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La loro funzione è evidente: imitare gli occhi di un predatore per scoraggiare i predatori della specie. Assai più difficile, invece è immaginare come il processo evolutivo di questa bella specie di farfalla abbia potuto disegnare tali macchie. La Natura custodisce ancora milioni di segreti, indifferente al fatto che la stiamo distruggendo ..... ..
Quei due occhi, così ben disegnati da un lungo processo evolutivo e di selezione naturale, consentono a questa bellissima farfalla alpina di sopravviveve e di difendersi efficacemente dai suoi piccoli predatori alati. Immobile su un sasso essa confida nell'effetto deterrente di quello sguardo minaccioso, che peraltro ho semplicemente osservato negli altri individui della sua stessa specie senza poterne comprendere il significato ..... ..
This Carolina Wren was on top of a high stack of railroad ties. It was building a massive nest (with the help of its partner) in between the planks. It was right next to the tracks. A new meaning to the song "I've been working on the railroad" I guess the sound of the passing trains was not a deterrent.
Patapsco Valley State Park (PVSP)
Marriottsville, Maryland
The collective noun for Lapwings is 'deceit'. This originates from the idea that Lapwings are deceitful and treacherous. This in my humble opinion, is a little unfair, as the Lapwing is known to perform a brocken wing display when a predator is approaching their nest. A perfectly exceptable deterrent.
A Timeline Events photo charter with the Avro Vulcan XM655 which was third from last of the Vulcan bombers produced for the Royal Air Force, being delivered in late 1964, and was part of the UK’s nuclear deterrent force throughout the 1960s and 1970s. It is now owned by Wellesbourne Airfield, and is looked after by 655 Maintenance and Preservation Society (655MaPS) which is a volunteer organisation of Vulcan enthusiasts.
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On top of a deterrent dines a snag
where frozen applause riots
beneath normal breaths
and the paranoid
hesitates,
flows into herself.
Says, "no more, not today."
And will the approach delay
the deep delight of you?
A tentative confidence hugs,
confronts a corpse
that rumbles that place
where she jumped,
past the feeling
of being beloved.
Outside her window,
the wizard ash
traces her through
smeared glass,
watches her turn
to where a dish scarfs
green flames, she,
the inflexible witch
fasts in the jam
as coloured vinyl
twists without
one
explosive
verb.
A massive Joshua Tree stands alone with its subjects looking on in the background.
After expending most of vacation time shooting around the Southwest, I found myself with a new moon and no place to go.
I have been ignoring JT as of late because it's been reserved for filler and last weekend was the perfect time to scout the Joshua Trees in the monument. I started at 3pm sunday after peak heat which was 95 degrees, the temperature was a great deterrent for most tourist and that was apparent when I arrived, the place was a ghost town. The lack of people in the park was the perfect opportunity to scout out the best Trees found in the park, After 4 hours of walking and driving, mostly driving at around ten mph looking at every possible location then disembarking to tag each tree at it's actual location. All in all I tagged 32 interesting specimens then waited to see what the night sky would bring. I still needed a location for my sunset shot, Keys view was out of the question, the sky was clear to the west but there where some nice clouds lingering to the east so I decided to head over to see what was going on at the ancient juniper in the Jumbo Rocks campground. As I suspected, not a soul around. Perfect. I had a semi-epic sunset there and the spent the rest of my remaining time shooting the specimens I had found during the day until rain ended my fun and blotted out the Milky Way. Next time I go to JT I will be able to go directly to each tree. This is the one tree that really stood out of the bunch its massive umbrella truly dwarfed any other found. Hope you like it. :)
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Portsmouth, Englad
As you arrive at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, the stunning sleek, black lines of Britain's first iron-hulled, armoured warship, take your breath away. Warrior, launched in 1860, was the pride of Queen Victoria's fleet. Powered by steam and sail, she was the largest, fastest and most powerful ship of her day and had a profound effect on naval architecture. Warrior was, in her time, the ultimate deterrent. Yet within a few years she was obsolete. Restored and back at home in Portsmouth, Warrior now serves as a ship museum, monument, visitor attraction, private venue and more.
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We had just arrived at Circle B Bar Reserve near Lakeland, Florida, when we came across this Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) on his quest for bugs. The spanish moss is not a deterrent. He measures 16-19 1/2 inches (40-49 cm) from beak-tip to tail-tip.
The VFW VAK 191B was an experimental German vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) strike fighter of the early 1970s. VAK was the abbreviation for Vertikalstartendes Aufklärungs- und Kampfflugzeug (Vertical Take-off Reconnaissance and Strike Aircraft). Designed and built by the Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke (VFW), it was developed with the purpose of eventually serving as a replacement for the Italian Fiat G.91 then in service with the German Air Force.
Operationally, it was intended to have been armed with nuclear weapons as a deterrent against aggression from the Soviet Union and, in the event of a major war breaking out, to survive the first wave of attacks by deploying to dispersed locations, rather than conventional airfields, and to retaliate against targets behind enemy lines.
The VAK 191B suffered from a protracted development cycle, spanning ten years between inception and flight, in part due to changing requirements, partnerships changing, and the difficulty inherently associated in the development of VTOL-capable aircraft. Ultimately, during the late 1960s, VFW took the decision to demote the development programme from targeting the type's production and instead only to test-fly a limited number of prototypes, using the VAK 191B effectively as a technology demonstrator and experimental aircraft to support the company's other activities and future programmes. On 10 September 1971, the first prototype conducted the type's maiden flight. A total of 91 flights were performed prior to the retirement of all three prototypes in 1975. These aircraft have been preserved and two are now on public display in museums.
As you arrive at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, the stunning sleek, black lines of Britain's first iron-hulled, armoured warship, take your breath away. Warrior, launched in 1860, was the pride of Queen Victoria's fleet. Powered by steam and sail, she was the largest, fastest and most powerful ship of her day and had a profound effect on naval architecture. Warrior was, in her time, the ultimate deterrent. Yet within a few years she was obsolete. Restored and back at home in Portsmouth, Warrior now serves as a ship museum, monument, visitor attraction, private venue and more.
A Timeline Events photo charter with the Avro Vulcan XM655 which was third from last of the Vulcan bombers produced for the Royal Air Force, being delivered in late 1964, and was part of the UK’s nuclear deterrent force throughout the 1960s and 1970s. It is now owned by Wellesbourne Airfield, and is looked after by 655 Maintenance and Preservation Society (655MaPS) which is a volunteer organisation of Vulcan enthusiasts.
A Timeline Events photo charter with the Avro Vulcan XM655 which was third from last of the Vulcan bombers produced for the Royal Air Force, being delivered in late 1964, and was part of the UK’s nuclear deterrent force throughout the 1960s and 1970s. It is now owned by Wellesbourne Airfield, and is looked after by 655 Maintenance and Preservation Society (655MaPS) which is a volunteer organisation of Vulcan enthusiasts.
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A Timeline Events photo charter with the Avro Vulcan XM655 which was third from last of the Vulcan bombers produced for the Royal Air Force, being delivered in late 1964, and was part of the UK’s nuclear deterrent force throughout the 1960s and 1970s. It is now owned by Wellesbourne Airfield, and is looked after by 655 Maintenance and Preservation Society (655MaPS) which is a volunteer organisation of Vulcan enthusiasts.
The VFW VAK 191B was an experimental German vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) strike fighter of the early 1970s. VAK was the abbreviation for Vertikalstartendes Aufklärungs- und Kampfflugzeug (Vertical Take-off Reconnaissance and Strike Aircraft). Designed and built by the Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke (VFW), it was developed with the purpose of eventually serving as a replacement for the Italian Fiat G.91 then in service with the German Air Force.
Operationally, it was intended to have been armed with nuclear weapons as a deterrent against aggression from the Soviet Union and, in the event of a major war breaking out, to survive the first wave of attacks by deploying to dispersed locations, rather than conventional airfields, and to retaliate against targets behind enemy lines.
The VAK 191B suffered from a protracted development cycle, spanning ten years between inception and flight, in part due to changing requirements, partnerships changing, and the difficulty inherently associated in the development of VTOL-capable aircraft. Ultimately, during the late 1960s, VFW took the decision to demote the development programme from targeting the type's production and instead only to test-fly a limited number of prototypes, using the VAK 191B effectively as a technology demonstrator and experimental aircraft to support the company's other activities and future programmes. On 10 September 1971, the first prototype conducted the type's maiden flight. A total of 91 flights were performed prior to the retirement of all three prototypes in 1975. These aircraft have been preserved and two are now on public display in museums.
I went back to my favorite abandoned car lot yesterday, and trespassed yet again. I found a couple of vehicles that I hadn’t yet photographed. Also, a couple that I had taken pictures of were gone. That surprised me, since this lot is always empty and closed up tight. I am thinking the owner might have died and the kids are slowly getting rid of the cars and boats.
Who wants to win the prize for identifying these two cars? I’m still deciding what the prize will be, but it will be as nice as the fuzzy dice I gave out last time. Maybe I’ll spring for a pair of deer deterrent plastic whistles for your bumper.
A Timeline Events photo charter with the Avro Vulcan XM655 which was third from last of the Vulcan bombers produced for the Royal Air Force, being delivered in late 1964, and was part of the UK’s nuclear deterrent force throughout the 1960s and 1970s. It is now located at Wellesbourne Airfield, and is looked after by 655 Maintenance and Preservation Society (655MaPS) which is a volunteer organisation of Vulcan enthusiasts.
A Timeline Events photo charter with the Avro Vulcan XM655 which was third from last of the Vulcan bombers produced for the Royal Air Force, being delivered in late 1964, and was part of the UK’s nuclear deterrent force throughout the 1960s and 1970s. It is now located at Wellesbourne Airfield, and is looked after by 655 Maintenance and Preservation Society (655MaPS) which is a volunteer organisation of Vulcan enthusiasts.
For Macro Mondays - Chain
The chain on our side gate. Each link is 3/4" long. More of a visual deterrent that I had to put on a couple of years ago after several neighbours said they had had someone in their back yards during the night.
Happy Macro Monday!
While shooting some macro wild flowers I came across this feather caught on a barbed wire fence. I often think of barbed wire fences as a deterrent for larger animals such as cattle, but now I see, ...even the birds aren't safe.
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A quick trip down to the dock on a bright sunny morning confirmed that it's not quite time to turn over the canoe...;-)) About three feet (a meter or so) of ice remains as a more than effective deterrent. While we've escaped much of the snow this year, the same cannot be said for the cold. Unless we happen to have a very mild March, the frozen lake will linger about a month or more.
Cell phones where everywhere in 2019 Havana. There was a dramatic increase of the usage in last 2 years.
Cuba is well behind Canada in many aspects of life, but quickly catching up in terms of cell phone use. 2022 may be another leap ahead or back; depending on your interpretation of this disturbing trend. One thing is clear. There will be no another revolution. Everybody is too busy to notice anything than the small screen. It was still complicated, as you needed $2 card to access Wi-Fi, but obviously no deterrent. Photo taken on 803 Neptuno. I think. This is a school for the hospitality services. Many hotels employ the kids for few weeks a year to give them practical experience. Those jobs are very desirable in Cuba.
Cuba está muy por detrás de Canadá en muchos aspectos de la vida, pero se está poniendo al día rápidamente en términos de uso de teléfonos celulares. 2022 puede ser otro salto adelante o atrás; dependiendo de su interpretación de esta tendencia inquietante. Una cosa está clara. No habrá otra revolución. Todos están demasiado ocupados para notar algo más que la pequeña pantalla. Photo tomada en 803 Neptuno, frente a lo que creo que es una escuela de capacitación para la industria de restaurantes.
975. 2019-Nov 21; P1300480, Havana; Upload 2022-March 15. Lmx -ZS100
Pictured on our rear garden fence, at my home in Betws yn Rhos, Conwy, North Wales, is one of our two regular daily Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) visitors.
No longer is it able to climb onto our bird feeder as we have the 'Ultimate Squirrel Deterrent'!
Here we see it enjoying a 'Buggy Nibble' it's just discovered in the grass underneath it. Holding it carefully, within its front legs firstly it breaks pieces off before eating.
Native to North America grey squirrels were first introduced to the UK in the 19th Century. With the exception of the North and Western Scotland and some islands they are commonly found throughout the UK. It is thought the population numbers 2.7 million and continually grows.
Wouldn't surprise me to see a young one appear shortly too as they seem to be regularly to and fro their nest in a nearby large oak tree!
We occasionally have jet fighters and attack helicopters fly over our heads, but they don't shoot at us. Fortunately we are still as free as Nicola Sturgeon allows us to be. Mind you if she gets her way we will lose our nuclear deterrent. And probably our NATO membership too (for membership of NATO requires nations to permit nuclear weapons on its territory). My thoughts are with the people of Ukraine and any other nation that feels threatened by a bullying neighbour such as the Baltic states and Taiwan. Like the gun, democracy cannot be uninvented (what an irony there!). I think Putin has bitten off more than he can chew if he thinks he can simply subjugate the free thinking Ukrainians back into his dreamed of 2ndChanceUSSR. We saw how well regime change went in Iraq.
Matthew 7:13
New International Version
The Narrow and Wide Gates
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
A Timeline Events photo charter with the Avro Vulcan XM655 which was third from last of the Vulcan bombers produced for the Royal Air Force, being delivered in late 1964, and was part of the UK’s nuclear deterrent force throughout the 1960s and 1970s. It is now located at Wellesbourne Airfield, and is looked after by 655 Maintenance and Preservation Society (655MaPS) which is a volunteer organisation of Vulcan enthusiasts.
The VFW VAK 191B was an experimental German vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) strike fighter of the early 1970s. VAK was the abbreviation for Vertikalstartendes Aufklärungs- und Kampfflugzeug (Vertical Take-off Reconnaissance and Strike Aircraft). Designed and built by the Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke (VFW), it was developed with the purpose of eventually serving as a replacement for the Italian Fiat G.91 then in service with the German Air Force.
Operationally, it was intended to have been armed with nuclear weapons as a deterrent against aggression from the Soviet Union and, in the event of a major war breaking out, to survive the first wave of attacks by deploying to dispersed locations, rather than conventional airfields, and to retaliate against targets behind enemy lines.
The VAK 191B suffered from a protracted development cycle, spanning ten years between inception and flight, in part due to changing requirements, partnerships changing, and the difficulty inherently associated in the development of VTOL-capable aircraft. Ultimately, during the late 1960s, VFW took the decision to demote the development programme from targeting the type's production and instead only to test-fly a limited number of prototypes, using the VAK 191B effectively as a technology demonstrator and experimental aircraft to support the company's other activities and future programmes. On 10 September 1971, the first prototype conducted the type's maiden flight. A total of 91 flights were performed prior to the retirement of all three prototypes in 1975. These aircraft have been preserved and two are now on public display in museums.
Monkshood flowers (Aconitum columbianum) emerge among the false hellebore (Veratrum californicum) in a subalpine wetland, just below Notch Mountain in the Sawatch Range in central Colorado. Both of these plants are chemically defended against herbivores with potent toxic alkaloids. Monkshood roots are particularly dangerous, and poison from a European species was used by the Romans on their spears and arrows, as well as a deterrent for werewolves (and real wolves- thus another common name is wolfsbane).
A Timeline Events photo charter with the Avro Vulcan XM655 which was third from last of the Vulcan bombers produced for the Royal Air Force, being delivered in late 1964, and was part of the UK’s nuclear deterrent force throughout the 1960s and 1970s. It is now located at Wellesbourne Airfield, and is looked after by 655 Maintenance and Preservation Society (655MaPS) which is a volunteer organisation of Vulcan enthusiasts.
These marigolds were planted in a tomato garden, where they are natural deterrents to white flies. A bright spot of color under the ripening tomatoes and their much taller vines, they seemed a secret, undercover world. Part of a memorial garden to a retired social worker at the Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY -- August 8, 2021
A Timeline Events photo charter with the Avro Vulcan XM655 which was third from last of the Vulcan bombers produced for the Royal Air Force, being delivered in late 1964, and was part of the UK’s nuclear deterrent force throughout the 1960s and 1970s. It is now owned by Wellesbourne Airfield, and is looked after by 655 Maintenance and Preservation Society (655MaPS) which is a volunteer organisation of Vulcan enthusiasts.
For Looking Close on Friday theme 'Eggs in Black and White'.
While preparing for this theme I knew I wanted a white egg for playing with some white-on-white minimalism. As all the eggs from the local supermarket are brown, I called in at my neighbour's croft where she keeps a few free-range chickens and ducks of various varieties. She very kindly gave me a few eggs that were too small to be sold, from some young hens that had just started laying.
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph. This snail wasn't in the least bothered by the broken edge of the shell. Some gardeners claim that putting broken eggshells around plants acts as a snail deterrent, but a study done by the Royal Horticultural Society found this to be of no use. Snails may be soft but they are tough!
In fact, eggshells are an excellent source of calcium carbonate that snails need to grow their own shells, so snails may actually be attracted to the broken eggshells for a nutritious nibble. Hence the title of the image is from an old British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan from the 1960's.
If you don't find it too disgusting, zoom in on the image for the details on the snail's face.
Art Deco-style jaywalker deterrent...spotted in Matlock Bath earlier this year also the front end of the preceding Selfie image.
Zuiko 45mm f1.2
For Macro Mondays theme 'Reflection'.
For Smile on Saturday theme 'Eggs From Chickens and Co'.
This image was arrived at rather accidentally while preparing for the Looking Close on Friday theme 'Eggs in Black and White'. All the eggs from the local supermarket are brown, but I wanted white, so I called in at my neighbour's croft where she keeps a few free-range chickens and ducks of various varieties. She very kindly gave me a few eggs that were too small to be sold, from some young hens that had just started laying.
One of my snails was very active and performed brilliantly very quickly - and the 1984 song by Queen came to mind!
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph. This snail wasn't in the least bothered by the broken edge of the shell. Some gardeners claim that putting broken eggshells around plants acts as a snail deterrent, but a study done by the Royal Horticultural Society found this to be of no use. Snails may be soft but they are tough!
In fact, eggshells are an excellent source of calcium carbonate that snails need to grow their own shells, so snails may actually be attracted to the broken eggshells for a nutritious nibble.
This is the wall and fence that stops people walking around the lighthouse at Start Point - not much of a deterrent from what I could see. The Coast Path follows the headland around to the beautiful beach at Mattiscombe Sands.
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At the time, barns were very hard to get leading as whenever possible, terminals were "strongly encouraged" to have a PTC leader if one was available. With a pure non-PTC consist out of Toronto on M397, the weather could not have been less appealing, but anything but a deterrent on getting me up and out for a zebra.
A Timeline Events photo charter with the Avro Vulcan XM655 which was third from last of the Vulcan bombers produced for the Royal Air Force, being delivered in late 1964, and was part of the UK’s nuclear deterrent force throughout the 1960s and 1970s. It is now owned by Wellesbourne Airfield, and is looked after by 655 Maintenance and Preservation Society (655MaPS) which is a volunteer organisation of Vulcan enthusiasts.
So cute, but so annoying… This male Grey Squirrel is a daily visitor; no, a resident, in our garden! He constantly raids the peanut feeder, hanging from a “squirrel-proof” stand set up for Great Spotted Woodpeckers and other wild birds. His teeth are razor sharp and the wire enclosing the nuts is no deterrent. He cuts through the mesh like a hot knife through butter. A new feeder is an annual item on my Christmas wish-list!
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Cacti are planted on top of adobe fences for decoration and as a deterrent to keep animals out. Because the climate is so dry, all the vegetation in the Peruvian highlands are hearty and drought resistant. Yuncaypata, Peru.
HANDLEY PAGE VICTOR XL231_Yorkshire Air Museum_former RAF Elvington
The Handley Page Victor is a British jet-powered strategic bomber, developed and produced by the Handley Page Aircraft Company, which served during the Cold War. It was the third and final V-bomber to be operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF), the other two being the Avro Vulcan and the Vickers Valiant. The Victor had been developed as part of the United Kingdom's airborne nuclear deterrent. In 1968, it was retired from the nuclear mission following the discovery of fatigue cracks, which had been exacerbated by the RAF's adoption of a low-altitude flight profile to avoid interception.
A number of Victors were modified for strategic reconnaissance, using a combination of radar, cameras, and other sensors. As the nuclear deterrence mission was given to the Royal Navy's submarine-launched Polaris missiles in 1969, a large V-bomber fleet could not be justified. Consequently, many of the surviving Victors were converted into aerial refuelling tankers. During the Falklands War, Victor tankers were used in the airborne logistics operation to repeatedly refuel Vulcan bombers on their way to and from the Black Buck raids.
The Victor was the last of the V-bombers to be retired, the final aircraft being removed from service on 15 October 1993. In its refuelling role, it was replaced by the Vickers VC10 and the Lockheed Tristar.
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A Timeline Events photo charter with the Avro Vulcan XM655 which was third from last of the Vulcan bombers produced for the Royal Air Force, being delivered in late 1964, and was part of the UK’s nuclear deterrent force throughout the 1960s and 1970s. It is now owned by Wellesbourne Airfield, and is looked after by 655 Maintenance and Preservation Society (655MaPS) which is a volunteer organisation of Vulcan enthusiasts.
Zebras are African equines with distinctive black-and-white striped coats. Zebra stripes come in different patterns, unique to each individual. Several theories have been proposed for the function of these stripes, with most evidence supporting them as a deterrent for biting flies. Zebras inhabit eastern and southern Africa and can be found in a variety of habitats such as savannahs, grasslands, woodlands, shrublands, and mountainous areas.
Zebras are primarily grazers and can subsist on lower-quality vegetation. They are preyed on mainly by lions, and typically flee when threatened but also bite and kick.
From Wikipedia