A tree branch stuck in the former Isar weir near Dietersheim.

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Tricolored Heron

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The Caspian Tern does an interesting landing. They sometimes drop from a high altitude and come down like this. The control their descent speed by the position of their wings. This image is a good display of exactly that.

Gentle Juno loves to play in the water , not easy taking a picture with one hand while Juno shakes the other with the stick :))

Ricoh GR2

Great Blue Heron, Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands at Viera, Melbourne, Florida

Kingfisher half an hour before sunset hoping for a little supper before going off to roost.

Green Heron, Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Vas'ka likes to play with a string attached to a stick. Previously, there was a toy kitten at the end of the lace, but Yashka tore it off.

Thank you all for visits, favs and comments, it's greatly appreciated!

"Side by side or miles apart, real friends are always close to the heart."

Osprey landing on a very very short runway

A Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus) that only has one leg, but he works hard and is constantly fetching sticks for his missus to stick in the next. It's great to see him coming and going.

Late day light and reflections there in the thermal pools. An amazing area any time of day, but all that more special in the evening. It was sticking around here through the blue hour and into the night listening to all the thermal sounds of the earth escaping under the stars.

Best Friends Stick Together.

WetCat

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Sticking out its tongue at me.

Peel and stick Post It tags. I use these to flag the pages of photo books and magazines.

You inspire me to be better...

Great Egret in breeding colors taking a stick back to the nest, Alligator Breeding Marsh and Wading Bird Rookery, Gatorland, Orlando, Florida

HMM theme - Stick

Hummingbird hawk-moth

Snail Kite ~ (Rostrhamus sociabilis)

A Snail Kite lands with style.

Hey everyone! I'm sorry I have not been as active as usual on the commenting the past few weeks. I am in the process of closing on a house and will be moving fairly shortly, so I think I am going to take a break from posting for a little while on Flickr until the craziness settles down.

I will try and check in when I can and see what all of you are up to.

Back soon, Pete.

Tape Dispenser. HMM!

A Snowy Egret comes to a rest after a short flight to survey the waters.

On April 30 I had a lovely chat with friendly visitors from space and I even could sneek a peek into their cockpit and take an image of it ! You see the captain of the crew.

Unfortunaltely this space ship was too small for me to hop in myself ... but it was a fun encounter nonetheless !

Crazy Tuesday - theme of May 3rd, 2022: Made of Plastic

This is actually the plastic head of a reusable metal cocktail stick for finger food; taken in front of the keyboard of my tablet with internal lighting switched on; additional lighting with a coloured LED-light

[ taken with the manual Laowa 60mm 2x magnification lens @ about f/4; the "head"' is about 2.5 cm high ]

I will catch up in the evening ! :)

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Am 30. April hatte ich ein nettes Gespräch mit freundlichen Besuchern aus dem All und konnte sogar einen Blick in ihr Cockpit werfen und Aufnahmen davon machen ! Ihr seht den Kapitän der Crew.

Leider war das Raumschiff zu klein für mich, um einzusteigen ... dennoch: eine lustige Begegnung !

Crazy Tuesday - Thema: aus Plastik gemacht / Plastik

Das ist tatsächlich ein Cocktail-Spieß / Partyspießchen für Fingerfood (wiederverwendbar mit Metallspieß und witzigen Plastikfigürchen als Kopf; es sind insgesamt 8 verschiedene in der Packung), die Tastatur meines Tablets mit eingeschalteter Beleuchtung im Hintergrund und zusätzliche Beleuchtung durch farbiges (rotes) LED-Licht

Great Blue Heron from 2017.

Questo tema presentava numerose possibilità di scelta... questa è quella che è venuta in mente a me... un bastone di ghiaccio!

HappyMacroMonday a tutti!

This theme presented numerous possibilities of choice... this is what came to my mind... an ice stick!

HappyMacroMonday to everyone!

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Another rendering of a similar shot uploaded earlier, showing the last apple tree leaves still attached to this branch.

stick mantid/popa undata or popa spurca

And here is the complete mantid, about 55mm long. It was at a location where taking a picture was difficult, so invited it onto a stick and placed it somewhere else where I could choose the background, very docile creatures...

from a Senegalese musical instrument

Schlägel ("Schlagstock") von einem Musikinstrument aus dem Senegal

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So we've been locked down again within 5 km radius for a week. It's a good time to look back for those special moments when we were free to roam. This bird is frequently seen in Braeside but rarely sitting still in full view. I was lucky to come early. Spotting the bird "just around a corner" I cranked up ISO to 1600 to get this shot. I wasn't sure 1600 is good enough, so I checked... And this was why it was the only decent shot I got :-(

For Macro Mondays - Stick

I spotted a stick that had fallen from a tree so watered the soil to make it mud. I then measured to find a part no longer than 3 inches. NB this section is 2 1/2 inches.

Here we refer to someone who won't change as a 'stick in the mud'

Happy Macro Monday!

A chop stick we picked up along life's travels. There are two of course because one chop stick would be pretty useless for eating.

Have a great Monday Folks.