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Hello my amazing Flickr friends !
Today is a blue day at Color my World Daily and the theme at Looking Close on Friday is : pencil points ! Yes, there is an exclamation point since this theme deserve it ! I love pencils and I love pencils points !
While searching for the perfect pencil points, I stumbled upon this red flying pencil, trying to kiss his old grey lover… So I grabbed my camera and took a picture just before the whole scene disappeared and the red pencil flied away in a blink of an eye…The moral of this story is dont blink or you might miss something! And other moral; dont drink alcohol while taking pictures or you might see some stuff that doesn’t make sense…
I wish you all a beautiful day !! See you later my friends !!
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Amazing light and clouds for this morning shot taken from a BC Ferry on route from Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen.
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An older image from the harbour in Flensburg! I found it to be a wonderful place. Since they keep "the points" there (traffic violations and such) I was pleased that there was so much more to this city. I would love to return there one day.
“L’enfance est un point de repère à partir duquel chacun va se déterminer.”
Manuel Poirier
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Points of Light looking like a strange galaxy, this is just a very heavy frost with reflections on the ice, shot in North Carolina.
Upper Dalveen Farm and Steading from the Dalveen Pass, Showing the high points of Cold Moss and Lowther Hill.
everett middle school
san francisco, california
hmmm, looks like a trampoline inside...
maybe i should have called this "jumping off points"
Cuckoo - Cuculus Canorus
Norfolk
The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, Cuculiformes, which includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals.
This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. It is a brood parasite, which means it lays eggs in the nests of other bird species, particularly of dunnocks, meadow pipits, and reed warblers. Although its eggs are larger than those of its hosts, the eggs in each type of host nest resemble the host's eggs. The adult too is a mimic, e that species is a predator, the mimicry gives the female time to lay her eggs without being seen to do so.
The English word "cuckoo" comes from the Old French cucu and it first appears about 1240 in the poem Sumer Is Icumen In - "Summer has come in / Loudly sing, Cuckoo!" in modern English.
The scientific name is from Latin. Cuculus is "cuckoo" and canorus, "melodious ".
A study using stuffed bird models found that small birds are less likely to approach common cuckoos that have barred underparts similar to the Eurasian sparrowhawk, a predatory bird. Eurasian reed warblers were found more aggressive to cuckoos that looked less hawk-like, meaning that the resemblance to the hawk helps the cuckoo to access the nests of potential hosts. Other small birds, great tits and blue tits, showed alarm and avoided attending feeders on seeing either (mounted) sparrowhawks or cuckoos; this implies that the cuckoo's hawklike appearance functions as protective mimicry, whether to reduce attacks by hawks or to make brood parasitism easier.
The common cuckoo is an obligate brood parasite; it lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. At the appropriate moment, the hen cuckoo flies down to the host's nest, pushes one egg out of the nest, lays an egg and flies off. The whole process takes about 10 seconds. A female may visit up to 50 nests during a breeding season. Common cuckoos first breed at the age of two years.
More than 100 host species have been recorded: meadow pipit, dunnock and Eurasian reed warbler are the most common hosts in northern Europe; garden warbler, meadow pipit, pied wagtail and European robin in central Europe; brambling and common redstart in Finland; and great reed warbler in Hungary.
Studies were made of 90 great reed warbler nests in central Hungary. There was an "unusually high" frequency of common cuckoo parasitism, with 64% of the nests parasitised. Of the nests targeted by cuckoos, 64% contained one cuckoo egg, 23% had two, 10% had three and 3% had four common cuckoo eggs. In total, 58% of the common cuckoo eggs were laid in nests that were multiply parasitised. When laying eggs in nests already parasitised, the female cuckoos removed one egg at random, showing no discrimination between the great reed warbler eggs and those of other cuckoos.
It was found that nests close to cuckoo perches were most vulnerable: multiple parasitised nests were closest to the vantage points, and unparasitised nests were farthest away. Nearly all the nests "in close vicinity" to the vantage points were parasitised. More visible nests were more likely to be selected by the common cuckoos. Female cuckoos use their vantage points to watch for potential hosts and find it easier to locate the more visible nests while they are egg-laying.
Three Points, Arizona, 85735. USA
Full frame. No crop. No post processing.
HMMM! youtu.be/A_zVeKPjOpI
The Mavelettes - Mr. Postman
Distant glows from Wisconsin and Milky Way light the sky beyond a forest of dune relics along Lake Michigan
Been away over the holiday when all the "fun" with this site began and I must say I am not impressed. Has there been any communication form flickr?
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“Für Looking close....on Friday!“
Thema:“Pencil Points“ am 09.04.2021.
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Cut into the rock opposite the room is a large cistern; there are also worn water channels at various points along the siq.
You love the things I say I'll do
The way I hurt myself again just to get back at you
You take away when I give in
My life, my pride is broken
I came across this scene today. It fascinated me, but I did not know why. I still don't. It is Spring, and the lost glove points back to Winter. I guess, the scene is talking to me, about expectations and about loss. A lost Spring.
Vista del panorama alpí cap al nord des del telecabina de la glacera del Mont Blanc.
El telecabina de la Vallée Blanche, ara conegut com Télécabine Panoramic du Mont-Blanc, és un dels recorreguts més espectaculars (que no barats) que es poden fer pels Alps. Consisteix en un telecabina de petites dimensions (4 persones per cabina, 3 cabines per "grup") que recorré els 5 quilometres que separen la italiana Punta Helbronner (3466 m.) de la francesa Aiguille du Midí (3778 m.). Tot el recorregut és per sobre la glacera del Mont Blanc i la del Geant, una de les més grans dels Alps. El seu inmens recorregut té dos punts de suport (on no es pot baixar) el pic del Gros Rognon (3536 m.) i un anclatge suspès entre dos altres pics (i que permet girar uns graus el recorregut fins a Punta Helbronner. Tot el recorregut, que fou inaugurat el 1958, és dins territori francès, fins i tot el punt d'arribada a Punta Helbronner, on hi ha un pas fronterer realment d'alçada!
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Panoramic view of the northern side of the Mont Blanc range, with some of the highest peaks in Europe. Seen from the Vallée Blanche cable car, which links l'Aiguille du Midí in France with Punta Helbronner in Italy.
The Vallée Blanche cable car, now known as Télécabine Panoramic du Mont-Blanc, is one of the most spectacular (and not cheap) tours you can do in the Alps. It consists of a small cable car (4 people per cabin, 3 cabins per "group") that covers the 5 kilometers that separate the Italian Punta Helbronner (3466 m.) from the French Aiguille du Midí (3778 m.). The entire route is over the Mont Blanc and the Giant glaciers, one of the largest in the Alps. Its immense route has two support points (where you cannot descend) the peak of Gros Rognon (3536 m.) and an anchorage suspended between two other peaks (and which allows the route to turn a few degrees to Punta Helbronner. The whole route, which was inaugurated in 1958, is within French territory, even the arrival point at Punta Helbronner, where there is a really high border crossing!