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Your garden and your flowers will tell you the time of year. Look close and feel the warmth. The rich colors can be a hint and get close enough to smell the fragrance. Thanks for stopping by to check out my photos. Gratitude and Kindness can be felt in Spring easily.
Dining on crabapples after a fresh overnight snow. They seem to have a hard time with these small crabapples. They don't come off the stems easily so some of the last fruit to remain.
BNSF 5358 leads the way as S-LPKSCO1 makes its way west through Kingman Canyon. Over 10,000 feet of train stretches back to the rear DPU's from the three GE's on the point.
One could easily spend an entire day roaming the walls of Kingman Canyon finding a different shot for every train that passes.
Cormorant.
From Florida Hikes:
Cormorants can be easily confused with the anhinga, but are a more social bird. You’ll often see them hanging out in groups.
Cormorants do not have the same long necks as Anhinga, but look similar.
Both birds dive underwater for prey and then retreat to a perch to stretch their wings to dry, since they do not have oil glands to waterproof their feathers.
The hooked bill and orange in its face also help in distinguishing a cormorant from an anhinga.
Always a pleasure to see these lovely winter thrushes come back to the UK in the Winter. They are easily spooked, so quite tricky to get some shots, but got lucky with this one which was gorging on red berries
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On one of the shortest days of the year the landscape looks completely defeated. Yet despite appearances this was a mild day and could easily have passed for late February.
Let this year easily enter into the life of each of us, give a lot of positive, vital energy, inspiration, love and creativity, stability and reliability, well-being and comfort! I wish everyone that dreams come true as quickly as possible and inspire new goals! Let the simple formula of human happiness always work in your life: kindness plus joy equals happiness. Let the New Year open a new path – the path to love and success. Do not turn from it and go only forward!....The red berry is a late dawn.
How bitter you are, and how beautiful!
Scarlet, bright, frosty wonder,
This winter treat burns like a red ruby in a glass.
The Striped Shieldbug is easily identified. It is a black bug with five distinct red lines on the pronotum. Or the other way around if you want... On the underside the Striped Shieldbug is red as well, but here it has black spots, not lines. Even though it is closely related to the Green Stinkbug and other foul smelling bugs, the Striped Shieldbug rather smells like apples. The orange and black warning colours indicate that the insects are foul-tasting, protecting them from predators.
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Easily the most common dragonfly in the spots I visit. The territorial males much more visible than the females. HBBBT!
Our hero, easily the best nuthatch model EVER, sang his heart out. We took many photos but later found that he was "going commando." Perhaps an aggressive brood patch or just molting?
And here is the link to the lovely aria.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=4htTs-s5pxc
Placido sings Mozart
My goal this morning was to try and get the Common Terns diving and catching fish (if the wind was blowing right and the sun was out). They are easier to capture than the Least Terns, but they are still somewhat erratic. The real challenge though is focusing on the birds near the water, especially if there is any splash. Your camera loses focus quite easily. I did make a few adjustments to my camera settings and I had more success than the other day. This was a lot of fun, although after an hour I was through - too much to do at home. (1 of 4)
Bulls*** Asymmetry Principle
The amount of energy needed to refute bulls*** is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
Also known as Brandolini’s Law, the Bulls*** Asymmetry Principle captures a circumstance we’ve all experienced. Those with an indifference to the truth are at an advantage. An argument is easily made. But dissecting a claim and verifying propositions and evidence is tiresome. And what if it’s part of the bulls****er’s plan to keep us busy refuting his nonsense?
I share the above principle, created in 2013 as a segway into this photograph. It is from my archives and was taken on 07 October, 2018 in Silver Glen on the docks of The Juniper Club.
As a tradition, I pass on photographing blue herons as they have become like robins…they are everywhere and way too easily photographed! In this case, a large pickerel looking to be near death swam slowly just below the docks. The heron stabbed it, snatched it up, walked it over to the grass behind the dock and proceeded to try and swallow it. As I sat in my chair fishing, I lifted my camera that unfortunately had my 600mm on it, deciding to capture its attempt to swallow the fish whole. This shot is not cropped vertically, it was all I could get without getting up and walking away.
Watching as it lifted it, I did some “Fancy Cyphering” (Jethro Bodine reference) and realized that the length of the fish was greater than the length of the heron body (minus tail feathers) and if swallowed, some of the fish’s tail would surely be in the heron’s neck. Not to mention the girth of the fish. I sat my camera back down to watch the action. The heron rocked the pickerel back and forth a few times building momentum, then with what seemed to be all the strength it had, while maintaining this grip, swung the fish high in the air and swallowed it with ease!
I watched in amazement as the large lump in its throat quickly slid out of sight and into its stomach! My mind quickly spun back into fancy cyphering mode as I tried to guess the weight of the bird* vs the weight of the fish…and if it would be able to fly now with that heavy a load of cargo?
*I just googled the average weight of a blue heron. It can range from roughly 4-8lbs. Let's call this one 6lbs…the fish was certainly in the 4-5lb range…that is a huge get for this hunter!
It continued to stand around for a few minutes until I decided to change locations. Once I got up, it swatted down for takeoff, pushed off the dock into the air. Remarkably, the weight of its meal didn’t seem to slow it down a bit.
Had I not seen “the swallow” for myself, I might have thrown the BS card on someone else telling this tale!
taken @ Angel Of Pain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRMf3wKBCPo
Don't think sorry's easily said
Don't try turning tables instead
You've taken lots of Chances before
But I ain't gonna give anymore
Don't ask me
That's how it goes
Cause part of me knows what you're thinkin'
Don't say words you're gonna regret
Don't let the fire rush to your head
I've heard the accusation before
And I ain't gonna take anymore
Believe me
The sun in your Eyes
Made some of the lies worth believing
I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I don't need to see any more
To know that
I can read your mind, I can read your mind
I can read your mind, I can read your mind
I can read your mind, I can read your mind
Don't leave false illusions behind
Don't Cry cause I ain't chnaging my mind
So find another fool like before
Cause I ain't gonna live anymore believing
Some of the lies while all of the Signs are deceiving
I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I dont need to see any more
To know that
I can read your mind, I can read your mind
I can read your mind, I can read your mind
I can read your mind, I can read your mind
I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I dont need to see any more
To know that
I can read your mind, I can read your mind
I can read your mind, I can read your mind
I can read your mind, I can read your mind
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The nebula Messier 78 is a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1780 and included by Charles Messier in his catalog of comet-like objects that same year.
M78 is the brightest diffuse reflection nebula of a group of nebulae that include NGC 2064, NGC 2067 and NGC 2071. This group belongs to the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex and is about 1,600 light years distant from Earth. M78 is easily found in small telescopes as a hazy patch and involves two stars of 10th magnitude. These two stars, HD 38563A and HD 38563B, are responsible for making the cloud of dust in M78 visible by reflecting their light.
Ha x 1800 x 4 Lume x 600x 40 RGB x 10 x 30 plus close up data from last year.
Imaging telescope or lens: Vixen VSD
Imaging camera: Starlight Express SXVR-H18
Mount: Sky-Watcher NEQ6 and Pro Paramount MX
Guiding telescope or lens: Vixen VSD
Software: Sequence Generator Pro
Filter: Baader H-alpha 3.5 Nm pluss Baader RGBL
Accessory: Starlight Xpress Lodestar Guider
Easily the most decrepit equipment roaming the WSOR system comes in the form of the railroads ballast cars. During a crossing replacement project in Juda, I was able to witness the side dumps in action for the first time, on MOW extra W400, stockpiling ballast rock in preparation of raising the current track on either side of highway 11.
Small and easily overlooked, the Cobweb Skipper is the earliest grass skipper of spring. It emerges into a landscape that is still brown and straw-colored, just like the host plant that grows in the unforgiving dry and often rocky habitat.
The host plant for the Cobweb Skipper is the Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), a warm season grass with a C4 photosynthetic path. Unlike our usual lawn grasses that green up early in the year and prefer the cooler months of the year, warm season native grasses are at their best in the heat of summer. They begin to grow when the cool season grasses fade into a pale straw-like oblivion.
The life-cycle of this little and rare grass skipper is rather complicated. As adults, they fly only for a short time in spring, maybe for two to three weeks. During that time they love to nectar on early blooming wildflowers and chase their mates getting quickly to the business of ensuring the next generation. Females lay eggs near clumps of Little Bluestem, still straw colored this time of year. When the weather gets warmer, the C4 grass begins to grow and so does the little caterpillar feeding at night to evade predators. Later the caterpillar burrows into the ground estivating in the underground tunnel and still later builds a silken chamber in the clump of Little Bluestem where it survives until next spring.
The Cobweb Skipper is listed as S3 species in Maryland, rare to locally uncommon and declining in much of its range in other states. It has only one brood per year with a narrow flight period. It is always a privilege to find this small and rather unremarkable looking grass skipper in the dry shale barren habitat as pictured in this shot.
A yellow-crowned night heron (Nyctanassa violacea) coming in for a landing. I was following it from a distance but just before it arrived some reeds came between us. Nevertheless, firing off shots left one in which there was a clean line of sight to the head, while the rest of the bird was left partially obstructed. I suspect this is the reason behind the low contrast. I very much like the overall look. Unfortunately, it isn't a look that I could easily replicate.
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Happy Holidays to all!
After sharing a couple telephoto shots from this spot here is a wide angle. The slow speed sure is a boon to photographers allowing for multiple angles at each spot never mind how easily chaseable it is!
Here again is Pan Am train NMWA-13 rolling down District One, the once great Maine Central Railroad Portland Division mainline. The trio of MEC 510, 316, and 7545 (a GP40-2LW, GP40, and C40-8 respectively) with their 4261ft long train of 59 loads and 4 empties are crossing Fuller Road at about MP 75.3 on the modern day Freight Main.
Carmel, Maine
Saturday May 14, 2022
Molting
It can easily be seen that this Snowy Egret is in the middle of molting and replacing its flight feathers. Many wading and shorebirds have flocked to the tidal mud flats to feed and rest while they complete their molt and this year's young could add strength and weight prior to migrating further South
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Easily one of my favorite birds I’ve photographed during my recent travels in Australia. The blue on Azure Kingfishers almost seems to glow. When the lighting is good it shows their perfect shade of blue. I’ve seen these birds only 5 times, and the first time I saw them I got to have a fantastic photoshoot. They are a bird that lives in Papua New Guinea and parts of Indonesia and Australia. They are generally uncommon in most of their range and in most of New South Wales and the ACT they can be a harder bird to see.
The easily recognisable summit peak of Kidsty Pike.. It was a little after this point that I left the path to Kidsty Pike and headed to Rampsgill Head for excellent views down Ramps Gill.
Easily the most enjoyable stay I had in England, how hard can it be to live in a village with this sort of outlook.
Burnsall is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the River Wharfe in Wharfedale, and is in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Burnsall, North Yorkshire, England.
Easily two plus miles of empty grain hoppers are heading south into Thief River Falls. I was shocked by the massive size of this train, a grain train with two complete sections with two locomotives up front and two in the middle. I would have enjoyed hearing how many feet of train this was.
Deze foto is gemaakt in de Amsterdamse waterleidingduinen.
Vingerhoedskruid ook wel gewoon vingerhoedskruid genoemd, is een tweejarige of meerjarige plant.
Hij wordt ook wel in siertuinen gebruikt en zaait zich gemakkelijk uit.
Vingerhoedskruid wordt 30-200 cm groot en er zijn drie kleuren: donkerrood (hardroze), lichtpaars en wit.
De hommels moeten in de bloemkroon kruipen om bij de nectar te kunnen komen.
De plant bevat de glycosiden: digoxine en digitoxine en is erg giftig.
Digoxine wordt gewonnen uit de bladeren van tweejarige planten en wordt gebruikt bij behandeling van bepaalde hartritmestoornissen.
This photo was taken in the Amsterdam water supply dunes.
Foxglove, also known as foxglove, is a biennial or perennial plant.
It is also used in ornamental gardens and spreads easily.
Foxglove grows 30-200 cm and there are three colors: dark red (hard pink), light purple and white.
The bumblebees have to crawl into the corolla to access the nectar.
The plant contains the glycosides: digoxin and digitoxin and is very toxic.
Digoxin is extracted from the leaves of biennial plants and is used to treat certain cardiac arrhythmias.
Mountain biking Cotopaxi was easily the most scenic, exciting bike ride of my life. And one of my favorite day trips, ever.
Lenght: 40 km/24,85 miles.
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1,277 meters (4,189 ft) above sea level to the summit of the volcano.
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At 07:00 AM we left Quito and after driving south for 1 and a half hours on the Pan-American highway we reached the park entrance of Cotopaxi National Park. We drove through pine forest and soon reached the Visitors’ center of the park. After visiting the Center we continued the ascent in our 4-wheel drive vehicle until we reached the highest point of the tour, 4.500 meters/15.000 feet. The view from this point is stunning and on a clear day we are able to see 8 volcanoes. Not our day.
We then put on helmets, gloves and protective pads and the bike adventure on the world’s highest active volcano could begin. The first 8 km took us down 700 m on dirt roads through volcanic ash and tundra landscape. At 3.800 m. we actually had to do some pedalling while we headed down another 8 km between volcanic rocks and wild horses to our lunch spot by an Inca ruin at 3.700 m. We saw some condors and caracaras. We put the bikes back on the jeep and head for the lake of Limpiopungo at 3.800 m where we started the 16 km downhill biking on dirt and paved roads through pine forest. After this the bike adventure was over for now and around 16h00 we were back in Quito.
This is the standard itinerary that they always try to respect. Please keep in mind that due to the nature of this tour we sometimes have to be flexible because of weather conditions, or biking skills of other participants.
Days: 1 Day
Location: Cotopaxi
Lenght: 31 km/19 miles
Max. Altitude: 4.500 meters/15.000 feet
Min. Altitude: 3.200 meters/11.300 feet
Difficulty Level: Family Advenure Moderate
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I cannot forget the 4.5 magnitude quake in Quito -
10 km (32,808 ft) far from the epicenter at 3:56.
I was sleeping in my hotel in Quito and everything started shaking in my first night.
27-March-2023
The summit ridge of the Učka massif, which is part of its own Natural Park, can be (relatively) easily reached by car even in the winter season, since the narrow road starting from the Poklon Pass (928m above sea level; Lupoglav-Opatija road) towards the Vojak peak is kept (enough) clean to allow technicians to reach the radar where they work, while for tourists there are limits and sometimes the road can be closed with a bar at its beginning.
Obviously car accessibility (but the car park above is very small, it can't fit more than a dozen cars at a time) at the top creates the usual controversies: on the one hand it irritates those with good legs that would like car engines far from nature, but from other it helps those who (for all kinds of reasons) would not be able to get there on foot and, however, the presence of antennas and military radar have already "deflowered" this beautiful mountain.
In any case it is not for mass turism.
As a weather-landscape photographer, I consider the controlled accessibility as a great help to be able to quickly get to one of the best viewpoints in the whole area and capture the best moments, such as dusk or dawn without walking a trek of almost 500m in altitude (the minimum one from Poklon) in the beech forest in the middle of the night.
Despite the proximity to the populous Rijeka City and the (too) touristy Opatija Riviera I never had to jostle for a place at the top, on the contrary, I was often completely alone, of course choosing particular times and only going there on working days.
Common Nighthawk is a nocturnal, insect-eating species with a plumage that usually blends in with its daytime roosts, such as in this image www.flickr.com/photos/luminouscompositions/50691197188/in...
But the camouflage doesn’t always work so well, as is the case here. This bird was seen (quite easily…) in Grasslands National Park, in the southern part of the province of Saskatchewan in western Canada.
A small bird maybe 15-17 cms long and easily mistaken for a pipit. This is migratory bird from Central Asia / Persian region during the winter season to India. They are often seen in grasslands foraging on the ground and are easily camouflaged in the dry brown grass. In the birding spots around my place, they are quite shy and usually fly away from people. This wasn't the case in a few other states where I found birds are quite unafraid of people.
Shot this bird in a beautiful grasslands that is fast drying up and the land turning bare. The birds are usually found around small water logged areas or bodies. In this case, there was a small pit dug up and water had logged up there for a while now. The birds were hunting insects around this and made for easy shots.
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Easily one of my favorite places along the Oregon Coast. These sandstone formations fascinate people from quite literally around the world. Carved by wind and water over eons of time, and striped in colorful bands. My wife and I have spent many hours enjoying them on our three month-long trips along the Oregon Coast.
More easily detected by sound rather than sight, these energetic little birds frequently emit a staccato series of "chimp" calls, whether in response to my presence or just because, I do not know.
In addition to being noisy, they are also quite unafraid and allow close approach, which is not as much of an advantage for photographers as one would hope, as this bird spends most of the time buried deep in fallen debris on the forest floor.
Fortunately, I found a line through to this wren, and was able to secure a photo reflective of the bird's confident nature and cosy home.
These three could easily have been the models for many pub signs in the UK. But when I first spotted them they were randomly arranged. I spoke quietly to them and as if by magic they re-arranged themselves into this regular grouping. They also obligingly adopted the same compliant expression.
Easily one of my favourite ruins... featured in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.
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I would have easily missed this Spotted Deer, he was resting in the wood, partially hidden by the foliage. I just passed him, a slight turn of his head drew my attention. I tracked back a few steps and found this gorgeous animal.
The chital or cheetal (Axis axis), also known as spotted deer or axis deer, is a species of deer that is native in the Indian subcontinent. A moderate-sized deer, male chital reach nearly 90 centimetres and females 70 centimetres at the shoulder. While males weigh 30–75 kilograms, the lighter females weigh 25–45 kilograms. The upper parts are golden to rufous, completely covered in white spots. The abdomen, rump, throat, insides of legs, ears and tail are all white. The antlers, three-pronged, are nearly 1 metre (3.3 ft) long.- Wiki
This is from my archives.
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As you can easily see, we left home again for today's photo and returned to Thailand (if only it could always happen so quickly).
Since I wandered through the narrow and dark streets of Bangkock for almost two hours to find this view of the Wat Paknam monastery, I can't leave this photo unpublished now.
You have already seen the big golden Buddha. Here, from this perspective, other (by no means all - not even close) buildings of the monastery can be seen.
On the side of the river that I am currently on is the old town of Bangkock with its small houses and winding streets. Nothing here reminds us of what kind of metropolis we are in at the moment.
Wie Ihr unschwer erkennen könnt, haben wir für das heutige Foto die Heimat wieder verlassen und sind nach Thailand zurück gekehrt (wenn das doch immer so schnell gehen würde).
Da ich fast zwei Stunden durch die engen und dunklen Gassen von Bangkock gewandert bin, um diesen Blick auf das Kloster Wat Paknam zu finden kann ich dieses Foto jetzt auch nicht unveröffentlicht lassen.
Den großen goldenen Buddha habt Ihr ja schon gesehen. Hier, aus dieser Perspektive sind noch weitere (bei weitem nicht alle - nicht einmal ansatzweise) Gebäude des Klosters zu sehen.
Auf der Seite des Flusses, auf der ich mich gerade befinde, ist die Altstadt von Bangkock mit Ihren kleinen Häusern und verwinkelten Gassen. Hier erinnert nichts, aber auch garnichts daran, in welch einer Metropole wir uns gerade befinden.
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About Khao Sam Roi Yot
Located in coast of Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, it is the first marine national park of Thailand. Khao Sam Roi Yot means "The mountain with three hundred peaks" and refers to a series of limestone hills along the Gulf of Thailand with highest one at 605m above the sea level. The northwest corner of the mountain range is called Thung Sam Roi Yot and is mainly freshwater marsh covering nearly 37% of the national park which makes it the largest wetlands area in Thailand.
The main attractions of the national park are Phraya Nakhon Cave with it's iconic royal pavilion and huge chambers, Kaeo Cave and Thung Sam Roi Yot Freshwater Marsh. The park is also an attractive destination for it's rich wildlife in mangrove forests, beautiful beaches, limestone islands, trails and view points. It is easily acessible, only 60 km south from Hua Hin and nearly 3 hours from Bangkok.
The Yellow-cheeked Tit, easily identified by its spectacular headgear, is a resident of the eastern Himalayas and northeast India. This bird was seen in a fast-moving mixed flock of birds along a forest track in the foothills of the Himalayas in West Bengal, India.
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