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Mural by Andrew (Joux) Mack aka @jouxart, seen at 2854 Larimer Street in the RiNo area of Denver, Colorado.
Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Wilton church is well worth a visit for its eclectic building and decorative styles. The churchyard also has quite a bit of interest. I was taken by the colour combinations produced by the lichen, ivy and mosses growing on this particular grave stone.
Doñana's National park (Spain), Dunes ecosystem,
Doñana's National Park includes five different ecosystems: Beaches, Dunes, Border, Marsh and Forest. The system of mobile dunes of Doñana, unique in Spain, is one of the most beautiful landscapes of the park. The dunes, extremely interesting both from an ecological and a cultural viewpoint, are formed by accumulations of sand whose front of progress has a steeper slope than the part of displacement called tail. The progress of the dunes from the beach buries and destroys the vegetation that finds on its way, forming between two dunes the “corrales”, copses of stone pines and bushes. (www.donanavisitas.es/en)
[ESP] El Parque Nacional de Doñana incluye cinco ecosistemas distintos: Playas, Dunas, Vera, Marisma y Bosque. El sistema de Dunas móviles de Doñana, único en España, es uno de los paisajes más bellos del parque. Sumamente interesante, tanto ecológica como culturalmente, las dunas se forman por acumulaciones de arena cuyo frente de avance tiene una pendiente más acusada que la parte de desplazamiento denominada cola. El avance de las dunas desde la playa entierra y destruye la vegetación que encuentra a su paso, formándose entre dos dunas los "corrales", bosquetes de pino piñonero y matorral. (www.donanavisitas.es)
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Bicentennial Park is a 40-hectare of parkland located 16 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of City of Parramatta. Bicentennial Park is situated on the shores Homebush Bay and is a part of the Sydney Olympic Park in New South Wales, Australia. The Park is a natural heritage site featuring an important wetland ecosystem and parklands. It offers visitors recreation, nature-based tours, environmental education and outdoor event experiences. The park has picnic areas, playgrounds, pathways and cycle ways, access to the wetlands, salt marsh and bird hides. It also features Lake Belvedere, Peace Monument, Treillage Tower, Sundial, 'Cyrus the Great' statue, the Silent Hearts Memorial Garden and water features. Powells Creek runs through the eastern side of the park. The Homebush Bay wetland is occupied by animals that thrive in the salt water wetlands. Bicentennial Park was created by the state and federal governments during the 1980s, to celebrate Australia's Bicentenary in 1988. The project involved recycling 47.4 hectares of former rubbish dump into a regional recreation area and the conservation of 53 hectares of a wetland ecosystem on the Parramatta River. The park was officially opened on 1 January 1988. 52482
After Lake Balaton and Lake Geneva, Lake Constance is the third largest freshwater lake in Central Europe. Sitting at 1,296 feet (395 meter) above sea level, the lake is bordered by Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
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Audubon’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
Southwestern Florida
USA
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This was quite an unusual find at the sanctuary. I almost didn’t see it until I was looking up in the air for a particular bird when I saw this spider web high in a tree. When the sun hit it just right a rainbow of colors appeared in the web. When the sun disappeared replaced by shade the web disappeared. It was an image I just couldn’t miss. I have never seen anything quite like it before. I hope you enjoy it.
A visit to Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is a journey into the heart of the Everglades ecosystem. Discover the rugged beauty of this famed natural area on Corkscrew's famous boardwalk - a 2.5-mile adventure through pine flatwoods, wet prairie, around a marsh, and finally into the largest old growth Bald Cypress forest in North America.
Located about 30 minutes east of Naples, Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is home to hundreds of alligators, otters, white-tailed deer, and red-bellied turtles. A wide variety of wading birds, songbirds, raptors and the fabulous Painted Bunting can be seen throughout the year. Photo opportunities are available at every turn of the boardwalk trail.
A boardwalk of a little over 3 km (1.9 mi) length provides walking access through pine flatwoods, wet prairie, stands of pond cypress and bald cypress, and marsh ecosystems within the sanctuary. In 2017, some parts of the boardwalk were damaged by bald cypress trees knocked over by Hurricane Irma. Most of the damage was repaired, but several small sections have been permanently closed.
The sanctuary is a gateway site for the Great Florida Birding Trail. It is an important breeding area for the endangered wood stork and other wetland birds. It also has wintering passerines, including the painted bunting. Numerous wading bird species can be found in the wetlands of the sanctuary, including the yellow-crowned night heron, black-crowned night heron, tricolored heron, great egret, and snowy egret. Specialist birds include limpkin, barred owl and, in summer, swallow-tailed kite.
American alligators and cottonmouth snakes are also inhabitants of the sanctuary.
There's not too much that I can say about this photo that I haven't already said before... so I'll leave it at that for now.
The intertidal zone of the Pacific Northwest is a very rich, biodiverse ecosystem. This shot was taken at low tide at Chesterman Beach near Tofino, British Columbia.
10/01/15 www.allenfotowild.com
Caples Lake... WHY IS THE WATER SO LOW? because private investors are draining the lake due to a "faulty valve" in the dam that needs to be fixed. question- does this really pose a threat to anyone? answer- no. everyone is going all Katrina Krazy about the dams in California and there is really no issue here. the problem is draining the dam is destroying the ecosystem. the fish that live in the lake are guaranteed to not make it through the winter due to the decrease in oxygen levels in the lake water as a result of the decreasing water levels. Department of Fish and Games isnt do anything so... law suit? protest? whatever it takes... SAVE CAPLES LAKE
Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed (CREW)
This was a long pathway to adventure, but we had to turn back due to a large, afternoon thunderstorm developing.
We were pretty far out on the trail and just made it back to our car!
Hikers are also warned that there is the possibility of dangerous wildlife encounters.
myfwc.com/recreation/cooperative/crew/
ABC's and 123's E is for Ecosystem.
The steep sides of the Khutzeymateen Inlet have a number of avalanche slopes and waterfalls that slash through the north temperate rain forest down to the estuary. A large population of grizzly bears hibernate on the slopes over the winter and migrate down to the sedge grass meadows at the shoreline to feed in the spring. Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary,
BC.
23/12/2019 www.allenfotowild.com