Tag Archives: Birds

Fishing

By Vladimir Brezina

To fish, you need a lot of patience…

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… and hope that, sooner or later, you’ll get lucky!

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More Florida fishing birds are here.

The Eyes, the Window to the Soul

By Vladimir Brezina

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Synchronized

By Vladimir Brezina

This synchronized team puts in a pretty impressive performance—

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— and they leave the stage triumphantly!

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Others are pretty good too…

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but their synchronized diving still needs some work.

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From a recent visit to St. Pete Beach, Florida.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Home

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Home.

On our kayak trips, we paddle past homes worth millions

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as well as some that are modest, but offer incomparable views and fresh sea breezes—

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Another Home post is here.

Winter Life at the Reservoir

By Vladimir Brezina

Last weekend at NYC’s Central Park Reservoir. An icy cold day. The Reservoir is mostly frozen over, leaving just a patch of open water where all of the Reservoir’s birds have congregated.

Johna surveys the panorama. (Click to enlarge any photo.)

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Midtown Manhattan rises up beyond.

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The birds are mostly Canada Geese and ducks, including some varieties that we’ve never noticed here before—they are probably from Canada, down for the winter. They paddle through the patch of open water, squabble, or just stand silently on the ice, beaks tucked into their back feathers, facing into the cold wind.

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The blue shadows lengthen as the sun goes down, lighting up the East Side on the other side of the Reservoir with its last rays.

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More photos are here.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Love

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Love.

And there’s one set of photos that comes to mind straight away :-)

Some of you have seen them before, and I apologize. I promise not to show them again (any time soon, anyway)… I guess I’ll have to find something else for Valentine’s Day!

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The full set of photos is here.

Travel Theme: Multiples

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Multiples.

I seem to recall that it was Couples just a few short weeks ago. And now it’s Multiples already? To be sure, it’s quite natural—

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Travel Theme: Soft

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Soft.

Here is a second interpretations of “Soft”.

Travel Theme: Couples

By Vladimir Brezina

Here’s another response to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week, Couples. (The first response was here.)

This was just one moment in a long, elaborate dance that this pelican couple performed for the camera…

You can just hear what these couples are saying to each other, can’t you?

Animal Expressions

By Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson

“You are not seeing me…”

“Harrumph.”

“I wonder…”

“What do we have here?!”

“Surely you can’t be serious.”

“Now what?”

“What are YOU looking at?!?”

Pretty in pink.

“Peekaboo!”

The elegant hunter.

“Look at me! Aren’t I pretty?”

“Honk.”

“What’s up with that?”

“I’m getting too old for this…”

“Whadda you want, wise guy?”

“Go away.”

“I wonder what those kids taste like.”

Sniff!

Scaredy rabbit.

“I want to be your friend!”

“Arrrogh!”

This is our second post in response to Ailsa’s Travel-Themed Photo Challenge, Animals. Our first post was here.