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This storm about gave us whiplash with the building and diminishing clouds. Got a tad bit wet watching this one.
Beaver County Oklahoma
My local burrowing owl opportunities have diminished over the last decade to almost nothing, but they still give me the same sense of joy as when I first started watching them. Here's dad with 2 of the several siblings. You might note the mousy carcass on top of the burrow. Just doing their job.
Taken from a sailing boat I was travelling on.
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The view from my parents-in-law's house in Bellingham WA. We had a series of spectacular sunsets in the 6 weeks that we stayed there. After a while I got fed up with photographing them but the quality never diminished
Two male mountain goats (billies) stand among large boulders and small yellow wildflowers on Mount Evans, Colorado. This shot was taken the day after yesterday's post. The wind had diminished to a breeze, making for a much more pleasant day on the mountain.
The day ended with Marbled Whites (Melanargia galathea) nectaring for supper on Field Scabious at Ketton Quarry nature reserve near Stamford. It's surprising how early and how quickly the butterfly action diminishes. There's still three hours before sunset but these guys can't risk getting sluggish in the open while the birds are active.
In a world that often seeks to silence and diminish the voices of women, the product of strong women stands as a bold and unapologetic celebration of their strength, courage, and unwavering determination. It is a powerful reminder that we are all capable of creating a better, more equitable world, one that values and uplifts the contributions of all its members.
Darlinghurst, Sydney
March, 2023
I saw this battered sticker/decal on a car window about a year ago. I thought then it was a sign of and for our times. It seems even more suitable now. Kindness always matters. Yet our desire - and perhaps our ability - to show it, do it, be it, seems very diminished these days.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I've decided to do another 52 week project for 2023. Splitting the year into weeks gives me flexibility. It keeps me attached to my camera while giving me some breathing room to take a day off here and there. I look forward to seeing where the year takes me.
Just the King in deep thought as it looks over its African habitat as the last light of the day diminishes ....
A slim, medium-sized, gray-blue marine shag with yellow-orange feet and a long, slender bill. Breeding plumage is elegant with bright green facial skin, blue eye-rings, and two curved thick white stripes that extend from each eye down to the side of the neck. Non-breeding plumage is duller with crests absent, diminished but still visible neck stripe, and yellowish facial skin. Immatures are paler and browner, lacking head or neck markings. Endemic to New Zealand, where it is mainly found in the coastal waters around the South Island and parts of the North Island. Distinguished from Pitt Island Shag by neck stripe and by the lack of a purple patch in front of the eye. Other similar shags that overlap have pink feet, not yellow. (eBird)
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These elegant shags (aka cormorants) are fairly common and we saw them several times, Like most cormorants, they tend to steer clear of people, but we handled that by getting an up close view from the boat. This one is either an immature bird, or a non-breeding adult. His markings are not bold enough to be in full breeding colours but the patterns are clearly seen. One of the eleven cormorant/shag species of New Zealand.
Queen Charlotte Sound, Marlborough, New Zealand. March 2024.
Roadrunner Birding Tours.
Joss Whedon
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Please, don't fave and run, you will get yourself blocked.
A different view of The avenue.
Just happened to glance down an alley and these hoops (bike storage?) just jumped out at me.
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Nikon Z6, FTZ, Nikkor 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5
Exposure X7, Color Efex Pro 4, Silver Efex Pro 3
Still one of the neatest trains out there to me is an NS Roadrailer. While they have diminished in usage across they NS system and long since vanished from other carriers' minds, they still have a home on the former Wabash mainline. Train 255 hustles west at Homer, Illinois on a mostly clear late fall day.
“Смерть каждого человека уменьшает меня, потому что я - часть человечества; и потому никогда не спрашивай, по ком звонит колокол - он звонит по тебе”. /D. Donn/
«Пролита українцями кров стає безцінною платнею, яку наша країна платить за необхідність світу оновити кровообіг міжнародної системи безпеки, системи ухвалення складних рішень. Україна, несучи жертви, рятує світ від нових.»
Сергій Рахманін, член Комітету Верховної Ради України з питань національної безпеки, оборони та розвідки.
Gardens are waning as the hours of daylight diminish. But the Monarchs and Painted Ladies, and a few species of Swallowtails, are still here grabbing all the nectar and pollen they can.
A path leading down from Badhusberget hill in Mariehamn, Åland on a foggy morning.
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire
One of the favorite activities in Carmel-by-the-Sea on Christmas Day is to take a walk on the beach. This year the cool & cloudy weather diminished the total number, but the hardy walkers were out with their dogs.
Briefly, the Large Copper was once found in the UK in the Fens of East Anglia, but numbers diminished with the draining of the Fens for farmland until the last of the species died out in circa 1851. The British sub species was unique and cannot be recovered.
There are two further subspecies in Europe, including one in the Netherlands that has been used to attempt official releases to reintroduce Large Coppers to the UK. All such releases have failed to date, largely it seems because of the limited habitat available. The other European subspecies is L.d. rutilus in central and eastern Europe.
This find at Bumble Hole in the West Midlands is presumably a private release by a butterfly breeder of a sample of the Central and eastern European subspecies, to a site that has a limited habitat and the butterflies are highly unlikely to establish a lasting colony. The release seems to have been of larvae, as there have been empty chrysalis cases found on site, including one predated by a wasp. Further breeding by the adult butterflies has taken place, since eggs have been found on the food plant, water dock and more recently new larvae.
I decided to go and visit on 11 August, to see these beautiful butterflies while they are around.
Thankj you for your faves and conmments
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
― John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
This photo was taken nearly nine years ago near Coeur d’Alen Idaho. A shot that has always bothered me because my initial editing, based on inexperience and software that was the AOL equivalent of todays editing software did not do it justice.
To diminish the beauty God created in a photo isn’t considered a sin, but maybe it should be. Only He can create The Grand Show Eternal!
When these Hoodies return in mid-November the crayfish are abundant and the fishing is good. In a few weeks the supply will diminish and the Mergansers will have to be satisfied with mosquito minnows.
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA.
A walk in the woods, or ‘shinrin-yoku’, provides preventive medical effects by relieving stress and recovering the immune system diminished by stress.
Cloudy skies did not diminish my enthusiasm for watching bright orange Bullock's Oriole flutter about in tall purple thistle.
The heat wave distortion doesn't diminish the fact that the Reeseville Marsh is getting full, and the mighty Canadian Pacific is at the mercy of the natural order of things, just as The Milwaukee Road was for over a century. Here, CP train 281 is down to 10 MPH on main 1, while Amtrak's Empire Builder number 7 races by on main 2, at a breakneck speed of 25 MPH in the basin of the Reeseville Marsh.
Reeseville Marsh,
Reeseville, WI.
Winter 2019
Kruger National Park
South Africa
While perhaps not as widely distributed as Grant's, Thomson's are still the most common gazelles in East Africa. Though their numbers have diminished in some areas, in others they have persisted on ranches and farmlands long after other species have disappeared.
The graceful "tommie" is noticeably smaller than the Grant's gazelle, which it resembles in shape and color. It is also distinguished from Grant’s by the dark side stripe that runs from the shoulder to the flank and the white patch on the rump.
The males are larger than the females and have strongly ridged, almost parallel horns that curve backwards, with the tips curving forward. Female tommie’s have short, smooth, pencil-slim horns, or none at all. The face is accented by a black stripe running down from the eye, a dark marking on the nose and a light patch on the forehead.
Although more reliant on water than Grant's gazelle, the tommy has adapted to the open plains and grasslands of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. – Wikipedia
Really, you shouldn't use it at all! Think of our diminishing forests. If you must, use one sheet only per session. This is, where intelligent folding comes in!
"Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry."
--Rita Dove
The Juvenile females always arrive before the adults or the juvenile males. The food supply to the north determines when and how many birds arrive. As food to the north diminishes we will start to see adult birds. The male adults are pure white and gorgeous. I hope we get to see some this year.
The rain had just cleared as I turned onto a remote country road deep in the Texas Pineywoods. water flowed through the narrow ditches and thunder continued to sound, it's intensity diminishing with each boom as the storm crept east.
My truck rolled slowly along the road, which was lined with restored prairie and seasonal wetlands. I lowered all of my windows to take in that wonderful post-rain aroma that lingers in the air after the storm has moved on.
Immediately I was struck by a chorus of grassland and shrubland birds that seemed to delight in the cool air. Particularly vocal were the Painted Buntings (Passerina ciris). I parked along the edge of the road and cut my engine, and after sometime I had several males approach very closely.
Painted Buntings are considered by many to be one of, if not the most beautiful bird in the U.S. It's hard to argue that logic when observing an adult male. Despite their gaudiness, they often remain hidden, lurking in the dense vegetation of the brushy habitats they inhabit. I was lucky to capture this male singing through the grasses mere feet from me as I sat down in the road with my back against the wheel of my truck.