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“It was a cold and rainy day. The sky was grey and gloomy, tickled by bare tree branches. Driving past a park, a murder (group) of crows caught my eye. They were turning maple leaves looking for a meal. Their sharp blackness stood in stark contrast against the golden leaves on the ground. / / Always interested in these intelligent yet elusive creatures, I stopped by to observe them. Keeping my distance not to disturb them, I started to capture frames. The crows took short flights cawing in their search for food. The dull sky colour became suddenly a pretty canvas by offering a light grey background to the flying crows. Their black silhouettes graced and otherwise dull sky. / / One individual flew closer to me and perched on a branch. Glancing downwards, she offered me her beautiful profile. She seemed to be still pondering about a prospective meal.” / / / / Image © Carmen Mandel-Cesáreo / / / —-—-—-—-— / Artist statement / My photographs are not enhanced; they represent the true nature and colours of the subjects as captured by the lens. I never lure my animated subjects to come close to me: spontaneity is the key. / / This is an original uncropped image. / / =============================================================== / Proceeds from the sales of all my Crow images will be donated to Crows.net / / Crows.net / The Language and Culture of Crows A site for cooperative research on the language and culture of the American crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos. / / Facts about the American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos): / ..Crows are the most social and intelligent species of birds / ..Crows mate for life / ..The young stay with the family unit for up to five years and help the parents raise siblings / ..Crows show tool-making and tool-using behaviour / ..Crows are not a health threat / ..They will not attack you as portrayed in the movie The Birds / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / / Carmen, creator of Art for Conservation
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Last of my Ravens for now.
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*taken in Palm Springs, CA it was perched on the balcony of my hotel room! seriously, what are the odds?!
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I really want one of these. I looked on eBay, cause someone said you can get anything on eBay, but couldn’t find one! Ah well. / / A bit unusual in that there’s no actual beast in this one…there will be another painting in which a beast is wearing one of these, that one is a big one and is coming along :) / / This is 15cm x 30cm, watercolour/chalk pastel/graphic pen with metallic pigments and silver leaf. / / Visit me on facebook: /
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A flock of Black Cockatoos flew in to have breakfast in the front yard. I grabbed the camera, no time for a tripod, and shot away. Luckily they didn’t fly off I must have looked funny with just my pj shorts on. Heathridge, Perth, Western Australia. Olympus E300
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I really liked this proud bird.. He stood his ground and gave me the ok.. What ya think your doing bud.. I think it knew it was a pretty one.. So I captured what I could of a pretty face.. Hope you like it..
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Weaver Bird – South Africa / Photograph / September 2008
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Bleeding love Where are we, what the hell is going on / The dust has only just begun to fall / Closed off from love, spinning round again / We didn’t need the pain, twice or thrice was enough / It was all in vain, time never ceases to pass / We’re frozen in this cycle of destruction Oil marks appear on walls, / where pleasure moments hung before / Sweeping insanity, sweeping insanity / Oh the insensitivity Something happened on the way, we lost our way / There was a very first time with us, we tasted the displeasure / The bile of unhappy endings and scorched earth policies / We let our hearts melt, / disappearing into the very ground we tread upon / We lost what was true, found something false to replace it / People get ready, there’s a train a coming / And everyone’s looking round, / but we no longer know who is going crazy / I know I’m going crazy Few are bold to say without care for circumstance / I don’t care what they say, I am still in love with you / Torturous souls that love the very thing that makes them sad / They try to pull us away, but they don’t know the truth / Our heart’s are crippled by the vein they keep on closing / They cut us open, and we keep bleeding / We just keep bleeding love We tried hard not to hear, but they talk so loud / Their pandering and propaganda piercing our ears / Question and they try to fill us with doubt / Our goal is to keep me from falling Nothing in this world is greater than the rush that comes / with our patriotic embrace / In this world of loneliness we must cease to lose face / Now everyone around us is going crazy, maybe, maybe It’s draining our history, it’s draining our souls / They find it hard to believe that we pity them / It is all of us who will be wearing these scars / For everyone to see Taken w/Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 300/2.8 AFS VR
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Gorgeous birds … Noisy, but gorgeous.
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Featured in Snow! Glorious Snow! on July 30th, 2009. A Canadian goose sitting in a field of white snow leans slightly to observe the photographer. Not all geese fly south for winter, some prefer to stay put.
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“Australian Birdlife – Little Penguin” / Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © Little Penguins (Eudyptula minor) are approximately 35cm / and live in the southern waters of Australia. I found this / little fellow hiding under a boardwalk on Phillip Island, / Victoria. Little Penguin is part of my / 2010 Calender – Australian Birdlife /
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A spunky pelican :) — Taken with: Canon 40D / Lens used: 2.8 100mm / Shutter speed: 1/3200 / F number: 5.6 / ISO: 400
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Nikon D60
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Mama hummer nesting in Arizona. / Canon 20D with Canon 70-300mm lens @ 235mm. / Over 850 views – Thank You! / Other hummer shots: / / / /
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Crow
by JuliaWrightBest Viewed Large All Rights Reserved / @ Julia Wright Captured in the wild at Cradle Mountain. Tasmania / I slowly moved forward little step at a time and took / this shot from underneath..he was sitting on a fence / but he also had his eye on me all the time!
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Planckendael zoo collection / Mechelen, Belgium White Stork ( Ciconia ciconia ) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae, breeding in the warmer parts of Europe (north to Estonia), northwest Africa, and southwest Asia (east to southern Kazakhstan). It is a strong migrant, wintering mainly in tropical Africa, down to the south of South Africa, and also in the Indian subcontinent. This pic is made in Planckendael Zoo, Belgium. / Whoever visits this zoo cannot miss the large free White Storks colony. The birds are nesting on the roofs, and foraging among the public, begging for food, while children are trying to catch them… Luckily, the roofs are safe refuge spots to quietly fix your feathers… :) / —- / Conservation and population / Notable breeding totals occur mainly in central and eastern Europe / In Western Europe, the stork has been nearly extinct. / According to Wikipedia: “numbers in western Europe are much less healthy, with the once sizable Danish population declining to just five pairs in 1995, while re-introductions of zoo-reared birds have halted declines in Italy (30 pairs), the Netherlands (9-12 pairs), and Switzerland (120-160 pairs). / In France, twenty five years ago, the population of this bird had fallen to fewer than nine pairs in the entire upper Rhine River Valley, an area closely identified with the White Stork for centuries. Conservation efforts there, particularly by the Association for the Protection and Reintroduction of Storks in Alsace and Lorraine, have successfully increased the population of birds to 270 pairs.[3] Threats to the species include the drainage of wetlands and other agricultural intensification, collisions with overhead power lines, use of persistent pesticides (such as DDT) to combat locusts in Africa, and (largely illegal) hunting on passage and the wintering grounds (HBW). Some birds, known in German as Pfeilstorch (“arrow storks”), have been found in Europe with African arrows embedded in their bodies. The White Stork is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.” () (Source Wikipedia: ) / —- Photograph made with Pentax K10D camera. Features* / This work has been featured in / Earth Keepers (Oct 28, 2009) / Comments and feed-back always welcome. Thanks for looking :) / Drinking Stork / Girl and stork
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Pelicans waiting eagerly for the mid-afternoon feeding session at The Entrance on the NSW Central Coast. Canon EOS 400D / Canon Lens 75-300mm / Focal Length 75mm RAW converted to jpg 14 December 2009 Featured in All That is Nature Group 14 December 2009 Featured in A Beautiful Blur 15 December 2009 Featured in Live, Love, Dream 16 December 2009 Featured in Canon DSLR 17 December 2009 Featured in Funny Kritters 18 December 2009 Featured in Vanishing Points © Copyright 2009 Bryan Freeman 1971 views as at 18 December 2009
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