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J'aime beaucoup les crocus et particulièrement ceux de cette couleur.
Bon mois de mars à tous et merci pour vos commentaires et invitations.
I love crocuses and especially those of this color.
Happy March to all and thank you for your comments and invitations.
Sometimes when I have to clean up the hard drive, pictures appear that I have completely forgotten. I just rediscovered this one and I took it once when I was walking in the forest looking for sunrays. It gives me a feeling of tranquility when I look close at it, so I want to save it from the vault :-)
took that shot in February ..... close to the village "Bubach an der Naab"
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Egretta gularis, Airone schistaceo, Egitto
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Diamonds in the Sky Gallery.
Thank you Diamonds in the Sky Gallery for inviting me to exhibit some photos, Musings of a Wanderer, for February. Please visit if you like to see this and Also offerings from three other great photo artists.
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Photo shown Lake Sunrays Special thanks Kaaetlin Christensen and Springmood Sands for inviting me to their lovely sim.
The House Sparrow is a small but sturdily built bird with a stout bill designed for eating seeds. The overall appearance is somewhat scruffy due to the loose nature of the plumage. Adult males are distinctive, the crown and nape are grey and only the sides of the head are brown. The black bib is wide and extends down onto the chest. The back is warm brown, streaked with black but with a few white wing feathers. In winter, the bib is reduced and the brown at the sides of the head becomes flecked with grey. Adult females and juvenile birds of both sexes are typically sandy brown in colour with brown and grey streaks on the back and wings.
House Sparrows make a wide range of chirping and chattering sounds; the courtship song being rather unkindly described as ‘a monotonous series of the [chirp] call note'.
The decline in House Sparrows has been going on for several decades and there appear to be different factors influencing rural and suburban populations. Agricultural change, loss of nest sites and reduced food availability appears to have influenced rural populations. However, the factors behind the urban and suburban declines are more difficult to isolate.
The individual territory of the male House Sparrow really only consists of the nesting hole and a very small area around it. This is defended vigorously and used as the ultimate come-on for the female. She will judge the male by his vigorous behaviour and also by his plumage. The black bib is the badge he uses and this is very important for him. It seems that males with small bibs can be induced to behave more boldly if they have bigger and blacker bibs painted on them!
The normal nest sites are holes in buildings but if these are not available they regularly build untidy detached nests within ivy. These are really very characteristic and show the House Sparrow’s quite close relationship to the weaver birds which build similar nests in the tropics.
Sometimes is pays to go out in the rain. We'd gone out early in the cold and wet, only for the sun to break through when we got to this footbridge over the lovely Plantsbrook, in Newhall Valley Park, not far from home. I shot with the sun streaming into the side of my lens... perhaps not the wisest thing to do, but it was so delightful, showing up all the lovely light on the leaves and the water. So here we are !
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The Thrush's Nest
John Clare
Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush
That overhung a molehill large and round,
I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush
Sing hymns to sunrise, and I drank the sound
With joy; and often, an intruding guest,
I watched her secret toil from day to day -
How true she warped the moss to form a nest,
And modelled it within with wood and clay;
And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew,
There lay her shining eggs, as bright as flowers,
Ink-spotted over shells of greeny blue;
And there I witnessed, in the sunny hours,
A brood of nature's minstrels chirp and fly,
Glad as the sunshine and the laughing sky.
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J'aime me promener dans des villages et voir des vaches et encore plus quand elles ont leurs cornes.
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I like to walk in villages and see cows and even more when they have their horns.
An impressive sunset with sunrays over Tigullio gulf, Italy in a cloudy afternoon.
Taken in Cogorno, Italy.
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Nanyuki
Kenya
East Africa
The hooded vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) is an Old World vulture in the order Accipitriformes, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks. It is the only member of the genus Necrosyrtes, which is sister to the larger Gyps genus, both of which are a part of the Aegypiinae subfamily of Old World vultures.
It is native to sub-Saharan Africa, where it has a widespread distribution with populations in southern, East and West Africa.
It is a scruffy-looking, small vulture with dark brown plumage, a long thin bill, bare crown, face and fore-neck, and a downy nape and hind-neck. Its face is usually a light red colour. It typically scavenges on carcasses of wildlife and domestic animals.
Threats include poisoning, hunting, loss of habitat and collisions with electricity infrastructure, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as "critically endangered" in their latest assessment (2017). The highest current regional density of hooded vultures is in the western region of The Gambia. – Wikipedia
I was determined to get some sunrays, but had to work for them. I must have looked very odd, ducking and weaving through the trees looking for that right spot. The sun was not playing and rays were in short supply but managed to bag a few. This wonderful arch of branches reaped quite a few images that you will see during the week, but they framed the sunlight perfectly for this image.
Taken at Brush Hill Nature Reserve, Buckinghamshire