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I'm a bit late with this one! A pretty lovely morning in the Dee Valley above Llangollen. Not the shot I came for, but I quite like it 😊
I do really enjoy exploring the Dee Valley, so many unexpectedly wonderful views.
Happy TmT.
Ich stand am Ufer, der Schwan kam direkt auf mich zu. Kurz vor mir setzte er auf dem Wasser auf. Ich dachte schon, er würde auf mich fliegen.
I stood on the shore, the swan came directly to me. Shortly before me he sat on the water. I thought he was flying at me.
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f/2.8, 1/1250 sec, ISO-1000, 400mm
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A Common Green Darner (Anax junius) male flies it's route in front of the willows at the Merced National Wildlife Refuge.
This was more of an experiment than anything. I am only a hobby photographer, my real job is an Engineer for the railroad. The wind was blowing these like crazy and I was seeing if I could freeze the motion and get a somewhat sharp usable image.
It’s not hard for the snail kite to plan its daily menu. The endangered raptor eats only one food: apple snails, and a lot of them—10,000 a year per bird. Catching the freshwater snails is a laborsome venture that involves waiting until the snail comes to the surface to breathe and—at the exact right moment—swooping down to grab it. Employing its perfectly adapted curved beak, the kite then extracts its escargot and repeats the process 27 more times, every day.
This specialist bird has been hit hard by habitat declines and other changes in the Florida wetlands it calls home. From 2000 to 2007, scientists noticed a steep decline in the number of snail kites, owing in part to two major droughts that left their wetlands parched. The decline was also affected by the rarity of the apple snail, which lives in a very particular habitat and has a relatively short lifespan. Without its snails, the snail kite's chances of survival were looking poor—until an unlikely invader found its way to Florida.
It turns out there is more than one variety of apple snail. The non-native South American apple snail likely made its way to the Sunshine State via the pet trade, possibly when a rash aquarium owner released the species into the wild. The South American snail, which can grow to nearly the size of a tennis ball, quickly outpaced its native cousin, which is only the size of a ping-pong ball. It lays more eggs, lives longer, and can adapt to more diverse habitats than the native variety, and so spread widely all over the Florida wetlands.
You may sense where this story is going. A recent study in Nature Ecology & Evolution found that the snail kite has rapidly evolved so as to be able to forage on this new, larger prey. The bills of the raptor, says Robert Fletcher, coauthor of the study and associate professor in the department of wildlife ecology and conservation at the University of Florida, have increased in size since the invasion of the South American snail.
“Bill size and shape are heritable, meaning that birds with larger bills pass the trait onto their offspring, and larger-billed birds have a higher survival rate,” says Fletcher. Parent kites that are able to handle the larger apple snail bring it back to their young, who are more likely to grow stronger, survive, and breed in turn. The first couple months of life are the most dangerous for young snail kites, who are just learning how to forage on their own and aren’t yet skilled at it. “Bigger-bill snail kites seem to survive much better during this time,” says Fletcher. The result: Numbers of large-bill snail kites have tripled in the past decade.
I found this Female at Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area, Prairie Division, in Osceola County, Florida.
It’s always nice when one of my images gets explored, but I’m still waiting to feel the true thrill of it. The most beautiful ones often don’t! Honestly, part of my indifference might be because I never seem to find my own photos on the Explore page. After scrolling about 40% down, my patience runs out, and I move on to something else. Maybe that’s the real secret - if you can’t find it, you can’t get too excited! 😄
Thank you so much for taking the time to view, like, and comment on my uploads, I truly appreciate it!
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Bright Lights
This was taken from my seat at the Open-Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London when we visited recently. They do a different musical each summer and when we lived in London we would go every year. This year's musical was La Cage Aux Folles, a favourite of ours. We enjoyed it so much. It was adapted as an American film in 1996 called The Birdcage starring, amongst others, the much missed Robin Williams
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f/2.8, 1/800 sec, ISO-4000, 400mm
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Filou does the only sensible thing at the moment and stays active ! Outside it is damp and cold and in the house the heating didn't work for two days. The problem seems to be fixed now but the house still feels icy. I have a cold now and the cats are nervous wrecks because of the strange intruders in their home who made a lot of noise. We will all need the weekend to recover.
....on the road as a ghost hunter!
BRUNO: "Beste vriend Peter, bereikt mijn licht jou?"
[Dear friend Peter, does my light reach you?]
Here's one from the summer... I found it surprisingly difficult to photograph a squirrel running... they're so fast! I sat for ages, waiting, with peanuts as bait ;-)
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