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This is one of my resident Anna's hummingbirds and I'm sure he'd want you all to check out the following link:
www.thepetitionsite.com/1/sandhill-cranes-new-plan/
It's a petition to try to do something to stop the unwarranted hunting of the beautiful sandhills as they migrate. It's about time that the gov't realises that there are more non-hunters than hunters, more people who love to watch and/or photograph these birds rather than kill them! The petition is not perfect but it's a start. Take a look if you are interested and pass it on as well. Guess only US Flickr buddies can sign however.
One of the great thing about having a garden "bee-hotel" is that it attracts lots of solitary wasp species too. This individual has completed a nest in one of the 2mm holes and is sealing it with mud.
I think that it is one of the Trypoxylon spider-hunting species. I've had them using the small holes in previous years. Always great to see them. Hopefully I may get some shots of her returning with a spider.
Mate Hunting
Marianne Lindberg De Geer
Född 1946 i Stockholm.
Bor och verkar i Stockholm.
Marianne Lindberg De Geer är konstnär, dramatiker och debattör. Men det är som en av Sveriges mest framstående skulptörer som hon intar en självklar plats i Borås skulpturstad. Inspirationen har konstnären hämtat från Alice i Underlandet. Här har hon återigen visat sin fallenhet för att göra det oväntade. Med humor och känsla för provokation ifrågasätter Marianne Lindberg De Geer konstvärldens maktstrukturer.
The grey heron (Ardea cinerea), is a long-legged predatory wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but some populations from the more northern parts migrate southwards in autumn. It is a bird of wetland areas and can be seen around lakes, rivers, ponds, marshes and on the sea coast. It feeds mostly on aquatic creatures which it spears with its beak after standing stationary beside or in the water or stalking its prey through the shallows.
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Brazos Bend State Park - 6/2022
With little rain, the already shallow lakes in the park have been drying out. Herons and egrets gather to feed on remaining aquatic creatures.
This is a very tight crop of the above post.
An alternative Hunting Grounds armor for female CNHF edition. Not finalized yet, might alter some aspects of it.
. . . I am getting frustrated trying to find some Snowy Owls down near Muskegon this winter! This doesn't seem to be a "breakout year" for them and I am just not sure what the problem is.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Scrub Spirits: Yurrul Dwuhi, by Col Henry. “Another part of it I’m calling hunting sticks. There’s about a dozen twisted, sensuous forms. For me they’re the strongest part of the sculpture, they have a very figurative element about them; they have little heads on top which most people wouldn’t really notice” [“Sculptures in the Scrub”, The Pilliga, NSW]
Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus SCG003C aka Macchinadue,12h of Italy-Mugello | Do not use without permission
Hawk Hunting
With their nest in the backyard, I'll probably see a lot of the hawks hunting. That's exactly what this one was doing. Care to guess what it caught?
I'm pretty sure it's a red-shouldered hawk.
Terrible image.
a going away present for bastian and marieke, they are off to New Zealand, mexico and then home to berlin.
"The Hunting Island Light is located in Hunting Island State Park on Hunting Island near Beaufort, South Carolina. Although no longer used as a functioning lighthouse, the tower is a fixture at the state park and is open to visitors. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
The tower is made mostly of brick with a cast-iron shell. The conical tower is 132.6 feet (40.4 m) and had a second-order Fresnel. The original lamp, clockwork movement and the Fresnel lens was removed when it was decommissioned in 1933. The 1st order lens from the Morris island lighthouse is at base of the tower for the public to view. The top third of the tower is painted black and the lower two-thirds is painted white. A fog horn was not installed.
Currently, an LED lamp is in place flashing the original flash pattern from 1859 in the lighthouse. It is turned on at dusk and flashes through the night providing night visitors to the island the feel of an operating lighthouse. When operational, the Hunting Island Lighthouse was visible for 17 miles. Historic records from March 1890 note that the lighthouse was complete, "including one of the larger sized fire proof oil light houses.
Construction started in 1859, but was set back as the tower was destroyed during the Civil War in 1862. Major George H. Elliot is credited with the 1860s development of what is known as the "segmented cast-iron" lighthouse design. In the United States, two were constructed: the Hunting Island Lighthouse and subsequently Florida's Cape Canaveral Light. Hunting Island's Lighthouse was designed to be disassembled and moved if required. It consists of cast-iron sections, each weighing up to 1200 pounds which are bolted together to form the shell. the shell is lined with brick, which constitutes the main load-bearing structural element.
Erection commenced in 1873 and was completed in 1875. With its 167 steps that lead to an impressive observation deck, the Hunting Island Lighthouse has a handsomely built cast and wrought-iron staircase, railings and support beams that were fashioned by the Phoenix Iron Works company of Philadelphia. The Lighthouse was first located on the northern portion of Hunting Island, South Carolina, but severe beach erosion threatened the light station and its structures. By 1888 it was reported that the Atlantic Ocean's high tide had reached within 35 feet of the keeper's house. As a result, the lighthouse, the keeper's home and two other structures were relocated a mile away in 1889 to their present locale.
At the time of the 1893 Sea Islands Hurricane, the Hunting Island Lighthouse functioned as a sanctuary for some passengers aboard the steamer "City of Savannah I" which had been forced onto the shoals. The Lighthouse continued operation until deactivation in 1933. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 as reference #70000561. In 2009, celebrations were held in honor of the lighthouse's 150th anniversary. " (Wikipedia)
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