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Norfolk Hawker - Anaciaeschna isoceles (F)
Habitat
The optimum conditions for breeding appear to be unspoilt grazing marsh dyke systems with clean, non-saline water, rushy margins, preferably with an abundance of water soldier as well as other aquatic plants.
Threats
Conversion of grazing marsh to arable farming.
Inappropriate ditch management.
Nutrients enrichment.
Pollution.
The impact of global climate change and fluctuations in water levels.
Status & Distribution
The Norfolk Hawker is currently restricted to the fens and grazing marshes that are relatively isolated from polluted water in the Broadlands of Norfolk and Northeast Suffolk. A Local Biodiversity Action Plan (LBAP) for the Norfolk Hawker has been drafted for Norfolk.
Similar Species
Brown Hawker
Brown wings.
Blue-brown eyes.
Blue and yellow markings.
Management
Norfolk Hawker Management Profile
General management principles include maintaining grazing marshes, controlling saline intrusion, controlling nutrient enrichment. There are also best practice guidelines for managing inhabited sites, particularly the dyke vegetation and the surrounding terrestrial habitats.
Case Study
Work is underway to restore habitats for this species in Norfolk.
"Run", I thought. "Run faster". All to catch this tugboat as it quickly travelled toward the setting sun. I was out of place for the shot, but find tugboats, and their hard working crews of interest. The shot follows the guideline of thirds, and turned out interesting enough, romanticizing the crew speeding off into the sunset. Do you know who is considered responsible for discovering "The Rule of Thirds"? If you said Leonardo De Vinci, you would be right.
Or rather, it was he who recognized the importance of subject placement. The guideline had otherwise always been there. In his art, he recognized that where those lines intersect, are the 4 points of tension in his art. So, it you want tension in your work of art, say thanks to Leonardo, he is certainly one worth following.
Fish eye effect applied in camera filters, extra contrast and darkening of shadows in Camera Raw. This may still not be within the guidelines for the group so please remove if necessary.
In idyllic conditions at Hillesley's ground, the first cricket match of the year, the Rollo Trophy between Hillesley and Kingswood, took place on July 12th following the relaxation of restrictions. Guidelines state there should be no more than 30 players and officials in attendance and regular hygiene breaks will be needed to sanitise participants' hands and the ball (every six overs or 20 minutes).
(From my own digital photography archive folders, 2018)
View of the west end of the Old Bridge (Ponte Velha or Ponte Rodoviária) in the harbour bay of Portimao, Portugal.
The storks are taking advantage of an old chimney that belonged to the former La Rose Canning Factory.
A beautiful blue sky morning in the beautiful Algarve, southern Portugal.
LINEAS GUIA HASTA LAS CIGÜEÑAS, PORTIMAO, PORTUGAL, 2018
(De mis carpetas de archivos de mis propias fotografías digitales, 2018)
Vista del extremo oeste del Puente Viejo (Ponte Velha o Ponte Rodoviária) en el puerto bahía de Portimao, Portugal.
Las cigüeñas aprovechan una vieja chimenea que pertenecía a la antigua Fábrica de Conservas La Rose.
Una preciosa mañana de cielos azules en el bello Algarve, sur de Portugal.
Dingle Peninsula, Kerry, Ireland
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This delicate blue group of stars — actually an irregular galaxy named IC 3583 — sits some 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin).
It may seem to have no discernable structure, but IC 3583 has been found to have a bar of stars running through its center. These structures are common throughout the Universe, and are found within the majority of spiral, many irregular, and some lenticular galaxies. Two of our closest cosmic neighbors, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, are barred, indicating that they may have once been barred spiral galaxies that were disrupted or torn apart by the gravitational pull of the Milky Way.
Researchers at the University of Leicester, England note there are two types of irregular galaxy. Type I's are usually single galaxies of peculiar appearance. They contain a large fraction of young stars, and show the luminous nebulae that are also visible in spiral galaxies. Type II irregulars include the group known as interacting or disrupting galaxies, in which the strange appearance is due to two or more galaxies colliding, merging or otherwise interacting gravitationally.
Something similar might be happening with IC 3583. This small galaxy is thought to be gravitationally interacting with one of its neighbors, the spiral Messier 90. Together, the duo form a pairing known as Arp 76. It’s still unclear whether these flirtations are the cause of IC 3583’s irregular appearance — but whatever the cause, the galaxy makes for a strikingly delicate sight in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, glimmering in the blackness of space.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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New findings from NASA’s Juno probe orbiting Jupiter provide a fuller picture of how the planet’s distinctive and colorful atmospheric features offer clues about the unseen processes below its clouds. The results highlight the inner workings of the belts and zones of clouds encircling Jupiter, as well as its polar cyclones and even the Great Red Spot.
Jupiter's banded appearance is created by the cloud-forming weather layer. This composite image shows views of Jupiter in infrared and visible light taken by the Gemini North telescope and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Credits: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/NASA/ESA, M.H. Wong and I. de Pater (UC Berkeley) et al.
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This image shows an orbital sunset above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Africa as the space station passed 266 miles overhead.
Image Credit: NASA
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Active regions on the sun combined to look something like a jack-o-lantern’s face on Oct. 8, 2014. The active regions appear brighter because those are areas that emit more light and energy — markers of an intense and complex set of magnetic fields hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona. This image blends together two sets of wavelengths at 171 and 193 Angstroms, typically colorized in gold and yellow, to create a particularly Halloween-like appearance.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO
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Yes, lucky us ... today is our Thanksgiving ...not late in November like the poor women in the U.S.
That would make me crazy... that close to the silly season of Christmas...
I much prefer now, so that I feel like doing a little chicken and the trimmings and by Christmas will feel like doing another.
Some folks make ham for Thanksgiving... I don't particularly like ham...
And, I don't bother with pumpkin pie either.... too fiddly for me.
I made an apple cake ...an apple coffeecake, from the same little cookbook that I got the soda bread recipe from the other day.
Yes, I added a few more things and made it my own ..as I tend to do with recipes. I'm like the pirates in the movie.... when they were talking about the Pirate Code.... "it's not so much a code, ye understand; it's more like yer guidelines" ......
I'm like that with recipes.
Active regions on the sun combined to look something like a jack-o-lantern’s face on Oct. 8, 2014. The active regions appear brighter because those are areas that emit more light and energy — markers of an intense and complex set of magnetic fields hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona. This image blends together two sets of wavelengths at 171 and 193 angstroms, typically colorized in gold and yellow, to create a particularly Halloween-like appearance.
This image is a blend of 171 and 193 angstrom light as captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO
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This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features NGC 7678 – a galaxy with one particularly prominent arm, located approximately 164 million light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus (the Winged Horse). With a diameter of around 115,000 light-years, this bright spiral galaxy is a similar size to our own galaxy (the Milky Way) and was discovered in 1784 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.
The Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies is a catalog which was produced in 1966 by the American astronomer Halton Arp. NGC 7678 is among the 338 galaxies presented in this catalog, which organizes peculiar galaxies according to their unusual features. Cataloged here as Arp 28, this galaxy is listed together with six others in the group “spiral galaxies with one heavy arm.”
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.
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This galaxy resembles a bull's eye, which is appropriate because its appearance is partly due to a smaller galaxy that passed through the middle of this object. The violent collision produced shock waves that swept through the galaxy and triggered large amounts of star formation. X-rays from Chandra (purple) show disturbed hot gas initially hosted by the Cartwheel galaxy being dragged over more than 150,000 light years by the collision. Optical data from Hubble (red, green, and blue) show where this collision may have triggered the star formation.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC; Optical: NASA/STScI
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Since July 4th is a time when many enjoy fireworks, here is this image of a supernova that looks a lot like a fireworks explosion. Explosions of actual stars are a focus for scientists who hope to better understand their births, lives, and deaths and how they interact with their surroundings. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2015, astronomers have studied one particular explosion that may provide clues to the dynamics of other, much larger stellar eruptions. This is an image of GK Persei, an object that became a sensation in the astronomical world in 1901 when it suddenly appeared as one of the brightest stars in the sky for a few days.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/RIKEN/D.Takei et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; Radio: NRAO/VLA
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My latest post on TikTok "violates community guidelines" ...what? I final decided it must be this picture & the word handgrenade on the neon sign. Scanned by a bot no doubt, so I appealed it and maybe I'll get lucky this time. It's not the first stupid thing they've done like this...you can't talk to a real person. The video overall does not focus on this shot or promote anything. I had a room that night on Bourbon Street, in New Orleans where the Hand Grenade is a famous, powerful, "mystery drink". I had never heard of it I just shot this image in the morning and thought it was a cool shot! Anyway they haven't removed the video yet so please check it out & talk to me over there :) we can make fun of tiktok !
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The Wirral Country Park is a country park on the Wirral Peninsula, England, lying both in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in the county of Merseyside and in the borough of Cheshire West & Chester in the county of Cheshire. It was the first designated country park in Britain, opening in 1973.
The park is located along the Wirral Way, which follows the track bed of part of the former Birkenhead Railway route from West Kirby to Hooton. The old line, which closed in 1962, follows the estuary of the River Dee for 7 miles (11 km) between West Kirby and Parkgate. The route then heads inland, across the Wirral peninsula, to Hooton.
A 2009 study unveiled NGC 604, the largest region of star formation in the nearby galaxy M33, in its first deep, high-resolution view in X- rays. This composite image from Chandra X-ray Observatory data (colored blue), combined with optical light data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red and green), shows a divided neighborhood where some 200 hot, young, massive stars reside.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/R. Tuellmann et al.; Optical: NASA/AURA/ STScI
This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts the open star cluster NGC 330, which lies around 180,000 light-years away inside the Small Magellanic Cloud. The cluster – which is in the constellation Tucana (the Toucan) – contains a multitude of stars, many of which are scattered across this striking image.
Because star clusters form from a single primordial cloud of gas and dust, all the stars they contain are roughly the same age. This makes them useful natural laboratories for astronomers to learn how stars form and evolve. This image uses observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and incorporates data from two very different astronomical investigations. The first aimed to understand why stars in star clusters appear to evolve differently from stars elsewhere, a peculiarity first observed with Hubble. The second aimed to determine how large stars can be before they become doomed to end their lives in cataclysmic supernova explosions.
Hubble images show us something new about the universe. This image, however, also contains clues about the inner workings of Hubble itself. The crisscross patterns surrounding the stars in this image, known as diffraction spikes, were created when starlight interacted with the four thin vanes supporting Hubble’s secondary mirror.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Kalirai, A. Milone
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Escalators, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
You are looking at the illuminated undersides of the escalator hand rails. I could put the little Sony RX100 between the two escalators (impossible with a larger cam), and shoot the reflections against the glass side panels of the escalators.
No trickery except B/W conversion.