Beautiful Nature pics

[Bill Ryan]

These photos were all taken by professional photographer Jeff Milisen, off Hawaii's Kona island.

[onawah]

TRULY Weird, and Funny! World's Weirdest Bird Sounds - Part One
Close Encounters of the Bird Kind
Published on Feb 15, 2018

"Birds make some of the weirdest sounds in the natural world - here's just a handful of some of the most outrageous!

Check out Part Two for 16 more!

0:07 Grey Go-away-bird
0:40 Capuchinbird
1:08 American Bittern
1:29 Brown Sicklebill
1:40 Laughing Kookaburra
2:05 Great Potoo
2:35 Willow Grouse
3:13 Jack Snipe
3:44 Channel-billed Cuckoo
4:26 Black-footed Albatross
5:17 Western Capercaillie
6:10 Black-throated Loon
6:43 Northern Lapwing
7:11 Southern Cassowary
7:28 Tui
8:27 Montezuma Oropendola "

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ray5GGBlZHk

Part 2

Close Encounters of the Bird Kind
Published on Mar 24, 2019
"0:00 Barred Owl
0:09 Swinhoe’s Snipe
0:54 Crested Oropendola
1:20 Dusky Grouse
2:00 Cory’s Shearwater
2:39 Emu
3:05 European Nightjar
3:42 Australian Magpie
4:15 Barred Owl
4:51 Gunnison Sage Grouse
5:33 Great-tailed Grackle
6:23 Common Eider
7:00 Greater Hoopoe-lark
7:33 Atlantic Puffin
8:07 Eurasian Bittern
8:36 Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
9:24 Pin-tailed Snipe "

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=x3luv_nZDzY

[Bill Ryan]

That's a real photo, taken by Daniel Rosengren in Serengeti National Park.

(The ones he took just prior were these)

[onawah]

6000 year old baobab tree in Senegal

[Seabreeze]

..some pics I took lately....

[sunwings]

[ulli]

[TargeT]

My nightly ritual is to take my dog to the beach for sunset. It's extremely variable and never is disappointing (to me, anyway).

[Bill Ryan]

[Dennis Leahy]

That Orangutan's portrait is a stunning photographic capture. One of the most moving animal portraits I've ever seen. One doesn't need to anthropomorphize to feel his sentience.

[Franny]

Joe Rogan made a comment a while back about apes, orangutans or chimps. He said that as many of them are using tools such as sticks and stones to gather food and other activities more and more, they are entering a stone age.

Never thought of it like that...

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Franny (here)
Joe Rogan made a comment a while back about apes, orangutans or chimps. He said that as many of them are using tools such as sticks and stones to gather food and other activities more and more, they are entering a stone age.

Never thought of it like that...

[Bill Ryan]

[Franny]

Waipio Valley on Hawaii Island. Many of the horses are wild, they just live there.


Fissure 8 from Mauna Kea in July 2018


Not strictly nature, but mixing it up with Pahoa town. Many wild pigs and chickens all over the island. This is about 30 yards from the Post Office where you can hear strolling roosters crowing out the back door.


Rainbow falls near Hilo. It's not usually quite this heavy.


Rainbow Falls at Dawn on a calm day. The rainbow is best seen when the sun is rising. I have one somewhere, I'll post if if I can find it.

[onawah]

Natural Wonder Only Discovered in 2009
Nov 3, 2019
Mobile Instinct

"Although the natural wonder Stuðlagil and the basalt columns have always been here, much of this fascinating landscape was underwater until only a few years ago. It is almost hard to believe when standing here that this was a terrifying place under the forceful pressure of a dominating and angry river. It is by any standard one of the most beautiful places in Iceland where you can see and photograph exceptional basalt columns.

When Icelanders built the hydroelectric plant Kárahnjúkavirkjun the sources for the river Jökla were affected. Instead of running as a glacial river through the valley of Jökuldalur, its source in the north-eastern highlands was diverted into the Hálslón reservoir. From the reservoir, its flows with its former force through 60 kilometers of underground tunnels to drive the hydro-electric turbines of the power plant. So, most of the old sources of the river Jökulsá á Brú don't reach Jökuldalur anymore. "

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xw39c9hRHAQ

[EFO]

The beauty of winter

I took this picture today at noon and I entitled it "Frozen fog"

[onawah]

Photo of the day - Wildlife photographer Nitish Madan's beautiful image during a December morning at Ranthambore National Park in northwest India.

https://www.facebook.com/TheOwlRepor...type=3&theater

[lovelytony22]

Nature is simply beautiful. And one thing I love to see every single day is "sunset"

[onawah]

Taal Volcano erupting (Philippines)

[onawah]

Incredible! Australia's Green Birdflower Plant has flowers shaped like Hummingbirds