After a grey Saturday the weather improved significantly so that we used Sunday for an extended trip to locations north of the Wiehengebirge to visit the Große Torfmoor, a wildlife sanctuary between Lübbecke and Minden in East-Westphalia. The area is a mix of moorland, lakes and small forests and performs perfect Autumn colours at the end of October.

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SMALL SPARROW-SIZED, fairly common, stay in small family groups, hunting for flying insects normally from a perch.

Favors open bushy grassland, often near water with tall grass.

Could and do watch these for hours, love the way they confide in you, and if you stick a dry leafless branch into the ground, you do not have to wait long, before they land on it. Also saw swallow-tailed bee-eaters, and blue-cheeked bee-eaters.

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THANK YOU for your visit and kind comments, it is appreciated, and find very encouraging, please stay safe and God bless.........................................Tomx

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LONG distance palaearctic migrant, seasonally common, October to March. Favours shoreline and open sandy or muddy estuaries. Small dumpy, with a fast low flight. Managed to get very close to this one by use of a small boat.

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THANK YOU for being a friend, love reading your kind comments, it is always appreciated, and will return the visit soon as possible. Please stay safe God bless...........................................

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"GODs BEAUTY is SIMPLY AMAZING!"

A flock of seagulls at Espinho beach.

Thank you for your visits comments and favs! :-)

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.... colors in this fossilized dinosuar's bone. The concentration of iron and the amount of oxidation determine the color within or between an agate's bands.

So, let's see, this week I given you lessons in paleontology, mineralogy, and geology..... more geology tomorrow!

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Nikon D700

60mm f/2.8 micro lens

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CHARMING AND WELL-MARKED little finch, resident in the U.K all year, bet tend to head north in the summer, so was very lucky to see this male and a juvenile, both captured. Have not see any in Kent this year, but a trip to Sussex proved fruitful. Best time to see them is in the winter, when it searches in the leafiest trees for seeds.

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THANK YOU for your visit, any comment is very appreciated, am behind with commenting myself, as we have had so many good days to get out, and so many images to process, but will try my best.

Keep a smile on the face and love in your heart................Tomx.

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CHARMING GOLDFINCH, very colourful bird, and a favorite among many birders. Widespread and can be found in the region throughout the year, visits garden feeders, and a real joy to watch, they do squabble among themselves for the best position. Found Minster, Thanet Kent U.K.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

ancora un vecchio scatto timbrato nikon, approcciato con nuova linfa e conoscienze !....la foto più difficile, solo la testa illiminata e quella "sciarpina" bianca imponevano sottoesposizione....quindi sulle ombre sono dovuto andare con la mano pesante.....scatto da auto, set preparato

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Harriman State Park, NY

Have a great week my friends

Hugss

dagmar

Light and shade. Beautiful lines. Sparkling snow. All this I found in the park of my city on a cold but sunny day.

“It looked like the world was covered in a

cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”

― Sarah Addison Allen

hundreds of hearts across an autumn field,

do you see them?

take some, they are for you ♥

enjoy your weekend my friends

In a pond

Apparently this amazing rock formation is not a human-made monument – it’s a monument of Mother Nature. Vermillion Cliffs (Arisona, U.S.A.) at Navajo Bridge.

Dresswe Reviews

Lago privato , low pov, Firenze.

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Waterfall, long exposure

Nikon 28-80AF lens

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Portrait Of Michelle September

Green woodpecker in my garden

En arrosant ma lavande tout à l'heure.

Je ne pensais pas qu'une libellule était aussi compliquée à photographier...

Si vous avez 3 minutes, svp, allez voir cette photo et lisez le commentaire. L'auteur de cette photo, Photographe de Talent, mérite votre temps et peut-être plus qui sait :

www.flickr.com/photos/didierbonnettephotographies/1889962...

Extrait de sa mésaventure :

"Hello, cette photo sera ma dernière avant de nombreuses semaines... je me suis fait agresser avant-hier soir et dépouiller de tout mon matos : boitier, objectifs, trépied..."

Merci les Ami(e)s pour votre passage sur cette photo et chez Didier.

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Parc de la Châtaigneraie, très beau parc de 4,6 hectares, qui s’étend entre le Léman et la forêt de Ripaille (Haute Savoie).

Garzetta con il suo bel piumaggio estivo

Parco Naturale delle Lame del Sesia

The little egret is a small white heron. It is the Old World counterpart to the very similar New World snowy egret. In Botswana, it is known as the yellow-footed egret.