Evening all. I hope you are enjoying whatever changes are happening in nature as Autumn approaches. Hopefully human nature is also weathering the transition in seasons with some beauty and wonder. Have an enjoyable weekend.
Unfortunately, your latter embed returns "Not Available". However, a direct visit to the embed's video URL revealed that the video was of Reb Fountain's "Don't You Know Who I Am". Here's an embed of the video of that song which is still up (as of 19:10 USMDT 10/09/2020):
The visuals are quite a powerful compliment to the song. I first heard the song on the radio, and was totally taken. I chose the youtube (that was unknowingly ‘unavailable’)to present the song - straight audio. I am glad though that you posted this version including the visuals, because they’re both so strong.
Unfortunately, your latter embed returns "Not Available". However, a direct visit to the embed's video URL revealed that the video was of Reb Fountain's "Don't You Know Who I Am". Here's an embed of the video of that song which is still up (as of 19:10 USMDT 10/09/2020):
I assume that is your name for the pond. I can't tell from the photo whether your pond is low or high. I trust you're soaking up as much vitamin d as available.
I assume that is your name for the pond. I can't tell from the photo whether your pond is low or high. I trust you're soaking up as much vitamin d as available.
@Bollox Ref
That is a great looking pond BR! Birders love that sort of habitat. Looks wonderful! Sure glad you found it!
I live near a place called Lost Maples. The nearest of these types of Maples are in west Texas, hundreds of miles away, hence the name. An ice age relic, and relict population in a few canyons here. At Lost Maples there are also lost Witch Hazels. Nearly equally lost from their nearest populations. I have concluded the Maples had better lobbyists, so the place is named after them.
Lost Pond:
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great vid otc! I couldn't get an ID though... there are a bunch of these. Might be a Hemaris sps.? A fair number of them are diurnal, or partly so, and will be out on cloudy days especially. The plants look great! Go for it on the birdfeeder! Even if you can't take pix, you will see lots of stuff closer and better than ever. It is fun, especially in winter. Nearish cover, and not too close to a window. On a cable/wire with a pulley/crank and you can keep squirrels off it, reel in and out to refill. The squirrels are the hard part.
1 minute 43 second video, taken from my front porch. Enjoy the colors and the critter!
For comparison, I am including a link to the previous video posted that was taken at dusk.
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.
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@Socialprogressive
can be amazingly complex. For instance, even birders did not realize until biologists studied it, I think it was a couple women if I recall... what sounded like a chickadee alarm note, had 9 variations, each for a different threat. One must consider that not only the chickadees learn these, but other things in the forest do too, just like birds or squirrels respond to each others alarms. Yes they are talking to each other.
#4.1
That communication between the birds involved a whole lot of chirping.
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a definite difference in bird call when a raptor is around than when one isn't around.
#4.1.1 can be amazingly complex. For instance, even birders did not realize until biologists studied it, I think it was a couple women if I recall... what sounded like a chickadee alarm note, had 9 variations, each for a different threat. One must consider that not only the chickadees learn these, but other things in the forest do too, just like birds or squirrels respond to each others alarms. Yes they are talking to each other.
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@on the cusp
If you put up a feeder also put up in a birdbath. That should help keep the birds coming around. If photos are not possible get some bird watching binoculars. It's a great way to see them up close. I spend way more time watching birds through a pair of binoculars than through a camera lens.
#4 I should put up a feeder. I have birds everywhere, just no way to catch a photo of them.
Have a wonderful weekend.
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GREAT photos SP! Both adult and immature White-crowned Sparrows are in I see. Love that Cassin's Kingbird (the one with the yellow underparts and white throat contrasting with gray all around it) pic #6. The Song Sparrow at the bath is great too (#4). On the Mourning Doves, the right hand bird is a juvenile, recently fledged, the other two are adults, probably its. GREAT photo!
Love all that NZ green and that's one tall Bird Of Paradise. I've never seen one that tall.
The bird feeder and birdbath have been attracting a lot of visitors the last few mornings.
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for covering my laziness on not identifying the birds.
#4 GREAT photos SP! Both adult and immature White-crowned Sparrows are in I see. Love that Cassin's Kingbird (the one with the yellow underparts and white throat contrasting with gray all around it) pic #6. The Song Sparrow at the bath is great too (#4). On the Mourning Doves, the right hand bird is a juvenile, recently fledged, the other two are adults, probably its. GREAT photo!
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I love your photos Janis! You must live near Jurassic Park. It is beautiful. Happy spring!
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Just found a screenshot of a bird that I saw, or, should say, "scared off" at our side-yard bird bath, yesterday (there were 3 of them). Obviously, some type of bluebird, but a bird which I rarely see in our backyard.
Anyhoo, Duck-Duck-Go'd, and it was an Eastern Bluebird. So, here's a photo that pretty much illustrates the beauty of the little fellows. Unfortunately, they all flew away, immediately.
I'm glad they visited you. They are such a beautiful bird, and I'm happy to see even a photo of them again.
All the best to you three, and your visitors.
this evening.
Just found a screenshot of a bird that I saw, or, should say, "scared off" at our side-yard bird bath, yesterday (there were 3 of them). Obviously, some type of bluebird, but a bird which I rarely see in our backyard.
Anyhoo, Duck-Duck-Go'd, and it was an Eastern Bluebird. So, here's a photo that pretty much illustrates the beauty of the little fellows. Unfortunately, they all flew away, immediately.
Here is a Cooper's Hawk at our bath. Why you need cover near birdbath or feeders.
This is a head crop.
Got a little better pic of a Texas Wasp Moth. A diurnal moth that is a wasp mimic to keep from being bugged. Those spatulate tarsi are amazing.
This is a pale morph female Large Orange Sulphur imbibing water off the patio.
I haven't ID'd this yet, my policy is to shoot first and ask questions later. Once you have some documentation, a reference photo, then you can set about finding an ID.
Hope everyone is doing well!
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Here is a Cooper's Hawk at our bath. Why you need cover near birdbath or feeders.
This is a head crop.
Got a little better pic of a Texas Wasp Moth. A diurnal moth that is a wasp mimic to keep from being bugged. Those spatulate tarsi are amazing.
This is a pale morph female Large Orange Sulphur imbibing water off the patio.
I haven't ID'd this yet, my policy is to shoot first and ask questions later. Once you have some documentation, a reference photo, then you can set about finding an ID.
Hope everyone is doing well!
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That un-ID'd moth would make a great umbrella pattern. It's unlike any I've ever seen. Thank you.
Here are some pixels...
Here is a Cooper's Hawk at our bath. Why you need cover near birdbath or feeders.
This is a head crop.
Got a little better pic of a Texas Wasp Moth. A diurnal moth that is a wasp mimic to keep from being bugged. Those spatulate tarsi are amazing.
This is a pale morph female Large Orange Sulphur imbibing water off the patio.
I haven't ID'd this yet, my policy is to shoot first and ask questions later. Once you have some documentation, a reference photo, then you can set about finding an ID.
@dystopian
Those are some really cool markings on the moth in the last shot. Curious to know what it is.
Here are some pixels...
Here is a Cooper's Hawk at our bath. Why you need cover near birdbath or feeders.
This is a head crop.
Got a little better pic of a Texas Wasp Moth. A diurnal moth that is a wasp mimic to keep from being bugged. Those spatulate tarsi are amazing.
This is a pale morph female Large Orange Sulphur imbibing water off the patio.
I haven't ID'd this yet, my policy is to shoot first and ask questions later. Once you have some documentation, a reference photo, then you can set about finding an ID.
Hope everyone is doing well!
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vanishing or has vanished except for rare occasions.
This is 2 views of Yosemite's "Mirror Lake", different angles from the lake's shore.
be well and have a good one
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GREAT Mirror Lake pics EL! Last time I went there to take pix, decades ago, there was wind so no mirror. What a beautiful place. There is a fall Cerulean Warbler record from there, maybe in the 60's or 70's. Probably an altitude record in the states.
I saw you mention a few weeks back you had Juncos already! Amazing how early you get them.
vanishing or has vanished except for rare occasions.
This is 2 views of Yosemite's "Mirror Lake", different angles from the lake's shore.
be well and have a good one
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northern pygmy owl up there being mobbed by song birds, just short of the lake itself. Took forever for it to turn its head enough to see the eye spots.
be well and have a good one.
#9 GREAT Mirror Lake pics EL! Last time I went there to take pix, decades ago, there was wind so no mirror. What a beautiful place. There is a fall Cerulean Warbler record from there, maybe in the 60's or 70's. Probably an altitude record in the states.
I saw you mention a few weeks back you had Juncos already! Amazing how early you get them.
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Janis, I have to admit that with your first photo I immediately envisioned it as a green conga drum which had gotten too close to some stage lighting!
For the second, all I could see was some crazy cartoon birds with ridiculously long comic necks, craning to see some other crazy cartoon animals! With "the birds," there was Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner music filling my head ...whatever music that would be!
Janis, I have to admit that with your first photo I immediately envisioned it as a green conga drum which had gotten too close to some stage lighting!
For the second, all I could see was some crazy cartoon birds with ridiculously long comic necks, craning to see some other crazy cartoon animals! With "the birds," there was Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner music filling my head ...whatever music that would be!
I was on my way to the "Hippo Bar" to drink beer, await the hippos coming out of the water at sunset, noticed this stunning bird as I walked, snapped a picture.
I have no idea what it is, just know it is one of the most stunning birds I have ever seen.
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@on the cusp
like it might be a Blue-eared Glossy Starling.
I was on my way to the "Hippo Bar" to drink beer, await the hippos coming out of the water at sunset, noticed this stunning bird as I walked, snapped a picture.
I have no idea what it is, just know it is one of the most stunning birds I have ever seen.
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@on the cusp
superb starling. It is called Superb Starling. Spreo superbus. You do see these occasionally in zoos here in the states. It is one of the most beautiful stunning birds one can lay eyes on.
Great pic otc!
I was on my way to the "Hippo Bar" to drink beer, await the hippos coming out of the water at sunset, noticed this stunning bird as I walked, snapped a picture.
I have no idea what it is, just know it is one of the most stunning birds I have ever seen.
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on birds and other animals, and plants for that matter.
#11 superb starling. It is called Superb Starling. Spreo superbus. You do see these occasionally in zoos here in the states. It is one of the most beautiful stunning birds one can lay eyes on.
@dystopian
from the lodge to the Hippo Bar.
I just couldn't believe my luck in snapping that photo to bring back the memories of that time and place forever.
All I need to do is see that photo and I remember the place, the food, the sounds, the people.
#11 superb starling. It is called Superb Starling. Spreo superbus. You do see these occasionally in zoos here in the states. It is one of the most beautiful stunning birds one can lay eyes on.
Great pic otc!
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I agree with dysto that it looks like a superb starling, but they do have a variety of gorgeous starlings in Kenya,
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I was on my way to the "Hippo Bar" to drink beer, await the hippos coming out of the water at sunset, noticed this stunning bird as I walked, snapped a picture.
I have no idea what it is, just know it is one of the most stunning birds I have ever seen.
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anyone at the compound to ask about them. I will just have to go back, huh?
Whatever that bird is, it remains the most beautiful bird I have ever laid eyes upon.
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What manner.......
...... of Aotearoan vegetation are those, janis?
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The showy ones, than!
Have you heard this recent one? ...
[video:https://youtu.be/L1W1iCKVhIM]
I thought you might like this musician as well ...
[video:https://youtu.be/_oEVCcKFWwE]
Love those!
Unfortunately, your latter embed returns "Not Available". However, a direct visit to the embed's video URL revealed that the video was of Reb Fountain's "Don't You Know Who I Am". Here's an embed of the video of that song which is still up (as of 19:10 USMDT 10/09/2020):
[video:https://youtu.be/8p-y6MYfLLk]
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Thanks than
The visuals are quite a powerful compliment to the song. I first heard the song on the radio, and was totally taken. I chose the youtube (that was unknowingly ‘unavailable’)to present the song - straight audio. I am glad though that you posted this version including the visuals, because they’re both so strong.
Thanks for hosting Janis
Lost Pond:
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
You're welcome Bollox
I assume that is your name for the pond. I can't tell from the photo whether your pond is low or high. I trust you're soaking up as much vitamin d as available.
It's called Lost Pond
You suddenly come upon it in a regional park. Good walking.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Lost Pond.
Looks like you found it.
Nice shot BR.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
nice pond BR!
That is a great looking pond BR! Birders love that sort of habitat. Looks wonderful! Sure glad you found it!
I live near a place called Lost Maples. The nearest of these types of Maples are in west Texas, hundreds of miles away, hence the name. An ice age relic, and relict population in a few canyons here. At Lost Maples there are also lost Witch Hazels. Nearly equally lost from their nearest populations. I have concluded the Maples had better lobbyists, so the place is named after them.
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.
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Hummingbird Hawk Moth miraculously during daylight!
1 minute 43 second video, taken from my front porch. Enjoy the colors and the critter!
For comparison, I am including a link to the previous video posted that was taken at dusk.
Hummingbird Hawk Moths (Dusk) - East Texas
Welcome to my porch!
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Thank you for the video OtC
The flight is so much like a hummingbird, it's wonderful. I'm really glad you are able to video such a challenging subject.
great vid otc!
great vid otc! I couldn't get an ID though... there are a bunch of these. Might be a Hemaris sps.? A fair number of them are diurnal, or partly so, and will be out on cloudy days especially. The plants look great! Go for it on the birdfeeder!
Even if you can't take pix, you will see lots of stuff closer and better than ever. It is fun, especially in winter. Nearish cover, and not too close to a window. On a cable/wire with a pulley/crank and you can keep squirrels off it, reel in and out to refill. The squirrels are the hard part.
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 Friday Photos tonight, Janis.
Love all that NZ green and that's one tall Bird Of Paradise. I've never seen one that tall.
The bird feeder and birdbath have been attracting a lot of visitors the last few mornings.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
Those are amazing photos Social
The communication between the birds and the beauty of the moment you capture is such a pleasure, thank you!
Thank you, Janis.
That communication between the birds involved a whole lot of chirping.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
chirping to you...
can be amazingly complex. For instance, even birders did not realize until biologists studied it, I think it was a couple women if I recall... what sounded like a chickadee alarm note, had 9 variations, each for a different threat. One must consider that not only the chickadees learn these, but other things in the forest do too, just like birds or squirrels respond to each others alarms. Yes they are talking to each other.
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
I know I've noticed
a definite difference in bird call when a raptor is around than when one isn't around.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
I think the Birds of Paradise must be trying to reach
their brothers and sisters in the sky ; ).
Lovely!
I should put up a feeder. I have birds everywhere, just no way to catch a photo of them.
Have a wonderful weekend.
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Thank you, OTC
If you put up a feeder also put up in a birdbath. That should help keep the birds coming around. If photos are not possible get some bird watching binoculars. It's a great way to see them up close. I spend way more time watching birds through a pair of binoculars than through a camera lens.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
awesome pics SP!
GREAT photos SP! Both adult and immature White-crowned Sparrows are in I see. Love that Cassin's Kingbird (the one with the yellow underparts and white throat contrasting with gray all around it) pic #6. The Song Sparrow at the bath is great too (#4). On the Mourning Doves, the right hand bird is a juvenile, recently fledged, the other two are adults, probably its. GREAT photo!
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
Thank you, dystopian
for covering my laziness on not identifying the birds.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
Confederate Rose
More front yard views. At the same time the leaves are turning, I am getting the first bloom of the year. Very strange!
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Great pix Janis!
I love your photos Janis! You must live near Jurassic Park. It is beautiful. Happy spring!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Jurrasic Park
I used to live closer to that location in Kokee ... but here is a close contendant.
Don't you have to cross the equator at some point, to accompany back to Texas the cuttlefish or some other aquatic animal ; ?.
[Edited] Hola, Janis! Thank you for hosting
this evening.
Just found a screenshot of a bird that I saw, or, should say, "scared off" at our side-yard bird bath, yesterday (there were 3 of them). Obviously, some type of bluebird, but a bird which I rarely see in our backyard.
Anyhoo, Duck-Duck-Go'd, and it was an Eastern Bluebird. So, here's a photo that pretty much illustrates the beauty of the little fellows. Unfortunately, they all flew away, immediately.
Photo Attribution: Eastern Bluebird Facts, Information, and Photos
forum.americanexpedition.us
Thank you for the lush and gorgeous photos! And thanks to all of our excellent C99 photographers for sharing their work with us.
(maybe one day, I'll be able to muster up more than just a screenshot!
)
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Have a nice weekend. Safe stay, and be well.
Mollie
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Thank you for the Eastern Bluebird Mollie.
I'm glad they visited you. They are such a beautiful bird, and I'm happy to see even a photo of them again.
All the best to you three, and your visitors.
here's a few
Here are some pixels...
Here is a Cooper's Hawk at our bath. Why you need cover near birdbath or feeders.
This is a head crop.
Got a little better pic of a Texas Wasp Moth. A diurnal moth that is a wasp mimic to keep from being bugged. Those spatulate tarsi are amazing.
This is a pale morph female Large Orange Sulphur imbibing water off the patio.
I haven't ID'd this yet, my policy is to shoot first and ask questions later. Once you have some documentation, a reference photo, then you can set about finding an ID.
Hope everyone is doing well!
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
Hola, dysto, great pics of the coop.
be well and have a good one
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"Why you need cover near birdbaths or feeders".
That un-ID'd moth would make a great umbrella pattern. It's unlike any I've ever seen. Thank you.
Very nice, dystopian
Those are some really cool markings on the moth in the last shot. Curious to know what it is.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
Good evening Janice, another "lost lake", lost because it is
vanishing or has vanished except for rare occasions.
This is 2 views of Yosemite's "Mirror Lake", different angles from the lake's shore.
be well and have a good one
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Thank you el for the clear reflections
of vanishing beauty.
[video:https://youtu.be/Vpn1K-0sQeM]
Thanks. That's why it is called mirror lake.
be well and have a good one
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Really nice Reflection shots, EL.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
Thanks.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
awesome pix EL!
GREAT Mirror Lake pics EL! Last time I went there to take pix, decades ago, there was wind so no mirror. What a beautiful place. There is a fall Cerulean Warbler record from there, maybe in the 60's or 70's. Probably an altitude record in the states.
I saw you mention a few weeks back you had Juncos already! Amazing how early you get them.
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
Hola dysto. Really great location, as you say. Saw a
northern pygmy owl up there being mobbed by song birds, just short of the lake itself. Took forever for it to turn its head enough to see the eye spots.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Regression in my old age
Janis, I have to admit that with your first photo I immediately envisioned it as a green conga drum which had gotten too close to some stage lighting!
For the second, all I could see was some crazy cartoon birds with ridiculously long comic necks, craning to see some other crazy cartoon animals! With "the birds," there was Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner music filling my head ...whatever music that would be!
Maybe I shouldn't be admitting this...... LOL!
Thanks for your visions traveler
They enhance my appreciation.
[video:https://youtu.be/T2JnyCuAQMg]
The bird in the Kenyatta National Park in Kenya.
I was on my way to the "Hippo Bar" to drink beer, await the hippos coming out of the water at sunset, noticed this stunning bird as I walked, snapped a picture.
I have no idea what it is, just know it is one of the most stunning birds I have ever seen.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Your bird looks
like it might be a Blue-eared Glossy Starling.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
My that is a
superb starling. It is called Superb Starling. Spreo superbus. You do see these occasionally in zoos here in the states. It is one of the most beautiful stunning birds one can lay eyes on.
Great pic otc!
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
Nothing like iridescent colours
on birds and other animals, and plants for that matter.
There must have been 6 of them in the grass by our walkway
from the lodge to the Hippo Bar.
I just couldn't believe my luck in snapping that photo to bring back the memories of that time and place forever.
All I need to do is see that photo and I remember the place, the food, the sounds, the people.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Can't find exactly where that is, does it have another name?
I agree with dysto that it looks like a superb starling, but they do have a variety of gorgeous starlings in Kenya,
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I couldn't find
anyone at the compound to ask about them. I will just have to go back, huh?
Whatever that bird is, it remains the most beautiful bird I have ever laid eyes upon.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981