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Yes the mosquitos can be a nuisance when hiking or spending time outdoors here in Austin, but there not nearly as bad as the velociraptors.. #ReasonswhyyoudontwanttomovetoTexas
Policeman's helmet, bobby tops, copper tops, and gnome's hatstand can these be called.
Originally they came from Himalaya into our gardens.
Each plant can produce 1000 seeds that are thrown up to 5m from the plant. If the seeds end up in water or rivers, they can be spread over long distances. The plants outcompete other species through modification of the soil chemistry. In this way, they can form dense mats and displace the natural plant species.
This threatens life and species diversity along the river. When mats of giant spring seeds rot away in the autumn, they leave bare ground that provides no protection against erosion.
What a nuisance they have become, and people think they are nice to have in their surroundings and aren't thinking longer than their nose.
These should be defeated if you see them, and the deposit should be handled with care too.
Isopropyl alcohol wipes, intended for first-aid purposes but come in handy for cleaning tasks, too. Use once, then toss in the trash, not the toilet; a recent label update has a prominent DO NOT FLUSH warning with a larger pictograph since the fabric does not decompose and can clog drains or become a nuisance at sewage treatment plants.
(To be honest, the sheets are duds because the alcohol evaporated from failing to close the lid tightly. Oops.)
Yes, these tiny (4-6 mm) seedpods of the Stickseed plant are considered fruits. But woe be to the hiker who encounters them in the field, as these burs readily stick to clothing, from which they can be an incredible nuisance to remove.
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Turned onto Montgomery this morning to U turn toward work and saw the moon. Parked at work and made a nuisance of myself on the median, with drivers thinking I was a cop with radar gun.
Oh well.
326) Large Billed Crow
Jungle Crow, LargeBilled Crow, Corvus macrorhynchos, Gagak Paruh Besar
This is a widespread Asian species of crow. Like other crows, it is very adaptable and is able to survive on a wide range of food sources, making it capable of colonizing new areas, due to which it is often considered a nuisance, especially on islands. It has a large bill which is the source of its scientific name macrorhynchos. Extremely versatile in its feeding, it will take food from the ground or in trees. They feed on a wide range of items and will attempt to feed on anything appearing edible, alive or dead, plant or animal.
Mallards are one of the most common breeds of waterfowl the world over. This is, in part, because they frequently interbreed with other species of ducks and produce fertile offspring, something of a genetic rarity. It also means that Mallards are polluting the waterfowl gene pool, and overtaking areas where more isolated species once thrived.
This drake is making his home around the Balboa Park Lily Pond. He posed here on the ledge to ensure I got a good picture before he swam out into the center to find some snacks.
In Batroc’s head he is my greatest foe, while in reality, he is my greatest nuisance. Every time we cross paths Gorgeous Georges here will give a grand spiel of how he will be my downfall and he will “leap on ze corpze of the ze Merc wit ze mouth!” Whatever that means. Honestly, I kinda wish someone would give him a hand in doing so, considering I may or may not have cut his hand off at a comic con a few years ago...
Finding some horizon on a slanted beach is a real nuisance, whatever you do, it looks wrong.
Toy Project Day 2839
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"Cultists...", a friend once opined, "....are a bloody nuisance.". Judging by the ones chasing us, also rather angry with a love for high drama. He beckoned me closer, then pointed to the floor.
I ran...
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-Belleza- Jake 2.1 Bento @Mainstore
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Taken in Black Dragon using its dynamic lighting sliders.
Bento pose by me.
Our pond is about 50 feet from the house so we got a lot of these this time of year around the back deck. Thank goodness they don't bite!!! They're a nuisance but as long as we keep the screens closed it's OK....
Talatamaty (Madagascar) - Je suis posté sur la nouvelle route à 4 voies construite par les Chinois. Elle coupe les rizières en deux. Non seulement elle bouche désormais l’horizon mais elle apporte les nuisances sonores de la circulation dans cette partie rurale de la proche banlieue d’Antananarivo, la capitale. En tout cas pour moi, cette route me sert de promontoire pour faire des photos informatives sur la géographie de ce bout de campagne. Les rizières sont protégées d’un affluent de la rivière Ikopa, par une digue qui sert de voie de communication pour les piétons, les cyclistes et les chars à zébus. Certains ouvriers agricoles venus d’autres région qui travaillent dans les rizières, ont même implanté leurs « tentes » sur les bords de la digue faisant ressembler le campement à un mini bidonville.
Between river and rice fields
Talatamaty (Madagascar) - I am stationed on the new 4-lane road built by the Chinese. She cuts the paddy fields in half. Not only does it now block the horizon but it brings noise pollution from traffic in this rural part of the inner suburbs of Antananarivo, the capital. In any case for me, this road serves as a promontory for me to take informative photos on the geography of this piece of countryside. The rice fields are protected from a tributary of the Ikopa River by a dyke that serves as a communication route for pedestrians, cyclists and zebu carts. Some farm workers who work in the rice fields have even pitched their "tents" on the edges of the dyke making the camp look like a mini slum.
Chantier de construction.
Introduced into Australia in the 1850's to control insect pests in farming. A very pretty bird that has thrived here and is sometimes a nuisance as they dig on the edge of gardens and making a mess!
Nothing is so valuable as friendship. 👍, or don't bother my life
(^^; How do you think at this sight?
ミズヒキがヤマノイモの蔓に絡まれてます。ミズヒキの花茎は細く伸びるので, 風でふらふら揺れます。ヤマイモにとっては格好のターゲットです。絡まれたミズヒキは迷惑千万と観るか？支点が出来て安定すると観るか？感じ方は自由です🤔
I love seeing the Canada Goose goslings in the spring. The adults are turning into nuisance birds in our area, but the goslings are so gosh darn cute.
Telephoto used, so that the protective adults wouldn't come after me.
Admin Photo of the Week Super~Six Gold (level 3) August 16, 2025
iNaturalist link www.inaturalist.org/observations/113922648
Jenny Pansing photos
(Sciurus niger). Nacogdoches County, Texas.
Squirrels are a familiar part of our native fauna. This makes them easy to overlook and they rarely find themselves on the top of the list of most sought after photographic subjects. In fact, their abundance in neighborhoods and propensity to find their way into attics and dart in front of oncoming traffic often earns them the reputation of a nuisance. They are, however, important members of or native forests, dispersing acorns and other tree mast and as important prey items for numerous predators.
They are also a gateway to native wildlife for many who seldom leave urbanized areas, and can help spark an interest in the natural world for those who are unwilling or unable to venture further afield. Plus, they're pretty cute and entertaining to watch, in my humble opinion.
A fly on a leaf is peaceful, but ten flies on your steak are a nuisance.
PEACEFUL... is the topic for Sunday April 26th, 2020, Group Our Daily Challenge
The rock dove is the wild ancestor of domestic pigeons the world over, domesticated originally to provide food. Feral pigeons come in all shades, some bluer, others blacker - some are pale grey with darker chequered markings, others an unusual shade of dull brick-red or cinnamon-brown. Others can be or less white while others look exactly like wild rock doves. In urban areas where the numbers are allowed to increase they are sometimes considered a nuisance.
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A pair of B36-7s lead a local under the South Buffalo Ry "long bridge" in the Tift Street area of Buffalo. This was just a quick hit as I flew to Buffalo and immediately went north of the border to shoot BIGs and such. I couldn't be bothered by such nuisances in the states such as ConRail. There were also some cool NYC signals close by, and regrettably I couldn't be troubled by those at the time neither.
There is a small troop of Vervet monkeys that hang out at Serondela Picnic site... They terrorise all visitors that stop off there, stealing food and generally being a nuisance...
This was taken on a rainy afternoon, as my friends were chasing the rest of the troop away from our vehicle..
Wikipedia: The large-billed crow (Corvus macrorhynchos), formerly referred to widely as the jungle crow, is a widespread Asian species of crow. It is very adaptable and is able to survive on a wide range of food sources, making it capable of colonizing new areas, due to which it is often considered a nuisance, especially on islands. It has a large bill, which is the source of its scientific name macrorhynchos (Ancient Greek for "large beak") and it is sometimes known by the common name thick-billed crow. It can also be mistaken for a common raven.
The camera lens was too close - so Daisy refused to look at me & just waited until I moved. Badly trained staff are such a nuisance some days! Happy Caturday.
Town of Gearhart ~ Elk Herd concerns the community! We know when traveling through, the herd is always walking across the highway...dodging vehicles. Glad we had a moment to capture a glimpse, without crashing into one.
~ Roosevelt elk are one of two subspecies of elk found in Oregon. “Rosies” are darker in color than other elk subspecies and the largest in terms of body size, with bulls generally weighing 700-1,100 pounds.
"For more than a decade, a herd of elk has been hanging out in and around the up-scale coastal town of Gearhart, browsing the golf course and even taking refreshing dips in the surf. But as the herd is growing, so are concerns about safety and property destruction. We talk to the locals and wildlife experts about why the elk come here, whether they're a nuisance or an opportunity. " Copyright:, Oregon Field Guide/OPB
A brief diversion on our day out to photograph this excursion which stopped here at Frodsham to take on water. This gave us chance to find another location, just as did several other photographers.
Unlike the Acton Bridge experience on the day previous to this, no one got in our way.
That lineside shrubbery on the right was a bit of a nuisance though.
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On the 16th of January it snowed for the first time this winter in Amsterdam. Because the temperature was around freezing, the snow stayed there for a while. It only got a few centimeters of snow. The best advice is to stay indoors and turn the stove up a bit. Or of course to go outside to take some nice pictures. In addition to the nuisance, the snow also provides a lot of fun for children here in Amsterdam's Jordaan. Snowball fight, make snowmen or go sledding. All fun activities that children do in this beautiful snowy world. Those who think away for a while can imagine themselves in Hendrick Avercamp's world today. The snow was enough for a few hours of uninhibited winter fun in the streets of Amsterdam. Earlier in the afternoon it was still quiet on the gray canals, since the first snow had stuck to the ground by four o'clock, the neighborhood has turned out for an hour of carefree winter entertainment. The chance that the snow will still be there tomorrow morning seems quite small. During the night the snow may turn into rain and during the day it will be about 6 degrees.
This evening I walk in my neighbourhood and made some beautiful photos of a little layer of snow. The virgin white carpet of snow is crunching under my shoes. I began to remember why I love the winters so much. This time around, the canals remained relatively ice-free. The snow is a rare highlight in dark days, especially when you have small children. It is quite difficult to come up with something fun in these Covid lockdown days. After a while, sitting inside gets pretty monotonous for such a young kid. This is a welcome change. Photo snowy bicycles taken here at the corner of Westerkade and marnixstraat in Amsterdam.
Op 16 januari heeft het voor het eerst deze winter gesneeuwd in Amsterdam. Omdat de temperatuur rond het vriespunt lag, bleef de sneeuw eventjes liggen. Een paar centimeters sneeuw werden het maar. Het beste advies is dan maar om lekker binnen te blijven en de kachel iets hoger te zetten. Of natuurlijk even naar buiten te gaan om wat mooie plaatjes te schieten. Naast de overlast zorgt de sneeuw ook voor veel plezier bij kinderen in de Amsterdamse Jordaan. Sneeuwballen gevecht, sneeuwpoppen maken of sleetje rijden. Allemaal leuke activiteiten die kinderen doen in deze mooie besneeuwde wereld. Wie even wegdenkt kan zich vandaag in Hendrick Avercamps wereld wanen. De sneeuw was voldoende voor een paar uur ongeremde winterpret in de straten van Amsterdam. Was het eerder op de middag nog rustig op de grijze grachten, sinds de eerste sneeuw tegen vier uur aan de grond bleef plakken, is de buurt uitgelopen voor een uurtje onbekommerd wintervermaak. De sneeuw is een schaars hoogtepuntje in donkere dagen, speciaal wanneer je kleine kinderen hebt. Het is in deze lockdowndagen best lastig iets leuks te verzinnen. Binnen zitten wordt na een tijdje best eentonig voor zo’n peuter. Dit is een welkome afwisseling. De kans dat de sneeuw er morgenochtend nog ligt lijkt vrij klein. In de nacht gaat de sneeuw mogelijk over in regen en overdag wordt het dan zo'n 6 graden. Foto van besneeuwde fietsen gemaakt op de hoek Westerkade en marnixstraat in Amsterdam.
These are a nuisance as their caterpillars are ravenous pests on brassica vegetables like cabbage. These two were busy.
The lens information is unknown to Flickr as there is no electronic contact between lens and camera (Leica M8 in this case). However, even the camera information and the date when the image was taken is no longer displayed. I have checked and found that all my editing programmes do preserve these data, but they are not transmitted to or recognised by Flickr. It is not a catastrophe but a small nuisance it may well be. So far, I have not found a way to rectify this.
These birds are primary cavity nesters, chiseling out the trunk or a vertical branch of tree with a round entry hole. They breed from December to July, sometimes raising two broods. Favoured nest trees in urban areas include gulmohur (Delonix regia) and African tulip (Spathodea campanulata). These nest holes may also be used as roosts. They may reuse the same nest tree each year but often excavate a new entrance hole.
These barbets play an important role in forests as seed dispersal agents. They also visit the flowers of Bombax for nectar and may be involved in pollination.
These barbets are arboreal and will rarely visit the ground. They obtain most of the water they need from their fruit diet. When water is available in a tree hole, they will sometimes drink and bathe.
Their fruit eating makes them a minor nuisance in fruit orchards although they are noted as having a beneficial effect in coffee plantations.
A species of tick in the genus Haemaphysalis is known to be specific in its parasitic association with this species and some species of Leucocytozoon are known to be blood parasites. Some species of Haemaphysalis are known to carry the virus responsible for the Kyasanur forest disease. Shikras have been recorded preying on adults.
Salim Ali noted that some birds may call in the night during the breeding season, but this has been questioned by other observers such as K K Neelakantan who note that these birds appear to be strictly diurnal.
Pteropus poliocephalus
Family: Pteropodidae
Order: Chiroptera
The grey-headed Flying Fox or fruit bat is a megabat and the largest bat species in Australia. Its range covers the area between Melbourne and South East Queensland, mostly within 200 Kilometres of the coast.
Their diet consists principally of pollen, nectar and fruit and they are cornerstone pollinators of certain plant species.
They form large colonies that move around large areas according to the availability of food.
Local councils often attempt to evict colonies from urban areas where their smell is regarded as a nuisance. Sydney council moved a large colony out of the Royal Botanic Gardens for example. The Eurobodalla Council moved one of the largest colonies from the Batemans Bay Water Gardens. A smaller number have subsequently returned to Batemans Bay, where this photograph was taken.
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The Nix - the story/ myth of the Nix, called Nykurin in Faroese, a sea creature that lures people close before dragging them into a lake. The Nix is a very dangerous and strange creature.
It lives in almost all lakes in the Faroe Islands, and its favourite occupation is to lure people close and then drag them with him to a watery end.
The Nix has the magical ability to transform himself into many different shapes. When he spots people, preferably children, approaching the lake, he comes out of the water and tries to attract their attention. But the moment someone touches him, they get stuck, and the Nix drags them with him into the lake. Now, if you should find yourself stuck to a Nix, there is one trick you should know: quickly shout his name out loud and the Nix will lose his power, and you will be free. Often, the Nix takes the shape of an exceptionally beautiful horse, an animal that is so handsome that most people can’t resist getting closer to and wanting to climb up on his back.
On the island of Vágar lies the biggest lake in the Faroe Islands, called Leitisvatn. This lake once was the home to a frightfully annoying Nix who was extremely eager to capture people who were passing by. One clear, sunny day, some village children went to play at the lakeside. The waters of the lake sparkled in the sunshine, and the mountains all around shone green. The children spotted a beautiful horse, peacefully drinking water by the mouth of the river that runs into the lake. The children, fascinated by the beauty of the horse, ran towards it and helped each other to climb up onto its back. The Nix was cunning, and he stood still until the children were on his back. But then he took off, running like the wind towards the deep part of the lake. Luckily, among the children that day, there were two brothers: Niclas, the eldest, was first up on the horse’s back, but his younger brother, Hanus, only two or three years old, was not as fast as the others and left behind. Watching the horse disappearing with his brother and the others on its back, in despair, Hanus called for his brother to come back for him. But being little, he could not say his older brother’s name properly: “Brother Nics!” he shouted, “Brother Nics, wait for me!”. And instantly, the Nix lost his power, and the children were free to throw themselves off his back just before he jumped far out into the lake and disappeared beneath the dark water. Well, this Nix was a nuisance to the inhabitants of Vágar and help was badly needed to get rid of the Nix so people could travel safely along the lake side.
In those days, some priests had the power to drive away ghosts and other bad spirits. One especially skilful priest, living on Vágoy, was asked to rid the village of the Nix. So, one day when the priest was walking by the lake, he saw a strange creature sitting by the path, combing its hair with a gold comb. The priest picked up a stone, threw it down towards the lake, and cast a spell on it. Miraculously, the stone started to grow until it became a large rock, and the priest uttered: “Enter the rock, beast, and be gone from this place”! And so, he sealed the Nix inside the rock and after that, it was never seen again - until now...
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The African legend says that this bird, the Pin-tailed Whydah is so in love with himself that he has developed into a real nuisance during the breeding season. He has the loudest mouth and does not tolerate any other birds anywhere near any food as he believes that it all belongs to him.
true - he's a wild thing
Brazeau sub power was always very hit or miss and even when it was a hit, like this day, there always still seemed to be an SD75I involved. I'm near certain that someday in the future I will be driving some stupid distance to see one of these things lead but, for the time being, they continue to be a nuisance; this one in particular was a very sorry sight with both a ditchlight and a headlight burnt out.
If there were just a rare pair rather than thousands making themselves a nuisance, we would probably appreciate their beauty more.
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Quite a lot of you seem to have been having a lovely time recently. My Flickr feed has been filled with purple landscapes in all their finery. The heather has been blooming from one end of the land to the other. Apart from here. I’ve been waiting quietly, but all I’ve seen over the last few weeks has been a lot of brown patches. Maybe I blinked. I had a location in mind too, a little known one that Lee and I stumbled across a couple of years ago one mid September evening. All around the small patch of heathland were signs of what we’d missed. “This would look great in August,” we agreed. Last year I didn’t quite get round to making the return, all too wrapped up in the forthcoming Iceland escapade as I was, so this summer was going to be the time to visit the location once more. Except the heather doesn’t seem to have really happened - at least nowhere that I’ve been recently it hasn’t. It seems that the rest of you in other parts of the country haven’t been in a sharing mood. Well, you’ve shown me your pictures, but you haven’t sent any of the blooming heather down to Cornwall. Somebody told me it had looked pretty good down west in the middle of August, but when I went that way I saw little evidence.
This, taken at the start of June, was as good as things got for this photographer. Wheal Coates is normally a summer banker for a colourful display of purples on the clifftops around the engine houses, and Mother Nature is always on hand to add a healthy scattering of complimentary yellows in the low lying gorse. One Thursday evening after a tiring couple of days in the company of my baby grandson, and at a time when I was seriously considering a restorative gin and tonic in front of the television, I made the mistake of peering through the window. The sky was looking good on this calm and inviting evening, so despite the juniper driven lure, I sighed and dragged my weary carcass towards the car, stuffing the camera and the wide angle lens into the bag as I went. Twenty minutes later I was sitting uncomfortably on a small patch of earth, squeezed in between what blooms there were, and trying to find a suitable foreground to match the colouring sky as the sun sank towards the edge of the world across a listless pale blue ocean.
The gin might have been postponed for the moment, but I was glad to be here enjoying the peace. So often it’s a raw and brutal environment, but today there was hardly a breath on the air, and the ocean barely murmured in response to the unmistakable cries of the pair of choughs that live in the chimney of Towanroath's old engine house. Apart from the very occasional dog walker, and another lone tog who was perched further along the cliffs, there was nobody around. Well except for the man who’d pitched his tent beside the engine house - I’d have to clone him and his belongings out later. And if I could fill the foreground with purple, I might not even need to do that.
Getting the shot in focus was going to be a bit of a nuisance, with the absence of an articulating screen and a lens that refuses to focus automatically - in fact even when it does think it’s found focus by itself, it generally hasn’t. I recently enquired about getting it fixed, but it’s such an old model that the required part is no longer readily available. With the camera as low to the ground as the dinky tripod would allow, I had to lie across a particularly prickly layer of gorse to see the screen clearly enough to focus manually. And then again, and then a third time. Focus stacking is so much fun when you can’t flip out the screen and see what the camera can see from a comfortable angle - said nobody ever at all.
After half an hour of being repeatedly stabbed by stray vegetation, the light had begun to fail, and it was time to go home and open that bottle of gin. I hadn’t really got what I was looking for, but this was early June, and it was just a test run for what would come later in the season. I returned two or three times over the coming weeks, but as so often seems to happen, the first visit turned out to be the only one with passable results. At least it’s colourful. I’ll hope for a better show next year. And maybe a solution to the challenges of taking wide angle exposures at ground level too. These knees aren’t getting any younger you know.
These 4-inch grasshoppers are too large and toxic for most natural predators, so they don’t need to move fast. If for any reason, you fail to heed the color warning and pick it up, the grasshopper makes a loud hissing noise and secretes an irritating foul-smelling foamy spray. Lubbers cannot fly far, and travel in short clumsy hops, or walk and crawl slowly through the vegetation. They feed on broadleaf plants and can become a nuisance when swarms invade residential areas and feast on garden plants.
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This DC plane wreckage has become a nuisance to the local framer as more and more tourist visit to take pictures. There is no proper road there, but a track with pot holes. My rental car is shown in the background here. It was winter and hence the crowd was not there and the snowy road were quite treacherous.
A Bollywood dance movie is shot here. vimeo.com/156191671
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On the 16th of January it snowed for the first time this winter in Amsterdam. Because the temperature was around freezing, the snow stayed there for a while. It only got a few centimeters of snow. The best advice is to stay indoors and turn the stove up a bit. Or of course to go outside to take some nice pictures. In addition to the nuisance, the snow also provides a lot of fun for children here in Amsterdam's Jordaan. Snowball fight, make snowmen or go sledding. All fun activities that children do in this beautiful snowy world. Those who think away for a while can imagine themselves in Hendrick Avercamp's world today. The snow was enough for a few hours of uninhibited winter fun in the streets of Amsterdam. Earlier in the afternoon it was still quiet on the gray canals, since the first snow had stuck to the ground by four o'clock, the neighborhood has turned out for an hour of carefree winter entertainment. The chance that the snow will still be there tomorrow morning seems quite small. During the night the snow may turn into rain and during the day it will be about 6 degrees.
This evening I walk in my neighbourhood and made some beautiful photos of a little layer of snow. The virgin white carpet of snow is crunching under my shoes. I began to remember why I love the winters so much. This time around, the canals remained relatively ice-free. The snow is a rare highlight in dark days, especially when you have small children. It is quite difficult to come up with something fun in these Covid lockdown days. After a while, sitting inside gets pretty monotonous for such a young kid. This is a welcome change. When it snows the light and atmosphere is really beautiful. The Old Wester church is right next to Amsterdam's Jordaan district. Leaning gabled houses and the city’s most charming canals. The steep bridges over the canals in Amsterdam are really slippery, especially for cars. The best way to travel in the snow is by bicycle, tram, walking or better by sleds. Photo taken here at the corner of Bloemgracht and Tweede Bloemdwarsstraat in Amsterdam.
Op 16 januari heeft het voor het eerst deze winter gesneeuwd in Amsterdam. Omdat de temperatuur rond het vriespunt lag, bleef de sneeuw eventjes liggen. Een paar centimeters sneeuw werden het maar. Het beste advies is dan maar om lekker binnen te blijven en de kachel iets hoger te zetten. Of natuurlijk even naar buiten te gaan om wat mooie plaatjes te schieten. De Jordaan is bedolven onder een mooi laagje sneeuw zoals hierboven op de brug op de Bloemgracht. Naast de overlast zorgt de sneeuw ook voor veel plezier bij kinderen hier in de Amsterdamse Jordaan. Sneeuwballen gevecht, sneeuwpoppen maken of sleetje rijden. Allemaal leuke activiteiten die kinderen doen in deze mooie besneeuwde wereld. Wie even wegdenkt kan zich vandaag in Hendrick Avercamps wereld wanen. De sneeuw was voldoende voor een paar uur ongeremde winterpret in de straten van Amsterdam. Was het eerder op de middag nog rustig op de grijze grachten, sinds de eerste sneeuw tegen vier uur aan de grond bleef plakken, is de buurt uitgelopen voor een uurtje onbekommerd wintervermaak. De sneeuw is een schaars hoogtepuntje in donkere dagen, speciaal wanneer je kleine kinderen hebt. Het is in deze lockdowndagen best lastig iets leuks te verzinnen. Binnen zitten wordt na een tijdje best eentonig voor zo’n peuter. Dit is een welkome afwisseling. De kans dat de sneeuw er morgenochtend nog ligt lijkt vrij klein. In de nacht gaat de sneeuw mogelijk over in regen en overdag wordt het dan zo'n 6 graden. Foto gemaakt op de Bloemgracht en Tweede Bloemdwarsstraat in Amsterdam.
Beautiful Feather Patterns
European Starlings are mostly disregarded as a very common nuisance, but they are beautiful when looked at closely
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When we put out free food, we don't get to decide who eats it. Some birds are welcome, while others not so much. We all have our favorites and this one is not one of mine. Their behavior puts them in the nuisance category for me.
The cowbird waited in the trees until it felt safe enough to grab some mealworms.
Lowell Townshp, Michigan
Thanks for taking a look at my images. I certainly appreciate it.
In the aftermath of heavy rains comes the flooding but fortunately in this situation the flooding caused more a nuisance effect rather than being dangerous.
As the Nepean River flows under the Cowpasture Bridge heavy clouds are forming ready for another deluge.
Camden, New South Wales, Australia.
Image: 10.22am 10 February 2020.
Pretty bird with it's iridescent plumage but it is a real nuisance at bird feeders.
When grackles are in a group, they are referred to as a "plague".
Rondeau Provincial Park, March 5, 2023.
Quiscalus quiscula
Rarely, Common Grackles nest in places other than their usual treetops, including birdhouses, old woodpecker holes, barns, and in still-occupied nests of Osprey and Great Blue Heron.
source - allaboutbirds-org.
In common, bumblebees are tolerant of humans, so you can get up close and personal with them without being a nuisance
Oct 6, 2020, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.
They can be a nuisance when flocks descend on the feeders and empty them and chase off the smaller birds but they are a pretty bird, one at a time.
Quiscalus quiscula
Those raggedy figures out in cornfields may be called scare-crows, but grackles are the #1 threat to corn. They eat ripening corn as well as corn sprouts, and their habit of foraging in big flocks means they have a multimillion dollar impact.
This is actually an Asian Lady Beetle. However, it has been given the nickname of the Halloween Beetle by some because around the end of October, these beetles start to swarm around doors and windows of homes looking for warmth. They are not harmful and they even are as helpful as our usual lady beetles in eating the aphids, etc, in the garden plants. These Asian variety though can be a nuisance since they bite and sometimes leave behind an orange colored liquid that can stain the surface they land on. Just when you thought you were free from mosquitoes and black flies, you get swarmed by beetles and stung by wasps. There are some benefits to winter coming.