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A Least Chipmunk (Eutamias minimus borealis) munching on a tasty morsel from a prominent rocky perch in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.
5 September, 2011.
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This Least Bittern was recently photographed here in South Florida at Wakodahatchee Wetlands. The background is blurred by the movement of the bird as I panned with the little guy, attempting to keep him in the center of my viewfinder as I moved with him. (Ixobrychus exilis) (Sony a1, 200-600 lens @600mm, f/6.3, 1/3200 second, ISO 640)
A Least Chipmunk (Eutamias minimus) scurries on an exposed rock surface to its next hiding spot on the rocky mountain slopes in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.
5 September, 2011.
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In Explore : May 19, 2023.
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Qurna is an abandoned village about 100m to the east of the Temple of Seti I. Until the early 19th century the community included at least parts of the Temple of Seti I. Several travellers, including Richard Pococke or Sonnini de Manoncourt even name a Sheikh of Qurna. Edward William Lane relates in 1825 that the village was abandoned and not a single inhabitant lived there. Comments by Isabella Frances Romer suggests that the resettling started in the late 1840s. Hassan Fathy alleges that the inhabitants of Qurna lived in poverty and thus were robbing ancient tombs as means of subsistence. In order to stop the looting the Department of Antiquities expropriated the land on which the Qurnis lived and decided to move them to a new settlement, to be designed and built by Hassan Fathy himself. New Qurna was built in the 1940s and early 1950 to house the then residents who strongly resisted the move.
Cool Facts: The Least Grebe sunbathes by facing away from the sun, closing its wings and tipping them upward on the back. It raises feathers of the rear parts, as well as those on the back of the head. The skin underneath these raised feathers has black pigment, believed to help absorb solar radiation.
The Least Grebe can hide underwater with only its bill showing above the surface.
Same male Least Bittern from yesterday's post, still trailing spider web, headed my direction. It was actually being chased by a second bittern and perhaps thought I was the lesser threat if it even noticed me at all. On Horsepen Bayou.
Common redpolls (Acanthis flammea) are somewhat rare winter guests in Germany, where there are sightings in several places every year, but some years see an invasion of a larger number of these birds, most likely due to lack of food (at least in comparison to population size of the specific year) in the usual habitats of Scandidavia and northern Russia. This winter we see some of that activity, and as a result there are several smaller groups (5-25 birds) in and around my home town, with larger flocks of up to 800 birds also in northern Germany.
Taigabirkenzeisige (Acanthis flammea) sind etwas seltenere Gäste in Deutschland. Es gibt jedes Jahr Beobachtungen, aber in einigen Jahren kommt es zu größeren Invasionen, höchstwahrscheinlich aufgrund von fehlender Nahrung (jedenfalls im Vergleich zur aktuellen Populationsgröße) in den klassischen Habitaten in Skandinavien und Nordrussland. Dieser Winter scheint ein solcher Winter zu sein, denn mehrere kleine Gruppen (4-25 Vögel) wurden in und um meine Heimatstadt beobachtet und größere Schwärme von bis zu 800 Vögeln in Norddeutschland.
Sequoia National Park, California.
We were hoping for bears in SNP, but we only saw one and the one shot I took wasn't worth a hoot. So I set my sights on some smaller game and got some nice marmot shots and this one of a charming little chipmunk.
This is a male Least Bittern who luckily gave a "I'm leaving" look just before takeoff. (Ixobrychus exilis)
It's been almost two weeks since I last posted a picture of my favorite tree. I think I can come up with another one now.
For everyone who sees it for the first time (which can't be many) the tree stands on the small mount Winter in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains.
When this photo was made, sunrise was still at least 30-45 minutes away. So I experimented a little to find a slightly different variant of the well-known composition.
The result was a shot from a little further away, so that the structure of the rocky ground and this small heather island also get some attention.
A small positive side effect is that by using a larger focal length (53 instead of the usual 35mm), the mountains in the background are moved a little closer and therefore have more effect.
So I can get used to this variant quite well.
Inzwischen ist es so ziemlich zwei Wochen her, dass ich das letzte Bild von meinem Lieblingsbaum gepostet habe. Ich denke, da kann ich jetzt schon mal wieder eins bringen.
Für alle, die ihn das erste mal sehen (was nicht viele sein können) der Baum steht auf dem kleinen Winterberg im Elbsandsteingebirge.
Als dieses Foto entstand, war der Sonnenaufgang noch mindestens 30-45 Minten entfernt. Also hab ich ein wenig herumexperimentiert um einmal eine etwas andere Variante der allseits bekannten Komposition zu finden.
Das Ergebnis war eine Aufnahme mit etwas weiter Abstand, so dass die Struktur des felsigen Untergrundes und diese kleine Heide-Insel auch etwas Aufmerksamkeit bekommen.
Kleiner positiver Nebeneffekt ist, dass durch die Verwendung einer größeren Brennweite (53 anstatt sonst 35mm) auch die Berge im Hintergrund etwas näher gerückt sind und somit mehr Wirkung zeigen.
Also ich kann mich mit dieser Varianbte ganz gut anfreunden.
more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de
NC, May 2020
There are many dangers at a Least Tern nesting site. Besides, foxes, raccoons, gulls, unleashed dogs etc., adults must guard their eggs and young against the ever present Ghost Crabs.
Carolina Beach Lake, NC. - I took off the 2X TC for these shots since I was pretty close, and shot at f/2.8. I think the images are just as sharp WITH the TC!
Taken on a day with great clouds at Santee Lakes.
I've had a number of pictures that made it into Explore, over the years. How or why a picture gets in Explore is beyond my comprehension, but I am appreciative as more people see them there, which, after all, is the whole point of posting on Flickr. I put them all into an album, imaginatively named Explored, www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157618630302105
I've been taking infrared photographs for at least 11 years, with a total of 3 different cameras. It's much easier to take infrared images digitally that it was in the film days. If you like this look, I have an album of infrared photographs, creatively named Infrared.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157600507865146/
Other pictures from beautiful Santee Lakes are in my Santee Lakes album.
I saw this bittern and the mate disappear into the reeds. This one was good enough to surface and give me plenty of time to get a few shots off.
Northbound UP highballs "wrong" main at the Transitway as it heads for the Hinckley Sub and up to the Twin Ports. At least the clean one was in the lead, not sure what happened to the lights.
Putting precious moments on a chip or a disk and forgetting about them until years later
At least - hopefully they aren't hidden forever....
"Oh, do you remember
How young we were
How happy we were
I was so in love with you"
Good thing we can forget the roughest times, but we do learn from them, more than we do from the good times
A female Least Bittern crosses open water between two stands of bulrushes near the mouth of Horsepen Bayou at sunrise. Sometimes the bitterns will publicize their launch schedule making a shot of the liftoff a bit more likely.
Caburé-miudinho (Glaucidium minutissimum). (Wied, 1830).
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The furtive Least Bittern is often little more than a voice in the reeds that is frustratingly difficult to locate. But these diminutive herons reward patience and will charm birders persistent enough to discover them in their wetland haunts.
At least that is what I think it is seen in a front garden on my exercise walk!
MY THANKS TO WHO VISIT IT IS APPRECIATED
Both Least Tern shots were heavily cropped and much too small for printing (even though I had no intention to print). But I ran these shots through Topaz Gigapixel to enlarge just to see how it did. I was pleasantly surprised, and it would definitely make these shots printable at a decent size if needed. I have re-sized for my standard web size posting (from the enlarged image) before posting here...
Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, June 28, 2021.
Went out on the pontoon boat to get away from the heat. Spotted this least bittern along the marsh edge.
They are about 11.0-14.2 in ( 28-36 cm) long.
Ixobrychus exilis
Perhaps surprisingly, tiny Least Bitterns use areas with deeper water than the much larger, longer-legged American Bittern. Least Bitterns can do this because their long, agile toes and curved claws allow them to grasp reeds and hunt small prey while suspended from these precarious over-water perches.