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Bird Freak shadow!

Större hackspett. The Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major

It is an inhabitant of woodlands and parks, depending for food and nesting sites upon old trees. Its actions are jerky, and it hops rather than climbs, leaping forward with one foot just in advance of the other. When a space is crossed the flight is easy and undulating.
The food mainly consists of insects and grubs but also seeds, fruit, scraps, eggs, chicks and small rodents. The woodpecker usually alights on the trunk, working upwards, from side to side, but sometimes will perch in passerine style, when it sits well upright. During the ascent it taps the bark, breaking off fragments, but often extracts its prey from crevices with the tip of its sticky tongue. Beechmast, acorns, nuts and berries are eaten when animal food is scarce.

The creamy-white eggs, five to seven in number, are laid in the second half of May. The young cluster at the mouth of the hole and keep a continuous chatter when the parents are feeding them, but when alarmed slip back into the hole. The nest hole is rarely used again, but not infrequently other holes are bored in the same tree.

Födan består av skalbaggar, myror, bladlöss och andra insekter, samt bär som till exempel blåbär och lingon. Den större hackspetten uppsöker gärna fågelborden under vintern.

Den lever främst i löv- och blandskog, ibland även barrskog, från Skåne till Lappland. Längst i norr är den mindre vanlig eller sällsynt.
Och jag fick den på bild igår vid ett fågelbord och jag bor i Halland.

Bird freak 74



Bergfink, The Brambling, Fringilla montifringilla

Bramblings mostly eat seeds, but unlike most finches, their young are fed largely on insects.
It builds its nest in a tree fork, and decorates the exterior with moss or lichen to make it less conspicuous. It lays 4-9 eggs.
This species is almost entirely migratory. In Europe, it forms large flocks in the winter, sometimes with thousands or even millions of birds in a single flock. Such large gatherings occur especially if beech mast is abundant. Bramblings do not require beech mast in the winter, but winter flocks of Bramblings will move until they find it. This may be an adaptation to avoid competition with the Chaffinch

Do you see the shadow?

Bergfinken liknar bofinken och skiljer sig från den främst genom sin vita bakrygg. Hannen har (på sommaren) huvudet, bakhalsen och främre delen av ryggen svarta, strupen, bröstet och skulderfjädrarna rostgula; de övriga undre kroppsdelarna vitaktiga. Honan har huvudet och nacken ovan askgrå, strupen och bröstet rostgula med grå anstrykning. De övriga undre kroppsdelarna är ljusgrå. Båda könen blir ungefär 16 cm långa och väger ungefär 25 gram.
Dess sång är ganska monoton och för människan inte så njutbar som bofinkens. Man kan jänföra sången med grönfinkens enstaviga "bräkande", men med mer kraft och schwung i det. Ornitologen Erik Rosenberg såg det som en liten cirkelsåg i verksamhet.
Under vår-och höststräcket kan man se stora flockar med bergfinkar som rör sig på ett märkligt rullande sätt över stubbåkrar och fält. Rosenberg kallade det här för "bergfinkstraktorn", beroende på att sista ledet då och då flyger upp och tar täten.

Shadow Shot Sunday nr 88

http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/ - You need sunny days to take shadow shot!

With help from Wikipedia!

Christmas Light

I hope the candles will burna for all of you,
all arounde the world for 2010
ABC - W for Wishing you a Merry Christams.
Thursday Challenge Light

Mellow yellow Monday nr 48
Marcro Monday

You make my heart warm by all you comments you have left here, thank you.

Nature Note nr 41
Ruby Red
Rednesday


I hope to see you all here for 2010. And let the fire go on. And that love will be among all of you like it is around me and my family. I have found a lot of wonderful photo- MEME ( and a lot of wonderful people). I am doing this post to some of them. It is very good to meet other blogs and have a lot of help in the way you are looking at things even if you do not alway take photos of them. Please go and visit them if you have a moment to spare.

Scenic Sunday
My world

Camera Critters nr 90
Shadow Shot Sunday nr 84

Monochrom Weekly
Saturday 26th. December. 2009. Vol.2 Issue18

Thank you for stopping by my blog from time to time - it really makes me happy. Some time work and family take all my time and there is no time to visit you - but I want you to know that you comment makes me smile. It is good to know that a few out there like to look at my photos and read my lines.

I wish you a merry and peaceful Christmas and let the new year bring lots of happiness and love to your life.

Merry Christamas and a Happy new Year,
MB, Maria Berg - Sweden

Ps. I love to show my photos (some will be on sale for postcard next year) - It is near Christmas and It is also time to think about all people in the world that will not have anything for Christmas let them be in your prayer and in your heart and try to help them in one way or the other.

Heads and Tails Show and tell
Wordful Wednesday



See you next year!!!

Black dragonfly

Shadow Shot nr 88

I think they use this dagonfly with a high tech camera somewhere in the movie of;


Technology
nr 186

Shadow Shot - Cat

Shadow Shot Sunday nr 79

Camera Critters nr 86

Shadow Shot - Window

Shadow Shot Sunday nr 76

Shadow theater

My girl and I.

Where are you going?

Please come back to me... miss you so much. It it like that when they grow up?

Shadow Shot Sunday nr 74

Sport, gymnastic and shadow

PhotohuntSport, she doing a lot of gymnastic.
Shadow Shot Sunday

Shadow pain for it or for us?

Macroday Pain!

Hope it will rest in Peace
Unique Exposures Peace

To eat or to be eaten, that is the question,
Nature Note

Shadow Shot nr 71

White and black on yellow

Shadow Shot Sunday

Mellow Yellow Monday

Black and white

Shutterday Black and white

Shadow Shot

Shadow Sunday - Bluebell

Shadow Sunday

Macro Monday