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Got a shot of a backyard visitor yesterday... the Lesser Goldfinch. He was eyeballing me while I put some sun flower seeds in the feeder. It was a good morning : )
Lesser Goldfinches are tiny, stub-billed songbirds with long, pointed wings, and short, notched tails. They are most common in California and Texas, with pockets of local populations throughout the rest of its U.S. range. They are quite small in stature, approximately 2.5 inches tall and weigh approximately ½ oz
Lesser Goldfinches feed in weedy fields, budding treetops, and the brush of open areas and edges. Depending on food availability, they may concentrate in mountain canyons and desert oases, but they are also fairly common in suburbs.
These finches primarily eat seeds of plants in the sunflower family, and they occur all the way south to the Peruvian Andes. Listen closely to their wheezy songs, which often include snippets from the songs of other birds.
(Nikon, 500 mm + TC 1.4, 1/2500 @ f/5.6, ISO 800, edited to taste)
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Small, stocky owl with large head and no neck. Pointed ear tufts are often raised. Varies in color from gray to bright rufous (reddish-brown). Intricate pattern is perfect for camouflage against tree bark. Yellow eyes. Active at night when they prey on small birds and mammals. More often heard than seen; listen for its descending whinny and longer trill. Roosts and nests in cavities, including nest boxes. Found in a variety of habitats with trees, particularly near water. (eBird)
A slightly quieter roosting spot from his original roost right next to the road where everyone parks. Of course, he was found and everyone goes to take his photo.
Britannia Conservation Area, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. May 2022.
Adult gannets are large and bright white with black wingtips. They are distinctively shaped with a long neck and long pointed beak, long pointed tail, and long pointed wings. At sea they flap and then glide low over the water, often travelling in small groups. They feed by flying high and circling before plunging into the sea.
Taken at Bempton Cliffs, North Yorkshire, UK
Small warbler with sharply pointed bill. Look for gray head, white eyering, yellow underparts (including throat), and olive upperparts. Sometimes pumps tail. Two disjunct breeding populations are very similar in appearance. Breeds in coniferous or mixed forests, often near clearings, second-growth, or bogs. In migration and winter, tends to be found in patchy woodland or brushy areas, including field edges and thickets. Winters primarily in Mexico. Listen for its loud chipping song, broken into two parts. Compare dull immature Nashville with Virginia’s Warbler; Nashvilles always have greenish wings. Also sometimes mistaken for larger gray-headed warblers like Mourning or Connecticut, but Nashville is much smaller, shorter-tailed, and sharper-billed. (eBird)
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I'm transitioning to a new computer (windows to mac) so am posting some photos that I processed before the Australia trip. Wish me luck :-)
I almost never see the red cap on the Nashville Warbler, so was pleased to see it on this little bird.
Andrew Haydon Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. August 2022.
Meerkats live in the deserts and grasslands of the southern tip of Africa. They are extremely cute, with bushy, brown-striped fur, a small, pointed face, and large eyes surrounded by dark patches. They average about 20 inches (50 centimeters) long, including their tail. These extremely social animals live together in burrows, which they dig with their long, sharp claws.
I spotted this fella in a London Zoo enclosure but he may have spotted me first.
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Trim songbird with pointed bill, grayish above, pale below. In the Top End of the Northern Territory, back slightly browner; in north Queensland, back more greenish gray. Smaller and more slender than female Golden Whistler. Forages fairly low in dense vegetation such as mangroves, wetter forests, or swampy woodlands. Common song a ringing, two-noted whistle. (eBird)
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A small, plain bird hiding in the early morning gloom and whistling his early morning song. He didn't really want to be seen, but I got him anyway.
Fogg Dam, Northern Territory, Australia. October 2022.
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Small finch. Sharply pointed bill is pink in summer, grayish-brown in winter. Small head, long wings, and short, notched tail. Adult males in spring and summer are bright yellow with black forehead and wings. Females are dull yellow below and olive above with two distinct wingbars. In winter, they are drab, buffy-brown. Active and acrobatic. Sometimes in large numbers at feeders or on ground below. Found in weedy fields, cultivated areas, roadsides, orchards, and backyards. (eBird)
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Usually, Goldfinch are shy, but this female must have had a nest nearby so she was far more focused on gathering food than worrying about photographers. Here she is combing through the Viper's Bugloss in search of seeds and insects.
Britannia Conservation Area, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. August 2022.
Large brownish honeyeater with bare black facial skin and a long, pointed, black bill topped by a small rounded "horn". Uniformly gray-brown with upperparts a darker shade than the underparts. Care should be taken to distinguish it from Silver-crowned Friarbird (which has an angular edge to the upper rear portion of the black facial skin, as well as a slightly larger "horn" on the bill). Also similar is the Noisy Friarbird (which has a completely bare head). Found along the tropical Queensland and Northern Territory coasts—where it can be common in a variety of habitats including parks, gardens, mangroves, and forests. The "Sandstone" subspecies in Arnhem Land is quite different in habitat; it occurs in inland sandstone areas. Typically very loud, with has a variety of harsh, loud squawks, including the "poor devil" call. (eBird)
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To me, Friarbirds' heads look very skull-like, which made them easy to identify as Friarbirds. Getting the difference between the species was a little trickier, having to analyse shape of the "horn" and amount of bare skin on face. As you can see, they are also well camouflaged.
George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. October 2022.
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Huge white bird with long neck and all-black bill. Immatures dusky gray-brown with pink on bill. Forages in shallow, vegetated wetlands reaching under the water for plants, and walks through corn stubble. Breeds in freshwater marshes and ponds. Winters on any open body of water where food is available. Extremely similar to Tundra Swan, but never shows yellow on bill. Also, note subtle features of face: facial skin is relatively broad where it meets eye, so the eye doesn't stand out, and border between white face and black bill is straight (curved on Tundra). From head-on, the border of the bill and forehead is usually pointed (straight or curved on Tundra). Often in pairs or family groups. Almost went extinct in early 20th century, but population has rebounded and been reintroduced to some areas. (eBird)
This swan was an unusual find in Victoria. It was nice to see one without wing tags - most of the Trumpeter Swans in Ontario have been re-introduced and so sport large yellow tags on their wings. Admittedly, this makes it easier to identify them if you can't see their face clearly.
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. June 2022.
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"Neues Kranzler Eck“
60 Meter hoch ragt die gläserne Wand hinter dem altehrwürdigen Kranzler Eck auf, messerscharf schiebt sich ihre Spitze bis fast an den Kurfürstendamm. Ohne Zweifel hat Stararchitekt Helmut Jahn der City-West eine neue Sehenswürdigkeit beschert und das Einkaufsviertel, das nach der Wiedervereinigung gegenüber der neuen alten Mitte ins Hintertreffen zu geraten drohte, zumindest architektonisch effektvoll aufgepeppt.
"New Kanzler Eck"
The glass wall rises 60 meters behind the venerable "Kranzler Eck", its point razor-sharp almost to the Kurfürstendamm. Without a doubt, star architect Helmut Jahn has given City-West a new sight and at least architecturally spiced up the shopping district, which threatened to fall behind the new old center after reunification.
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Small bird with thin pointed bill. Upperparts brown, underparts grayish brown, with dark red eye, reddish-brown forehead, and white throat with dark streaking. Similar Tasmanian Thornbill has longer tail and rufous-brown panel on wings; Inland Thornbill has grayer upperparts, more streaking on the breast, and a longer tail; and Striated Thornbill has more greenish upperparts, thin white streaking in reddish-brown cap, and pale eyebrow. Inhabits a wide variety of shrub habitats, where usually seen in small groups or pairs. (eBird)
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One of several different species of small brown birds that we encountered this rainy day (it is the rainforest, after all). Small, bouncy and curious, they were fun to watch.
O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat, Queensland, Australia. October 2022.
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The nuthatch is a plump bird about the size of a great tit that resembles a small woodpecker. It is blue-grey above and whitish below, with chestnut on its sides and under its tail. It has a black stripe on its head, a long black pointed bill and short legs.
It breeds throughout England and Wales and has recently began to breed in southern Scotland. It is a resident, with birds seldom travelling far from the woods where they hatch. (RSPB)
Robust songbird with a strong, pointed bill. Grayish overall except for brown back and pale spot between eyes and bill (lores). Immature similar but with faint streaks on breast; juvenile more heavily streaked still, with rusty eyebrow. Inhabits most treed environments in Australia, foraging in pairs from ground level into treetops. Sings a beautiful five-note song. (eBird)
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We recorded these birds nearly every day during our travels, but they were usually very difficult to see. This photo is from our first encounter with the Gray Shrikethrush, and it really didn't want its photo taken. Still, I managed to get most of the bird in the frame before it disappeared back into the deep shadows.
Olive Pink Botanic Gardens, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. September 2022.
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There are three lighthouses and a coast guard look out at Portland Bill. These are two of them. Between the two is a pointed monument in the distance. That is where I took the closer shots.
I could hardly stand still - had to lean against a rock or post - not great photographs but amazing storm - so exciting to be out in it - Force 9 at least.
Portland Bill Dorset - 30 December 2015
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Hey! In her heart, there's a hole
There's a black mark on her soul
In her hands is my heart
And she won't let go till it's scarred
Try to breathe, but I can't
'Cause the air she feeds me is damned
Got a touch like a thorn
'Cause the girl, she's hiding horns
She got blood cold as ice
And a heart made of stone
But she keeps me alive
She's the beast in my bones
She gets everything she wants
When she gets me alone
Like it's nothing
She got two little horns
And they get me a little bit
She's the fire and the sin
And I burn breathing her in
Now this love's suicide
And I'd sell my soul for the high
Truth be told, I don't mind
'Cause her hell's my paradise
She can crush every horn
Got her heels tapping down my throat
She got horns like a devil, pointed at me
And there's nowhere to run from the fire she breathes
She got horns like a devil, pointed at me
And there's nowhere to run from the fire she breathes
She got horns like a devil, pointed at me
This is my own work, an analogue photo montage made of two images on 35mm slide film. The Buddha image was taken on my travels in Thailand, the laser light was taken at at laser light show in the Planetarium in London.
Taking photos was not allowed. I had my Nikon FE on my laps, the lens pointed upright, I didn’t look through the view finder. Just pressed the shutter by a guess!
Both in the 80th. Then I sampled the two film shots into one slide frame as a so called "Sandwich“, then I scanned it, using a Nikon Coolscan LS 40ED film scanner, digitalised and edited on Mac.
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Dartford Warbler - Sylvia Undata
The Dartford warbler (Sylvia undata) iDs a typical warbler from the warmer parts of western Europe and northwestern Africa. It is a small warbler with a long thin tail and a thin pointed bill. The adult male has grey-brown upperparts and is dull reddish-brown below except for the centre of the belly which has a dirty white patch. It has light speckles on the throat and a red eye-ring. The sexes are similar but the adult female is usually less grey above and paler below.
Its breeding range lies west of a line from southern England to the heel of Italy (southern Apulia). The Dartford warbler is usually resident all year in its breeding range, but there is some limited migration.
The Dartford warbler was first described by the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant from two specimens that were shot in April 1773 on Bexley Heath near Dartford in Kent.
The species is naturally rare. The largest European populations of Sylvia undata are in the Iberian peninsula, others in much of France, in Italy and southern England and south Wales. In Africa it can be found only in small areas in the north, wintering in northern Morocco and northern Algeria.
In southern England the birds breed on heathlands, sometimes near the coast, and nest in either common gorse (Ulex europaeus) or common heather (Calluna
Dartford warblers are named for Dartford Heath in north west Kent, where the population became extinct in the early twentieth century. They almost died out in the United Kingdom in the severe winter of 1962/1963 when the national population dropped to just ten pairs. Sylvia undata is also sensitive to drought affecting breeding success or producing heath fires, as occurred during 1975 and 1976 in England when virtually all juveniles failed to survive their first year.
However, this species can recover well in good quality habitat with favourable temperatures and rainfall, thanks to repeated nesting and a high survival rate for the young. Indeed, they recovered in some areas of the UK, but numbers are once again on the decline in other regions of their natural range.
The range of the Dartford warbler is restricted to western and southern Europe. The total population in 2012 was estimated at 1.1–2.5 million breeding pairs. The largest numbers occur in Spain where there were believed to be 983,000–1,750,000 pairs. For reasons that probably include loss of suitable habitat, the Spanish population appears to be declining. The species is therefore classed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being Near threatened.
A period of climatic warming since 1963 has seen the UK population increase to "more than 2,500 pairs in 2006 (Wotton et al. 2009). Expansion into patches of structurally suitable habitat (up to an altitude of 400m), more northerly areas and away from the core of the range, from Dorset and Hampshire to Derbyshire and Suffolk, is likely to have been facilitated by milder winter weather (Wotton et al. 2009, Bradbury et al. 2011)... The Dartford warbler population in the UK is expected to continue to increase. However, future climate-based projections for the European range indicate that by 2080, more than 60% of the current European range may no longer be suitable (Huntley et al 2007). There is evidence that this is happening already, with severe declines in Spain and France (Green 2017). For this reason, the species is classified as Near Threatened on the IUCN Global Red List. If the declines in southern Europe continue, the UK will become increasingly important for global conservation of this species".
Population:
UK breeding:
3,200 pairs
Let's all pointed in the same direction. A flock of Common & Royal Tern birds line the beach along the coast of Gasparilla Island, Florida.
Cleo has many reasons to look grumpy:
1. I pointed the camera at her (she definitely cheered up when she heard that we will be without a camera for a while)
2. She had to leave her basement to get her breakfast (she wants me to serve her breakfast in bed)
3. The weather is bad (and the human keeps claiming that she can't do anything about that)
4. She has a flare-up of the feline acne on her chin (another reason why she didn't want me to take a photo)
5. Tofu barfed on her favourite cushion and didn't even apologize (these youngsters don't have manners)
6. As we returned to standard time last weekend she gets her meals one hour later than usual (a major disaster)
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A European robin-sized bird, the dunnock typically measures 13.5–14 cm (5.3–5.5 in) in length. It possesses a streaked back, somewhat resembling a small house sparrow. Like that species, the dunnock has a drab appearance which may have evolved to avoid predation. It is brownish underneath, and has a fine pointed bill. Adults have a grey head, and both sexes are similarly coloured. Unlike any similar sized small brown bird, dunnocks exhibit frequent wing flicking, especially when engaged in territorial disputes or when competing for mating rights. This gives rise to one of their common names, "shufflewing".
The main call of the dunnock is a shrill, persistent tseep along with a high trilling note, which betrays the bird's otherwise inconspicuous presence. The song is rapid, thin and tinkling, a sweet warble which can be confused with that of the Eurasian wren, but is shorter and weaker.
Gladioli are often known as sword lillies due to their long, pointed leaves. The distinctive tall flower spikes emerge in summer and come in a whole host of colours. ... They also look good in containers and make excellent cut flowers.
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This is the top of a cactus I have growing in a pot. I've had it a few years now and its never flowered. The spines are sharply pointed and they are hook shaped.
Small falcon with distinctive male plumage; gray head, rusty back, gray tail with broad black tip. Female is brownish above, barred on back, wings, and tail. Note rather pointed wingtips (unlike rounded wings of sparrowhawks and Shikra), and distinct dark spotting on breast. Fairly common in open and lightly wooded country, farmland, heathland; often seen over rough grassland beside roads and at airports. Perches on wires and posts, and typically hunts by hovering, at times fairly high overhead. Very similar to Lesser Kestrel. (Courtesy e.bird)
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The sun was gently setting, red and bright yellow reflecting on the skycraper windows as the bike slowed down to turn right. The main avenue was crowded with cars in a hurry to take their owners back home as the love birds desperately needed to get away from the late afternoon madness. That's when she pointed her finger to indicate a place she thought would be their little heaven for the evening. As he was lowering the stand, she was already waiting next to him, helmet under her arm while her left hand was running through her wild mane, finally freed from their temporary protection.
Hand in hand, they walked to the Brew House, one of the many tiny but comfy pubs that could be found along the pedestrian street. The area was already filled with people from all over the city, chating, laughing, drinking, smoking or even singing along the music coming from inside. The autumn air was cool but he really wanted to sit outside and enjoy the friday atmosphere, that very specific mood when the weekend is finally starting after a long week of work. A few minutes later a pint of beer was placed in front of him as she was already pouring her grape juice into a tall transparent glass. They clicked them and laughed as some of the beer almost spilled into her drink, making her widen her eyes a little as she shrieked.
Words were not needed between them and she knew it as she put her beverage down before extending her right hand to his face, caressing his cheek gently with her thumb. Emotions seized him for a moment, leaving him completely speechless before he lifted his left hand to wrap his fingers in a caress around her wrist . Then he started mumbling these few lines : "My eyes fell on you, I asked my heart to stop giving in too soon...". She recognized that song instantly and smiled back at him so wide her cheeks were slightly hurting out of sheer hapiness.
No. Words were definitely not needed but music, which was so dear to the lovers, was always a welcome language of love. The world around them was slowly disappearing and the buzz fading as if Whisper City was theirs and theirs alone for the night.
♫ The vibe
Lya challenged me (yes, again !) with a portrait and a little story to compliment it, inspired by the little update we made on our modest land ♥
Taken @ Whisper City
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