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After nearly ten hours sailing we have arrived. Devonport dead ahead. But first we have to navigate the narrow channel in the Mersey River. For the crew of the bridge, who do this all the time, this is like a walk in the park (let's hope one day we don't have to explain this metaphor to our children).
You can see a solitary fisherman sitting in his dinghy just outside the channel lines, and some more people on shore. Up in the bridge (I'll tag it) the Captain watches as the Spirit of Tasmania I enters the final approach.
Walking around top of Harlech Town,and some of the roads are very narrow.
You can see Cardigan Bay and Lleyn Peninsular mountains in the distance.
I hadn't been over to Turkey Run State Park in Indiana to walk any of the trails for years. What a beautiful walk it was. This narrow passage that was partially obstructed by fallen trees had such beautiful light and color.
A narrow passage winds through the souq of Marrakech, bathed in soft sunlight filtering through the brightly decorated stalls. Ornate lamps and handcrafted artifacts line the narrow alley, each telling its own story of Moroccan craftsmanship.
The scent of spices and intricate fabrics hangs in the air, while mysterious figures of shadowed people move through this labyrinth. The magic is tangible.
A dirt road through Meru National Park in Kenya, not far from Mount Kenya. This park is a really great place for a wildlife safari.
This photo was taken during our first day on Safari. In these surroundings we got to see giraffes, Africa buffaloes, zebras, waterbucks, rhinos and many more animals.
ADAPTED BEAUTIFULLY to living at sea, with long narrow wings, and its feet placed far back on its body for afficient swimming. UNFORTUNATELY this makes life on land difficult, it can not walk easily and tends to be very ungainly on land, SHUFFLING and sometimes SLEDGING along on its belly. Which makes it easy prey for PREDATORS, such as Great-backed Gulls, hence the large number of carcasses around SKOMER ISLAND .... To minimise this danger, MANX SHEARWATERS nest in underground burrows, and only come or leave the island at the pitch black of night. Something you will never forget, the sound at night as they return, thousands of whirring wing-beats, weird, strangled coughing calls, sounds more fitting for a Alfred Hitchcock creepy film. ESTIMATED 120,000 breeding pairs. MY BEST GUESS is this one saw the dimmed wardens lights, and got disorientated, came down next to the building, and hence was saved from the Gulls, other wise I would not got to see one ! It was gone the next day, can only hope it made it back to sea!
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The Woodcreepers look and behave like large Treecreepers, but they are unrelated. They are part of that early offshoot family of songbirds called the suboscine passerines which have a different structure of the syrinx from all other songbirds. The syrinx is the structure that enables songbirds to sing. Woodcreepers are only found in the Neotropics and their nearest relatives are the Ovenbirds (like Rufous Hornero). There are about 60 species of Woodcreeper that are similar and can be difficult to tell apart but this one is Narrow-billed Woodcreeper (Lepidocolaptes angustirostris). The scientific name rather boringly translates as narrow-billed scale-pecker. I photographed this one at Costanera Sur near Buenos Aries.