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Red Footed Falcon - Falco Vespertinus
Wiltshire
The Red-footed Falcon is a gregarious bird of prey usually found in flocks. It often breeds in colonies, and sometimes solitary, using abandoned Corvidae or raptors’ nests.
It is an eastern European species and a long-distance migrant that winters in southern Africa. It feeds mainly on insects, but the chicks are mostly fed with small vertebrates.
The Red-footed Falcon is very close to Amur Falcon which was formerly a subspecies of F. vespertinus.
The population is decreasing due to habitat destruction and the species is currently listed as Near Threatened.
The Red-footed Falcon breeds in C Europe from Estonia, Slovakia and Hungary, E through NC Asia to extreme NW China and upper R Lena.
It winters in SW Africa, from Angola, Namibia and N South Africa, through Botswana to Zambia and Zimbabwe.
HABITAT:
The Red-footed Falcon breeds in wooded steppes, valleys, clearings, cultivated areas and pastures with clumps or fringes of trees, riparian woodlands, orchards, marshy lands and open taiga. It breeds usually in lowlands, but up to 1500 metres of elevation in Asia.
During winter in SW Africa, it frequents grasslands, savanna and scrubland. They form large nightime roosts in groves of eucalypts, but also in towns and villages. Several thousands of birds may gather at communal roosts.
A spoonbill nest at Jefferson Island. Three birds are apparent but there is a another baby in front of nest with its head behind a leafy clump. I tried many times to get a shot with it in the frame but it didn't cooperate!!! :-)
From the left: Round Hill, Castle Hill, and Brightwell Barrow. The name Wittenham Clumps actually refers only to the wooded tops of Round Hill and Castle Hill (the latter an Iron Age hill fort with banks and ditches), and should more correctly be called the Sinodun Hills. Over 200,000 visitors a year enjoy climbing the hills with their spectacular views of what is an otherwise remarkably flat landscape.
Wonderful sunshine and a chance to check on my favourite little clump of wild snowdrops next to a footpath near home. They were barely out last time I visited, but look at them now!
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Some new winter items for you from Scarlet Creative...please go take a look!
Scarlet Creative The Nook 1
Scarlet Creative Nook Fireplace Insert
Scarlet Creative Nook Cabinet
Scarlet Creative Cordelia Armchair Light
Scarlet Creative Nook Coffee Table
Scarlet Creative Nook Sofa
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Scarlet Creative Frosty Festive Chapel with Snow Roof out now at the mainstore!
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Scarlet Creative Flickr: flic.kr/ps/KAmaN
Scarlet Creative Highlands Sled MT (older gacha)
HISA landscape items...
HISA - Winter Grass MIX 1
HISA - Winter Grass MIX 2
HISA - Winter small grass clump
HISA - Winter bush 1
HISA - Winter bush 2
HISA Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hisa/123/117/22
HISA Flickr: flic.kr/ps/3RR2wW
New from Konoha:
Konoha Meiji Snowscape -Piece A v.018
Konoha- Happy Snowman of 2020
The Cosmopolitan Event: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/No%20Comment/131/61/22
Konoha Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Whitlock/147/173/2601
Konoha Flickr: flic.kr/ps/3S5rdX
Must haves from tarte:
tarte. fir tree - snowy A
tarte. fir tree - snowy B
tarte. split rail fence
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tarte flickr: flic.kr/ps/2nRAmN
Teeglepet Horse foal with free tack set by Teeglepet as well! Because horses need to look Christmas-y too!
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Misc. Goodies:
12.Sese - Gazebo Winter Ice Rink - Light Tree
17.Sese - Gazebo Winter Ice Rink - Well
24.Sese_Winter Ice Rink - Bench snow
14.Sese - Christmas Tree Farm - Snow Tree Lights
MINIMAL - Creepy Tree 09
Pewpew! Snow Shelter - Brown
MESHWORX~Phantom Chandelier Silver CLEAR Crystals
"Killer's" Snow Planks Rope bridge
Beech forest season
ionic Train Wagon (decor) RARE
ionic : Electric Train Poles
HPMD* Shrub03 - a
xin. panouk husky (baby it's cold outside)
Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and thank you for all the comments, awards, and support! Thankful for all of it!🎄
The trees that adorn Round Hill at Wittenham Clumps, South Oxfordshire, peek through the mist as the sky is turned golden by a fleeting sunrise. The mist was still rising and the trees and the sunrise were soon consumed as the world turned slowly grey!
No, that's not a nickname for our new King :-) it's the name of this group of magnificent trees at the high point of Cheesefoot Head in Hampshire..
Stitched from jpegs taken with the Panasonic S5 and 18mm f1.8 lens.
The heather is in full bloom at present and providing a wonderful rich colour to the landscape and in particular to the mountainside landscape of Mount Leinster.
Had my eye on this clump of trees for a while now and finally went to get a photo of it. I think it'll look good with a sunrise behind it so that'll hopefully be my next visit.
Along the north side of the British Army’s main train area on Salisbury Plain, only a 20 feet wide unpaved perimeter road (and a fence!) separate the ranges from some stunning scenery.
There are few places that capture the emptiness of the area than the lonely clumps of beech trees that pepper the landscape, some just a hundred metres from the boundary fence.
At Charlton, where I took these shots, there are 4 clumps of between 4 and 8 trees that make a cracking backdrop for sun sets and sun rises.
The limestone meets the sea at Jack Scout on Morecambe Bay. The sky was looking good for a sunset as I walked through the woods near Silverdale, so I headed here to the cliffs, only to witness another "cloud hoover" of the sky!
So looking for a bit of foreground interest I found this area of limestone with a small clump of "Sea Thrift". The rocks provide a bit of a lead into the Kent Estuary and you can see the Central Lake District fells in the far distance as the sun sets over Southern Cumbria.
Rainbow cactus (Echinocereus rubrispinus)
The subspecies 'rubispinus' is a small columnar cactus with very short pink spines. When mature it will form a clump about two 60cm wide by 25cm tall. The flower is huge up to 10cm wide in bright pinkish-red or magenta or red with white throats. It blooms in ring on the crown of the stem in spring.
We were treated to quite a hoar-frost yesterday and it was great to have chance to head out and capture this magical spectacle. Hunton Clump made an ideal subject to show off the effects of the frost.
The next area that we visited was Westpoint Island in the Falklands. This is an area where the Rockhopper penguins and Black-browed Albatross were nesting. It had thick clumps of Tussock grass which is native to this area and very important for nesting. I found this to be a very difficult area to photograph in because these thick clumps grew together and were taller than me so no real path to walk. I could lean against these clumps they were so strong. Heavy rain was added to the mix although this Rockhopper penguin seems to be enjoying it.
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Few plants have a longer history of cultivation or a more important role in ornamental gardening than peonies. Of the many species within the Paeonia genus, arguably the most popular and important is the Chinese peony (P. lactiflora), also known as common garden peony. These clump-forming, shrub-like perennial plants have enormous, highly fragrant flowers that appear in late spring and early summer. www.thespruce.com/paeonia-lactiflora-5095782
Simply adored this clump of firs appearing to huddle together to keep warm like penguins from the morning frost!! Taken in Monkton Wood, Buckinghamshire
On the same clump of Chamomile that Olymp shot the other day with a Common Green Bottle Fly, we saw this very handsome Red-legged Mining Bee (if I'm not mistaken in the identification). Whatever the case, just look at those fine legs!
During our last few months together, this song came on the radio several times while driving to a trail walk: "Eternal Flame" by The Bangles. For some reason I can't explain, every time it came on I would get a really strong feeling as if this voice was Blanca's actual voice! And so this has become her song.
To observe the one year mark of her passing (5 Oct 2021), I improvised a little ceremony.
The wooden box with her portrait has its own story: In order to console me after losing Blanca, my sister found this man who is a self-taught artist burning images with a laser onto wood. She sent him a photo of Blanca and he reproduced it so beautifully on this little treasure chest! I keep her items in it, her collar, the bandanna she wore when she died, the little mouse toy, sympathy cards and a clump of hair from her comb.