Friday Night Photos Foreign Feathers Edition
Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 08/23/2024 - 5:00pm
Happy Friday everyone. I hope everybody is doing well. Post any photos, memes, or music you like.
Some of our feathered friends from around the globe.
The juvenile Toucan is about 4 months old. You can see how much the color in the bill has changed in the last 4 weeks.
Yellow-crowned Bishop
Adult Toco Toucan
Mating pair of Sunbittern
East African Crowned Crane
From the other side of the tracks. West African Crowned Crane
Emerald Starling
Juvenile Toco Toucan 4 weeks ago
The same juvenile Toucan yesterday
African Spoonbill
Painted-doorbird (very rare)
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exotic birds
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think I'd freak-out if I saw one of your birds in the woods
toured the Boothbay botanical gardens the other day
many bees and butterflies, not many birds
they installed these huge trolls back in 2001
scattered among the gardens
https://www.mainegardens.org/events-exhibits/giant-trolls/meet-our-trolls/
liked this one ..
amazing flora and fauna through-out with many trails
waterfall ..
very lush grounds all around - ferns, moss, trees and bushes, flowers like crazy ..
https://www.mainegardens.org/gardens/gardens-key-features/
thanks for your pix!
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Hi, Q.
Thanks for taking us to the Maine Botanical Garden. What a great looking garden. Love the trolls. A very creative use of wood.
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Thanks for the photos Q
You must be enjoying yourself in such a beautiful environment.
I miss granite, and the landscapes it defines. Water and lush forest is such a special feature of them.
Good evening SP. Great pics.
Suddenly, Flickr won't access albums with over 500 pics,, so I'm sol wrt my boid pics.
Thanks for the column.
be well and have a good one
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What language do you speek ; )
Hope you find the way back to your pics. What about making two albums from the one?
Thanks. I can still page thru them one at a time,
but now I'm wondering if they'll limit the number of albums. They suggested a different feature that I'll have to larn about and maybe try.
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Who's that bird?
I'm pleased that you enjoyed my photos, thank you.
Good morning Janis. Dysto nailed it;
Ocellated Turkey, from the Yucatan, specifically Belize. Stayed at a place named Chan Chich, had flocks of them everywhere, along with howler monkeys, oropendulas (birds), Iguanas and lots more wildlife. You fly in, though there is a road, and they are in the middle of the rainforest. They have a sign that says "It's a Jungle Out There", which is literlly true.
be well and have a good one
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ocellated turkey
Hey J,
Methinks that is an Ocellated Turkey. Often held in near mythical status in southern Mexico where found. Very limited range species, on many a birder;'s bucket list. Mostly a Yucatan specialty.
happy trails!
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Nice looking turkey
Glad you were able to access your photos.
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Hi, EL
That sucks that you can't access your boid photos.
Maybe their help center can help you out.
https://www.flickrhelp.com/hc/en-us
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Hi Social
Thanks for the exotic birds. It's entertaining to see birds ruffling their feathers. What a wild looking bird the african crowned crane is. It reminded me of Phyllis Diller.
Great music and video visuals! I've never been to Burning Man, but I can easily imagine how transcendent an experience it might have been. The desert environment is the perfect backdrop.
A few years ago
I got a few shots of a Snowy Egret with it's feathers all ruffled that reminded my of Phyllis Diller.
The person that put together the burning man video did a great job.
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Can we see the Snowy Egret again?
Please
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Far out Social!
I can't stop smiling, and the rare earth sound in the background totally enhances the experience.
Thanks!
Hi all
Not really an exotic bird photo, but it looks to me like there is an exotic parrot in the frame.
Tulips ...
Be well and enjoy all
Beautiful, especially the parrot.
be well and have a good one
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Hi, Janis
I see your parrot. I also see some beautifully photographed Tulips. The lighting on them is excellent.
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Thank you Social
The tulip that's hanging reminds me of the banana passionfruit flower that I was familiar with in the mountains of Kauai. It wasn't the best tasting passionfruit, but was still tasty. It was unfortunately a pest in that environment, as it was a fast growing vine that tended to strangle native growth.
The lighting on my subjects is natural light, 99% of the time. Occasionally I play with my flashlight, but not with these.
Enjoy autumn in San Diego.
Hey J!
Hi Janis,
Beautiful photos! What a great flower the tulip is. Those Dutch really did a number with them.
thanks for the great light!
happy trails!
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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I think it would be wonderful
to go back to trading in tulips. I'd invest everything in them ; ).
Hi pixelators
Hi all, Hey SP!
GREAT bird photos SP! Love them foreign jobs. Of all the insanely gorgeous starlings all over the world, the one we have is introduced, non-native, and a major pest for other cavity nesters. They are not introducing their best Starlings here.
The did great on the plumage of the Painted Door-Bunting, just the bill is far too large, but otherwise they did great on it!
Thanks for the OT, tune, and awesome shots man!
Rare Earth did the 20+ minute long version of Get Ready at the Ontario/Cal Jam in 1974, it was awesome.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
No one can possibly beat the Temptations,
but that's cool sax and drum playing. Thanks for a blast from the past ; ).
The bills not to large
It's a Painted-doorbird, not a Painted Door-Bunting. People often get the two confused.
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Hi pixelators
Hi all,
Just a hit and run...
A buddy emailed me this pic from a couple weeks ago. I had only seen one dead one here in 20 years so far.
Io Moth, one of the smaller (2") silk moths.
A few years ago I posted the doa one I found, showing the insane hindwing it is hiding when on wall..
Then here is an art crop from the first photo
The red is the I, the eyespot, the O. Automeris io.
Io was the mortal lover of the Greek god Zeuss.
This concludes this week in silk moths.
Hope y'all are doin' well! Meltin' here.
happy trails!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Thanks for the silk moth photos d!
Its eyes sparkle like diamonds. The crop looks like paw prints of some mysterious animal in the savannah.
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Hi, dystopian
Wings folded or wings spread, that's one beautiful looking silk moth.
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More Rare Earth ...
Thanks, Janis
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