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After running around to stir up breakfast, spreading wings to shade for a wary fish, hopping to a new spot, more running around, stabbing at the empty water many times, and finally the Reddish Egret got this tiny morsel for a taste of a breakfast. Well, at least he won't starve, but he'd better find about 20 more of these tidbits, or something more substantial.
Sometimes in life, we have to work hard for the satisfaction of a small reward. But we endure, and so will the egret.
This Great Blue Heron had been fishing this spot for a bit, and came up successful with this tidbit.
Réalisé le 20 août 2016 à Sainte-Croix, comté de Lotbinière, Québec.
Made on August, 20th / 2016 in Sainte-Croix, Lotbiniere county, Quebec.
A gastronomic one for a Cooper's Hawk, a visual one for me. Pine Siskin here with a tidbit of its own.
Interesting tidbit from Cornell "White-winged Crossbills are opportunistic breeders; they can start nesting at any point in the year when food is sufficient for the female to form eggs and raise young. The species has been recorded breeding in all 12 months." Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
Hello there,
At first I thought he was excavating a nesting cavity. I'm not certain, but the more I watched his behaviour, I think he was finding little bits to eat. If you zoom in, you'll see a tidbit at the end of his beak.
Thank you for looking and for leaving me a comment! Have a wonderful day!
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I thought I had posted this but found it sitting all alone!
The Echeveria 'Black Prince' succulent decided to bloom with a rather long stem. Single image shot with the Nikon 55mm f/2.8 NIKKOR Micro at f/8, textures added during post processing.
Textures from Skeletalmess and Lenabem-Anna.
BTW: Got my flu shot AND COVID booster yesterday, so far so good, I thought I would wake up with pain in my shoulders and neck and really feel crappy but that was not the case! WRT COVID: In a household of five, I'm the sole survivor! Marybeth works at a school and got COVID in September and then in November brought home a really bad cold! I got the cold and it's taken about three weeks to get to app. 90%.
Oh I almost forgot this tidbit. In a school of app 300 kids, the past few days 60+ have been out sick, about 5 are getting sent home every day and all the teachers are wearing masks. With no real reporting anymore it's anyone's guess what they have.
The cedar waxwings have been hitting our dogwoods hard, harvesting the fall berries. Lets of opportunities to see them enjoying the crop.
I heard it before I saw it. This mint looking, classic 1967 Chevelle SS rumbled the streets of Juneau Alaska.
The front plate's bragging rights: 'SS 454'
The rear customized Alaskan plate read 'WAYBAK'
One sweet ride !!!
One small tidbit of information.....Juneau is not accessible by road....
So why is there no road to Juneau? A road going due east wouldn't work out so well with an icefield the size of Rhode Island separating Juneau from Atlin, British Columbia. Similarly, the route up the Taku River is blocked by ever-shifting glaciers. The opposite side is Ocean.
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1927: Theresia Hartenberger, Louise Hartenberger,- Bradna, Willy Hartenberger, Edy Hartenberger, Leopold Stein, Edmund Hartenberger sr, poodles Erni and Lord. Only one missing is the 7th Orelly, Karl, who seemed to busy himself with the dogs mostly.
Originally from Austria, the Orellys subsequently lived in New York, Berlin, Denmark, Norway and finally Chicago. We would like to hear from anyone who can give us more information especially Vienna/ Austria. They had apparently a cottage in Maria Trost. What was Theresia's maiden name?
Edy married Elly van de Velde in 1937, and emigrated to Chicago in 1953 in the company of his mother Theresia (Resie) and Elly's brother Albert van de Velde, and his wife Kathe van de Velde Bubowska.
Cait Rivers, whom the album belongs to, wrote an article in 2004, based on our joint research, from the point of view of the poodles Erni and Lord for Bark magazine.
Through the years, as the world wide web grows and grows, now and then a little tidbit of discovery gets added to the collection. Some of the mystery photos have unravelled themselves.
Collection C. Rivers all rights reserved
Welcome to Silverton, a National Historic Landmark, part of the San Juan Skyway, a summer destination for the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad train ride which we rode on once back in 2002 - yup, that's NINETEEN years ago!
After spending two days in Black Canyon of the Gunnison, we intended to go east via Hwy-50, destination Great Sand Dune National Park. After an hour's drive, we came to a complete roadblock! We were told the scheduled road closure would end in two hours and that we should wait it out as there's no other roads heading east, and going back west and then looping through south to east would cost us three extra hours of driving.
Oh thanks but no thanks! We would rather drive the three extra hours than idle for two. Besides, there's no guarantee that the construction crew would re-open the road on time.
So, off to an unplanned route and how nice that now we got to pass through Silverton, a place that had special meaning to us as we visited there 19 years ago with our little loved ones! Another surprise bonus was that we got to drive on the very scenic Million Dollar Highway!!!
Silverton was once an active mining town back in the 1990s; as the demand for gold and silver decreased, the last operating mine closed in 1992. The community now depends primarily on tourism and government remediation and preservation projects.
Here's the tidbits which I gathered from talking to a very friendly store owner (from Alabama) - the stores opened from May to October, and most store owners came from out of states. Almost all the buildings (old) had no heating, thus less than half of the town's population lived there during the winter months.
The last time when we were there (August '02), the town was mostly deserted, this time it's packed with tourists (none wore a facemask). We suspected it had to do with COVID-19's reopening - everyone was going anywhere!
Wishing all the fathers a very happy Father's Day!
Shot taken at New York Noir
Roleplay Brooklyn 1948
It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again
Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground
So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
♫ S. Bareilles | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ♫
Credit @ Dreamland Design in Girls heaven Event
House : DD The Country Atrium
*Copy-Mod-No trans / 80LI
KAZZA - DesireHideaways
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KAZZA - DesireHideaways - bench
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KAZZA - DesireHideaways - wood floor
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KAZZA - DesireHideaways - daise flowers
Palm tree : Hayabusa Design Palm Palmier OPTT Mirai M4-1 HPE Gift
Plant : tarte. saguaro cactus
Garden table : DD Shabby Vintage Garden Table by Dreamland Design main store
Other items from Simply Shelby
Outdoor Shower - Adult rated
Hummingbird Garden - BlueYellow
Tasty Tidbits - Catnip Cat natural
Woodland Patio Chair green
Woodland Patio Table
Woodland Patio Chair blue
Summer Ruins w/animations
Summer Archway - Yellow
Archway Walkway - Yellow
Summer Landscape part 1
Ring-billed gull
From Cornell -
Familiar acrobats of the air, Ring-billed Gulls nimbly pluck tossed tidbits from on high. Comfortable around humans, they frequent parking lots, garbage dumps, beaches, and fields, sometimes by the hundreds. These are the gulls you're most likely to see far away from coastal areas—in fact, most Ring-billed Gulls nest in the interior of the continent, near freshwater. A black band encircling the yellow bill helps distinguish adults from other gulls
A beautiful calico i captured at a guest house about 2 years ago. This cat was crying at our window every night wanting to come in. We were not supposed to feed it but i admit that i just Had to give it one or two tidbits anyway:-) Who can resist a cat,seriously:-))
This neat little white-breasted nuthatch was pleased as punch to find a tasty little tidbit hiding on the tree trunk here. Down the hatch!
A few more from the beautiful village of Castine, Maine. A little historical tidbit about this now very peaceful town:
Castine harbor was the site of one of our greatest navel losses in our history. The one in question was a battle with the British in the Revolutionary War. It was the largest American naval expedition of the war. The fighting took place on land and at sea around the mouth of the Penobscot and Bagaduce rivers at Castine, Maine over a period of three weeks in July and August. The Expedition was the United States' worst naval defeat until Pearl Harbor 162 years later, in 1941.
Having plucked out all of the sweet pulp from these two orange halves, this Baltimore Oriole props one foot on a rind and looks for some last tidbits of fruit :)
Yes, these orange and black birds really ARE attracted to both the color orange, as well as to the sweet fruit of oranges. The pulp gives them much needed fructose energy as they fly thousands of miles during their migration.
Interestingly, once migration is over and they are nesting, they revert to their primary and normal diet of insects, though some fruits and seeds continue to be eaten when available.
This crow-sized Alcid is famous for being related to the extinct Great Auk, and is now the only member of the genus. Hard to tell from this image, but it is perched an a cliff face that drops about 100m down to the ocean. Interesting tidbit: they can dive underwater down to a depth of 100 meters in pursuit of fish.
Druim Na Creige, on Skye
(w texture layer.)
......More historic tidbits
Though this stone dates back to Pictish times it is found in the ruins of an old Viking settlement called Duirinish ( Deer Parish), on Skye.
Many people may not know that the Vikings had a strong presence in the Shetlands, Orkneys and Hebrides of Scotland and also they founded Dyflin, now Dublin in Ireland though there are claims of an older Christian settlement on the site.
When the Irish King Brian Boru defeated them at the battle of Clontarf in 1014 the Viking survivors fled back to the Hebrides. The Hebrides belonged to Norway until the 1200.s
As a result the people of these areas, though Scottish can often have anywhere from 20-40% Viking Dna. Not surprisingly I found that too in my own Irish Scots Dna when I was tested.
Today my area has tornado warnings until 3 O'clock P.M. so it looks like I shall be playing inside for the most part. By playing, I mean catching up on some indoor chores and hopefully Flickr.
However, a birthday is a birthday and some monarchs that are in protective custody are already eclosing (hatching) this morning. A surprising little tidbit is that, although monarchs can and will nectar sooner, they don't have to for the first twenty-four hours after they emerge.
If I need to keep them longer due to inclement weather, they can sip from fruit, Gatorade and sugar water. So far during my years of raising butterflies, I have not had to resort to any of drastic measures for care. But I'm ready if need be.
There are some other butterflies that must nectar sooner so anytime I give tidbits about monarchs, it's just for monarchs. One can not just say a butterfly is a butterfly and treat them all the same.
Have a beautiful day and happy snapping.
Sep 24, 2017 - Singapore
Biker's wheels squeal in sync with the walker's stride,
Rhythm bounce around the space, sound hits me on every side.
I hold up the roof like my buddy pillar there, with his long shadow cast,
we bask in the sun while the music of space kept whisking past…
I've been watching a pair of Western Bluebirds at a nest box. The babies have hatched and now both parents are busy working to feed them. Most of the time the food tidbits are small spiders and bugs. I wonder how a tiny baby managed to down this rather large centipede?
Carolina Wren - They land on my open step landing area and sing a brief happy song when they first get up each winter morning, and then they start searching for tidbits.
A single silhouette as the unsuspecting spectator just stood mesmerized by the ever changing waters of the fountains at the center of Lincoln Center Performing Arts Center directly in front of the Metropolitan Opera House. Lincoln Center actually traces it origin back to 1955 when the Robert Moses led Mayor’s Slum Clearance Committee received the blessing to designate Lincoln Square for urban renewal. John D. Rockefeller III would become the chairman of the exploratory committee and would stay on to become the first president of Lincoln Center of Performing Arts, Incorporated. By early the next year, the center had commitments from the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society, the Juilliard School and the Metropolitan Opera Association to become constituents. In May of 1959 sitting US President Dwight D. Eisenhower broke ground for new Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Interesting tidbit about the plaza here in Lincoln Center for photographers is no tripods allowed. If you try to open your tripod, 1-2 security folks that are on constant vigil will quickly close in on you and politely ask you to close it and explain the center’s policy on tripods.
Here's one of those diminutive Sanderlings on the beach. That's seaweed behind it. Having grown up at the beach, as a kid I hated seaweed. If I was in the water and it grazed me, I'd be outathere for the rest of the day. Another tidbit - this is risky eye-level photography without a camera housing. But I'm a "professional", having grown up at the beach. A couple of sneaker waves tried to get me, but I was too good for them, even with my ground pod setup.
The winter weather, the holiday season, work and current events... wow! It was finally great to get out yesterday and do some walking and birding down south after two weeks... :-) And we have had three days of cold, wind and rain so the birds were less active but yesterday was much nicer so off I went... and indeed the birds were out!
Driving down the Wadi to my spots; sometimes I go slowly looking for the photogenic Blue Rock Thrush. They can occasionally be seen on the single overhead wire or the guard-rails or they perch on eponymous rocks along the road side and when the light is right, the blue males are really just lovely...
Anyway, no BRTH, but there were many Blackstarts around and I did stop for a few and they are not as skittish as some others. This one, maybe 20 meters (66 feet) away not only waited very patiently as I made my stealthy set up (ha) slowly parking, doors opening and closing and getting my gear off the rear seat and ready, she then flew up to a shocking four meters (13 feet) from me and sat on the edge of the guard-rail looking at me. Well... what to say? Maybe my vehicle was parked over some interesting tidbit she wanted to eat and she was waiting for me to leave? A second unusual thing... this is an uncropped image. I did take too many shots, waiting for her to flare her tail as they like to do but her cooperation apparently only went so far... nevertheless the first few shots of the beginning of a too enjoyable day out and about in beautiful Jordan...
An endangered snowy plover searches for tidbits among the shells.
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A few more from the beautiful village of Castine, Maine. A little historical tidbit about this now very peaceful town:
Castine harbor was the site of one of our greatest navel losses in our history. The one in question was a battle with the British in the Revolutionary War. It was the largest American naval expedition of the war. The fighting took place on land and at sea around the mouth of the Penobscot and Bagaduce rivers at Castine, Maine over a period of three weeks in July and August. The Expedition was the United States' worst naval defeat until Pearl Harbor 162 years later, in 1941.
This Ring-billed Gull is scanning the pond surface for food before diving and grabbing whatever tidbit it spies.
Watching and photographing terns is fun. Lots of behavior to observe. Males bring fish treats to females. Rogue males fly around with fish trying to get someone else's mate to take it, usually to be chased away. Chicks get all excited when they hear a parent coming home with a tasty tidbit. Photographing the feeding is a challenge. In most cases, it's far less than a second for the parent to pass the fish to the chick so getting that pass is the most challenging fun.
Here's one of those non-native SoCal birds that hang around the Los Angeles Arboretum. They're a bit noisy, but this one was solitary, busy gathering some building materials. I popped off a few pics standing with my monopod, then took the chance to use the quick-release and drop to the ground. Just for fun, I 've noted I have a 35 second lapse before I snapped off my ground level shots, one here. What luck.
Here's a tidbit about the LA Arboretum. It is a really big place and has plenty of early CA history behind it. "Discover the internationally famous Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, a 127 acre natural and historic wonder with plant collections including rare and endangered species from all over the world. Enjoy historical landmarks that feature Native American, Rancho Period and late 19th century treasures like the famous Queen Anne Cottage seen in numerous television shows and movies, the Santa Anita Train Depot and other exhibits through out. Also explore peaceful and unique paths or sit and relax by the Mayberg waterfall, fountains, ponds or themed gardens either on foot or by tram." Another fact I noted said over 250 bird species have been spotted.
Here's that mating pair of White-tailed Kites. They're quite vocal, as you can see. Another cool tidbit is how he balances on her without digging those talons in - something I made note of a few weeks back about the mating Peregrine Falcons.