Adamk0310 , to random
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Stay Cool This Summer

tffmh , to random
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I just saw with @bosquebill, so here is my entry.

I’ve come across this a number of times but never got a usable picture. It likes to stalk a pond in a small wood where I go for walks. Yesterday at sunset, I was surprised to see it, never seen it at this party of the day before. I had a moderate tele, changed lenses, and gave it a shot. The light was bad, and I had to use a high ISO, but I got a picture now!

hastingsmothman , to random
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Part 2:

Fuzzy faces:

Another ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH came to visit, as did a mint FIGURE OF EIGHTY - a remarkably marked moth.

As as well as the conventional shots, I wanted to show you their cute fuzzy faces. The EHM in particular has the most elegant colouring and shape from above, yet the goofiest of cross-eyed faces. 😅 Adorable.

Front on shot of elephant hawk moth. Two think feathered antennae extend left and right from a bright olive green head. It has two close set, bright green eyes, fuchsia pink cheeks and fuchsia pink palps which fade to a light yellow and almost resemble goofy teeth. Four legs grip a finger. The close set eyes and palps give it an appearance of being cross-eyed.
Overhead shot of triangular moth, largely buff brown with a band edged in black stretching from wing edge to wing edge. In the band, at each wing edge is a stigmata in white which very clearly resembles the number 80.
Face on shot of Figure of Eighty moth. Two thick antennae extend from a grey-brown furry head. Two close set black eyes are either side of a set of palps that start grey-brown but fade to off white at the end. It's underneath is furry white-grey. Stripey legs grip an eggbox

Overhead shot of a large aeroplane shaped moth on fingers. It is olive green with flashes of fuchsia pink. A pink stripe extends down the centre of a thick bright olive green abdomen. It's head has two pink central stripes and a pink arc on each temple. Three pink bands feature on the wings. At the top a short darker pink that extends only halfway from the centre towards the outer. Two bands start in the wing corners, one stretching across the bottom wing edge, the other rising at a shallow diagonal to the centre. The moth is flashing a a bit of bright pink underwing.
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    djwtwo , to random
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    A Yellow Warbler, er, warbling, at Mass Audubon's Allens Pond Sanctuary.

    impfmilf , to random German
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    Wer den Kopf in die Erde steckt, braucht sich nicht zu wundern, wenn's knirscht.

    Ein Austernfischer auf einem Feld mit ganz jungem Mais scheint den Schnabel zu schütteln.

    cpay , to random
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    A Green Heron looking a bit blue

    rob_camera , to random
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    Some shots from a couple of months ago, the Cygnets at Llandrindod Lake.

    A Cygnet Having A Nap On The Water
    A Cygnet Gives A Cute Look As He Raises A Foot Ready To Scratch

    Albatrossity , to random
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    Bird of the Day — Northern Bobwhite, Kansas 2023
    Elegance in brown

    rob_camera , to random
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    Some Goslings bringing the cute factor to your Tuesday lunchtime 🥰

    A Gosling Takes A Rest In The Grass With A Dandelion Behind Its Head
    Goslings Having A Rest

    JanMatson , to random
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    Raven on pink background 🌿🌸🌿
    https://jan-matson.pixels.com/featured/raven-on-pink-background-jan-matson.html

    An original oil painting of a Raven bird on a bright pink background.

    Adamk0310 , to random
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    En Route

    NatureWithSteve , to random
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    When you sit in a hide to watch birds, and the birds come and watch you...

    Robins, along with Great Tits and Grey Squirrels, regularly join the human visitors inside the hides at Forest Farm, Cardiff, looking for the free food which said visitors provide regularly. Outside, other species not quite bold enough to join the humans in their box, make the most of what's on offer too.

    #robin #robins #bird #birds #vogels #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife

    A European Robin standing on the metal, green-painted ledge which extends from the bottom of a hide window. The Robin's body faces away from us, but his or her head is turned to look at us with a black, beady eye. We can see the Robin's orangey-red forehead, throat, and chest (well, a little of it), brown cap, back and wings, a little of the whitish belly, and of course their short, dark beak, and pinkish legs and feet. The background is yellowish with hints of green, thanks to the out-of-focus background a Buttercup-filled area of grass.

    A European Robin standing on the metal, green-painted ledge of a hide window, looking at the photographer with his or black, beady eye. We can see the Robin's orangey-red breast, throat, and forehead, white belly, and brown cap, with a little of his or her brown back and wings, and of course their short, dark beak, and pinkish legs and feet.
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    jby , to random
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    For Monday, here's a western bluebird, Siala mexicana, in North Hollywood Park

    https://flic.kr/p/2pEU1qF

    NyakoKitty , to random
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    Nature is our greatest spiritual teacher…

    Nonilex , to random
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    The frequency & magnitude of extreme has DOUBLED in the last 20 yrs due to , acc/to a study released Mon.
    The analysis focused on massive blazes that release vast amts of energy from the organic matter burned. Researchers pointed to the of 2019 & 2020 as blazes that were “unprecedented in their scale & intensity.”


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/06/24/extreme-wildfires-increased-study/

    NyakoKitty , (edited ) to random
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    Yellow Billed Stork

    hastingsmothman , to random
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    Much warmer last night and a few more came out to play. Finally, my first muppet-coloured ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH and a delicate (if slightly battered) SWALLOW-TAILED of 2024 ... and just for good measure, a SPECTACLE with the biggest mohican you've ever seen on a moth hilariously clearing for take-off...

    Overhead shot of a large, delicate, flat tissue paper moth in very pale lemon. It looks very delicate. It has a furry head with a bald patch where it is ageing. The forewings are triangular with the apex meeting at the head, so one side of the triangle appears like a top wing edge. The forewings are shorter than the hindwings, so the hindwings poke out very visibly beneath. Each have a point with two black dots so that it resembles a bird face but the effect is to create a very, very, shallow fork of the wing like a swallow's tail. The forewings have two orange brown stripes stretching from one side of the triangular wing to the other, but because the apex is at the head, the stripes look vertical. In between each stripe is a very short stripe of the same colour, barely a third of the length.
    Face on shot of a spectacle moth on an egg box hump. Its wings behind are fuzzy as they flap ready for take-off. It has a distinct light brown marking on its darker forehead that resemble a pair of spectacles, above which, centrally is a ginger brown mohican that sticks up. Two antennae stretch horizontally a bit like a wiry moustache. Overall a quirky appearance.

    Overhead shot of a large, vivid olive green and bright fuschia pink moth on fingers. It is glider-shaped with wings sloping back from its chunky abdomen. The head is olive green with pink stripes down each side and two close together running down the middle. Its abdomen is also olive green with a single vertical pink stripe down the centre. Its wings are olive green with three distinct pink elements. The first is a short fuschia pink stripe sloping shallowly from each side of the base of its head, extending two-thirds across the wing. The second element is a lighter pink band that stretches in a shallow arc shape from left wing corner to right wing corner breaking only where the abdomen is visible. The third element is the same lighter pink colour, a thicker band that runs along the bottom edge of each wing. The moth has two slightly feathered antennae stretched horizontally from its head
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    Miniature version: lBack-thighed falconet (Microhierax fringillarius) in #Brunei. Photo: Husini Bakar. #Borneo #wildlife #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #BirdsSeenIn2024

    ubdvtlab , to random
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    Gliding flight: Malayan colugo (Galeopterus variegatus) on the wing among the mangroves of . Colugos are the closest relatives of humans outside of the primates. Video: rainforestkayaker.

    video/mp4

    otterX , to random
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    DYK eat fallen tree leaves?

    Here’s a small cottontail eating a big maple leaf. 🍁🐇💚

    19-second square video of a young cottontail eating a big green maple leaf almost half as big as her on the grassy park ground. Two scenes feature the same rabbit, but the colors look different due to different zooms—the bunny is zoomed closer in the second scene. In the first scene, after hopping a few steps away to settle down to eat the leaf, the ears of the bunny is moving fast in many directions because she doesn’t want to share this gift of delicacy with her siblings who are grazing the grass nearby, so she keeps herself extra alert. She’s eating as fast as she can, but only makes a dent in the big leaf in this short clip. Extremely adorable. Natural background sound of the area.

    lycophidion , to random
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    Some featured creatures from yesterday at MNSA, NY
    6.22.24
    #nature #NaturePhotography #birds #Wildlife #naturecommunity #photography #BirdsOfMastodon #birdphotography #birding #insects #dragonfly #biodiversity

    Yellow-crowned Night Heron perched on a snag. Smaller heron with blue-gray, mottled upper, buffy lower, white forehead and black and white lateral face markings. Slight yellow tinge to frontal plumage. Strong, sharp black bill.
    Seaside Skimmer dragonfly, the only dragonfly to lay eggs in salt-water. Colors change over the season, but this early arrival has a yellow and black banded and black-tipped abdomen and a blue-black head and thorax.
    American Oystercatcher standing on a matt of algae at low tide, holding a small crab. Black and white upper, light lower, black head with yellow eyes. Long, slightly recurved, orange bill.

    JimsPhotos , to random
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    My fave picture I took today, was this young female Reed Bunting who had just been handed a Dragonfly by its dad. It sat there with it in the shrub for about 10 mins before deciding to consume it,

    JimsPhotos , to random
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    I was out today in the fens just outside Cambridge UK, The hedgerows looked like this picture, oh and there is a bird in the picture somewhere for good measure (Sedge Warbler)

    Krisss , to random Dutch
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    Giraffe Couple at The Montgomery Zoo in Oak Park
    By Carol M. Highsmith

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