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Dipper - Cinclus Cinclus
aka Water Ouzel
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Dippers are members of the genus Cinclus in the bird family Cinclidae, named for their bobbing or dipping movements. They are unique among passerines for their ability to dive and swim underwater.
They have a characteristic bobbing motion when perched beside the water, giving them their name. While under water, they are covered by a thin, silvery film of air, due to small bubbles being trapped on the surface of the plumage.
Dippers are found in suitable freshwater habitats in the highlands of the Americas, Europe and Asia. In Africa they are only found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. They inhabit the banks of fast-moving upland rivers with cold, clear waters, though, outside the breeding season, they may visit lake shores and sea coasts.
The high haemoglobin concentration in their blood gives them a capacity to store oxygen greater than that of other birds, allowing them to remain underwater for thirty seconds or more, whilst their basal metabolic rate is approximately one-third slower than typical terrestrial passerines of similar mass. One small population wintering at a hot spring in Suntar-Khayata Mountains of Siberia feeds underwater when air temperatures drop below −55 °C (−67 °F).
Dippers are completely dependent on fast-flowing rivers with clear water, accessible food and secure nest-sites. They may be threatened by anything that affects these needs such as water pollution, acidification and turbidity caused by erosion. River regulation through the creation of dams and reservoirs, as well as channelization, can degrade and destroy dipper habitat.
Dippers are also sometimes hunted or otherwise persecuted by humans for various reasons. The Cyprus race of the white-throated dipper is extinct. In the Atlas Mountains dippers are claimed to have aphrodisiacal properties. In parts of Scotland and Germany, until the beginning of the 20th century, bounties were paid for killing dippers because of a misguided perception that they were detrimental to fish stocks through predation on the eggs and fry of salmonids.
Population:
UK breeding:
6,200-18,700 pairs
Turtles are unable to regulate their body temperatures independently, so they are completely dependent on the temperature of their environment. For this reason, they need to sunbathe frequently to warm themselves and maintain their body temperatures.
The red-eared slider gets its name from the small, red stripe around its ears, or where its ears would be, and from its ability to slide quickly off rocks and logs into the water.
Red-eared sliders are native to the Southern United States and northern Mexico, but have become established in other places because of pet releases, and have become an invasive species in many areas where they outcompete native species.
The carapace of this species can reach more than 40 cm (16 in) in length, but the typical length ranges from 15 to 20 cm (6 to 8 in). The females of the species are usually larger than the males. They typically live between 20 and 30 years.
- Wikipedia
(Nikon, 500 mm, 1/200 @ f/8, ISO 400)
True light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others away and darkness results. Yet the reverse is not true: take away darkness and there is only more darkness. Darkness can exist by itself. Light cannot.
― N.K. Jemisin
I took this in Golden Ears Park in Maple Ridge, BC on one of our very few sunny days in October.
This shot was dependent upon several factors outside of my control:
Water up to the shoreline - Salt equipment placed as I wanted - No Wind - No Clouds
The day after it rained, I made a beeline out to this area to see how things have changed. Friday night, I had water and properly positioned equipment!
Sunrise the following day was 5:58 am with no clouds forecasted.
I left home at 4:15 am and made the 20-minute slush through the mud and water to this point – sadly, there was wind for 2 hours and nothing usable.
Sunday morning: Wash; Repeat & Success!
I choose f11 as I had nothing in the foreground, and everything was at a distance – there was no wind and no need for an ND filter – a pretty straightforward shot. This was captured 50 minutes after sunrise. I took several earlier photos, but in the end, this had the color and light I liked most.
Dios es nuestra dependencia, no importa cuántas dificultades nos encontremos, no estaremos nunca solos. Porque Dios siempre está con nosotros. En la Biblia se dice: “No temas, porque yo estoy contigo; no te desalientes[g], porque yo soy tu Dios. Te fortaleceré, ciertamente te ayudaré, sí, te sostendré con la diestra de mi justicia (Isaías 41:10).
Dios Todopoderoso dice: “Hasta que, un día, sientas que el Creador ya no es un misterio, que nunca se ha escondido de ti, que nunca ha ocultado Su rostro de ti, que no está en absoluto lejos de ti, que ya no es Aquel que anhelas constantemente en tus pensamientos, pero que no puedes alcanzar con tus sentimientos, que Él está real y verdaderamente montando guardia a tu izquierda y a tu derecha, proveyendo para tu vida, y controlando tu destino. Él no está en el horizonte remoto ni se ha escondido muy arriba en las nubes. Está justo a tu lado, presidiendo sobre la totalidad de ti. Él es todo lo que tienes y la única cosa que tienes. Ese Dios te permite amarlo desde el corazón, aferrarte a Él, mantenerlo cerca, admirarlo, temer perderlo, y no estar dispuesto a renunciar más a Él ni a desobedecerle, evitarlo ni colocarlo a una distancia de ti. Lo único que quieres es preocuparte por Él, obedecerle, compensarle todo lo que te da, y rendirte a Su dominio. Ya no te niegas a que Él te guie, provea, cuide y guarde; ya no rechazas lo que Él te domina y ordena. Sólo quieres seguirle, caminar a Su lado a Su izquierda o a Su derecha. Sólo quieres aceptarlo como tu única y exclusiva vida, como tu único y exclusivo Señor, tu único y exclusivo Dios”.
De “La Palabra manifestada en carne”
Recomendación: Recursos cristianos
Las escrituras tomadas de LA BIBLIA DE LAS AMERICAS® (LBLA) Copyright © 1986, 1995, 1997 por The Lockman Foundation usado con permiso. www.LBLA.com
Weaver ants moving a dead millipede.
Wikipedia: Weaver ants or green ants (genus Oecophylla) are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae (order Hymenoptera). Weaver ants live in trees (they are obligately arboreal) and are known for their unique nest building behavior where workers construct nests by weaving together leaves using larval silk. Colonies can be extremely large consisting of more than a hundred nests spanning numerous trees and containing more than half a million workers. Like many other ant species, weaver ants prey on small insects and supplement their diet with carbohydrate-rich honeydew excreted by small insects (Hemiptera). Weaver ant workers exhibit a clear bimodal size distribution, with almost no overlap between the size of the minor and major workers. The major workers are approximately 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) in length and the minors approximately half the length of the majors. Major workers forage, defend, maintain, and expand the colony whereas minor workers tend to stay within the nests where they care for the brood and 'milk' scale insects in or close to the nests.
Weaver ants vary in color from reddish to yellowish brown dependent on the species. Oecophylla smaragdina found in Australia often have bright green gasters. Weaver ants are highly territorial and workers aggressively defend their territories against intruders. Because they prey on insects harmful to their host trees, weaver ants are sometime used by indigenous farmers, particularly in southeast Asia, as natural biocontrol agents against agricultural pests. Although weaver ants lack a functional sting they can inflict painful bites and often spray formic acid directly at the bite wound resulting in intense discomfort.
Complex shot that dependent upon the luster of the water vessel, stainless steel worked the best since the speed-light bounced off the edge of the vessel and onto the water surface.
One sped-light used indirect lighting in manual mode the other TTL
.... is not dependent on exceptional abilities or talents,
it is purely a matter of chances.
RAW Images
Background [MINIMAL - Cyberpunk Capsule7]
El aristócrata Tocqueville, al observar la democracia de los Estados Unidos y de su burguesa Francia natal, hace siglo y medio, tuvo la premonición de que la libertad en el mundo moderno se enfrentaría a peligros desconocidos hasta entonces. “No temo que encuentren tiranos entre sus gobernantes”, escribió de las generaciones futuras, “sino más bien guardianes”, Tales “guardianes” privarán a los pueblos de su libertad al satisfacer sus deseos y explotar después la dependencia engendrada por su generosidad. Vaticinó un tipo de despotismo democrático en el que “una multitud de hombres; todos idénticos e iguales” lucharían incesantemente por alcanzar “los mezquinos y despreciables placeres con que atiborran sus vidas”. El gobierno paternalista benevolente (el moderno Estado de bienestar social) se cierne sobre ellos:
Este gobierno trabaja de buena voluntad por su felicidad, pero decide ser el árbitro exclusivo de esas felicidad; les garantiza su seguridad, prevé y compensa sus necesidades, facilita sus placeres, gestiona sus principales preocupaciones, dirige su actividad, regula la dejación de propiedades y subdivide sus herencias: ¿qué queda sino librarlos de todo el trabajo de pensar y de todas las dificultades de la vida?
El “principio de la igualdad ha preparado a los hombres para todas estas cosas “y a menudo para que las consideren como beneficios.
Después de tener a cada miembro en su puño de hierro, y moldearlo a su voluntad, el poder supremo extiende sus brazos sobre toda la comunidad. Cubre la superficie de la sociedad con una red de regulaciones pequeñas y complicadas, diminutas y uniformes, que ni las mentes más originales ni los individuos más enérgicos pueden desentrañar, para alzarse sobre los demás. La voluntad del hombre no se quiebra, sino que se reblandece, se somete y guía; apenas se obliga a los hombres a actuar por su voluntad, pero constantemente se les restringe su actuación: un poder semejante no destruye, sino que impide la existencia; no tiraniza, pero comprime, exaspera, extingue y atonta al pueblo, hasta que cada nación queda reducida a tan sólo un rebaño de tímidos e industriosos animales, cuyo pastor es el gobierno (La democracia en América, Alexis de Tocqueville).
¿Esto es lo que queremos?
(Propiedad y libertad) Richard Pipes
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Hermoso edificio renacentista del siglo XVI que domina la Plaza Mayor y que siempre tuvo la función de Casa Consistorial. A principios del siglo XX se añadió un ala por la derecha para ampliar las dependencias municipales. El cuerpo central es el que pertenece a la primera mitad del siglo XVI, está delimitado por dos torrecillas cilíndricas a modo de contrafuertes y tiene un pórtico inferior y una galería superior de estilo plateresco. Remata el edificio una espadaña con campana, cuyo repique indicaba en su día diferentes señales de peligro.
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The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus ― Robert Greene quote - Cityscape 2
IN EXPLORE 30/05/2022 NEWCASTLE SUNSET CO DOWN WALK ABOUT ON 29-05-2022...............The name of the town is thought to derive from the castle built by Felix Magennis of the Magennis clan in 1588, which stood at the mouth of the Shimna River. This castle was demolished in 1830.[4][5] The town is referred to as New Castle in the Annals of the Four Masters in 1433, so it is likely that he built on the site of an existing structure.[6][7][8]
The Montgomery Manuscripts record that Newcastle was besieged and later captured by Sir James Montgomery of the Ards in April 1642 in the aftermath of the 1641 Rebellion (pp. 128–134). Prior to 1641 the Castle belonged to the Magennis', but after the rebellion the property was confiscated and granted to Robert Hawkins, great grandfather to Robert Hawkins who assumed the surname of Magill. The date 1588 was inscribed on a stone placed over the front entrance of the Castle, built by Felix Magenis. Newcastle passed from the Magills to the Mathews, and subsequently to the Annesleys. In the late 1700s the Castle was modernised by the Matthews and then the Annesleys, and rented by the Board of Customs for the accommodation of revenue officers. Around 1830 the castle was demolished and the 'Annesley Arms Hotel' was constructed within the original castle compound. The 3rd Earl Annesley built a new 'marine residence', called 'Donard Lodge' on the lower mountain slope above the town (it was demolished in 1966). St. John's Church was also opened on 'The Rock' in 1832 to accommodate the visitors and growing population in Earl Annesley's developing seaside resort.
The Newcastle fishing disaster occurred on 13 January 1843 when boats from Newcastle and Annalong set out for the usual fishing stations, and were caught in a gale. 14 boats were lost in the heavy seas including a boat which had gone to the rescue. Only two boats survived, the Victoria and the Brothers.[9] 73 men perished, 46 of whom were from Newcastle. They left twenty-seven widows, one hundred and eighteen children, and twenty-one dependents. A Public Subscription was raised and the cottages, known as Widows Row, were built for the widows and dependents.[10][11] A local song about the disaster says "Newcastle town is one long street entirely stripped of men"[12]
In 1910 Harry Ferguson flew a small plane across Newcastle beach in one of the first engine powered flights by aircraft in Ireland. He completed the flight in an attempt to win a £100 prize offered by the town for the first powered flight along the strand. His first take off ended badly, but according to a modern newspaper report 'He flew a distance of almost three miles along the foreshore at a low altitude varying between fifty and five hundred feet'. This event is recorded by a plaque on the promenade.
Collared owlets transition through various age-dependent colour morphs. A capture-recapture study of collared owlets in Taiwan provided evidence of this. On the first capture, the individual was 56 days old and showed fledgling colour morph stage; having less spots and barring on the back and top of the head and not having a completely formed occipital. On the second recapture, the individual was captured 165 days after hatching and demonstrated a rufous morph; having an overall orange-red colour, barred back, spots on the head and a formed occipital. On the third recapture, the individual was 394 days old and was in its final grey morph
A guano bird colony in the Ballestas Islands, off the coast of Peru. Guano birds include Peruvian boobies and Guanay cormorants, whose diets are highly dependent on anchoveta as prey. Guano deposits were a major Peruvian export and sustained the Peruvian economy for decades.
If insects and bees disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. The insects are very important in our ecosystem. They have a number of features that we people depend on. In Europe, the spread of insects is greatly reduced. This is serious because nature and we humans are completely dependent on the insects coming to work.
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
Kenya
East Africa
The Grant's gazelle (Nanger granti) is a species of gazelle distributed from northern Tanzania to South Sudan and Ethiopia, and from the Kenyan coast to Lake Victoria. Its Swahili name is Swala Granti.
The Grant's gazelle is found in East Africa and lives in open grass plains and is frequently found in shrublands; it avoids areas with high grass where the visibility of predators is compromised. They also occur in semiarid areas and are relatively well adapted to dry areas, relying on more browse or leafy material during dry seasons to supplement their intake of water. They are migratory animals, but travel in the opposite direction of most of the other ungulates, such as Thomson's gazelles, zebras, and wildebeest, which are more water dependent. They can subsist on vegetation in waterless, semiarid areas, where they face little competition. Info Wikipedia
I sat quietly and watched this female Stoat bringing food to her kits in a den under an old pile of brash. Sometimes she disappeared for about 10 minutes, and sometimes she stood vigilant for danger at the den entrance. I never actually saw the kits but I could hear them growling under the brash pile. Stoats have a litter of 4-8 kits and they are dependent on their mother for 3-4 months. Incidentally this was taken with a 420mm lens at f5.6 and is barely cropped. You can see how close she was as the line of focus takes in only her face.
Female Stoats are noticeably smaller than males, and that is the same for Weasels too. So it isn't always easy to tell a large male Weasel from a small female Stoat, unless you see the large, black-tipped tail on a Stoat. The border between the white underparts and brown upperparts is usually straight on Stoats and irregular on British Weasels, but to complicate matters Continental Weasels usually have a straight edge, like a Stoat.
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
Kenya
East Africa
The Grant's gazelle (Nanger granti) is a species of gazelle distributed from northern Tanzania to South Sudan and Ethiopia, and from the Kenyan coast to Lake Victoria. Its Swahili name is Swala Granti.
The Grant's gazelle is found in East Africa and lives in open grass plains and is frequently found in shrublands; it avoids areas with high grass where the visibility of predators is compromised. They also occur in semiarid areas and are relatively well adapted to dry areas, relying on more browse or leafy material during dry seasons to supplement their intake of water.
They are migratory animals, but travel in the opposite direction of most of the other ungulates, such as Thomson's gazelles, zebras, and wildebeest, which are more water dependent. They can subsist on vegetation in waterless, semiarid areas, where they face little competition. From Wikipedia
Plaza de la Constitución, Donostia, Guipúzcoa, España.
La plaza de la Constitución es una plaza situada en la Parte Vieja de la ciudad de San Sebastián, en el País Vasco, España. En esta plaza, con sus soportales como característica principal, se suelen celebrar las grandes fiestas y eventos de la ciudad, como la tamborrada de San Sebastián o la feria del día de Santo Tomás. Su edificio central fue, hasta 1947, casa consistorial de la ciudad, siendo ocupado por las instalaciones de la Biblioteca Municipal (1951-2000) y, posteriormente, por dependencias administrativas del área de cultura del Ayuntamiento.
Sobre el espacio que ocupa la actual plaza de la Constitución ya existía una plaza realizada según el proyecto de Hércules Torrelli de 1723. La nueva plaza de estilo neoclásico se levantó tras el incendio de la ciudad en el contexto del asedio de San Sebastián de 1813. Sus dimensiones se encuentran moduladas en 20 arcos iguales en cada uno de los lados mayores y 9 arcos, iguales a los primeros, en el lado menor.
Los balcones de la plaza están numerados, puesto que sirvieron como palcos para las fiestas taurinas celebradas en la plaza.
The Plaza de la Constitución is a square located in the Old Part of the city of San Sebastián, in the Basque Country, Spain. In this square, with its arcades as its main characteristic, the city's big parties and events are usually celebrated, such as the tamborrada de San Sebastián or the Santo Tomás day fair. Its central building was, until 1947, consistorial house of the city, being occupied by the facilities of the Municipal Library (1951-2000) and, later, by administrative dependencies of the area of culture of the City council.
Over the space that occupies the current Plaza de la Constitución there was already a square made according to the project of Hercules Torrelli in 1723. The new neoclassical square was built after the fire of the city in the context of the siege of San Sebastian in 1813. Its dimensions are modulated in 20 equal arcs in each one of the greater sides and 9 arcs, equal to the first ones, in the smaller side.
The balconies of the square are numbered, since they served as boxes for bullfighting celebrations held in the square.
Maculinea alcon
Lungenenzian-Ameisenbläuling
Alcon Blue
Dieser Bläuling gehört zu den stark gefährdeten Arten.
Zu seiner Entwicklung benötigt er nicht nur bestimmte Enzian Sorten (bei der kleinen Population bei mir ist es der Schwalbenwurz-Enzian, Gentiana asclepiadea), sondern ist auch auf das Vorhandensein bestimmter Knotenameisen angewiesen.
Die frisch geschlüpften Räupchen fressen sich in die Knospen, die sie nach ca. drei Wochen verlassen und sich dann auf den Boden begeben.
Mit bestimmten Duftstoffen locken sie schließlich Ameisen an, damit diese sie in ihren Bau verschleppen.
Dort ernähren sie sich von der Brut der Ameisen, also deren Larven und Puppen.
Auch der Schlupf des Falters findet dort im nächsten Frühsommer statt.
This blue is one of the critically endangered species.
For its development it not only needs certain gentian varieties (in my small population it is the swallow-wort gentian, Gentiana asclepiadea), but is also dependent on the presence of certain knot ants.
The freshly hatched caterpillars eat their way into the buds, which they leave after about three weeks and then go to the ground.
Finally, they attract ants with certain scents so that they carry them into their burrow.
There they feed on the brood of the ants, i.e. their larvae and pupae.
The hatching of the butterfly will also take place there in the next early summer.
Otras dependencias son la antesacristía y la sacristía. La primera estuvo amueblada con algunos elementos de la sillería de la Cartuja de Santa María de El Paular, hasta su traslado a este monasterio en el año 2003. En la segunda sala, la decoración corresponde al último tercio del siglo XIX.
FUENTE: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_bas%C3%ADlica_de_San_Francisco...
I've become rather too dependent on my trusty little superzoom, so have been experimenting with which butterflies allow me to get close enough with the 90 mm macro. Swallowtails definitely qualify, partly because they are so big! Tiger Swallowtail, Mount Shasta, California
Island Of Madagascar
Off The East Coast Of Africa
Berenty Reserve
O'Shaughnessy's chameleon (Calumma oshaughnessyi) is a species of chameleon endemic to Madagascar. It was named after the British poet and herpetologist Arthur O'Shaughnessy.
O'Shaughnessy's chameleon has a range of about 18,000 square kilometers throughout the southeastern portion of the central highlands of Madagascar. Its distribution extends from Tsinjoarivo, Ambatolampy in the north to Andohahela National Park in the south. The species is highly dependent on intact, humid forest as its habitat, living in lower densities on selectively logged territories.
They are most active in the morning and the evening.
Although in some places common, O'Shaughnessy's chameleon is severely threatened. Its populations are declining and fragmented, and the species is ranked as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Although reports of illegal trade in the species do exist, its primary threat is habitat loss, such as logging and deforestation. While significant populations do exist in protected areas, further loss of inhabitable terrain could fragment and isolate these communities. – Wikipedia
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect
The tiny Agaric fungi (max height about 8 cm) known collectively as horse hair fungi (Marasmius sp.) are widespread in the Northern hemishere.
They are unusual in that the release of spores is dependent on high moisture levels.
The mushrooms can survive desiccation and readily revive after rain to continue releasing spores.
Deciduous woodland, Quebec, Canada.
Marasmius rotula?
Photograph taken 15 August 2015
Olympus EM5 and Olympus 60 mm f2.8
P8151370
El Palacio Abacial es una gran casa edificada en ladrillo cara vista en el siglo XVI. Esta sobria construcción albergó la residencia del abad y otras dependencias como la farmacia monástica o la oficina del cillerero,monje encargado de la despensa..
Actualmente la Diputación Provincial de Zaragoza,propietaria del Monasterio de Veruela está llevando a cabo su restauración.
Sparrowhawk - Accipiter Nisus
Though it is a predator which specialises in catching woodland birds, the Eurasian sparrowhawk can be found in any habitat and often hunts garden birds in towns and cities. Males tend to take smaller birds, including tits, finches, and sparrows; females catch primarily thrushes and starlings, but are capable of killing birds weighing 500 g (18 oz) or more.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk is found throughout the temperate and subtropical parts of the Old World; while birds from the northern parts of the range migrate south for winter, their southern counterparts remain resident or make dispersive movements. Eurasian sparrowhawks breed in suitable woodland of any type, with the nest, measuring up to 60 cm (2.0 ft) across, built using twigs in a tree. Four or five pale blue, brown-spotted eggs are laid; the success of the breeding attempt is dependent on the female maintaining a high weight while the male brings her food. The chicks hatch after 33 days and fledge after 24 to 28 days.
The probability of a juvenile surviving its first year is 34%, with 69% of adults surviving from one year to the next. Mortality in young males is greater than that of young females and the typical lifespan is four years. This species is now one of the most common birds of prey in Europe, although the population crashed after the Second World War. Organochlorine insecticides used to treat seeds before sowing built up in the bird population, and the concentrations in Eurasian sparrowhawks were enough to kill some outright and incapacitate others; affected birds laid eggs with fragile shells which broke during incubation. However, its population recovered after the chemicals were banned, and it is now relatively common, classified as being of Least Concern by BirdLife International.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk's hunting behaviour has brought it into conflict with humans for hundreds of years, particularly racing pigeon owners and people rearing poultry and gamebirds. It has also been blamed for decreases in passerine populations. The increase in population of the Eurasian Sparrowhawk coincides with the decline in House Sparrows in Britain. Studies of racing pigeon deaths found that Eurasian sparrowhawks were responsible for less than 1%. Falconers have utilised the Eurasian sparrowhawk since at least the 16th century; although the species has a reputation for being difficult to train, it is also praised for its courage. The species features in Teutonic mythology and is mentioned in works by writers including William Shakespeare, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes.
Male Eurasian sparrowhawks regularly kill birds weighing up to 40 g (1.4 oz) and sometimes up to 120 g (4.2 oz); females can tackle prey up to 500 g (18 oz) or more. The weight of food consumed by adult birds daily is estimated to be 40–50 g (1.4–1.8 oz) for males and 50–70 g (1.8–2.5 oz) for females. During one year, a pair of Eurasian sparrowhawks could take 2,200 house sparrows, 600 common blackbirds or 110 wood pigeons. Species that feed in the open, far from cover, or are conspicuous by their behaviour or coloration, are taken more often by Eurasian sparrowhawks. For example, great tits and house sparrows are vulnerable to attack. Eurasian sparrowhawks may account for more than 50% of deaths in certain species, but the extent varies from area to area.
Males tend to take tits, finches, sparrows and buntings; females often take thrushes and starlings. Larger quarry (such as doves and magpies) may not die immediately but succumb during feather plucking and eating. More than 120 bird species have been recorded as prey and individual Eurasian sparrowhawks may specialise in certain prey. The birds taken are usually adults or fledglings, though chicks in the nest and carrion are sometimes eaten. Small mammals, including bats, are sometimes caught but insects are eaten only very rarely.
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
Kenya
East Africa
The Grant's gazelle (Nanger granti) is a species of gazelle distributed from northern Tanzania to South Sudan and Ethiopia, and from the Kenyan coast to Lake Victoria. Its Swahili name is Swala Granti.
The Grant's gazelle is found in East Africa and lives in open grass plains and is frequently found in shrublands; it avoids areas with high grass where the visibility of predators is compromised.
They also occur in semiarid areas and are relatively well adapted to dry areas, relying on more browse or leafy material during dry seasons to supplement their intake of water.
They are migratory animals, but travel in the opposite direction of most of the other ungulates, such as Thomson's gazelles, zebras, and wildebeest, which are more water dependent.
They can subsist on vegetation in waterless, semiarid areas, where they face little competition. - Wikipedia
spider silk web full of water drops in the sun
We had >40mm of rain over the 36 hours prior to this picture being taken this morning (says the man with the new rain gauge!).
This was the sun reappearing after that wet period.
There are some colours from wavelength dependent scattering in the spidersilk, albeit quite subtle ...I’m calling it a scatterscape anyway
Arachtober 20th
Also posting this one to MacroMondays for the theme Sparkle
Flickr has been broken all day. Such an effort to upload this (and then there were no tags, no exif, no access to groups etc...
Hopefully all cured now
OMD - All That Glitters
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* Detalle de la parte superior de las dependencias del Castillo de los Condes de Cabra en la ciudad de Cabra de Córdoba, (La Igabrum tartesso-romana). Centro geográfico de Andalucía.
* El Castillo de Cabra, entendido como tal, data del siglo IX de nuestra era. Hasta sus murallas llegó, en el siglo XI, El Cid Campeador batallando en favor del Rey Moro de Sevilla. Aquí le mesó las barbas al Conde, hecho este que fue recogido en El Cantar de Mio Cid.
En el siglo XIII fue propiedad de Doña Leonor de Guzmán, la famosa amante del Rey Alfonso XI, (El Justiciero) con quien tuvo diez hijos.
Desde el siglo XV hasta finales del XIX, pasó a poder de los Condes de Cabra.
A comienzos del XX, fue vendido a las monjas Escolapias quienes lo convirtieron en Colegio, y así continúa hasta el día de hoy.
Actualmente está considerado dicho Castillo y sus dependencias como Bien de Interés Cultural.
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* Me parece muy conveniente traer aquí al recuerdo aquellos versos del poeta cordobés, Ángel de Saavedra, Duque de Rivas tan ilustrativos en esta ocasión:
Hola, hidalgos y escuderos
de mi alcurnia y mi blasón,
mirad, como bien nacidos,
de mi sangre y casa en pro.
Esas puertas se defiendan,
que no ha de entrar, ¡vive Dios!,
por ellas, quien no estuviere
más limpio que lo está el sol.
No profane mi palacio
un fementido traidor,
que contra su rey combate
y que a su patria vendió.
Pues si él es de reyes primo,
primo de reyes soy yo;
y conde de Benavente,
si él es duque de Borbón.
Llevándole de ventaja,
que nunca jamás manchó
la traición mi noble sangre,
y haber nacido español.
(ÁNGEL DE SAAVEDRA. Un castellano leal.)
The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus, or, inaccurately, koala bear is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae and its closest living relatives are the wombats, which comprise the family Vombatidae. The koala is found in coastal areas of the mainland's eastern and southern regions, inhabiting Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. It is easily recognisable by its stout, tailless body and large head with round, fluffy ears and large, spoon-shaped nose. The koala has a body length of 60–85 cm (24–33 in) and weighs 4–15 kg (9–33 lb). Pelage colour ranges from silver grey to chocolate brown. Koalas from the northern populations are typically smaller and lighter in colour than their counterparts further south. These populations possibly are separate subspecies, but this is disputed.
Koalas typically inhabit open eucalypt woodlands, and the leaves of these trees make up most of their diet. Because this eucalypt diet has limited nutritional and caloric content, koalas are largely sedentary and sleep up to 20 hours a day. They are asocial animals, and bonding exists only between mothers and dependent offspring. Adult males communicate with loud bellows that intimidate rivals and attract mates. Males mark their presence with secretions from scent glands located on their chests. Being marsupials, koalas give birth to underdeveloped young that crawl into their mothers' pouches, where they stay for the first six to seven months of their lives. These young koalas, known as joeys, are fully weaned around a year old. Koalas have few natural predators and parasites, but are threatened by various pathogens, such as Chlamydiaceae bacteria and the koala retrovirus, as well as by bushfires and droughts.
Koalas were hunted by Indigenous Australians and depicted in myths and cave art for millennia. The first recorded encounter between a European and a koala was in 1798, and an image of the animal was published in 1810 by naturalist George Perry. Botanist Robert Brown wrote the first detailed scientific description of the koala in 1814, although his work remained unpublished for 180 years. Popular artist John Gould illustrated and described the koala, introducing the species to the general British public. Further details about the animal's biology were revealed in the 19th century by several English scientists. Because of its distinctive appearance, the koala is recognised worldwide as a symbol of Australia. Koalas are listed as Vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The Australian government similarly lists specific populations in Queensland and New South Wales as Vulnerable. The animal was hunted heavily in the early 20th century for its fur, and large-scale cullings in Queensland resulted in a public outcry that initiated a movement to protect the species. Sanctuaries were established, and translocation efforts moved to new regions koalas whose habitat had become fragmented or reduced. The biggest threat to their existence is habitat destruction caused by agriculture and urbanisation.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala and ypte.org.uk/factsheets/koala/overview?gclid=Cj0KCQiAnNXiB...
Raymond Island (Gunai/Kurnai language: Bunjil-baul)[2] is a small island in the Gippsland Lakes in eastern Victoria, Australia, about 300 km (190 mi) from Melbourne. The island is approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) long by 2 km (1.2 mi) wide, and is just 200 m (660 ft) off the coast, across from the town of Paynesville. The island is named after William Odell Raymond, originally a magistrate from New South Wales who established himself as a squatter in Gippsland in the 1840s.
Raymond Island is well-known locally for its large koala population, originally introduced to the island in 1953, and for the Raymond Island Ferry, a chain ferry that links the island to Paynesville on the mainland.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Island
This juvenile, still dependent on parents for food is, what I call, practising its footwork. In this exercise, they often jump like this at or carrying clumps of earth or small branches. They are teaching themselves skills needed when in the future they hunt voles or chipmunks, etc in the grass. Notice the tail positioning.
I am heading away to the hills tomorrow morning so may well be absent from Flickr for a little while. If I can I will drop in from time to time.
I don't suppose I will be lucky enough on this trip to find conditions like those shown here, but hill weather, scenery conditions change the world over dependent upon the time off the year. This view was taken last March and looks across towards Ben Nevis from the summit of Being na Lap. The climb was unbelievably cold but ever so worth the effort.
Each day that passes I grow more dependent on your smile and your laughter. Each day I fall deeper in love with you. My love for you is infinite. My love for you has no ending. I will love you til I take my last breath. I will take with me our greatest achievements, the love we share and all of the memories we've had. My love will never fade and will never die. My heart beats only because of you. You're the air that I breathe and without you my life would be meaningless and I'd be living in vain. You're my world and everything in it. I love you to infinity.
Maculinea alcon
Lungenenzian-Ameisenbläuling
Alcon Blue
Dieser Bläuling gehört zu den stark gefährdeten Arten.
Zu seiner Entwicklung benötigt er nicht nur bestimmte Enzian Sorten (bei der kleinen Population bei mir ist es der Schwalbenwurz-Enzian, Gentiana asclepiadea), sondern ist auch auf das Vorhandensein bestimmter Knotenameisen angewiesen.
Die frisch geschlüpften Räupchen fressen sich in die Knospen, die sie nach ca. drei Wochen verlassen und sich dann auf den Boden begeben.
Mit bestimmten Duftstoffen locken sie schließlich Ameisen an, damit diese sie in ihren Bau verschleppen.
Dort ernähren sie sich von der Brut der Ameisen, also deren Larven und Puppen.
Auch der Schlupf des Falters findet dort im nächsten Frühsommer statt.
This blue is one of the critically endangered species.
For its development it not only needs certain gentian varieties (in my small population it is the swallow-wort gentian, Gentiana asclepiadea), but is also dependent on the presence of certain knot ants.
The freshly hatched caterpillars eat their way into the buds, which they leave after about three weeks and then go to the ground.
Finally, they attract ants with certain scents so that they carry them into their burrow.
There they feed on the brood of the ants, i.e. their larvae and pupae.
The hatching of the butterfly will also take place there in the next early summer.
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CASCADA, LO QUE QUEDO DE UN PUEBLO...
Cascada es una localidad de Coronel Suarez, Buenos Aires , Argentina
En noviembre de 1910 la empresa Ferrocarril del Sud inauguró su estación y dependencias en el ramal Bolivar-Pigüe. La localidad comenzó a desarrollarse en relación con las actividades agropecuarias de la zona circundante.
Un año después se establece la casa de comercio de Andrés Pereyra, gestor del establecimiento de la Escuela N° 16. La fundación del mismo fue en Octubre de 1912 (cuando se comenzó a vender quintas y solares de acuerdo al plano de subdivisiónde la traza de la estación ferroviaria).
A mediados de siglo Cascada había crecido considerablemente: se había ampliado el comercio, aparecieron las primeras industrias (herrería, carpintería, hornos de ladrillos, panaderías), contaba con un restaurante-hospedaje, y las actividades sociales y deportivas se canalizaban a través del Club Atlético San Martín, que había sido fundado el 9 de Marzo de 1929.
Pero a partir de la década del 60 comenzó un lento y progresivo éxodo que proyectó la involución de la localidad. Segun versiones, el exodo masivo se produjo cuando se instalo en Coronel Suarez la planta de Adidas, muchos jovenes atraidos por la oferta laboral, se mudaron a la ciudad, al poco tiempo sus familiares siguieron el mismo camino, dejando casas con muebles y bienes en su interior, los cuales fueron producto de saqueo, aun teniendo muchas de sus aberturas tapiadas con mamposteria.
La denominación proviene de un establecimiento agropecuario de la zona, en cuyas tierras se encontraba una cascada.
Cascada es un pequeño y antiguo pueblo rural. Frente al camino paralelo a las vías del ferrocarríl se asientan pocas construcciones marcadas por el paso del tiempo, donde funcionan un viejo almacen de ramos generales y la Sala de Primeros Auxilios.
En el área educativa, la localidad cuenta con un Jardín de Infantes y la Escuela N° 16, inaugurada en 1916. Próximo a este establecimiento se ubica el templo San Martín de Tours, construido en 1920.
Las tierras de la zona, pródigas en humus, posibilitan buenos cultivos. Una cooperativa zonal tiene en esta localidad una importante planta de silos.
Cuenta con 11 habitantes (INDEC, 2010), lo que representa un incremento del 8% frente a los 16 habitantes (INDEC, 2001) del censo anterior.
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Es una de nuestras joyas ibéricas. Su dependencia de la abundancia de conejos- hace que haya zonas donde se hacen verdaderos esfuerzos para mantener su población, pero con escasos resultados, dado que su presa básica es escasa o nula. Con recorte y desde un muladar donde solo los jóvenes suelen bajar a comer.
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Según la Wikipedia, se trata de un caserío agroganadero que responde a la tipología de casa con un patio articulado a sus espaldas, alrededor de la cual se disponen las diferentes dependencias económicas y de servicio.
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'Where' just body dependent
Nowhere, somewhere, everywhere
Mere perceptions diverse
Of everything HERE
Didn't go; to return
Nowhere I go
That nowhere is Here
If you perceive me nowhere
Death starts with birth,
What death without birth ?
'I' am not born,
then 'where' is my birth ?
Birth and death of a body
Mere perceptions of another mortal body
Which appear to appear
Till either of one to the other,
appear to disappear
Beaming with vigour
In Union with the Supreme
'I' am HERE, NOW
As bright as ever
- Anuj Nair
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Substantially dependent on the type Ty43 2-10-0 for it's rural branch services loco Ty43-103 awaits to be dispatched at Gniezno after arrival 11.40 ex Janowiec Wlkp.
A depot visit of the period to a Gniezno crammed with the Polish-build large Kriegslok must certainly have been majestic!
19th February 1987
Beauty exists even without an observer. For nature is in no way dependent on us or our judgment.
This thought came to me when I saw this beautiful flower (whose name I unfortunately couldn't find out) beneath a rock in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park in Thailand.
This isn't so unusual, of course, since large parts of the earth are so sparsely populated or unpopulated that nature there constantly "does its thing" and no one sees it.
Nevertheless, this sight got me thinking.
Beauty (in nature or in people) exists everywhere in the world. Regardless of whether we can (or want to) see it or not.
Therefore, I would like to paraphrase a well-known saying on this topic: in fact, "beauty lies in the heart of the beholder." Seeing, too, begins with a decision.
And so, with this Monday floral greeting, I wish you a week that lets you see with your heart.
Das Schöne existiert auch, ohne dass es einen Betrachter gibt. Denn die Natur ist in keinster Weise auf uns oder unser Urteil angewiesen.
Dieser Gedanke kam mir, als ich unterhalb eines Felsens im Khao Sam Roi Yot Nationalpark in Thailand diese wunderschöne Blume (deren Namen ich leider nicht in Erfahrung bringen konnte) gesehen habe.
Das ist natürlich nicht so außergewöhnlich, den große Teile der Erde sind so dünn oder garnicht besiedelt, dass die Natur dort permanent "ihr Ding macht" und kein Mensch es sieht.
Trotzdem hat mich dieser Anblick zum Nachdenken gebracht.
Das Schöne (in der Natur oder in den Menschen) existiert überall auf der Welt. Ganz gleich, ob wir es sehen können (oder wollen) oder nicht.
Deshalb möchte ich eine bekannte Aussage zu diesem Thema ein wenig umschreiben, denn in Tatsächlich liegt "Schönheit im Herzen des Betrachters". Auch das Sehen beginnt mit einer Entscheidung.
Und so wünsche ich Euch mit diesem montäglichen Blumengruß eine Woche, die Euch mit dem Herzen sehen lässt.