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Even though the name suggests a dark beach, you won’t see much in the way of blackness. Black Rock Sands is an open, wide beach with fine sands. The name comes from the area to the west of the beach dominated by a large, multi-coloured headland rock, low-tide caves and rock pools, an area rich in marine life. Natural history is also a feature of the local sand dunes, which have been declared a ‘Site of Special Scientific Interest’. Unusually, you can drive onto the beach here – so it’s a popular spot not just for picnickers and sandcastle builders, but also for motor boats and water bikes which have a special zone designated for their use. There are also dog restrictions on the beach.
I go through major ups and downs. Sometimes I will spend hours going through my photos already excited about my (our) next field trip. Other times, I feel so disappointed with the shots... with myself. Yet I keep on trying to get better... to see better... to think better... because of the incomparable joy I get from spending time in nature. Whether I come home with "usable shots" or not, it doesn't matter... a decent photo is the icing on the cake. I guess you could say I get to have my cake and eat it, too.
Black Lullaby:
Close your eyes
At the advent of night
Go find your dreamland
Just walk into the light
Dream of cakes and candies
Dream of swings and slides
Dream of mama's kiss
She's waiting on the other side
Take my hands
I'll give you shelter from
The crimes humans commit
And seeds of hate they plant
Why there's cannons roaring
Why there's bombs and tanks
Why people kill each other
Neither do I understand
Tread lightly
She is near
Under the snow
Speak gently
She can hear
The daisies grow
Tarnished with rust
She that was young and fair
Fallen to dust...
Song here if you wish to hear:
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Favorite Music:
Hidden Citizens - Swan Lake (Epic Trailer Version)
Watching the butterflies in our garden.
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Black Terns are colony nesters found in shallow lakes, marshes, sloughs,and wet meadows where there are extensive shallows and emergent vegetation. Black Terns are noisy and fierce defenders of nests and will dive bomb intruders. (Atlas of Breeding Birds of Alberta)
At the Big Lake Interpretive Trail, the nests are often just a few meters away from the trail in a clump of vegetation in the shallow water. I spotted the mate of this one sitting on her nest and he hovered over me while vocalizing his displeasure with my presence. They will also fly right at you at eye level and then rise up about a meter from your head and give a final squawk and sometimes drop a "bomb". They will keep doing this until you move on.
Big Lake Interpretive Trail. Parkland Conty, Alberta.
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A black tailed skimmer dragonfly seen on one of the fishing platforms beside the River Severn on the Ham at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire.
Glitter on a speaker cone panorama ran threw polar coordinates filter in Photoshop.
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Chatfield State Park, CO. I saw two of these on the lake. One of them did a few flybys... and even looked hopeful for a handout. These birds usually stick to the coasts, so it was a very rare sighting.
Himantopus himantopus
Photographed at the Black Sea Coast (Bulgaria).
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This was a bird I hoped we would get to see and photograph while in Manitoba. One evening we were driving along a dirt road and a bird flew across the road right in front of us nearly at eye level. I said to David who was driving that I thought that was a Black-billed Cuckoo. We pulled over and got out and sure enough heard one calling. It was perched close to the road for this shot, socked in some dense vegetation. We had a small opening in the vegetation to get this shot.
There was one that I had missed in the Macro Mondays shots and that was Mesh, so doubled up with Mesh and Square Black and White for the Redux 2018 Macro Mondays.
in a winter plumage. A flock of noisy Black-headed gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) landed on the river when a passer-by started feeding resident swans. They didn’t stay for long though.
In the past the scientific name of this species was Larus ridibundus. Larus in Latin ‘larus’ or in Ancient Greek ‘laros’ apparently meaning “gull” or “seabird”. The epithet ‘ridibundus’ means in Latin “laughing lot” referring to its characteristic call resembling laugh, and a noisy behaviour of the flock. 20 years ago, all black-headed species moved to a separate genus ”Chroicocephalus”. This name is an amalgamation of two Ancient Greek words ‘khroizo’, “to colour", and ‘kephale’, "head”, i.e. ‘colour-headed’ – makes more sense… in summer, when they are in a breeding plumage. In winter months their heads mainly white with few dark streaks and spots. The river Avon’s riverside, Bath, BANES, England UK.
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