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Over the next few hours I will be posting each of these paintings separately in a larger format so that you can see them more clearly. I will also provide information on what they represent.

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Two more by obscure British artist, Richard Tennant Cooper, circa 1912.

The first depicts breast cancer, the second a small child strangled by diphtheria. Harrowing stuff.

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Watercolour by Richard Tennant Cooper, 1912. “A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis.”

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That wraps up a whole year of wanting to kill Audery and Rilee making sure I don't. That's a pretty accurate description I think❤ @_theaudreyshow_ @rilee.james https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw8GetBnBiT/?igshid=wmtyq4n5kk9b

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Global bird diversity

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Purple coneflower

(Echinacea purpurea)

Habitat: Prairies, open woodlands, and dry forest margins;  widely cultivated as an ornamental and for herbal medicine

Range: Central and the eastern U.S and Canada 

Bloom period: June- October

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Eagle on the Annapurna Circuit, Nepal 🇳🇵

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Indonesia - by Julius Kähkönen

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Ouray, Colorado - by Shadowsand Highlights Photography

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Cool facts about Ruby-throated Humming birds

The Ruby-throated Hummingbird beats its wings about 53 times a second.

The extremely short legs of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird prevent it from walking or hopping. The best it can do is shuffle along a perch. Nevertheless, it scratches its head and neck by raising its foot up and over its wing.

Scientists place hummingbirds and swifts in the same taxonomic order, the Apodiformes. The name means “without feet,” which is certainly how these birds look most of the time.

Ruby-throated Hummingbirds prefer to feed on red or orange flowers (though it's not necessary to color the sugar water you put in a hummingbird feeder). Like many birds, hummingbirds have good color vision and can see into the ultraviolet spectrum, which humans can’t see.

Ruby-throated Hummingbirds normally place their nest on a branch of a deciduous or coniferous tree; however, these birds are accustomed to human habitation and have been known to nest on loops of chain, wire, and extension cords.

Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are eastern North America’s only breeding hummingbird. But in terms of area, this species occupies the largest breeding range of any North American hummingbird.

Male Ruby-throated Hummingbirds don’t stick around long. Pairs are together long enough for courtship and mating – just a matter of days to weeks. Then he’s off on his own, and may begin migration by early August.

The oldest known Ruby-throated Hummingbird was a female, and at least 9 years, 1 month old when she was recaptured and rereleased during banding operations in West Virginia.

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/?__hstc=75100365.916d4fb51f205647593da3ded0b802ab.1530468092096.1530468092096.1530468092096.1&__hssc=75100365.7.1546574141546&__hsfp=806667876#_ga=2.46615012.29021862.1546574139-55029654.1546574139

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Bug of the Day

Last spring I went to a training in Armonk, NY, at Fordham University. The property was full of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants, with a big lake surrounded by walking paths that ran along rock walls in a forested understory. It was late May and so warm that I did not need a coat, so I went out at night with my big flashlight, my bug net, and my camera equipment…and the only thing I found after two hours of hunting was this teeny tiny Geometrid caterpillar and a few micro moths. Never figured out why…

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Northern Cardinal Female by AnneAhearne

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Juvenile Crow, Seattle

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The collared scops owl (Otus lettia) is an owl which is a resident breeder in south Asia from northern Pakistan, northern India, Bangladesh[2] and the Himalayas east to south China. It is partially migratory, with some birds wintering in India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

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Just so you all know, he’s a very handsome bird and he knows it.

Waxwing…

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BarnOwl by RonaldCoulter