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Dipper - Cinclus Cinclus
aka Water Ouzel
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Dippers are members of the genus Cinclus in the bird family Cinclidae, named for their bobbing or dipping movements. They are unique among passerines for their ability to dive and swim underwater.
They have a characteristic bobbing motion when perched beside the water, giving them their name. While under water, they are covered by a thin, silvery film of air, due to small bubbles being trapped on the surface of the plumage.
Dippers are found in suitable freshwater habitats in the highlands of the Americas, Europe and Asia. In Africa they are only found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. They inhabit the banks of fast-moving upland rivers with cold, clear waters, though, outside the breeding season, they may visit lake shores and sea coasts.
The high haemoglobin concentration in their blood gives them a capacity to store oxygen greater than that of other birds, allowing them to remain underwater for thirty seconds or more, whilst their basal metabolic rate is approximately one-third slower than typical terrestrial passerines of similar mass. One small population wintering at a hot spring in Suntar-Khayata Mountains of Siberia feeds underwater when air temperatures drop below −55 °C (−67 °F).
Dippers are completely dependent on fast-flowing rivers with clear water, accessible food and secure nest-sites. They may be threatened by anything that affects these needs such as water pollution, acidification and turbidity caused by erosion. River regulation through the creation of dams and reservoirs, as well as channelization, can degrade and destroy dipper habitat.
Dippers are also sometimes hunted or otherwise persecuted by humans for various reasons. The Cyprus race of the white-throated dipper is extinct. In the Atlas Mountains dippers are claimed to have aphrodisiacal properties. In parts of Scotland and Germany, until the beginning of the 20th century, bounties were paid for killing dippers because of a misguided perception that they were detrimental to fish stocks through predation on the eggs and fry of salmonids.
Population:
UK breeding:
6,200-18,700 pairs
Taken into the beach in front of Grado pinewood locality.
Unfortunately it has been taken with the Nikkor 18-70 not properly a landscape lense.
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Todays weather has been absolutely dreadful, a day off work and zero opportunity to shoot anything, extremely low cloud and rain all day. Then this evening came and the rain stopped and for once the low cloud ad light pollution worked in my favour. I think so anyway. This was shot at Largs yacht Haven in North Ayrshire, Scotland.
It looks really pretty, BUT it is pollution. There is the street overflow. So after rain there is alot of debris. There is an inbetween station thats collects bottle sticks whatever before it travel to next pond. There are several of these collect basins before it ends up in Lake Ontario. This is the 1st collect basin. The blue colour is reflection a blue grafitti. I have no clue what debris was but it was very thick cream like gathering around the stick. I was very hard to focus on. Good manul focus practise. Straight from camera.
A small impression of the work in this phase of the renovation in the house. Man, what a mess of particulate matter and noise pollution. Fortunately, 1 more day and then the build-up begins.
HMT ;-))
Taken long after nightfall. The iPhone does help to brighten up the sky, but nevertheless it's still quite bright. The yellowness in the centre left of the picture is the light pollution coming from Brighton and Hove.
Explore # 300 on Saturday, 20 Spetember 2008 - the 197th
It's a smog, not a fog.
Note: The fella is not me.... lol
Oyster farming, This is central and southern Taiwan.
An important industry in coastal villages. unfortunately, Industrial pollution is squeezing this oyster farming industry.
Oyster farming Crisis in Taiwan
English subtitles
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZfQftQLD0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyXlIVJ6TyY
牡蠣養殖，這是台灣中部和南部，沿海鄉村重要的產業。很不幸，工業污染正在擠壓這個牡蠣養殖業。
台灣牡蠣養殖危機
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZfQftQLD0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyXlIVJ6TyY
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Milky Way @ Stonehenge, Wiltshire UK
Well I've been a bit frustrated wrt the Milky Way core this year as when it's visible around 3am or so unless it's at a weekend I just can't shoot it as I wreck myself for work and weekends have been pretty crap so far.
I got myself a second hand fast prime lens through mpb earlier in the year and have been wanting to try it out for astro.
More recently the MWC has been 'visible' just after midnight but again far too many clouds most nights. However, the other night there was a forecast for skies to be clearing around midnight so I took a chance but wanted somewhere not to far away so despite the known light pollution I set off on the 35min drive to Stonehenge.
Experimented with f/1.4-f/2 shots and 2-2.5min exposures using the Move-Shoot-Move star tracker I have.
I can't say I think this is a great image and I'll try to convince myself it's more to do with the light pollution (I wish Salisbury's street lights went off at 10pm!) than my lack of shooting/editing skills. However I thought I'd post it just as a bit of a record of my first attempt with the Sigma 20mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens. 14mm would have been better but I'll cross my fingers canon will eventually see sense and let Sigma produce RF compatible glass.
For the record - the image is a composite of a 150s exposure at f/2 ISO100 for the sky and 30s f/4 ISO1600 for Stonehenge.
I'm planning on taking this lens to Iceland in October so wish me luck seeing and shooting the Northern Lights during the few nights I'm there on a Workshop.
Thanks for viewing and have a good weekend everyone..
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The dew pond from South Downs Way between J&J Windmills and Ditchling Beacon. This was taken about 2 hours after sunset. The yellow tinge in the sky is from the AmEx stadium, the artificial lighting helping to condition the pitch there. The orange tinge on the right comes from the light pollution from Brighton and Hove
Bartolomé Island
Galapagos
Ecuador
South America
The Galápagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) is a penguin endemic to the Galápagos Islands. It is the only penguin that lives north of the equator in the wild. It can survive due to the cool temperatures resulting from the Humboldt Current and cool waters from great depths brought up by the Cromwell Current.
While ninety percent of the Galápagos penguins live among the western islands of Fernandina and Isabela, they also occur on Santiago, Bartolomé, northern Santa Cruz, and Floriana. The northern tip of Isabela crosses the equator, meaning that some Galápagos penguins live the northern hemisphere, the only penguins to do so.
The species is endangered, with an estimated population size of around 1,500 individuals in 2004, according to a survey by the Charles Darwin Research Station. The population underwent an alarming decline of over 70% in the 1980s but is slowly recovering. It is therefore the rarest penguin species (a status which is often falsely attributed to the yellow-eyed penguin).
Population levels are influenced by the effects of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, which reduces the availability of shoaling fish, leading to low reproduction or starvation. However, anthropogenic factors (e.g. oil pollution, fishing by-catch and competition) may be adding to the ongoing demise of this species. On Isabela Island, cats, dogs, and rats attack penguins and destroy their nests. When in the water, they are preyed upon by sharks, fur seals, and sea lions. – Wikipedia
When night shootings go bad, it's fun to still play with them.. Maybe not the best quality, but i like the mood when city lights hit the clouds.
. . . This is the view looking towards Grand Rapids from 35 miles away! The clouds there helped reflect city light a bit, but even 2.5 hours after sunset, you could still see the glow from the city!
The red light inside the Muskegon Community College Observatory is for the safety of people inside, and is the best color to not ruin the human eye's night vision.
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Walking with my friends in New York to try and save our planet in thought. Thank you to all of you who are walking I am beside you in spirit.
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For many years we used to camp on this lake and have only pitch dark skies at night. Now there is considerable light pollution over the lake coming from Kingston about 45 minutes south of here. Some say the city has grown so much to cause this. Others claim the new LED street lights give off a brighter light.