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Macro shot of a swan feather with the beautiful down tops waving to the mirror.
I placed it in the harsh light and this is the outcome !!
Iceland October 2014, the snow on the tops of the mountains made this shot.
This the the back of the mountains that make up the famous Vestrahorn range in south east Iceland
Golden evening light touching the tops of the surrounding mountings. Ballachulish Hotel view. Scotland West Coast.
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Rusty edges to feathers and pale eyebrow in winter contrast with blackish feather bases. Breeding males are glossy black. Shorter tail than Common Grackle. Thinner bill than Red-winged Blackbird. Found in wooded swamps. Often in flocks; frequently mixes with Red-winged Blackbirds and Common Grackle in winter. Look for flocks perched at tops of trees bordering marshes and listen for their calls to help pick them out from large flocks of blackbirds. (eBird)
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We found five Rusty Blackbirds in a flock of over 100 grackles and starlings, all waiting for the arrival of the north winds to help them start their migration. Unseasonably warm weather and south winds had delayed migration considerably.
Shallow Lake, South Porcupine, Ontario, Canada. September 2023.
Looking over the tops at Whitehaven on the Cumbrian coast and out over the Irish sea on a beautiful day in May, the coast line you can just see on the horizon is Scotland , this is one of our Cumbrian coastal walks.
The Cathedral of St Barbara, a jewel of the Late Gothic period and one of the four cathedral-type buildings in Bohemia
"Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach."
- John Muir
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
A lifer for me, the Common Nighthawk. A nocturnal bird that flies over the tree tops and fields at night chasing bugs and spend their days camouflaged as bumps on branches like this.
The flowers of Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota), characteristically arranged in a flat-topped umbel or inflorescence, are viewed here from the TOP down. The resemblance to lace is unmistakable.
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Sleet fell, High Dodd and Place Fell viewed from Hallin Fell on a cold but glorious morning. The white higher tops of the lakes above Glennridding including Hellvellyn in the background.
Happy St David's day everyone.
Happy Monochrome Bokeh Thursday ;o)
One from the archives, taken at Leith Hall gardens on a windy October day. I had no idea what it was I'd shot, and I've finally realised it is the remains of clematis flower heads! This year I bought more clematis plants, and some of the varieties produce these curling mop tops ... so at last I know!
Hope you had fun with Halloween - it was quiet here and too cold for many of the young ones to be out in the dark. So we had a welcome, restful evening after a manic start to the week.
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My Clematis set: Here
The setting sun sets fire to the tops of the Muhly grass along a deserted interior road on Huguenot Beach near Jacksonville, Florida. The beach is named for the French protestant Huguenot settlers led by Jean Ribault who landed near here in 1562, seeking a refuge from religious persecution in France. I recall one of the Mayport ferries also near here was named in honor of Ribault, who was killed at Matanzas Inlet on his second voyage a few years later.
Huguenot Beach was known locally as the only beach in north Florida where you could drive down to the beach, right to the edge of the water if you wanted. And there were miles of these interior roads leading to the St. Johns River, Ft. George Inlet, and the Atlantic.
First light as the morning sun sweeps down onto our beautiful town. Wirksworth awash with swirling smoking chimney tops, what an absolutely amazing place to live.
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Square-tailed Kite
Scientific Name: Lophoictinia isura
Although it usually occurs singly, the Square-tailed Kite is sometimes seen soaring in pairs during the breeding season, and family groups of adults and one or two dependent young may be seen during post-fledging period. The Square-tailed Kite usually hunts by flying low over the treetops, occasionally plunging down through the foliage to snatch a bird or insect from among the leaves or twigs. The species often eats the nestlings of birds, and sometimes it will remove the entire nest to get at the young birds, and at other times may remove the tiny birds, one clutched tightly by the talons of each foot. They also catch adult birds by surprising them in the canopy of the forest.
Description: Often solitary, but can be seen in pairs when nesting. Squared-tailed Kites have a long, square tail with very long, upswept paddle-shaped wings and a large cream crescent at the base of their wing tips.
Similar Species: Immature Black Kite, Black-breasted Buzzard, and Red Goshawk
Distribution: Endemic to mainland Australia.
Habitat: The species mainly inhabits open eucalypt forests and woodlands, often where there is a broken canopy, but it also ranges into nearby open habitats. In southern Australia, Square-tailed Kites mainly inhabit open eucalypt forests and woodlands, often dominated by stringybarks, peppermints or box–ironbark eucalypts, as well as Woollybutt, Spotted Gum, Manna Gum, Messmate, River Red Gums, as well as other trees such as Angophora, cypress-pines and casuarinas. It also occurs along the edges of dense forest and along in road verges with remnant or planted trees, and in clearings within forest or in areas of regrowth, up to 4 years after the area has been logged. Other habitats which occasionally support Square-tailed Kites include mallee, heathland (mallee or coastal) and other low shrublands including saltbush plains, and also grasslands or open or cultivated farmland near remnant woodland.
Feeding: Searching for prey from the air, where they are highly agile at low levels, they mainly hunt in eucalypt open forest or woodland, and less often in low shrublands, heath, grassland or crops, and the margins between open and timbered country (forest–heath; woodland–heath; forest–open field; mallee–open paddocks; woodland edges; riparian timber; belts of trees in urban or semi-urban areas; and clearings in forests) are especially favoured. They specialise in hunting among trees, twisting between and below tree-tops, and they take most prey from the outer foliage of the canopy, but do not enter the canopy.
Breeding: Square-tailed Kites nest on horizontal branches in mature living trees, especially eucalypts, often near water, and they need extensive areas of forest or woodland surrounding or nearby.
Calls: Yelping, yeep, yeep, yeep. Also squealing ee ee ee ee
Minimum Size: 50cm
Maximum Size: 55cm
Average size: 53cm
Average weight: 568g
Breeding season: Aug - Dec
Incubation: 37 days
Nestling Period: 63 days
(Sources: www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Lophoictinia-isura and www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/square-tailed-kite)
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