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We planned to visit Yosemite over the Christmas holiday school break, and despite the federal government shutdown continued the trip. I'm glad we did.
At 26°F, it was a chilly morning and each stop for pictures was a challenge. I am very glad we stopped here.
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Vistas de Caldera Taburiente en primer plano, Pico Bejenao y, al fondo, Cumbre Vieja.
Les invito a visitar mi blog de fotografía y senderismo (Tenerife y La Palma).
Gracias por vuestras visitas y comentarios.
From September, 19th, 2019.
Sundown over the Firth of Clyde and the Kintyre Peninsula.
Taken from my yard.
South a Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
“All my little plans and schemes
Lost like some forgotten dreams
Seems that all I really was doing
Was waiting for you.”
Real Love - Tom Odell (John Lennon)
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Aprovechando que @mardonss volvía por su tierra quedamos con @alaingarciago para hacer de guiris visitando el famoso islote. Madrugando nos aseguramos el tener la roca que sobrevolaron dragones para nosotros solos. Bueno, para nosotros solos y para dos pescadores que habían madrugado mucho más y que iluminaban el primer plano con sus linternas. A ellos y sus cañas me los cargué en la foto, pero la luz que dejaron me vino de perlas para potenciar el primer plano. Tuvimos la suerte de tener una hora azul decente aunque durara muy poco y el sol saliera mucho más al este. Tenía ganas de tener mi versión de este conocido encuadre.
La complessità del piumaggio degli uccelli si rivela con le manovre di volo più difficili. Tra queste c'è sicuramente l'atterraggio, quando l'uccello plana dispiegando le remiganti secondarie per frenare la velocità. Proprio come sta facendo questa nitticora, che in tal modo rivela la meravigliosa e complessa combinazione del suo piumaggio alare ..... ..
This was not the shot I set out to get on this outing!! I was headed to a spot that ended up being closed for pipeline installation. So plan B it was. It actually turned out better than I expected. Vlog tomorrow. Kris
Les autorités australiennes ont élaboré un plan pour le moins radical pour se débarrasser des chats errants. Celui-ci comprend le déploiement de robots tueurs dont l'objectif est de traquer et d'éliminer les félins, considérés comme invasifs et nuisibles pour la faune endémique.
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S'élevant à 7,6 millions de dollars australiens, soit 4,6 millions d’euros, le plan vise à éradiquer les chats harets (chats domestiques retournés à l'état sauvage) d'ici à 5 ans dans l'État d'Australie-Occidentale.
Après des années de tests, les autorités fédérales ont finalement approuvé le déploiement de Felixer. Commercialisé par l'entreprise locale Thylation, ce “robot tueur” identifie les chats à partir de leur silhouette et de leur démarche. Il envoie ensuite un gel toxique, du fluoroacétate de sodium ou poison 1080, sur l'animal. Le poison est ensuite ingéré par celui-ci lors de sa toilette, entraînant sa mort.
Financièrement, les dommages causés par les chats harets sur la faune du pays s'élèvent à près de 300 millions de dollars australiens, soit 181 millions d’euros.
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Australian authorities have come up with a drastic plan to get rid of stray cats. This includes the deployment of killer robots whose objective is to track down and eliminate felines, considered invasive and harmful to endemic fauna.
Yes, you read correctly…
Amounting to 7.6 million Australian dollars, or 4.6 million euros, the plan aims to eradicate feral cats (domestic cats returned to the wild) within 5 years in the State of 'Western Australia.
After years of testing, federal authorities finally approved the deployment of Felixer. Marketed by local company Thylation, this killer robot identifies cats based on their silhouette and gait. He then sends a toxic gel, sodium fluoroacetate or poison 1080, on the animal. The poison is then ingested by it during its toilet, resulting in its death.
Financially, the damage caused by feral cats on the country's wildlife amounts to nearly 300 million Australian dollars, or 181 million euros.
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Plan de la Besurta, La Ribagorza, Huesca, Aragón, España.
Ruta cuyo itinerario discurre en el entorno de las pistas de esquí nórdico de Llanos del Hospital en el Valle de Benasque. La ruta tiene su inicio en el Plan del Hospital atravesando en su recorrido bellos parajes como el Plan de Estan y el Plan de la Besurta para llegar finalmente hasta el espectacular Plan d´Aiguallut con magnificas vistas al pico Aneto. Se trata de recorrer una parte del conocido como Camino dels Aranesos que originalmente unía el Plan del Hospital con el Valle de Arán.
El recorrido se divide en tres tramos, un primer tramo muy corto y sencillo hasta el Plan de l'Estan, un segundo tramo tambien muy sencillo hasta la Besurta y un tramo final algo más exigente aunque accesible a cualquier senderista acostumbrado a la montaña hasta el Forau d´Aiguallut.
Route whose itinerary runs around the Nordic ski slopes of Llanos del Hospital in the Benasque Valley. The route begins in the Pllan del Hospital, passing through beautiful places such as the Plan de Estan and the Plan de la Besurta to finally reach the spectacular Plan d'Aiguallut with magnificent views of the Aneto peak. It involves walking through a part of what is known as the Camino dels Aranesos, which originally linked the Hospital Plan with the Aran Valley.
The route is divided into three sections, a first very short and easy section to Plan de l'Estan, a second section that is also very simple to Besurta and a final section that is somewhat more demanding although accessible to any hiker accustomed to the mountains until the Forau d'Aiguallut.
Ratingen / Kreis Mettmann / North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany
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THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO: MY LONG AND ARDUOUS JOURNEY TO BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY
If you've set yourself the challenge of exclusively shooting the wildlife in your own back yard, you might find - as I did - that bird photography is really, really hard.
It's not that reptiles are easy to photograph either, mind - but at least the ones in my garden stay (for the most part) on the ground, and one can learn how to carefully approach them with a camera. They're also clearly egoists, which from a photographer's point of view is is a great character trait: if a lizard detects a human in its vicinity, it's only interested in saving its own skin, and it won't alarm its buddies.
But birds... oh man. Over the years, my feathered friends and I have developed a lovely routine that now defines our peaceful co-existence. As soon as I as much as open a window (let alone the door), I'm instantly greeted by an eruption of panicky fluttering and hysterical shouts from my garden: "SAVE YOUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND FLY FOR YOUR LIVES: THE HAIRLESS, PINK MONSTER IS COMING!!! (Yes, I speak bird, and I know that this is exactly what they are shouting 😉).
Needless to say, with the exception of the redstart I already showed here, all my efforts to get the kind of detailed shots I usually strive for with my nature photography ended in complete failure and utter disillusionment. I was ready to give up on stalking the winged misanthropes in my garden altogether, but then winter came - and changed everything.
One day this past January I observed my neighbor Signora P - a kind, elderly Italian lady - putting something on the low garden wall in front of my house. At first I thought she was just putting some treat there for her cat Romeo; the young tom patrols that wall constantly (it's his favorite spot in the garden, and during the warmer months he usually lurks in the thick foliage next to it to prey on lizards).
But once I detected a lot of movement on that wall through my window, I understood she had put a little pile of bread crumbs there; she was feeding the birds who soon arrived in flocks. This was certainly well-intended on my neighbor's part, but her noble action came with a catch, and I'm afraid quite literally.
When I took a stroll through my garden the next day I discovered a suspicious amount of feathers on the ground next to the wall. Romeo had apparently switched from his low-calorie summer diet (lizard) to more energy-rich meals consisting of "fowl" (it was winter after all, so from a nutritionist's point of view this made sense).
I would find fresh traces of Romeo's victims (mostly feathers, but also the odd wing) in my garden over the following days; so my first intuition that my neighbor was feeding her cat hadn't been that far off after all, as Romeo was now clearly being "served" fresh birds on a daily basis. And although the hungry visitors seemed to be aware of the danger and became slightly more prudent, they just couldn't resist the tasty snacks Signora P put on that wall - and neither could Romeo.
It was obvious that I had to act, but talking to my neighbor - who is as stubborn as she is kind - would have been futile, I knew that much. I pondered the matter long and hard - until a light bulb went off in my head. The idea was genius. If successful, what I had in mind would not only increase the birds' chances of surviving Romeo's appetite, but also greatly benefit my own photographic endeavors.
I started to enact my master plan the very next day by buying a giant bag of bird feed (consisting mainly of sunflower seeds) from the store. Then I dragged a huge piece of a tree trunk (approx. 120 cm in height) that we normally chop firewood on in the shed out into the garden and emptied almost half of the bag's content on top of it. Signora P's buffet for birds (and cats) was about to get some serious competition 😊.
My reasoning was as follows: not only would the birds be lured away from the fatally low garden wall to a place where they were safe from the cat - there was nothing around that tree trunk that provided cover for a predator, and the birds had a nice 360° view around it at all times - but I was also able to photograph them while hiding in the shed.
However, in order for my plan to work there was one little extra measure I had to take, and it was one that risked lowering my own life expectancy considerably once the owner of the property - my mom - discovered it. You see, our shed is completely windowless, so if I wanted to use it as a blind, I had no choice but to cut a hole into one of its wooden walls... which I promptly did (I figured all's fair in love - and photography 😉).
Granted, I have absolutely zero carpentering skills, and it showed. That hole was an ugly mess: the shed's wall seemed to have had an encounter with Jack Nicholson's ax-wielding lunatic character from the film 'The Shining'. Needless to say, I was incredibly proud of my work (I mean, come on: there now was a hole where before there wasn't a hole, and it was big enough for the lens of my camera to peek through, so it was mission accomplished as far as I was concerned).
Now all I had to do was wait for the birds to discover the tree trunk. In the meantime I started to mentally prepare myself for the inevitable confrontation with my mom and go through possible explanations for that splintering hole in the wall (it was either gonna be a rabid woodpecker attack or an emergency rescue mission with a feeding tube for a little kid that had accidentally locked himself inside the shed - both seemed valid options, though I slightly preferred the locked-in kid due to the involved drama and heroism 😉).
A whole day went by, and not a single bird visited the sunflower seeds. I had expected that it might take a few hours until the first of the ever curious great tits or blue tits would show up, but given how tiny my garden is, an entire day seemed excessive. Then another day came and went: the birds kept flocking to the bread crumbs on the wall, and my tree trunk kept collecting dust. To add injury to insult, a few fresh feathers on the ground were proof that Romeo was still feasting.
It was incredibly frustrating: I provided my winged guests with a much better view - plus a higher chance of surviving the cuisine - than Signora P's place; I risked (almost) certain death at the hands of my own mother (OK, the act of vandalism on the shed I had committed for my own benefit, but still), yet the birds kept ignoring me.
Then, after three days, just before sunset, I spotted a single blue tit on the tree trunk picking away at the sunflower seeds.
When I got up the next morning I immediately realized that the loud noise that accompanies each and every tit activity had shifted from the wall to the shed. At last the dam had broken: there was a flurry of movement around the tree trunk, and I counted at least 5 different species of birds feasting on the sunflower seeds.
From day 4 onward my plan worked beautifully: the birds now indeed mostly ignored Romeo's "snack wall" and kept to the tree trunk. And yes, I was able to play peeping tom from behind the shed's wall and photograph them!! 😊
Thus, dear readers, I finally managed to produce some acceptable bird photos, and I had even saved my feathered friends from a deadly foe in the process. All through winter and spring I took advantage of my new bird hide, and in late May I started mixing some cherries with the sunflower seeds. The idea was to attract a Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius), and as you can see, it worked!
It took me almost three weeks and more than a few tricks to capture that clever fella, but given how long I've been rambling here already, that's a story for another day. As for my mom, she still doesn't know about the hole in the wall, so please don't snitch! 😉.
I hope you like the photo and wish you all a wonderful weekend! Many greetings from Switzerland, and as always: let me know what you think in the comments 🙏 😊 ❤!
P.S. if anyone has their own funny tale about the obstacles we photographers are prepared to overcome for a desired photo, please write it in the comments: I love such stories 😊
Een stek die ik al jaren een keer wilde aandoen was bij de "Weerterbergen", waar vroeger een lokale woestijn was ontstaan door zandverstuiving. Aangezien het aantal treinen hier zo goed als nihil is, was het er nooit van gekomen. Toen bekend werd dat de Plan U naar Budel zou gaan moest dan ook hier een foto gemaakt worden. Gelukkig heb in de afgelopen jaren het gebied al vaak verkend. De stek is moeilijk te bereiken en met de auto al helemaal. Maar als je de juiste weg weet, dan kan je wel met de auto hier komen. Zo kon na de klik in Budel-Schoot naar de Weerterbergen worden gereden en de stek eindelijk een keer aangedaan worden.
Op 10 juli 2021 organiseerde VIEV een rondrit per trein met de Plan U 151 van de Crew 2454 . De rondrit startte in Nijmegen en bij deze rondrit werd Budel-Schoot en Born aangedaan.
Plan U 151 onderweg van Budel-Schoot naar Maastricht, door het heidegebied bij Weert.
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What a perfect plan that a Long-tailed Weasel who is typically brown and yellow in the warmer months, turns snow white in the Winter (except for a black tip on the end of his tail).
What a grand and amazing plan it is to have built-in camouflage by the season. Some believe that it is just nature’s way, but I choose to believe that it is a grand and intricate plan of a higher order.
Long-tailed Weasel in Winter coat, Idaho.