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boat passed its better days at thornham old harbour, north Norfolk

A Columbian ground squirrel poses on a rock for me near Mud Lake in Kananaskis Alberta.

“You’re my favorite subject, Love. I’ll start with your eyes. I fell in love with those first. One look was like a punch to the gut. You have these ageless eyes on such a young face. I just knew that you had seen bad things, and from the start, I knew that you could understand pain. Understand feeling hopeless and helpless and alone. I fell in love with your eyes first because I looked into their depths and saw the other half of my soul.”

― R.K. Lilley

Great Egret ~ Northside Park ~ Wheaton, Illinois

 

Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 900, f/6.3, 300mm, 1/125s

Have to use the Flip Screen to get these Shots.

Pine Flatwoods in the Withlacoochee State Forest, Citrus County, Fl, USA

Another shot from a quick five minutes on Rannoch Moor on the way home. It must have looked fantastic when the hard frosts first arrived. But you can't be everywhere at the same time ;) I'm off volunteering this morning so need to get ready. Cold Cold Ground is by Tom waits

 

drops on leaves too late

on the ground, dry and parched

autumn’s final show

 

Week 43 in 2024

  

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Torii gates are erected at the entrances to Shinto shrine to symbolize that the ground inside is sacred. As you know, Fushimi Inari Shrine situated in Kyoto, an ancient capital of Japan, is extremely famous for its thousands of red-lacquered torii gates.

I searched for the similar location in Tokyo and finally reached to Sannou Inari Shrine in Chiyoda-ku, where I could enjoy a scenery of torii gates like that of the Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto.

It is unbelievable that such a mysterious shrine is located in the heart of Tokyo. The Diet Building and Prime Minister's Official Residence are within a few minutes of the shrine.

 

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Southern Ground Hornbill with catch

Tsavo East National Park - Kenya

Bottom of a gorge, prescribed burn area,,,Withlacoochee State Forest, Citrus County, Fl, USA

Lousewort makes for some nice greens in the background.

A Columbian Ground Squirrel (Citellus columbianus) at the entrance to its den on the slopes of the foothills in Waterton National Park, Alberta, Canada.

 

October, 1994.

 

Slide # GWB McB Scan AA_20250224_167-2.jpg

 

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One single lightning strike.

 

Image Details:

 

Location: Leumeah, NSW

Direction: West

Date: 2018-12-13

Frames: 1

Exposure times: 2 sec

f/25

ISO 100

Cropped: slightly

Camera: Canon 60D

Lens: Tamron 10mm-24mm lens @ 15mm

Trigger: DSLR Lightning Trigger by Martin Mariette

 

In Vienna you can find some populations of the European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus), also known as the European souslik. It needs short turf in order to dig its tunnel system which it finds this on the steppes and in pasture, in dry banks, on sports fields, parks and lawns. These conditions are lost when changes in agricultural practice convert grassland into arable land and forest, or grazing ceases and the grass grows coarse and scrubland develops - which has happened a lot in the recent years. This is why the European ground squirrel is listed as being endangered by the IUCN in its Red List of Threatened Species. The population trend is downward and it is believed that, over the last ten years, the population has diminished by more than 30% due to the destruction of their habitat. These cute little critters are so much fun to watch and should be - as all living creatures - protected at all costs.

 

In Wien kann man das Europäische Ziesel (Spermophilus citellus) noch recht häufig finden, obwohl es mittlerweile durch die Zerstörung seines Lebensraumes zu den stark bedrohten Tierarten gehört und sich weit oben auf der Roten Liste wiederfindet. Durch Landwirtschaft, Verbuschung und Bebauung sind die Steppenlandschaften, die es als Lebensraum bevorzugt, zu stark geschrumpft. In Deutschland ist es ausgerottet, Wiederansiedlungsversuche sind gescheitert. Diese putzigen Nager, die sehr zutraulich werden können, sollten - wie alle Lebewesen, unbedingt geschützt werden.

Hairy Woodpecker male working the base of a trunk...

Ground squirrels are quite shy. It took me a while to get them like this in front of the lens.

Camera: beer can

Paper: Kodak Polymax, 14x16 cm

Exposure: 1 week (2016-07-16 --> 07-24)

No development, no fixation.

 

This camera was dug underground in horizontal position to solar arches. Heavy rains washed the ground and shook the camera.

Vintage three-foot narrow gauge ground-throw switch.

Another large Italian 6 day tour. Eventful to say the least.

 

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Claimants Flower has Fallen.

NIkon F4, AF Nikkor 50/1.4 D, Lomochrome Turquoise @200

Kruger National Park, South Africa

Beautiful weather blue skies and a bit of sunshine over padarn lake and snowdonia mountains in the background.

Sherfield on Loddon cricket ground not so popular in this deep frost!!

Such intricate design on the California Quail. They like to perch high in the garden to keep an eye on things.

Good Hill Farm Airport , Roxbury, Connecticut

A very enthusiastic "Ground Stab" and a rather unenthusiastic audience. :)

 

Sandhill Cranes

Monte Vista NWR, Monte Vista, CO

 

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Showing off my Ring again.

 

Update: Re-shot...less grainy.

l was lucky to catch him in a tree, although they are lovely, on the ground, in the long grass.

A Columbian Ground Squirrel (Citellus columbianus) at the entrance to its burrow in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Waterloo National Park, Alberta, Canada.

 

Image captured on Kodachrome 64 slide film and digitized for use on this site.

 

September, 1994.

 

Slide # GWB McB Scan AA_20250224_165-2.jpg

 

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Here is a couple of photos of the Great Gray on the ground. I wasn't fast enough to get him downing the vole he caught, but he stayed on the ground for awhile to digest.

 

These shots are from my encounter last week.

 

Better Viewed Large

remembering to look down along the ground while picture taking results in gold sometimes. this shot in a nearby eugene, oregon park.

They had a controlled burn in this area in the Spring of 2023 leaving many trees scorched. However the Blueberries and other ground cover returned with profusion and even though the tree leaf colour had already peaked before we arrived, the ground cover colour was at peak and intense.

Old fishing boat grounded near the harbour in Victoria, Prince Edward Island

Xysticus sp. on goldenrod

Female White-breasted Nuthatch foraging on the ground. Normally these little critters cling to the side of a tree trunk. In this case, she was content to scratch through the leaves and ground cover.

 

Common feeder visitor.

Toward a lower place in the Withlacoochee State Forest, Citrus County, Fl

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