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The little sparrows of Rome…
BiblioBar, Rome
Edit: My favourite coffee place in Rome. Right next to the river, great coffee, friendly staff, great music and you can still get a €1 caffé.
The little sparrows are special though. Hopping and flitting about.
The side of Rome most tourists never see.
Olympus E-M10 II
Olympus M.Zuiko 45mm f/1.8
BiblioBar, Rome
Edit: My favourite coffee place in Rome. Right next to the river, great coffee, friendly staff, great music and you can still get a €1 caffé.
The little sparrows are special though. Hopping and flitting about.
The side of Rome most tourists never see.
Olympus E-M10 II
Olympus M.Zuiko 45mm f/1.8
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It's winter on the lake and last week the geese got a real taste of it when the water turned into ice.....
Third one is my favourite. Looks like he’s keeping his cold foot of the ice! Nicely done.
Thank you, AFB! Actually he was slipping and I really thought he'd fall, but he managed to rebalance himself and stay on his feet. These guys have a really hard time walking on the ice and it can be funny to watch.
We have had really frigid weather here (although thankfully things are starting to warm up a little now) and the birds are definitely not happy about it. I was surprised to look out today and see a Gull at the water's edge, but by the time I'd grabbed a camera he had taken off because in the meantime a Crow had also come along to check things out, too. Geese were nowhere in sight. It was really odd to see both a Gull and a Crow here -- they are not usual visitors, especially in wintertime.
It's that time of year when the Robins make their way south. There are lots of them around, but don't stay still long. Makes it difficult for me to capture them.
....And under the ice she goes! We still have ice on our small lake, although thankfully today there has been some thawing. It's been a while since the Hooded Mergansers have visited, so I was happy to see a pair of them today out there trying to figure out the changes in the environment, especially in what had previously been a familiar watery landscape.
So the two of them were swimming closer to the icy edge of where the liquid water stops and the actual ice begins.....and the female decided to just go ahead and dive under the surface (including the ice) to see if she could snag a nice fishy treat..... Alas, she didn't succeed this time, but hopefully at some point today she and her companion finally did. The two of them continued to hang around here for quite a while this afternoon, so the fishing must've been good after all!
So the two of them were swimming closer to the icy edge of where the liquid water stops and the actual ice begins.....and the female decided to just go ahead and dive under the surface (including the ice) to see if she could snag a nice fishy treat..... Alas, she didn't succeed this time, but hopefully at some point today she and her companion finally did. The two of them continued to hang around here for quite a while this afternoon, so the fishing must've been good after all!
Anna’s hummingbird photo I took this weekend
The female Hooded Merganser whose tail you saw in my earlier post is shown here as she approaches the ice.....
Snow in Florida is so last week. Hike today approaching the 70's and quite comfortable. Great Blue building a nest.
I got lucky again yesterday and captured a Robin with my camera.
Scheveningen Pier in Den Haag, Nethterlands. iPhone 15 Pro Max.
Cedar Waxwing. First time I've encountered them.
Osprey
Osprey
The ice has been continuing to hang around our lake, and the Geese are still trying to figure out how to best navigate it! Thankfully there is more water available now in which for them to swim, and that's a help. Nonetheless they keep running up against unexpected obstacles.
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Anna’s hummingbird , early and cold morning
Southern Ground Hornbill from the San Diego Zoo.
Rare sighting of a Cooper's hawk. This one is gathering nesting material. I watched it break off branches and fly off to a nest, soon to return for more material.
Forgive me for not having the energy to check if I’ve posted this same pic earlier in the thread. I cannot tell if this is (in my photo) a Coopers Hawk or a Sharp-Shinned Hawk. The two species look almost exactly the same, and when I look up what the small differences are supposed to be I feel some from each kind apply, lol.
Those shins do look sharp, though, so I’ve decided to assume it’s a Sharp-Shinned, lol.
When we get some snow coverage, the cardinals have to come up to the feeder. I’ve had these feeders up for ten years, and for all of that time I had only very rarely seen two males there at once. Suddenly that day(just last week) we had up to five at a time.
