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Chiffchaff - Phylloscopus collybita
The common chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita), or simply the chiffchaff, is a common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds in open woodlands throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia.
It is a migratory passerine which winters in southern and western Europe, southern Asia and north Africa. Greenish-brown above and off-white below, it is named onomatopoeically for its simple chiff-chaff song. It has a number of subspecies, some of which are now treated as full species.
This warbler gets its name from its simple distinctive song, a repetitive cheerful chiff-chaff. This song is one of the first avian signs that spring has returned. Its call is a hweet, less disyllabic than the hooeet of the willow warbler or hu-it of the western Bonelli's warbler.
The common chiffchaff breeds across Europe and Asia east to eastern Siberia and north to about 70°N, with isolated populations in northwest Africa, northern and western Turkey and northwestern Iran. It is migratory, but it is one of the first passerine birds to return to its breeding areas in the spring and among the last to leave in late autumn. When breeding, it is a bird of open woodlands with some taller trees and ground cover for nesting purposes. These trees are typically at least 5 metres (16 ft) high, with undergrowth that is an open, poor to medium mix of grasses, bracken, nettles or similar plants. Its breeding habitat is quite specific, and even near relatives do not share it; for example, the willow warbler (P. trochilus) prefers younger trees, while the wood warbler (P. sibilatrix) prefers less undergrowth. In winter, the common chiffchaff uses a wider range of habitats including scrub, and is not so dependent on trees. It is often found near water, unlike the willow warbler which tolerates drier habitats. There is an increasing tendency to winter in western Europe well north of the traditional areas, especially in coastal southern England and the mild urban microclimate of London. These overwintering common chiffchaffs include some visitors of the eastern subspecies abietinus and tristis, so they are certainly not all birds which have bred locally, although some undoubtedly are.
Population:
UK breeding:
1,200,000 territories
UK wintering:
500-1,000 birds
Ndutu region in the southeast of the Serengeti, Tanzania
significantly larger than its much better known relative, the Thomson's Gazelle, a very common sight in the Serengeti - Masai Mara region.
Grant's gazelles are less dependent on water than Thomson's.
Nanger granti
Grantgazelle
Gazelle de Grant
Grant-Gazelle
gacela de Grant o gacela suara
gazzella di Grant
gazela-de-grant
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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.
Chiffchaff - Phylloscopus collybita
The common chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita), or simply the chiffchaff, is a common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds in open woodlands throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia.
It is a migratory passerine which winters in southern and western Europe, southern Asia and north Africa. Greenish-brown above and off-white below, it is named onomatopoeically for its simple chiff-chaff song. It has a number of subspecies, some of which are now treated as full species.
This warbler gets its name from its simple distinctive song, a repetitive cheerful chiff-chaff. This song is one of the first avian signs that spring has returned. Its call is a hweet, less disyllabic than the hooeet of the willow warbler or hu-it of the western Bonelli's warbler.
The common chiffchaff breeds across Europe and Asia east to eastern Siberia and north to about 70°N, with isolated populations in northwest Africa, northern and western Turkey and northwestern Iran. It is migratory, but it is one of the first passerine birds to return to its breeding areas in the spring and among the last to leave in late autumn. When breeding, it is a bird of open woodlands with some taller trees and ground cover for nesting purposes. These trees are typically at least 5 metres (16 ft) high, with undergrowth that is an open, poor to medium mix of grasses, bracken, nettles or similar plants. Its breeding habitat is quite specific, and even near relatives do not share it; for example, the willow warbler (P. trochilus) prefers younger trees, while the wood warbler (P. sibilatrix) prefers less undergrowth. In winter, the common chiffchaff uses a wider range of habitats including scrub, and is not so dependent on trees. It is often found near water, unlike the willow warbler which tolerates drier habitats. There is an increasing tendency to winter in western Europe well north of the traditional areas, especially in coastal southern England and the mild urban microclimate of London. These overwintering common chiffchaffs include some visitors of the eastern subspecies abietinus and tristis, so they are certainly not all birds which have bred locally, although some undoubtedly are.
Population:
UK breeding:
1,200,000 territories
UK wintering:
500-1,000 birds
Uno de los principales atractivos es que todo el pueblo se encuentra en el interior del recinto amurallado, dotando así al lugar de un inconfundible aire medieval. De hecho la entrada al pueblo es posible por una sola puerta, la llamada del Arco de la Villa.
Esta torre además de tener el escudo de armas del quinto Condestable de Castilla y Señor de la Villa, Don Iñigo Fernández de Velasco, alberga en su interior la cárcel de la villa, hoy rehabilitada y visitable. En la visita se pueden ver una mazmorra, cepos para los presos, las dependencias donde vivía el carcelero, celdas de madera,
Hier, je suis resté 4 heures pour assister à cette belle scène de vie animalière que j'affectionne particulièrement car ce sont des oiseaux que j'aime beaucoup observer à distance..!!
Les grèbes se relaient sur le nid et le consolide...
Il y a quatre oeufs ....
Il faudra attendre la naissance des grèbes huppés.....
C'est la première couvée de ces grèbes huppés.
J'espère assister aux naissances.
Le Grèbe huppé niche entre avril et juillet.
À cette époque, les adultes portent une double huppe et des oreillettes brunes encadrant la tête.
Le nid peut reposer sur un fond vaseux mais il est conçu en principe pour affleurer la surface.
Il peut également flotter mais il est alors arrimé à une souche ou à un paquet de végétaux entremêlés.
Les adultes en garnissent la coupe peu profonde de végétaux qui servent à recouvrir les œufs si les adultes s'absentent du nid. La ponte est composée de 3 à 6 œufs blancs qui virent ensuite au brun et deviennent de ce fait plus discrets.
Les adultes couvent en se relayant toutes les quelques heures. L'éclosion intervient au bout de 28 jours.
Les jeunes sont capables de nager aussitôt mais ils restent dépendants de leurs parents plusieurs semaines.
Un grand merci à toutes et tous pour vos visites et vos commentaires qui sont toujours très appréciés.
Source: Oiseaux.net
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Yesterday, I stayed 4 hours to attend this beautiful scene of animal life that I particularly like because they are birds that I really like to observe from a distance..!!
The grebes take turns on the nest and consolidate it...
There are four eggs...
We will have to wait for the birth of the great crested grebes.....
This is the first brood of these great crested grebes.
I hope to attend the births.
The Great Crested Grebe nests between April and July.
At this time, adults wear a double crest and brown ear flaps framing their heads.
The nest can rest on a muddy bottom but it is designed in principle to be flush with the surface.
It can also float but it is then secured to a stump or a bundle of intertwined plants.
The adults fill the shallow cup with plants which are used to cover the eggs if the adults are absent from the nest. The laying is composed of 3 to 6 white eggs which then turn brown and therefore become more discreet.
Adults brood taking turns every few hours. Hatching occurs after 28 days.
The young are able to swim immediately but they remain dependent on their parents for several weeks.
A big thank you to all of you for your visits and your comments which are always very much appreciated.
Dipper - Cinclus Cinclus
aka Water Ouzel
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
It is a genus of more than 1,000 species of flowering plants, widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere and the tropics. Impatiens make up the family Balsaminaceae. Common names in North America include impatiens, jewelweed, touch-me-not, snapweed and patience. Most Impatiens species are annual or perennial herbs with succulent stems. Only a few woody species exist. Plant size varies dependent of the species from five centimetres to 2.5 meters. North American impatiens have been used as herbal remedies for the treatment of bee stings, insect bites, and stinging nettle rashes. 64512
"THE GUARDIANS OF THE GATE OF THE ROYAL PALACE".
El Gran y antiguo Palacio Real de Bangkok se divide en dos zonas diferentes como son las antiguas dependencias palaciegas de los reyes de Tailandia y una inmensa zona del templo del Buda Esmeralda budistas, esculturas y jardines que hoy en día es la principal atracción turística de la ciudad de Bangkok y centro de peregrinación de devotos budistas y nacionalistas.
Mandado construir por Enrique III en 1401 como palacio, la Cartuja de Miraflores se remonta al año 1442 cuando el rey Juan II de Castilla (1405-1454) lo dona a la Orden de la Cartuja, cuyos monjes fundaron la comunidad de Miraflores y reformaron las dependencias para el culto y mas tarde por mandato de la Reina Isabel la Católica encargara para el descanso eterno de su padre y hermano sus sepulcros y el retablo mayor. Todo su conjunto es una autentica joya del gótico, obra de Juan de Colonia arquitecto de la Catedral de Burgos
El templo actual es el heredero de un cenobio nacido en el siglo IX (año 850) y que siglos más tarde pasó a depender del Monasterio de Oña, convirtiéndose en priorato.
La actual iglesia románica se erigió en algún momento indeterminado de la primera mitad del siglo XII.
El edificio sorprende por su esbeltez y airosidad, no sólo por la torre que se yergue vertical sobre el primer tramo de la nave, sino también por la altura del propio cuerpo de la iglesia en relación a su anchura. San Pedro de Tejada es la prueba de que el románico no es una arquitectura achaparrada en absoluto.
The current temple is the heir to a monastery born in the 9th century (year 850) and that centuries later became dependent on the Monastery of Oña, becoming a priory.
The current Romanesque church was erected at some indeterminate time in the first half of the 12th century.
The building is surprising for its slenderness and airiness, not only because of the tower that rises vertically over the first section of the nave, but also because of the height of the body of the church itself in relation to its width. San Pedro de Tejada is the proof that Romanesque architecture is not squat at all.
It is a genus of more than 1,000 species of flowering plants, widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere and the tropics. Impatiens make up the family Balsaminaceae. Common names in North America include impatiens, jewelweed, touch-me-not, snapweed and patience. Most Impatiens species are annual or perennial herbs with succulent stems. Only a few woody species exist. Plant size varies dependent of the species from five centimetres to 2.5 meters. North American impatiens have been used as herbal remedies for the treatment of bee stings, insect bites, and stinging nettle rashes. 18312
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.
Sage Junction, Idaho
The Sage Thrasher is a sagebrush dependent species during the breeding season and winters in rather dry, brushy and grassy areas in the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico. Its rather rambling song is beautiful. Unfortunately this species has experienced approximately a 50% population decline as sagebrush habitat has been degraded or entirely converted to other usages. It's reported that it's been largely extirpated from Canada and its range is constricting in the U.S. It continues to enjoy a strong population in the Intermountain West where large tracts of sagebrush remain.
Puente Nuevo, Ronda, Málaga.
En 1735 se construyó el primer puente, derrumbándose seis años más tarde y matando a 50 personas. Al parecer la falta de apoyos, el mal cerramiento del arco y la mala ejecución de la obra hicieron que el puente colapsara.
No fue hasta 1751 cuando se decidió emprender la construcción de un nuevo puente. Para sufragarlo hubo que recoger 15.000 reales de la Real Maestranza e imponer un impuesto en la Feria de Mayo. En su realización intervinieron diversos maestros, aunque el más destacado fue José Martín de Aldehuela, quien finalizó la obra. Finalmente fue inaugurado en mayo de 1793.
De sillería de piedra, el puente presenta un arco central de medio punto apoyado en otro más pequeño por el que transcurre el río. En la parte superior, se encuentran las dependencias del puente que, en otros tiempos, fueron utilizadas como prisión, a cuyos lados se abren otros dos arcos, también de medio punto, que sostienen la estructura que soporta la calle. Más tarde funcionó como mesón y actualmente, es un centro de interpretación del entorno y la historia de la ciudad.
Fuente: wikipedia
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”.
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It is a genus of more than 1,000 species of flowering plants, widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere and the tropics. Impatiens make up the family Balsaminaceae. Common names in North America include impatiens, jewelweed, touch-me-not, snapweed and patience. Most Impatiens species are annual or perennial herbs with succulent stems. Only a few woody species exist. Plant size varies dependent of the species from five centimetres to 2.5 meters. North American impatiens have been used as herbal remedies for the treatment of bee stings, insect bites, and stinging nettle rashes. 34797
It's an exciting place to visit in Little Compton, RI.
Go out to the very tip of the point (where you see can the couple walking if you zoom in) and you'll find a narrow sand strip with waves coming at you from both sides! Very tide dependent, obviously.
In the distant horizon, you can see several islands. I think the one you can see closest to shore once hosted an elite fishing club, but it's long gone and just a few structural elements remain.
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.
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Dommage collatéral de la lutte acharnée contre les insectes et les campagnols, la disparition de la plus grande de nos pies-grièches comme oiseau nicheur dans notre pays témoigne de la situation catastrophique dans laquelle s’y trouve la microfaune, et par conséquent les prédateurs qui en dépendent. Ce n’est pas un miracle si la Pie-grièche grise se maintient aux abords immédiats de nos frontières: les raisons en sont une nature moins étriquée et une destruction moins efficace des habitats...
Statut de menace
éteint en Suisse (RE)
Liste rouge CH
Source :
www.vogelwarte.ch/fr/oiseaux/les-oiseaux-de-suisse/pie-gr...
Another wetlands dependent species, the Yellow-headed Blackbird can be found in large numbers in some western and prairie wetlands. where they nest in reeds directly over the water.
This one was doing its best rusty hinge imitation in Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Utah.
HSS 😊😊😍
If you really think the environment is less important than the economy try holding your breathe while you count your money.
Anon
The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it. David Attenborough
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
Stephen Hawking
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Sant’Elia is a small fraction of the municipality of Santa Flavia, in the province of Palermo.
The inhabited center, founded around the seventeenth century, located largely on a promontory overlooking the sea, was initially born as a fishing village dependent on an ancient trap.
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Sant’Elia è una piccola frazione del comune di Santa Flavia, in provincia di Palermo.
Il centro abitato, fondato intorno al XVII secolo, dislocato in gran parte su un promontorio che si affaccia direttamente sul mare, e’ nato inizialmente come borgo marinaro alle dipendenze di un antica tonnara.
Le Grèbe huppé niche entre avril et juillet. À cette époque, les adultes portent une double huppe et des oreillettes brunes encadrant la tête. Lors de la parade nuptiale complexe, le mâle et la femelle se font face et dressent le cou. Il nagent de concert, se frottent le cou tout en émettant des cris sonores, plongent puis réapparaissent, l'un des deux présentant des algues à l'autre. Le couple s'immobilise, poitrine contre poitrine, et chaque oiseau tourne la tête d'un côté puis de l'autre. Ce manège peut se perpétuer même lorsque les grèbes sont occupés à la construction du nid. Ce dernier est constitué principalement d'algues . Il peut reposer sur un fond vaseux mais il est conçu en principe pour affleurer la surface. Il peut également flotter mais il est alors arrimé à une souche ou à un paquet de végétaux entremêlés. Les adultes en garnissent la coupe peu profonde de végétaux qui servent à recouvrir les œufs si les adultes s'absentent du nid. La ponte est composée de 3 à 6 œufs blancs qui virent ensuite au brun et deviennent de ce fait plus discrets. Les adultes couvent en se relayant toutes les quelques heures. L'éclosion intervient au bout de 28 jours. Les jeunes sont capables de nager aussitôt mais ils restent dépendants de leurs parents plusieurs semaines.
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The Great Crested Grebe nestles between April and July. At this time, adults wear a double crest and brown atria framing the head. During the complex courtship, the male and the female face each other and raise the neck. They swim together, rub their necks while emitting loud cries, dive and then reappear, one of them having algae to another. The couple stands still, chest to chest, and each bird turns its head on one side then the other. This ride can continue even when grebes are busy building the nest. The latter consists mainly of algae. It can rest on a muddy bottom but it is designed in principle to be flush with the surface. It can also float but is then stowed to a stump or a bundle of plants intermingled. Adults fill the shallow cut of plants that cover the eggs if adults are absent from the nest. The egg is composed of 3 to 6 white eggs which turn brown then become more discreet. Adult convent by taking turns every few hours. The hatching occurs after 28 days. The young are able to swim immediately but remain dependent on their parents for several weeks.
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The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus ― Robert Greene quote - Cityscape 2
The largest and I think the most beautiful of the UK thrush species, Fieldfares are winter visitors. The numbers arriving here is dependent on the available food in Eastern Europe and Russia. They feed on our berry crop first, especially Hawthorn berries, like this one is doing. The berry has been tested for softness, as you can see the indentations from the beak. Only the tasty ripe ones will be swallowed. They are quite particular and will readily reject any berries that they deem are not up to their stringent quality control lol. This year there is a definite lack of these lovely birds in my local area.
Fieldfare are “Red Listed” under the UK Birds of Conservation Concern.
Chalkhill Blue / polyommatus coridon. Yoesden Bank, Buckinghamshire. 24/08/16.
It was a wonderful experience to spend a day with plenty of Chalkhill Blue butterflies - a first for me.
I certainly saw eye to eye with this individual!
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.
Ocupando una parte del solar de la última mezquita aljama que tuvo Trujillo, los franciscanos levantaron aquí, durante el reinado de Isabel I de Castilla, un cenobio de pequeñas dimensiones, que fue sucesivamente ampliado hasta el siglo XVIII; momento en el que adquirió la forma y apariencia con que ha llegado a nosotros el edificio actual, no obstante transformado en sus dependencias monásticas tras las desamortizaciones del siglo XIX, que desacralizaron una gran parte de su perímetro.
Iguana and sea lion are still playing tag.
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Breeding takes place from May through January. Because of this prolonged breeding season and the extensive care required by the pups from their mother, there are dependent pups in the colonies year round. Each cow in the harem has a single pup born a year after conception. After about a week of continuous attention from birth, the female returns to the ocean and begins to forage, and just a week after that, the pup will follow her and begin to develop its swimming skills. When the pup is two to three weeks old, the cow will mate again. The mothers will take the young pups with them into the water while nursing until around the 11th month, when the pups are weaned from their mother's milk and become dependent on their own hunting skill.
The lasting interaction of mother–offspring pairs is a central social unit in most mammalian groups, including these sea lions. The cow will nurture a pup for up to three years. In that time, the cow and the pup will recognize each other's bark from the rest of the colony. Within the colony, sea lion pups live together in a rookery. Pups can be seen together napping, playing, and feeding. It is not uncommon to see one cow 'baby-sitting' a group of pups while the other cows go off to feed.
Many mammals synchronize their pregnancies to ensure a greater infant survival rate, but not Z. wollebaeki. Plausible reasons for this low synchrony could be the absence of strong photoperiodic change throughout the year, which is thought to regulate embryonic diapause, and/or adaptation to an environment with variable productivity and prey availability.
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
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
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
Glockenturm bei Falkenstein:
www.westpfalz.wiki/wiki/glockenturm-bei-falkenstein/
This stand-alone bell tower has a long story::
The bell tower in Falkenstein, like many other towers in the North Palatinate, was created out of the desire of a Protestant minority in the village to have their own bell ringing. Until 1818, Lutherans were pastored in Winnweiler and the Reformed in Alsenbrück-Langmeil (then Alsenbrück). After the unification of the Reformed and Lutherans (Unionism) in the 19th century, Falkenstein became the parochial town of Imsbach from 1819.
Specifically, the Falkenstein Protestants wanted their own bells for baptisms, prayers or funerals. This wish took concrete form from 1884 onwards, as it says in the annual report of the pastor at the time: “The prepared work to build our own bell tower in Falkenstein has been completed, the building site has been marked out, measured and purchased.”
However, financing the construction was not without problems, as the “poor Protestant community of Falkenstein” was not able to raise the necessary financial resources on its own. The community was therefore dependent on the help and co-financing of the neighboring communities. The construction cost was 2,650 marks. The community was very lucky because Carl von Gienanth (1818-1890) provided generous financial support totaling more than 2,000 marks. The priest was therefore able to send the following message in a report to Speyer: “The rapid completion of the work is primarily due to the benevolence of Freyherrn Carl von Gienanth in Hochstein.”
Glockenturm bei Falkenstein:
Eight different flight call types have been described, and birds giving each type have slightly differently shaped bills.
The Red Crossbill is so dependent upon conifer seeds it even feeds them to its young. It can breed any time it finds a sufficiently large cone crop, even in the depths of winter.
Ocean County, NJ
Sparrowhawk - (M) Accipiter Nisus
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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.
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.
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Dipper - Cinclus Cinclus
aka Water Ouzel
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
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
When the tide is at its lowest you can virtually wade across the river at Looe in south-east Cornwall. Looe sits on two steep hillsides either side of the Looe River. It still maintains a small fishing industry but, like all Cornish seaside resorts, it is heavily dependent upon holiday visitors for its main income.
The Covid pandemic and shut-down caused enormous losses to businesses both here and abroad. Now there are difficulties in taking foreign holidays (e.g.my daughter had to abort her holiday and fly home early from Mexico) many people who would not normally stay here are cramming in to coastal resorts to the general discomfort of those locals who live here. Sadly, many visitors feel unwelcome and will possibly never return. It's a no-win situation.
Bien qu’ils puissent nager immédiatement après l’éclosion , les poussins ( plongeon huard ) passent beaucoup de temps sur le dos de leurs parents pendant les premiers jours de leur vie . Cela les aide à réguler leur température corporelle et les protège des prédateurs sous-marins . Les poussins dépendent entièrement de leurs parents pour se nourrir , et un adulte reste généralement à la surface de l’eau avec les poussins pendant que l’autre attrape du poisson et les nourrit !
Although they can swim immediately after hatching , chicks ( common loon ) spend a lot of time on their parents backs during the first few days of their lives .This helps them regulate their body temperature and protects them from underwater predators. Chicks are entirely dependent on their parents for food , and one adult usually stays on the surface of the water with
the chicks while the other catches fish and feeds them !
Merci beaucoup pour votre visite , vos favoris et vos commentaires ! Ils sont très appréciés!
Thank you very much for your visit , your favorites and your comments ! They are very appreciated !
Villars es una localidad argentina del partido de General Las Heras, Provincia de Buenos Aires.
e encuentra a 18 km de la ciudad de Marcos Paz y a 18 km de la ciudad de General Las Heras, accediéndose por un camino pavimentado que surje de la Ruta Provincial 6. Su único transporte público es la línea de colectivos 136.Cuenta con 1.147 habitantes (INDEC, 2010), lo que representa un incremento del 28,6% frente a los 892 habitantes (INDEC, 2001) del censo anterior.
La estación ferroviaria de Villars fue y sigue siendo el edificio principal de la historia del pueblo. Fue construida por la Compañía General de Ferrocarriles en la Provincia de Buenos Aires en 1908, como parte de la vía que llegó a Rosario en ese mismo año. Al año siguiente se extendió el ramal a Nueve de Julio, pasando por Patricios. El empalme de ambos ramales se produce un kilómetro al oeste de la estación, en el límite de la zona urbana.
Es una de las estaciones más importantes de la línea, con depósito para 6 locomotoras y mesa giratoria, entre otras dependencias. Su momento de mayor actividad se desarrolló entre 1914 y mediados de la década de 1970, cuando se comenzaron a levantar algunos ramales y clausurar otros, cortándose los servicios de pasajeros como los de cargas. Hasta fines de la década de 1980 era la estación terminal de los servicios locales desde la estación Buenos Aires, en el barrio de Barracas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires.
El Pueblo lleva el nombre de un alto empleado, miembro del directorio de la empresa de ferrocarriles
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
Siglufjörður is a small fishing town in a narrow fjord with the same name on the northern coast of Iceland. Today the town remains dependent on fishing industries although the herring are gone. The government of Iceland is attempting to reverse the population shrinking in the area by improving land transportation. Two road tunnels were dug between Siglufjörður to the neighbouring town of Ólafsfjörður to connect with the region of Eyjafjörður in the east. This building belongs to the Herring Era Museum. It is Iceland‘s largest maritime museum and the only Icelandic museum who has won the European Museum Award. The museum officially opened in 1994 in Róaldsbrakki, an old salting station which had been left abandoned after the collapse of the herring stock in 1969. Additionally two more buildings have been built for the museums exhibitions since then. Also, the museum owns the Old Slipway down by the harbour. Siglufjörður used to be the center of the herring fisheries in Iceland, and the herring played a very large role in the nations economy and industry, providing as much as 44% of the nations export income during some years.
Text adapted from Wikipedia.
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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.)
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.
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