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The light was very low when this huge Bull Moose came out of the woods at dusk. This is easily the largest moose I have ever seen in Ontario....Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
Last weekend I lucky enough to stumble upon an Ebay listing of some tremendous North Country slides from the early 1980's. What really made it worth all while was they were from my friend, the late Al Thomas, AKA "The Bull Moose". Al was a great photographer and friend of many and mine for many years. Thankfully, since his passing, I have acquired good number of slides of his in my collection. It is no secret that the Northeast kingdom of Vermont and New Hampshire is my favorite area. This slide dated April 1984, shows Grand Trunk road train 393 on the approach to Berlin, NH passing the area of Cascade, NH, home of the Berlin Mills Railway. Four CNR MLW M-420's lead the train west headed for their setoff and pickup, before heading to Island Pond and Montreal. G&W's SLR is now the owner and operator of the former Berlin Sub and certainly doesn't look like this anymore. I think you might see some more Al's great work in the days to come.
Fishing vessel PD.12, Hopeful, seen through a hole in the cliff during a walk along the coastal path from Bullers of Buchan to Cruden Bay.
I took this many months ago after a long, tiring day of work.
Good thing I decided to head out after work however... I caught a mirror reflection everywhere I ended up going. Buller Pond remains one of my favourite places to go.
The bull-headed shrike (Lanius bucephalus) is a passerine bird of eastern Asia belonging to the shrike family Laniidae.
It is 19–20 cm (approx. 7.48-7.9 inches) long. The male has a brown crown, white eyebrow and black mask. The back is grey-brown while the wings are dark with a white patch. The flanks are rufous and the rest of the underparts are whitish with fine barring. Females are similar but duller and browner with a brown mask and no white wing-patch. The species has harsh grating and chattering calls and will also mimic other birds.
It breeds in north-east China, Korea, Japan and far-eastern Russia (Ussuriland, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands). Northern birds migrate south for the winter with a few reaching southern China. Vagrants have been recorded in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Vietnam. The isolated race sicarius is found only in the mountains of Gansu Province in west-central China.
Open habitats such as farmland and woodland edges are preferred. It also visits parks and gardens in urban areas. It sits on a prominent perch, waiting for prey to pass by. It feeds mainly on insects such as beetles and crickets but also preys on lizards and crustaceans.
This Colorado bull elk is ready to challenge anyone, anytime & anywhere in order to maintain his cow elk harem!
Last in my Alaskan wildlife mini-series is this bull moose reaching for some leafy nourishment.
We found this guy on a trail through an Anchorage area park.
As a Bull Moose ages, its massive rack will grow larger with each year. The Bull Moose will be in his prime at the age of 5 years. In Alaska, the antlers or rack as it is commonly called, can reach a width of over 80 inches. Racks are commonly in the 50 inch range, which most moose near populations fall into. The antler is a prized possession not only of hunters but of those who hunt for moose antler sheds. My wife and I look every year, we've only found one so far and two caribou sheds.
This bull in the photo has a very large rack and is definately in his prime. The brownish red color comes from the blood that is in the velvet when the rack is growing and from dirt when the bull is rubbing the velvet off during the rut.
This majestic animal was walking purposely along the waters edge of Agonda Beach. He was a magnificent creature, proud and beautiful .
It's that time of year again. The elk rut is under way, and I must go. I'm not sure how many years we've attended this exciting nature event, but I'm not tired of it yet. So we're going back to Colorado to observe and photograph the rut activity...and Wyoming for maybe a few moose. I'll be away from Flickr for a couple of weeks.
Au fond des poubelles de la terre
Des bulles de lumière
Elle me fixait d'un oeil lucide
Tout bleu, troublant, tout plein de vide
Amélie Veille
A satellite bull elk "orbits" a dominant bull and his harem, hoping to sneak in and mate with one of the cows. This one was tasting the air which was probably saturated with female pheromones. Rocky Mountain National Park.
Albatros de Buller, Buller's Albatross, Thalassarche bulleri.
IUCN: Near Threatened (NT)
Offshore Valparaíso
Región Valparaíso
Chile
This big bull spoke softly but carried a big stick; a commanding presence who acted like a gentleman.
The bull has an itch in his eye and scratches his bull's eye.
St. John’s Point forms a narrow, roughly 11 km-long peninsula that juts prominently into the Bay of Donegal, about 19 km southwest of Killybegs, where I found this bull.
Camera Canon EOS 40D
Exposure 0.02 sec (1/49)
Aperture f/11.3
Focal Length 20 mm
ISO Speed 100
Singh-ray "daryl Benson" ND3 reversed
Explored .. Made Front Page ... Woo Hoo , my first :)
Sitting Bull war ein wichtiger Anführer der Sioux-Indianer und forcierte deren Widerstand Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts gegen die Landnahme amerikanischer Siedler und deren militärische Unterstützung. Er war ein Medizinmann und auch einer der mächtigsten Kriegshäuptlinge der Sioux. In zuletzt genannter Funktion wurde er weltberühmt, vor allem durch sein Wirken bei der Schlacht am Little Bighorn von 1876.
An der strategischen Schlachtführung waren neben ihm auch weitere Kriegshäuptlinge beteiligt, wie beispielsweise Crazy Horse und Big Foot. Sie leiteten die Krieger der Stämme der Sioux, Cheyenne und Arapaho an, die vereint das 7. Kavallerie-Regiment unter Oberstleutnant George A. Custer am Little Big Horn vernichtend schlugen. Dies und der Tod Custers war die größte Niederlage der US-Armee während der Indianerkriege.
( Skulptur aus Keystone / South Dakota / USA )
It was "originally sited on the upper-story portion of the east wall of the palace at Knossos in Crete". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull-Leaping_Fresco
Now in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete
Year: 1450 BC
Dimensions: 78.2 cm × 104.5 cm (30.8 in × 41.1 in)
(Wikipedia)
The palace of Knossos was "the ceremonial and political centre of the Minoan civilization and culture." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knossos
"Bull-leaping is thought to have been a key ritual in the religion of the Minoan civilization in Bronze Age Crete. As in the case of other Mediterranean civilizations, the bull was the subject of veneration and worship. Representation of the Bull at the palace of Knossos is a widespread symbol in the art and decoration of this archaeological site." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull-leaping
The Minoan civilization is named after the mythological first king of Crete Minos, who is said to be the son of Zeus and Europa, a Phoenician woman, who had been abducted by Zeus in form of a bull.