The perfume from the Stock flowers is wonderful and attracted this bee

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A low-key rendering of an image I took of this garden visitor earlier. We are lucky to get Stock Doves in the garden. They usually turn up in cold weather.

Woodlands, Manitoba, Canada

Heraklion, Greece

Captured in nice early morning light.There are quite a few pairs nesting in some disused barns close by.

View down stream from the top of Goit Stock Waterfall

At home on one of the many dull April days this year.

Distaster struck shortly after I took this shot of the Lower Stock Ghyll waterfall.

I had made my way up to a small bridge and was composing another shot when my foot slipped and I lost my balance, causing me to fall towards the water and the wet rocks. As I fell, I stretched out my arm in an attempt to regain my balance forgetting that I still had my camera in my hand!

Fortunately, I was not injured but I cannot say the same for my camera! Currently, I am waiting a call to confirm the replacement parts have arrived which will repair the damage.

Anyway, this is a 3 short HDR of Lower Stock Ghyll waterfall in Ambleside.

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Michelago railway station (now disused) - the last rolling stock to pass through the station.

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A window sign in Lisboa.

Eagerly waiting for his next meal!

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Columba oenas

Firewood Stock always have some spare wood to burn in the fireplace, found in North Carolina.

Stock Dove - Columba oenas

The stock dove is the rarest of the wild European pigeons. In part of its European and western Asiatic range it is a migrant. There has been a sharp decline in France (−57% in 1976). Although the species is not considered threatened in Europe, it is classified in Schedule 2 of the Birds Directive and Annex III the Berne Convention. 100,000 to 200,000 individuals winter in France.

The nest is usually in a hole in an old tree. Before deforestation, the stock dove was the most frequent pigeon, nesting mostly in oak or pine wood, but as it usually nests in cavities in trees it was normally only found in old forests. In plantations there are not as many holes to nest in, so it is scarcer. In addition, as the stock dove is double-brooded, requiring two holes for its broods. It has been observed nesting in rabbit burrows, ruins, old poplar hedges, cracks in crags or cliff faces, in ivy, and in the thick growth around the boles of lime trees. It will also use nest boxes. The cavity should be about 75 centimetres deep and the hole should be big enough to admit a fist. Though nesting material is seldom used, the squabs leave the hole very oily. Stock doves prefer to nest close together. Outside of the breeding season, stock doves may also roost in cavities.

The habitat of the stock dove is generally open country. Even though it nests in trees it does not prefer densely wooded areas. It is also common on coasts where the cliffs provide holes.

Copenhagen Stock Exchange at Mini Europe, Brussels

Paisajes imposibles y siempre soñados de Islandia, excursión por el sur de la isla hasta la ciudad de Höfn para fotografiar la mítica montaña de Stockness, aunque el tiempo no acompañaba, en este lugar parece que las montañas anclaban las nubes y por consiguiente la lluvia hacia acto de aparición, manchando continuamente los filtros e imposibilitando hacer largas exposiciones en condiciones optimas, aún así cumplí otro objetivo fotográfico y como dice el compañero de viaje, Imanol Mujika, es la excusa perfecta para volver!!!

North Somercotes, Lincolnshire

Braving a blizzard a few years ago.

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at forest farm near Cardiff

In "Haute-Ville", the old city of Briançon.

Livestock specials were a rare sight in the early 1970s. On October 9, 1971, GP35 3323 was at Java, California, leading the first of two stock trains that month on the Needles District. The train is climbing out of the Colorado River Valley on the ascent to the summit at Goffs, 31 miles ahead. The mountains in the distance are in Arizona. The second and last stock train passed through here on October 16–––photo by Joe McMillan.

Warnham, Sussex

at Forest Farm Nature Reserve in Cardiff

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"A rare Visitor to our garden "

The stock dove is a medium-sized pigeon that nests in holes in trees and in farm buildings. It is a common bird of woodland edges and parkland during the breeding season and can be seen in small flocks on farmland in winter. Unlike the woodpigeon, it is very rarely found in towns and gardens. It feeds on seeds, leaves, grains, fruit, peas and root crops.

The Sony reproduces the different colors very nicely. It captures what you shoot - from pastel colours to vivid colours of parrots. I am very happy with skin tone that I am getting as well. Actually requires hardly post precessing to get the images to pop!.

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This is one of my favourite birdie becos of its gorgeous color.

While I was out yesterday at Satay By The Bay I caught a glimpse of this birdie flying towards this tree. I crept up slowly and there he was. My goal is to capture him in flight and switch my settings for BIF.

I waited and waited and he finally obliged and dived vertically downwards for his fish and flew up towards another tree. I caught the vertical flight shots but blur. Lucky I managed to get these two other flight shots below.

Turned out to be a fruitful day despite I did not meet up with the common Kingy.

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mera Morna Station, Flinders Ranges, South Australia

I found the stock dove again and got it in better light this time.