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Maquoit Bay, Maine
Every once in awhile a commercial fishing boat dumps excess fish into the bay...a smelly and wasteful practice. The seagulls have been hovering and screeching for days...nature's cleaners.
Tricolored Heron taken at Circle B Bar Reserve, Lakeland, Florida.
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A female Northern Harrier coming in for a landing in an attempt to nab her lunch. She came up empty clawed but I was fortunate enough to catch her perfect landing. Photo taken at Ridgefield NWR.
This spoonbill was flying in when I captured him just before touchdown. No matter how much I photograph these birds I never tire of their incredible beauty !!! always a thrill to see the vibrant pink colors especially during the mating season !!!
A young Brown Pelican lands in a lagoon at Fort De Soto, Florida.
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Touchdown on the lake
(big crop, 100%)
Done just when the right foot touched water.
Not sure that I can do it again even if I try 100 times :)
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White Ibis touching down in the Riverstone Wetlands, Sugar Land, Texas. How do they know the water is shallow enough to stand in?
White Ibis landing on the boardwalk fence by the lake along the Withlachoochee State Trail.
Happy Fence Friday and enjoy your weekend!
An incoming male swan, a cob, spoiling for a fight with two Greylags. Taken at Belton House, Grantham, UK
Die Lachmöwe versucht genau dort zu landen wo die Brandseeschwalbe steht. Die lässt das ungerührt. Bei auflaufend Wasser wird es enger und enger. Die Wasservögel sind daran gewöhnt.
The Black-headed Gull tries to land exactly where the Sandwich Tern stands. It leaves it untouched. With rising water, it becomes narrower and narrower. The waterfowl are used to it.
A juvenile Golden Eagle doing a sharp landing on snowbank. It was a very cold winter day at twilight time in Finland.
I suspect this is the same aggressive Canadian Goose I shot last year at Esquimalt Lagoon, BC. He and his mate came in, in the same manner, and up onto the beach, demanding to be fed.... which we didn't do. (Uncropped).
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An active storm rolling in at night over Lake Joondalup in Western Australia. This is a 60 second single exposure.
Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus axillaris) juvenile
As seen yesterday the chicks are well on the way to mastering flight. This one has almost got the art of landing too! A bit less of a controlled crash than I would have expected just days after fledging.
My friend and guide, Ron Bielefeld (Whistling Wings Photography) guided me this past weekend to a Florida lake with a resident population of endangered Snail Kites. Snail Kites have evolved themselves into a tight corner, only eating water snails. As long as the snails last, so will the kites. As Ron explained, they our out early in the day, before we have good light to work with, because the snails are near the surface in the dark. As the sun rises, the snails go deeper making it more difficult for the kites to reach them. The birds don't dive into the water like Ospreys. They do stretch their curved talons as deep as they can into the water in a way I can easily empathize with. Their talons and beaks are shaped perfectly for the job. Often, they transfer the snail, still in its shell, from talon to beak on their way to a landing where they will pull the snail and consume it. Here's a male kite about to alight on a small branch with his snail. The males are darker with bright red eye, and females more of a mottled brown pattern. Both are lovely. (Rostrhamus sociabilis)
Mallard landing...after a failed attempt to steal a female,,,Marsh Hide, Baron's Haugh NR, Motherwell
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Canvasback hen landing on the Choptank River in Maryland a few years ago.
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This was captured when the Montezuma Oropendula was just about to touchdown. They are quite a large bird and readily heard as they fly through the air. Their yellow tail is very beautiful and is seen more easily when flying. One of Costa Rica;s must to see.
Wishing you a lovely evening and a blessed one !