Flowing Water (Post One & Comment two)
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If you climb the secret stairs, you'll find the secret garden here at Walt Disney Concert Hall...
There's A Secret Garden In The Secret Garden
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Dipper - Cinclus Cinclus
aka Water Ouzel
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Dippers are members of the genus Cinclus in the bird family Cinclidae, named for their bobbing or dipping movements. They are unique among passerines for their ability to dive and swim underwater.
They have a characteristic bobbing motion when perched beside the water, giving them their name. While under water, they are covered by a thin, silvery film of air, due to small bubbles being trapped on the surface of the plumage.
Dippers are found in suitable freshwater habitats in the highlands of the Americas, Europe and Asia. In Africa they are only found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. They inhabit the banks of fast-moving upland rivers with cold, clear waters, though, outside the breeding season, they may visit lake shores and sea coasts.
The high haemoglobin concentration in their blood gives them a capacity to store oxygen greater than that of other birds, allowing them to remain underwater for thirty seconds or more, whilst their basal metabolic rate is approximately one-third slower than typical terrestrial passerines of similar mass. One small population wintering at a hot spring in Suntar-Khayata Mountains of Siberia feeds underwater when air temperatures drop below −55 °C (−67 °F).
Dippers are completely dependent on fast-flowing rivers with clear water, accessible food and secure nest-sites. They may be threatened by anything that affects these needs such as water pollution, acidification and turbidity caused by erosion. River regulation through the creation of dams and reservoirs, as well as channelization, can degrade and destroy dipper habitat.
Dippers are also sometimes hunted or otherwise persecuted by humans for various reasons. The Cyprus race of the white-throated dipper is extinct. In the Atlas Mountains dippers are claimed to have aphrodisiacal properties. In parts of Scotland and Germany, until the beginning of the 20th century, bounties were paid for killing dippers because of a misguided perception that they were detrimental to fish stocks through predation on the eggs and fry of salmonids.
Population:
UK breeding:
6,200-18,700 pairs
flowing through the forest, on a stillsam winter day.../Hågaån, en ström genom skogen, en lugn vinterdag.../El arroyo de Håga, corriendo a través del bosque un tranquilo día de invierno...(DSC_9784)
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The lower waterfall of Glas Allt Falls as it tumbles between the boulders in the Scottish Highlands.
This is my day today: enjoying beautiful past moments of Autumn from a photo: a pond, a small waterfall, the warmth of the sun's rays and the silence of the forest. Sorry, just feeling blue today.
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Dipper - Cinclus Cinclus
aka Water Ouzel
Double Click to view
Dippers are members of the genus Cinclus in the bird family Cinclidae, named for their bobbing or dipping movements. They are unique among passerines for their ability to dive and swim underwater.
They have a characteristic bobbing motion when perched beside the water, giving them their name. While under water, they are covered by a thin, silvery film of air, due to small bubbles being trapped on the surface of the plumage.
Dippers are found in suitable freshwater habitats in the highlands of the Americas, Europe and Asia. In Africa they are only found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. They inhabit the banks of fast-moving upland rivers with cold, clear waters, though, outside the breeding season, they may visit lake shores and sea coasts.
The high haemoglobin concentration in their blood gives them a capacity to store oxygen greater than that of other birds, allowing them to remain underwater for thirty seconds or more, whilst their basal metabolic rate is approximately one-third slower than typical terrestrial passerines of similar mass. One small population wintering at a hot spring in Suntar-Khayata Mountains of Siberia feeds underwater when air temperatures drop below −55 °C (−67 °F).
Dippers are completely dependent on fast-flowing rivers with clear water, accessible food and secure nest-sites. They may be threatened by anything that affects these needs such as water pollution, acidification and turbidity caused by erosion. River regulation through the creation of dams and reservoirs, as well as channelization, can degrade and destroy dipper habitat.
Dippers are also sometimes hunted or otherwise persecuted by humans for various reasons. The Cyprus race of the white-throated dipper is extinct. In the Atlas Mountains dippers are claimed to have aphrodisiacal properties. In parts of Scotland and Germany, until the beginning of the 20th century, bounties were paid for killing dippers because of a misguided perception that they were detrimental to fish stocks through predation on the eggs and fry of salmonids.
Population:
UK breeding:
6,200-18,700 pairs
Chiffon - Macro Monday's theme "Textile/Cloth"
A portion of the dress from my daughters wedding.
Happy Macro Monday!
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" I began to feel the sand Of all the grains and pebbles, Only few could fit my hand Without fleeting away. Once again I sit At the crossroad of faith... To be consumed by the wind And disappear into the night. Oh how I longed For that night And the sky Hugging the land. Maybe we shall meet again, As the wind meets sand Flowing and waving In time... "
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Taken at our Botanical gardens last year. After making some minor adjustments to this image like contrast, light, color and adding a frame I like it! I shot it at a higher f stop to hopefully obtain some obvious movement and using a tri-pod. Still waiting for our Spring to fully arrive! Happy weekend my Flickr friends!!
An ephemeral streams flows into the Big Sur River at Andrew Molinas State Park after strong El Nino rains.
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© Melissa Post 2016
Vanhankaupungin koski, Helsinki. It was our first time in this place and I somehow assumed that i'll be able to get back enough to fit the building next to the waterfall into the frame with my 50mm lens. Wrong i was, but the final result came out fine and it's kind of fun to work for the compo with fixed focal length.
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