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Young Leopardess climbing down a tree in the Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.
While adult Leopards climb down head first, the youngsters do it tail first and just turn around close to the ground and jump.
Better be watched by an animal than a nosy man.
The world is like a book and those, who do not travel, only read the first page.
If you only visit 2 continents in your lifetime, visit Africa, twice.
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An upwards view between the 3 supertalls in Lujiazui.
Left to right:
Jin Mao Tower 金茂大厦,
SWFC 上海环球金融中心,
Shanghai Center 上海中心大厦 (aka Shanghai Tower).
The world's only group of three supertalls.
😁 I must have a gazillion of these shots, but the view is fascinating...
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RATHER DUMPY and short-tailed woodland bird. The Nuthatch has the habit of descending tree trunks head-downwards in a jerky manner, a trait that, in the region is unique to this species, The chisel-like bill is used to prise insects from tree-bark and ti hammer open acorns wedged into bark crevices. Was good to capture one without any food about, high in a tree.
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"GODs BEAUTY is SIMPLY AMAZING !"
Leaving Shanghai's Inner Ring Viaduct Road (内环高架路) on the Wuzhong Road Exit (吴中路出口).
Now that is a shot from deep in the archives.
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Caletta Castiglioncello - Livorno
Guardiamo poco il cielo perché i nostri pensieri tendono al basso.
Romano Battaglia
We look little at the sky because our thoughts tend downwards.
Romano Battaglia
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RATHER DUMPY and short-tailed woodland bird, that has the habit of descending tree trunks head-downwards in a jerky manner. Its has a chisel-like bill is used to prise insects from tree bark and to hammer open acorns wedged into bark crevices.. A pleased hour with these beauties, seen here warning off other inflight competitors.
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A fast and strong flier. Males will will perch high on foliage or tree trunks facing head downwards to enable them to accelerate quickly as soon as they are airborne. Found in Bolivia.
DUMPY and short-tailed woodland bird, the Nuthatch has the habit of descending tree trunks head-downwards in a jerky mannor. The chisel-like bill is used to prise insects from tree bark, and to hammer open acorns wedged into bark crevices. It is also a frequent visitor to garden bird feeders in rural areas, sadly not mine.
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A adorable, rather dumpy short tailed woodland bird , which has the habit of descending tree trunks head-downwards in a jerky manner, its chisel-like bill is used to prise insects from tree bark and to hammer open acorns wedged into bark crevices. Love working with these birds.
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The genus has about four hundred species that occur in temperate regions. Most species occur in moist and slightly shaded places. After flowering, the spent flower turns downwards, after ripening the seed box rises again and opens. The dried seed capsule is under tension and when moved, the seeds shoot away. Violets are also used as a base for many perfumes. It even makes candy. Young leaves are edible in boiled form and contain many vitamins. The flowers can be used to decorate meals. Flowers, leaves and roots are also used medicinally !!
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At château de Martainville.
This Renaissance castle was built by the ship-owner and merchant Jacques Le Pelletier 1485-95, after he had bought the fief Martainville. The castle remained in the family until the last of the line (by then knighted and bearing the name Martainville) died without heir in 1781. The castle then stood abandoned for quite some time, and not put up for sale until 1905 when a cattle dealer bought the whole place, and an adjoining farm - and he sold the castle the French state.
In 1955 work was begun to restore the castle to its former glory - a work they did really well. Today it is a museum for the traditions and arts of Normandy (and really worth a visit!).
A ENTERTAINING dumpy short-tailed woodland bird, has the habit of descending tree trunks head-downwards in a jerky manner. The chisel-like bill is used to prise insects from tree bark and to hammer open acorns which they wedge into bark crevices. Seen and captured in Bossenham woods, near Dunkirk Kent U.K.
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"JESUS would have gone to the cross, even if you was the only person in this world !" THAT is how much he loves you!
red-headed cardinal beetle
Rotköpfiger Feuerkäfer
[Pyrochroa serraticornis]
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Daffodil Facts and Lore
Daffodil flowers are often pointed slightly downwards on their stems, as though they are looking at something on the ground ...
Narcissus is sometimes used as a common name for the daffodil.
An old name for Narcissus pseudonarcissus is the Lent Lily or the Lenten Lily.
"Jonquil" is another name used for daffodils, although this name applies more properly to just one species— Narcissus jonquilla ...
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Tibouchina urvilleana flower aka Princess flower, Glory bush , purple Glory bush, Glory tree or Glory flower.
Taken at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens.
The sickle shaped stamens are very unusual in appearance , in fact there are 2 stamens.
The lower, claw-shaped ones are the genuine article, producing pollen that is squeezed out of a pore in their tip when they are pushed downwards.
But the upper ones with pale tips are sterile 'food' stamens that attract bees. ( The focus here is on the pale tips...you can see a tiny insect next to it on the leftmost stamen , best viewed enlarged ).
They use the pollen- bearing stamens as a landing pad and unwittingly transport the pollen.
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Deep in the autumnal forest near the town of Berg at the Starnberger See lake. As can easily be seen by the growth of the trees, this slope is creeping downwards, not stable...
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Columbine is derived from Aquilegia, the Latin name of this plant. This means eagle. In England the plant is called Columbine, which means 'dove'. It is good to look: in the flower you can recognize a few doves with small heads at the top and petals that spread like wings. The dove in the Bible is a reference to the Spirit. At the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan, the prophet John testifies: "I saw how the Spirit came down from heaven like a dove and rested on him. (...) This is the Son of God" (John 1,31- 34).
Flowering stems of this plant often split into three stems with three flowers on either side and one flower in the middle. Seven flowers refer to the seven gifts of the Spirit, based on Isaiah 11:2: wisdom, understanding, counsel, strength, godliness, knowledge and fear. In Christian art, the columbine is a reference to humility (because the flower looks downwards) and a Marian flower.
This White-tailed Eagle was engaged in an altercation with a Crow when it flipped completely upside down, feet pointing to the sky but head downwards. In fighter pilot parlance "... there I was 20,000 feet upside down and nothing on the clock."
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Svartifoss waterfall in South Iceland within the Skaftafell mountain range is set in the most stunning location. Hidden in a deep gorge formed by its river and amazing formations of columnar basalt which appears to be "growing downwards", this is certainly a sight to behold dearly.
Lake Crabtree nearby offers some incredible sunsets in the reflections off the lake. Happy March my friends.
An echinacea bloom whose stem decided to take a break and bend downwards.
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ONE of SEVEN SNIPES seen at the Restharrow hide at Sandwich bay Kent yesterday. EASILY RECOGNIZED by its dumpy, rounded body, short legs, and its incredibly long straight bill, to probe vertically downwards into the soft mud. Often very shy, and hide away, but got lucky today, was a real joy to have something to photograph..
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"GODs BEAUTY is SIMPLY AMAZING !"
Cet oiseau est, sans conteste, l'un des plus beaux de notre territoire. De la taille d'un merle, avec un long bec fin et courbé vers le bas, son corps est très fuselé et sa queue terminée par deux plumes allongées. Ce qui frappe tout d'abord, ce sont ses couleurs magnifiques : dessus roux marron, dos jaune, les ailes et la queue sont bleu-vert, le front blanc, la gorge jaune vif soulignée d'un délicat trait noir et le dessous bleu turquoise. À celà, il faut ajouter un bandeau noir sur un œil rouge foncé. Notre guêpier se fait également remarquer par ses cris très fréquents, très sonores, à la tonalité roulée, liquide. Et comme il adore vivre en colonie, il est aisé de le repérer.
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This bird is, without question, one of the most beautiful of our territory. The size of a blackbird, with a long, slender beak curved downwards, its body is very tapered and its tail ends with two elongated feathers. What strikes first is its magnificent colors: brown red top, yellow back, wings and tail are blue-green, white forehead, bright yellow throat underlined with a delicate black line and blue under turquoise. To that, we must add a black band on a dark red eye. Our bee-eater is also noticed by its very frequent cries, very sound, with the rolled, liquid tone. And since he loves to live in a colony, it is easy to spot him.
In this area of Norway the sun has yet to peek over the hills. At its highest point it remains below the hill on the left, and as it continues downwards from left to right in this image in a long curved route, it creates all sorts of colours from behind the hills and mountains.
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Purpurreiher (Ardea purpurea)
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Der Purpurreiher (Ardea purpurea) ist eine Vogelart aus der Familie der Reiher. Zur Zeit wird die Art als nicht gefährdet (least concern) auf der IUCN Roten Liste geführt. Habitatsverluste lassen die Zahlen allerdings langsam zurückgehen.
Merkmale:
Der Purpurreiher hat eine Körperlänge von 70 bis 90 Zentimetern (mit gestrecktem Hals) und eine Spannweite von 107 bis 143 Zentimetern. Damit ist er kleiner als der Graureiher, dem er im Flug zwar ähnelt, sich jedoch durch seine Färbung und seine wesentlich längeren, im Flug oft gespreizten Zehen unterscheidet. Weiterhin sind die Beine und der dünnere, weniger dolchartige Schnabel matt gelb, der Schnabelfirst ist dunkel. Die Basis des Oberschnabels ist hell. Der Kopf ist kleiner und geht flacher von der Stirn in den Schnabel über als beim Graureiher. Die Iris ist gelb.
Die Seiten von Kopf und Hals sind rotbraun, auf dem Hals befinden sich deutliche schwarze Längsstreifen. Die Oberseite des Rumpfes ist dunkelgrau, die Flügeldecken haben besonders bei Männchen eine braunviolette Tönung. Im Jugendkleid im ersten Winter ist die gesamte Oberseite, die Flügeldecken, der Hals und der Kopf ockerbraun, die dunklen Längsstreifen auf dem Hals sind undeutlich und die Oberseite wirkt durch dunkle Federzentren gescheckt. Im ersten Sommer ähneln Hals und Oberseite den Altvögeln, jedoch sind die Flügeldecken noch braun gescheckt.
Beim Flug ist der Hals s-förmig gekrümmt. Die Schlagfrequenz ist höher als beim Graureiher.
Purple heron (Ardea purpurea)
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The purple heron (Ardea purpurea) is a wide-ranging species of wading bird in the heron family, Ardeidae. The scientific name comes from Latin ardea "heron", and purpureus, "coloured purple".[2] It breeds in Africa, central and southern Europe, and southern and eastern Asia. The Western Palearctic populations migrate between breeding and wintering habitats whereas the African and tropical-Asian populations are primarily sedentary, except for occasional dispersive movements.
It is similar in appearance to the more common grey heron but is slightly smaller, more slender and has darker plumage. It is also a more evasive bird, favouring densely vegetated habitats near water, particularly reed beds. It hunts for a range of prey including fish, rodents, frogs and insects, either stalking them or standing waiting in ambush.
Purple herons are colonial breeders and build a bulky nest out of dead reeds or sticks close to the water' edge among reeds or in dense vegetation. About five bluish-green eggs are laid and are incubated by both birds. The young hatch about four weeks later and fledge six weeks after that. The International Union for Conservation of Nature notes that the global population trend is downwards, largely because of the drainage of wetlands, but assesses the purple heron's conservation status as being of "least concern".
On our small photo walk, we passed this underground car park entrance. I really liked the light and atmosphere in it.
Hope you like it, too :)
In the streets of Munich.
The very bobbly dunes backing Warkworth beach, with Coquet Island forming the backdrop.
The day had started beautifully but was heading on a downwards trajectory and, if I remember rightly, it was raining by the time I got home about an hour later.
ps A shot from the earlier, nicer part of the morning is at the start of the comments below.
"Cloud shadows and rays can be very counter intuitive!
The dark shadows look like they are pointing upwards but in reality they are angled downwards – all shadows cast by the sun must go downwards.
There is a thin layer of hazy cloud _below_ the top of the towering cumulus. The sun is casting a shadow of the cumulus cloud onto this lower layer. We see the shadow through the other side of the lower cloud layer ‘screen’. The shadow looks above the cumulus cloud simply because the shadow is closer to the camera."
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This is a second shot of the route taken by the “Elevador da Bica” one of the so typical Lisbon funiculars.
For the previous one (the shot was taken looking upwards whereas this one is looking on the opposite direction – downwards) see my post here:
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The nineteenth century funicular ascends one of Lisbon’s steepest hills, between the riverside and Bairro Alto.
Bica is considered Lisbon’s most picturesque funicular, leading up to the Bica and Bairro Alto neighbourhoods, an area full of distinctive buildings, little shops and some nice restaurants. Bairro Alto, is nowadays one of the trendiest neighbourhoods in the city.
Built in 1892, the funicular was initially moved by the water counterbalancing system, whereby movement was achieved by loading the car at the top of the hill with water until it was heavy enough to descend the hill and pull up the other car at the bottom of the hill. In 1896 the Elevador da Bica became steam powered, and in 1924 it was electrified.
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Lisbon, Portugal
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Beija flor de rabo branco acanelado/ Plateau hermit (Phaethornis pretrei) is a species of bird in the Trochilidae family.
One of the largest Brazilian hummingbird species (15 cm), it stands out for having a long tail, with each feather ending in a white tip, contrasting with the black center.
The beak is long and slightly curved downwards. Throat, underparts and upper-coverts of tail uniform tan color.
It feeds mainly on carbohydrates, obtained through the nectar of flowers, but also eats small arthropods.
In the mating season, between August and November, to attract the attention of the females, the male opens his beak and displays his mouth, tongue and jaw, parts that have a bright color that draws attention. It also displays the expanded fan-shaped tail. The prenuptial flight consists of a lengthy pursuit of the female, both hooting, performed at a low altitude within dense forest.
Its nest has an elongated conical shape, made of soft material such as kapok and plant debris that is accumulated in a thick layer of material, fixed with cobwebs and saliva (hummingbirds are one of the few birds with expressive salivary glands). To catch the cobwebs, it goes through the places with the greatest possibility of encounters, including eaves and inside houses.
The nest is suspended on the inner side of the leaves of palm trees, ferns, heliconias, etc., on thin roots hanging down under shady ravines.
It is also common to be affixed under human constructions, such as eaves of roofs, chandeliers inside homes, structures covering water wells, over bridges, etc. It lays two elongated eggs, with an incubation period ranging from 12 to 15 days. Chicks leave the nest after three weeks.
Inquisitive and not fearful, it enters homes and approaches short distances, stopping abruptly and suddenly close to the observer's face.
*The head is in focus. The wings in frenetic movement did not allow me to capture the body properly.
"TO CELEBRATE SPRING!"
A WOODLAND SCENE, with the additional help of a few hidden sunflower hearts, and just sit and wait.
These Nuthatch are fast becoming my favourite bird, so entertaining and brave, the way they descend tree trunks head-downwards, they often call out "zwiit" repeatedly to each other. They also store up food in holes in trees for a rainy day!
COULD WATCH THEM ALL DAY!
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The Green heron is a small solitary heron that lives along shaded riverbanks or quiet streams in areas of dense vegetation. It is often somewhat secretive but is sometimes to be seen crying "kyow" while flying up a creek. When in the open, it will often flick its short tail nervously, while raising and lowering its crest. The "green" of its back is an iridescence, and often appears as a dull blue or just dark.
Although they are quite common, Green herons are shy and so are not often observed. Their active period is during the day and they nest within their feeding areas. To catch fish they either stand in the water or perch low above the water, watching for prey, or they track it down. Occasionally they will swim after prey. They will retract their neck, holding their bill downwards aiming at a fish, take a few cautious steps and stab their prey with their bill. They feed either alone or as a pair. When threatened, alarmed or aggressive, Green herons raise their crest, hold their neck still and flutter their tail. They are territorial and do not tolerate intrusions. They attack intruders on sight, flying towards them, making a loud and guttural repetitive "annnck-annnnck". This call is also repeated as an alarm.
The Green heron uses tools, being one of the few bird species to do so. It drops objects such as bread crusts, twigs, insects, earthworms, and feathers on the water’s surface to attract small fish.
I found this one along Peavine Road in Osceola County, Florida.
Daffodil Facts and Lore
Daffodil flowers are often pointed slightly downwards on their stems, as though they are looking at something on the ground ...
Narcissus is sometimes used as a common name for the daffodil.
An old name for Narcissus pseudonarcissus is the Lent Lily or the Lenten Lily.
"Jonquil" is another name used for daffodils, although this name applies more properly to just one species— Narcissus jonquilla ...
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Hi there,
The Red Milkweed Beetle has a really cute face and try as I may to get it to look towards me, it looked downwards, then took off, probably to find another milkweed beetle.
Thanks a million for taking the time to look and for leaving me a comment. I do love hearing from you. Have a wonderful day!
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The Hoya Bella is fascinating - 7 to 9 (maybe more) mini-flowers hang downwards on a single stem - usually in a circle round a single centre. This is what it looks like from underneath. The flowerhead is only about 3-4 cm in diameter. The mini-flowers are barely a centimetre.
I really appreciate any Views, Faves and Comments and I will try to visit your sites in due course. Thank you so much.
WINTER BIRD ! They are resident all year round, but the only place to see them locally is very heavily wooded, which is there habitat, so very poor light. Am eagerly awaiting the leaves to drop, and to see these beauties again, descending tree trunks head-downwards in a jerky manner, a real character bird, could watch them all day.
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Happy clicking, enjoy the long weekend, God bless........ ..................Tomx
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"JESUS ! loves you, yellow, black, or white, all are precious in his sight !!!!
01-september-2019: here I am on the little road leading to Studeno Na Blokah (783m a.s.l.) and Radlek from Nova Vas, then on the reliefs that close to the south the Bloke plateau, giving on areas at lower altitudes (between Loška Dolina and Cerkniško Polje), thus managing to clearly distinguish the highest and most intriguing peak of the Karst-Dinaric Slovenia.
The Bloke plateau, sub-alpine climate/local continental micro-climate, is in the North-East of the Karst Region, Northern of Loška dolina and Babno Polje, it develops at an (average: 745m) altitude between 650 and 955m a.s.l. and is characterized by vast flat areas alternating with soft reliefs with small basins and valleys, each of these, during clear and windless nights, develops a strong thermal inversion.
The loss of soil heat towards the space generates a decisive thermal drop, starting from sunset ending at sunrise, which cold air (dense and heavy) slides downwards (as water would do), filling the basins, valleys and lowlands areas closed by reliefs on the margins.
The decrease in temperature is closely connected with the increase in humidity up to the saturation of the air water vapor with condensation in stratified/layered fog, low fog (30cm-300cm) and small local fog banks concentrated in the areas with thermal inversion.
The Bloke is characterized by numerous small basins, each of which, in these cases, has its "personal fog bank", as we see in this shot.
Just a weird and crooked tree that has been topped and decided it will grow downwards into the earth and connect with the decaying bushes. The sky was clear and the water in the distance super still so wanted to create a dramatic shot with this wonderful tree dominating the frame. Taken at Nene Park, Cambridgeshire on a winters afternoon