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Identification with this species can be difficult as the green colour comes from the dense scales which over time can rub off leaving this weevil body colour looking a lot darker. Can be found from April to July often in common nettles. Its a shame you normally find this in nettles talk about my poor very red stinging nose after I got this, ouch !
A GREETING CARD star, one of the nations favourites. Often bold and inquisitive in garden settings, strongly and conspicuously territorial, so how can you not take its picture, I love them, seen at Stodmarsh, Kent, UK.
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Mt. Robson (3,954 m = 12,972 ft), is also known as "Cloud Cap Mountain" and by climbers as the "Great White Fright."
With 2,975 m (9,760 ft) elevation gain from the valley floor below it is a difficult challenge for those brave enough to climb it.
One of many remarkable peaks of the Canadian Rockies.
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Jay - Garrulus Glandarius
Although they are the most colourful members of the crow family, jays are actually quite difficult to see. They are shy woodland birds, rarely moving far from cover. The screaming call usually lets you know a jay is nearby and it is usually given when a bird is on the move, so watch for a bird flying between the trees with its distinctive flash of white on the rump. Jays are famous for their acorn feeding habits and in the autumn you may see them burying acorns for retrieving later in the winter.
The word jay has an archaic meaning in American slang meaning a person who chatters impertinently.
The term jaywalking was coined in 1915 to label persons crossing a busy street carelessly and becoming a traffic hazard. The term began to imply recklessness or impertinent behavior as the convention became established.
In January 2014, Canadian author Robert Joseph Greene embarked on a lobbying campaign among ornithologists in Europe and North America to get Merriam-Websters Dictionary to have a "Jabber of Jays" as an official term under bird groups.
Population:
UK breeding:
170,000 territories
Cari Amici, vi lascio per una decina di giorni, a presto !
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THE FIG AND PLUM TREE, in our garden , only feed the birds, rarely do we get to eat of the fruits.. This was taken in the darkest possible spot, and therefore of poor quality, but a bit different. My wife Chris and I have been feeding two families of Blackbirds, and they have become very tame, and even enter the cottage, and has given us so much joy and entertainment during these difficult times of near isolation.
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Honesty
.....the ONLY policy!!
Honesty (Lunaria) - in my garden and in my heart. With the latter, unlike the former, it doesn't just appear in spring, there are no stages, no tweaking, no compromises and no exceptions, it is a guiding Light, Take it or leave it.
In the times of inversion and great deceit in which we live, a world where lies are the accepted norm, from the very top down and throughout all media, then speaking the truth is considered a subversive act ..... or at least it soon will be.
It is an interesting contemplation that honesty and truth are not necessarily synonymous. Truth by definition is honest, but without honesty that which is true can be difficult to discern.
This flower also has lovely papery white seed pods that the sun shines through and illuminates in autumn.
Hello Friends !
Hello Everyone !
A difficult time for many people.
fear and despair. !
The virus goes on and on, terrible !
Care about each other!
Help each other.
we are powerless, but you can give support
to your
family, friends, your neighbors and who needs it !!!
be careful, stay safe.
love, for you all .
Caroline greetings
don't panic, stay calm
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Qualcuno è riuscito ad andare sulle piste da sci, qualcuno ha preso l'aereo per paesi lontani, io mi sono accontentata di una fetta di panettone ;-)))
E se vi mancano idee per il vostro Lui, guardate qui sotto!
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Season Greetings To All !!!
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"Difficult roads lead to beautiful destinations"
In my recovery
I'm a soldier at war
I have broken down walls
I defined, I designed
My recovery
In the sound of the sea
In the oceans of me
I defined, I designed
My recovery
♫ Recovery
Taken at Big sky over Florence
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Small sandpiper with relatively long, droopy bill (longer on females). In breeding plumage, shows rich rufous tones on shoulders, cheeks, and crown. Nonbreeding is plain pale gray above and white below. Juveniles look pale-faced and have a bright strip of rufous feathers on the upper edge of the wings. Most similar to Semipalmated Sandpiper, which averages shorter-billed and duller grayish-brown overall. Extremely difficult to distinguish in winter; note Western is somewhat larger-headed and more front-heavy. Droopy bill might recall Dunlin, but Western is smaller and paler. Breeds on high Arctic tundra in Alaska. In migration and winter, occurs in large flocks on mudflats and beaches. Much more common in western North America; uncommon to rare on the east coast. Occurs in the winter in the U.S., unlike Semipalmated Sandpiper; regularly winters as far south as Peru, rare to Chile. (eBird)
We missed the shorebird migration by a couple of weeks, so were very pleased to come across this Western Sandpiper on the mudflats.
Tofino, British Columbia, Canada. May 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Ultimate British Columbia.
Ich versuche mich immer und immer wieder, mal Bienen / Hummeln / Libellen im Flug zu erwischen, aber irgendwie ist es schwieriger als gedacht.
I am trying again and again to get bees / bumblebees / dragonflies etc. in flight, which proves to be difficult - for me at least
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It is often difficult to comprehend and appreciate the size and scale of a glacier until you’ve seen it from the air. Mendenhall Glacier here for example is 13.6 miles long, 3.8 miles wide, around 2000 feet at its deepest, and rises from beneath sea level to over 6200 feet in elevation.
Having seen glaciers from a distance on foot in Iceland, it was a completely different experience to see one via helicopter. We flew over the glacier for several minutes before landing on a flat area for some hiking. A few things that amazed me while flying overhead though was how deep the crevasses were, how insanely blue the ponds of melted glacier water were, and how far the ice field stretched up into the mountains. But most of all, the sheer size of the glacier was just incredible.
The other remarkable thing was the visible path of dirt and sediment that revealed the flow of the glacier as it bent around the curves of the mountains on its way to the sea. The path must have represented decades of movement.
If you ever get a chance to visit Juneau, Alaska the Mendenhall Glacier is definitely worth a visit!
This bridge was opened in 1930. In 1940 the main part of the IJssel Bridge was blown up by the Dutch army. This, to slow down the advance of the Germans. The repair of the bridge took almost 3 years.
In 1945 the bridge was blown up for the second time, this time by the German army to make it difficult for the Allied troops to advance further.
In 1947, the Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction, ir. H. Vos, reopened the restored IJssel Brug..
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Deze brug is in 1930 opengesteld. In 1940 werd het hoofdgedeelte van de IJsselbrug door het Nederlandse leger opgeblazen. Dit, om de opmars van de Duitsers af te remmen. Het herstel van de brug duurde bijna 3 jaar'.
In 1945 werd voor de tweede keer de brug opgeblazen, nu door het Duitse leger om het de geallieerde troepen moeilijk te maken verder op te rukken.
In 1947 heropende de Minister van Openbare Werken en Wederopbouw, ir. H. Vos, de herstelde IJsselbrug.
These are dgħajsa used mostly as water taxis in the Grand Harbor of Valletta. These guys are really patient with tourist. Difficult to get in to these tiny boats.
Texture watercolours by PhotoFiltre
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Mon coup de colère.
Beaucoup de gens ne respectent pas le fait de rester à la maison donc de toutes les professions médicales.
Je ne risquerai pas ma vie avec ce virus invisible mais potentiellement mortel ...
Prendre des photos dans cette période difficile n'est pas indispensable.
Prenez soin de vous.
My blow of anger.
Many people do not respect staying at home, therefore the whole medical profession.
I will not risk my life with this invisible but potentially deadly virus ...
Taking photos in this difficult period is not essential.
Take care of yourself first.
La sittelle torchepot est un oiseau trapu.
Elle a les parties supérieures bleu-gris, et une queue courte.
Les parties inférieures, menton et cou, sont blanches, devenant orangées sur le haut de la poitrine, les flancs, l'abdomen et les sous-caudales.
Les ailes sont courtes et arrondies, et les rémiges sont plus foncées que le dos.
La tête bleu-gris est assez grosse, avec une ligne noire traversant l'œil et finissant vers les scapulaires.
Les joues sont blanches, ainsi que le menton et le devant du cou.
Source : Oiseaux.net
This large hummingbird has a somewhat down-curved bill. Though iridescent green, it appears black in mediocre to poor light. Most easily distinguished from Purple-throated Carib by its dull wings (wings are iridescent green in Purple-throated) and less curved bill. Common in much of its range, where it frequents forests but also visits gardens and parks. Calls include “chewp” (eBird)
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Frequent visitors to the gardens around our vacation condo, but very difficult to photograph. Oh, how I long for feeders to make hummingbird photography a little easier. This is the only sharp photo that I managed to capture, and it required lots of help to look like more than a black blob.
St. Lawrence's Gap, Barbados. February 2023.
It is difficult to get started on weeding my garden. Every time I pull on my gardening gloves and bend close to the soil, another thing catches my eye. Off with the gloves. Dash into the house to grab the camera. Oh well...all interruptions should be this lovely.
Difficult getting around with the lock down so just having a mess around with some of the more common flowers. Hopefully with them being on a black background you can see the beautiful detail of them in this set of 3 images.
I wish love and joy to nest in the hearts of people and to warm them, adding a note of happiness to the difficult daily life of this time.Stay Strong.. Stay Safe.. Soon all we will be better! Faith, Love, Courage.. Merry Christmas to all!!!Big hug! With Love Ela ♥♥♥
Believe..
Children sleeping
Snow is softly falling
Dreams are calling
Likes bells in the distance
We were dreamers
Not so long ago
But one by one
We all had to grow up
When it seems the magic slipped away
We find it all again on Christmas Day
Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that's playing
There's no time to waste
There's so much to celebrate
Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe
Trains move quickly
To their journey's end
Destinations
Are where we begin again
Ships go sailing
Far across the sea
Trusting starlight
To get where they need to be
When it seems that we have lost our way
We find ourselves again on Christmas Day
Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that's playing
There's no time to waste
There's so much to celebrate
Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe
If you just believe
If you just believe
If you just believe
Just believe
Just believe
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Although they are the most colourful members of the crow family, Jays can be quite difficult to see. They are shy woodland birds, rarely moving far from cover so quite a surprise to actually see one land very close to you out in the open.
Thornton, Leics.
An unusual obelisk stands on the central square of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. It was established in 1792 by the famous scholar and church leader - Metropolitan Plato (Levshin). On each side of the obelisk is a medallion with a text explaining exactly what role Laurus played in a given era ...
Many people know the monastery of St. Sergius of Radonezh as the spiritual center of Russian Orthodoxy and a collection of remarkable architectural monuments. But not everyone knows how important he played in the sharp turns of Russian history. And it’s hard to say in which country and how we would live today, if not for this monastery.
St. Sergius taught people primarily love and forgiveness. He himself set an example of humility in the most difficult situations.
Thousands of pilgrims come to the Lavra daily. There are 11 temples in the monastery.
Trinity Church is not the largest in the architectural ensemble of the Lavra, but it is here that the majority of those who came to the monastery are in a hurry. The whole time the temple is open for people to visit, the flow of people going into it does not stop: pilgrims hurry to bow to the relics of the founder of the monastery, St. Sergius.
are difficult to access unless you are teeny tiny with a long skinny beak. This little one was going all in to get the nectar from almost each and every petunia in the pot. Sometimes you wouldn't see his little head at all. Just his little body sticking out. Those tiny wings work hard keeping them in place while they drink the nectar. These little birds are so amazing to me. I could watch them constantly. I've got several shots of this guy and another one flying close like it's trying to get a good look at who this little invader of petunias is. I'll post one soon
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that's the day i was born and hence, i had a birthday on april 9th, 2009! AHHHH!
it was a fun day. though it ended with bloatedness after drinking a soy chai at a restaurant. it was the powder mix chai, which, from experience, tends to be laden with dairy... Oh NOES! . . .
in any case, it was still fun. a guy gave me a HUGE purple cellophane wrapped basket of homemade peanut butter cookies he made himself, pretty white roses, funny balloons, and a card about BOOTYBUTTS (the card i received at work was about a toilet and poo... ironic much?)! his mom got me a to-die-for gift card to starbuck's (i whole-heartedly support the local coffee and tea shops, but sometimes, they just aren't around when you need 'em the most!)
then he and i went out to breakfast/lunch/brunch/whatever you wanna call it at T.C. Eggington's. they have great vegetarian choices... "portobellini"... yum! on the way to breakfast, we saw a mother and her tiny baby ducks by the freeway in the puddle-y canal/gutter/whatever you wanna call that. it was cool because it was my birthday and they were cute, yet odd because it was by a freeway and not in a park, or in my school's irrigation or something. them duckies must be suffering economically too, eh?
so after that, i contemplated going back home to work on a commedia dell'arte mask for theatre class, but decided to just veg and hang with this guy at his apartment (i find vegging out, doing nothing a bit difficult to do sometimes).
later on, we met up with my parents to eat dinner at the Euro Cafe in Gilbert, AZ. a great foodsie greeky place. and that's where, you know, *ahem*... the soy-chai-laden-with-dairy-omg-why-did-i-order-this fiasco happened. so after dinner, with all of us feeling like cows (even though i hardly ate anything and they ate like contestants in a hotdog eating contest), we went to Wal-Mart of all places. i'm particularly NOT a Wal-Mart fan, but since i was at Wal-Mart and it might be cheaper than at other places, i bought vanilla soy ice cream because i was magnetized/hankering for some.
we finally headed home around 11pm, after which i quickly shoved this guy out the door and kissed him goodbye, so i could heat up some of those peanut butter cookies and WHAM BAM!... inhale hot cookies n' ice cream. mmmmmmmmmm... no cake this year. and i wanted it that way. no one even sang to me either i noticed, but that's perfectly ok. it's not a crime. wait wait...i take that back: he played the weird al birthday song... so essentially, i was sung to in mp3 format. :)
oh yeah, and at work today for my 'employee birthday'... i made up fruit, granola, & yogurt parfaits for everyone. someone bought all the ingredients (i requested it instead of birthday cake), and i went right to work -- whipping up those babies during my lunch break. i was so amazed some people didn't know what a parfait was or how to make them.
well, now they know :)
suffice to say, i'm on a parfait kick now. i hadn't had one in a year before that day. soy yogurt though. yes, please. :)
p.s. thanks dude for taking these kickity arse photos!
Twop like a TwitterBunny
I love pandas and hope this shot of a three month old will bring you a smile in these difficult times.
"EVEN MORE DIFFICULT, IN THE CIRCUS OF LIFE"
Hay veces, muchas veces, que convertimos la vida en un circo,
por ganar dinero, llamar la atención o por conseguir un aplauso, dependiendo de la situación o la forma de ser de cada persona.
La fotografía la realicé "al vuelo ", porque un segundo antes no
sabía que iba a actuar la artista.
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
Lao Tzu
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LET'S FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE – DIANA KRALL
Time is a beautiful illusion
it cannot be quantified
as I sweep away last year's patterns
a residue resides
a little broken fading mosaic
veined with cracks and studded with tears
so small and fragile, I lift it up
and clasp it to my heartfelt fears
it's difficult to let the old ways go
it's hard to step into the new
but it's important to preserve sweet memories
and leave behind those that made me feel blue
Spring is a time for gentle renewal
moving on with life and regrowth
static is a negative charge of apathy
forward motion a positive oath
Softly I whisper my daily mantra
today is the first day of the rest of my life
and knowing this brings me succour and comfort
to my once ailing heart that was wrought with strife
ring out the bells; new change is here
there's a spring in my step; there's no room for fear
for today I begin an exciting new time
making new memories for this soft heart of mine
I put down the tiny fragment that represents broken dreams
cushioned in velvet; swaddled in reams
there it can't hurt me; I go forward; feel free
to walk in the sunlight; the shadows behind me.
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Not sure what I am trying to achieve here but it was a learning situation
Done before I had to re-load windows and lost my photoshop (cannot find the disks)
Will be back later today or if not, tomorrow
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Juvenile large gulls can be difficult to identify as they are both mottled brow. Taking Herring and Lesser Black-backs, which are quite similar in size, the LBB's are generally darker, more gracile, often with a dark patch round the eye. The inner secondaries, visible just in front of the protruding primaries in this shot, have generally got dark centres and lack the "oak leaf" outer pattern found in HG's. HG's are also slightly lighter and a bit bulkier with a deeper bill but, having said this, there is a great deal of individual variation and sometimes, even in the hand, they are impossible to tell apart.
Probably one of the most difficult places this trip to photograph. It was raining at the time and also it was very busy, so finding a spot was already a challenge. The flat light wasn’t working in my favour as well. But standing here, between all the selfie-makers, that really liked a majestic waterfall as a background for their even more majestic faces, I found a composition I like. And for me the b&w conversion creates the atmosphere I was looking for. The waterfall itself was really spectacular to watch!
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Photo exhibition venue → kyoto-muse.jp/web-exhibit/110790
playlist→ music.apple.com/jp/playlist/%E5%80%8B%E5%B1%95/pl.u-38oWZ...
COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 is attacking all over the world. Japan is no exception, and everyday is becoming more difficult. As a photographer, I also thought about life and postponed the exhibition according to the government's request. The Japanese government does not support artists. So I decided to hold an online photo exhibition. This is free to watch.
The photo exhibition should be in the dark in the room at night, preferably with the playlist. Look at the brightness of mobile terminals at 1/3.
Thank you for your support. Thanks to everyone, we had more access than in Japan. Thank you. Last but not least, I would be happy if you could share the URL of the photo exhibition on your SNS. Thank you!
If there's one place that consistently takes my breath away, it'd be Cley, of course. This was a difficult shot because I was shooting into the sun. The bench looks very grand. It has a fabulous view over the marshes.
A highly elusive and shy bird hard to spot and get a clear shot. They blend in the reeds on the edge of water bodies and fly away when spotted.
On this very cloudy day, we sighted almost half a dozen of them flying around the reeds. I believe they were nesting and collecting food quite frequently. All 3 bitterns were present in the area - the black bittern, Cinnamon and Yellow. But the cloudy weather, occasional drizzle and slippery country roads and low light all made it difficult to navigate around for a better view.
Thanks in advance for your views and feedback. Much appreciated.