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foraging in dense forest in Nagarhole Tiger Reserve, India
A widespread and medium-sized eagle found in and around forests. Their food consists mainly of reptiles such as lizards and snakes but they also take larger invertebrates.
also called Crested Serpent Eagle
spilornis cheela
Indische slangenarend
serpentaire bacha
Schlangenweihe
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a relative of the Grosbeaks
coccothraustes coccothraustes
appelvink
gros-bec casse-noyaux
Kernbeißer
Picogordo Común
Frosone
Bico-grossudo
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male of the Defassa subspecies in Mara North Conservancy, Kenya
a large and robust African antelope found in areas with tall grass or reed beds . Also in woodland if there is nearby grassland available to feed. Always near water.
kobus ellipsiprymnus
waterbok
cobe à croissant ou waterbuck
Wasserbock
antílope acuático, cobo de agua o cobo untuoso
cobo o antilope d'acqua
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Featuring some new items at faMESHed and The Arcade....
Need a vacation but don't particularly feel like flying? Concept is happy to take you to Ibiza...Just get yourself over to The Arcade to start your Ibiza getaway!
Pictured from the Ibiza Gacha set from Concept is:
Concept} 01. IBIZA. Wite Bench.
Concept} 02. IBIZA. Orange Bench.
Concept} 03. IBIZA. Carpets
Concept} 04. IBIZA. Floor Pillows
Concept} 05. IBIZA. Table
Concept} 06. IBIZA. Candelabrum A
Concept} 07. IBIZA. Candelabrum B
Concept} 08. IBIZA. Orange Armchair.
Concept} 09. IBIZA. Ratan Armchair.
Concept} 11. IBIZA. White Armchair.
Concept} 12. IBIZA. Big Jar
Concept} 13. IBIZA. Medium Jar
Concept} 14. IBIZA. Old wheel
Concept} 15. IBIZA. CASA. RARE
Concept} 16. IBIZA. Lamp A
Concept} 17. IBIZA. Lamp B
Concept} 18. IBIZA. Beig Hammock. Adult. RARE
Concept} 19. IBIZA. Grey Hammock. Adult. RARE
Concept} 21. IBIZA. Curtain Left
Concept} 22. IBIZA. Curtain Right
Concept} 23 IBIZA. Blue Pillow
Concept} 24. IBIZA. Red Pillow
Concept} 25. IBIZA. Bougainvillea deco
The Arcade: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Arcade/135/134/32
Concept Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sky%20Line/184/68/21
Concept Flickr: flic.kr/ps/2A1R6j
Additional Concept items from various collections that can be found at the mainstore (LM above):
Concept}07. La Villa. BED. PG. RARE
Concept}13. La Villa. Chair B
Concept}17. La Villa. Planter B
Concept}19. La Villa. Couple of pots med. B
Concept}21. La Villa. Wood Table
Concpt} 02. Hygge FirePlace. RARE
Concpt} 03. Hygge Mirror
Concpt} 07. Hygge Bascket of pillow
Concpt} 13. Hygge Table
Concept} 07. Little Cottage. Planter B
Concpt} 08. Hygge Glass Vase short
Concpt} 09. Hygge Glass Vase hight
Brand new from Titans is the Etoile Fountain that can be found now at faMESHed..it's beautiful! The water textures are so real and it makes the most lovely falling water sound..sometimes fountains in SL sound well..... ODD...I'll leave it at that..this one is far from that...if you peek inside the fountain you can see tiny beautiful pieces of tile...texture change for winter and you can turn the water sounds off if you prefer...go check it out!! Pictured:
Titans - The Etoile Fountain
faMESHed: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/FaMESHed/226/144/1001
Titans Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Garden%20of%20Dreams/222/1...
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Misc:
{yumyum} Vines
LB_Bougainvillea.v2
Apple Fall Olive & Daisy Planter
PACK / Lily Pads with Flowers
hive // hanging bougainvillea plant . purple
Thank you so much for all the support and be well! 😊
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Mara North Conservancy in the Greater Masai Mara ecosystem , Kenya
a large, noisy and social African Shrike with a black face mask. In the Eastern part of it range it is found in acacia savanna like here in this picture but also in fields and gardens
also called Grey-backed Fiscal Shrike
Lanius excubitoroides
grijsrugklapekster
Pie-grièche à dos gris
Graumantelwürger
Alcaudón Dorsigrís
Averla cenerina africana
picanço-de-dorso-cinzento
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"...but let it be the secret person of the heart in the incorruptible adornment of the quiet and mild spirit,+ which is of great value in the eyes of God".
1 Peter 3:4
No one said that tears do not escorreriam by the face, but smiling maybe you can use those tears as spiritual cleansing and let it rain. Rain until the sun reappears and overflow you from light. No one said that you would be able to see clearly everything around you, but smiling maybe you will rediscover the path after tripping a few times. Nobody said it would be easy and its not!.
But one is unconscious of that while shooting. That’s a wonderful thing with a camera. It jumps out of you :-)
Henri Cartier-Bresson
cosmos, little theater garden, raleigh, north carolina
this young cheetah is the leader of a group of 3 that we found in Mara North Conservancy.
While we were following them they were attacked by 2 lionesses from the River Pride. The cheetahs were of course too fast to be caught but the lionesses kept on chasing them for about 15 minutes. This photo was taken after the attacks and when the 3 youngsters were again together and now this cheetah had to decide where to go now.
Later in the trip I found out that this group of young cheetahs had previously been chased out of the Lemek and Enonkishu Conservancies. These conservancies all have big lion prides and large populations of hyena's.
Very challenging conditions for cheetahs.
cheetah
acinonyx jubatus
jachtluipaard
guépard
Gepard
guepardo o chita
ghepardo
IUCN RED LIST Status: Vulnerable and the trend is DECREASING
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also called European Siskin or just Siskin
Spinus spinus
sijs of sijsje
Tarin des aulnes
Erlenzeisig
Jilguero Lúgano
Lucherino
Lugre
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Last but not leat we arrive at the former small fishing village of Arromanches-les-Bains.
After the invasion this village turned into a busy logistic centre, due to the construction of the artificial "Mulberry harbor".
All Allied troops were supplied frome here.
The remains of this harbor are still visible off the coast.
In general, I love winter. It is extremely photogenic season. But today the cold hit us. Unpleasant wind and freezing rain, not snow, turned the car into a frozen cube of ice, wind gets everywhere, there's no wintery white and no matter how hard I'm trying, I feel cold and miserable. So I've decided to post a warmer picture today.
Pic By Pammy
I can hear you but I won't
Some look for trouble while others don't
There's a thousand reasons I should go about my day
And ignore your whispers, which I wish would go away, oh-oh-oh
You're not a voice
You're just a ringing in my ear
And if I heard you, which I don't
I'm spoken for, I fear
Everyone I've ever loved is here within these walls
I'm sorry, secret siren, but I'm blocking out your calls
I've had my adventure, I don't need something new
I'm afraid of what I'm risking if I follow you
Into the unknown
Into the unknown
What do you want? 'Cause you've been keeping me awake
Are you here to distract me so I make a big mistake?
Or are you someone out there who's a little bit like me?
Who knows deep down I'm not where I'm meant to be?
Every day's a little harder as I feel my power grow
Don't you know there's part of me that longs to go
Into the unknown
Into the unknown
Where are you going?
Don't leave me alone
How do I follow you
Into the unknown?
……But deep down still ticks like a good one! This much loved Mantle Clock belonged to my Granddad George Busby Noon, I well remember him winding it up every week 50 or 60 years ago! See previous image to learn more about ‘George’. The Big hand measures less than 2 inches (4½ CM), taken for Macro Monday theme “Wabi-sabi”. Alan:-) HMM……
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"But it's hard living life
On this memory-go-round
Always up, always down
Spinning 'round and 'round and 'round..."
Strange, but last picture of the series of this day was done at #Wik #castle.
It is kind of interesting story. My friend phoned me and asked if I have been there, I said no... We went to visit this amazing castle on the lake of #Ekoln.
#beautiful #nikon #Summer #Sweden #scandinavia
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'Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration... in the very teeth of winter.'
Louise Wilder
texture thanks to Tòta
There are many Dragonflies in our area but few large species. This new one makes the 5th of the larger kind that i've seen.
04-May-2022: about turism: my perplexities towards a future with more and more bans and more and more over-taxes.
Lake Bohinj and the much more famous Lake Bled are close (less than 20 km) but the second has a mass tourism now rooted, while the first is expanding its tourist reception in recent years, coming out (unfortunately) from the shadow of Bled, that was a lightning rod for peaceful and symbiotic nature lovers.
I am totally against mass tourism because it transforms a relaxing resort into an area where it is difficult even to access it.
Around Lake Bled, even at a certain distance, there are only paid parking lots, which come to cost 6 euros per hour (about the most decentralized and in May...) that, certainly, leave perplexed about the "tourist selection" that "they" would like to implement (high-end tourism) and, in general, certainly drive away the tourist in search of nature and not restaurants, bars, concrete lake-front and crowd baths.
The naturalist tourist should not feel like a tourist in Nature, which is a single great asset of humanity and that only administratively is divided between various Countries, while in Bled, as in Rimini or Cortina d'Ampezzo, they make you feel not only tourist, but also guest, sometimes unwanted if you spend little.
As tourism increases, so do the bans, because unfortunately mass tourism includes many people who don't know anything about Nature and generally only go to very touristy places to make themselves of...people, sowing dirt and ignorance wherever they move.
The imposition of prohibitions/bans to limit the "damage from mass tourism" affects everyone indiscriminately, including locals and naturalists who have always had a symbiotic relationship with these places, thus making them become inhospitable, at least to those seeking pure contact with nature itself.
Of course this happens all over the world, but it should be condemned.
We already pay State taxes for the maintenance of the slice of Nature that falls within our administration, tourist surcharges, exploiting market laws that should be verified and contained, are for the most part unconstitutional, as well as several prohibitions that deprive access and use of public property.
With the money that the tourist municipalities pocket they could very well implement a targeted prevention (controls by foresters, cameras, ad hoc fences for areas subject to micro-pollution...) rather than closing everything and then de-empowering themself on the maintenance of roads and areas (more and more numerous), thus going to save further, starting from the basic taxes that we pay to also have access to given areas.
I can understand that you tax parking at high altitude to maintain the roads, but the amount of the payment should be directly proportional to the expenses that must be incurred to ensure accessibility, not by putting prices at random and with increases of 200% from one year to the next.
I have always appreciated the fact that Slovenia, thanks also that it is not densely inhabited and has a modest tourism (except precisely Bled, Postojna Caves and the Coast), guarantees a wide accessibility and use of its territories and I hope it can continue, limiting the prohibitions and parking lots everywhere.
No sit-in here,but there have been several in Union Square in the past.Historically,most marches,sit-ins,and protests have been on the northern end of the intersection. The people in the shot are most likely students from NYU taking their lunch period,although some also live in dorms in the area.They're sitting on steps in the southern end of Union Square Park where protests have been as of late.Love those street lamps:-) Union Square:Colonial-end Crossroads forgotten-nyc.com,Jul 2nd.Check out this great link.I like the one with all the cool fedora hats occupiedmedia.us/2012/03/a-brief-history-of-union-square-...
This is a big, colourful duck, bigger than a mallard but smaller than a goose. Both sexes have a dark green head and neck, a chestnut belly stripe and a red bill. (RSPB)
Udaipur region, Rajasthan, India
This small and shy heron has a huge distribution range covering many continents and so it is not surprising that there are 21 recognized subspecies
also called Green-backed Heron, Mangrove Heron and Little Green Heron
Butorides striata
mangrovereiger
Héron strié
Mangrovereiher
Garcita Azulada
Airone striato
Socózinho
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………But there was no show - Spiderman was obviously off on the World wide Web somewhere! Just have to make do with boring old Moths then, who for some reason seem to fly off when Batty Bat comes out to play!! For the interested I created this Spooky Tabletop shot by simply Bluetac'ing a wobbly translucent toy bat on to my Mac screen, whilst displaying a Web shot I took at Tarn Hows (Cumbria) and ‘Click’ this ‘Spooky Night’ shot was taken! The eyes were added using the Radial Filter tools in Lightroom 6. Don’t be too frightened and do have a Happy Smile On Saturday folks. Alan:-) HSoS…….
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Cloudy but dry start to the last month of 2021 in Vancouver
I captured this image of this majestic mountain which lies in Washington State, USA right from my home, 100+km away, in Vancouver, Canada,
Mount Baker[...] is one of the snowiest places in the world; in 1999, Mount Baker Ski Area [...] set the world record for recorded snowfall in a single season—1,140 in (2,900 cm).
At 10,781 ft (3,286 m), it is the third-highest mountain in Washington State[...]. It is visible from much of Greater Victoria, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Greater Vancouver, and, to the south, from Seattle (and on clear days Tacoma) in Washington.