La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Ortalis columbiana (Colombian Chacalaca / Guacharaca)
Endemic to Colombia, as its name would suggest, and the only chachalaca within its now relatively limited range in the central (Cauca and Magdalena) valleys of the country. It is found in both humid and deciduous forests, but the species’ range and population are both almost certainly declining, and it survives only in pockets.
Source: Neotropical Birds Online: neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
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La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Pheucticus ludovicianus
(Rose-breasted Grosbeak / Degollado)
The Rose-breasted Grosbeak is relatively common throughout much of eastern and central North America and lives in primary and secondary deciduous and mixed forest and thickets, as well as alongside humans in parks and gardens. It overwinters in Central and South America.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
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In my garden. La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Coereba flaveola ( Bananaquit / Silga mielera)
The Banaquit has a slender, curved bill, adapted to taking nectar from flowers. While feeding, the Banaquit must always perch as it cannot hover like a hummingbird.
Wikipedia
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Very early in the morning at Kungsträdgården, Stockholm.
Dating back to the Middle Ages, Kungsträdgården (“The King’s Garden”), which is one of the city’s most popular parks, is also home to the city’s biggest display of soft pink cherry blossoms.
At their peak bloomage, the roofing of pink and white flowers over the entire park and its parallel boulevards is quite the sight to behold.
In 1998, sixty-three Japanese cherry trees were planted and each spring under the cherry blossom trees, people gather to soak up the warm sun, eat ice-cream, gossip, and play chess.
www.slowtravelstockholm.com/2014/04/16/see-cherry-blossom...
Cherry blossoms in Kungsträdgården in the Swedish capital Stockholm:
The tree is called Prunus Accolade and is a an English hybrid between P. sargentii and a form of P. x subhirtella from Knap Hill nurseries in 1952. It has profuse semi-double pale pink flowers 30-40 mm in diameter in clusters of 3 with deep pink buds. They normally open in April and cover the tree like a pink cloud. The leaves are toothed, bright green turning orange-red in the autumn. It forms an open-topped tree growing up to 6-7 meters high by 6-7 meters wide.
dennisthernblog.com/cherry-blossom-in-stockholm/
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Dating back to the Middle Ages, Kungsträdgården (“The King’s Garden”), which is one of the city’s most popular parks, is also home to the city’s biggest display of soft pink cherry blossoms.
At their peak bloomage, the roofing of pink and white flowers over the entire park and its parallel boulevards is quite the sight to behold.
In 1998, sixty-three Japanese cherry trees were planted and each spring under the cherry blossom trees, people gather to soak up the warm sun, eat ice-cream, gossip, and play chess.
slowtravelstockholm.com/2014/04/16/see-cherry-blossoms-st...
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