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To celebrate the 125th anniversary of its founding, the Detroit Institute of Arts is displaying reproductions of its most noted works in public spaces around metro Detroit.
This is a reproduction of "The Nightmare", painted in 1781 by Swiss artist Henry Fuseli, outside the Noir Leather shop in Royal Oak.
While visiting Östersund in Sweeden, I came over this Clover sticking out of some leaves, still struggling against the oncoming winter.
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Apparently somewhat uncommon in NJ, 3 of these grebes were hanging out together with a couple of Horned Grebes and a few ducks in the Lighthouse Marina a few blocks away from Barnegat Lighthouse.
Thanks to a birder met at Barnegat Lighthouse for telling me where to find these - they were right where he said, but I had to be patient while I waited for them to untuck! I got two of them out in this shot, but the third just turned his back on me.
Part of my GBBC weekend for 2014.
eBird checklist for Lighthouse Marina, Sun Feb 16, 2014 12:19 PM, for nearly an hour.
Red-necked Grebes, Podiceps grisegena
Lighthouse Marina, 6th St., Ocean County, New Jersey, US
Noor Najeeba's two sons have been abducted together in 2010. She touches the photo (taken in October 2012 at a protest), which is currently being displayed at Women Out of The Frame Photographic Exhibition at Lionel Wendt Art Gallery in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Actually, only 68 Lesser Scaup¹ (Aythya affinis) - Black Point Wildlife Drive, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida
A 12 capture Aythyarama,
captured (flat-out)² with a 600 mm lens
¹ Assuming their are no Greater Scaup amongst them.
² Out on the flooded flats
I wanted to post something a bit different but still keeping with the nature shots. So what better to post than some simply Flowers. This will probably be the last of the nature shots unless I find something else in my archives tonite to post LOL!
As far as the processing of the photo, I did nothing special to it. No HDR, just some added color in photoshop. The drop shadow was also added in photoshop.
Anyhow, hope you all are have a great day. New urban shots to come…
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Taken long after the sun had gone, this fox made a right monkey of me today, it's got mange but not as bad as two of the others. There must be at least four of them, I'm really looking forward to trying to see more of them as the days get longer. We haven't heard about the mange treatment which is really frustrating, might have to buy it.
PS weirdly there's another pheasant around, in a field completely enclosed by houses in the town. I've no idea how it got there, they're not known for their flying skills are they, the last one didn't last long though....
This is a bird hide near to Bradwell on Sea in Essex. I was told that the hide used to be a look out for a local bombing range on the mud flats. The shot is actually a 3 shot HDR merged and enhanced in Photoshop CS4.
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Recently in and out of Explore Interestingness 500.
1. In the shade, 2. Another view to the fells, 3. Rowing boat, 4. Autumn Lady's-tresses, 5. Morning light, 6. Parkland oaks, 7. Upper Burbage, 8. Christine & Sarah,
9. Exe sunset, 10. Grey, 11. Red sky in the morning, 12. Glacier d'Argentière, 13. Estuary sunrise, 14. The Valley, 15. Lights reflected # 2, 16. Bracken slopes,
17. Easter Hill, 18. Morning light, 19. In spate, 20. Sheep pasture, 21. Coot, 22. Along the wall, 23. The sky in the lake, 24. 'Yak boards',
25. Approaching rain, 26. Golden, 27. Illuminated, 28. Woodland garden, 29. Trees, 30. Alpine flora, 31. Above the clouds, 32. Herd,
33. Llyn Idwal, 34. Summer sunrise, 35. Aerial acrobats, 36. Through the trees, 37. Thames scene, 38. Hanging, 39. Lakeside path, 40. Foxglove in the rain,
41. Early morning light, 42. Canoes, 43. Estuary, 44. Rowing boat, 45. Estuary view, 46. 'Fairy Gloves', 47. Raining, 48. The old pier,
49. Handsome, 50. Ripples, 51. The lighthouse, 52. Tern sunset, 53. Osprey, 54. Durdle Door beach, 55. Lulworth Cove, 56. Swanage lights reflected,
57. Sun up, 58. One good tern... deserves another, 59. Sun on the river series revisted, 60. Sun on the river # 2, 61. Spring on the heath, 62. Still pond, 63. Exe saltmarsh, 64. Bird Island
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Link to Cincinnati Zoo..............Siamang
The Siamang inhabits the forest remnants of Sumatra Island and the Malay Peninsula, and is widely distributed from lowland forest to montane forest, even a rainforest. And can be found at altitudes of up to 3800 m [5]. The Siamang lives in groups of up to 6 individuals (4 individuals on average) with a home range 23 hectares on average.[6][7]. Their day ranges are substantially smaller than those of sympatric Hylobates species, often less than 1 km[8]. The Siamang's melodious choir singing breaks the forest's silence in the early morning after the Agile Gibbon or Lar Gibbon's calls. The Siamang in Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula are similar in appearance, but there are some differences in behaviour between the two populations.
Diet
The Siamang mainly eats various parts of plants. The Sumatran Siamang is more frugivorous than its Malayan cousin, with fruit making up to 60% of its diet. The Siamang eats at least 160 species of plants, from vines to woody plants. Its major food is figs (Ficus spp.), a member of Moraceae family.[7][9] The Siamang prefers to eat ripe fruit rather than unripe fruit, and young leaves rather than old leaves. It eats flowers and a few animals, mostly insects. When the Siamang eats large flowers, it will eat only the corolla (petal), but it will eat all parts of smaller flowers, with the small fruit collected in its hand before being consumed. When it eats big and hard seeds or seeds with sharp edge it will peel out the fruit flesh and throw away the seed.[9] Although its diet consists of substantial portions of fruit, it is the most folivorous of all members of Hylobatidae[10]. As it is also the largest gibbon, and thus fits well with the general primate dietary trend in which larger primates tend to be more folivorous.
Demography and population
A group of Siamang normally consist of an adult dominant male, an adult dominant female, with offspring, infant and sometimes a sub-adult. The sub-adult usually leaves the group after the age 6 to 8 years; sub-adult females tend to leave the group earlier than sub-adult males. Siamang males tend to offer more paternal care than other members of the family Hylobatidae, taking up a major role in carrying the infant after it is about 8 months old [12]. The infant typically returns to its mother to sleep and nurse. A study in relation to effect of habitat disturbance on the Siamang found that group composition is varied in age-sex structure between intact forest and post-burnt forest. The post-burnt population was more adult and sub-adults than the intact population. Post-burnt groups contain fewer infants, small juveniles and large juveniles compared to intact forest groups. Infant survival rates in post-burnt groups are lower than in intact forests. The number of individuals in intact forests is higher than in post-burnt forests.[7] The Siamang in disturbed forests live in small groups and have a density lower than in intact forests because of lack of food resources and trees for living.
In the 1980s, the Indonesian population of the Siamang in the wild was estimated to be 360,000 individuals.[13] This seems over-estimate today, as an example, Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park (BBSNP) is the third largest protected area (3,568 km²) in Sumatra, of which approximately 2,570 km² remains under forest cover inhabit by 22,390 siamangs (in 2002 censuses). According to two different research projects conducted in Sumatra, the Siamang prefer to inhabit lowland forest below between 500 m in altitude and over 1000 m above sea level.
Behavior
The Siamang tends to rest for more than 50% of its waking period (from dawn to dusk), followed by feeding, moving, foraging and social activities. It takes more rest during midday, taking time to groom each other or play. During resting time it usually uses a branch of a large tree lying on their back or on their stomach. Feeding behaviors, foraging, and moving are most often in the morning and after resting time.
In the dry season the length of the Siamang's daily range is longer than in the rainy season. The Siamang in southern Sumatra undertakes less foraging than the Siamang in other places because it eats more fruit and therefore consumes more nutrition, which results in less time needed for looking for food. Sometimes the Siamang will spend all of the day in one big fruiting tree, just moving out when it wants to rest and then coming back again to fruiting trees.
Role of calling
The Siamang starts its day by calling in the early morning and calls less after midday, with the peak of their calls around 9:00 am to 10:00 am. Most of the Siamang's calls are directed to its neighbours rather than to inside its home range. This means that the Siamang's calling is in response to disturbances and is to defend its territory. Calls in the late morning typically happen when it meets or sees another Siamang group. The edge of the Siamang's home range, which may overlap another, is often the places where calling is made. Counter-call (co-response calling) occasionally happens near the border or in the overlap area. Calls are numerous when fruit is more abundant rather than when fruit is less available. Branch shaking, swinging, and moving around the tree crowns accompany the calling. This movement might be to show the other groups where they are.
The Siamang prefers calling in the living, high and big trees, it might be the places where another group is easy to see. Beside that, living, big, and tall trees can support Siamang movement. Calling trees are usually near feeding trees but sometimes they call in the feeding trees.
Siamang and their habitat
As a frugivorous animal, the Siamang disperses seeds through defacation as it travels across its territory. The Siamang can carry seed and defecate over 300 m with the shortest distance being 47.6 m from the seed resource, which supports the forest regeneration and succession.
Threats to population
The Siamang, as an arboreal primate, absolutely depends on the forest for existence, needing trees for its living. At the moment, the Siamang is facing a population decrease due to habitat loss[6], poaching and hunting.
Habitat loss
A major threat to the Siamang is habitat loss due to plantation, forest fire, illegal logging, encroachment, and human development. Firstly, palm oil plantations have removed large areas of the Siamang's habitat in the last four decades. Since 2002 107,000 square kilometres of palm oil have been planted,[17] which has replaced much rainforest in Indonesia and Malaysia, where the Siamang originally used to live. Secondly, in the last two decades, forest fire destroyed more than 20,000 km² of Sumatran rainforest, mainly in the lowland area where most of the Siamang live. Thirdly, the rate of illegal logging in Indonesia increased from 1980 to 1995 and even more rapidly after the reformation era beginning in 1998.[17] These illegal activities devastated the remaining tropical rainforest especially in Sumatra. Fourthly, forest encroachments change forest cover into cultivated land, for example; the rising price of coffee in 1998 has been encouraging people in Sumatra to replace the forest with coffee plantation.[18] Fifthly, development in many areas needs infrastructure such as roads, which now divide a lot of conservation areas have been caused forest fragmentation and edge effects. Unfortunately, the Siamang as an arboreal primate faces difficulty because road establishment has disconnected their pathways.
Poaching and hunting
Unlike other parts of Asia, primates are not hunted for their meat in Indonesia (the exception is in Chinese restaurants in Indonesia which sometimes serve macaque on their menu). However, they are poached and hunted for the illegal pet trade, mostly for infant Siamang. Poachers kill the mothers because mother Siamang are highly protective of their infants. It is therefore very difficult to remove the infant without first killing the mother. Despite the fact that most Siamang on the market are infants many infants nevertheless die during transportation
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Well my grandson has left for work. He still lives here because he is in the Air Guard. He hopes to relocate to Colorado soon. My grandaughter is still sleeping but I have to get her up soon so she can have a nice breakfast before she has to catch a plane for back home. It sure was so nice to visit with her and I will miss her terribly once she's her for home. It sad that her family isn't still living here but I understand their desire to do this. New experiences in life are always fun even though there are downfalls like not living where your extended family is. I hope to get to Colorado in the fall. That will be a new experience for me plus I'll get to see the rest of my family that lives there. Anyway, everyone please have a very nice day and if you can try something new in your life even if its something right where you live. I'll try to catch up with you all later. Big Hugs!
THey left and so did I! I came back on the way home and they had returned so Got a few more shots until the headed north. I was heading south though!
Mount-Royal Cemetery in Montreal, Canada.
Tombstone from the soldiers of WW1 n' 2, I like ho the person made this one stand out from the rest.
Friday, August 4, 2017 in Delmar, Delaware/Maryland was National Night Out. Participants included Delmar Fre Dept, Delmar Police Dept, Salisbury Police Dept, Wicomico County Sheriffs Office, Delaware Dept of Corrections and Delaware Alcohol & Tobacco Enforcement Police.
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Just messing around with infrared today, trying to stay as still as possible for 65 seconds with the sun burning your retinas is harder than it sounds. On reflection this was actually a shorter exposure of only 12 seconds. I opened up the aperture to the max.
IRWIN is an energetic, outgoing Hound/Shepherd mix who’s about a year old. He’s very active and playful (he LOVES to chase a ball and play with toys), but can also pay attention nicely for food treats, so he should be a great dog to train. He seems to like other dogs.
Irwin will do well in a home where he’ll have good guidance and training, and a consistent routine.
Irwin lives in Kennel 36.
For more information about Irwin contact doginfo@apsofdurham.org.