View allAll Photos Tagged pairing
© All of my photographs are Copyrighted and All Rights Reserved. They may not be used or reproduced in any way without my explicit written permission.
Feel free to state your opinion about the image.
Help me improve my skills and knowledge,
Thank you for viewing and commenting!
OMG, just discovered it's SNOWING!!! Just four days before June starts. There is a snowstorm warning in effect. Major snowstorms in May are NOT unusual here, though - just frustrating : )
Spent a bit of time with this sweet pair of Mountain Bluebirds, south west of the city. I'm so glad I went when I did, as we are having heavy rain today and in the forecast. This little lady gave me some chances for reasonably close photos, though the bright blue male tended to be further away. A minute before this shot, the male had just flown across the road to this fence post to give his mate a fat, juicy larva of some kind : ) Their nesting box was very close by and at regular intervals they had to defend their box against three or four Tree Swallows who kept swooping down low. It always fascinates me the fact that Mountain Bluebirds actually have no blue pigment in their feathers - it's all about the light.
In Bluebirds, the blue colour is produced by the structure of the feather - there is no blue pigment. "Tiny air pockets in the barbs of feathers can scatter incoming light, resulting in a specific, non-iridescent color. Blue colors in feathers are almost always produced in this manner. Examples include the blue feathers of Bluebirds, Indigo Buntings, Blue Jay's and Steller's Jays." www.birds.cornell.edu/allaboutbirds/studying/feathers/col...
"In Alberta, they are most readily seen along roadsides in the foothill country near Calgary where bluebird enthusiasts provide, maintain and monitor nestboxes. Autumn migration is an extended affair. Flocks assemble in mid August and most have departed by late September. Usually, however, there are some that linger to late October and sometimes into November." talkaboutwildlife.ca/profile/?s=238
A pair of California condors perch outside of their nest cave on the side of a cliff near Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge in California in 2009. (Michael Woodbridge/USFWS).
Black is the color of authority and power and it is popular in fashion because it makes people appear thinner. And Red makes the Black dress wearer more noticeable and heavier since it is in an extreme color.
On the reverse:
The bucket in the window
is my refrigerator. It is in
the pantry and wardrobe
combination. The flowers
below are hyacinths. They
sure were pretty.
Matched pairs are laid out on the lawn and bundled as sets. May weather is unpredictable in Jackson. In 2014, snow, hail, and groppel made for a sporty day of antler sorting!
Credit: Lori Iverson / USFWS
This pair hung around the garden for just over a week . They are a dream to photo as they are bold and confident on the heart feeders and stand their ground to the Starlings and Goldfinches. The male just stood resting on a branch for over 15 minutes but try as I might I just couldn't get a good angle on him.
Just a pity that the light was so appallingly bad that week
Canada Goose pair (Branta canadensis) Michaelbrook Marsh, Kelowna, BC. These guys are quite a bit smaller than most of the geese I see; they're not, I think, Cackling Geese.... The one at the back is closer to having the short bill of a Cackler.
But I could be wrong. Wikipedia is useful, but I'm not sure how helpful in resolving this conundrum:
"There are up to 5 subspecies of cackling goose, of varying sizes and plumage details.
The female looks virtually identical but is slightly lighter and has a different voice.
Some are hard to distinguish from the Canada goose, with which the cackling goose was long assumed to form one species, the cackling goose and the smaller Canada goose subspecies being called the lesser Canada goose.
The smallest 1.4 kg (3.1 lb) cackling geese (B. h. minima) are much smaller than any Canada goose, but the subspecies B. h. hutchinsii, at up to 3 kg (6.6 lb), grows to the same size as some Canada geese."
For the All New Scavenger Hunt #9 - A pair.
Here's a pair of legs inside a pair of stonewashed, boot cut blue jeans, and a pair of feet in a pair of size 5.5 leopard print ballet flats, which are basically the only style of shoes I wear.
I seem to be getting a lot of mileage out of shoes this round!
A pair of Great Blue Heron's playing love games with their beaks. You can see how excited they both are by the all the feathers standing on end. What a joy to see and photograph the event. The female is on the left and the male is on the right. The male is standing in the nest that they are currently building together. Yes, love is in the air.
25313 and a classmate are seen on a ballast working one Sunday in February 1987.
This was taken at Weston in Staffordshire, just north of Hixon where the level crossing accident happened in 1968.
25313 was withdrawn the following month and ended up at Vic Berry's yard in Leicester but then saved for preservation the following year at Llangollen.
The Osprey nest high atop a lightpole at Wind River failed months ago, but the pair still rendezvous there throughout the day.
I watched the male mount the female (without actually mating) three times in about a half hour. I think it's a mutual pastime when both have fed successfully during the day.
Alameda, CA