Easter Morning Birds

Eastern Bluebird



Red-shouldered Hawk

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Easter Morning Sunrise

The Bluebonnet is the state flower of Texas, and they reliably bloom around Easter.








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Black and white...

...lambs, at the National Museum of Wales, last month.




Ian...
 

out of retirement

had a play with the om1 the other day , after having lent it to my lad for a Scotland trip here's one of the test shots .still turns out a good image...
 

Basingwerk Abbey ruins


blackfox took me to see the ruins of Basingwerk Abbey, just a short drive from his home in Flint, North Wales. I should have taken more pictures,...
 

Out with the 150-600 today

More testing!

Ian...
 

Bluebells at Badbury

Went for a walk around the National Trust site at Badbury Clumps yesterday.
Was pleasantly surprised to see the Bluebells were out.

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Too Lips...



From Hendy...

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Common snapping turtle

This guy was hanging out on the trail this morning in my local Preserve. The carapace was 10-12".






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More Lizards

Some Common Lizards from a little over a week ago. It was a coolish day with sunny intervals so I was happy to see some of these out. They weren't very...
 

Treecreeper High Up

A Treecreeper high up in an extremely tall tree. Not the ideal setting to photograph one but I was very pleased to see it as they have been elusive recently....
 

Red Dead-Nettle in flower

The flowers are tiny.


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Ashy or Lancet Clubtail Dragonfly

I found this Dragonfly a few days ago in Tanglewood Park, Clemmons, NC.

iNaturalist identifies it as either an Ashy or Lancet Clubtail. After...
 

Experiment using Clingfilm

Not sure where to post this but seing as how its a flower I have put it here.

I stretched some cling film over a roll of tape and placed...
 

2017 sunset

Been raiding my archives, and found this sunset from December 2017 taken on my way home near Chiselhampton. E-M1 with Pana 12-35mm f2.8. Raws edit well...

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