Fauna

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Evening on the Beach ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Nothing in nature has a hard outline, but everything is seen against something else, and its outlines fade gently into something else." ~ Peter Henry Emerson
Southern Outer Banks North Carolina seagull colony Pine Knoll Shores Bogue Banks Crystal Coast ringbilled gull bird beach Larus delawarensis shoreline coastline evening black band encircling yellow bill gull sociable nature outdoor Atlantic Ocean Eastern Seaboard birthday
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sunlight in tall grass ~ Texas
"I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight." ~ Louis Daguerre
grass sunlight Texas sunny bright tall grass vegetation meadow foliage grassland forage flower white birthday
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Orchard at Birtwick ~ Pacific Coast
"My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees." Anna Sewell, *Black Beauty*
horse mammal animal bronco mustang steed hoofed animal ungulate trestle bareback birthday
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Soul of a Cat
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." ~ Anatole France
cat eyes blue soul Siamese animal pet macro portrait kitten
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Ranger, the Red-tailed Hawk ~ Buteo jamaicensis ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
Note tethering and perching gear for this rescued beauty of nature.
Ranger RedTailed Hawk bird captive bird Buteo.jamaicensis raptor shrill cry oldest known 30 years red tail broad round wings short wide tail 2nd largest buteo hawk residentshort distance migrant
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Red-Bellied Woodpecker Takes the Peanut ~ Melanerpes carolinus ~ Huron River and Watershed
“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.” ~ Peter Adams
Redbellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus barred backs red cap oldest12 years pale belly red nape clings to tree bark undulating flight pattern bird
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Blue Jay with Peanut and Friend ~ Cyanocitta cristata ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.” ~ Diane Arbus
Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata Huron River and Watershed Michigan bird songbird complex social system tight family bonds fondness for acorns sometimes migratory mimi calls of hawks tool user blue oldest known 26 years prominent crest bold black necklace bold white wingbar wings tail barred wblack abundant near forest edges knnown for intelligence often mate for life communicate vocally wbody language immense vocabulary excellent mimics gular pouch
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White-Breasted Nuthatch, with Photographer in Background ~ Sitta carolinensis ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." ~ proverbial saying
White breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis Huron River and Watershed Michigan bird bird food nature fauna
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Northern Cardinal ~ Cardinalis cardinalis ~ Michigan
"There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value." ~ Jeanette Winterson
Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis red bird perching bird sweet whistles in the morning songbird crest sunflower seeds nature outdoor animal
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European Starling ~ Sturnus vulgaris ~ Michigan
"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin." ~ Ivan Turgenev
European Starling Sturnus vulgaris bird Shakespeare mumation songbird dark and glossy in summer perching bird Darwinian Dance roost nature outdoor
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What's Up?
"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this." ~ Terry Pratchett
Oriental Shorthair cat feline green eyes animal pet kitty Maui domestic cat almondshaped eyes triangular head shape muscular body social intelligent vocal related to Abyssinians and Siamese large ears mammal soft fur felis domesticus felid felis catus svelte ebony silverspotted kitten portrait birthday
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Fauna