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Egyptian Goose - Alopochen Aegyptiacus
Once common along the entire Nile valley and regarded as sacred in ancient times, the Egyptian Goose is no longer an easy bird to see in the country from which it takes its name, as it is largely confined to upper Egypt. It is, however, widespread and common throughout sub-Saharan Africa, with introduced populations firmly established in England, Holland, Belgium and France. Concerns over conflict with native species has led to restrictions on keeping them in Britain and Europe.
This distinctive small goose is a member of the shelduck family. In the wild it is invariably found in pairs or family parties, while flocks of 50 or more can be found after the breeding season. The sexes are similar: both have a conspicuous chestnut patch encircling the eyes, giving them a somewhat piratical appearance, while the brilliant white forewing is obvious when they fly.
The UK Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019 came into force on Sunday 1st December. The Order implements requirements contained in EU Regulation 1143/2014 on Invasive Alien Species, which sets out rules to prevent and minimise the impact of the introduction and spread of non-native animals and plants across the EU. The Order makes it an offence, amongst other things, to import, keep, sell, transport, breed or release into the environment, any of the listed plants and animals. Invasive alien waterfowl currently covered by this Order are Egyptian Geese and Ruddy Ducks Oxyura jamaicensis.
Have been through some of my files and came across an earlier version of this :- www.flickr.com/photos/tallaltiger1050/49547911501/in/albu...
I have decided to crop it to todays upload,which i think suits it better.
More like a letterbox size.
Avebury is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about 5.5 miles west of Marlborough and 8 miles northeast of Devizes. Much of the village is encircled by the prehistoric monument complex also known as Avebury
Panorama from the top of Mam Tor
The summit of Mam Tor is encircled by a late Bronze Age and early Iron Age hill fort. Radiocarbon analysis suggests occupation from around 1200 BC. The earliest remaining features are two Bronze Age burial mounds, one just below the summit and the other on the summit itself, though now buried under the paving. At a later stage over a hundred small platforms were levelled into the hill near the summit, allowing inhabited timber huts to be constructed. The hill fort and burial mounds are a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein
Similar to scaups, Redheads and Canvasbacks the Ring-necked Duck is a member of the "Diving Ducks" family although they prefer shallower, shoreline waters.
Their preferred habitat makes their presence common in freshwater marshes, on woodland ponds and lakes.
Their unique characteristics are to appear to ride higher on the water than other species and they hold their heads high and keep their tails clear of the water much of the time. The telltale identification markings are the two white bands encircling the males bill. One is a bold band near the tip of the bill while the other is a narrower band at the base of the bill.
The mating games are on in this picture as 6 drakes give chase to one hen and each drake wants to win gold.
A 1,000-year-old haven of tranquility
Some churches have an atmosphere disproportionate to their size, and so it is with St Mary's, a tiny church in a churchyard encircled by trees, frothy with white blossom in spring. A grand Norman chancel arch links the eleventh-century nave to the thirteenth-century chancel.
This is a rare and precious survival with wonderful craftsmanship in wood and ironwork. Amongst the wealth of interest here are an exquisitely carved fourteenth-century font and an unusual set of Charles II Royal Arms dating from 1660.
There are also two Norman doorways - the original door of one of these, made with wood and ironwork over 1,000 years old, stands preserved inside the church. Ancient timbers survive in the roofs and support a later bellturret, containing two bells that may well have rung out over this beautiful area of agricultural north-east Hertfordshire for at least 600 years
Under the ruins of a walled city
Crumbling towers in beams of yellow light.
No flags of truce, no cries of pity;
The siege guns had been pounding through the night.
It took a day to build the city.
We walked through its streets in the afternoon.
As I returned across the fields I'd known,
I recognized the walls that I once made.
Had to stop in my tracks for fear of walking on the mines I'd laid.
And if I've built this fortress around your heart,
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire,
Then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm,
And let me set the battlements on fire . . .
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Fortress Around Your Heart- Sting, Dream of Blue Turtles (1985), Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE)
We encircled up them four wheel drives
Stacking palettes to the sky
We got all you wanna drink, a
Tank of gasoline, and
Baby all I need's your light
To fire't up
We gon' tear the night up
Got 'shine in the masons
Good times in the making
Baby, crank it
Fire't up
Get you a little buzzed
Country queens do your thing
Y'all can get this small town lit
Let's fire't up
Let's fire't up
Yeah, I don't dance, all I do is this
Drink in my right, smoking with my left
From the classic fade-away and tweeters
Old school'd on them speakers
Drop the beat and bang your head
Hell yeah!
From Cornell Labs:
A striking black-and-white bird with very long, thin red legs, the Black-necked Stilt is found along the edges of shallow water in open country.
They have the second-longest legs in proportion to their bodies of any bird, exceeded only by flamingos.
Black-necked Stilts are semicolonial when nesting, and they participate en masse in anti-predator displays. The displays include one in which nonincubating birds fly up to mob predators, and one in which all birds encircle a predator, hop up and down, and flap their wings.
Created for Shock of the New October Challenge - Circles and Dots: www.flickr.com/groups/shockofthenew/discuss/7215765894243...
Using Parisian Woman By Josep Mª Tamburini Dalmau (1856 - 1932) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Josep_M%C2%AA_Tamburini_D...
Texture and other photos used are my own.
Operation Dynamo was the code name for a military evacuation operation by the British Admiralty during the Second World War, in which 85 percent of the bulk of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and parts of the French Army were transported to England by ship. These units were encircled by the Wehrmacht at the Battle of Dunkirk, where a hold order - which has not been definitively clarified to this day - for the rapidly advancing German armoured troops opened a window of opportunity for the Allies to evacuate 338,226 soldiers, 198,229 of them British and 139,997 French, from 26 May to 4 June 1940, leaving almost all of their equipment behind. This largest rescue operation in world history up to that time formed the basis for Britain's staying power, because the loss of almost the entire British professional army could not have been compensated for at that time.
Bray-Dunes beach in the Dunkerque arrondissement, Département Nord
Hauts-de-France, France 26.05.2023
www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-du...
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Operation Dynamo war der Codename einer militärischen Evakuierungsaktion der britischen Admiralität im Zweiten Weltkrieg, bei der mit 85 Prozent das Gros des britischen Expeditionskorps (BEF) und Teile der französischen Armee per Schiff nach England transportiert werden konnten. Diese Truppenteile wurden von der Wehrmacht bei der Schlacht um Dünkirchen eingekesselt, wobei ein – bis heute nicht endgültig geklärter – Haltebefehl für die rasch vorstoßenden deutschen Panzertruppen ein Zeitfenster für die Alliierten öffnete, in dem vom 26. Mai bis zum 4. Juni 1940 338.226 Soldaten, davon 198.229 Briten und 139.997 Franzosen,[1] unter Zurücklassung fast des gesamten Materials evakuiert werden konnten. Diese bis dahin größte Rettungsaktion der Weltgeschichte bildete die Grundlage für das Durchhaltevermögen Großbritanniens, denn der Verlust fast der gesamten britischen Berufsarmee hätte zu dieser Zeit nicht kompensiert werden können.
Strand von Bray-Dunes im Arrondissement Dunkerque, Département Nord
Hauts-de-France, Frankreich 26.05.2023
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The Hofvijver ( English: Court Pond) is a pond in the centre of The Hague, Netherlands. It is adjoined in the east by the Korte Vijverberg (road), in the south by the Binnenhof and the Mauritshuis, in the west by the Buitenhof and in the north by the Lange Vijverberg (road). In the middle there is a small island with plants and trees which has no name, it is usually referred to as "the island in the Vijverberg".
Nowadays the Hofvijver is adjoined in the west by the Buitenhof, but until the 19th century that side was adjoined by houses. The pond is encircled by fairly high quays, but is very shallow on some points. In 2004 an underwater gate was built to make sure that nobody could swim to the prime minister's office without being detected. His office, the Torentje ("Little Tower"), adjoins the Hofvijver as it is located on the Binnenhof.
On the bank across from the Binnenhof (Lange Vijverberg) there is a statue of Jantje (Little John) pointing to the Binnenhof. 'Jantje' probably refers to John I, Count of Holland who died at the age of 15 years, and features in a well known Dutch children's song about The Hague.
Located next to the Vijverberg are several museums, like the Mauritshuis, the Gevangenpoort (Prison Gate), the Hague Historical Museum and the Gallery Prince William V.
Oddernes is a former municipality that was located in the old Vest-Agder county in Norway. The 103-square-kilometre (40 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The administrative centre was the village of Lund on the east side of the river Otra near where Lund Church is located. The former area of the municipality makes up the area just west of the urban town of Kristiansand within the municipality of Kristiansand in Agder county. The old municipality encircled the town of Kristiansand, and it included the villages such as Flekkerøy, Vågsbygd, Slettheia, Lund, Strai, Mosby, and Justvik. Today, the town of Kristiansand has a borough named Oddernes, but it has very different boundaries than the old municipality had.
An interesting twisting branch encircles the parent tree in an almost seductive way. Taken in Hillock Wood, Buckinghamshire.
A six stitch hand held panorama of Toledo taken by the Tagus River. The old Citadel was a formidable stronghold with the River partly encircling the walled and gated City.
Here you can see the San Martin Bridge leading in to the City's Jewish Quarter with the Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes above the walls. Toledo became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986 because of its cultural and heritage riches.
San Gimignano is a small walled medieval hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy. Known as the Town of Fine Towers, San Gimignano is famous for its medieval architecture, unique in the preservation of about a dozen of its tower houses, which, with its hilltop setting and encircling walls form "an unforgettable skyline".
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Benjakitti Park covers a rectangular area of about 208,000 sq m just opposite the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre. The park forms a narrow swathe of green around the expansive Lake Ratchada, with dedicated bicycle and jogging tracks encircling the whole park. The water’s edge is also nicely framed by some pretty, well-maintained plant life, and colourful flowers adding to the tranquillity. You’ll also find playgrounds, skate ramps, a central pavilion with fountains, and an impressive half-circle courtyard that’s popular for picnics in Benjakitti Park.
Winter strikes its first blow attempting to freeze the surface of the Calgary reservoir. And since then, it has thoughed but will soon again freeze swinging strike two.
The small pools of water froze and were encircled in ice; like small blue ink pots but of frozen water.
Tsaritsyno is a palace museum and park reserve in the south of Moscow, covering an area of more than 100 hectares, is located on a hilly area crossed by ravines. It encircles three ponds.
Eastern arch bridge leading to Horseshoe Island in the Middle Tsaritsyno Pond.
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber is a town on the Romantic Road (Romantische Strasse) in Bavaria, Germany. It is known for its medieval center (Altstadt), seemingly untouched by the passage of time, encircled by the undamaged 14th century town wall. In the Middle Ages, Rothenburg was a free imperial city. Now Rothenburg is a small town and a big tourist attraction.The Röderbogen Arch, with the clock tower, dates back to the 12th century and was part of the town's first fortifications, later replaced by the outer ring wall.
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- Hearst - Italy (Italy) 03-May-2016
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Shimla, the one word that can bring images of cool wind, of magnificent mountains, snowfall and nature in her best form, is a capital city of Himachal Pradesh. The other capital is Dharamshala, which is located about 240 km from Shimla. This magnificent hill station is encircled by Mandi, Kullu and Kinnaur, which are also brilliant places to visit. Being one of the most sought-after vacation destinations, Shimla is known as Queen of the Hills for its beauty. It used to be a summer capital during the reign of the British Raj. The city is nestled by the foothills of the Himalayas. Since Shimla is located just about 340 km from Delhi, the hill station can be an ideal escape, especially during summer.
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It's a lawn sprinkler doing its thing, photographed with a Helios 40-2 85mm lens with 12mm extension tube and processed as a three-exposure image using the Pep Ventosa technique.
HMT & HMBT
Note: This was not full Pep Ventosa, in the sense that I didn't encircle the sprinkler, or my camera would have gotten soaked...I only shot a limited arc from behind, and ended up using only 3 of the 5 shots that I took.
Morro Rock --- By Vincent Lowry
“Beneath a blue dome, above an azure sea
A volcanic prodigy stands proudly to the heavens
Caressed by the tide; encircled by a cloud of feathered hunters
Nature’s landmark beckons a sojourn for all sea-drained travelers
Its base, a dozen vessels strong; its peak, a half-score of stacked masts
Those at shore stand and marvel
The brilliance of the bay
The uncompromising grandeur and enchantment of Morro Rock”
That poem by Vincent Lowry simplifies the beauty of Morro Bay. Perhaps most notable is its namesake, Morro Rock, which sticks out prominently from the ocean as if it were a Pacific version of Gibraltar.
Arrived for sunset at Morro Bay, could not find the best location for photographing it. The wind was strong, took couple photos on the beach, returned at dark next morning (after searching best sunrise location online). The photo was taken before blue hour, manually focusing, capturing the stars on the sky! 😉 Great beach to collect shells and capture the sand patterns later after golden hour!
Canon EOS R5, EF24-70mm f/2.8L II USM
ISO1000, f/11, 30mm, 30s
Fourka is a place that combines various opposites perfectly fitted in a beautiful environment. It is a place where is possible to find both engaging nightlife and tranquility, which make Fourka one of a kind destination for an unforgettable vacation.
To reach Fourka you need to pass a pine forest that surrounds the resort area, which makes a perfect complement to extraordinary blue waters of crystal clear sea. Fourka beach (blue flag award), or Skala Fourkas, is 2,5 kilometers long, quite spacious and never crowded. Being located on the western coast of Kassandra, you can enjoy the marvelous sunsets that color the sky in red, orange and purple hues.
While the coastline is dotted with hotels and beach bars, two-kilometer distant Fourka village is a tranquil place, featuring traditional architecture with stone houses and small churches. The village is encircled by pine trees, olive groves, beautified by many other types of trees and flowers. Here, you can find traditional taverns, bars and restaurants.
The cold of winter encircles
my memories of spring...
But deep in my heart, the echoes
of a warm sunrise still call to me.
So I wait in the darkness,
quietly dreaming....
It's late now,
and the birds are starting to miss me.
So they sing, and call out,
wondering where I've gone?
Oh, I wish I could tell them,
and answer their song.
But the snow keeps on falling,
slowly turning to rain.
Till spring brings back the sunrise,
that gives me life again.
Lost
“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
- Albert Einstein
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fence
fɛns/Submit
1.
surround or protect with a fence.
"our garden was not fully fenced"
synonyms:enclose, surround, circumscribe, encircle, circle, encompass, bound, form a barrier around, form a ring round; More
2.
informal
buy or sell (stolen goods).
"after stealing your ring, he didn't even know how to fence it"
synonyms:receive stolen goods, deal in stolen goods
"these fellows fenced for a band of grave robbers"
A comma butterfly STEALS(pun) a moment of rest on the upright pole of a fence?
The foundation for Port Coquitlam’s trail network is the Traboulay PoCo Trail, a 25.3 kilometre route that encircles the community. This flat walking and cycling trail is suitable for exploring at any time of the year.
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Fun Fact: I made the teeny wreath out of a pipe cleaner. I cut the ribbon in half to make it smaller for the bow and then glued it all together. Of course first of which again gluing my hands and everything else but the wreath, haha!
Looking up a portion of the Trail of the Molten Land at Lava Butte.
Lava Butte is a cinder cone rising 500 feet. A cinder covered trail encircles the rim of the cone with outstanding views.
"The early history of Lava Butte is not known, but it is assumed that Native Americans observed the eruptions and later ascended the prominent new landmark. White settlers arriving in the 1800s also noted the landmark. In 1903, I.C. Russell was the first geologist to study the butte and speculated that it erupted as recently as 150 years ago.
However, like the other cinder cones in the area, Lava Butte only experienced a single eruption, dated by geologists in 1977 to about 7,000 years ago."
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The waters of Moraine Lake seem like they have been poured straight from the heavens into the Valley of the Ten Peaks. The towering mountains encircle the deep blue surface of the lake in a formation so extraordinary, only Mother Nature could shape it.
Piles of boulders have been seemingly dropped by the hands of giants, forming miniature mountains near the lakeshore. Let yourself be drawn to the trails that wind amongst the rocks and travel beyond to alpine meadows and sparkling lakes.
Took this shot of last night's 'Vibrant' sunset at 20.30pm, just before the sun dipped below the horizon, from the front of my home in the village of Betws yn Rhos, Conwy, North Wales looking West towards the hamlet of Cefin Isaf.
I used a Tamron 28-300mm lens at 50mm and a polarising filter, on a high setting, to mitigate the glare.
Once again, we're in a Northerly Artic Airflow - dry and sunny by day - albeit a cold breeze too and overnight frosts when calmer - resulting in such clear and colourful sunsets.
Compositionally, luckily I was able to use the rapidly moving Cumulus Clouds to good effect not only as an encircling frame but also to further diffuse the sun's brightness.
Christian House (1889) Queen Anne -- This graceful residence was constructed by Harfield Timberlake Christian, founder of an early San Diego abstract company. It is built in a popular late Victorian design characterized by a variety of chimneys, shingles, a corner tower, and an encircling veranda.
A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen.
- John O'Donohue
A picturesque moated medieval castle, Nunney Castle in Somerset dates from the 1370s. Its builder was Sir John de la Mare, a local knight who was beginning to enjoy royal favour. Much modernised in the late 16th century, the castle was besieged and damaged by the Parliamentarians in 1645, during the English Civil War.
Though ruined, Nunney's dramatic great tower is very well preserved. Its four round corner towers and connecting walls are tightly encircled by the castle moat.
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The Temple of Hercules Victor ('Hercules the Winner') (Italian: Tempio di Ercole Vincitore) or Hercules Olivarius is a Roman temple in Piazza Bocca della Verità, in the area of the Forum Boarium close to the Tiber in Rome, Italy. It is a tholos - a round temple of Greek 'peripteral' design completely encircled by a colonnade.
Kingsbarns Parish Church was built c.1630, and substantially altered between 1810 and 1811 at the hand of Robert Balfour. The church faces south towards The Square, the central focus of the village of Kingsbarns. It is surrounded by a graveyard on all sides, encircled by a substantial coped wall. A sandstone session house with a slate roof is situated next to the entrance to the churchyard to the south of the parish church. The building is entered though a square headed door in the west elevation, and is now equipped with toilet facilities. The graveyard, which is still in use, features a number of interesting seventeenth century monuments and eighteenth century tombstones with mortality symbolism.
The church is built on a T plan with a south tower and west porch. The body of the church is harled with a Scottish slate roof. When visited, the harling was seen to be degrading on all faces of the building, revealing rough courses of squared sandstone and some interesting rough snecking on the north elevation of the main cell. The sandstone tower is capped by a spire with alternating bands of square and fishscale slate.
The eastern face of the church has a large semi-circular arched window with latticed panes below which is a square headed door. The northern transept has a square headed door in its eastern face and a framed memorial to the south of the door.
Central to the southern elevation is the tower, to the east and west of which is a semi-circular arched window (identical to that noted on the east elevation) and a smaller clear glass square headed window. Between these windows to the west of the tower is a large pilastered War Memorial. A gallery is visible though the semi-circular arches.
The west elevation has a single latticed window set in a semi-circular arch above the porch. To the north of this is the transept, which has a single clear glass square headed window towards the bottom of the face. The north face of the north transept has two pairs of clear glass square headed windows.
The tower is built of sandstone with a spire of Scottish slate. It faces south towards the square and is divided into three stages. The east and west faces of the lowest stage of the tower are without features. The upper two stages are mirrored to the north, east and west. The lowest stage of the tower is entered though a door set in a rounded arch which springs from substantial imposts and has a large keystone resting on a ledge which separates this stage of the lower from those above. Above the ledge are four moulded scrolls on the four corners of a projecting course at the bottom of the second stage. There are circular openings in the south, east and west faces. The south opening is glazed, but the others have been blocked. Below the south opening is a rectangular dedicatory plaque, which is now blank.
The lower two stages of the tower probably date from the seventeenth century. The upper stage has rounded openings all four of its faces. Above this is a pair of louvered arches under a simple hoodmold. There is a clock in each face, just below the corbelled parapet. The slated spire sits in the parapet and has bands of square and fishscale slate, tapering towards a simple metal finial.
There is a rectangular sandstone porch on the west elevation of the church which has a battlemented parapet. Entry to the church is though a square headed south door and to the west are two thin rectangular windows with coloured glass.
Hippocampus bargibanti is a tiny, pinkish pygmy seahorse with large orange or red warts and spots, encircling bands on the tail. They live solitary or form small groups in sea fans of similar color at depths of 10-40m. They adapt to the color of the host seafan. They do not grow larger than 20mm. Mabini, South Luzon, Philippines
Had a chance to visit the gorgeous medieval citadel of Dubrovnik, Croatia. Dubrovnik is a city in southern Croatia fronting the Adriatic Sea. It's known for its distinctive Old Town, encircled with massive stone walls completed in the 16th century. Paved with limestone, the pedestrianized Stradun (or Placa) is lined with shops and restaurants. For "Game of Throne" fans, this is also known as King's Landing.
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