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Red-breasted Sapsucker RBSA (Sphyrapicus ruber)
Elk /Beaver Lake Park
Ponds near Equestrian Center
Saanich
Greater Victoria BC
DSCN6626
Field Mark Cues ^i^
Sapsucker with predominantly red head & breast
This shot to feature/document front features as sub-species study/exercise
Parent male didn't look to match
S. r. ruber
or ssp. daggetti
so perhaps these are
ssp.
S. r. notkensis
?
but i was not able to find pictorial or photographic
x references at time of posting
No conclusions drawn ...
This red disk-shaped phenomenon, is another member of the TLEs (Transient Luminous Events, happening in the middle and upper atmosphere, above thunderstorms) family and is called sprite halo. Under it, there is a group of, relatively small, sprites. Sprite halo is short-lived (some ms) and its color comes from the same physical process as in red sprites (de-excitation of 1st positive group of mol. nitrogen). Halos appear close to sprite tops (alt. ~80-85 km), over active thunderstorms, like sprites. Sprite halos are usually triggered by -CGs, in contrast to sprites which are related to +CGs (99%). There is also a faint stripe of high clouds in front of the halo. The yellow light is a distant ship.
The event happened over the thunderstorms south of Crete (on the east side of the Medicane on 28/10) as seen from S. Attica during the night of Oct. 28, 2021. Faint parent lightning flash at the bottom, behind a cloud layer, can be seen as well. I've used a Sigma 85 mm lens at f/1.4, for 1/4'' with 51.2k iso. More about the Greek Team chasing red sprites and TLEs in general: antisimvatikos.blogspot.com/2019/05/tles-greek-archive-of...
What is a red sprite? Info here: antisimvatikos.blogspot.com/2017/04/red-sprite.html
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Pictures with Zeke, Joaquin, Garett and Andy at their house. The kids are Jewish, Mestiza (Mexican Indian/Spanish) and Cherokee. I love taking pictures of siblings, but it was also neat to work with brothers. Somehow I managed to get a bunch of sisters together, but this is the first brother set. They're the same as girls in the sense that they are young and respond well to the camera. I like how two brothers can have the same parents but such different hair. I suppose that will also be more evident when I put my eventual self portraits up with Rachael's.
Joaquin was a total ham. You can see in some pictures he's literally dancing in the background. Or the foreground. But hammy kids always love the camera, so I love them. Zeke, the older boy was not as energized, but he had a quiet brooding intensity that photographed well, too. I've learned so much about working with young people on this project. I can say I'm a fan of their energy and passion.
Low tide and looking into the last of the sun from Boat Harbour, Tasmania.
pinmatik (Rocky Cape) on the western horizon.
My feelings about Boat Harbour are conflicted. The family farm is in the lee of the two black hills above the white shack. My parents' ashes there, white, on the deep red soil.
but an older people ghost along the ancient path and gather, singing in the forgotten caves, their discarded shells lie dreaming in the silver sand
Leica Q2 Monochrom, Summilux 28mm f/1.7. 1/8000th sec at f/8, ISO 400
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Australian Wood Duck
Scientific Name: Chenonetta jubata
Description: The Australian Wood Duck is a medium-sized 'goose-like' duck with a dark brown head and a pale grey body with two black stripes along the back. Males have the darker head and a small dark mane, with a speckled brown-grey breast and a black lower belly and undertail. The females have a paler head with two white stripes, above and below the eye, a speckled breast and flanks, with a white lower belly and undertail. In flight, the wings are pale grey above, contrasting with black wingtips, and have a noticeable white bar on the underside (the secondaries). They walk easily on land and may be seen perching on logs and in trees. They will only take to open water when disturbed. This species is also known as the Maned Duck or the Maned Goose.
Similar species: The Australian Wood Duck can be distinguished from pygmy geese,Nettapus spp, which are smaller, have bold white face markings and are usually seen on water. Whistling ducks, Dendrocygna spp, have longer legs and necks, larger more duck-like bills and tend to walk more upright. When flying, the Australian Wood Duck is the only duck with white secondary feathers and dark wingtips.
Distribution: The Australian Wood Duck is widespread in Australia, including Tasmania.
Habitat: The Australian Wood Duck is found in grasslands, open woodlands, wetlands, flooded pastures and along the coast in inlets and bays. It is also common on farmland with dams, as well as around rice fields, sewage ponds and in urban parks. It will often be found around deeper lakes that may be unsuitable for other waterbirds' foraging, as it prefers to forage on land.
Feeding: The Australian Wood Duck eats grasses, clover and other herbs, and occasionally, insects. It is rarely seen on open water, preferring to forage by dabbling in shallow water, or in grasslands and crops.
Breeding: The Australian Wood Duck forms monogamous breeding pairs that stay together year round. It nests in tree holes, above or near water, often re-using the same site. Both parents feed young and young birds remain with them up to a month after fledging.
Calls: Females have long, loud, rising: 'gnow?' while male calls are shorter and higher pitched. Flocks chatter when feeding.
Minimum Size: 44cm
Maximum Size: 50cm
Average size: 47cm
Breeding season: September to November in the south; after rain in the north.
Clutch Size: 8 to 10 eggs
Incubation: 28 days
Nestling Period: 57 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Chenonetta-jubata)
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A great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) that just fed one of its chicks with a fish, some weeks ago.
Even though I was away on vacation when the chicks were small enough to be carried on their parents´ backs, it was fun to photograph them at this size as well for the first time.
I will show photos where their fish shows later on ツ
(Toppdykker og unge, in Norwegian)
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The egrets now all have rather raucous fledglings, and they are feeding them non-stop. This parent comes back at dusk to the nesting site, catching the last rays of the setting sun.
Taken this evening at the egret nesting site at Bel Marin Keys, Novato.
Today is day 47 of Project 365.
A Bullock's oriole pair took turns feeding their three hungry babies in a nest at Barr Lake State Park near Brighton, Colorado.
A brutalist sculpture (1988) commissioned by the City of Lachine in honour of the late Quebec premier René Lévesque.
The artist was my great uncle Robert Roussil. Although I had never met Robert (he had moved to France in the 1950s), I grew up hearing stories about him from my mother. In addition to being a sculptor, he was also a painter; a number of his originals adorned my parents' home when I was growing up; I now proudly hang them in my house.
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Parc René-Lévesque • Lachine
A parent bug nymph. Went back to see if it is still there on a following day and it has disappeared. Other benches in the gardens all still have their little shieldbug nurseries. Wonder where this little dude is?
Newly hatched (day-old) sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) colts follow one of their parents out on their first field trip.
Sarasota, FL (22 March, 2024)
Parenting or motherhood is an instinct in the animal world. However it becomes a learned skill in the human race. Modern generation parents need a lot of advice and help in order to raise a child. And the expectation is not only to have a healthy and happy kid. The parents are asking for more and more.
Have a happy Mother's Day!
Fuji X-T1
Fuji XF 50-140mm
Velvia Film Simulation
These new parents look tuckered out, no doubt with 22 babes!! Guess where the chicks all are in this picture?!
SIG visit to Wollerton Wetlands in August.
My camera. not having seen daylight all weekend, I can only be thankful for my archives!
Femme de l'ethnie Rendille avec son bébé curieux
Village Rendille à proximité de Ngurunit, Kenya
Les Rendille sont une population d'Afrique de l'Est vivant au nord du Kenya, entre le lac Turkana et le mont Marsabit. Ce sont principalement des nomades, éleveurs de chèvres, de moutons mais surtout de chameaux, particulièrement adaptés aux conditions désertiques du nord du Kenya . Ils dépendent fortement de ces animaux pour une grande partie de leurs besoins quotidiens : nourriture, lait, vêtements, commerce et transport.
Le lieu d'origine du peuple Rendille était l'Éthiopie. Ils ont été forcés de migrer vers le sud, au Kenya, à cause de leurs conflits fréquents avec la tribu des Oromo pour le pâturage et l’eau pour leurs animaux.
Vivant dans une région particulièrement hostile de ce fait délaissée par le colonisateur anglais, les Rendilles n'ont pas été affecté par sa présence.
Leur langue est le rendille, une langue couchitique,parlée par quelques dizaines de milliers de locuteurs seulement
Comme les Masaï pour les vaches, les chameaux sont saignés pour boire leur sang. Les Rendille sont étroitement liés aux Samburu, par des liens économiques et familiaux. Ils ont parfois adopté leur langue, le Samburu.
Comme dans la plupart des tribus, le mariage n'est pas autorisé au sein de son propre clan et est arrangé par les parents . Chaque femme vit dans sa propre maison avec ses enfants et les mères jouissent d'un statut élevé. La société est fortement liée aux liens familiaux.
78 x 143 cm
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白鷺鷥．攝於台灣 新北市 坪林
Little Egret, taken at Pinglin, New Taipei City, TAIWAN
伴隨鷺鷥繁殖期的到來，
數不清的白鷺鷥、黃頭鷺、夜鷺紛紛來到坪林築巢育雛，
嘎~嘎~嘎 啞~啞~啞~ 此起彼落的眾鳥叫聲，
為雪隧開通而漸失榮景的坪林帶來另一番的熱鬧。
漸漸長大的白鷺鷥幼鳥，看到親鳥含食回來時，
總是爭先恐後的追著親鳥討食，
被四張利嘴啄到羽毛漸疏的親鳥，
還是忍痛擔負身為父母的天性。
The pond at home acts as a nursery helping to restore the frog population in the area.
About 3 years ago when the first baby frogs (Pelophylax esculentus) were born there was one, the biggest of them all that since its juvenile years sat at position 45, if one looks at the pond as a clock.
At start of winter the frogs leave for hibernation in the close by bushes and only come back to the pond by spring of the next year as adults to mate and then leave after laying their eggs. For the rest of the year, until next hibernation, only the year's babies inhabit the pond.
Unusually this year I observed there was a big adult one still there and sitting exclusively at position 45.
I have a suspicion this is 45, now close to 4 years old, parenting its offspring. Also, this is first time I see the display of close interaction among them, touching each other in the hands and the feet.
Baselland, Switzerland
PB_M0109-2.2 - 400mm
31 years ago today my mom died. This was her last picture. My youngest son was just 6 weeks old, and my parents were going to Florida for the winter. I was going to miss them. They would be back by April to file their income taxes. Home shopping club had been advertising this new telephone device, that you plugged your phone into it, and if someone had the same device, you could see them while you were talking to them! Futuristic for sure! We didn’t buy them. My mom died the next day, after they arrived in Florida to their house trailer from a heart attack. She was 70 years old. That was a Sunday morning August 8, 1991. I was just remembering our conversations of how I was going to miss her and how I wished we had those devices to see each other while we talked. 31 years later, I just finished talking to my older son and daughter in law from my Ipad with FaceTime. We FaceTime all the time without thinking about it. 31 years ago it was a dream. I never had another phone call from my mom after she left, and she didn’t come back in April. My Dad came back two days later. I saw my mom at her funeral. She has been with the Lord these past 31 years. My dad joined her on October 31, 1999. Time sure does fly by and things change so much in this world. The Good news is The Lord never changes! His Word doesn’t change either. Some people think it should change to accept today’s changes. I have peace that it doesn’t change. The Bible says, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Hebrews 13:8❤️
This young Barn Swallow had landed on this bolted sticking out the side of this food bridge and the parent went down to encourage to fly. I was less than 5 feet from them, so I took a quick couple shots and backed off and watched until I saw them fly up out of the area. Thinking teaching a kid to walk is hard, try to teach it to fly!