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Brewer's Sparrow BRSP (Spizella breweri)
Panama Flats
Saanich BC
DSCN9707 cropped shot
Great find & ID Nathan Hentze!
Great bird for Victoria Area.
honestly - I may very well have been wondering about Clay Coloured Sparrow,had i been first to lay eyes on it
Thanks to Carl Hughes,for helping others & myself observe this discrete bird.
Note: A few have been banded out at RPBO this year from what i gather
At the Den entrance, not in the most discrete place, bit close to a heavy footfall path, hopefully they will make it.
The American robin is a migratory bird and widely distributed throughout North America. The American robin is active mostly during the day and assembles in large flocks at night. Its diet consists of invertebrates (such as beetle grubs, earthworms, and caterpillars), fruits, and berries. It is among the earliest birds to sing at dawn, and its song consists of several discrete units that are repeated.
Finished in fleet livery, this bus is ready to hit the road on the X66 service as of Monday.
Quite a nice contrast I feel of striking livery and discrete "Centre-link" branding.
The lower part of a bedrock cliff in the south part of the Okanagan valley, in south-central British Columbia, western Canada.
Scale: this cross-section of low-angle, sub-horizontal metamorphic layers is about 2.5 to 3 m thick (base to top of view). The thicker discrete layers are approx. 10 to 30 cm thick; the thinnest layers are about 1 cm thick.
This is a high-grade metamorphic rock, a 'basement' gneiss that has been intensely sheared (layer-parallel deformation) during regional tectonism; the layers and their lateral discontinuities (incl. thinning and truncation) are the result of this shearing (not sedimentary layering).
Copyright J.R. Devaney
Florence. Although I usually shoot discretely, this girl realised my action. His reaction was curiosity, I suppose.
Festival des lumières qui a lieu chaque année depuis 6 ans. Pendant 10 jours
les artistes exposent des "sculptures ou créations originales lumineuses" disséminées dans toute la ville. Certaines de ces œuvres ne figurent pas dans mes photos car trop discrètes.
GENEVA LUX (lux meaning light in latin)
Festival of lights which has been held every year for 6 years. During 10 days
the artists exhibit "luminous original sculptures or creations" scattered throughout the city. Some of these works do not appear in my photos because they are too discreet.
More hidden than its neighbour Mobius Arch, Lathe Arch is also a little more acrobatic to photograph, in balance between 2 rocks on which I tried to set the tripod. But I managed to put Lone Pine Peak in there!
Plus discrète que sa voisine Mobius Arch, Lathe Arch est aussi un peu plus acrobatique à photographier, en équilibre entre 2 rochers sur lesquels j'ai essayé de caler le trépied. Mais j'ai réussi à mettre Lone Pine Peak dedans!
A very small discrete butterfly, usually found in towns and villages and cultivated areas where watering, irrigation or drainage maintain vegetation even in very hot dry conditions. The butterflies are very fond of lucerne fields and during our visit in June/ July in Morocco 2005 just about every field had a thriving colony of this butterfly, even deep into the desert.
Identification & Similar species: Underside markings are faint. Rather unlike other species in the area.
Distribution & Flight: Widespread and often common across north Africa and sporadic and local in Spain, particularly in southeast coastal areas.
Habitat & Behaviour: Flies very low over short grasses and damp areas in usually very dry hot locations. I've most frequently encountered them in towns and villages, then in margins of cultivated land. Partial to mint and lucerne for example in irrigation ditches, drains and desert oases.
Photo by Nick Dobbs, Malta 29-10-2025
La Roggia è un fossato di irrigazione artificiale di portata moderata. Il canale sarebbe stato scavato prima dell'XI secolo, forse già sotto l'impero romano. L'acqua proviene dal fiume Torre.
ROGGIA DI UDINE : LA DISCRÈTE.
La roggia est un fossé d'irrigation artificiel de débit modéré. Le canal aurait été creusé avant le 11ème siècle, peut-être déjà sous l'empire romain. L'eau provient de la rivière Torre.
Source: Wikipedia. Office du Tourisme d' Udine.
Udine. Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Italia
I love to admire art. Often art is proactive in sending a message to the current society. But how about the hidden gems? Why are they hidden? I could ask a ton of questions like...a delicate and introvert messenger? A person with huge ego, just living the moment entirely for him/herself? Maybe the fear of being caught was the reason for this graffiti? No matter reason, the hidden gems deserves a bit attention.
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Camera: Minolta Maxxum 7000
Film: Fuji Superia X-Tra 400
Lens: Minolta 50mm/f1.7
I’m feeling more-than-a-tad ashamed of my prolonged Flickr absence. But I have a cunning plan… if I discretely slip in a few posts without anyone noticing, I can say, “Hey, I was here all along. Did you not notice?” Of course, there are a few flaws in my plan… the suspiciously recent timestamps of my uploads and my lack of comments on others’ photos. The only was to fix these is to break into Flickr HQ, pick the lock of the big filing cabinet they use as their database, and then mess with the order of the index cards. In the meantime, please play along and don’t notice my post(s). Thanks.
This is the eastern form of the species, which should rightly be considered a discrete subspecies, S. sabaudus fulvulus PALLAS, but it is not accepted at present as a valid ssp.
View large, please!
The Lençóis Maranhenses National Park is located in Maranhão state, in northeastern Brazil. It is an area of low, flat, occasionally flooded land, overlaid with large, discrete sand dunes. It encompasses roughly 1000 square kilometers, and despite abundant rain, supports almost no vegetation.
The National Park is quite extensive and has no access roads. Because of the nature of the park's protected status, most vehicles are not permitted access. Entrance to the park is made exclusively by 4-wheel drive trucks.
Composed of large, white, sweeping dunes, at first glance Lençóis Maranhenses looks like an archetypal desert.
In fact it isn't actually a desert. Lying just outside the amazon basin, the region is subject to a regular rain season during the beginning of the year. The rains cause a peculiar phenomenon: freshwater collects in the valleys between sand dunes, spotting the desert with blue and green lagoons that reach their fullest between July and September.
The area is also surprisingly home to a variety of fish which, despite the almost complete disappearance of the lagoons during the dry season, have their eggs brought from the sea by birds.
The old parts of Gion in Kyoto take you back 100 years in time. Ghosts of geisha roaming the streets with rich clients and disapearing forever being the discrete noren of high end nomiya.
This image is a high resolution panoramic stitch.
This exquisite and amazing place is Lençois Maranhences (Brazi), where sand and water share the scenery.
The Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, is located in Maranhão state, in northeastern Brazil, between 02º19’—02º45’ S and 42º44’—43º29’ W. It is an area of low, flat, occasionally flooded land, overlaid with large, discrete sand dunes. It encompasses roughly 1000 square kilometers, and despite abundant rain, supports almost no vegetation.
J'attendais les panures et... c'est une bien drôle panure qui est sortie !
Locustelle luscinioïde en Baie de Somme
I love taking photos of photographers. These men were so discrete, they waited for their moment and took their shots. And then they were gone
I only went there to see the art!
Festival des lumières qui a lieu chaque année depuis 6 ans. Pendant 10 jours
les artistes exposent des "sculptures ou créations originales lumineuses" disséminées dans toute la ville. Certaines de ces œuvres ne figurent pas dans mes photos car trop discrètes.
GENEVA LUX (lux meaning light in latin)
Festival of lights which has been held every year for 6 years. During 10 days
the artists exhibit "luminous original sculptures or creations" scattered throughout the city. Some of these works do not appear in my photos because they are too discreet.
Sveta goes by "svetcontact" here at flickr and her photography artwork and Moscow street photography is not to be missed! And yes, this image represents the totality of reality for February 17, 2013!
Oh by the way, this is a digital painting from a blank canvas. I took different colors and created several different layers with brushstrokes only. Then I blended the layers and 'painted' over them for the finished product.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
Anaïs Nin
{on black} & press F11
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Comments are most welcome but please NO large, noisy or flashy graphics/logos.
I prefer personal comments. If you must, please use comment codes WITHOUT ICONS or use discrete ones.
Thank you.
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“I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelopes us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin
A really cool shot because there is a full second aurora, with discrete green and pink arcs and rays, underneath the massive outer arc.
…..those, who are delicate and strong; brave and discrete ; daring but humble; intelligent and intuitive; respectful and respectable ; inspiring and creative ; talented and productive ; loving and enduring ; fighting and forgiving ; imaginative and practical ; working Mothers and lovers ; hardworking housewife-Mothers , lovers, and best friends….
*** HAPPY WOMEN's DAY , dearest friends!!
"A quiet rage whispered through her circuitry. Compassion discretely obscuring a patient lethality."
Photo from the Patient Zero event.
Festival des lumières qui a lieu chaque année depuis 6 ans. Pendant 10 jours
les artistes exposent des "sculptures ou créations originales lumineuses" disséminées dans toute la ville. Certaines de ces œuvres ne figurent pas dans mes photos car trop discrètes.
GENEVA LUX (lux meaning light in latin)
Festival of lights which has been held every year for 6 years. During 10 days
the artists exhibit "luminous original sculptures or creations" scattered throughout the city. Some of these works do not appear in my photos because they are too discreet.
“35 is a discrete semiprime ( or biprime ) ( 5 × 7) ; the tenth, and the first with 5 as the lowest non-unitary factor. The aliquot sum of 35 is 13 this being the second composite number with such an aliquot sum; the first being the cube 27. 35 is the last member of the first triple cluster of semiprimes 33, 34, 35. The second such triple discrete semiprime cluster is 85, 86, 87”
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In Papua New Guinea, there are more than more than 850 discrete spoken languages, and until recently, none of them were written down. Even today, adult literacy sits at less than 62%. In a historically nonliterate society with more than 7000 diverse cultural groups, one of the most popular means of education has been through costume, song, and dance.
This is one reason sing sings so important.
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/travel/feathers-fur-and-face...
A Sharp-shinned Hawk, in the forest lining Cole's Bay, BC.
Shortly after arriving in the early morning hours, my husband and I heard the call of the Sharp-shinned Hawk. It was a family of three going about their business of teaching the young one how to find breakfast.
They were flying all over the forest, calling constantly. The one time I found them congregating briefly, they were near the top of a tree, in an inconvenient spot for a photographer, so I gave up, and went to walk the beach for a bit with my hubby.
Upon returning to the vehicle, we heard them again. After a bit, we heard the three separate. This one stayed behind, and two continued on, maintaining contact calls. By the direction of the sound, it seemed to me we might be able to find this one by walking on a trial we usually ignore. I was thrilled to find her on a conveniently low branch, clutching what appeared to be a Robin chick.
My husband, who had a cold, had withdrawn up the trial and around the corner to a discrete distance to cough. The sound caused an alert response just the same.
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs, etc. without my permission.