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This bird, if it is the same bird that I photographed in poor light this morning showed up a 2nd time today. The light was much better this afternoon and I was closer to the bird but the shepherds hook that holds one of my feeders was between me and the bird. IMG_6755

I have trouble keeping up and thanking everyone individually so I hope you will accept this generic "thank you." I would like to thank everyone who takes the time to view, comment and fave my photographs. It is greatly appreciated and encouraging.

I am disappointed in the price increase here at Flickr but will stick around and hope the most of the will also be here next year.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Fly Day! :)

Looks like it's going to be a great weekend to turn off the

news, and head outside with the camera... :]

HFDF! :)

Sharp tailed sandpiper in the early morning light in the Coorong National park South Australia.

Offensive...? if this offends anyone please let me know....I wasn't sure to share or not....it's nature....trying to stay on the light side...."put your left leg in....put right left leg out"...no????

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Calderwood Street car park, Woolwich

Photo captured in my back yard near Owasso, Oklahoma

Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter stratus) juvenile comes to visit the feeder in the hopes of acquiring a House Sparrow as a meal but failed in its attempt. It then sat near the feeder awaiting the return of the sparrows for about 25 minutes in the suburbs of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

29 October, 2018.

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Photographed in my yard. Four photos of the same bird. IMG_5889

Bearded Tits (male and female) develop their full plumage to coincide with their pair bonding / display behaviour - which itself coincides with a change to a more reed seed based diet.

This includes a pink chest blush on the male - which isn't so obvious during the rest of the year.

Taken in Norfolk before the rains set in.

Sharp ..Colour pen

My little coloured pens for art

Recommended on Black

Up.

Shedding wood. A close shave. Lead in the pencil. Making a point. (Ok, I'll stop with the puns.)

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Canon EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lens. Single shot, raw file into Affinity Photo for development, EL-100 Speedlite off camera to rear of subject, 10:8 crop.

From the Richard Harvey Studio One.

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Airbus A340-642

C/N: 764

Virgin Atlantic

Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) 09.02.2014

'Bubbles' climbing away from Runway 27L bound for Los Angeles (LAX/KLAX) as 'Virgin Two Three Juliet' (VS023/VIR23J).

Photographed in my back yard. I was ready for him. I expected him because I have seen him several times recently and Saturday he landed on my birdbath. He arrived a little latter Sunday morning but may have been confused about the time because we went from daylight saving time to pacific standard time. I say this as if the bird knows the time. Maybe he slept in because it was snowing most of the night and early morning. He tried for a quail, junco, and sparrow breakfast but as far as I know he failed. I enjoyed watching him for about 15 minutes while he sat from 15-30 feet from me between trying to catch a sparrow that was in a shrub next to him. He flew around the shrub and even jumped at it 4 or 5 times which was fun to watch. IMG_6321

in Neighbor's Cherry Tree

Time is passing , Can you make it stand still ? Thank You dear Frank. No. 120.

And this one is for all the many mistakes we are doing every day life.

"I'm happy to make mistakes sometimes, it means I'm not a computer but a human being."

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Thank You Frank Hendriks, a grate artist and wonderful philoopher ---!

Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus)

A portrait of a tricolor heron hunting, its sharp, dagger-like beak poised and ready to strike swiftly along the water's edge at a lake in Central Florida.

Taken through window. He struck at a flock of doves at the bird feeder resulting in a mini snow storm of pin-feathers. I was looking at the doves when he struck but only saw the feathers falling and then wings. When the wings came back and flew into my tree, I got this photo through the bedroom window, Then I immediately went outside - but he was gone.

A crystal-clear view into the heart of the Vikos Gorge, one of the deepest and most impressive canyons in the world. The sharp contrast between the sun-drenched limestone cliffs on the left and the lush, shadowed vegetation at the bottom captures the raw, untamed beauty of the Pindus Mountains. Taken from one of the breathtaking viewpoints in Zagori, Epirus, Greece.

Backyard, Mount Pearl, NL.

The Hawk stopped by again yesterday and did this pose for me.

The heron just looking sharp that no danger or menace.

My Japanese kitchen knife from Aritsugu, in the Nishiki market, Kyoto. It's sharp !

Bronica ETRsi, Zenzanon 50mm f2.8, Kodak Tmax100, orange filter. Underexposed for grain, and adjusted in Lightroom. Df96 at 74F for 10 minutes.

These low hills contrast fairly sharply with the quite flat terrain of the far northern ND prairie. This is an area where these glacial features are more common.

Male Common Kingfisher.

Best viewed large.

I enjoyed watching and photographing this bird yesterday morning. As I have done several times with what I believe is the same bird since back in early November I walked to within 50 feet and spent about half hour near this bird. He/she even left for about 5 minutes to chase after a sparrow and returned to the same brush pile. Birds were hiding in the brush pile. For those who don't know this hawk eats other birds to survive. Even after he/she left, and while I was spending time photographing a hummingbird, juncos, goldfinches, and a woodpecker this bird reappeared at least 3 times. They move so fast this there can be hard to see so he/she may have passed by more than that. This all happened over a period of about 2 hours. After that, because I was not properly dressed for the cold weather I went indoors to thaw out. IMG_8841

I appreciate all of the views, kind comments, awards, and faves. Thank you.

A juvenile Sharp-shinned Hawk,

Accipiter striatus,

waits for the food to come to him.