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Near The Gulf Of Mexico

Southwest Florida, USA

My Front Yard

 

The mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) is a member of the dove family, Columbidae. The bird is also known as the American mourning dove or the rain dove, and erroneously as the turtle dove, and was once known as the Carolina pigeon or Carolina turtledove. It is one of the most abundant and widespread of all North American birds. In warm areas, one pair may raise up to six broods of two young each in a single year. The wings make an unusual whistling sound upon take-off and landing, a form of sonation. The bird is a strong flier, capable of speeds up to 88 km/h (55 mph). It is the national bird of the British Virgin Islands.

 

Mourning doves are light grey and brown and generally muted in color. Males and females are similar in appearance. The species is generally monogamous, with two squabs (young) per brood. Both parents incubate and care for the young. Mourning doves eat almost exclusively seeds, but the young are fed crop milk by their parents.

 

The mourning dove occupies a wide variety of open and semi-open habitats, such as urban areas, farms, prairie, grassland, and lightly wooded areas. It avoids swamps and thick forest. The species has adapted well to areas altered by humans. They commonly nest in trees in cities or near farmsteads. – Wikipedia

 

Always on the lookout for the classic outback windmill bore shot - this was a wonderful misty sunrise in South Australia's mid north somewhere near Hawker. The sun looked amazingly huge through the mist and the sepia colour was exactly as I saw it.

A little redo of an old favourite.

auch wenn es schon so viele Aufnahmen davon gibt, ich liebe diese Felder, es ist für mich der schönste Monat - leuchtendes Gelb und frisches Grün

kommt gut in die neue Woche

Just a little picture from Australia. We were last tuesday in the Royal Botanical Garden in Sydney. I took some flowers pictures :D Now we are at the begining of the Great Ocean Road... So beautiful, but so cold :D

Go see the blog to follow our trip... Sorry it's in French, but there are a lot of pictures :D

Fighting and jumping ;) …

 

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Fazant, Common Pheasant, Phasianus colchicus, Fasan, Faisan

 

Pentax K7

Novoflex Noflexar 1:8 600mm *MF

Shutterspeed 1/1000

Exposure Correction 0

Diapraghm f8

Focalpoint 600mm

Iso 800

 

*MF=Manual Focus.

Italy

Southern and Western Europe

 

One of the few wild animals captured on my trip to Italy unless you include the wild tourists everywhere. This bird was visiting on one of the steep cliffs down by the marina.

 

I originally did not know what type of gull this was, and someone told me it was a herring gull. One of my other contacts said this was a yellow-legged gull. Looking up the bird on Wikipedia, I determined it was indeed a yellow-legged gull. They seem to be mainly found around the Mediterranean area of Europe.

 

The yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis) is a large gull found in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, which has only recently achieved wide recognition as a distinct species. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of either the Caspian gull L. cachinnans, or more broadly as a subspecies of the herring gull L. argentatus.

 

The breeding range is centered on the Mediterranean Sea. In North Africa, it is common in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia and increasing in places. Recent breeding has occurred in Libya and Egypt. In the Middle East, a few breed in Israel Palestine and Syria with larger numbers in Cyprus and Turkey. In Europe, there are colonies all along the Mediterranean coast, and also on the Atlantic islands and coasts north to Brittany and west to the Azores. It also breeds on the western side of the Black Sea, with the yellow-legged gull preferring sea cliffs and the Caspian gull flatter shores. In recent decades birds have spread north into central and western Europe.

 

Many birds remain in the same area all year round, but others migrate to spend the winter in mild areas of western Europe or head south as far as Senegal, Gambia and the Red Sea. There is also extensive northward post-breeding dispersal in the late summer, with numbers in southern England high from July to October. – Wikpedia

 

Watch the Steps in Dimness of the Floor...

Kaziranga National Park

State Of Assam

India

 

The barasingha (Cervus duvaucelii), also called swamp deer, is a deer species distributed in the Indian subcontinent. Populations in northern and central India are fragmented, and two isolated populations occur in southwestern Nepal. It is extinct in Pakistan and in Bangladesh.The specific name commemorates the French naturalist Alfred Duvaucel.

 

The swamp deer differs from all the Indian deer species in that the antlers carry more than three tines. Because of this distinctive character it is designated barasingha, meaning "twelve-tined." Mature stags have 10 to 14 tines, and some have been known to have up to 20.

 

In the 19th century, swamp deer ranged along the base of the Himalayas from Upper Assam to the west of the Yamuna River, throughout Assam, in a few places in the Indo-Gangetic plain from the Eastern Sundarbans to Upper Sind, and locally throughout the area between the Ganges and Godavari as far east as Mandla.

 

Swamp deer are mainly grazers. They largely feed on grasses and aquatic plants. They feed throughout the day with peaks during the mornings and late afternoons to evenings. In winter and monsoon, they drink water twice, and thrice or more in summer. In the hot season, they rest in the shade of trees during the day. - Wikipedia

 

Like I said in the previous post, Brugge is the Venice of the North. All the city is surrounded by water... It's so beautiful... We didn't have a great weather but the captures still are beautiful :)

What am I supposed to be??? How about a 67 year old going out on the job interview. LOL

Happy Winter Solstice!!!

 

Sunrise at Callanish I (Calanais) on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

 

Stayed overnight in Bertha (the camper van) in a lay-by overlooking this stone circle, during the night I woke to see the moon showing it's face occasionally between fast moving clouds in an otherwise pitch black scene....the location was incredibly eerie, timeless, prehistoric, frighteningly so, but I hope those moments will always stay with me...this shot was certainly not the easiest I've ever taken, fumbling around in the low light, attempting to catch the moment of the first rays of light.

 

Pentax K7 paired with the Samyang 10mm f/2.8 ED AS NCS CS (Ultra Wide Angle) lens mounted o n the Manfrotto Tripod with Manfrotto Pan head 391RC2 and triggered using a Pentax remote. Standard run through in DxO Pro on Mac. IMGP1053

It was taken with Hoya ND 400 filter and Cokin Graduated Neutral density Filter on a tripod.

 

It is much better to view in LARGE.

Another rare (for me) shot using a tripod

At the car park above Loch Tulla.

From the archives :) The ING offices in Amsterdam in the fog in the morning of the 6th of Februari 2010.

 

Since the start of the world wide financial crisis, it seems that the banks still can get away with scandals and mis-management.

There is still a lack of transparency, just like in a fog.

 

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