almost done rendering the newborn peregrine falcon chick. about 0-2 days old.
they are born with a full down coat and can open their eyes a bit during begging, but are still helpless. They have a egg-cracking notch on their beak that will fall off within a couple of days.
A starling pokes its head out of a blossoming Japanese Yoshino cherry tree in Washington | image by Carolyn Kaster
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Grinnell Glacier is in the heart of Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The glacier is named for George Bird Grinnell, an early American conservationist and explorer, who was also a strong advocate of ensuring the creation of Glacier National Park. The glacier is in the Lewis Range and rests on the north flank of Mount Gould at an altitude averaging 7,000 feet (2,100 m), in the Many Glacier region of the park…
(read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinnell_Glacier)
(photo: Mountain_Walrus | Wiki)
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The Moon’s Saturn
Image Credit & Copyright: Jens Hackmann
B tit male by davy ren2 on Flickr.
British Wildlife
Showing My Best Side !!! by Judylynn M. on Flickr.
roseate spoonbill
Barn Owl_RGB4069 by DansPhotoArt on Flickr.
#Bird#Photo
lanner falcon and pale chanting goshawk
(photo by linruphotography)
2012-03-17-13h58m38.272P7858 by A.J. Haverkamp on Flickr.
Yellow mongoose
The solar system (simplified version without all the comet gizmos and whatnot).
Pluto is a planet. He’s my bro.
