Welcome Swallow

After swimming in our pool, I shot these Welcome Swallows.  The first photograph is of the 2 adult birds and  the second is a video of their young.

 

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WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY

After swimming in our pool, I videoed these Welcome Swallows.  The first video are the adults and the second is their young.

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THROUGH MY LENS

The Mount Hypipamee Crater, also known as The Crater, is a huge diatreme located south-east of Herberton on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland.  I hope you can understand it better when you see these  photographs below.  I havev been to see it twice, last time in December when my daughter was visiting.

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SUNDAY THOUGHT

 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Matthew 6:26

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Photograph taken in Rhonda in 2011

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SATURDAY CITTERS

This week the photographs were taken by Danny’s, one of my birding friends from Northern Ireland. These are Pale bellied Brent geese.

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WEEKEND REFLECTIONS AND THE WEEKEND ROUNDUP

Time for Weekend Reflections and The Weekend Roundup and the letter is Q and Queen.    The first shot is my STREET PHOTOGRAPHY and is when my daughter and I visited my nephew on the Gold Coast and we had a BBQ near the beach. The second shot is of a QUANTAS plane and my final shot of a boat called the QUEEN of Ulster.

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GOOD FENCES

My friend Alan sent me this photograph recently as he knew I would not have this blossom flowering at this time of the year in Cairns.

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AFRICAN MANTIS

This is an African Mantis taken my Danny, one of my birding friends.

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These photographs were taken by Danny, one of my Northern Ireland birding friends,  They were taken at the Quoile hide.  They  Black Guillemot in summer plumage.

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THROUGH MY LENS

This week the photographs were taken by Danny’s, one of my birding friends from Northern Ireland. This is the American Ring necked duck found at Lurgan Balancing Lakes. 

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SUNDAY THOUGHT - HE IS RISEN

But I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child I am content.

Psalm 131:2

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SATURDAY CRITTERS

 I found this chap at my swimming pool . 

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WEEKEND REFLECTIONS AND THE WEEKEND ROUNDUP

  Time for Weekend Reflections and The Weekend Roundup and the letter is P and Plenty.   We have a movie every Saturday evening and this resident brings PLENTY of POPCORN for everyone who wants it.  I am using this PHOTOGRAPH as my STREET PHOTOGRAPHY today.  The final shot are 3 PRETTY Irish colleens on St PATRICK’S Day.

 

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GOOD FENCES

My friend Alan sent me this photograph recently and it is of the Walled Garden in Bangor Co Down.

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Stone Curlew

These are a few more shots of the Stone Curlew.

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WI LD BIRD WEDNESDAY

These birds are Stone Curlew.

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These are a few more photographs I took while visiting my nephew at the Gold Coast, Queensland.

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Photographs were takne at the Gold Coast, Queensland.

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SUNDAY THOUGHT

 The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

Psalm 93:4

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Photograph takne at the Gold Coast, Queensland.

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SATURDAY CRITTERS

The birds are Straw necked Ibis and White-breasted Woodswallow.

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WEEKEND REFLECTIONS AND THE WEEKEND ROUNDUP

Time for Weekend Reflections and The Weekend Roundup and the letter is O and Orange.This climbing plant has beautiful ORANGE flowers.  It is in a garden of a friend of mine at Botanica.  The penultimate shot was taken many years ago in Belfast and is a REFLECTION of an ORANGE buoy in Belfast Harbour.  This shot was taken in Donegal by Alan and is of the Atlantic OCEON. Does anyone remember X's O's?  The "O"s are ORANGE in this shot.

 

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SUNDAY THOUGHT

 "Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.

Psalm 42:7

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Photograph takne at Millaa Millaa Falls, Queensland.

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SATURDAY CRITTERS

A friend at Botanica Lifestyle Resort photographed this White – lipped Tree frog and my second shot was photographed once again while I was playing lawn bowls at Trinity Beach. These are Wallabies.

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