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Taken over the M11 roundabout in Harlow.
I wanted the railings to be a part of the image, rather than shooting through them. It took several attempts to get the railings just blurred enough.
Now tell them bitches anyway
'Cause we don't care what none of them gal affi say
You can't stop me, I'mma fulfil a prophecy
I do it, did it, the proper way
With the Sun on them, these little fruits glow a translucent orange-red. Birds love them! (Not for people or dogs.). They are a different species of Honeysuckle from another Honeysuckle plant I have which produces berries earlier in the year. I posted a photo of its berries in June. This one is a vine with tubular flowers that attract hummingbirds. The other is a bush with distinctive woody branches.
Theme: "Fruit"
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Série: Portraits de rennes
Reindeer are magical animals. During my stay in Sweden I was lucky enough to shoot some portraits of them. To celebrate Christmas I decided to share my favorites pictures.
This one is a portrait of the bigest Reindeer I have never seen...
Brandgans an der Ostseeküste.
Das Wetter war trüb und die Brandgans weit draußen. Da ich sie aber so selten vor die Linse bekomme zeige ich das stark gecropte Bild trotzdem.
Shelduck on the Baltic coast.
The weather was cloudy and the shelduck far out. Since I get them but so rarely in front of the lens I show the heavily cropped image anyway.
Kwendou is already starting to want to compete with her older sisters - she is a warrior! Parents gave permission to post.
Everything in the Château wonderland exists in enchanting harmony!! The Autumn colors are strong and joyful!! Maybe I just underlined them a bit, in order to express what my heart was feeling , and my eyes were watching…those blessed moments…
A lot of them, but they can be quite entertaining
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Stay safe!
Not only do Killdeer hatchlings come out of the egg with almost adult-sized legs and feet, but they are also already quite adept at using them. Along the auto tour road at Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge near Oyster Creek, Texas.
A Spoonful Of Wisdom...
Last September I did a bunch of knife, fork and spoon shots. This was one of them that I had taken but not posted until today.
It was one of those days where I was trapped inside due to rally bad weather and needed something to break the monotony of being home alone. I decided to spend a few hours with my grandmothers silverware set. Just trying to make something out of nothing
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Also called Rose of Venezuela...
Many trees of the Amazon Rainforest exhibit cauliflory, an adaptation in which flowers are borne directly on the trunks near the ground, where they are available to animals that pollinate them and disperse their seeds.
Sinchi Warmi Amazon Lodge, Puerto Misahuallí, Ecuador
That's what Paddy believes & he's not moving until he sees them.
Happy Cliché Saturday
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The Church of St Peter and St Paul is in the market town of Ormskirk, Lancashire, England. Dating from no later than the 12th century, it is one of only three churches in England to have both a tower and spire, and the only one to have them both at the same end of the church. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Liverpool. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
This year I have more than 5 of this cuties on my feeder so happy to see them and hear it have a great week ahead! :)
Barn Owls are nocturnal owls and we often find them around granaries, warehouses, abandoned sheds etc... which often have lots of rats in and around them. But these Owls require night birding and a high powered torch to take some shots.
We went to a place far outside the city to see a pair nesting. While one lazily sat on the dead tree top and distracted us, this one quietly delivered several small rats to its chicks who I think could be around 10-15 days old. We couldn't see the chicks since they were deep inside a tree covered with creepers. The parent collected 3 different rats simultaneously - fed the young ones -then took off to get some rest per my knowledgeable friend who was with us. Apparently, the nest has become too small as the chicks were ready to fledge and the adults didn't have enough space to fit into the tree trunk.
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Morus bassanus (Sula bassana)
Northern Gannet
Basstölpel
Sule
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A walk in the park to let Kayjay see the squirls playing as he hasn't seen them before, he looked a them and they looked back at him! He got on well with the ducks!
Interesting fact: House Wrens are fiercely territorial, they have been known to destroy bluebird and other cavity nester's eggs by piercing them, and then often removing the eggs from the nest.
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Young birches, I walk among them. They grow almost attached to each other, as if seeking refuge from each other to grow big. Now in the fall, they gather the leafy greens back into their trunks to strengthen themselves for the cold winter. I want to strengthen myself too, as I walk past them, I touch each one's smooth body. I believe and hope that some of their vitality and warmth will be transferred to me. For the winter.
ICM, one single exposure.
👱♀️🎧 Somewhere Only We Know (Keane)
No life would be possible for them and us without water ...
so us humans must learn to use it more responsibly!
"The climate crisis is a water crisis. To tackle the climate crisis, we must understand how it is intrinsically linked to changes in the water cycle. We need to prepare ourselves for a future with more severe droughts and floods, with more unpredictable rainfall patterns and dramatically rising sea levels. Our best chance is to focus on smart, water-related solutions that build resilient societies and ecosystems whilst cutting greenhouse gas emissions and improving carbon storage. This is the next generation of climate solutions."
(www.siwi.org/priority-area/water-climate/)
African Elephant mom and baby/ Afrikanische Elefanten (Loxodonta africana) in Tarangire River, Tarangire N.P., Tanzania, Africa
The rook (Corvus frugilegus) is a member of the family Corvidae in the passerine order of birds. It is found in the Palearctic, its range extending from Scandinavia and western Europe to eastern Siberia. It is a large, gregarious, black-feathered bird, distinguished from similar species by the whitish featherless area on the face. Rooks nest collectively in the tops of tall trees, often close to farms or villages, the groups of nests being known as rookeries.
Rooks are mainly resident birds, but the northernmost populations may move southwards to avoid the harshest winter conditions. The birds form flocks in winter, often in the company of other Corvus species or jackdaws. They return to their rookeries and breeding takes place in spring. They forage on arable land and pasture, probing the ground with their strong bills and feeding largely on grubs and soil-based invertebrates, but also consuming cereals and other plant material. Historically, farmers have accused the birds of damaging their crops, and have made efforts to drive them away or kill them. Like other corvids, they are intelligent birds with complex behavioural traits and an ability to solve simple problems.
The following day I saw some movement not far from my position on the beach: there were 4 beautiful models filming a commercial for a local TV, I approached and kindly asked to take a photo (unfortunately taken against the sun so it does not show the beautiful faces of the models). Then I talked with them and invited all at dinner. Only Juliana accepted and here you see her beautiful face (photo on the right taken in the restaurant) We had no after-dinner and I never saw her again because the day after I had my flight to Rio and the year after, when I was back in Recife, they told me Juliana had been promoted and was working in São Paulo
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Il giorno dopo vedo del movimento a poca distanza dalla mia sdraio, erano 4 bellissime modelle che giravano uno spot pubblicitario per una TV locale, mi avvicinai e chiesi gentilmente di scattare una foto (purtroppo scattata contro sole non mostra i bellissimi visi delle modelle). Poi chiacchierai con loro e invitai tutte a cena. Solo Juliana accettò l'invito ed ecco il suo viso bellissimo nella foto a destra scattataci dal cameriere del ristorante. Non malignate, purtroppo non ci fu dopocena e non la vidi più perchè il giorno dopo avevo il volo per Rio e l'anno successivo, a Recife, mi dissero che era stata promossa e lavorava a San Paulo
Northern Wheatear - Oenanthe oenanthe
The northern wheatear or wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It is the most widespread member of the wheatear genus Oenanthe in Europe and Asia.
The northern wheatear is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in open stony country in Europe and Asia with footholds in northeastern Canada and Greenland as well as in northwestern Canada and Alaska. It nests in rock crevices and rabbit burrows. All birds spend most of their winter in Africa.
The northern wheatear makes one of the longest journeys of any small bird, crossing ocean, ice, and desert. It migrates from Sub-Saharan Africa in spring over a vast area of the Northern Hemisphere that includes northern and central Asia, Europe, Greenland, Alaska, and parts of Canada. In autumn all return to Africa, where their ancestors had wintered. Arguably, some of the birds that breed in north Asia could take a shorter route and winter in south Asia; however, their inherited inclination to migrate takes them back to Africa.
Birds of the large, bright Greenland race, leucorhoa, makes one of the longest transoceanic crossings of any passerine. In spring most migrate along a route (commonly used by waders and waterfowl) from Africa via continental Europe, the British Isles, and Iceland to Greenland. However, autumn sightings from ships suggest that some birds cross the North Atlantic directly from Canada and Greenland to southwest Europe, a distance of up to 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi). Birds breeding in eastern Canada are thought to fly from Baffin Island and Newfoundland via Greenland, Ireland, and Portugal to the Azores, crossing 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi) of the North Atlantic) before flying onwards to Africa. Other populations from western Canada and Alaska migrate by flying over much of Eurasia to Africa.
Miniature tracking devices have recently shown that the northern wheatear has one of the longest migratory flights known - 30,000 km (18,640 miles), from sub-Saharan Africa to their Arctic breeding grounds.
Remembrance Sunday; to honour the service and sacrifice of our Armed Forces community, the British and Commonwealth veterans, the Allies that fought alongside us and the civilian servicemen and women involved in the two World Wars and later conflicts.
She's sleeping among the leaves
I've spent the morning pasting the leaves on the ceiling..
They are still there, and I like to looking up and staring at them suspended..
I don't know if I have the strength to remove them :)
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The lady calls the tune.....a mallard duck takes the leading role in this mating game with two mallard drakes. Bushy Park, spring, 2016
Cormorants' short wings make them incredibly agile swimmers, and cormorants actually use less energy swimming than when flying. In fact, they have the highest flight cost of any flying bird. Some cormorants are also known for their ability to use rocks as tools to help them open the shells of prey they have captured.
A water bird that is an excellent fisherman and a remarkably good diver? That must be the cormorant. Cormorants are above all social animals. During the breeding period, they gather in large colonies along the edge of the water. Although they do have a tense relationship with fishermen... They fish in the same pond.. My wife calls him long neck duck
Eurema lisa, hanging out in the garden - not seeing too many of them these days -
With Lensbaby Velvet 85, 25 mm tube
5 degrees out and a long hike I was able to locate the Trumpeter swans resting place.
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Sony ILCE-7RM5
Late Sun Early Moon sun touching the branches and the moon shinning through them, shot in North Carolina.
About a decade ago, I bought a local auction lot that included some HO gauge USA/Canadian rolling stock and locomotives. I intended to sell them on but instead I started to collect them as and when they came up locally. It's still a very small collection.
I have a small number of 'B' units, description here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E2%80%93unit#:~:text=A%20B%20unit....
The only UK example I could think of was the Class 13:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_13
I'm guessing this is a Santa Fe loco, given I saw an identically coloured A-B-B-A loco set on YouTube pulling a long rake of Santa Fe box cars.
Indigo Buntings are actually black; the diffraction of light through their feathers makes them look blue. This explains why males can appear many shades from turquoise to black.
They are more common now than when the pilgrims first landed. This is due to an increase in their favorite habitat of woodland edges, such as power line clearings and along roads.
They migrate at night, using the pattern of stars nearest the North Star to guide them. In captivity, these birds will become disoriented if they can’t see the stars in April/May and September/October.