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Metra 194 thunders away from the curve under Canal St with a dinky bound for Aurora. 194 is one of a few F40PHM-2's to be painted in the "new" corporate scheme. I gotta say, that scheme looks sharp on the squashed nose.
Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) male defends its little square of territory in the "lek" on the prairie landscape near the Great Sandhills south of Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Fortunately the landscape is groomed by a herd of beef cattle which keep it in a nice state for photographing the birds on the grass cover.
19 May, 2016.
Slide # GWB_20160519_0190.CR2
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Sharpness.
The black-headed gull is our commonest small gull. During summer, it actually has a chocolate-brown head, rather than a jet-black one, which turns white for the rest of the year, with little black ruminant spots on either side of the head, which make it look like the bird is wearing headphones. It is silvery-grey above and white below, black wingtips. It has red legs and a red bill, which become darker in summer. (The Wildlife Trusts).
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Olympus OM2, Kodachrome 64, monochrome in Lightroom.
The valley floor is at around 3400m altitude, the summits above 5000m. Sharp edges, dramatic exposed strata - India is pushing hard into Asia: 'The Himalayan range is one of the youngest mountain ranges on the planet and consists mostly of uplifted sedimentary and metamorphic rock. . . . Its formation is a result of a continental collision or orogeny along the convergent boundary between the Indo-Australian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. . . . The Indian plate is still moving at 67 mm per year, and over the next 10 million years it will travel about 1500 km into Asia.' (Wikipedia)
According to the USGS, the Himalaya are still growing, at a rate of about 1cm per year.
Update: Today (Nov. 12) I think I saw three, but at least 2 hawks and I am beginning to think that some or all are Sharp-shinned Hawks. This photo and the next 3 photos are the same bird. One bird today was an adult. Help with correct identification will be appreciated. Thank you Birdergirl (Mel) for id.
This bird has become an every day visitor. I saw it 3 times between daylight and 2 pm yesterday (11/11). I am going to have to discourage it from coming to my home before it eats all of the quail. It sat here for at least an hour but surprisingly did not attempt to catch a quail even though there were quail below it several times. It did fly to the ground once and may have been after a mouse. This hawk was wet because it rained most of the morning and was trying to get dry. IMG_6616
Idiom: "to throw something into sharp relief"
Fig. [for something] to make something plainly evident or clearly visible
(Taken from The Free Dictionary)
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The backyard was very quiet for a long period of time and there were no birds in or around the feeders, and this was the cause. In the back corner of the backyard, perched on top of the compost bin, this small hawk waited patiently. The smallest of the bird-hunting Accipiter hawks, this one is also the most migratory, breeding north to treeline in Alaska and Canada and wintering south to Panama.
The magic of winter waterfalls... the softness of the snow , the flowing water and the sharp, jagged edges of the ice.
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Quite a few of these around in pairs wading and feeding on the sand flats with their chicks.
Scientific name: Calidris acuminata
Still only Sharpies at my favorite crab apple grove and no waxwings.
I like Sharp Tail Grouse, but I'm ready for a bit of diversity!
Sharp-shinned Hawk, photographed two weeks ago. I woke up early and hiked through the woods of a nearby forest towards a river. I was hoping to photograph mergansers. I didn't have any luck with the mergansers, but I spotted this tiny Sharp-shinned Hawk. It flew around me from branch to branch, hunting chickadees and investigating anything of interest. In this photo, it's perched on a small grape vine.
He took off from the rail and landed a short distance away on a fence post. I followed him, but he didn't like me stalking him, so up and away he goes.
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. While capturing another photographer while distracted is 'easy prey' and perhaps a little cheap, despite having an album dedicated to it here, there is no denying that those spiky gloves add a real and present danger to capturing this one! I loved the pose with her camera here, her style and those spikes that just stand out. Enjoy!
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Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) male strutting his stuff on the dancing grounds or lek on the prairie landscape south of Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.
22 May, 2018.
Slide # GWB_20180522_6330.CR2
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Another Alexander convoy, this time involving three operators. Sharpes 1999 ex-Dublin Volvo Olympian CLZ 208 is tailed by much newer TrentBarton and NCT vehicles on 11.10.21
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One of those quick captures as I was driving down the road up against the mountains in the southern end of the Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford.
This bird has a white X above it's beak extending to the top of it's head, somewhat odd. Now it is possible the feathers had been disarrayed by the wind.
Sharpes operate significant school mileage in the Vale of Belvoir from their base at Langar, primarily using ALX400-bodied B7TLs. Former Dublin Bus AV283 - now registered YIB827 - is seen on its way out of Eastwell with the GS1 from Kinoulton to Grantham schools.
I'm still watching a neighbors crab apple tree for waxwings, but a flock of Sharp Tail Grouse are still doing their best to eat all the berries before the trees are found by the waxwings.
The amazing sharpness of the Canon 6D image sensor. Zoom in to see the trees on the far rim of this canyon shot, even through the haze.
This bird gave me good tail up positioning front and back. I'll post the latter in the future.
My car has a sunroof, which I had never used for shooting wildlife on the road in front of the car before this. Although it is a bit awkward to do, it has been highly successful since, and I must engage in a bit of self-criticism to figure out why I did not try it earlier. Getting photographs of birds or animals in the road in front of the car has been a chronic problem for me and probably bedevils most wildlife photographers.