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Portrait: Gray Catbird
A Study in Gray, except for the russet underneath the tail.
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Hereabouts
Happy Solstice! I am walking around Dartmoor National Park this week, literally, on the Oroborus-trail that is the Dartmoor Way.
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Portrait: Common Grackle
Après le bain.
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When you are exploring, old worlds are always new worlds. (Photograph by Virginia Millington.)
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Tits and So Forth
According to my iBirds UK app, this is a representation of a Great Tit (Parus major), which is not to be confused with the Bearded Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Crested Tit, Marsh Tit, or Willow Tit. Good gravy, that’s a lot of Tits. I found this on top of a gravestone…
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Treehopper
One of the thorn-like treehoppers, perhaps the Oak Treehopper (Platycotis vittata), since it looks a little like one of those, sans the hornlike crest some of them grow, and was on an oak. These feed on sap. As one of the bugs of the order Hemiptera, they are suckers, not chewers.
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