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Stonechats are robin sized birds. Males have striking black heads with white around the side of their neck, orange-red breasts and a mottled brown back. Females lack the male's black head, but have brown backs and an orange tinge to their chests. Birds are frequently seen flicking their wings while perched, often doing so on the tops of low bushes. As its name suggests, birds utter a sharp loud call that sound like two stones being tapped together. They breed in western and southern parts of the UK, but disperse more widely in winter.
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In Burgers' Zoo is living a fun family meerkats.
The meerkats have access to a heated indoor accommodation. But actually they spend day and night, preferably outside, where they also dug their own passages.
According to the census of the animal handlers, the corridors at Burgers' Zoo have more than 30 entries!
Although native birds of prey like buzzards and hawks in the Netherlands do not actually preying on meerkats, also stands at Burgers' Zoo almost always a meerkat on the lookout, as the other family members scurry outside.
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The white goshawk, accipiter novaehollandia, is found only in Tasmania - predominately in the North West of the state. It is a rare and endangered species and I have seen only two. On the first occasion I was photographing this little copse when one flew overhead and disappeared before I had a chance to catch my breath.
At home, several days later, I heard a very loud and musical bird call and hurried outside to see this magnificent creature perched on my neighbour's deck railing. She remained long enough for me to get my camera and take a shot, then was gone. I like to imagine that it was the same bird, allowing me a second opportunity to capture her beauty where I had failed previously. It is the only time I have moaned over the limitations of my camera, but I have done her as much justice as I am able, and returned her to a habitat where she is queen.
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Lagginhorn (4010m) above Saas-Grund taken from just outside Saas-Fee.
Explore #13 25th February 2014
Canon EOS 5D Mark III | Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM
Marsaxlokk is a traditional fishing village in the South Eastern Region of Malta in Europe there are many ,'Luzzu' Traditional Fishing Boats With The Eye Of Osiris - A local characteristic of these wooden boats is that they create a particular scenic effect, painted in bright red, green, yellow and blue. This fishing boat is called 'luzzu' in Maltese
Marsaxlokk est un village de pécheurs au sud Est de l'ile de Malte , on peut y voir de nombreux bateaux de péche traditionnels colorés appelés Luzzus avec les yeux d'Osiris à l'avant du bateau
Another from my week spent along the Oregon Coast. This is a rare time where I felt the need to double process the RAW file to preserve more detail in the rocks while keeping the sky in check. A little more work than I like do, but necessary to make this shot work in any way. Any feedback on the blend, or anything else, is appreciated!
First time when I walked by this old building in Brussels I was not so sure what to think about it... Well you know guys.. from the outside was badly damaged some of the windows were smashed.. dirt & rubbish all over the place.. But there was a note/notice on the wall saying that the house was due for demolition..which I thought was very sad to see such a building to be demolished. Well I know that for some ppl that building might be a bit creepy, but in my eyes was just beautiful not creepy ;-)
Brussels, Belgium near City Center & EU HQ.
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It was quite overcast when I had time to get out recently. Since it was so grey outside, I was looking for a way to brighten things up a bit. I thought this Heermann's Gull in the foam from the surf did the trick.
Rockaway Beach
Pacifica, CA
The river Drentsche Aa splits the provinces Drenthe and Groningen at this point. I was standing in Drenthe looking at the sunset from Groningen. Taken near Glimmen, Drenthe, The Netherlands.
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this is a tree directly outside the front door of my house. sunset creates beautiful lighting. i just played with the curves a tidbit to show it.
again, the f/1.8!
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still doing the website, its a beep in the beep... still trying to have a life outside work and website too, but this has priorities i reckon, getting it all up and running....
added a new wedding page... wot u reckon? still on rinajo.dk/testing.html - i do listen to u guys, dont worry :) but also doing it slightly my way... the only link thats working is the wedding link - bryllup in hush bush language :)
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The Chicago skyline with blocks of ice in front of it, seen from the Museum Campus. This was taken on a beautiful sunny/ partly cloudy day in January when it was 40 degrees outside and very nice to walk around.
How do those blocks form? I'm sure it's known but it isn't obvious to me.
Update Nov 6 2015:
I took this last winter in Chicago, and I really enjoyed photographing all of the amazing ice along the lakeshore. It felt like this wonderful new discovery, my last winter in Chicago - I could have been doing this previous winters if I hadn't been sitting around inside being scared of the cold.
Now, I have moved to the Boston area, and while there is Boston harbor, the water there is saltwater. So, I assume it won't freeze as easily and probably won't form much in the way of ice blocks and formations. But, looking at a map of the area, there do seem to be a lot of freshwater rivers and ponds around the Boston area as well. So, any recommendations for where I can find interesting ice in a beautiful place? In particular any place where ice blocks form with a view of the skyline as in this photo? I haven't had time to explore much yet, but I just finally finished my PhD and so now I will have time to go on adventures instead of spending all my weekends writing.
Ducks seem to be the only birds I can photograph - and that's because they are big and sit still a lot :-)
This week's Macro Mondays group theme is Lids. I sometimes struggle to find subjects that fit the 3" rule, so I'm always happy when I can turn to miniatures. This box is just 1" long, which means the shoes are tiny. They're quite difficult to handle and I knocked them over many times (!), but I eventually ended up with this. The box and shoes are standing in front of a shabby chic chest of drawers. And, by the way, another thing I love about miniatures is that I can have lots of them without needing to move house. It's probably a good thing that I don't collect jukeboxes... :))
This Little Owl has been visiting me for a couple of years & normally sits on a post outside our living room window to watch T.V. By this time it is too dark to get a decent picture so I found him a little earlier in the evening in this oak tree in our garden.
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Took Lena outside today for some pictures :) I love her so much <3
Also if anyone missed it I posted a photostory yesterday ^-^ Link is in my next picture.
Al costat del mas abandonat Torre del Blasi, al costat de la autovia A2 a Bellpuig, es troba aquest iconic bunquer de la guerra civil. L'havia vist fotografiat diverses vegades, però no l'havia pogut localitzar. Es troba al pas del que ja aleshores era la carretera entre Lleida i Tàrrega, tot i que per la seva posició descarada al mig d'un camp no m'imagino com pensaven camuflar-lo.
Com la gran majoria de fortificacions republicanes de les planes de Lleida, sembla que fou abandonada sense pràcticament combats el gener del 39.
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This extremely conspicuous MG bunker built by the republican army during the later part of the Spanish civil war still stands above the main highway between Lleida and Tàrrega (and Barcelona). Being placed in the middle of a flat field, I don't know how they intended to camouflage it, other that as an agricultural storage hut (there's an abandoned countryhouse nearby).
As most of the Republican fortified lines in Catalonia, this bunker was abandoned without much or no fight in January 1939, with the final fascist offensive against Catalonia.
Outside the village of Tubac in Arizona is a clearing along the Santa Cruz River that was the first stop in my Arizona wildlife tour. I was rewarded almost right away with a sighting of this Dusky-capped Flycatcher. It was a life bird for me, but a fairly common one in the southwest and Latin America.
Wind patterns on Lake Powell, Utah / Arizona. Considering it was taken holding the camera at arms' length a few cm over the water, bending outside the boat, I'm pretty happy with this one ;-)
Part of my US West Coast set.
Early one morning on my way to work. I took this from the car when I was driving..
This is from Ekerö outside Stockholm in Sweden
january 17 2007.
Took it during sunset time, change the tone little bit, to make the atmosphere more attractive. 夕陽時分的虞美人花，改變了些色調，想突出當時的氣氛。
A fine sunrise after days of rainy wet mornings.
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We've had a very long spell of great weather, clear blue skies and scorching temperatures up here in Fort William. On this particular day last Tuesday thunder clouds had been building throughout the day eventually bringing some much needed rain to the area. The rain clouds cleared just in time for sunset to produce some nice colour in the sky and mist floating about the river close to my house. Took the dog out for his last walk of the day, saw the conditions were looking good so nipped back up to the house for the camera.
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The Beach outside our Beach House on Friday Afternoon.. I was so happy there were clouds & a bit of blue!
Friday was Gorgeous & Saturday was wonderful up until early evening..I got a "wimpy" sunset...but I guess it is not in the cards for me to have a sunset yet..:-)
The Queen Butterfly can be mistaken for the better known Monarch Butterfly, and the resemblance is no accident. Both are members of the same genus — Danaus, D. gilippus, in the case of the Queen. Both use milkweed as a host plant, as does a third member of the clan, the Soldier, which looks so much like its cousin, it's sometimes called the tropical queen. As Danaus catepillars munch on the leaves, they take in toxins — cardiac glycosides called cardenolides that makes any vertebrate predator, birds in particular, that eats them sick
Adults signal the presence of the toxin via their orange coloration. A bird that tries to dine on the Queen, Monarch or Soldier (or a third, distant cousin, the Viceroy) isn't likely to repeat the mistake. The easiest way to tell the species apart is this: Soldiers and Monarch (and Viceroys, which closely resemble Monarchs) have dark, heavy veins on the upper side of their wings; the veins on Queens are fine.
Queens and its cousins are member of Nymphalidae, or the brush-foot family.
Queens are found in Texas and Florida, south through the Caribbean and Central America to Argentina. They have been known to stray as far as Massachusetts and the Northern Plains.
I found this male along "Lake Cypress Boat Ramp Road" in Osceola County, Florida.