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Grey Wagtail - Motacilla cinerea
The species is always associated with running water when breeding, although they may use man-made structures near streams for the nest. Outside the breeding season, they may also be seen around lakes, coasts and other watery habitats. Like other wagtails, they frequently wag their tail and fly low with undulations and they have a sharp call that is often given in flight.
This slim wagtail has a narrow white supercilium and a broken eye ring. The upperparts are grey and the yellow vent contrasting with whitish underparts makes it distinctive. The breeding male has a black throat that is edged by whitish moustachial stripes. They forage singly or in pairs on meadows or on shallow water marshes. They also use rocks in water and will often perch on trees. They have a clear sharp call note and the song consists of trills.
The breeding season is April to July and the nest is placed near fast running streams or rivers on an embankment between stones and roots. The male in display, makes short flights up into the air and descends slowly with fluttering flight accompanied by a rapid series of chipping high notes. In Europe the nests are often made in holes in manmade structures. The clutch consists of 3–6 speckled eggs and multiple broods may be raised with declining numbers in the clutch in subsequent broods. The usual clutch size is five in Ireland and the breeding success is about 80% with predation of eggs or chicks being the main cause of breeding failure. The Canary Islands population typically have smaller clutches and the breeding season is not as short and well marked as in populations at higher latitudes. The incubation period is about two weeks with chicks fledging within a fortnight. They live for a maximum of 8 years in the wild.
In some parts of the its range the white-throated dipper nests in the same habitats as the grey wagtail and there are some records of interspecific feeding of dipper chicks by adult wagtails.
Population:
UK breeding:
38,000 pairs
today we accompanied the horses on the Lackmannshof on their first day outside... there was such a lot of dynamic movement...
one new aspect for me was, that we were allowed to go with them on the meadow, so we could come very close...
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Tarzan on the left
DiamondX on the right
Two giraffes, accompanied by a flock of lapwings, seem to plunge into the storm in the background. Magical lights of African sunset on the Chobe River
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A little late arriving on this morning having been guilty of hitting the snooze button a couple of times.
Understandable given we didn't leave the curry house until nearly 22:30 and the alarm set for 04:00. I didn't take many shots preferring to soak it in and knowing that Buttermere was the next location and the main reason for this visit.
Two new locations for Helen with many accompanying 'Ooo's and ahhh's and my word it's beautiful,' being uttered.
Threw in a ten minute stop at Ashness Jetty too before the drive through Borrowdale and up and over Honister.
Ninety kilometers from San Pedro de Atacama we found the Geiser del Tatio, a 10-square-kilometer geothermal field considered one of the most important on the planet and the highest in the world (4,200 m). There we found geysers of steam, water, mud, etc. that surpass the 15 meters of height, true boilers of water boiling at temperatures of 85 degrees. It is amazing to see the play of light that originates with the sunrise, magnificent colors and view.
This tour included breakfast. We began this tour accompanied by a hearty breakfast, admiring all this majestic geothermal activity and the more daring could enter the pool of thermal waters to finally lower and appreciated what nature has reserved for this place.
The area surprised us with vizcachas, llamas, vicunas and birds such as flamingos, tawa, puna duck, Andean goose among others, and the different flora that offered us the Chilean plateau, with a small stop to taste some local gastronomy, in the little village of Machuca, very famous for its skewers of llam.
A pair of goslings was accompanying their parents in Tom McCall Waterfront Park while I was on my walk. I think they're so cute at this age!
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to avail myself of Sir John Herschel’s beautiful process of Cyanotype, to obtain impressions of the plants themselves, which I have much pleasure in offering to my botanical friends :-)
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1843, text accompanying the first photographically illustrated book, British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, authored by the Atkins, recognized as the first female photographer.
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prunus, cherry blossom, our yard, cary, north carolina
Japanese gardens are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden designers to suggest an ancient and faraway natural landscape, and to express the fragility of existence as well as time's unstoppable advance. Ancient Japanese art inspired past garden designers. By the Edo period, the Japanese garden had its own distinct appearance.
The Auburn Botanic Gardens are a botanical garden located in Auburn (a suburb of Sydney), New South Wales, Australia. It was established in 1977 and covers an area of 9.7 hectares. There are two lakes, a waterfall and bridges. Duck River winds through the garden. The garden is maintained by Cumberland Council. It is open daily, and there is a small entry fee on weekends. The Japanese gardens, which have hosted couples from overseas, are one of the main attractions. 12554
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It's a female accompanied by two youngs
Japanese gardens are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden designers to suggest an ancient and faraway natural landscape, and to express the fragility of existence as well as time's unstoppable advance. Ancient Japanese art inspired past garden designers. By the Edo period, the Japanese garden had its own distinct appearance. 12886
If you hike through the Allgäu mountains, you will be accompanied by a special kind of music the whole time. It is the sound of the bells that the cows wear around their necks.
Since there are bells of different sizes and therefore different pitches, a very complex melody is created here, which admittedly is often not very harmonious.
The cows on the pastures belong to the Allgäu like the mountains and the lakes. That's why, as a photographer, you can't avoid engaging with them (especially when they pose like this one). I also managed to take a few photos that I really like.
You can therefore assume that you will see one or the other of these gentle contemporaries here from time to time.
Wandert man durch die Allgäuer Berge wird man die ganze Zeit von einer besonderen Musik begleitet. Es ist der Klang der Glocken, den die Kühe hier um den Hals tragen.
Da es Glocken in verschiedenen Größen und somit auch unterschiedlichen Tonlagen gibt, ensteht hier eine sehr vielschichtige Melodie, die zugegeben häufig nicht sehr harmonisch ist.
Die Kühe auf den Weiden gehören zum Allgäu wie die Berge und die Seen. Darum kommt man als Fotograf nicht daran vorbei, sich mit Ihnen auch auseinander zu setzen (vor allem wenn sie sich so in Pose werfen wie die hier). Dabei sind mir auch ein paar Fotos gelungen, die mir sehr gefallen.
Ihr könnt also davon ausgehen, dass ihr hier von Zeit zu Zeit den ein oder anderen dieser sanften Zeitgenossen zu sehen bekommt.
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This song has accompanied me for days, indeed for years, as the perennial search for solitude has always accompanied me.
Children, family, loves, friends, relatives are an important part of my life but I often look for myself in the silence of my solitude ........
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It was a cold day but one could sense a sudden wisp of spring that moment the sky opened up...
..accompanies us everywere..here he hears a bird of prey from afar..since he is almost blind he can only see it to a limited extent...
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Accompanying the bride ...an outdoor wedding complete with dogs, alpacas, even a goat...and of course a lot of little rug rats.
Its heyday was in the 1920s, when together with Potsdamer Platz it was at the heart of Berlin's nightlife, inspiring the 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and the two films based thereon, Piel Jutzi's 1931 film and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 15½ hour second adaptation, released in 1980. About 1920 the city's authorities started a rearrangement of the increasing traffic flows laying out a roundabout, accompanied by two buildings along the Stadtbahn viaduct, Alexanderhaus and Berolinahaus finished in 1932 according to plans designed by Peter Behrens.
This was the female of female that was accompanying the previous male bully I have put on here.
Nice to see these beautiful finches close up and out in the open rather than skulking in the hedges. They are extremely shy and retiring so very happy to get shots of this bird perched out in the open on a lichen covered branch. Was fortunate that the floor was covered in snow and really enhanced the colour of the bird taking away the shadows on the plumage
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I'm revisiting images of the many faces of Keefer Lake, my home. This is a 'redo' of a photo taken in April, 2009. The thickest and strangest fog/mist formed over the ice on the lake in a pastel 'winter blue' I had not seen before. It was like being inside a Salvador Dali painting! Although we often have ice fog we have not had anything quite like this one ever since.
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What follows is a (very) short story of mine written in the same year the photo was made ... the story and the photo seemed related somehow - at least to me?
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'Finding it, solving it, living it.'
Cool blue seemed to describe what he was seeing. It was soon dark and with it he feared he would be left to himself and he knew from experience that was not safe. How to feel it seemed always to be the fundamental problem but there were countless other difficulties that he constantly confronted and tonight seemed no different. Why is it that the ordinary takes priority over the real issue? Laziness, he supposes … do what is in front of you and brighter in your eyes rather than deal with the shadows in your mind, the things that are off to the side.
With the passing of those thoughts the blue was already gone and only patches of grey lined the horizon and shaped the trees and lake in front of him. Black and white would be easier he mused, grey was the problem of course. Joseph had always known that the lake would be the place where he found it and solved it. However, there was little warmth yet and more to be done. It wasn’t a case of deciding where to start because he knew already there was no beginning. He wasn’t even sure if there would be an ending? What to do at any given time about it he had concluded is about energy and attitude and distractions. The right proportions are essential and even distraction is needed in a measured and timely way. He had not seen in any sustained way that magical place … only glimpsing it from time-to-time although that was enough and it kept him coming back. Joseph often claimed that his only enduring trait was curiosity although he was credited by others as having more. He didn’t seem to care or need their praise and usually shrunk from it when it was offered … shyness perhaps, perhaps not? He reasoned that it wasn’t relevant anyway and wouldn’t help with finding it.
Idleness is, a friend of, maybe a prerequisite to the pursuit of it and Joseph had time on his hands now. You had to be sure though that the distractions of idleness didn’t overwhelm the quest. It was too easy to see them as reprieves when really they were quest busters. Peace of mind was not the same as the lack of stress that sometimes accompanies idleness and Joseph believed it was all about finding peace of mind. The glimpses of it had shown him that idleness only provided a useful means for having time to chase after the peace. “Maybe it wasn’t so much as chase, as follow” Joseph concluded. Curious people are often alone with their thoughts and comfortable in them. Thinking is not being idle although it might appear to be that to those observing.
MJH (2009)
GRACIAS
Es un año más para agradecer a todos los que me acompañáis en este caminar. Empezando por los míos y siguiendo por todos los demás.
Espero estar a vuestro lado otro montón de años aprendiendo fotografía y disfrutando de vuestra compañía.
Un beso para todos y cada uno.
THANKS
It's another year to thank all those who accompany me on this journey. Starting with mine and with all others.
I hope to be at your side another bunch of years learning photography and enjoying your company.
A kiss to all and each one.
Japanese gardens are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden designers to suggest an ancient and faraway natural landscape, and to express the fragility of existence as well as time's unstoppable advance. Ancient Japanese art inspired past garden designers. By the Edo period, the Japanese garden had its own distinct appearance.
The Auburn Botanic Gardens are a botanical garden located in Auburn (a suburb of Sydney), New South Wales, Australia. It was established in 1977 and covers an area of 9.7 hectares. There are two lakes, a waterfall and bridges. Duck River winds through the garden. The garden is maintained by Cumberland Council. It is open daily, and there is a small entry fee on weekends. The Japanese gardens, which have hosted couples from overseas, are one of the main attractions. 17378
Thanks for accompanying me for my five mile walk around Devil's Dyke and the surrounding countryside. I hope you enjoyed your virtual exercise! For more details on this walk please see my blog at worthingwanderer.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/devils-dyke.html.
This will be my last post from England for quite awhile as I will next be catching up on our summer expeditions when I was away for an extended length of time
07-July-2022, h06.38PM, towards Koper town (that's under the rain).
This is the only (scarcely) significant precipitation (5-15mm or l/m2) of this summer (from 1 June), so far, has been short but managed to change the air for (...) 3 days, then hot and muggy returned for most of July.
Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
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THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO: MY LONG AND ARDUOUS JOURNEY TO BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY
If you've set yourself the challenge of exclusively shooting the wildlife in your own back yard, you might find - as I did - that bird photography is really, really hard.
It's not that reptiles are easy to photograph either, mind - but at least the ones in my garden stay (for the most part) on the ground, and one can learn how to carefully approach them with a camera. They're also clearly egoists, which from a photographer's point of view is is a great character trait: if a lizard detects a human in its vicinity, it's only interested in saving its own skin, and it won't alarm its buddies.
But birds... oh man. Over the years, my feathered friends and I have developed a lovely routine that now defines our peaceful co-existence. As soon as I as much as open a window (let alone the door), I'm instantly greeted by an eruption of panicky fluttering and hysterical shouts from my garden: "SAVE YOUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND FLY FOR YOUR LIVES: THE HAIRLESS, PINK MONSTER IS COMING!!! (Yes, I speak bird, and I know that this is exactly what they are shouting 😉).
Needless to say, with the exception of the redstart I already showed here, all my efforts to get the kind of detailed shots I usually strive for with my nature photography ended in complete failure and utter disillusionment. I was ready to give up on stalking the winged misanthropes in my garden altogether, but then winter came - and changed everything.
One day this past January I observed my neighbor Signora P - a kind, elderly Italian lady - putting something on the low garden wall in front of my house. At first I thought she was just putting some treat there for her cat Romeo; the young tom patrols that wall constantly (it's his favorite spot in the garden, and during the warmer months he usually lurks in the thick foliage next to it to prey on lizards).
But once I detected a lot of movement on that wall through my window, I understood she had put a little pile of bread crumbs there; she was feeding the birds who soon arrived in flocks. This was certainly well-intended on my neighbor's part, but her noble action came with a catch, and I'm afraid quite literally.
When I took a stroll through my garden the next day I discovered a suspicious amount of feathers on the ground next to the wall. Romeo had apparently switched from his low-calorie summer diet (lizard) to more energy-rich meals consisting of "fowl" (it was winter after all, so from a nutritionist's point of view this made sense).
I would find fresh traces of Romeo's victims (mostly feathers, but also the odd wing) in my garden over the following days; so my first intuition that my neighbor was feeding her cat hadn't been that far off after all, as Romeo was now clearly being "served" fresh birds on a daily basis. And although the hungry visitors seemed to be aware of the danger and became slightly more prudent, they just couldn't resist the tasty snacks Signora P put on that wall - and neither could Romeo.
It was obvious that I had to act, but talking to my neighbor - who is as stubborn as she is kind - would have been futile, I knew that much. I pondered the matter long and hard - until a light bulb went off in my head. The idea was genius. If successful, what I had in mind would not only increase the birds' chances of surviving Romeo's appetite, but also greatly benefit my own photographic endeavors.
I started to enact my master plan the very next day by buying a giant bag of bird feed (consisting mainly of sunflower seeds) from the store. Then I dragged a huge piece of a tree trunk (approx. 120 cm in height) that we normally chop firewood on in the shed out into the garden and emptied almost half of the bag's content on top of it. Signora P's buffet for birds (and cats) was about to get some serious competition 😊.
My reasoning was as follows: not only would the birds be lured away from the fatally low garden wall to a place where they were safe from the cat - there was nothing around that tree trunk that provided cover for a predator, and the birds had a nice 360° view around it at all times - but I was also able to photograph them while hiding in the shed.
However, in order for my plan to work there was one little extra measure I had to take, and it was one that risked lowering my own life expectancy considerably once the owner of the property - my mom - discovered it. You see, our shed is completely windowless, so if I wanted to use it as a blind, I had no choice but to cut a hole into one of its wooden walls... which I promptly did (I figured all's fair in love - and photography 😉).
Granted, I have absolutely zero carpentering skills, and it showed. That hole was an ugly mess: the shed's wall seemed to have had an encounter with Jack Nicholson's ax-wielding lunatic character from the film 'The Shining'. Needless to say, I was incredibly proud of my work (I mean, come on: there now was a hole where before there wasn't a hole, and it was big enough for the lens of my camera to peek through, so it was mission accomplished as far as I was concerned).
Now all I had to do was wait for the birds to discover the tree trunk. In the meantime I started to mentally prepare myself for the inevitable confrontation with my mom and go through possible explanations for that splintering hole in the wall (it was either gonna be a rabid woodpecker attack or an emergency rescue mission with a feeding tube for a little kid that had accidentally locked himself inside the shed - both seemed valid options, though I slightly preferred the locked-in kid due to the involved drama and heroism 😉).
A whole day went by, and not a single bird visited the sunflower seeds. I had expected that it might take a few hours until the first of the ever curious great tits or blue tits would show up, but given how tiny my garden is, an entire day seemed excessive. Then another day came and went: the birds kept flocking to the bread crumbs on the wall, and my tree trunk kept collecting dust. To add injury to insult, a few fresh feathers on the ground were proof that Romeo was still feasting.
It was incredibly frustrating: I provided my winged guests with a much better view - plus a higher chance of surviving the cuisine - than Signora P's place; I risked (almost) certain death at the hands of my own mother (OK, the act of vandalism on the shed I had committed for my own benefit, but still), yet the birds kept ignoring me.
Then, after three days, just before sunset, I spotted a single blue tit on the tree trunk picking away at the sunflower seeds.
When I got up the next morning I immediately realized that the loud noise that accompanies each and every tit activity had shifted from the wall to the shed. At last the dam had broken: there was a flurry of movement around the tree trunk, and I counted at least 5 different species of birds feasting on the sunflower seeds.
From day 4 onward my plan worked beautifully: the birds now indeed mostly ignored Romeo's "snack wall" and kept to the tree trunk. And yes, I was able to play peeping tom from behind the shed's wall and photograph them!! 😊
Thus, dear readers, I finally managed to produce some acceptable bird photos, and I had even saved my feathered friends from a deadly foe in the process. All through winter and spring I took advantage of my new bird hide, and in late May I started mixing some cherries with the sunflower seeds. The idea was to attract a Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius), and as you can see, it worked!
It took me almost three weeks and more than a few tricks to capture that clever fella, but given how long I've been rambling here already, that's a story for another day. As for my mom, she still doesn't know about the hole in the wall, so please don't snitch! 😉.
I hope you like the photo and wish you all a wonderful weekend! Many greetings from Switzerland, and as always: let me know what you think in the comments 🙏 😊 ❤!
P.S. if anyone has their own funny tale about the obstacles we photographers are prepared to overcome for a desired photo, please write it in the comments: I love such stories 😊
Serengeti National Park
Tanzania
East Africa
The Cokes hartebeest is a large, fawn-colored antelope. It is one of the fastest antelopes and most enduring runners. These qualities gave rise to its name, which means “tough ox.” Its sedentary lifestyle seems to inhibit the mixing of populations and gene flow; as a result, there are several subspecies of hartebeest.
Hartebeest are mainly found in medium and tall grasslands, including savannas. Adult females are often accompanied by up to four generations of their young. Female offspring remain close to their mothers up to the time they give birth to calves of their own. Even male offspring may remain with their mothers for as long as 3 years, an unusually long bonding period. As groups of females move in and out of male territories, the males sometimes chase away the older offspring. Their mothers become defensive and protect them from the males.
Although bachelor herds of young males are also formed, they are less structured than those of some antelopes, and age classes are not as conspicuous.
The hartebeest feeds almost entirely on grass but it is not very selective and quite tolerant of poor-quality food. Although a prolific breeder and even a dominant species in some areas, the hartebeest has probably suffered the greatest reduction in range of all African ruminants. This is both because it is easily hunted (being relatively sedentary), and because its diet is almost equivalent to that of cattle—it must compete for food resources. Wikipedia
Floating silently past the misty islands we knew the humpbacks accompanied us on our journey, in their own tranquil realm. There was harmony. There was hope.
A cold front on the night of July 11, 2020, brought a much-needed break to the dry conditions and high temps that have plagued Northern Illinois in the first part of July. As is typical for these summer weather patterns, it bought with it a severe-warned thunderstorm. It was a very prolific lightning producer, and was accompanied by an impressive shelf cloud. But as the sun set, the storm slowed, and by the time it go to me, it wasn't producing the same amounts of lightning as it was just 15 minutes previous. Even so, I managed to capture a few bolts, and this is one of them. We still got a half inch of rain out of the system too.
Stephansdom accompanied Vienna through much of the city's history, with the initial foundation stone dating back to 1137.
That original 12th-century church is no more,
though the current incarnation has its origins in the mid-13th century; the main entrance door,bfor example, dates back to this time.
Over the years, they added various towers, extensions and other elements to create today's working Gothic building with its sprinkling of Baroque features.
Sadly, Stephansdom survived the aerial bombings of WWII only for a fire in nearby buildings to spread to the cathedral in April 1945, destroying parts of the building.
Likely a male due to its dark wing and tail plumage, vs. females that are more gray. A far cry from the vibrant scarlet seen in the spring (accompanying photo). At the Balancing Rock, Central Park, New York.
Dresden a city full of emotions. The range of feelings that this city has to offer is immeasurable. The newer Dresden with the Church of Our Lady. The view of the terraces and the underpass of the Münzgasse.
This song human by rone is exactly the range of feelings that accompanied me in this city. The sadness from the past is but also the departure and happiness of the future.
rone — human ♫
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Accompanied by the light of many stars, this Santa Claus travels on his round disc over the calm water to the human world. It looks a lot like surfing ;-))
This unique disc is powered by solar energy and reaches supersonic speeds, which should surprise no one. Furthermore, this Santa Claus carries a bag full of very, very, very tiny folded gifts, which automatically get their true size once they arrive at their destination. This is to reassure those who wondered where the presents are…..
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Model: origami Santa Claus
Design: Gen Hagiwara
Diagrams in the Korea Origami Convention Book 2023
Paper: 15x15cm red kami paper
Final size: height 9,5cm, width 10cm