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Another shot of one of the roe does that I saw late on Thursday afternoon in a field close to where I live.
Alert at Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Alert is a rapid intervention vessel designed with buoy handling, wreck marking, towing, multibeam and side scan hydrographic surveying capability. Alert can respond rapidly to any maritime incident primarily in the busy shipping routes of the Dover Strait, English Channel and southern North Sea.
Name: Alert
Vessel type: Rapid intervention vessel
Port of registry: London
Home port: Harwich
Flag: United Kingdom
IMO: 9338618
MMSI: 235010690
Call sign: MLPH9
Crew: 6
Cabins: 2 x single, 4 x double
Length overall: 39.3m
Beam: 8.4m
Draught: 2.7m
Gross tonnage: 302 ton
Max deadweight: 60 ton
Crane: 1 x 3.5 ton at 10 m, 2.2 ton at 15 m, knuckle boom
Winch: 1 x 3.3 ton SWL
Workboat: 1 x 5.4 m RIB with 50 hp (37.25 kW) outboard engine
Fuel capacity: 42 ton
Engines: 2 x Caterpillar diesel
Engine output: 2 x 2,000 hp (1,492 kW) at 1,600 rpm
Bow thruster: 1 x 207 hp (155 kW) at 1,620 rpm
Max speed: 17 knots
Service speed: 12 knots
Bollard pull: 28 ton
Builder: Stocznia Remontowa SA, Gdansk, Poland
Launch date: 11th. October 2005
Operator: Trinity House
A Black Bear stays alert to other bears that may come into the area as it feeds on a Spawned out Salmon that it caught. The bears take advantage of the spawning Salmon that travel up the rivers. The Salmon deliver the fat and proteins they need to gain weight and sustain themselves over the cold winter months.
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Taken on Nov 03/13 at 2:32 pm in Ucuelet ( West Vancouver Island,) B.C., Canada.
Taken at 1/100's at f/5.0, - 1 2/3 EV, at 250mm, man white val, iso 2500. No cropping.
Camera, Canon 7D
Lens, Canon EF 100-400mm L IS USM lens.
Tripod, Manfrotto, including 498RC2 bullhead.
The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is an atypical member of the cat family (Felidae): that is, unique in its speed, while lacking climbing abilities. Therefore it is placed in its own genus, Acinonyx. The word "cheetah" is derived from a Sanskrit word meaning "variegated body."
It is the fastest land animal, reaching speeds of 70-75 mph in short bursts covering distances up to 460m, and has the ability to accelerate from 0 to 68 mph in three seconds, faster than most supercars.
Sadly, cheetah cubs have a high mortality rate due to genetic factors and predation by carnivores in competition with the cheetah, such as the lion and hyena. Recent inbreeding causes cheetahs to share very similar genetic profiles. This has led to poor sperm, birth defects, cramped teeth, curled tails, and bent limbs. Some biologists now believe that they are too inbred to flourish as a species.
Cheetahs are listed as Vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Red List of threatened species. Some 7,000 cheetahs remain in the wild in Africa and (a few) Asia.
There have been successful breeding programmes, including the use of in vitro fertilisation, in zoos around the world. This individual was seen in the National Zoo in Washington DC.
This sheepdog was certainly sensitive and alert. He gave no heed to the clicking of my camera, something had got his attention and he was not to be deterred from whatever had caught his interest. His ears were shot upright and he stared, unmoving. I stopped taking shots and turned to see whatever was absorbing his mind but saw nothing.
I wonder if the farmer would have missed his dog if I had high-jacked him and brought him home? I would feel a lot safer having him around.
DDC-Characteristics
The Border Collie is an amazing intelligent animal. They are always alert and very aware. Another characteristic is their affection, it's amazing how sweet and loveable Shizandra is toward me. She is very protective too. If she feels there's a threat she will stand in front of me.
Dec 4th is International Cheetah Day, Here's one from my Tanzanian Safari in Feb. Namiri Plains, Serengeti
Namiri Plains is located an hour and a half's drive due east from the game-rich core of the Serengeti – Seronera. The camp opened in July 2014 in an area that for more than 20 years had been closed to the public. Previously this region had exclusively been used for cheetah conservation and the number of big cats found here – especially lion prides and cheetahs – is astonishing.
Alertness is a state of being awake, aware, attentive, and ready to respond to external stimuli. It's a psychological and physiological condition characterized by high sensory awareness and the ability to quickly perceive and act in response to one's environment. Essentially, it's the ability to be vigilant and react promptly to potential dangers or emergencies.
Grey Crowned Crane from Africa. Photo taken at the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin.
Scooter and Downy on full alert as the neighbor's dog enters their territory. Dog ignored cats and left.
"Alert !"- Nsele female Leopard Alert and making sure nothing goes un-noticed as she patrols her territory, for more images of this Safari please have a look on the link www.andrewschoemanphotography.com/elephant-plains-photo-s...
Tasmania's remote west coast country is home to the Tasmanian Devil, now endangered due to the spread of a deadly mouth cancer. Vehicle impacts are bad news too, with speed limits, warning signs and rumble strips in place to limit losses.
HD PENTAX-D FA 24-70mm f2.8
With a tug, the slack is taken out of the tow-line and the Grob G103a Twin II sailplane aligns for takeoff. There is no radio aboard, but a signal by cycling the tail rudder from side to side alerts the pilot of the Pawnee AgCat tug that you’re ready to go. 260 horses from the tug’s engine is more than adequate to pull both aircraft to the separation point at around 3000 feet AGL (Above Ground Level). The Grob’s efficient design actually has it airborne within seconds, way faster than the powerful AgCat tow plane as it claws for speed down the narrow runway at the Whitsett, North Carolina, glider park... it’s that efficiency that you count on as you cut away from the tug. The tow pilot angles down and left, while you rise up and right. The air smooths out and so does the ride out from behind the backwash of the tug’s propeller, but it’s not time to sit back just yet. The first order of business is situational awareness... to take note of where you’re at and what’s around you. Next, trim the aircraft for best rate of climb... then look for some rising air. There is no electrical system aboard the Grob, but its instrument panel is complete with artificial horizon, altimeter, airspeed indicator, clock, compass, and vertical airspeed indicator... that’s the instrument that glider pilots rely on to find the rising air that takes them to their ultimate destination... up!
There is yet another important instrument that helps to get you up there, but it’s not in the panel... it’s a three-inch string attached to the front center of the canopy. If you’ve trimmed the craft properly, that string flows straight back from the canopy... if it flows left or right from center, you’re side-slipping, which is an excellent way to lose altitude. After trimming the aircraft to its most efficient profile, I look to another indicator for “best flight” that isn’t to be found in the cockpit... circling buzzards. Buzzards have an innate ability to find thermals, shafts of rising air that keep them aloft for hours. Some of the best lifts I ever got were from taking cues from some of nature’s most prolific flyers. The airframe of a sailplane like the Grob is so effectual that they will easily go to the upper limits of thermals. Around these parts, that’s usually around 10,000 feet AGL, though there are areas here in the states where thermals can reach 20,000 feet or better... and that can be dangerous.
Thermals not only rise... they also track across the landscape, and sometimes pretty fast. The highest I flew in these parts was around 9,000 feet. I often had to hop from thermal to thermal to stay within sight of Whitsett. You didn’t want to be too far away, especially in conditions of sinking air. The destination was always up, but journey’s end was always safely stopped at the park... “journey’s end” is critical in an unpowered aircraft... part of the skill in flying it was putting it back where you found it. That was always on my mind, but so was going up, and it never seemed high enough. My question to myself on nearly every drive home after a flight was how high is high enough?
There are many conditions in life where people accept poor standards of belief, especially when it’s just within themselves, where they strive and claw to the stratosphere only to find there’s nothing there... their expectations let them down. I've listened to skeptics who rely on their place in life as a random collocation of atoms... that's an even worse condition, as it leaves one with no understanding to even reach for the top, much less knowing when they have.
Even while flying the Grob, I realized the joy was in the journey, not in the heights. This image was taken the same morning as that of my last post. It gives a better view of the overall wildness of Linville Gorge from the tip rocky ledge of Hawksbill Mountain. Where I’m standing is about 4,000 feet (1220 meters) above sea level, looking over a remote landscape that stretches to the coming morning... and it makes me appreciate that there are times that the highest you need to go may be exactly where you are... particularly if it takes you to a beautiful place. After a night of rain, mist retreats to morning... there's hope in that.
The pink flowers here are Carolina rhododendron separated by blueberry bushes that are also in bloom... you can see them here, a pinkish white and rather small bell-shape.