus in the family Solanaceae, subfamily Petunioideae. Well known members of Solanaceae in other subfamilies include tobacco (subfamily Nicotianoideae), and the cape gooseberry, tomato, potato, deadly nightshade and chili pepper (subfamily Solanoideae). It's a flowering plant of South American origin. Petunias can tolerate relatively harsh conditions and hot climates, but not frost. They need at least five hours of sunlight every day and flourish in moist soil and conditions of low atmospheric humidity. Petunias are generally insect pollinated. The Maya and Inca believed that the scent of petunias had the power to ward off underworld monsters and spirits. Their flower-buds were bunched together for magical drinks. 12098
Title borrowed from the good old days of Top Gear. This image from last November, taken with the phone
This pretty yellow wildflower grows in meadows, fields, prairies, and along roadsides in the mid and eastern states of America. It is also known as the Sensitive Plant because the leaves fold together when touched. They grow in dry or moist soil and in sun or partial shade. Partridge Peas are annuals which grow from 1 to 3 feet tall and bloom from June through October. Bees and butterflies are attracted to their bright yellow blooms. HMM
“After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.”
― Fernando Pessoa
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Golden-backed snipe flies are one of my favorite insects to find out in the woodlands now in mid-June. Look for them soon though for their flight season is short. Search in shady moist woodlands where they perch on low leaves and wait for tiny bugs to come near and provide lunch. Males have eyes that touch. Females have fatter abdomens and their eyes do not meet in the middle.
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The pale-chinned blue flycatcher or Brook's flycatcher (Cyornis poliogenys) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is a sparrow-sized bird. Male is bluish-grey on upper parts, rufous throat and white below. Its nesting season is April–June.
It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Bird# 122
These are Durango marigold seedlings that will soon go in a planter at the farm. I'll put them in a sunny spot, because they can tolerate hot and dry conditions. Above, they're perched on my deck railing for a 30-frame focus stack. They're wet from today's rain showers.
The 344.44 km2 (132.99 sq mi) Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary is a sanctuary in Wayanad, Kerala, that encompasses four hill ranges namely Sulthan Bathery, Muthanga, Kurichiat and Tholpetty. A variety of large wild animals such as Gaur, Asian Elephant, Deer, Leopard and Tiger are found there. It is part of the Deccan Plateau and the vegetation is predominantly of the south Indian moist deciduous teak forests. Also, the sanctuary has pastures of the west-coast semi-evergreen trees. The sanctuary is now an integral part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
I photographed this hummingbird while it was raining, in Jaco, Costa Rica.
The blue-throated goldentail (Chlorestes eliciae), also known as the blue-throated sapphire, is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is found in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and heavily degraded former forest.
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La queue d'or à gorge bleue (Chlorestes eliciae), également connue sous le nom de saphir à gorge bleue, est une espèce de colibri de la famille des Trochilidae. On le trouve au Belize, en Colombie, au Costa Rica, au Salvador, au Guatemala, au Honduras, au Mexique, au Nicaragua et au Panama. Ses habitats naturels sont la forêt de plaine humide subtropicale ou tropicale et la forêt ancienne fortement dégradée.
The West Virginia White, is a butterfly found in North America in the Great Lakes states, along the Appalachians from New England to Alabama, and in southern Ontario. They are typically found in moist deciduous forests. Forestry, development, and a highly-invasive species that it confuses with its host plant are causing this species to decline.
Along with the butterfly Pieris oleracea, it is threatened by the invasive weed garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata. The butterflies, having not evolved to be familiar with the plant, confuse it with their host plants. The offspring laid on garlic mustard do not survive. (Wikipedia)
Chaffey's Lock, Ontario, Canada. May 2014.
Cuiaba River
The Pantanal
Brazil
South America
I saw only one of these rails while in the Pantanal along the shoreline in the shade.
The grey-necked wood rail or grey-cowled wood rail (Aramides cajaneus) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It lives primarily in forests and mangroves of Central and South America.
The grey-necked wood rail has a loud, repetitive cackling call mainly heard at dawn and dusk: pop-tiyi pop-tiyi co-co-co-co-co or chitico chitico cao-cao-cao.
It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and swamps. – Wikipedia
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