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McKee Botanical Garden
These water lilies exist in small bodies of water where light filters in through trees from above - although i enhanced the effect a bit, this is in large part how the light hit this lily.
These Yellow Legs were rushing back and forth among the reeds in the water - i assume they were looking for food, but they never stopped anywhere they just kept pacing back and forth acting as one.
Photographed at Merritt Island
From Louisa Heylen 6h -
This is the Small Yellow Leg Rider
She believes their behavior is a courtship behavior - She said - interesting photo.
Ft. De Soto Post-Sunset
Cue the sun under the horizon, cue the birds, cue the photographer on the left, cue the blinking red light, cue the jumper with breadcrumbs, action, jump, throw the breadcrumbs, birds dive, shoot the photo!
pose: CuCa Designs - Jenna (female bento pose set)
"Hmm, we keep this love in a photograph
We made these memories for ourselves
Where our eyes are never closing
Hearts were never broken
And time's forever frozen, still
So you can keep me
Inside the pocket of your ripped jeans
Holding me closer 'til our eyes meet
You won't ever be alone
And if you hurt me
That's okay, baby, only words bleed
Inside these pages, you just hold me
And I won't ever let you go
Wait for me to come home!"
pose: [west end] poses - Tara (single female collection)
"I pictured a rainbow
You held it in your hands
I had flashes
But you saw the plan
I wandered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon"
Luane's World - Romantic Sim - Fall/utumn 2020.
poses: Black Cats Poses - Witching (fatpack) inclusive dress, gloves & leg straps (with color & texture hud)
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"It's astounding
Time is fleeting
Madness takes it's toll...
...But listen closely..."
Stemnitsa, Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece.
Stemnitsa (Hypsous) is one of the most picturesque villages in Arcadia. It is situated at the edge of the Mainalo mountains at about 1050 m elevation. Also, it is one of the most important historical places in Greece, as it was the General's headquarters for the greek war of independence.
Explore - (www.flickr.com/explore): June 12, 2018 (#350).
This particular tri-colored heron fished on the fly - from Cornell: Their foraging style is generally more jittery and active than some other herons, chasing after fish with wings flapping or pirouetting with sharps stops and turns. Similar to Reddish Egrets, they also bend forward and push their wings over their head to entice fish to enter the shade provided by their wings.
Examples of this fishing technique are included in the comments below.
poses: .:TT:. Tribal Tuesday Poses - Sunday morning (female bento pose) with props
"I saw you this morning
You were moving so fast
Can't seem to loosen my grip
On the past
And I miss you so much
There's no one in sight
And we're still making love
In my secret life"
As I am just on vacation, I only have a limited supply of items handy that start with a vowel. As I am on the sea right now, I was hoping to find a small anchor, but nothing so far. So my eyeshadow had to do the trick. Happy Monday greetings to all of you!
Great Egret heads towards a roosting area at the end of a long day of fishing.
Fort DeSoto
Some history from Audubon:
Nearly wiped out in the United States in the late 1800s, when its plumes were sought for use in fashion, the Great Egret made a comeback after early conservationists put a stop to the slaughter and protected its colonies; as a result, this bird became the symbol of the National Audubon Society.
This species will likely gain habitable areas as the earth warms - you can see the predictions here:
A small section of an abstract painting I painted during 2020 for lockdown relief. 👍
Macro Mondays
Theme: I Spy (Begins with a vowel)
macro mondays theme: to photograph subjects whose name begins with any of the vowel alphabets A , E, I, O, U.
i have chosen the letter "i".
For this picture I used an old, more or less acquired lens. It is a „Auto Beriflex 135 mm 1:2.8“ with M42 connector. "Beriflex" was a brand name of the Berlin company Beroflex AG. A system camera can be connected with a suitable adapter.
Für dieses Bild habe ich ein altes, eher zufällig erworbenes Objektiv benutzt. Es ist ein „Auto Beriflex 135 mm f/2.8“ mit M42-Anschluss. „Beriflex“ war eine Markenbezeichnung der Berliner Firma Beroflex AG. An eine Systemkamera lassen sich alte Objektive hervorragend mit einem passenden Adapter verwenden.
Tri Colored Heron
Cornell Description:
A medium-sized, delicate and slim heron with a long, daggerlike bill. Its long thin neck curves up to its small head.
A colorful heron with a mix of blue-gray, lavender, and white. Unlike other dark herons, they have a white belly. Breeding birds have small white plumes extending from the back of the head, a bright blue patch of skin around the bill, and pink legs. Nonbreeding birds lack the flourishes of breeding birds and have yellowish legs. Juveniles have a rusty neck and rusty edged feathers.
Other photos in the comments below
poses: Black Cats Poses - Gogo (fatpack)
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"He's a god, he's a man
He's a ghost, he's a guru
They're whispering his name
Through this disappearing land
But hidden in his coat
Is a red right hand"
Vrbnik village on Krk island, Croatia, this island is in desperate need of vowels, while places in Finland and Estonia have a surplus of them, I appeal to Finns and Estonians to donate vowels to Krk island in the name of world peace.
This small wooden angel was carved by a fellow camper at an isolated forestry camp ground. It wasgiven to me as a guardian angel for protection in the wilderness.
Are you really bad at Scrabble?
Wally can help you!
He doesn’t mind if you
can’t afford to buy a vowel.
His poetry will make you swoon and howl!
He’s got you covered in sentences and
hidden meaning.
Similes like silly songs
swinging in soft soliloquies
Slurp sip sooopy sulch
Wally knows the words
that haven’t even been invented yet.
He’s great at paragraph parties
when it’s 3am and everything has
stopped making sense.
His words galore will not bore!
The punctuation punch has made us filled with reveries
Hey Wally, what about the gang of constant consonants?
Wally doesn’t respond to threats!
Not the eraser or the delete key.
Wally stands up to any bully
with a nominal fee
You have to write it down.
That’s right. He’s anonymous but renown
No regrets!
Even if you’re a sentence with Tourette’s.
Hey Wally, will you be my date tonight?
My paragraphs are misconstrued.
My spacing isn’t right.
You’re a rhyming onomatopoeic maniac
An alliteration allstar
and I relish
making metaphorical monsters mine.
**All poems and photos are coyrighted**
These lovely Agapanthus flower buds are growing in clusters in my sister's back garden - luckily for me, as they begin with the letter 'A', fitting nicely with the MM theme "Vowel" for today.
I was going to call this image "Closeness", but in looking up the definition of the word, I was drawn instead to a part of one of the definitions, hence my rather obscure title.
Orchid
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Green Heron
Corkscrew Sanctuary
I'll post more photos in the comments - from the hunt through the swallow to the after meal glow.
It was about 15 minutes from spearing the fish to swallowing whole.
I was walking through the sanctuary, a birder tells me there is a 'green' off the path, i walk down the side path and sure enough there is a green heron - within a couple of minutes he spears the fish.
From Audubon:
Along quiet streams or shaded riverbanks, a lone Green Heron may flush ahead of the observer, crying "kyow" as it flies up the creek. This small heron is solitary at most seasons and often somewhat secretive, living around small bodies of water or densely vegetated areas. Seen in the open, it often flicks its tail nervously, raises and lowers its crest. The "green" on this bird's back is an iridescent color, and often looks dull bluish or simply dark.
Feeding Behavior
Forages mostly by standing still or stalking very slowly at edge of shallow water, waiting for prey to approach. Sometimes uses "bait," dropping feather or small twig on surface of water to lure fish within striking distance.
Diet
Mostly fish. Eats small fish such as minnows, sunfishes, gizzard shad; also crayfish and other crustaceans, aquatic insects, frogs, tadpoles. Other items include grasshoppers, snakes, earthworms, snails, small rodents.
Red-shouldered Hawk
Stalks prey from low perches in its preferred habitats of woodlands and swamps.
This one in Corkscrew Sanctuary.
Group Description Thursday Doors Day (DDD/TDD)
All kinds off special doors
And only one door at Thursday every week .
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Anhinga
From Birds and Blooms Extra:
During mating season, the male anhinga develops extra crest feathers on the head, and the flesh around the eyes may turn a bright emerald green. Males begin courtship with lots of high flying, soaring through the area, and then marking out a possible nest spot. Then he turns on the fancy moves, flapping his wings alternately and bending his head low, extending the tail to the sky. Once the female accepts, the male brings her nesting material and she builds a platform, usually in a bush or tree low over the water. They incubate the eggs together for nearly a month.
pose: [west end] poses - sleep over... (bento ff pose)
A Wood Stork coming in for a landing (virtually over my head)
From Florida Audubon
The Wood Stork is one of Florida’s signature wading birds, a long-legged, awkward-looking bird on land that soars like a raptor in the air.
Wood Stork
Like many Florida birds associated with wetlands, the Wood Stork has suffered from the destruction and degradation of our state’s wetlands. Today, the Wood Stork is classed “Threatened” by the State of Florida and the federal government.
It feeds in shallow water, stirring the bottom with its unlikely pink feet and snapping up small prey that are unlucky enough to encounter the bird’s sensitive bill. They nest in early spring, just in time for the traditional season of lowest water when prey items will be concentrated in shrunken wetlands, providing good hunting so the storks can feed their young.
Now, we have altered the natural cycle of high and low water in our wetlands and Wood Storks often can’t find enough food for their young, who eventually succumb to starvation.
How Audubon is Helping
Everglades Restoration: the Everglades is a historical feeding and nesting ground for Wood Storks. By restoring the river of grass, we will ensure there will always be places for storks to feed, nest and raise their young.
Lake Okeechobee Recovery: Wood Storks forage in and nest around this beleagured big lake. Cleaning up the lake will help storks and a suite of other animals, as well as the Everglades itself.
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary: This Audubon Sanctuary in Southwest Florida protects one of the state’s largest Wood Stork rookeries. Audubon actively manages the sanctuary for the storks’ benefit, and we advocate for their feeding grounds downstream.
There is a large rookery at Wakodahatchee Wetlands.
The largest group I've ever seen is at Harris Neck in Georgia - there they ride the thermals together many hundreds at a time. They also have a rookery there.