A striking member of the Branta genus, the barnacle goose is a medium-sized goose. As per Wikipedia, "Despite its superficial similarity to the brant goose, genetic analysis has shown it is an eastern derivative of the cackling goose lineage."
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I hope that everyone can see the photo.
I first want to wish everyone a Happy Easter. Not certain that I will be around over the next few days and making comments. Happy Easter wishes coming your way in this sunrise on Armand Bayou.
The second thing is that I am not certain that my contacts are seeing my photos. The last photo that I posted received a few comments, but they stopped roughly 9 hours ago and so I have contacted the Flickr team once again and left them the message below. Not certain that I will be commenting as tomorrow is a busy day and Good Friday has some commitments as well. Happy Easter to everyone and I hope your weekend is filled with many blessings. Peace.
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A suuny , warmer day today. The Waxwings came back. It was nice to get one against a blue sky on an outside branch.
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Spotted some Honeybees at work in the garden this morning, so out came the camera… Life is Sweet
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The Honeybee:
Honeybees live in colonies with one queen running the whole hive. Worker honeybees are all females and are the only bees most people ever see flying around outside of the hive. They forage for food, build the honeycombs, and protect the hive.
Honeybees are important pollinators for flowers, fruits, and vegetables. They live on stored honey and pollen all winter and cluster into a ball to conserve warmth.
All honeybees are social and cooperative insects. Members of the hive are divided into three types. Workers forage for food (pollen and nectar from flowers), build and protect the hive, clean, and circulate air by beating their wings. The queen's job is simple—she lays the eggs that will spawn the hive's next generation of bees.
There is usually only a single queen in a hive. If the queen dies, workers will create a new queen by feeding one of the worker females a special food called "royal jelly." This elixir enables the worker to develop into a fertile queen.
(Sony, 70-200/4.0 @ 200 mm, 1/2000 @ f/16, ISO 5000, edited to taste)
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