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Spending a few hours watching the antics of these Burrowing Owlets in Cape Coral was most definitely one of the highlights of our recent trip to Florida. Here two of them seem to be forming an orderly queue waiting for Mum (or is it Dad?) to serve breakfast!
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Avec sa démarche sautillante, son corps mince et sa queue extraordinaire, la bergeronnette des ruisseaux est l'un des oiseaux les plus élégants et les plus beaux. Elle a le dessus gris acier et le dessous jaune brillant, surtout pendant la période de reproduction. Au printemps le mâle a la gorge noire et le pourtour des yeux rayé de blanc. La femelle a une gorge pâle. En hiver, la bergeronnette perd presque complètement les tons jaunes de son plumage à l'exception du croupion. Elle reste néanmoins plus gracieuse que la bergeronnette grise, notamment à cause de sa longue queue. Peut facilement être confondue au printemps et en été avec sa proche cousine, la bergeronnette printanière, qui a le dessus vert olive, une tête et un dessous jaune et une queue plus courte.
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With its bouncy gait, slender body and extraordinary tail, the Brook Wagtail is one of the most elegant and beautiful birds. It has a steel gray upper and shiny yellow underside, especially during the breeding season. In the spring the male has black throat and the edge of the eyes striped with white. The female has a pale throat. In winter, the wagtail almost completely loses the yellow tones of its plumage except for the rump. She is still more graceful than the gray wagtail, especially because of its long tail. Can easily be confused in spring and summer with its close cousin, the wagtail spring, which has the olive green top, a yellow head and bottom and a shorter tail.
La livrée du machaon se démarque par sa coloration de fond jaune intense tachée et veinée de noir. Les ailes antérieures portent dessus une large bordure noire avec une rangée de taches jaunes et un large miroir sombre poudré de jaune à l'angle des « épaules » ; le dessous reste dominé par le jaune avec des veines et des taches noires. Les ailes postérieures sont nettement plus jaunes dessus avec un bord crénelé, une chaîne de cellules jaunes surmontées d'une rangée de taches bleu sombre et un ocelle rouge, cerclé de noir et de bleu ; dessous, le jaune domine encore plus avec un fin réseau de nervures noires, les taches bleues doublées d'une tache rouge orange pour certaines d'entre elles. Reste le signe peut-être le plus distinctif : un prolongement, une « queue » qui s'insère dans le motif crénelé du bord, qui lui vaut le nom anglais de swallowtail (queue d'hirondelle).
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The livery of the swallowtail is distinguished by its intense yellow background stained and veined black. The forewings carry a broad black border with a row of yellow spots and a large dark mirror powdered with yellow at the corner of the "shoulders"; the underside remains dominated by yellow with veins and black spots. The hindwings are much more yellow above with a crenate border, a chain of yellow cells surmounted by a row of dark blue spots and a red ocellus, circled with black and blue; below, the yellow dominates even more with a fine network of black veins, the blue spots doubled with an orange-red spot for some of them. Remains perhaps the most distinctive sign: an extension, a "tail" that fits into the crenellated edge pattern, which earned him the English name swallowtail (swallow's tail).
I decided to try something totally different, once again...
Using about 15 of my images from Paris, I created this composite in PhotoShop that is supposed to show the craziness of tourists trying to get into the iconic places, in this case, of course, the Eiffel Tower.
HSS!
5:52 - Abstract
Pied Wagtail [Motacilla alba]
This little beauty arrived at a recently filled puddle with one thought - to have a bath. Unfortunately, several seagulls, huge big monsters to this wee guy, and a veritable horde of noisy starlings also had the same idea. The wagtail was disturbed, quite a few times, before he eventually had the puddle to himself. Very rarely, do I see these wee birdies standing still like this. He was checking the periphery for any other in-comers before committing to his ablutions.
A delightful wee birdie!
Girvan Harbour
Sw Scotland
Happy Friday=]
Daily Photo:13 Jul 2022 (Wed)
Located: Attenborough Nature Reserve, Nottingham, England
Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho
"Wait until it is your turn!" Or perhaps, "The last will be first, and the first last". Anyway, here we have a well-organised succession of beautiful flowers.
Since we have had no snow so far here on the Olympic Peninsula (some is expected today), this photo is from last February. While on a snowy winter walk with my dog Emmy, I noticed a group of sheep waiting patiently for supper in the waning light of late afternoon.
"You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for."
~ Craig Bruce
"Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting." ~ Joyce Meyer
La Mésange à longue queue (Aegithalos caudatus)
Identification :
La Mésange à longue queue ne fait pas partie de la même famille que les autres Mésanges, elle appartient à la famille des Aegithalidés alors que les « vraies » Mésanges (Mésange bleue, Mésange charbonnière, Mésange huppée, Mésange boréale, Mésange nonnette et Mésange noire) sont de la famille des Paridés. Le nom de « Mésange » attribué à la Mésange à longue queue est purement vernaculaire et non scientifique.
De ce fait la Mésange à longue queue a des mœurs singulièrement différentes des « vraies » Mésanges.
La Mésange à longue queue ne peut pas être confondue avec un autre oiseau tant sa queue est longue par rapport à son minuscule corps (La queue est aussi longue que le reste du corps de l’oiseau). Cet attribut permet une identification immédiate. Concernant les couleurs du plumage, la Mésange à longue queue arbore une livrée noire/rose sur les parties supérieures et blanc/rose sur les parties inférieures.
C’est un oiseau très social qui évolue la plupart du temps en petite troupe de 4 à 15 individus dans les arbres à la recherche de nourriture.
If any of you have ever visited Cape Point you'll recognise this scene of tourists queuing up to have their photos taken at the Cape of Good Hope sign to show they have reached the most South Western point of the African continent...as you might know as well, the Southernmost tip of the African continent is at Cape Agulhas ....looking at this photo, on the left, where you see someone ascending the hill in a white t-shirt, there are steps and on the other side you reach Diaz beach and a bit further on it ends at the car park and the funicular..
Took this shot of the floor while waiting for a coffee in a Cafe Nero in Brighton, Sussex. This got me thinking about 2 Tone Records and The Specials and The Selecter......Then I had the song "Gangsters" in my head for hours. Funny what triggers the memory. Heck that was more than 40 years ago!!!
“Too much too young” kicked in when I managed to shake off “Gangsters”......
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Limosa Limosa
Grutto, Uferschnepfe, Barge à queue noire
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Seen on a Fotowalk with a Flickr Friend in Munich.
Shot with the Sony A7 Mark 2 and the Leitz/Leica Elmarit 2.8/135mm.
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished shot from September 2018. Enjoy!
Alarming on barrierpost ;) ...
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Grutto, Limosa Limosa, Blacktailed Godwit, Kening fan 'e greide, Uferschnepfe, barge à queue noire
Pentax K7
Sigma APO 50-500mm F4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM Pentax *AF
Shutterspeed 1/1000
Exposure Correction 0
Diapraghm f8
Focalpoint 370mm
Iso 800
*AF=Autofocus