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(Left) Snowy Egret [Egretta thula]
(Right) Tricolored Heron [Egretta tricolor]
Bombay Hook NWR
Smyrna, DE
1921*
The green tree was the only one in this woodland. I really like that and the texture and colour of the bark of the three front trees right on the edge of the wood
Chocolate vine blooms
Akebia quinata, native of Japan, China, and Korea
Vigorous vine, thrives in my Missouri garden
For the group, Macro Mondays, and this week's theme: "The Odd One." Two "odd ones" here: 1. Two of the knives are American Flag knives and the odd one is a Christmas theme; 2. Two of the knives are emblazoned with the Swiss Army Logo, and the other is not.
Happy Macro Monday!
Managed to get up close to a family of Canada geese close to the shore of Shearwater Lkae on the edge of Wiltshire's Longleat estate.
Blue-footed Booby [Sula nebouxii] and Marine iguana [Amblyrhynchus cristatus]
Fernandina Island
Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
2047*
Here's a companion piece to the previous running Coyote; again, no contact with the ground. In this case, however, it was my camera's mirror flipping up that made her jump. Odd, because I took more than 200 shots of her as she dug a calorie bonanza of frozen fish out of a shallow pond, and she seemed well aware and accepting of me. Still, this is a wild animal. Her senses are razor-sharp. I bet the shutter mechanism was loud to her in the stillness of a cold winter day.
I was NOT in my car when I had this encounter, having tracked this Coyote quite far from the road - and at times had the tables turned and found her tracking me. This shot came toward the end; the sun was sinking low in the west. I was sitting. Camera was on a tripod, the only option when using a big heavy lens for an extended time, and still the best way to ensure optimum sharpness in most situations with a long lens.
Photograph from Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2014 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Today, storms missed Cheyenne like there was an invisible barrier over the city. For two hours before sunset, this thunderstorm moved out of northeast Colorado to the northwest (everything was moving east all day) and died minutes after this image just south of Pine Bluffs, Wyoming. It would have been an epic lightning show but at least I got to see a thunderset (thunderstorm at sunset).
This storm was 50 miles away.
Picture of the Day
You know you are starting to get a bit bored with COVID routines when you start paying a bit more attention to the ducks at your local park. On our walk yesterday, I saw this guy in the pen where all the other common ducks and swans hang out. The colouring around his eye is what caught my eye at first. Then I checked out the ring of white feathers around his neck. He/she had some lovely coloring in his feathers. It was the only duck of it’s kind that I could see which made him an odd duck for this scene. I hope he/she is not trying to escape his Red Zone! Happy Wing Wednesday!
Three tree sparrows (Passer montanus) perched on a metal fence.
Trzy mazurki (Passer montanus) siedząca na blaszanym parkanie.
Happy "Smile on Saturday" with "odd one out"!
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. . .a week ago.
Golden Gate Bridge and Angel Island, to the right.
San Francisco Bay seen from the east, with an oddly colored afternoon sun.
Already affected by the wildfires to the north.
An image that I entered into my camera club recently, shot taken in the New Forest with my iPhone 11 Pro Max and recently re-worked.
A lone Black-headed Gull (lower centre) getting seriously outnumbered by four adult and three juvenile Sandwich Terns
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Jade Flower (Crassula ovata)
For Pink October
Most of the flowers on our Jade are white, occasionally we see a pink one.