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A Bald Eagle in the process of consuming her appetizer! It was fun to watch her maneuver the tiny Smelt in her large talons. Photo taken at the Lewis River, Woodland, Washington.
Black-Crowned Night Heron / Nachtreiher (Nycticorax nycticorax)
I couldn't personally tell if this was a chick of the same species, or if it was of one of the Cattle Egret or Little Egret chicks also nesting nearby (ID inputs welcome!). What's for sure is that it had well and truly been turned into a meal by this stage and this Black-Crowned Night Heron was wrestling with how to consume it. In this specific frame, the chick's head has been attempted first and is fully tucked away inside the predator's mouth. The circle of life continues...
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The Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) is a medium-sized diving duck known for its striking golden-yellow eyes and the distinctive whistling sound its wings make in flight. They are found across the boreal forests of North America and Eurasia and are a common winter resident in many temperate areas.
Appearance: Adult males have a glossy, iridescent dark green head with a round white patch near the base of the bill, a black back, and white neck, breast, and sides. Females have a chocolate brown head, a mostly gray body, and a black bill that often has a yellow tip during the breeding season.
Size: They typically measure between 40-51 cm (16-20 inches) in length, with a wingspan of around 77-83 cm (30.5-32.5 inches).
Behavior: Goldeneyes are agile, fast-flying ducks that can reach speeds over 40 miles per hour. They are excellent swimmers and divers, using their feet for propulsion underwater and typically feeding in shallow waters less than 13 feet deep. They often forage in synchronized dives within their flocks
Diet: Their diet consists mainly of aquatic invertebrates, such as crustaceans, mollusks, and insect larvae. During the breeding season, insects are their predominant prey, while crustaceans are key during migration and winter. They also consume small fish, fish eggs, and some plant matter.
Blackcap - Sylvia Atrcapilla (M)
The Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) usually known simply as the blackcap, is a common and widespread typical warbler. It has mainly olive-grey upperparts and pale grey underparts, and differences between the five subspecies are small. Both sexes have a neat coloured cap to the head, black in the male and reddish-brown in the female. The male's typical song is a rich musical warbling, often ending in a loud high-pitched crescendo, but a simpler song is given in some isolated areas, such as valleys in the Alps. The blackcap's closest relative is the garden warbler, which looks quite different but has a similar song.
The blackcap feeds mainly on insects during the breeding season, then switches to fruit in late summer, the change being triggered by an internal biological rhythm. When migrants arrive on their territories they initially take berries, pollen and nectar if there are insufficient insects available, then soon switch to their preferred diet. They mainly pick prey off foliage and twigs, but may occasionally hover, flycatch or feed on the ground. Blackcaps eat a wide range of invertebrate prey, although aphids are particularly important early in the season, and flies, beetles and caterpillars are also taken in large numbers. Small snails are swallowed whole, since the shell is a source of calcium for the bird's eggs. Chicks are mainly fed soft-bodied insects, fruit only being provided if invertebrates are scarce.
In July, the diet switches increasingly to fruit. The protein needed for egg-laying and for the chicks to grow is replaced by fruit sugar which helps the birds to fatten for migration. Aphids are still taken while they are available, since they often contain sugars from the plant sap on which they feed. Blackcaps eat a wide range of small fruit, and squeeze out any seeds on a branch before consuming the pulp. This technique makes them an important propagator of mistletoe. The mistle thrush, which also favours that plant, is less beneficial since it tends to crush the seeds. Although any suitable fruit may be eaten, some have seasonal or local importance; elder makes up a large proportion of the diet of northern birds preparing for migration, and energy-rich olives and lentisc are favoured by blackcaps wintering in the Mediterranean.
The German birds wintering in British gardens rely on provided food, and the major items are bread and fat, each making up around 20% of the diet; one bird survived the whole winter eating only Christmas cake. Fruit is also eaten, notably cotoneaster (41% of the fruit consumed), ivy and honeysuckle, and apple if available. Some birds have learned to take peanuts from feeders. Blackcaps defend good winter food sources in the wild, and at garden feeding stations they repel competitors as large as starlings and blackbirds. Birds occasionally become tame enough to feed from the hand.
Aristotle, in his History of Animals, considered that the garden warbler eventually metamorphosed into a blackcap. The blackcap's song has led to it being described as the mock nightingale or country nightingale. Verga's 1871 novel Storia di una capinera, according to its author, was inspired by a story of a blackcap trapped and caged by children. The bird, silent and pining for its lost freedom, eventually dies. In the book, a nun evacuated from her convent by cholera falls in love with a family friend, only to have to return to her confinement when the disease wanes. The novel was adapted as films of the same name in 1917, 1943 and 1993. The last version was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and its English-language version was retitled as Sparrow. In Saint François d'Assise, an opera by Messiaen, the orchestration is based on bird song. St Francis himself is represented by the blackcap.
Folk names for the blackcap often refer to its most obvious plumage feature (black-headed peggy, King Harry black cap and coal hoodie) or to its song, as in the nightingale names above. Other old names are based on its choice of nesting material (Jack Straw, hay bird, hay chat and hay Jack). There is a tradition of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm bases being named for birds. A former base near Stretton in Cheshire was called HMS Blackcap.
Population:
UK breeding:
1,200,000 territories
UK wintering:
3,000 birds
FORFICULE ♀
(Forficula auricularia)
Le nom de cet animal provient de ses cerques (« pinces »). « Forficule » (forficula) signifie « petits-ciseaux » en latin,
mesure d'1 à 2 centimètres, possède deux petites ailes mais il vole très rarement, leurs pinces à l'arrière du corps sont des armes défensives mais guère efficaces face de gros prédateurs (oiseaux, lézards, mammifères insectivores, dont musaraignes..
c'est aussi pour cela qu'il fuit la lumière, il sort la nuit à la recherche d'insectes Il est généralement considéré comme un auxiliaire du jardinier, parce que grand consommateur d'insectes dits « nuisibles » ou « ravageurs ». Il consomme aussi des végétaux très mûrs ou en début de décomposition (pétales de fleurs, fruits - pêches, prunes ou abricots en particulier -, légumes, racines de plantes coupées.
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The name of this animal comes from its cerques ("pliers"). "Forficle" (forficula) means "little scissors" in Latin,
measures 1 to 2 centimeters, has two small wings but it flies very rarely, their claws at the back of the body are defensive weapons but hardly effective against large predators (birds, lizards, insectivorous mammals, including shrews ..
this is also why it flees the light, it goes out at night in search of insects It is generally considered an auxiliary of the gardener, because a large consumer of insects called "pests" or "pests". It also consumes very ripe plants or at the beginning of decomposition (flower petals, fruits - peaches, plums or apricots in particular -, vegetables, roots of cut plants.
This is a species of small heron in the family Ardeidae that is white with a slender black beak, long black legs and, in the western race, yellow feet. Being an aquatic bird, it feeds in shallow water and on land, consuming a variety of small creatures. A successful colonist, its range has gradually expanded north, with stable and self-sustaining populations now present in the United Kingdom. The birds are very similar in appearance to the Snowy Egret and share colonial nesting sites with these birds in Barbados, where they are both recent arrivals. The Little Egrets are larger, have more varied foraging strategies and exert dominance over feeding sites.
The bleeding fairy helmet is widespread and common in Europe and North America. It is saprotrophic—meaning that it obtains nutrients by consuming decomposing organic matter—and the fruit bodies appear in small groups or clusters on the decaying logs, trunks, and stumps of deciduous trees, particularly beech. (wikipedia)
bloedsteelmycena - bleeding fairy helmet (Mycena haematopus)
I saw this opportunity to capture something in very low light as the subject is only lit by the tablet he's reading.
Taken at a photography club where they were showing a movie with the lights out. At 4000 ISO, this shot is clean enough to eat off.
A man alone on the cliffs, a silhouette against the darkening sky, the waves crashing far below, their mournful roar rising like the echoes of forgotten grief, each tide a reminder of his sorrow.
Above, a seagull passed aimlessly, their shadow brushing the stone like fleeting memories, untouched by the weight of his sorrow.
The sea, infinite and unyielding, stretched endlessly before him, cold and indifferent, a reflection of the depth of his loneliness, the tide relentless in its rhythm, as if mocking his stillness.
He lingered there, eyes hollow, staring into the abyss, as though pleading for it to speak, to give meaning to the silence that consumed him, to the sorrow that the tide could never wash away.
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This Cypress tree seems to be consuming the fence along the Cypress forest at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary.
Happy Fence Friday and have a nice weekend friends! It is going to be stormy here! Time to hunker down again!
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The only all-consuming love that she could truly believe was to love herself… so, that’s what she did. She loved herself with more passion than anyone had ever loved her before. Everyday she enjoyed singing out loud, long walks, drinking champagne, taking photos, and her writing. All the while, treating herself with respect, acceptance, and compassion. In times of frustration or disappointment she listened to her inner voice and calmly considered options. There was never manipulation or threats to take away the love. The love she has for herself is her strength and her joy. *big smiles*
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Varanasi (Inde) - En principe sur les réseaux sociaux, Flickr ne déroge pas à la règle, un plan large a toujours moins de succès qu’un plan serré. Un plan serré est lisible immédiatement la plupart du temps. Un cadre comme celui de la photo ci-dessus, nécessite qu’on s’y attarde. Comme les gens n’ont plus de temps ou n’ont plus l’habitude de le prendre, devant la profusion d’images qu’ils consomment quotidiennement. Pourtant, je pense qu’un plan large est plus difficile à réussir en raison d’un nombre plus importants d’éléments à mettre en harmonie dans son viseur.
Ici, j’ai utilisé une téléobjectif. Comme j’étais dans une barque, il était impossible de recourir au grand-angle pour garder un minimum de lisibilité pour cette scène matinale sur l’un des gaths de Varanasi. La colorimétrie relativement chaude est due à l’heure matinale. Il est à peine 5 h (les données exif sont restées à l’heure de Paris). Le soleil darde ses premiers rayons et la journée s’annonce caniculaire.
Varanasi wakes up
Varanasi (India) - In principle on social networks, Flickr is no exception to the rule, a wide shot is always less appreciated than a tight shot. A close-up is immediately readable most of the time. A frame like the one in the photo above requires that we linger over it. And people no longer have time in front of the profusion of images that they consume daily. However, I think that a wide shot is more difficult to achieve because of a greater number of elements to bring into harmony in the viewfinder.
I used a telephoto lens to obtain this frame. As I was in a boat, it was impossible to use the wide angle to keep a minimum of readability for this morning scene on one of the gaths of Varanasi. The relatively warm colorimetry is due to the early hour. It is barely 5 a.m. (the exif data remained in Paris time). The sun shines its first rays and the day promises to be hot.
Photography by Doug Harrop • Essay by Mark W. Hemphill
In 1969, Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad’s Director of Unit Train Operations J.E. Timberlake developed a scheme to convert coking coal transportation to U.S. Steel’s Geneva Works north of Provo, Utah, from carload to unit train. Geneva Works was then consuming 1.9 million tons of coking coal annually, delivered from three different mines: U.S. Steel’s Geneva Mine, on the Carbon County Railway via Columbia Jct. on Rio Grande’s Sunnyside Branch, 128 rail miles from Geneva (including CBC’s 6 miles); U.S. Steel’s Somerset Mine, on Rio Grande’s North Fork Branch east of Grand Junction, Colorado; 351 rail miles from Geneva; and Mid-Continent Coal & Coke’s Dutch Creek Mine, loading at Carbondale, Colorado, on Rio Grande’s Aspen Branch, 362 miles from Geneva. Coal from Somerset and Geneva Mine made an intermediate stop at U.S. Steel’s coal wash plant at Wash, Utah, 95.8 miles from Geneva, where the coal was unloaded, washed, blended, and reloaded. Mid-Continent ran a wash plant at its Carbondale loadout and moved direct to the Geneva Works.
Three unit train symbol pairs handled the movement:
734, empties from Geneva to Columbia Jct., and 735, loads from Columbia Jct. to Geneva, 48 cars between Columbia Jct. and Wash, and 40 cars between Wash to Geneva, with two SD45s. The “shrinkage” in cars was because approximately 17 percent of the raw coal from the mine was dirt, shale, and sulfur, which was washed out and sent to the wash plant’s tailings ponds. 735s loaded Monday through Friday.
782, empties from Geneva to Somerset, and 783, loads from Somerset to Geneva, 48 cars between Somerset and Wash, and 40 cars between Wash to Geneva, with two SD45s. The “shrinkage” in cars was similarly due to the wash plant reduction. 783s loaded Monday through Friday.
798, empties from Geneva to Carbondale, and 799, loads from Carbondale to Geneva; 70 cars nominal, with three SD45s. 799s loaded Saturday only.
The operation was necessarily complex because it was required to mirror the production and labor schedules and the facility capacities at U.S. Steel’s and Mid-Continent’s coal mines, the coal wash, and the steel mill. It had to withstand the scrutiny of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which flyspecked unit train contracts, had to comply with Rio Grande’s labor agreements without creating exorbitant differentials and arbitraries, and not the least, had to efficiently utilize Rio Grande’s coal hoppers and locomotives.
These unit trains were small by post-deregulation standards, though this was very common in the early unit-train era, when few shippers or receivers could accommodate long trains. Coal mines, wash plants, steel mills, power plants, sugar factories, cement plants … all had been designed and constructed in the loose-car era with the expectation that railroad service was provided daily or at least every weekday. In every 24-hour period, what was delivered empty was loaded, what was delivered loaded was emptied. To accommodate longer unit trains at coal mines required construction of storage facilities to retain enough of each day’s production to fill an entire train every second or third day, and at least one track long enough to accommodate an entire train. The same applied at steel mills, power plants, wash plants, and other coal-consuming facilities, except now provision had to be made to rapidly empty and stack, store, and reclaim the small mountain of coal empties from a single train. Eventually that happened but not overnight; small trains were the norm for nearly two decades for most existing coal receivers and mines after the ICC finally gave the go-ahead for unit coal trains, in 1958 (the first was on the Baltimore & Ohio).
Doug Harrop’s wonderful photograph shows Rio Grande’s U.S. Steel unit train 733, operated weekdays from Columbia Jct., Utah, to Wash, with an average of 48 hoppers of raw coal, and from Wash to Geneva with an average of 40 cars of washed coal. Typically empty 732 left Helper at 9:05 am with 2 SD45s and 48 Rio Grande 100-ton empties. It dropped these at Wash and picked up between 39 and 57 70-ton Carbon County Railway empties. Upon arrival at Columbia Jct. at 11:30 am, the CBC interchange on the Sunnyside Branch, the 732 swapped the empties for 39 to 57 CBC loads, and became the 733. Departing Columbia Jct. at 2:00 pm, it dropped the CBC loads at Wash and picked up nominally 40 loads of washed coal, now in Rio Grande 100-ton hoppers. At arrival back at Helper at 4:55 pm, the 733 recrewed and picked up a two-unit helper, and departed for Geneva at 6:00 pm. It arrived Geneva at 9:30 pm, dropped its loads and picked up empties, became the 732, and was back in Helper at 1:00 am. Its road power helped the U.S. Steel 783 loads up to Soldier Summit, returning in time to take Tuesday’s 732 to Wash and Columbia Jct.
Doug photograph of the 733 on April 19, 1977, west of Kyune on the “flat track” above the 2.40 percent helper grade in Price River Canyon. It illustrates that Timberlake’s operating plan had been modified somewhat. His careful apportionment of locomotives and cars had been abused by realities of mines, steel mill, and railroad. Locomotive and car utilization had declined. The SD45s were no longer assigned. Coal power on the Rio Grande by the late 1970s was typically a mix of SD40T-2s, SD45s, and GP40s, without discrimination because good locomotive utilization was much more important than perfection of a plan. Typically one more road locomotives was now used because the two-unit trains, even with helper, were a little too slow climbing Soldier Summit. On the rear of the 733 is a two-unit GP40 helper enthusiastically adding speed to the 733 above the 2.40 percent. It cut off at Soldier Summit.
Rio Grande painted yellow lower corners on its system hoppers assigned to U.S. Steel, and green on the lower corners of system hoppers it assigned to Kaiser Steel.
It had felt like an age waiting for the sun to break through the cloud cover at Porthcurno, but when it finally did, I found the light that I had been longing for. The rock stack named Great Gouler - slowly retreating to a rock stump - became frequently consumed by the waves from Storm Isha.
One of the turtles rescued (from all the plastic consumed by it!) by the national aquarium in Abu Dhabi.
A resident bird of the subcontinent found pretty much everywhere in the cities and countryside alike. The bird is generally found around wet areas where there are lots of flies such as around small ponds, bushes and stagnant water. I love the colors on the bird.
This was shot at a new place we recently explored - a forest with an old temple and a dry stream. We sighted a few flycatchers and some of them were busy hunting. This flycatcher was resting in the shade while silently surveying. Suddenly it flew a few feet away and grabbed what I think is some kind of caterpillar which it thrashed briefly onto the branch and consumed it.
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After eating about 2/3 of the Squirrel, the Hawk gets ready to take-off and share or consume its prey somewhere else in a more private place perhaps!
How did you spend last few days? I must say it wasn’t a joke but it was beautiful. To get this frame I shot 3 separate frames in a vertical pano using the long lens. I was tilting the lens down slowly making sure that camera doesn’t move left and right. Since my focus was changing for each frame, the depth of field was changing too and the best option to blend the pano was to do it manually. What do you think?
Largest specimen had a cap diameter of about 20cm. Unlike the parasol mushroom (Macrolepiota procera), which has snakeskin-like markings on the stipe (stem), the shaggy parasol is not good for eating; some may suffer no harm from consuming it, others may have a stomach upset.
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