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Photo taken in downtown Reykjavík.
P.S. Many of those people are foreign visitors.
Tourism to Iceland has formally exploded in the years after the famous volcanic eruption in the glacier Eyjafjallajökull, which caused delays in flight all over North and Western Europe. Foreign tourism has remained at an extreme level; today more than a million tourists visit Iceland yearly, while the population is only about 330.000 - was around 200 thousand a decade and a half ago.
I found these two trees while walking in a local forest park. The pair looked out of place in amongst the conifers, especially with the larger tree apparently reaching out a spindly almost threatening “hand” while looming over the smaller timid looking tree........ strange what tricks your mind plays on you while alone in the forest 😆.
The guardians of Gravesend's Gordon Gardens, also self appointed Guardians Of Others' Morals, who have eyes in the backs of their heads, are horrified - HORRIFIED - and disgusted by the bad behaviour of the youth.
On a different note, my father's music teacher was Andrew Lloyd Webber's dad, and here is the only decent song Mr Lloyd Webber junior was involved in, because I pinched the title and have entirely mis-represented it.
[www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D6UfPtrB9k&list=RD8D6UfPtrB9...]
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Interesting behaviour. These Hoopoes were chattering and displaying while the same time feeding their nestlings in hole of a tree. The green wood hoopoe is a cooperative breeder and common resident in most of sub-Saharan Africa. It is found in groups of up to a dozen or so birds with only one breeding pair. The breeding female lays two to four blue eggs in a natural tree hole or old barbet nest and incubates them for about 18 days. On hatching, she and the nestlings are fed by the rest of the group, even after they have fledged and left the nest hole. The group is fearless in defence of the nestlings against intruders.
A small group of Oystercatchers flew overhead and were showing signs of coming in for a landing in this spot, yelling continuously. These two were having none of it, and responded by doing some yelling of their own, repeatedly alternating between holding their heads high and then bowing down. The small flock went away after much screeching and never did land here.
It isn't always easy to puck a fish from the water, it often takes skill and patients. George being very skilled at fishing may spend an hour checking different locations within the estuary. If the fish stays still it has a better chance if it runs...game on. By the way that is also true of people, never run from a bear. : )
Juvenile
Brown Thrasher BRTH (Toxostoma rufum)
tentatively or
experimentally feeding
Carmichael, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Mike McGrenere found one in Greater Victoria July 11th...Great Find Mike!
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A quick capture before I adjusted the camera settings, surprised to get it at 1/40sec inbuilt image stabilization worked well, funny turned out to be the best one.
Always entertaining to watch but once you see them coming together you've missed it, just managed to spot the build up with this pair.
St Aidan's Nature Park.
Puss moth (Cerura vinula) caterpillar shedding its skin and then eating it. Surrey, UK.
Took about 30 minutes.
Partially hidden by the foliage meant AF was difficult to say the least but luckily it snapped into focus just when I was about to give up.
St Aidan's Nature Park.
After being here nearly a month, Flynn's definitely feeling more at home & settled now... He is much more relaxed in the house & his behaviour is *nearly* back to normal (hehe, normal for Flynn that is, which isn't necessarily normal for most dogs!), which is a relief for everyone :) We're still discovering new places to walk... Yesterday, we came across this beautiful field of buttercups to play in & Flynn had a fantastic time bouncing about amongst the flowers.
We mostly had the fields & woods to ourselves yesterday but one thing I've noticed is that we now seem to be living in an area with a lot of mountain bikers, joggers & horse riders. It's usually fine, as Flynn will listen, when asked to get out the way but there have been a few occasions when he's needed restraining. Like when we had a surprise encounter with a group of mountain bikers, on a very narrow track in the woods. We had to fling ourselves up a steep bank & then cling on, while the cyclists streamed past - 25 of them, in all. Flynn was good at 1st, quite happily watching the bikes - but 25 cyclists take time to go past & by the end, he was shrieking in frustration & almost threw himself under the wheels of one of the last riders! Daft dog.
As you might imagine, Flynn's not *really* the kind of dog who appreciates being restrained by his collar, or the back of a harness, so I think for a while at least, he's going to have to wear a 10ft long-line on our walks, in case I need to quickly reel him in. Poor pup looks a little bit funny as he dashes about everywhere, with a long, bright orange piece of "rope" trailing along behind him but it seems like the safest option for now - as long as I'm careful not to let him tie my legs together with it... or anyone else's legs, for that matter (that really would be embarrassing!)
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
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The Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It breeds in much of the Old World and the Atlantic coast of North America. In European waters it can be distinguished from the Common Shag by its larger size, heavier build, thicker bill, lack of a crest and plumage without any green tinge. In eastern North America, it is similarly larger and bulkier than Double-crested Cormorant, and the latter species has more yellow on the throat and bill. Great Cormorants are mostly silent, but they make various guttural noises at their breeding colonies.
Many fishermen see in the Great Cormorant a competitor for fish. Because of this it was nearly hunted to extinction in the past. Thanks to conservation efforts its numbers increased.
Cormorant fishing is practiced in China, Japan, and elsewhere around the globe. In it, fishermen tie a line around the throats of cormorants, tight enough to prevent swallowing, and deploy them from small boats. The cormorants catch fish without being able to fully swallow them, and the fishermen are able to retrieve the fish simply by forcing open the cormorants' mouths, apparently engaging the regurgitation reflex.
In North Norway, cormorants are traditionally seen as semi-sacred. (wikipedia)
There are many Cormorants that fish along the shoreline of Dublin Bay. This adult was coming into the base of the east pier, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.
These guys were not playing, the dust they were kicking up , the heat haze off the path, plus a large crop, messed with things here, as did having to quickly drop to one knee and hand hold., these excuses aside, worth sharing I thought.
Taken at RSPB Titchwell, on the main path, MORE IN THE SERIES BELOW IN COMMENTS
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iso 1250
This Robin swayed and rocked from side to side for quite a while (minutes at least) with puffed feathers and beak slightly opened, displaying to another one sitting just above it. Amazing behaviour to witness. Had never seen this before.
A bear fight over fishing rights, Georgina to the left Romeo on the right, there was some paw to paw combat, more screaming and posturing than actual damage. Romeo went wild he broke away ran up the beach then stopped turned around and ran at her, she realized it was time to leave then departed at top speed. He won the round which was really too bad as he is not very talented at catching fish so that was the end of really good photo ops for the evening.
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