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Palladium toned kallitype on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag paper. The image is 5x7 inches (approx B6 size) made on 8x10 (approx A4) Hahnemühle Platinum Rag paper. This print was made using techniques patented in 1889. I enjoy the challenges of using chemistry and techniques developed over 130 years ago. This labor-intensive practice transforms a casual, ephemeral, disposable digital image into a unique, hand-crafted photographic print.
Distributed from western Venezuela to northwest Peru, the Bronze-winged Parrot is mainly found in humid forested areas below 2800 m, and seems to be partially nomadic in parts of its range, for example in parts of Colombia.
It is a rather distinctive bird, given that the only similar species is the Dusky Parrot (Pionus fuscus) of the geographically far-removed Guianan Shield. The Bronze-winged Parrot is mainly bronze-brown to very dark blue, with an obvious pale orbital ring, a yellow-colored bill, white-flecked chin, and deep red ventral underparts. Its ecology and behavior have not been subject to intensive study, but the species remains at least locally common, especially in southwest Colombia and parts of western Ecuador.
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Photo taken at the AVIARIO NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA, Barú.
"Colombia is the number one country in the world to have the largest varieties of birds, having about 1,876 species and almost 70 kinds that belong specially to Colombia. AVIARIO NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA has done an amazing job to show that. You see some of birds free and others in beautiful habitats. Peacocks, Toucans, Pink Flamingos, Crane Corona, Guacamayas, Pelicanos, Ducks, all types of little colorful birds Colombia is most famous for it, every imaginable birds are here.
This place is so well design, and so well taking care of, that you think some times you are in paradise!"
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www.lancswt.org.uk/reserves/lunt-meadows
Lunt Meadows is an entirely new 77ha wetland nature reserve, located along the River Alt in North Merseyside. Developing habitats include wet grassland, reedbed, fen and open water. The site is managed primarily for breeding waders and watervole.
Lunt Meadows is a new wetland Nature Reserve, covering 77ha and created on what was previously intensively farmed arable land by the Environment Agency between 2012 and 2014. The site functions as a flood storage basin for the River Alt, and is managed by Lancashire Wildlife Trust as a wetland nature reserve.
Habitats are currently developing and include reedbed, wet grassland, marsh and open water. The site is already of great interest for bird life, particularly waders and water fowl. Typical species include lapwing, redshank, sedge and reed warbler, barn owl and marsh harrier. Lunt Meadows also has a large population of watervole and is increasingly noteworthy for dragonflies.
An unofficial but up to date blog on bird life at Lunt Meadows can be found on facebook - Lunt Meadows and Wetlands Nature Reserve
Please note this blog is not run or controlled by Lancashire Wildlife Trust.
As well as a nature reserve, Lunt Meadows is currently the subject of an archaeological investigation by the National Museum Liverpool , as one of few surviving Mesolithic settlements. Information on finds and the site’s history can be found on the National Museums Liverpool website.
As a totally new site habitats and infrastructure at Lunt Meadows are still very much developing and this will take time. A programme of work is currently underway with support from the Landfill Communities Fund through the Veolia Environmental Trust, and the Heritage Lottery Fund. In the meantime we would advise you that paths are uneven and wellies can be required in wet periods.
If you are interested in helping us to look after Lunt Meadows please get in touch through our volunteer co-ordinator, by emailing chaddon@lancswt.org.uk. We run a weekly practical day on the site and also need daily help checking grazing animals and with locking the gate.
Reserve information
Location
Lunt Meadows Nature Reserve, Lunt Village, near Crosby.
Lunt
Merseyside
L29 7WL
Opening Times
The site can be accessed openly but car parking opening times are restricted to the hours of 9.30am-6.30pm.
Size
77.00 hectares
Access
No
Walking information
A number of paths run around the reserve – these are unsurfaced and can be rough underfoot. Wellies are recommended in winter months and wet periods.
Parking
The site car park is located along Lunt Road, just outside Lunt Village towards Homer Green. It is open between the hours of 9.30am and 6.30pm daily. Please respect our staff and volunteers who lock the gates and remove your vehicle by closing time. Visitors can access the site outside these hours but will need to park by the entrance gate and walk on to the site from there. Please note – If the gate is locked visitors are requested not to park in surrounding lanes to access the reserve. This is causing a problem to local residents accessing their properties.
Dogs
Dogs must be on lead
Reserve manager
Adam Graham
Tel: 0151 920 3769
agraham@lancswt.org.uk
EN: Near the village of Pettinain, Lanarkshire, a double set of class 221 DMUs is nearing Carstairs junction and station from the south. After a more-than-one-hour lasting cloud the sun came out intensivly for the last 1-2 hours of the day.
DE: In der Nähe des Dorfes Pettinain zu Lanarkshire nähert sich eine Doppelgarnitur von Class 221 Dieseltriebzügen dem Eisenbahnknoten Carstairs, wo sich die Wege in die großen schottischen Städte Glasgow und Edinburgh gabeln. Nach Durchzug einer über einstündigen Wolke kam für die letzten 1-2 Stunden des Tages nochmal das intensive Sonnenlicht raus.
Plateau des Gras, Bidon, Ardèche, France
Order : Coleoptera
Family : Lucanidae
Genus : Lucanus
Species : Lucanus cervus
Lucanus cervus is widespread across most of Europe extending through the Caucasus and Asia Minor to parts of Russia and Central Asia. However, because of modern forestry practices, it is in serious decline and considered as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List. In some countries it is a protected species. The larvae develop in decaying wood on or below the surface and because of intensive forestry management this kind of material is becoming less available. The larvae take four to five years to develop and so the availablity of a good supply of rotting wood is essential.
This beetle is undoubtedly one of the more spectacular looking beetles. The male's fearsome-looking antler-like mandibles are used in courtship displays and wrestling with other males. However, the mandibles cannot be closed with any significant force and are therefore not dangerous to humans. They are brave though and will stand their ground, making them perfect photographic subjects. The female on the other hand can inflict a painful bite. The species is sexually dimorphic, the female being much smaller than the male and lacking the huge mandibles. The male can reach a body length of 80mm or more while the female only 48mm. The female has black elytra in contrast to the red of the male.
The pupae live in the soil for around three months and the adults emerge in June and July, sometimes extending into early August. The adults only live for a few weeks feeding on fruit and tree sap, searching for a mate with which to breed. They usually fly around late evening/dusk but can sometimes be seen during the daytime.
All my insect pics are single, handheld shots of live insects in wild situations.
The Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS), provides patients with life threatening conditions in remote and rural areas of Scotland, with rapid access to the skills of a consultant in emergency or intensive care medicine. The consultants are ready to respond to requests for help, by helicopter or plane, within minutes.
SGHD funded a west coast pilot of EMRS for 18 months commencing in June 2008. Over the 18 months to the end of November 2009 EMRS has undertaken 356 retrievals and given advice on a further 283 patients.
Visit their website to find out more.
ilsalvagente.it/2024/06/18/salmonella-e-batteri-nella-car...
Nature will take revenge for what we are doing to animals: antibiotic resistance, environmental pollution, excessive consumption of essential terrestrial resources such as water and soil, climate change, danger of future pandemics....
The living conditions of animals in intensive farming are incompatible with minimum standards of animal welfare, and furthermore, they are leading the planet to collapse.
La natura si vendicherà di ciò che stiamo facendo agli animali: antibiotico resistenza, inquinamento ambientale, consumo eccessivo di risorse terrestri essenziali quali acqua e suolo, cambiamento climatico, pericolo di future pandemie....
Le condizioni di vita degli animali negli allevamenti intensivi sono incompatibili con standard minimi di benessere animale, e inoltre, stanno portando il pianeta al collasso.
ilsalvagente.it/2021/07/23/127040/
online.scuola.zanichelli.it/alt/materiali/dinucci/feb06a.htm
www.eumans.eu/stop-sussidi-agli-allevamenti-intensivi?fbc...
Una iniziativa di EUmans! rivolta ai candidati delle Elezioni Europee 2024: si chiede di fermare i sussidi, diretti e indiretti, agli allevamenti intensivi, modello agroalimentare non più sostenibile, come mostrato nel film Food For Profit.
Smettiamo di destinare i fondi europei a un'industria che inquina il pianeta e maltratta gli animali.
An initiative by EUmans! addressed to the candidates of the 2024 European Elections: we ask to stop direct and indirect subsidies to intensive farming, an agri-food model that is no longer sustainable, as shown in the film Food For Profit.
Let's stop allocating European funds to an industry that pollutes the planet and mistreats animals.
Within the intensive timetable of the GWSR's 'Cotswold Festival of Steam' gala, they did squeeze in a number of freight workings, which provided a very welcome, and varied sight from the normal diet of passenger workings. Here the driver of BR Standard Class 4 No. 75014 has opened the regulator having seen Winchcombe's outer home signal clear while heading the 1601 Cheltenham Racecourse - Broadway Goods on 13th May 2023. The train is approaching the western portal of Greet Tunnel. Copyright photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
Girl at the argan oil co-operative at Ighrem N'Ougdal in the High Atlas, Morocco.
"Berber women traditionally prepared Argan Oil through a very labour-intensive process with low production yields. This made the commercial sale of Argan Oil outside of Morocco impossible. Today however, Argan Oil co-operatives have made large scale production possible.
Families grow Argan trees on small and large plots of land that have been owned by families for generations. When the Argan fruits ripen in June / July the fruits are picked and left to dry before being stored in large sacks.
Women removed the nut kernels from the nuts and ground them by hand using a grindstone. Next, water was added to produce an oil-rich dough which is squeezed to extract the Argan Oil.
This is a very labour intensive process. It would take about 1 week and about 20kg of Argan nut kernels to produce just 5 litres of oil."
ilsalvagente.it/2024/06/18/salmonella-e-batteri-nella-car...
Nature will take revenge for what we are doing to animals: antibiotic resistance, environmental pollution, excessive consumption of essential terrestrial resources such as water and soil, climate change, danger of future pandemics....
The living conditions of animals in intensive farming are incompatible with minimum standards of animal welfare, and furthermore, they are leading the planet to collapse.
La natura si vendicherà di ciò che stiamo facendo agli animali: antibiotico resistenza, inquinamento ambientale, consumo eccessivo di risorse terrestri essenziali quali acqua e suolo, cambiamento climatico, pericolo di future pandemie....
Le condizioni di vita degli animali negli allevamenti intensivi sono incompatibili con standard minimi di benessere animale, e inoltre, stanno portando il pianeta al collasso.
ilsalvagente.it/2021/07/23/127040/
online.scuola.zanichelli.it/alt/materiali/dinucci/feb06a.htm
Nützliches und Schönes
aus Reinwollfilz, sowie
regionalem Alpaka/Merinolandschaffilz
und regionalem Merinolandschaffilz
Sonnenalb meint Schwäbische Alb.
Leider ist es dort alles andere als warm.
Die Vegetation dort oben ist zwei Wochen später dran als das Neckartal.
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catchy colors*
*bunte und auffällige Farben, damit man sein Smartphone schnell wieder findet
Smartphone Hüllen mit Gummizug-Band
I uploaded this view of East Turks Head to prove it wasn't always storming on my trip through the San Juan Mountains during the 2017 New Mexico Geological Society Fall Field Conference.
Of course, behind me, to the east, it was storming...
This is going to be one of those Geology intensive descriptions so be fore-warned.
East Turks Head Peak shows several interesting features that help explain the geologic history of Southwest Colorado.
Look at the cliff near the top of East Turks Head, See the reddish beds underneath the grey cliffs? One of the beds is relatively flat and the other dips slightly to the left (if you hover your cursor over the photograph, you should be able to see the labels I placed on the photograph).
The dipping beds are the Permian Cutler Group or Formation. If you have admired the Fisher Towers north of Moab, you were looking at the Cutler group. These sediments were eroded off of the Ancestral Rockies , in particular, the Uncompahgre Uplift portion of the Ancestral Rockies. This area was uplifted during the Pennsylvanian and Permian boundary about 300 to 275 million years ago.
The flat-lying sediments on top of the Cutler Group are the Telluride Conglomerate formation. The Telluride Conglomerate is only about 28 million years old. That means that at the contact between the Cutler and the Telluride (right below the dark red band at the base of the Telluride) there is a gap of about 250 million years of missing sediments. We call this an unconformity and because the beds are slightly dipping below the contact with respect to the overlying beds, we call this an angular unconformity.
That 250 years of missing section covers the entire age of the dinosaurs. From th earliest dinosaurs in the Triassic, through the age of Dinosaurs in the Jurassic, through their eventual extinction at the end of the Cretaceous. All gone.
So what happened? Were sediments never deposited here? Was this area mountainous throughout the missing interval?
Fortunately, by looking at the nearby areas and the nature of the deposits there, we can make a pretty good guess.
After the Ancestral Rockies were formed, this area began to be filled with sediments eroded of off them. In addition to the lowering of the land surface from erosion, this are also began to sink regionally possibly from cooling of deep magmas that helped push up the Ancestral Rockies. During the Jurassic, great coastal sand dune desserts formed to the southwest and deposited or layed down the beautiful Navajo Sandstone that is seen in so many of our National Parks and Monuments.
Later this area continued to sink and the seaway formed during the Cretaceous. This area was once covered by the famous Cretaceous sediments: The Mancos, Book Cliff, Cliff House, and Dakota Formations were deposited here.
So what happened to these sediments? Something big happened and something big usually involves a tectonic plate. It certainly does here.
A Pacific plate named the Farallon Plate did something unusual. Ocean plates like the Farallon plate usually get pushed down under a continental plate when they collide. They get pushed down at about a 30 degree angle and start melting as they get near the mantle. If the plate contains water, and oceanic plates usually do, some of the plate melts earlier and molten magma begins to rise through the overlying continental plate and may eventually reach the surface and erupt or cool in place in the upper continental crust rocks. These volcanoes are usually located back from the coast because the oceanic plate needs to travel down at that 30 degree angle for a while until it starts to melt. The Cascades and the Andes are good modern examples of this and are located 60 to 100 miles inland from the subduction zone where the oceanic plate begins to be carried downward.
The Farallon plate behaved that way for most of its history and the Sierra Mountains of Eastern California were formed by the Farallon plate subduction.
Near the end of the Cretaceous, however, that whole process changed. The Farallon plate instead of being pulled down into the mantle, suddenly broke apart and the new leading edge started moving east just underneath the bottom of the North American plate. It pushed eastward in two main pulses. The oldest created the Sevier Mountains and fault zone of western Utah. When the plate started to move eastward again, it created the Laramide thrust and Rocky mountains.
This lifted Southwest Colorado along with a broad swath of Central North America. The inland sea disappeared as this area was raised by the compression caused by the Farallon plate rippling underneath the North American plate.
The story doesn't end here however and you can see the results in East Turks Head. After the Laramide compression and thrust marked the eastward progression of the Farallon plate, the compression and eastward movement suddenly stopped. The Farallon plate started to slowly sink down into the mantle. As it sank, some parts started to sink and melt especially those parts that again, contained a lot of water. Eventually magmas formed and began to rise pushing up this area again. The Telluride Conglomerate is thought to be a result of the initial Laramide Rockies being eroded and the eroded parts of the doming San Juan area being pushed up by the now rising magma stocks.
The grey rocks at the top of the peak mark another phase
in the story. They are the San Juan Formation volcanics.
When I said that magma started to rise from the sinking or foundering Farallon plate I should have said a lot of magma started to rise. This resulted in huge eruptions. Just east of here, there was an explosion to rival the huge caldera at Yellowstone. In fact, the volcano with the highest Volcanic Explosivity Index or VEI is one of the nearby calderas in the San Juan Volcanic Field - La Garita. There were more calderas in this area, each one blasting many hundreds to thousands of square miles of material up into the sky and back down onto the earth creating the San Juan formation.
The San Juan formation looks thick on top of East Turks Head but imagine 2.5 kilometers more material piled on top of the peak and imagine how big the explosions must have been to deposit that much material.
The magma caused another phenomena in southwest Colorado. The deep waters that came in contact with these huge stocks of magma were heated and infused with heavy metals from the magma including gold and silver. The hot metal laden water rises up through the overlying rocks thermally altering the rock and depositing the metals as it cools near the surface. Red Mountain a little further north of East Turks Head along US 550 is an example of an entire mountain that has been hydrothermally altered by these hot deep waters. If you ever see it, you will immediately understand what the results of thermal alteration are.
Finally, this area that includes the San Juan Mountains is the highest average elevation in the continental United States.
One of the presentations at the conference presented the results of a seismic study of the southwest corner of Colorado. The results of the study suggest that something special is occurring under this high area. High areas in continents are usually supported by deep roots. In essence, high mountains float on deep roots below them.
That doesn't seem to be the case here. The study suggests that the crust is thin here. It is also hotter than normal and this heat is what is expanding the rocks and lifting them up. The lift is a little slower than we can measure just now but the ragged appearance of these mountains indicates that it is a very young landscape still slowly rising and with erosive forces still actively trying to plane these peaks down.
I hope this description helps you to think about the interesting story of how this natural beauty evolved. Take another look, I think you will find it worth while.
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Wildlife Rose-ringed parakeet in the Grüngürtel of Cologne, Germany
Wild lebende Halsbandsittiche im Grüngürtel von Köln
Parrocchetto dal collare
Psittacula krameri
Sony A9 & FE100400GM
1/3200sec f/5.6 ISO500
ilsalvagente.it/2024/06/18/salmonella-e-batteri-nella-car...
Nature will take revenge for what we are doing to animals: antibiotic resistance, environmental pollution, excessive consumption of essential terrestrial resources such as water and soil, climate change, danger of future pandemics....
The living conditions of animals in intensive farming are incompatible with minimum standards of animal welfare, and furthermore, they are leading the planet to collapse.
La natura si vendicherà di ciò che stiamo facendo agli animali: antibiotico resistenza, inquinamento ambientale, consumo eccessivo di risorse terrestri essenziali quali acqua e suolo, cambiamento climatico, pericolo di future pandemie....
Le condizioni di vita degli animali negli allevamenti intensivi sono incompatibili con standard minimi di benessere animale, e inoltre, stanno portando il pianeta al collasso.
ilsalvagente.it/2021/07/23/127040/
online.scuola.zanichelli.it/alt/materiali/dinucci/feb06a.htm
www.eumans.eu/stop-sussidi-agli-allevamenti-intensivi?fbc...
Una iniziativa di EUmans! rivolta ai candidati delle Elezioni Europee 2024: si chiede di fermare i sussidi, diretti e indiretti, agli allevamenti intensivi, modello agroalimentare non più sostenibile, come mostrato nel film Food For Profit.
Smettiamo di destinare i fondi europei a un'industria che inquina il pianeta e maltratta gli animali.
An initiative by EUmans! addressed to the candidates of the 2024 European Elections: we ask to stop direct and indirect subsidies to intensive farming, an agri-food model that is no longer sustainable, as shown in the film Food For Profit.
Let's stop allocating European funds to an industry that pollutes the planet and mistreats animals.
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The Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris alpaca), also known as the Amur tiger, is a tiger subspecies inhabiting mainly the Sikhote Alin mountain region with a small population in southwest Primorye Province in the Russian Far East. In 2005, there were 331–393 adult and subadult Amur tigers in this region, with a breeding adult population of about 250 individuals. The population had been stable for more than a decade due to intensive conservation efforts, but partial surveys conducted after 2005 indicate that the Russian tiger population was declining.[1] By 2015, the Siberian tiger population has increased to 480–540 individuals in the Russian Far East, including 100 cubs.
From wikipedia
Gli allevamenti intensivi sono responsabili di inquinamento ambientale, inquinamento delle falde acquifere, zoonosi, antibiotico-resistenza. Inoltre, causano un consumo eccessivo di risorse terrestri essenziali: acqua e suolo. Gli animali vi conducono una breve vita senza alcun riguardo per la loro etologia. Il benessere animale non è compatibile con il profitto: diventa vegan!
Intensive farming is responsible for environmental pollution, groundwater pollution, zoonoses and antibiotic resistance. Furthermore, they cause excessive consumption of essential terrestrial resources: water and soil. The animals lead a short life there without any regard for their ethology. Animal welfare is not compatible with profit: go vegan!