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Patience paid off for a great egret when it grabbed a fish and some salad from a marsh at Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in Stafford County, Ks.
Sacred Kingfisher with a very small fish from the Sandy Camp Road Wetlands. This went straight to its brood in a termite-mound nest nearby.
yay! first time successfully taking my 365 during the sunset.
I love this. except I wish my fingers were showing on the right. but oh well.
Sunday,
My boyfriend usually comes over on Sundays but we had to go visit family so he couldn't.
So I went & hung out with my cousins (two are 5 yrs. one is 1yr.)
It was okay, but hanging out with my boyfriend all day would've been better :P
Then when I got home, him & I went outside until we froze half to death (literally) then came in and sat on the steps for like an hour to warm up (:
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The rare Showy Lady's Slipper grow in the fen in west central Ohio. The State planned a 4 lane divided highway thru the fen, which would have destroyed the remaining 450 acres of a once 7,000 acre fen. A group of nature lovers from Urbana fought the state and created the preserve. A mile long boardwalk takes one through the area that contains 40% of Ohio's rare endangered plant species. A wonderful effort and successful effort by the Cedar Bog Membership...and we've been members going on 20 years. We're the Kentucky members.
A Bird, seen every day all around Australia - bold, and always there, and often dismissed with a smile at their antiques.
They pounce and fly close to the grass, flush out little insects and catch them mid-air. Clever, brave, bold - and a beautiful song that is particularly catching on a full moon night! I adore these little feathered friends!
Successfully used in combat in the Battle of France, accounting for about a third of the AdLA victories.
Typically French, the throttles had to be modified to operate in the opposite direction to aircraft for the US and UK.....
Have a wonderful, bright, successful, blissful and healthy New Year and beyond!
“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” – Charles Lamb
“We will open the book. It’s pages are blank. We are going to put words on the ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” – 2018
Edith Lovejoy Pierce
¡Tenga un Año Nuevo maravilloso, brillante, exitoso, dichoso y saludable y mucho más!
"Dejemos que nuestra resolución de Año Nuevo sea la siguiente: estaremos allí el uno para el otro como compañeros de la humanidad, en el mejor sentido de la palabra". Charles Lamb
"Nosotros abriremos el libro. Sus páginas están en blanco. Vamos a poner palabras sobre nosotros mismos. El libro se llama Oportunidad y su primer capítulo es el día de Año Nuevo ". - 2018
Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Rockyview MD, AB
Falling behind posting images so here goes.
We have a pair of Loons nesting again successfully this year on our lakes. Spent an enjoyable morning just sitting and watching the parents feed the two chicks small minnows and various water invertebrates small enough for these little guys to handle. Look forward to watching this family grow over summer.
Little burrowing owl got one of those juicy figeater beetles. Plucked it right outa the air. They're so good at this.
The African Fish Eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer), is a large species of eagle found throughout sub-Saharan Africa wherever large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply occur.
This species may resemble the bald eagle in appearance; though related, each species occurs on different continents, with the bald eagle being resident in North America.
The African fish eagle feeds mainly on fish, which it swoops down upon from a perch in a tree, snatching the prey from the water with its large, clawed talons. The eagle then flies back to its perch to eat its catch.
Having swooped in to pick up the bait, this African Fish Eagle went and perched on a dead tree on the banks of Lake. Baringo, Kenya to enjoy it's breakfast.
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The Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) is an example of a piscivore. This large bird hunts for its prey in both freshwater and saltwater. It waits patiently, standing on one leg in the shallow water, waiting for a fish to come into range. When it does, the Grey Heron quickly strikes, stabbing the fish with its strong, pointy beak!
These powerful beaks also come in handy when other animals are near; Grey Herons will eat small birds, amphibians, and small mammals that live near water. Scientists think Grey Herons are most successful at hunting at night, using moonlight to help them find food.
Grey Herons are unmistakeable: tall, with long legs, a long beak and grey, black and white feathering. They can stand with their neck stretched out, looking for food, or hunched down with their neck bent over their chest.
This beautiful Grey Heron was captured during a photography safari on an early morning game drive at the Hyena Dam in Nairobi National Park, Kenya.
After successful mating the male Mandarin seems really satisfied with himself.
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Musiara, a well known Cheetah in the Mara is seen with her young cubs at sunset. The cubs were ever active whilst she was ever attentive on the lookout for any danger nearby.
Photographed in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
Just up the shoreline from the Least Terns, this is a Forster's I think. On this May Gray day, the lone fisherman nailed one. I was a little slow finding the water exit (behind it), but I'm still pretty happy with the 2x on my little 300. It's actually lighter than my big 200-600 zoom by a few ounces, my new walkabout lens.
I've always thought of successful landscape photography as the intersection of chance and preparedness. You can prepare as much as you like, but you can't control the conditions on a given day.
This was the last morning of our Alberta trip. My friends and I got up kinda late and didn't really want to venture too far for a day where we'd be later traveling to our respective homes. And to add to that, the weather forecasts didn't look great either. We assumed we'd be looking for intimate scenes in the ice, if that. As expected, the morning was completely overcast - we couldn't even see some of the mountains. We walked out along the lake and spread out looking for interesting ice. The lake wasn't as clear as I'd have liked, and it began to snow very lightly. Gradually, we all seemed to come to the conclusion that this morning was going to be a miss. Chance did not appear to be on hour side.
After packing up, the three of us started to gradually make our way back to the car, but extra slowly; as if still holding hope for a miracle. Out of nowhere, the cloud began to break around only part of this mountain - slightly showing its ridges through the falling snow and cloud. Immediately, compositions started jumping out of everywhere. The three of us scattered like frightened cats. I started frantically searching for cracks or other features in the ice before the snow covered it up! I managed to find this crack just as the ridges of the mountain became very prominent, and in the end I felt that the bit of snow that had already accumulated actually added to the scene. Before long, the crack wasn't really visible any more, but thankfully I managed to get this shot before the scene fell apart.
Anyway, it just goes to show you that sometimes taking your sweet time giving up on a scene can pay off!
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It was a very successful day at the Swamp: five species of damsel and dragons (plus one unknown orange species). Four of the five had emerged from their larval exoskeletons indicated by the fact that their wings hadn't "hardened" and were a bit misshapen. Note the left - not that left, the other left - wings: they are not full, but in an hour or so this dragonfly will be patroling his territory.
Found in the lagoon where the majority were last year, he was in the company of a Flame Skimmer and two Cardinal Meadowhawks. I'll reintroduce you to them in the next few days. The Blue Dasher is a relatively small dragonfly found throughout the U.S. (and Vancouver, Canada) except for Idaho, Colorado, Montana, and North Dakota. It is one of the most common, but still beautiful dragons. Note the yellow band on the side of the thorax.
The blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax. Blue dashers live near still, calm bodies of water, such as ponds, marshes, slow-moving waterways, and ditches, in warm areas typically at low elevations. The adults roost in trees at night not that I've ever found one in a tree. They are, along with most dragonflies. the primary predator of mosquitoes, larval and adults, and can eat 100 or more in a day. As I said last summer, I have not had a mosquito bite in the 50+ years I've lived near "the swamp."
I'm looking forward to being able to watch a new season of life in the nest with Abigail and John Osprey..
Hopefully, come April, I'll find them both back at their nesting platform working on patching up their home after a long winter.
Last year they were able to raise 3 healthy chicks that were able to fledge and head out on their own. Keeping my fingers crossed they'll have another successful year.
In the weird way that train roulette works out, the RF&P heritage unit is yet to lead a train on the RF&P. While I don't necessarily go crazily out of my way to photograph these units, I certainly will prioritize them when I am out. On President's Day, I had intended to focus my time in and around Richmond, getting shots of the ACL bridge, and filling in some gaps in locations, if you will. This empty coal drag was supposed to be just another empty coal drag running the Buckingham Branch (empties west) with the RF&P as the trailing unit. But the head end unit had issues, so the power set was swapped around in Fulton. All of a sudden, they were toning up with the 1836 in charge, and I scrambled to figure out where they were heading. As 2 of the trailing units had minimal fuel, it was unclear whether the Buckingham Branch would take them, as it's apparently their policy that CSX units have certain amounts of fuel on board. Unfortunately, their desk made the call to allow this train West. If they hadn't, this train would've run the RF&P. The lighting was spectacular in Beaver Dam, affording me the opportunity to get this roster shot at the depot. It's certainly a fine photo, but man, we were ONE dispatch decision away from the main event we've all been waiting for. Hopefully that day will come soon, and we can finally have the RF&P (we've had seemingly ever other one of these things) on home rails, and complete the circle.
I was making my way out to shoot Whitford Lighthouse, as the weather was looking broody. I completed my shoot - not particularly successfully I felt at the time, but as the tide was changing I started to depart the area.
As I got back to the beach the sun was breaking trough the dark clouds and danced a beam or two over this pretty little scene. The horses added to the calm picture postcard view I thought, so I took another 30 mins or so to frame up a pano, wait for the light an bang off a few exposures.
Not a bad way to spend an afternoon at all.
After a successful mission on Kaller the high command granted Arion the rank of bounty hunter. They immediately assigned him to a job for the empire. he was assigned to steal a generator for some new weapon the imperials were making. This generator was on the planet of Mygeeto where the remnants of the rebels had also fled to Mygeeto as well. This made Arions job easier because the entire security of this facility was focused on the minor skirmishes that were taking place only a short distance away. This allowed Arion to slip in unnoticed and steal one of the generators.
On November 24, 1973 a US Navy airplane was forced to make an emergency landing and crashed on Sólheimasandur beach near Vik Iceland. Thankfully the landing was a success and everyone survived, but the plane was never salvaged and what's left of it remains at the crash site to this day.
It's a bit of a walk to get here in the winter (4.5 miles roundtrip), but I beat the storm clouds and enjoyed the exercise.
Making off with it's catch I love the wing profile on this shot.
White tailed eagles were driven to extinction in the UK by the ill advised hand of man, with the last bird being shot on Shetland in 1916.
These gorgeous birds were reintroduced on Rum in 1975 with further releases on Wester Ross in 1993. Since then most of the eagle population has found it's way to Mull where a healthy population is now well established.
Once again the population is starting to spread out across western Scotland and the Isles.
Local farmers are not keen, as the birds are known to take lambs, even at the point of birth leaving the ewe totally confused and wondering what happened.
White-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
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1779 is seen departing the west end of the BNSF yard in Tacoma. This SD40-2 has a long history having first entered service with BN back in 02/78. 44 years later this hugely successful class of locomotives can still be found in regular use throughout the US network. 3,982 were built between 1972 and 1989.
Die 1. Straßenüberquerung war geglückt, alle vollzählig, weiter geht's.
Canon FD 135mm f3.5, Blende f5.6 or f8.0.
The first street crossing was successful, everyone was there, let's move on.
Canon FD 135mm f3.5, aperture f5.6 or f8.0.
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The first successful Milky Way capture of the season during the new moon. It never ceases to amaze me the light and colors the camera picks up that the human eye cannot see, such as the light on the horizon, which was probably a combination of South Lake Tahoe light pollution as well as the sun below the horizon. I used the Photopills app to determine when the Milky Way would be vertical and in a location that rises from the best angle of Bonsai Rock, off Lake Tahoe's eastern shore. www.optimalfocusphotography.com