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Explore! 44 ⭐ June 28, 2023 /Explore surprise 🌟April 25, 2025,t hank you !

This photo was taken at the edge of the pond in the last rays of the sun when the foliage is reflected in the water and gives it beautiful colors .

 

Cette photo a été prise au bord de l'étang aux dernières lueurs du soleil quand le feuillage se reflete dans l'eau et lui donne de belles couleurs .

 

I believe this is a female Anna's Hummingbird casting her tongue, briefly, for an insect, perhaps. The bold and brash Rufous Hummingbirds seem to have moved north in their wide circle back to to Mexico. The Anna's seem to linger all year,

 

Thanks for your comments.

A quintessential, but young wet robin perches on a popular perch in rain and sprinkles. Not sure why the perch seems popular with small and large birds, raptors included.

 

Migration: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Robin/maps-range

 

Larger view: www.flickr.com/photos/jan-timmons/52998468789/sizes/o/

 

Many thanks to all who take the time to comment.

At sunset, with the last hint of light, this tiny migratory male sparkled. The evening looked darker than this, hence the ISO 12800. The DxO PureRAW 3 software helped to remove most of the noise.

 

I love these feisty tiny creatures flying so far north. Male Rufous Hummingbird, (Selasphorus rufus), native to southern Mexico.

 

NB. Last January 2022 I asked for help and a Flickr support hero removed my account from the Explore algorithm. I feel more sincere and in the moment.

The dismount and crossing of the swords

 

Click twice to enlarge

Turf Church Hofskirkja, Island

If my mother were alive, she'd laugh at the tiny screen fences we have put around some new plants. I used to laugh at her complaints about deer eating her roses and plants in Northern California. This morning was the first morning in months that we've watched three black-tailed doe or blacktail deer bounding around the back forty, checking for the juicy tender shoots of the new plantings and the stubs of the milkweed plants.

 

But I digress. Not much wind early this morning (early for me), so I dragged my heavy gear to the back deck. This is a female goldfinch with sunlight illuminating from the back and side.

 

‘Goldfinches are among the strictest vegetarians in the bird world, selecting an entirely vegetable diet and only inadvertently swallowing an occasional insect.’

~Cornell

 

Die Klosterkirche, ein bedeutender Bau des schwäbischen Rokoko, wurde von 1752 bis 1758 nach Plänen von Simpert Kraemer in Kreuzform erbaut. Der einschiffige Saalbau mit Querhauserweiterung und Doppeltürmen ist 70 m lang, 35 m breit und hat eine Innenhöhe von 28 m. Die beiden Türme sind 70 Meter hoch. Das Kirchengebäude ist, wie bei Prämonstratensern üblich, in die Klosteranlage integriert und hat daher keine Eingangsfassade in der Längsachse. Die Kirche wird heute als Katholische Pfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt genutzt.

 

Vermutlich wurde der Stuck von Stuckateuren der Wessobrunner Schule gefertigt. Die Deckenfresken schuf der Maler Franz Martin Kuen. Sie gelten als dessen Hauptwerk, sind aber nicht erhalten, da die Decke 1845 einstürzte. Nach deren Wiederherstellung wurden 1900 neue Fresken durch den akademischen Maler Waldemar Kolmsperger angebracht. Wie in vielen Kirchen der Prämonstratenser stellt das zentrale Deckengemälde das Weihnachtsgeschehen dar, ein Hinweis auf die Gründung des Ordens am Weihnachtsfest 1121.

 

Die Altarblätter des Hochaltars und der Seitenaltäre stammen ebenfalls von Franz Martin Kuen. Die großen Figuren am Hochaltar wurden von Anton Sturm geschaffen und stellen links den heiligen Augustinus als Verfasser der Ordensregel und rechts den Ordenspatron Johannes der Täufer dar. Aus der Vorgängerkirche stammen die von Christoph Rodt 1628 geschaffenen Figuren das Kreuzaltars und der Querschiffaltäre. Auch das Chorgestühl mit Platz für 50 Chorherren stammt aus der Vorgängerkirche.

Sonnenfahrt (isl. Sólfar, engl. The Sun Voyager ) ist eine Skulptur in Reykjavík, Island, die vom Künstler Jón Gunnar Árnason (1931–1989) im Jahre 1986[1] geschaffen wurde.

 

Die Skulptur befindet sich an der nördlichen Küstenstraße Sæbraut. Sie zeigt zum Sonnenuntergang im Norden, wodurch sich der Name erklärt. Aus Edelstahl bestehend, stellt sie ein Wikingerschiff dar und gehört zu den meist fotografierten Kunstwerken in Reykjavík.

Every year I say no more duckling shots.

 

Technically therefore I haven't broken my own rule.

 

Naturally I had approached the local pond in search of goosanders, when I stumbled across these youngsters.

 

Mute Swan - Cygnus Olor

cygnets

 

Nunroyd Pond - Yeadon

 

Many thanks to all those who take the time to comment, fave and view my photos. It is truly appreciated.

 

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With few trees near the sides of our house, we collect dead tree limbs to use for snags.

 

I was surprised to see a robin--or any bird--perched on this northern stick, with another robin in an adjacent dead tree (snag). That's just tall grass in fields behind it.

 

Could only get one shot at a too-slow shutter speed before it flew.

 

Thanks for looking. Headed back outdoors for now. Feel less anxious and grumpy there.

They have returned, these feisty finches with mottled, molting yellow feathers in transition. Fighting over thistle plants and feeders. (Mea culpa: I blew highlights over several wing feathers on the goldfinch on the right.)

 

That's a web glistening in the lower left—it's Web Wednesday, and Wing Wednesday!

Elfia Fantasy Fair, Arcen

A Steller's Jay visits a peanut supply this morning in the rain after the snow. I don’t know where this food cacher stashes his peanuts. These jays carry “some away to store in a cache to help them get through the winter.” www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Stellers_Jay/

 

"Half black, half blue. Long, black crest. Found in evergreen forests of western United States south through Mexico to Nicaragua. Larger than a robin, smaller than a crow. Populations in the Interior have more white above eye than Pacific populations. Often in flocks and calling frequently. Regularly visits feeders, campgrounds and picnic areas."

ebird.org/species/stejay/

 

im Landschaftspark Duisburg

Finally a bit of sun this morning. Nice to have a little color. Watched him catch about a dozen fish in a period of 2 hours. Not only the most entertaining in the marsh, but the best fisherman. Click to enlarge.

Der Antwerpener Gerichtshof (oft Schmetterling Palast genannt) ist ein Gericht südlich der Stadt Antwerpen auf dem Bolivar-Platz, wo früher die South Station war. Das Gebäude wurde vom Architekten Richard Rogers gebaut. Er entwarf auch Gebäude wie das Centre Pompidou in Paris und den Millennium Dome in London.

 

Red Dot Museum Zeche Zollverein, Essen

 

Außergewöhnlich ist die Architektur des Provinzhauses Maastricht. Monumental und kubisch in der Bauweise, besticht der Regierungssitz der Provinz Limburg, durch eine unvergessliche Gebäudestruktur. Insgesamt ergeben 23 Einzelgebäude, die alle miteinander verbunden sind, das Gesamtobjekt. Teilweise wurden Gebäudeteile in die Maas gebaut, die nochmals die Besonderheit der Architektur betonen.

Mito de cabeza blanca. Bialowieza, Polonia.

Ce guêpier était présent en Namibie aussi mais plus facile de le photographier en France !(image de l'an dernier dans le Loiret !)

You gotta love the eyes. So interesting watching these guys, they are so wild and mysterious. Only have a 30 min window to watch them as darkness changes to light, then they go roost and become inactive until night returns.

   

Learning to fly is easy, this young male is practicing his landings showing his 2 sisters how it is done, as they still aren't flying.

I think this is a Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) perched on wild grass on today’s sunny (but chilly) morning. Sun! My fingertips might lose those bathtub-type wrinkles. Until tomorrow’s lovely rain.

 

Happy Palindrome day! 02202020

 

Larger view:

www.flickr.com/photos/jan-timmons/49478393581/sizes/k/

 

Large crop. 850mm, f/6.7, 1/1000, ISO 560

Fierce announcement of imminent landing.

 

Yes, yes, we were told not to feed these luminous European Starlings in North America. But they make fun, bright, animated subjects to photograph!

 

Comments unnecessary.

 

Ooh! Our first-of-season swallow just visited one of the bird houses!

Another (or the same) Northern Shrike with a spot of red on beak and a few feathers. Suddenly ubiquitous, but on a beautifully clear, cold, windy day.

 

Larger view: www.flickr.com/photos/jan-timmons/49138500756/sizes/k/

 

The Latin species name of the Northern Shrike, Lanius excubitor, means "Butcher watchman."

www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Shrike/

 

850mm, f/9, 1/2500, ISO 450

Wanted to see if I could get some action with camera and lens. To show card movement, that is. Need a card shark and a whole lot more practice to show movement at this table. And to set up a better light or two.

 

Just for fun.

Looking towards Buachaille Etive Mor (the herdsman of Etive) which is at the head of Glen Etive on the approach to Glen Coe in the Scottish Highlands. This is one of the most iconic views in this area and never fails to excite me.

 

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