#widgeon

[monkeyssalad-blog]

1956 Westland Widgeon ad by totallymystified

[uk3d]

Widgeon sketch | Limited edition fine art print from an original drawing. My sketches start life as hand-drawn graphite images made on cartridge paper. I often work on these with charcoal, oil pastel or Caran d'Ache to create the look I'm after. The artwork is then scanned and finessed digitally ready for fine art printing. This process often referred to as Giclée printing uses the highest standard of printing methods to give gallery quality results that maintain all the details of the original sketch. The graphite pencils I use are Faber-Castel, the oil pastels are Sennelier and the china-graph is Caran d’Ache. The inks are pigment based archive quality (100years+). The heavyweight specialist papers I use are of the best professional quality having a wonderful surface designed specifically for fine art drawings and illustrations. Very limited editions with only ten per size printed. All artwork is signed and includes a certificate of authenticity. The A5 are 5.8" x 8.25" (14.8cm x 21cm) The A4 are 8.25" x 11.7" (21cm x 29.8cm) The A3 are 11.7" x 16.5" (29.8 cm x 42cm) The A2 are 16.5" x 23.4" (42 cm x 59.4cm) Frames not included in price. Free shipping on artwork to UK destinations.

[rovermcflyboy]

I love a good amphibian plane so this guy immediately caught my eye on the Paddington in Peru poster at the cinema and I had to look it up.

It's a Grumman G-44 Widgeon originally built in France and now owned by Shoot Aviation who specialize in aviation sets and props.

They gave the plane -which had a history of engine problems before its restoration in the 70's- a makeover, turning it into "The Miracle", no doubt in connection to the nunnery that plays a central role in the film. Olivia Colman playing a nun can be seen flying crashing the plane in a trailer.

Just lovely work all around and shows how much character a good airplane prop and/or set can give a movie!

[tecco59]

Widgeons

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Widgeon Tome Kel, 2023

[riverwindphotography]

Golden Moments

(c) riverwindphotography

[antiqueanimals]

Florida Wildlife; vol. 9, no. 5. October 1955.

Internet Archive

[admiralgiggles]

I like the composition?

[mothmiso]

Finland 2024 - Mikkeli (2) (3) (4) by Ulf Roos

Via Flickr:

(1) Njuter i solen / Enjoying in the sun. (2) Jag är osynlig / I am invisible. (3) Bläsänder / Wigeons. (4) Provar mina vingar / Testing my wings.     

[thestonecuttersguild]

Widgeon on land, Oshkosh 2023.

[zenith-at]

Courtyard Supper

2013-01-20

[hematomes]

I got Lyney at like 20 pity cause I didn’t know who I wanted and the second I wished and saw it was gold (I had a garunteed but it never goes at 20 wishes) I was like “NO I JUST REALIZED I WANT TORTELLINI”

So now I have Lyney and no chance of tortellini

zndkzk never pull if you're unsuuuure

[half-eaten-camera]

august 14 2018 - widgeon falls, british columbia

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Animals

for your next poem/story (pt. 2)

Accentor - a small Eurasian songbird with generally drab-colored plumage

Brach - a female hound

Culver - a dove or pigeon

Diprotodon - a monotypic genus of Australian Pleistocene herbivorous marsupials related to the kangaroos, resembling a rhinoceros in size, and walking on four legs

Eyas - an unfledged bird, specifically: a nestling hawk

Falanouc - (or Falanaka) a viverrine mammal, Eupleres goudotii, of Madagascar closely related to the Asiatic palm civet

Gerenuk - a large-eyed antelope (Litocranius walleri) of eastern Africa with a long neck and limbs

Huemul - (or Guemal) either of two small South American deer, Hippocamelus bisulcus and H. antisiensis, having simple forked antlers

'I'iwi - Hawaiian honeycreeper (Vestiaria coccinea) with chiefly bright vermilion plumage formerly used in making feather cloaks

Jerboa - any of several social nocturnal jumping rodents (family Dipodidae) of arid parts of Asia and northern Africa having a long tail and long hind legs

Kinkajou - a nocturnal arboreal omnivorous mammal (Potos flavus) found from Mexico to South America that is related to the raccoon and has a long prehensile tail, large eyes, and yellowish brown fur

Leveret - a hare in its first year

Murre - any of a genus (Uria) of black-and-white alcids, especially: a common seabird (U. aalge) of northern seas

Nyala - an antelope (Tragelaphus angasii) of southeastern Africa with vertical white stripes on the sides of the body, a dorsal crest of hair from the neck to the base of the tail, and in the male shaggy black hair along the underside; also: a related antelope (T. buxtoni) of Ethiopia

Olm - an elongated European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander (Proteus anguinus) with permanent external gills and small eyes covered by the skin

Pudu - a small reddish deer (Pudu pudu) of the Chilean Andes having simple antlers resembling spikes and standing only 12 or 13 inches high

Quarrion - cockatiel (i.e., a crested small gray Australian parrot, Nymphicus hollandicus, with a yellow head)

Rorqual - any of a family (Balaenopteridae) of large baleen whales that have relatively small heads, short, broad plates of baleen, and the skin of the throat marked with deep longitudinal furrows and that include the blue whale, humpback whale, minke whale, fin whale, and sei whale

Spatangid - a sea urchin of the suborder Spatangina; heart urchin

Turaco - any of a family (Musophagidae) of typically crested African birds that are related to the cuckoos and have a long tail, a short stout often colored bill, and red wing feathers

Urubu - black vulture (i.e., an American vulture, Coragyps atratus, that is smaller than the turkey buzzard and heavier in flight)

Vicuña - a long-necked mammal (Lama vicugna synonym Vicugna vicugna) of the Andes from Peru to Argentina that is related to but somewhat smaller than the guanaco, has a light brown woolly coat that is paler below, is considered to the be ancestor of the alpaca, and has been historically hunted for its wool and meat

Widgeon - any of several freshwater ducks (genus Mareca)

Xiphosura - an order of arthropods comprising the horseshoe crabs and extinct related forms and usually including only the two recent genera Limulus (synonym Xiphosurus) with representatives along the American coast of the Atlantic and Tachypleus with species along the Asiatic coast of the Pacific

Zokor - a burrowing rodent (Myotalpa aspalax) native to the Altai mountains that resembles a mole rat

More: Word Lists ⚜ Part 1

[aviationgeek71]

A Grumman G-44 Widgeon savoring the colors of autumn...

[captain-price-unofficially]

U.S. Coast Guard Grumman J4F Widgeon flies over the wreckage of the USS Lafayette (AP-53) at Pier 88, New York harbor, on 12 August 1943