Field Guide To Uttarakhand Birds
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For my Mother on Mother's Day 2023.
I wish all mothers a happy day today. They often do not realise how much they are a guiding light in our lives, shaping our hopes and dreams from the earliest of days. Today is particularly poignant for my Mum. This is her first Mother's Day in 67 years that she has not shared with my late father. Hard to believe it has been six months already since he died. You are loved Mum.
well our guide seemed relaxed, he was more interested in texts than anything else... if only we knew if he was guiding the shadows to us or showing our way out... oh... it would be so much more comforting if the exit was up rather than down... was crystal city above us or below?
"Mud walking (in Dutch: wadlopen) is an exciting and adventurous way of acquainting oneself with a unique nature reserve, the Wadden Sea, also the largest continuous national park in Europe. During low-tide, shallows fall dry making it possible to cross the bottom of the sea.
These shallows consist of sandbanks, criss-crossed with trenches and gullies. During a typical mud walk, hikers wrestle through miles of mire and thigh-deep brown mud, wade through channels of waist high water before arriving on one of the islands in the Wadden Sea."
info-internet
Make sure you have a guided tour and only when the weather conditions are right!
For now it was nice to make a very short walk ;-)) The Wadden Sea is such a great place to visit if you love nature and silence.
Happy monochrome Thursday !
Reddish Egret
The Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) is a medium-sized heron. It is a resident breeder in Central America, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Gulf Coast of the United States, and Mexico. There is post-breeding dispersal to well north of the nesting range. In the past, this bird was a victim of the plume trade.
According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, there are only 1,500 to 2,000 nesting pairs of reddish egrets in the United States — and most of these are in Texas. They are classified as "Threatened" in Texas and receive special protection.
Egrets are herons which have white or buff plumage and develop fine plumes (usually milky white) during the breeding season. Egrets are not a biologically distinct group from the herons and have the same build.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddish_egret
From The Cornell Lab: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Reddish_Egret/overview
A few more of the same place at different times are in the first comment box.
- Lake Erie, Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada -
"Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships." ~ Charles Simic
amidst the darkness
light illuminates our way
paths we create ~m~
In the face of darkness, the light represents hope and perseverance
One of two Egyptian lighthouses in Crete, this one at Rethymno built in the 1830s. Crete, Greece.
Travelling on Tuesdays (retrospective).
Guide dog Zita working at station, waiting for the train,
With a fresh summer trim.
Taken by the owner, iPhone
If I held out my hand for you and told you that I needed help. Would you take it? If I told you that I felt lost and alone in the bleak darkness. Would you guide me back to the light? If I told you that I was ever so close to the edge. Would you tighten your grasp to keep me safe? If I told you that my strength was depleted. Would you help keep me steady? If I told you that my will was all but gone. Would remind me of why I should continue to fight?