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Long Island... first time raising Black Swallowtails...
Three Chunkers to go.... then approximately 65 more to care for!!
31 in chrysalis... and waiting on 4 more to complete their chrysalis!!
Mama orca charging on an adult male sea lion
Monterey Bay, CA
A truly remarkable morning of whale watching. This is T065B, also known as Chunk up in Vancouver where her group hails from.
Today I got to meet my son's new puppy, Chunk, and he's a rather gorgeous bag of Shar Pei wrinkliness.
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Here is my first published work even though i did it as a freebie its great seeing your work on a web site !
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This is a close-up of a stone pineapple that sits on top of a Grecian urn in Hampton Court Palace Gardens.
Just returned from a break in Norfolk, one of my favourite places especially Blakeney and the ever changing quay.
everyday I collect close to 20 eggs... today I didn't but found this 4th instar chunker... he is safe inside now and he can do his thing and get his wings!!!
32 Chunk returned to Brooks Falls this summer with a nasty injury to his jaw. Speculation is that he may have been kicked by a moose. Fortunately, the injury doesn’t seem to prevent him from catching huge salmon. He’s even put on enough weight to be a strong contender in this year’s Fat Bear Contest.
3- picture panorama of Downpatrick Head cape. The sea-stack is called Dún Briste, which means "broken fort".
Local legend says that when a pagan chieftain refused to convert to Christianity, St Patrick struck the ground with his crozier, splitting a chunk of the headland off into the ocean, with the chieftain on top!
This is Fat Bear Week. From Sept. 29 to Oct. 5 the public has a chance to vote on which bear in the Brooks Falls area is fattest. One of the candidates is Chunk, shown here chowing down on a salmon to improve his chances of victory.
From the National Park Service:
"Chunk is a large adult male with narrowly-set eyes, a prominent brow ridge, and a distinctive scar across his muzzle. Even at his leanest, Chunk carries substantial fat reserves, especially on his hind quarters. In early summer he tends to shed much of the fur around his shoulders and neck. This gives him a two-toned appearance and exposes numerous scars and wounds. By late summer, his newly grown fur is dark brown.
Chunk was first identified in 2007 as an independent, chunky-looking two and half year-old bear. Since then, he’s grown to become one of the largest adults at Brooks River. He was estimated to weigh more than 1,200 pounds (544 kg) in September 2020.
Chunk ranks among the most dominant bears at Brooks River. This allows him greater access to mating opportunities and fishing spots. Like most large bears, Chunk is not hesitant to challenge and displace others from the resources he wants. However, his behavior can also be enigmatic. He may wait patiently to scavenge leftover salmon and even play with other bears. These are two uncommon behaviors for a dominant bear to display. Due to his size and strength, Chunk is poised to take advantage of opportunities not available to most other bears. Yet, it is only by observing his full range of behaviors that we can get a true sense of his individuality."
Here's the link to the website for info and voting. explore.org/fat-bear-week
Jokulsarlon Beach - 1 - Chunk of Ice
At the blue jour, light totally desappeared under big dark clouds but was enough to capture the famous ice chunks
Saffron Walden High Street is part of the B184 which is a long B-road in Essex. It is considerably longer than it was originally by having taken over a sizeable chunk of the A130 when that was downgraded following the building of the M11.
The B184 now starts at Stump Cross, also known as M11 J9A, just inside the Essex border with Cambridgeshire and the point where the A11 reappears after a considerable distance playing second fiddle to the M11. The B184 then heads roughly southeast along the ex-A130 into Saffron Walden, where it crosses the B1052, although the classified roads through the one-way system in the town centre could belong to either road!
Leaving Saffron Walden, the B184 continues across Essex countryside through Thaxted, where the B184 is definitely the dominant partner in a multiplex with the B1051, and to the edge of Great Dunmow.
The Cross Keys Hotel, on the right, dates back some 650 years and is one of the most important buildings architecturally and commercially in the centre of Saffron Walden. This Grade II* listed building was fully restored and renovated in 2012, re-opened on the Diamond Jubilee weekend. Now offering 6 en suite bedrooms in the main period building plus 3 new luxury en suite boutique bedrooms in The Cobblers Barn.
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Sershul Tekchen Dargyeling སེར་ཤུལ་ ཏེཀ་ ཆེན་ དར་ གྱེ་ གླིང་
Founding (1759) > Monks 1255 •Religious Sect > Geluk སེར་ཤུལ་དགོན། > ser shul dgon > Sershül Gön Sershul Tekchen Dargyeling སེར་ཤུལ་ ཏེཀ་ ཆེན་ དར་ གྱེ་ གླིང་ is an important monastery of the Gelukpa School, located 20 km west of Deongma, on the right side of the road. This is currently the largest monastery in Sershul county, with 1200-1300 monks divided into six colleges, under the guidance of the youthful but charismatic Drukpa Rinpoche. The rain retreat festival held in August is a magnificent spectacle, attracting nomad communities. The hills and grasslands around the monastery are sparse and spacious.
The complex was founded as a branch of Chunkor but soon outgrew the latter. The recently restored buildings at Sershul, which are all near the motor road, include the Tsokchen (assembly hall), the Jamkhang (Maitreya temple), the Gonkhang (protector temple), the Dewachen Lhakhang (Amitabha temple), the Mentsikhang (where Mipham Rinpoche`s tradition is maintained), the college, a Mani Wheel chapel (containing three wheels constructed by the father of the present Drukpa Rinpoche) and a small guesthouse. A new Tsongkhapa Lhakhang, resembling a giant cathedral, has been constructed below the main complex, and was due for completion and consecration on 12 December, 2008. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
Chunk's been rather poorly lately with a severe yeast allergy, but is looking better and wanted to have his photo taken again now that his fur has grown back on his head.
Rescued, raised and homed by www.catchums.org.uk
With autumn set in its the end of outdoor kitten photos for this year, so I'm trying to improve my flash lighting techniques until the spring.
It can be really difficult with these kittens as just when I've got the light spot on with a nice balanced background they can just move on! Little Chunk stayed still just long enough for me to get his cute little face looking good with the garden through the window here :)
Well , folks the final entry to the "International Cat Care Art Exhibition" Starting at the Rook Lane Gallery, Frome, Somerset. from Sat 24th of Nov to Dec the 8th the charity receives quarter of the profits. Google it to see some great art works of cats!
right off the black pebble beaches of southwestern iceland. leftover chunks from the jökulsárlón glacier lagoon washing back on to shore.
Name: Nicole (Nikki) Kwok
• Challenge Name: CPM monochromatic challenge
• Artwork Title: Derpy and Chunk
• Size 8.5”x8” inches
• Materials Used: Prismacolor colored pencil on Strathmore 400 series drawing paper
• Category (Beginner)
• Description: It’s a drawing of my 2 stuffed animals Derpy and Chunky. Derpy was purchased in Monterey, California and Chunky was purchased in the Osaka Aquarium, Japan.
. Date of Completion: 5/29/2023
‘He who is not every day conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Taking my sons to Katmai National Park last month proved to be so much more thrilling than expected! Like the couple hundred other tourists there we went through the training video, received our graduation pins and headed down the gravel road to Brooks Falls. Our instructions were clear, if a bear is seen, get off the path as far as you can and let it pass. The bears of Katmai are so focused on salmon and other bear stuff that if you play by the rules, you are pretty safe. Brooks Falls has not had a Bear-Human incident in 60 years. For a few seconds, I thought that me and those Dattilo boys were about to change the record to “0 days without an incident!”
We were probably about halfway between the visitor’s center and the falls when we noticed a group of 4 standing still and just off the path some 40 yards away. We stopped for a second or two but decided to advance since they seemed to be looking off into the woods with little to no concern. Then without warning THE BIGGEST DAMN BEAR THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN stepped out onto the road maybe 20 yards away and immediately started trotting right towards us!
As the newest graduates of the parks 15 minute “Bear School” I would like to say that out extensive training kicked right in. But it didn’t as we all just stood there screaming like school girls!
Ok…that’s not true, but I must admit on the inside I was! He was on us so fast that by the time he was 10 yards or less away, we were able to get around a small group of trees and off the path…maybe only 10 feet or so off the path. I captured this shot of who we were able to later identify as “Chunk.” Last year he came in second place as Alaska’s Fattest Bear competition with an estimated weight of 1200 pounds!
I was taught in the Navy many years ago that fear is not real, and believe that to be true. In my mind I knew that we were safe, but when a bear that is nearly half the width of a Ford F-150 and would stand well over 7 feet tall comes out of nowhere, starts trotting towards you…and oh yea…frothing at the mouth, it is the fear that makes you know that you are alive!
He was on the scent of something as he quickly pivoted and headed back into the woods in the direction that he had come from. We all laughed at how great the encounter had been, a treasured memory with my sons…a story that will certainly be told for years to come and always start with “Remember Chunk?”
A cool Katmai fact: It is larger than Ireland and ranks only number three in the largest National Park list! What a blessing our National Parks system is!!