Photos of beautiful feathered friends: Swinhoe on flower, Flycatcher mid-air snack, Elegant Terns strut about, Bald eagle aerial acrobatics, hummingbird on blossoming fruit tree
2024-10-05
Image courtesy Elizabeth Yicheng Shen and Audubon
Birding world all aflutter over accidental rare bird photo: first blue rock thrush sighting in US
2024-05-03
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Hobbyist photographer snaps photo of extremely rare bird in 1st U.S. sighting
On a trip to the Oregon coast in late April, amateur photographer Michael Sanchez took his new camera out to Hug Point State Park to snap pictures of waterfalls. Sanchez, a 41-year-old middle-school band director from Vancouver, Wash., recently picked up photography and, by his account, is by no means a bird-watcher.
Fata Morgana and other natural optical phenomena: floating ship, waterfalls on fire, undulating waves in rocks
2023-09-07
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At sea, objects in the distance may appear to be floating above the horizon. A Fata Morgana is a complex, rapidly changing form of a superior mirage, an optical phenomenon that is created when light bends as it passes through a layer of air that is warmer than the layer below it, according to SKYbrary. Made up of several inverted and upright images stacked on top of each other, Fata Morganas appear as
Photographer captures mist-shrouded, snow-capped historic Stirling Castle in Scotland
2022-12-17
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A photographer snapped snow-capped Stirling Castle shrouded in mist as he compared it to something out of Harry Potter. Scotland has been in the grip of an icy cold snap all week, with temperatures plunging to -17C in Braemar in the Highlands. Twenty years ago, Harry Potter author JK Rowling actually transformed Stirling Castle into her famous school of witchcraft and wizardry, Hogwarts.
Mother Universe – Pillars of Creation. Stunning: Webb’s Star-Filled Portrait of Pillars of Creation 19Oct22 (vs 1995 first image Hubble Space Telescope)
2022-10-19
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope made the Pillars of Creation famous with its first image in 1995, but revisited the scene in 2014 to reveal a sharper, wider view in visible light, shown above at left. A new, near-infrared-light view from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, at right, helps us peer through more of the dust in this star-forming region. The thick,
Once in a Blue Moon, full moon twice in one month – October 2020 sees first Halloween Blue Moon since WWii
2020-11-05
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October has not one, but two full moons — and because it’s 2020, the second one naturally falls on Halloween. That gives this year 13 full moons instead of the usual 12. October’s first full moon was the harvest moon on October 1, and the second is a rare full Halloween blue hunter’s
Human and wildlife in photos: elephants eating man-made garbage on a giant dump; half a million sharks will be gone for vaccine against virus
2020-10-10
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The elephants pictured here come to the garbage dumping grounds in Ampara in search of food. Unfortunately, this causes them to fall ill and many have died.
Several of the winning submissions to the UK’s Royal Society of Biology photography competition highlighted the damaging impact humans have on wildlife and
Surfer surfing on and under ice during Polar Vortex, coming out shielded with ice from head to toe!
2019-02-06
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They went surfing during the polar vortex and the photos are surreal… Temperatures below zero can’t come between these guys and catching some waves!
MARQUETTE, Mich. — Some of the best waves on Lake Superior happen in the winter. So naturally, a little polar vortex couldn’t stop Daniel Schetter and Allen Finau from