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Fascinating Loon Fact: this is the only way a loon can "walk." They're unable to walk on dry land because their legs are set so far back on their bodies that if they even managed to stand (which they can't), they'd fall on their faces. Instead, the function of their legs and feet is to allow them to paddle through the water, where they spend virtually all their lives, and to help propel them forward and upward from the water when they want to fly. 🖤🤎🤍❤️

Photographer - Kathy Diamontopoulos

#Birds #BirdOfMastodon #Loons #WaterBirds

A loon, facing to the right, is "running" over the surface of a lake with its wings outstretched, trying to get lift-off. It looks quite clumsy, but once airborne, loons are strong flyers.

Fascinating Loon Fact: this is the only way a loon can "walk." They're unable to walk on dry land because their legs are set so far back on their bodies that if they even managed to stand (which they can't), they'd fall on their faces. Instead, the function of their legs and feet is to allow them to paddle through the water, where they spend virtually all their lives, and to help propel them forward and upward from the water when they want to fly.

Photographer - Kathy Diamontopoulos

Has anyone seen my keys?
#Birds #BirdOfMastodon

A woodpecker with a red head is pecking into the side of a tree trunk, surrounded by green foliage. The tree bark is rough and textured.

Okay I was wayyy into birb when I was younger, it helped me a lot, here's a recap of the funniest #BestBirb #BestBirds I have #BirbOfMastodon #BirdOfMastodon #BirdsOfMastodon, await for none serious posting beyond this point

Conehead #BirdOfMastodon #TuftedTitmouse #SunflowerSeeds

A tufted titmouse considers the pile of sunflower seeds on a table on my deck. From this angle, the crest looks like a conehead.

Un jeune rouge-queue attend la ration parentale en se toilettant. Comme il semble bien nourri, le fait qu'il ferme un peu les yeux n'a rien de surprenant.
#oiseauxDeMastodon #birdOfMastodon

Rousserole verderolle
#rousseroleverderolle #oiseau #birds #birdphotography #ucello #wildlife #birdofmastodon

On continue avec le bruant zizi 🐦
#BirdOfMastodon #Oiseau #photo #nature #faune

Bruant zizi de dos. posé sur une branche avec des jeunes pousses de feuilles

Étourneau sansonnet avec ses magnifiques couleurs irisées. 😍 🐦

#BirdOfMastodon #Oiseau #photo #nature #faune

Étourneau sansonnet de profil sur une branche d’arbre

Étourneau sansonnet de dos sur une branche d’arbre verticale déployant son aile gauche.

Un petit rouge-gorge qui me tenait compagnie pendant que j’étendais le linge au jardin il y a quelques jours. 🐦
#BirdOfMastodon #oiseau #photo #rouge-gorge

Rouge gorge posé sur une branche en sous-bois bec ouvert en train de chanter

rouge gorge posé sur un tronc avec du lichen dans un sous-bois.

Hawfinch (coccothraustes coccothraustes) in the blackthorn tree in the garden.

Gros-bec casse-noyaux (coccothraustes coccothraustes ) dans le prunellier du jardin.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography #BirdOfMastodon #canonphotography

Hawfinch on a branch covered with white flowers.

Das wird ein flauschiges Nest: eine Kohlmeise mopst sich Filzwolle
#fruehling #kohlmeise #nestbau #natur #naturfotografie #garten #vogel #bird #BirdOfMastodon

Bird feeder and pigeon

#myfotokempi

#photography #photo #fotografie #birds #birdphotography #BirdOfMastodon #pigeon #birdfeeder #RicohGRIIIx

Feeding birds

#myfotokempi

#photography #photo #fotografie #birds #feeding #BirdOfMastodon #monochrome #blackandwhite #RicohGRIIIx

In the monochrome photo (top view from the window), a girl is feeding birds, and there are many pigeons on the ground behind her, waiting for food.

Sometimes (all the time actually) you have to be lucky. Last summer, I was filming the mist rising over the forest at sunset in Cacao, French Guiana and my drone was begging me to come back because it had no more battery. It was when I brought it home that I noticed this bird of prey on its tree facing the sunset. Just enough time to gently take its portrait. Lucky, I tell you !

How I took this photo ? Drone Mavic Pro Hasselblad lens 24 mm 1/80e f4 Iso 800 Manual Raw no filter Not IA

#landscape #landscapes #bird #birdofmastodon #birdofprey #landschaft #naturlandschaft #landschaftspark #nature #natur #natura #photo #photography #drone #paysage #oiseau #oiseaux #teamwanderlust #teamjesuisnulenoiseaux #guyane #guyana #sunset #sunset-pics #colorfulsunset #sunsetlovers #pixelfed #baum #trees #tree #forest #foret #djimavicpro #wildlife #wildlifephotography #wildlifeprotection #wild #guiana

Do you know the legend of the Kindelesbrunnen? The one that tells why storks deposit babies?

This fable was born in Alsace, around 1850. Women who wanted to have a child had to make a wish above a Kinderbrunnen, in other words a "children's well", maintained by a gnome with a white beard. Under the Strasbourg Cathedral there was an underground lake where the souls of children waiting to be born played. Once the wish was made, the gnome took his boat to go and fish out a soul and deposit it on the edge of the well.

This is where our stork arrived and with its powerful beak, it deposited the baby in a basket before carrying it to its cradle.

If the fable was born in Alsace, it is because for a long time, it was the only region where storks were found. In large numbers. Almost every rural village had its nest, which was not the case in the rest of France, where the species was absent or extremely rare.

In Croatia, we are lucky: there are many storks. The White one of course but also the Black one, very threatened and endangered in France.

How I took this photo ? Canon EOS R3 - EF500mm f/4L IS II USM +2x III - 1000 mm 1/2000e f8 Iso 400 Manual Raw Not IA

#wildlife #wildlifeprotection #wildlifeconservation #stork #whitestorks #whitestork #photo #photography #landscape #countryside #nature #natura #natur #silhouette #silhouettes #bird #birds #birdofmastodon #birdsofmastodon #canon #canonphotography #canonphotographers #canonphotographer #storch #nest #cigogne #cigognes #alsace #france #urbanlegend

It's a picture of 2 forks in their nest. Male is bringing a branch to build the nest. the 2 birds are seen as black silhouette in the sunset

Sometimes (all the time actually) you have to be lucky. Last summer, I was filming the mist rising over the forest at sunset in Cacao, French Guiana and my drone was begging me to come back because it had no more battery. It was when I brought it home that I noticed this bird of prey on its tree facing the sunset. Just enough time to gently take its portrait. Lucky, I tell you !

How I took this photo ? Drone Mavic Pro Hasselblad lens 24 mm 1/80e f4 Iso 800 Manual Raw no filter Not IA

#landscape #landscapes #bird #birdofmastodon #birdofprey #landschaft #naturlandschaft #landschaftspark #nature #natur #natura #photo #photography #drone #paysage #oiseau #oiseaux #teamwanderlust #teamjesuisnulenoiseaux #guyane #guyana #sunset #sunset-pics #colorfulsunset #sunsetlovers #pixelfed #baum #trees #tree #forest #foret #djimavicpro #wildlife #wildlifephotography #wildlifeprotection #wild #guiana

It's a photo of a bird of prey alone on a top of a dead tree in the very last moment of the day. He surrounded by a forest recovered with fog. The sunset is spectacular. The pic was taken in Cacao in French Guyana

This photo made me giggle, this is NOT the best look for Starling Moss.
#BirdPhotogaphy #BirdOfMastodon

A starling facing the camera. The bird is on a red feeder, a pine tree is in the background, out of focus. The bird looks stout and puffed up, when it looks slim and sleek from the side. The eyes are close together and look a bit silly.

Nuthatch Moving All Around The Tree Trunk by Debra Martz
The White-breasted Nuthatches are quick-moving little birds, barely stopping as they move up and down and all around the trunks of trees.
Captured on the Casey Tower Trail in the Salt Plains NWR in Oklahoma.
https://debra-martz.pixels.com/featured/nuthatch-moving-all-around-the-tree-trunk-debra-martz.html

#WhiteBreastedNuthatch #nuthatch #Birds #Aves #Avian #BirdLovers #FeatheredFriends #ornithology #photography #PhotographyIsArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #BirdOfMastodon

A small bird perches on the side of a tree trunk, its feathers blending harmoniously with the bark's texture. Sunlight filters through the surrounding leaves, casting dappled shadows across the scene. Photography by Debra Martz

This wonderful #raven follows me on my walk every morning, eagerly awaiting the walnuts he knows I have for him in my pocket. He brightens my day.
#BirdOfMastodon #corvids

A coal black raven on a redwood branch, feathers fluffed.

My weekly contribution at Balloon Juice

#birds #BirdOfMastodon
https://balloon-juice.com/2024/12/30/on-the-road-albatrossity-bishop-and-aspendell/

#birdofmastodon

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