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A mating pair of Hairies at Shapwick Heath. Not a great background unfortunately, but this was the only pair I spotted.
On these cold nights. A cup of yumminess, hot cocoa & marshmallows.
I couldn’t use my camera while pouring the hot cocoa so used my phone, I did catch the cocoa but it’s supposed to to be a macro so I cropped it out.
A lovely pair, big and round
In the wildness, now are found
Pushed together or spreading wide
Their beauty revealed, they no longer hide
Exposed to all eyes are found
A lovely pair, so big and round
And now a pair no longer.
Illinois Midland RS1325s #30 and #31 bring a healthy-sized Powerton Roadswitcher south near Manito, IL. This one-time chase was the result of a lucky snippet of radio chatter between dispatcher and "something" 30 while I was enroute to Peoria. A quick check of Google and former plans were "circular filed" in favor of catching this move.
Glad I did it; sorry I'll never have another chance. #30 now works on the Atlantic and Western, another G&W shortline located in North Carolina.
For my video; youtu.be/IloO-6AB-9Q
Male and female ducks
drake & hen
Deer Lake Park,
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
When I landed at O’Hare to spend a few days on a work assignment in Chicago, I checked my phone and saw that UP 4141 was on display at Proviso. I arrived to find it paired with the veterans unit and approachable from a distance only for non-employees as this was a display for employees. Fortunately, I met fellow Flickr member and employee Eric, who kindly offered to adopt me as a distant cousin. The UP had flood lights around the pair, so I returned for a nocturnal view.
Puffins can live for around twenty years, they spend most of their lives at sea and only come onto land to breed. They usually pair up with the same partner each year. Chris Draper Photography shared with pixbuf.com
ODC-Pairs
These two squirrels wanted the suet. The little Red American Squirrel was very patient and waited for the Grey Squirrel to leave and he jumped on the suet.
I managed to get out to the Pond [Lake] last week. It was a very dull day, but made a welcome change to the rain and high winds we've been getting lately.
There were plenty of ducks, gulls and geese around plus a pair of swans and this pair of white doves.
I've never seen any white doves over there before, so this was a nice surprise and they stayed put for me too.
When I got back home I decided to look doves up on line as I know nothing about them. Most results seemed a bit disparaging about them and called them pigeons. Well, I suppose they are of the pigeon family but to me they are so much more distinctive.
Anyway - I know pigeons can be seen as a nuisance, but I read somewhere that people's perception of them changes for the better when they find out how useful and stoic homing pigeons were during the war and they were even awarded medals - so there!
Dandelions. Very common weed that adorns urban areas, gardens, fields and just about anywhere. Whatever you think of it, its various stages of transition are magical from a photographic perspective.
Dandelions may be considered a nuisance in parts of the garden, especially in weed-free lawns but have many herbal uses and are a good early source of nectar and pollen for insects so worth tolerating where possible.
Taraxacum is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, which consists of species commonly known as Dandelions.
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Intrigued to see this pair of Eider Duck (Somateria mollissima) swimming along by the pier at Southend-On-Sea today! I've only ever seen them near the Farne Islands before! Anyway, whatever they were doing along the Essex coast it was treat to see them!
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Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) pair in an amorous state prior to breeding. There were periods of gentle contact intermixed with biting along the neck of the female. Interesting behaviour to observed.
This took place during a guided trip to the K'tzim-a-deen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary in the Khutzeymateen Inlet along the west coast north of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada.
The inlet is about a 30 minute flight by float plane, north of Prince Rupert. The tour of 6 wildlife photographers (including myself) was 5 days long and run by Ocean Light II Adventures. We stayed at the entrance of the reserve in a 72 ft sail boat (Ocean Light II) and accessed the reserve daily in a 19 ft Zodiac and spent most of the day looking for grizzly bear activity.
Our guide was amazed at the number of times we encountered this mating behaviour. He indicated that it was quite unusual to see this many breeding encounters as the bears tended to be more secretive in his past experiences.
26 May, 2015.
Slide # GWB_20150526_5238.CR2
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SLR 520 is about to enter Southwark Yard as CN 522 backs up beside it, the latter about to head south on the Rouses Point Sub. 520 has SLR 3047, SLR 4022, SLR 3004 for power, 522 has CN 4774, CN 7060 & IC 9628.
A pair of Nankeen Kestrels (Falco cenchroides), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The female and male bird are in the foreground and background, respectively. This shot is a composite, as both birds were on different focal planes; however, the image is still representative of what I saw, with both birds being perched for ~10 minutes.