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There appeared to be plenty of good foraging on this buggy, seaweedy stretch of beach, but these two semipalmated sandpipers, part of a mixed flock that also included least sandpipers and a few semipalmated plovers, didn't seem to want to share. Southern Maine

Dogwood Tree & Male Northern Cardinal

I rarely do this kind of photography anymore but I was yearning for a little fun. When I was a kid PEEPs tasted fabulous, not anymore!

I'll catch up after being outside in the warm sun.

I go to the shorebird festival at Homer each year to see the migrating birds. I love to watch the peeps - a broad name for the many smaller shorebirds - in large flocks as they fly back and forth. It's wonderful and amazing to see their ability to maintain distance between each other in flight as they swirl through the air, changing direction and flock shape as they do. I try to capture flock images like this one which seems to be mostly Western Sandpipers.

Taken 4 May 2023 at Homer, Alaska.

Juvenile Spotted Sandpiper. I had quite a time trying to capture this little one running along the lake shore.

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Tension in the air .

This is not a monochrome shot but you will have to look carefully to see colour.

For The Flickr Lounge--Prelude to Spring

Crimson rosella

My submission for the Smile on Saturday theme of animals with fur. An adorable wallaby with a joey peeping out from her pouch. Taken a while ago at Manor Park in Pembrokeshire.

I fell off the face of the earth the past few days after getting unexpectedly sick. Unexpected because, with weather around here gorgeous...almost like summer...I come down with a winter season illness: high fever, nausea, chills/sweats, pain...the whole nine yards....go figure.

I'm an active mother of 3...usually nothing gets me down...but this had me down for the count! Picture one of those big cartoon boxing gloves punching me onto the couch...knockout!! :-)

So I'm sorry for not being more social...I did go through and admire your images once or twice, but couldn't comment. I'm much better today so I'll be slowly catching up while I'm recovering the next couple days. I have to admit...I did miss my Flickr friends ;-)

Have a great Wednesday evening, everyone :-)

Leaf peeping is an informal term in the United States and Canada for the activity in which people travel to view and photograph the fall foliage in areas where leaves change colors in autumn. 🍁🍂

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ontwerp labyrinth: Gijs Van Vaerenbergh

Digital Art - Fractals

My Textures; Apophysis fractals

back to the serious stuff, Charlie our neighbours cat peeping through the slit in the gate!

Sparrowhawk sneakily peeping from behind the wooden post (his latest perch).

Garden image

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Jeffrey enjoying his Ikea cat box.

Nuthatch seen at RSPB Leighton Moss (2228)

He figured since I like to bird-watch, he could try people peeping...

More "window photography".

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This black squirrel was taken at the park across the White House observing tourists come and go as they visit one of the famous landmarks in DC and the world.

This dude was peeping in my kitchen window last night.

Olympus Zuiko Macro 90/2.0

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World Animal Day 04-10-2007

Museum Hilversum portrait by Sander Troelstra

A revisit to a cold winters day in Scotland and my first trip to Alan's hides.

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Stongday monastery in Zanskar valley, Ladakh Himalayas, India

Taken in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

Delightfully named Peep o day farm sits at the top of the pass between Hayfield and Chinley.

This is from about a foot outside my home-office window.

I don't see woodpeckers on this holly tree too often, so I can only assume it was watching me.

I hope Hoof and Horace were very quiet when they came around all of your properties on Monday evening and peeped through the window to see how many people were watching the last ever episode of Poldark which had many of its scenes filmed in Cornwall.🏡

Horace and Hoof were subcontracted by the BBC to count the number of viewers actually watching the programme, and I bet you all thought audience research figs were carried out by personnel with a clipboard in the street randomly asking people if they watched a certain programme, nope.📕📘📖

You see Hoof was the stunt double for Captain Ross Poldark’s horse Seamus, while Horace was employed by the BBC to advise on mining engineering principles, as you can imagine H went through quite a bit of dynamite.💥💥💥

So as H and H were in on the series and knew the outcome they were the obvious choice to do the head count.🐎🐷

It may surprise you, but give or take the odd one or two.

One hundred and fifty three million people, plus yes plus umpteen dogs, cats, parrots, budgerigars, lamas, hamsters, one rhinoceros, viewed the last ever episode and that was just in one house.😱

A thought for the weekend,

Don’t wait for an opportunity,

Create it😂😂😂

Thank you all for looking, I really appreciate all your comments on my images. Have a lovely weekend👍😎🍻🍻🍻🍷🍷🍷🐎🐷😂😂😂

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