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My first proper explore since lockdown has finished, and decided I need to go back to somewhere I knew, but enjoyed.
The name comes from a Perch; a timber tripod supporting a lantern first erected in 1683 as a crude beacon to allow shipping to pass the rock safely.
As the Port of Liverpool developed in the Nineteenth Century the perch was deemed inadequate as it required constant maintenance and only produced a limited light. Construction of the present tower began in 1827 by Tomkinson & Company using blocks of interlocking Anglesey granite using dovetail joints and marble dowels. It was designed to use many of the same construction techniques used in the building of John Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse 70 years earlier.
Modelled on the trunk of an oak tree, it is a free standing white painted tower with a red iron lantern. It is 29 m (95 ft) tall. It was first lit in 1830 and displayed two white flashes followed by a red flash every minute; the light-source was thirty Argand lamps, mounted on a three-sided revolving array (ten lamps on each side, with red glass mounted in front of one side). There were also three bells mounted under the gallery to serve as a fog signal; they were tolled by the same clockwork mechanism that caused the lamps to revolve.
The lighthouse was in continuous use until decommissioned in October 1973 having been superseded by modern navigational technology. Although the lighting apparatus and fog bell have been removed, the lighthouse is very well preserved and retains many features lost on other disused lighthouses.
It was restored and repainted in 2001 when an LED lightsource was installed which flashed the names of those lost at sea; including all the 1,517 victims of the sinking of the Titanic.
At low tide, it is possible to walk to the base of the tower, but a 25-foot ladder is needed to reach the doorway. The lighthouse is privately owned and maintained by the Kingham family, and is a Grade II* listed building.
Taken using :
NIsi V6 Holder.
Landscape CPL
3 Stop Med GND
6 Stop ND Filter
Benro Rhino 2 CF Tripod.
The European robin, known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in Great Britain and Ireland, is a small insectivorous passerine bird that belongs to the chat subfamily of the Old World flycatcher family.
Tree Swallows are a sure sign that spring has arrived on the northern prairie. This male is perched along the fence line on a friend's property, at the edge of the village. They are as pretty as the Barn Swallow (see yesterday's upload), but more accepting of a human presence. No car blind for this guy; I just walked up slowly, pushing the tripod forward two feet at a time, until I was in range.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2017 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
One of the best perches in the entire National Park system has to be Yosemite's Tunnel View on CA-41. On a cold winter day, layer up and grab a hot beverage and watch nature show off as the dark gives way to the light, revealing the hidden magic below. As this particular sunrise was without technicolor vibrance that so many seek, getting in tighter with a long lens featured some of the close-up magic not seen with a wide angle lens nor the naked eye.
Bridal Veil Falls to the right.
ISO 100 | f/11 | 100mm | 0.4 sec
This years crop of Juvenile Northern Mockingbirds cutting up around the bird bath and on the perch next to it. It was only 104 in the shade today so they were drinking plenty of water throughout the day!
I've had that birdbath nearly two years and they didn't start using it regularly until this heat wave hit this summer and it got so hot and so dry that there isn't many other places to for them to drink from.
The cedars lining the banks of the Pottawatomi River at Jones Falls hold a firm grip onto the rocks - unlike me, who had climbed down to a precarious perch with my tripod on a small ledge at the top of the cliff to get this 5 second exposure. This is the "shoulder" at the upper part of the falls - the bigger drop is just to the right of this image.
from the archives... found some old photos that I didn't realise I had. this is one from olivers hill. thanks
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Several Danaus plexippus (Monarch butterfly) clustering for overwintering amongst the withering leaves of an oak at Ernle Clark Reserve, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Smaller clusters here (a few hundred spread around this tree), but it is a lovely park and one of my favourite old haunts. While there is something to be said for the larger, denser clusters (which I've been photographing elsewhere), there is something I love about them spread out in smaller groups in the oak leaves and basking - especially when sunny (if not exactly warm) when a few will leave and rejoin, causing the perched ones to flap their wings in sympathy (yes, probably protest). I can watch them for hours.
I love the way the sun passes through those backlit wings like stained glass windows. While the background is contrastier than I like, it sort of frames the subject here.
This may be the first time I have shared a butterfly in flight as I don't like how awkward/ungainly they seem when frozen in time mid-flap. But I really like what it is doing here with wings outstretched.
Cropped, but otherwise unprocessed camera jpeg.
ANGRY CHIFFCHAFF
I was photographing this Chiffchaff from my Landrover and struggling to get a clean shot. All the images had branches in the way.
When a second bird came too close and called from the Blackthorn behind my Landrover, he popped up like a cork and adopted this threat position.
Making himself look twice his normal size seemed to work. I didn't hear the other bird again.
I didn't get anymore shots of this one either. This was my one and only shot of him in the open.
These beautiful Australian Shelducks were perched on the rugged rocks around Childers Cove'. They were well and truly at the end of my zoom lens. Tadorna tadornoides. Not I bird I see very often but they are beautifully coloured.
Some nice light at perch Rock first photography session after lock down .A vlog of this location and shoot is available on YT www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSsYHxGneTk
Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson
~happy perching fence friday~
Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis), perched on naked tree branch, Winter.
Image cropped only, to focus on target.
A belted kingfisher was seen perched in a bush in Osceola Copunty near Kenansville, Florida.
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