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Grey Wagtail - Motacilla cinerea
The species is always associated with running water when breeding, although they may use man-made structures near streams for the nest. Outside the breeding season, they may also be seen around lakes, coasts and other watery habitats. Like other wagtails, they frequently wag their tail and fly low with undulations and they have a sharp call that is often given in flight.
This slim wagtail has a narrow white supercilium and a broken eye ring. The upperparts are grey and the yellow vent contrasting with whitish underparts makes it distinctive. The breeding male has a black throat that is edged by whitish moustachial stripes. They forage singly or in pairs on meadows or on shallow water marshes. They also use rocks in water and will often perch on trees. They have a clear sharp call note and the song consists of trills.
The breeding season is April to July and the nest is placed near fast running streams or rivers on an embankment between stones and roots. The male in display, makes short flights up into the air and descends slowly with fluttering flight accompanied by a rapid series of chipping high notes. In Europe the nests are often made in holes in manmade structures. The clutch consists of 3–6 speckled eggs and multiple broods may be raised with declining numbers in the clutch in subsequent broods. The usual clutch size is five in Ireland and the breeding success is about 80% with predation of eggs or chicks being the main cause of breeding failure. The Canary Islands population typically have smaller clutches and the breeding season is not as short and well marked as in populations at higher latitudes. The incubation period is about two weeks with chicks fledging within a fortnight. They live for a maximum of 8 years in the wild.
In some parts of the its range the white-throated dipper nests in the same habitats as the grey wagtail and there are some records of interspecific feeding of dipper chicks by adult wagtails.
Population:
UK breeding:
38,000 pairs
This was a US Coast Guard AM excursion; seems the crew was playing rugby with the ocean. Doing this exercise before lunch is wise. Location: Depoe Bay, Oregon.
Noone knows if behind this stonework is original opening out or special cave now filled with sand
Still some more from the manmade cave, believed to be carved out by celtic munks some time before norse settlement in Iceland
Thanks the farmer owning the caves today we were aloved to spend a lot of time photographing. We came in from rain and after being here for about two hours i saw that the steam from our breath and wet cloths was making thin fog.
Then it had to be time to say thanks and head to the city after the adventures of a good weekend.
Still some more from the manmade cave, believed to be carved out by celtic munks some time before norse settlement in Iceland
This is named the altar and around one can see carved old norse runes and newer names or initials
Still some more from the manmade cave, believed to be carved out by celtic munks some time before norse settlement in Iceland
Freiston Shore
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Freiston was developed as a sea bathing resort.
By the mid-19th century there were horse races and other attractions on the beach.
However, the process of coastal accretion caused a salt marsh to develop, leaving hotels without customers.
Riverside of the Nigorizawa that flows into Takase Reservoir.
It is like Sai-no Kawara (賽の河原), which means the riverside between this world and the next, where the souls of children who died prior to their parents are believed to stay. They are forced to build stone cairns that are to be broken down by resident ogres when they are completed. They start over to build new ones to be broken down again. The process continues forever…. It is a Japanese version of limbo.
Here in Nigorizawa, a huge volume of white granite sand carried by the stream forms a large expanse of sandy plain. TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings) wrongly forecasted the volume of incoming sedimentation, and it turned out after the completion of the dam that it would fill the reservoir in decades (^_^;
Now a troop of dump trucks are carrying out the sand every day. They must continue forever like the souls of deceased children in Sai-no Kawara. It is also challenging the financial sustainabilty of the hydropower plant.
I heard the sand from Takase Dam is not suitable for construction material due to light specific gravity. Only possible use is for creating artificial beaches.
The Takase-gawa is a tributary of the Shinano-gawa that flows into the Sea of Japan at Niigata City located 250 km to the northeast. The Japan Sea coast in Niigata prefecture is now suffering from coastal erosion. Many good beaches disappeared over the past decades. It was caused by the construction of dams in its upstream.
The Skyway provides a brief break from a midsummer downpour. Chicago RailLink has one of the rare storage car transfers out of Irondale. This one heads north up the District and is about ready to swing into the BRC's Commercial Ave Yard at Rock Island Jct.
The greenery, the water body, the birds and fish were a big surprise for me. Such lush greenery in Qatar is a rarity and finding a spot to photograph with so many subjects is amazing. Looking forward to making another trip.
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One of the many alleyways leading to the Chinatown in Victoria, B.C.. This Chinatown is the oldest in Canada and the second oldest in North America.
closer view to the structures of the terraces following the natural curves of the hills and reflecting the rising sun.
Taken during a five days trip to San Francisco in august. so many perspectives to catch around that bridge. so many visual progressions. it's an epic object for sure.
70-200 f4 L
It walks among us
It walks within
The beast is in us
not in our face
Forgive us, we're the devils
Is hell a man-made place?
- Karliene.
Wouldn't say the lyrics have terribly much to do with the picture, but they popped into my mind when I wondered what kind of place this could be.