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For the Macro Mondays group, topic: Odd One. Happy Macro Monday!

Macro Mondays, 3 February 2020. "The Odd One"

 

Macro view of a juniper berry surrounded by caraway seeds.

Chinese Checkers is a game in which players race each other to see who can fill their destination triangle with colored pegs first. While the game is neither Chinese nor Checkers, it's a fun tactical game invented in Germany but based on an American game called Halma. You can play the game with two to six players. Follow the original rules, or create some of your own to play a variation of Chinese Checkers.

 

My trusty (rusty?) Nikon 1 J4 w/ 70's vintage 55mm Nikkor @ f8

This is a photo story that fascinated me! I was photographing a great blue heron rookery (600mm lens), and suddenly a pair of red-tail hawks began circling the top of the tree where one GBH was standing guard. One hawk continually flew close to the guard heron, who then swelled up its chest, spread its huge wings, and screamed at the hawk. This happened numerous times. Finally the hawk flew back in carrying some dried weeds in its beak and landed on a nest directly below the fierce-looking heron. The hawk tucked its reeds into the nest and then settled in. The heron, seeming to accept the hawk's presence, relaxed its threatening posture and resumed its regular guard position!

Macro Mondays Theme.....Circles.

Golf Tees.

Looking close on Friday theme: “Odd One Out” 😊

 

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For "Smile on Saturday" - theme : "odd one out"

Count Down to the New Year - Day 5

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

HSS

 

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30/11/2016; Now I am used to showers of rain, hail, sleet, or rain, but I entered quite the odd shower some time ago... ;)

 

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This is one for the group, Looking close….on Fridays! With today’s theme being ‘Soles’.

Inspired by that classic Hollywood film, The Odd Couple with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.

Oddly enough there were 2 pieces of cheese left but only one mini pretzel!

The Macro Mondays theme for this week is "Odd".

Trees and a lamppost against a dark sky

This is to the left of the house in the next shot. The two look nothing alike, which seems a bit odd. It's also a unique shape and here in Wisconsin we don't use garage doors of this type because you can't get them open when we get two feet of snow. Then there's the paint job.

Made Explore: 4-28-'17, #185.

I could immediately tell that they didn't want me hanging around... I can't understand how they knew I was odd though, usually it takes about a minute.

Oh well...

 

Longhorn cattle free range

A Razorbill keeping company with the Guillemots at Bempton Cliffs, East Yorkshire.

When I took this photo just over a week ago, there were thousands of guillemots on the cliffs and on the sea. On my last session they had all gone back out to sea again. No doubt when I go on Sunday they will all be back. Quite unpredictable creatures are guillemots sometimes.

Here is little chook and a Galah just sitting up high and watching the world go by.

Lunch on the Commons. Ithaca, NY

With the odd bloke in charge of them all

The 1898 Odd Fellows Hall in Hawley, Pennsylvania. The sun is shining on the left side of the building but it was those dark clouds on the right that cut my visit short.

View On Black

 

Son standing in front of a weird mecanism behind glass, on Granville Island, Vancouver.

 

85mm 1.2 L

Feilding salesyards

Not inclusive marbles

 

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I'm just not sure how i feel about plastic legwarmers.

 

I'm taking a picture of them, just because.

  

This barnacle goose seems to have palled up with some greylag geese. Seen flying over Carlton Marsh, Suffolk.

I hope I have ID'd these birds right!

 

An odd cloud appeared at sunset over Lachine, Quebec.

One of these is not like the others, in Haastrecht

Anna Maria Island, Florida

A whole coconut.posted to me by my sister from the Cook Islands, just with the address and stamps stuck on it! That was in 1989, I've stilll got it and can still remember the posties face.

Wood ducks look strange when they change from their pretty breeding colors into their drab summer (eclipse) colors. But this duck is stranger still. It has both male & female characteristics. Not a juvenile, they have dull olive color bills. Male traits here are that colorful bill that remains even in summer and the colorful head crest feathers. Female traits are the brown eye instead of red, the shape of the white outlining the eye and the lack of a white chin strap going up the neck. Males keep the red eyes and white chin strap even in the summer.

Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)

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