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The courtship of the Northern Harriers continues over an extended period of time with many aerial shows between the male and female. The male captures a prey item and then the chase is on. The female is in pursuit waiting to catch the prey when the male finally drops it. Sometimes the female seems gets quite upset with the waiting. After many hours of watching this pair last April, I got some photos of the flight.
Teresa Lloro-Bidart (Cal Poly Pomona) and I are studying how people and coyotes manage to get along in US cities. The environmental political theory blog "Inhabiting the Anthropocene" recently published a piece based on our research. Go check it out!
inhabitingtheanthropocene.com/2018/08/22/there-goes-the-n...
Coyotes have incorporated themselves into nearly every major city in North America. Coyotes’ ability to thrive in cities testifies not only to the Anthropocene’s blurring of human-wildlife boundaries; it also undermines the idea that cities and suburbs are places where people don’t have to contend with wild predators. In cities where coyotes have become established recently, their arrival has coincided with a reevaluation of urban ecologies and of the role of wild animals in urban settings. Conservation scientists are deemphasizing conflict management in favor of peaceful coexistence. And human-animal studies scholars are generating multispecies accounts of city life that seek to take seriously wild animals as social actors, both in how they interact with humans and in their own right. Our study of how residents of two cities – Philadelphia, PA and Chino/Chino Hills, CA – attempt to make sense of urban coyotes asks how such calls for more inclusive human-wildlife relations resonate in popular imaginaries of urban life.
Hasselblad 500 C/M
Carl Zeiss Distagon 50mm f/4 C T*
Kodak Ektar 100
Tetenal Colortec C-41
Scan from negative film
One of many beautifully constructed boxes on the Riverwalk along the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, PA.
riverlifepgh.org/riverfront-guide/invisible-ecologies/
From their website:
Invisible Ecologies is a public art installation by Future Green Studio along the Allegheny waterfront in downtown Pittsburgh. Future Green is a design collective in Brooklyn, NY whose work is focused on the intersection of art, ecology, and urbanism. This project is in collaboration with Clear Story and is supported by Riverlife and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.
Invisible Ecologies seeks to reveal the latent potential for human, plant, and wildlife interaction within the constructed urban environment. Like a plant emerging through a crack in a concrete sidewalk, wildlife, too, can adapt and thrive in the harshest urban conditions.
This sculpture repositions man-made materials found in the urban environment – objects like concrete, graffiti, and discarded plastic and glass – and aggregates them into a series of structures mounted on steel pedestals.
Two extremely good and necessary books on environment and strategies for the protection of life and future. Very competent and well researched and vittingly written. Good - though frightening - reads!
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For Swedish readers:
På grund av Miljöpartiets debacle har dessvärre också miljöfrågorna hamnat i bakvattnet. Men de är i själva verket viktigare än någonsin och alla partier borde enas om att hetta upp frågan och göra den angelägen igen.
Två bra böcker kan hjälpa till. Den ena av dem finns ännu inte på svenska men den till höger - Dave Goulsons - finns. Då heter den Galen i insekter men handlar varken om galenskap eller bara om insekter utan om vår globala miljö i stort om det hot den står inför. Lånen och läsen!
Quartet performance at a V.I.P. Reception by the Ecology Center, held at University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).
Explore #293 October 15, 2012
This was taken from a moving train in the Central Valley of California. I like the contrast of the old windmill being overshadowed by the new generation win turbines.
Explored! June 14, 2014 number 482
Priyank kharge, Minister of IT and Biotechnology and Eshwar Khandre, Minister of Forest and Ecology, Govt of Karnataka.
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such a rushed shot tonight, I just arrived back home after 11pm from South Kildare Photography Club where I gave a talk, (I just wanted to say thanks so much Guys for such a warm response, interesting questions and for all your kind comments after, I shall have trouble finding a pillow big enough for my big giant head tonight, pure awesome! :)
shot set up, taken, processed and uploaded in under 30 mins :)
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Created for the Textures Only ~ Competition # 38 ~ Tranquility Base
textures by me and skeletal mess
Sheep in snow on family farm, Webster County, West Virginia, USA. Sheep breed is Katahdin and Barbados Blackbelly mix.
We have this snake ID'd as Boiga cyanea (Green Cat Snake). Interestingly, most of the photos I can find of this species show it with light-colored eyes and less pronounced blue on the chin.
Morning-after empties, thrown by some "merry-makers" who pollute
lakes, rivers and the sea with wanton disregard. :(
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One hears faint traces of such rumors dat da Angels themselves in dis rarefied field are nourished by da sensitivity of livin creatures as a form of food equivalent to da sunlight dat falls upon da leaf in photosynthesis.
Perhaps dese Angels of Light are a form of sentience within coherent light,and thus perhaps we share a maxim dat may be " Food for thought and thought as food" as a reciprocal feeding process in an ecology we cannot directly experience from our immediate environment or da High.
if so, fest on dis bein sensitivity's
it's gettin tougher n tougher findin my way back from da fracverse..m worried dat i's might gets lost in der...gotta be very careful next time !!
Alphanumeric Self-Portrait with Geometric Analysis
There are several locations at Mission Island Marsh that look like this - I am shocked because I can visibly see the forest disappearing. But I am also intrigued because I study environmental history & the fur trade, and it's interesting to see an age-old process unfold.
The series of images in this album explores Mission Island Marsh Conservation Area. It shows how the beaver (castor canadensis) can shape one small part of the environment in just a couple of months.