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IMHO,one of the toughest sparrows to get off the ground.Several trips,and at least 20 hours,to get a handful of shots!
Thanks for your comments and faves,they are truly appreciated.
Further "Painting with Pixels". Based on a musical piece by "Shakti" a four-piece ensemble comprised of Jazz/Rock guitarist, John McLaughlin, Tabla player Zakir Hussain, Violinist L. Shankar and Mrdangam player, Vikku Vinayakram.
Image created July 17, 2022
Zoom in for a more immersive view.
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Music Link: "La Danse du Bonheur" - Shakti, from their album, "A Handful of Beauty".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ3l_ml07Go
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Panorama of Reykjavik seen from slightly below Steinn. Don't believe the multitude of Iceland photos with sunshine and blue sky. This is true Icelandic weather.
The ascent starts from the parking place in the lower left at sea level. While I had to stop several times being afraid of getting a heart attack if I don't, a handful of Icelandic trail runners were running up or down the hill like it were an ordinary jogging spot.
Well the imposing gateway anyway :)
The UK's biggest and most celebrated art deco seawater lido in Penzance. Originally opened in 1935, Jubilee Pool is one of only a handful of surviving Lidos in the UK, and the first to have a geothermally heated pool.
After another heatwave, it finally rained again yesterday and everything is cool :) So in the morning, I grabbed my camera and raincoat and went to a conservation forest I enjoy. There were only a handful of other people there - I mostly had it to myself.
With all the heat we've had, many of the trees are losing their leaves already and turning brown.
Here, I used the same Pentacon vintage lens I used on yesterday's image. It has a fixed 2.8 aperture, so I could either focus on the branches in the foreground or the couple. I tried both and preferred this image.
A handful of snowy egrets gathered to fish this inlet at low tide last Saturday afternoon. While the water is often nice and smooth at this spot, the wind had kicked up and the surface was choppier than usual. That seemed to shift the egrets into high gear - lots of strikes but a lower success ratio. Maybe rough water made the fishing a little tougher.
I'll add a Lil info in a bit :P
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This Wagtail is migrant from South East Asia / Northern China, Russia and maybe parts of Alaska. Its a very rare migrant and looks almost similar to the common Western Yellow Wagtail - I personally cannot tell the difference till today.
This was shot an year ago during a casual walk in the dry paddyfields. Merlin /Ebird id'ed this as this rare vagrant, but I thought it's the common Western Yellow species and catalogued it like that in my LR library. Never processed the picture nor published it till date. But in the Ebird checklist of the day, I added this as the very rare Eastern variant and expected to be corrected by the reviewers, but I never received any mail and forgot about this entirely.
An year later i.e. a few days ago, a friend reminded me that I had the only record of this rarity in the neighboring state where I shot it - much to my amazement! There are only a handful records of it in South India I think. Subsequently, it appears that I shot this bird on 1-2 occasions afterwards, but again misidentified it. The joy of seeing such a rarity is different and delightful!
Thank you so much in advance for your views, feedback and faves.
Ecclesiastes 4:6 “It's better to have one handful of tranquility than to have two handfuls of trouble and to chase after the wind.”
My Christmas wishes for you are...
COMPASSION to give to those that you feel are alone and are in need of a friend.
UNDERSTANDING with those that are different from you.
FORGIVENESS to those that in some way have hurt you.
PEACE, that all hate and wrongdoings come to a stop and only allow the beauty of love to surround you.
PATIENCE when you find yourself in desperate moments. Keep in mind that God never abandons you.
HEALTH for you and all you love ones (including your pets)
HAPPINESS in everything you do and encounter in life.
BEAUTY in everything you see, feel and listen to.
But most of all, I wish for you a heart full of LOVE,
love to spread abundantly where ever you may go.
That you may give it to others in handfuls and receive it back it in the same matter.
Have the most wonderful Christmas and may God bless you all and your families and the whole world!!!
With TONS of Love
~ Lori Novo ~
❤
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Bearded Reedling - Panurus Biarmicus
Norfolk Titchwell
aka Bearded Tit. (M)
This species is a wetland specialist, breeding colonially in large reed beds by lakes or swamps. It eats reed aphids in summer, and reed seeds in winter, its digestive system changing to cope with the very different seasonal diets.
Often having to take grit in order to help digestion.
The bearded reedling is a species of temperate Europe and Asia. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate other than eruptive or cold weather movements. It is vulnerable to hard winters, which may kill many birds. The English population of about 500 pairs is largely confined to the south and east with a small population in Leighton Moss in north Lancashire. In Ireland a handful of pairs breed in County Wexford. The largest single population in Great Britain is to be found in the reedbeds at the mouth of the River Tay in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, where there may be in excess of 250 pairs.
Other Breeding areas include Norfolk and Somerset and Alkborough Flats, lincolnshire.
Population:
UK breeding:
630 pairs
Europe:
232 - 437,000 birds
A very special female of this extremely rare moth.
Found only in a handful of sites in Kent along the North Downs, it is critically endangered in the UK.
Monument Valley (meaning valley of the rocks) is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 300 m above the valley floor. The most famous butte formations are located in northeastern Arizona along the Utah–Arizona state line. The valley is considered sacred by the Navajo Nation, the Native American people within whose reservation it lies.
A 14-mile graded dirt road will show you around most of the major monuments — The Mittens, Three Sisters, John Ford’s Point, Totem Pole, Yei Bi Chai and Ear of the Wind. Navajo guides can lead you deeper, into Mystery Valley, Hunts Mesa and more. A handful of outfits will show you through the area on horseback, just the way people have been exploring it for hundreds of years.
The West and East Mitten Buttes are two buttes in the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park in northeast Navajo County, Arizona. When viewed from the south, the buttes appear to be two giant mittens with their thumbs facing inwards.
The Mittens are about 1km from the Arizona–Utah state line and West. The Mittens form a triangle with Merrick Butte about 1.1 km to the south and, with Sentinel Mesa, a more extensive plateau, towards the northwest.
United Sates, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
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A handful of delicate crocuses and snowdrops dared to defy the unusually cold weather to signal "Spring (really) is on her way". Spread the joy.
HMBT :-)
I have chosen a handful of narcissi mainly for their intoxicating fragrance.
Tazetta Daffodils soleil d'or, yellow flowers with small orange rounded cups...
These bunch-flowered Narcissi have up to 20 or more flowers arising from each flower stem and the crown being much less than half as long as the tepals, plus the crown isn't wrinkled or "crisped."
When the buds first open, as you can see, the petals and the cups are a lemon yellow...
Dwarf daffodils, the stems, bound with a ribbon, finished with a bow... in full glory
Have a great day and thank you, M, (*_*)
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One of only a handful of Bay Line painted locomotives, GP40-2 3018, leads the Hilton Turn eastbound at Jimbo Road outside of Dothan, AL.
I haven't been back to the Bay Line and surrounding operations since late 2021, so I am unsure what traffic looks like today especially since the paper mill in Panama City, FL closed. The paper mill was the Bay Line's primary customer and I am sure a majority of the traffic on this train was likely from the mill. The turn is destined for Hilton, GA where the Hilton and Albany will take this traffic to Albany, GA for NS to bring to Macon.
A couple of the Koutu Boulders in the Hokianga Harbour, New Zealand. It was late in the afternoon and it was getting quite dark already.
I think I must have been at the wrong end of the beach as I only saw a handful of them.
The boulders are excellent examples of concretions : hardened nodules that form within sedimentary rocks. The word concretion comes from Latin and means “grown together”. They are composed of the same material as the surrounding rock and they form when a cementing mineral binds grains of sediment into a cohesive mass. It has been estimated that the largest of the boulders may have taken 5 million years to grow.
There are other examples of concretions around New Zealand, the most publicized being the Moeraki boulders south of Oamaru. The Concretions in the Hokianga are found on both sides of the Harbour, and are numerous beneath the surface of the surrounding land.
Bearded Reedling - Panurus Biarmicus
aka Bearded Tit
A Schedule 1 Bird.
This species is a wetland specialist, breeding colonially in large reed beds by lakes or swamps. It eats reed aphids in summer, and reed seeds in winter, its digestive system changing to cope with the very different seasonal diets.
The bearded reedling is a species of temperate Europe and Asia. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate other than eruptive or cold weather movements. It is vulnerable to hard winters, which may kill many birds. The English population of about 500 pairs is largely confined to the south and east with a small population in Leighton Moss in north Lancashire. In Ireland a handful of pairs breed in County Wexford. The largest single population in Great Britain is to be found in the reedbeds at the mouth of the River Tay in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, where there may be in excess of 250 pairs.
Population:
UK breeding:
630 pairs
Europe:
232 - 437,000 birds
At sunrise, for just a handful of minutes, the sun shines on the top of the mountaing creating a beautiful coloured top.
Serra da Estrela (Star Mountain) is Portugal’s mainland highest mountain. At 1,993 metres at its highest point in Torre, Serra da Estrela is an area of rare landscape beauty. You can take advantage of the moments of communion with nature to discover the diversity of plants and birds and the flocks of sheep herded by Estrela dogs from the breed named after the mountain.
In cold weather, Serra da Estrela is the only place in Portugal where you can try ski, or go sledging, snowboarding or ride a snowmobile. Albeit small, there are several runs with support infrastructure, as well as artificial snow runs for skiing at any time of the year.
This natural park is excellent for trekking, horse-riding or mountain biking. It boasts some 375km of marked trails of varying degrees of difficulty.
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Covão d'Ametade, Serra da Estrela, Portugal
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A lone Northern Mockingbird stands on a street sign near her nest, one of only a handful of birds we saw yesterday.
These are just a handful of the cars for everyone who is on the way up to the latest volcanic eruption here in Iceland. For an almost 80-year-old man, this is the worst I've come across.
Fagradalsfjall is a tuya volcano formed in the Last Glacial Period on the Reykjanes Peninsula, around 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Reykjavík, Iceland. Fagradalsfjall is also the name for the wider volcanic system covering an area 5 kilometres (3 mi) wide and 16 kilometres (10 mi) long between the Svartsengi and Krýsuvík systems. The highest summit in this area is Langhóll 385 m (1,263 ft)). No volcanic eruption had occurred for 815 years on the Reykjanes Peninsula until 19 March 2021 when a fissure vent appeared in Geldingadalir to the south of Fagradalsfjall mountain. The 2021 eruption was effusive and ceased emitting fresh lava for over ten months on 18 September 2021.
The eruption was unique among the volcanoes monitored in Iceland so far and it has been suggested that it may develop into a shield volcano.
Due to its relative ease of access from Reykjavík, the volcano has become an attraction for local people and foreign tourists.
Another eruption, very similar to the 2021 eruption, began on 3 August 2022 and is currently ongoing.
There's a handful of photos I've previously uploaded that were clearly taken on the same fabulously dramatic afternoon.
Beinn Starabh's upper half is a focal point, but remains in shadow nonetheless. Whether just plain silly or not, this plain fact counted against this otherwise very satisfying image. I felt that, had just a portion of the summit ridge been picked out by the sun, it could have a very special moment indeed. Could be thrown in with all my other 'near misses', I suppose.
A handful of improvised night shots as I was walking to my book group a few days ago. Had come straight from work, so didn't have tripod - these were done sitting camera on railings or street bollards etc to steady it. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't, but hey, it's digital, so not like we waste film if it doesn't work, so why not try?
to live each moment, each instant, absent fear, to know the waste land, and yet to dance, feel the rhythm, hum the melody of a brighter morning, see the sun, sing the light, the other side. the stars remember ... shantih shantih shantih.
(acknowledging the poet, mr. t. s. eliot - title and final 'shantih shantih shantih' from his brilliant 'the waste land', edited by and dedicated to mr. ezra pound.)
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