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[?]Swede’s Photographs » 🌐
@Swede1952@universeodon.com

Good morning. 💻🚶‍♂️‍➡️🐕‍🦺

3 September 2025

Ever bought just one tire? I usually go in fours. But a few years ago, while traveling, I picked up a bolt in the sidewall of a nearly new tire. I had one of those baby spares—good for getting you off the road but not much else—so I had to buy a single tire just to get home.

Problem was, I couldn’t find the same brand. So, I bought a different one. Then, once I got home, I replaced that oddball with a match for the original set. In the end, I bought two tries to replace one. And I was left with an extra, which I eventually gave away. The math made my head spin.

Still, it beat my younger days, when “a set of tires” wasn’t even in my vocabulary. Back then, four different brands on one car was normal. Replacing a blowout with a used retread? That was luxury.

“The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.” — Bill Watterson

#photo

"Ten Brown Pelicans soar overhead in loose formation, their wings outstretched like sails catching invisible wind. The sky behind them is a layered wash of white and gray clouds, with soft patches of blue peeking through—like a watercolor sky mid-thought. The birds are large and deliberate, each one suspended mid-flight, their long bills pointed forward, their bodies streamlined for distance. The formation is loosely V-shaped, not rigid—more like a conversation than a command. Some birds fly slightly higher, others lower, creating a rhythm of motion that feels both choreographed and casual. Their wings are broad and slightly bowed, tips feathered like brushstrokes, and their silhouettes shift subtly against the changing light. There’s no visible land, no horizon—just sky and movement. The pelicans seem to float rather than fly, their pace unhurried, their purpose quiet. It’s a moment of aerial ceremony, a migration not just of bodies but of instinct and memory. In the top right corner, the image bears the watermark “© Swede’s Photographs,” a gentle signature that doesn’t intrude on the scene’s rhythm." - Copilot

Alt..."Ten Brown Pelicans soar overhead in loose formation, their wings outstretched like sails catching invisible wind. The sky behind them is a layered wash of white and gray clouds, with soft patches of blue peeking through—like a watercolor sky mid-thought. The birds are large and deliberate, each one suspended mid-flight, their long bills pointed forward, their bodies streamlined for distance. The formation is loosely V-shaped, not rigid—more like a conversation than a command. Some birds fly slightly higher, others lower, creating a rhythm of motion that feels both choreographed and casual. Their wings are broad and slightly bowed, tips feathered like brushstrokes, and their silhouettes shift subtly against the changing light. There’s no visible land, no horizon—just sky and movement. The pelicans seem to float rather than fly, their pace unhurried, their purpose quiet. It’s a moment of aerial ceremony, a migration not just of bodies but of instinct and memory. In the top right corner, the image bears the watermark “© Swede’s Photographs,” a gentle signature that doesn’t intrude on the scene’s rhythm." - Copilot

    [?]Jon Sullivan » 🌐
    @joncounts@mastodon.nz

    I just watched a good 25 minute doco on the efforts to save the condor in Argentina. There’s only about a thousand of these gigantic birds left in Argentina and a band of dedicated conservationists are working hard to arrest the decline.

    Recommended.

    arte.tv/en/videos/123556-000-A

      Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC boosted

      [?]brettezeleliquide » 🌐
      @brettezeleliquide@h4.io

      la grâce conférée par le port du tutu rose

      Roseate Spoonbill bird in flight / la spatule rosée est une espèce d’oiseaux échassiers aquatiques de la famille des Threskiornithidae
      tags : tu devrais t’inscrire à la danse,

      une spatule rosée se dessinant dans les airs un tutu de ses ailes aux plumes roses

      Alt...une spatule rosée se dessinant dans les airs un tutu de ses ailes aux plumes roses

        Christian Rickert boosted

        [?]Laszlo » 🌐
        @Laszlo@digitalcourage.social

        Juhuuu! Ich stürz mich in den Dienstag.

        Eisvogel im Sturzflug.

        Alt...Eisvogel im Sturzflug.

          [?]Swede’s Photographs » 🌐
          @Swede1952@universeodon.com

          The Pause That Hunts

          I was photographing a Carolina Chickadee this morning when a juvenile Cooper’s Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) suddenly popped into the frame. How often does that happen, right? Just milliseconds before, the chickadee had been perched with a sunflower seed on the small horizontal branch directly above the hawk. Lucky, lucky, lucky.

          Check out breathtaking photos of magnificent birds of prey, visit my photo gallery here:

          swede1952-photographs.pixels.c

          "A juvenile Cooper’s Hawk perches on a sturdy tree branch, surrounded by a mix of green leaves and early autumn tones—faint yellows and browns just beginning to whisper change. The hawk’s plumage is mottled brown and white, with vertical streaks down its chest like brushstrokes on parchment. Its eyes are a vivid yellow, round and unblinking, scanning the scene with the intensity of a creature built for precision. The beak is sharply curved, pale at the base and dark at the tip—made for tearing, not decoration. Its talons grip the branch with quiet authority, claws curled into bark like punctuation marks. The tail feathers hang long and patterned, alternating bands of black and white that echo the hawk’s youth—still growing, still learning, but already formidable. The background is softly blurred, a wash of forest tones that isolates the hawk in sharp relief. It’s not in flight, not in motion, but the posture suggests readiness—like a thought held just before action. The bird is alert but not alarmed, perched in a moment of suspended decision. The image is signed “© Swede’s Photographs” in the bottom right corner, a subtle credit that doesn’t intrude on the hawk’s quiet dominance." - Copilot

          Alt..."A juvenile Cooper’s Hawk perches on a sturdy tree branch, surrounded by a mix of green leaves and early autumn tones—faint yellows and browns just beginning to whisper change. The hawk’s plumage is mottled brown and white, with vertical streaks down its chest like brushstrokes on parchment. Its eyes are a vivid yellow, round and unblinking, scanning the scene with the intensity of a creature built for precision. The beak is sharply curved, pale at the base and dark at the tip—made for tearing, not decoration. Its talons grip the branch with quiet authority, claws curled into bark like punctuation marks. The tail feathers hang long and patterned, alternating bands of black and white that echo the hawk’s youth—still growing, still learning, but already formidable. The background is softly blurred, a wash of forest tones that isolates the hawk in sharp relief. It’s not in flight, not in motion, but the posture suggests readiness—like a thought held just before action. The bird is alert but not alarmed, perched in a moment of suspended decision. The image is signed “© Swede’s Photographs” in the bottom right corner, a subtle credit that doesn’t intrude on the hawk’s quiet dominance." - Copilot

            Jürgen Hubert boosted

            [?]LionelB » 🌐
            @lionelb@expressional.social

            Naturalists are predominantly elderly.

            Is this because they were socialised as children in a time when there was a greater abundance and variety of wildlife and were more free to roam or is it simply that in retirement they have time to let their interest flower?

            If the former, we are in danger of seeing a collapse in data gathering for anything other than birds and butterflies, putting the natural world in greater danger.

            If it is just a stage of life thing, there will be steady replacement and data will continue to flow.

            Any thoughts?

              [?]Sharon Cummings Art (Official) » 🌐
              @SharonCummingsArt@socel.net

              I've been on a bird kick after talking with the Sarasota Audubon Society about some of my bird art. :)

              ART
              fineartamerica.com/featured/so

              White cockatoo bird on blue watercolor by artist Sharon Cummings.

              Alt...White cockatoo bird on blue watercolor by artist Sharon Cummings.

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