Black Swan And Her Sisters

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Hello! You take requests, right? Please ignore this if I'm mistaken. I'd love to see some good green heron faces, though. Ever since I saw this image ((c) Larry Jordan, The Birder's Report) I've been in love.

ohhh i do take requests and i love them !!

Green Heron (Butorides virescens)

© Gregg Petersen

© Richard Lachance

© John Diener

© Forest Jarvis

© Alejandra Pons

oh but don't worry...

i saved the best for last...

cause i know the angle you REALLY wanted is...

© Mikael Behrens

ardeidae buddies @unironic-memes

playing with bright colors

A Lunar Corona with Jupiter and Saturn : Why does a cloudy moon sometimes appear colorful? The effect, called a lunar corona, is created by the quantum mechanical diffraction of light around individual, similarly-sized water droplets in an intervening but mostly-transparent cloud. Since light of different colors has different wavelengths, each color diffracts differently. Lunar Coronae are one of the few quantum mechanical color effects that can be easily seen with the unaided eye. Solar coronae are also sometimes evident. The featured composite image was captured a few days before the close Great Conjunction between Saturn and Jupiter last month. In the foreground, the Italian village of Pieve di Cadore is visible in front of the Sfornioi Mountains. via NASA

Inktober - Day 10

A quiet moment.

Awww shit yall know what it is

In Green Company: Aurora over Norway : Raise your arms if you see an aurora. With those instructions, two nights went by with, well, clouds – mostly. On the third night of returning to same peaks, though, the sky not only cleared up but lit up with a spectacular auroral display. Arms went high in the air, patience and experience paid off, and the creative featured image was captured as a composite from three separate exposures. The setting is a summit of the Austnesfjorden fjord close to the town of Svolvear on the Lofoten islands in northern Norway. The time was early 2014. Although our Sun has just passed the solar minimum of its 11-year cycle, surface activity should pick up over the next few years with the promise of triggering more spectacular auroras on Earth. via NASA

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