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[lrlebron]

Eastern Towhee

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[SteveAdler]

Amended... Feet First

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[Ken C]

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[jeffryscott]

Cooper’s hawk harassing a Great Horned Owl roosting in its territory.

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[wolfie]

Mrs Blackbird scolding me for letting the cat's bowl go empty. Quite pleased with the shot as it is uncropped, at 35mm equiv 420mm tele zoom at 1/80th second - you can tell because her lower jaw is flapping and blurred away while her eye and the feathers are pin sharp thanks to the E-M5 MkII IBIS. Oh and the bokehlicious M43 background ...

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[panamike]

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[panamike]

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[panamike]

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[panamike]

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[panamike]

Mixed breed goose

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[panamike]

Female Pochard i think

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[relic]

This cardinal appears to be in distress. Is she molting [moulting]? I've seen other birds in a similar condition.
I was wrong: she is taking a dust bath to rid itself of mites-- many thanks to @Bidkev for explaining this to me (see his reply below).

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[royd63uk]

Coot, motoring along

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[Bidkev]

This cardinal appears to be in distress. Is she molting [moulting]? I've seen other birds in a similar condition.

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Hopefully, it's just taking a dust bath? Many birds "fluff up" like that and dust themselves with dirt to rid themselves of mites.

 

[MonikaO]

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[relic]

Hopefully, it's just taking a dust bath? Many birds "fluff up" like that and dust themselves with dirt to rid themselves of mites.

Thank you so much: makes a lot of sense. I didn't know birds did that.

 

[Bidkev]

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Not the sharpest of pics but a rare find in daylight and although normally I can hand hold at these speeds, I'd just scrambled up a high bank and after slipping and taking a bit of a tumble, I had the shakes .Didn't have time to up the iso as I knew she would disappear once she spotted me.

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Australian Owlet-Nightjar by Kevin Dickinson, on Flickr

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Australian Owlet-Nightjar (3) by Kevin Dickinson, on Flickr

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Australian Owlet-Nightjar (2) by Kevin Dickinson, on Flickr

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Australian Owlet-Nightjar (1) by Kevin Dickinson, on Flickr

 

[Avondale87]

wow and wow again
is that what you call the proverbial head over heals for a photo ?

Those are excellent Kevin
Really nice and I can well appreciate the joy of seeing that beauty

 

[melanie.ylang]

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Not the sharpest of pics but a rare find in daylight and although normally I can hand hold at these speeds, I'd just scrambled up a high bank and after slipping and taking a bit of a tumble, I had the shakes .Didn't have time to up the iso as I knew she would disappear once she spotted me.


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Australian Owlet-Nightjar by Kevin Dickinson, on Flickr
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View attachment 781999 Australian Owlet-Nightjar (2) by Kevin Dickinson, on Flickr
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Wow, how lucky were you! I've never seen these in the wild. Don't you think they look like a kind of feathered possum, with their cute, whiskery faces?

 

[Ian Shepherd]

Thank you so much: makes a lot of sense. I didn't know birds did that.

Or possibly ‘sunning’, as was this dunnock in my garden a while ago...

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