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La NASA a publié les images les plus proches jamais vues du soleil, capturées par la sonde solaire Parker à seulement 6,1 millions de kilomètres de la surface solaire.
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NASA has released the closest-ever images of the sun, captured by the Parker Solar Probe only 3.8 million miles away from the solar surface.
Sporting a refuelling probe plus it's construction Number '5944' on the nose, smart German Luftwaffe Lockheed-Martin C130J-30 Hercules 55+03 gets away from Fairford after RIAT 2025
Based at Evreux, France with the Bi-National Air Transport Squadron, several operate with their Armée de l'Air counterparts under the NATO banner
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organ player (and his wife?) rehearsing at St. Stephen's Church, Mainz
Ein Orgelspieler (und seine Frau / Begleitung) probt auf der Klais Orgel in St. Stephan, Mainz. Ich gehe davon aus, dass es sich um Christoph Keggenhoff (Speyer) handelt, der am Donnerstag (06. August 2015) um 19:30h ein Konzert auf dieser Orgel spielt. Der Eintritt dazu ist frei:
www.bistummainz.de/pfarreien/dekanat-mainz-stadt/st_steph...
This one here is actively foraging on the ground in tall grass for insects and bugs. This ground-foraging bird uses its long, sharp bill to probe the dirt for insects like crickets and grasshoppers during the summer. When cold weather arrives, it shifts its diet to weed seeds and wild fruits. They are in Michigan during winters too. Meadowlarks are actually in the blackbird family, which also includes cowbirds and orioles.
An Eastern Meadowlark male can sing several different variations of its song. It has a unique song pattern and it took me many days of hearing their flutelike whistles songs and not seeing them live before I could capture a picture of one as they hide well in the grass. Nesting is exclusively on the ground in dense vegetation to protect against predators. The female weaves a well-hidden cup nest out of dried grasses and builds a domed canopy over the top, leaving a single side opening for an entrance
Seen at Cahokia Mounds, IL
Popping it's refuelling probe in salute RCAF CF-188 Hornet 188782 exits Waddington's active to follow the three other participants of 'Scar Flight' to their dispersal after their pm sortie on Day 6 of Cobra Warrior 25-2
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Probing for nectar, a mejiro spreads pollen between the shandilay blossoms. Mejiro, Japanese white-eye, Zosterops japonicus. Klip dagga, Leonotis nepetifolia.
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Brown Treecreeper
Scientific Name: Climacteris picumnus
Description: The Brown Treecreeper is the largest of Australia's treecreepers. It is mostly pale brown in plumage. Birds of northern Queensland are darker brown. The head, throat and upper breast are pale greyish-brown, while the lower breast and belly are strongly streaked with black and buff. In flight, a buff stripe can be seen in the wing. The sexes are similar, except females have rufous edges to the feathers of the upper breast, while in the male these edges are black. Young Brown Treecreepers resemble the adults, but are duller, have less obvious stripes on the underparts and the lower belly is a pale rufous colour.
Similar species: Other treecreeper species that overlap in range with the Brown Treecreeper include the White-browed Treecreeper, Climacteris affinis, and the White-throated Treecreeper, Cormobates leucophaeus. The White-browed Treecreeper is darker grey-brown with a more distinct white stripe above the eye (edged with red-brown in the female). The eyebrow of the Brown Treecreeper is less distinct and is more buff. The smaller White-throated Treecreeper has much darker upperparts, a contrasting white throat and little or no marks above the eye.
Where does it live?
Habitat: Found in the drier open forests and woodlands, the Brown Treecreeper stays in the same area all year round.
Feeding: The Brown Treecreeper climbs up the trunks and branches of trees in search of food. It probes into cavities and under loose bark with its long downward curving bill. In this way it searches for insects and their larvae. The most favoured insects are ants. Some feeding also takes place on the ground on fallen logs. Sometimes, birds can be seen diving on ground-dwelling prey from a perch in a tree. Feeding normally takes place in pairs or small groups.
Breeding: The nest is a collection of grasses, feathers and other soft material, placed in a suitable tree hollow or similar site. Both sexes build the nest, but the female alone incubates the eggs. Pairs often have two broods during each breeding season. Occasionally, other birds ("helpers") assist the breeding pair with building of nest and feeding the young chicks. Brown Treecreepers are highly sociable birds, living and breeding communally. Each year, the previous year's offspring will remain to help the breeding male feed the female and rear new chicks. Interestingly, it is usually only males which remain to perform this duty.
Calls: The Brown Treecreeper has a loud 'spink' call, which is given either singly or in a series, and normally betrays its presence before the bird is seen.
Minimum Size: 16cm
Maximum Size: 18cm
Average size: 17cm
Average weight: 33g
Breeding season: June to January
Clutch Size: 2 to 3 eggs
Incubation: 17 days
Nestling Period: 26 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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Just below the summit of Legges Tor, which rises above the central plateau of Ben Lomond, we come across some interesting equipment. The ski lift is obvious enough, but my title reflects a little confusion as to the origins of the solar panel on the right.
My first thought was a weather station, but that seems unlikely since we lack the means of measuring rainfall and wind speed (there's no anemometer). Is it an alien probe? My guess is that it in fact measures seismic activity and relays this information electronically.
Interestingly enough, this is the only place on the entire mountain that has mobile phone reception. So one would think that our phones can tap into whatever signal is being emitted from this "probe". Any suggestions warmly welcomed.
In lovely condition despite having covered 132,000 miles. Very rare now.
Are these a badge engineered Mazda?
From the archives... One year ago.
Or what a probe on a shoestring budget (broken lander leg) might see upon landing at the Michigan City Lighthouse. The near object is a massive block of ice which has formed over a small concrete pillar. The frozen, Southern tip of Lake Michigan is between the frozen pillar and the sky beyond.
Whether the probe landed here, or at the U.S. Capitol Building, the conclusion might be the same: no life here (no offense to those living camera left...the probe was just pointed the wrong way here).
A kōlea probes the damp soil for earthworms. A Pacific golden plover patrols the Oahu shoreline and reestablishes his territory after a five-month summer breeding season in arctic Alaska. With his seasonal mating plumage fading this shorebird looks for food to replenish his body fat. The return trip traversed approximately 3,000 miles of open ocean requiring an exhaustive 3 to 4 days and nights of nonstop flight. Incredibly, some kōlea will continue their marathon semiannual migration to oceanic islands of the southern Pacific resulting in an annual round trip total of about 15,000 miles. Their fledglings set off from the tundra searching for an island and a suitable territory a month or two after the adults have departed. Many fledgling birds probably miss landfall and perish at sea. Survivors are superb navigators with territorial fidelity, using the stars and the earth’s magnetic field to find their way over the featureless ocean to the same small patch of land every year. Like most transoceanic migratory birds, they may use the earth’s magnetic field visually with the magnetoreception molecules of cryptochrome in their retina.
Black crowned Night Heron
"A heron can use a Probing
technique by quickly and repeatedly moving its bill into and out of the water or
substrate, in a method more typical of ibises. Probing is a non-visual, tactile foraging
technique. A more common behavior is Pecking. The heron merely picks up an item
from the substrate, often repeating the movement. The substrate may be the ground, a
plant, or surface of the water. A specialized method is Scooping used by the Boat Billed
Heron. By Scooping, the individual walks forward with its bill partially submerged,
thrusting forward and Scooping with each step.
Prey are caught in the bill either by Impale Capture or Grasp Capture. Impaling
means the bill tip goes into or through the prey. This occurs mostly on large and wide
prey, and mostly by herons with bills large enough to withstand the stress of impaling
and landing a larger prey item. Grasping is the more common capture method in which
prey are caught in a tweezers grip."
from heronconservation.org
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Near The Gulf of Mexico
Southwest Florida
USA
A wild adult white ibis.
Wikipedia - The .American white ibis (Eudocimus albus) is a species of bird in the ibis family, Threskiornithidae. It is found from North Carolina via the Gulf Coast of the United States south through most of the coastal New World tropics. n flight. Males are larger and have longer bills than females.
The breeding range runs along the Gulf and Atlantic Coast, and the coasts of Mexico and Central America. Outside the breeding period, the range extends further inland in North America and also includes the Caribbean. It is also found along the northwestern South American coastline in Colombia and Venezuela. Populations in central Venezuela overlap and interbreed with the scarlet ibis. The two have been classified by some authorities as a single species.
Their diet consists primarily of small aquatic prey, such as insects and small fishes. Crayfish are its preferred food in most regions, but it can adjust its diet according to the habitat and prey abundance. Its main foraging behavior is probing with its beak at the bottom of shallow water to feel for and capture its prey. It does not see the prey.
During the breeding season, the American white ibis gathers in huge colonies near water. Pairs are predominantly monogamous and both parents care for the young, although males tend to engage in extra-pair copulation with other females to increase their reproductive success. Males have also been found to pirate food from unmated females and juveniles during the breeding season.
1992. Charles De Gaulle airport, France.
My handmade radio probe for borehole exploration.
Despite the availability of all necessary documents and presence agents of Hydro Invest company, the customs officers of airport forced me completely disassemble the device and wait for arrival of their technical specialists.
(Whole body did not fit in frame with my lens)
The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is one of four living species of echidna. Echidnas are egg-laying mammals living in Australia (one species) and New Guinea (4 species). They occur in almost all Australian environments, from the snow-clad Australian Alps to the deep deserts of the Outback, essentially anywhere ants and termites are available. Echidnas have elongated and slender snouts that function as both mouth and nose, and which have electrosensors to find earthworms, termites, ants, and other burrowing prey. Echidnas and the platypus are the only surviving members of the order Monotremata, the only group of living mammals that lay eggs. Rather than through nipples, monotremes lactate from their mammary glands via openings in their skin. All five extant species show prolonged parental care of their young, with low rates of reproduction and relatively long life-spans. Echidnas are constantly probing the ground or rotting wood in search of food. Their eyesight is not good. This individual appeared to be totally unaware or unconcerned of my presence.
Ballynamona Strand,
County Cork 10-09-2022
[order] Charadriiformes | [family] Scolopacidae | [latin] Calidris alpina | [UK] Dunlin | [FR] Bécasseau variable | [DE] Alpenstrandläufer | [ES] Correlimos Común | [IT] Piovanello pancianera | [NL] Bonte Strandloper | [IRL] Breacóg
Sea Lark, Ebb Sleeper, Sea Mouse, Sand Mouse
spanwidth min.: 32 cm
spanwidth max.: 36 cm
size min.: 17 cm
size max.: 21 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 21 days
incubation max.: 22 days
fledging min.: 19 days
fledging max.: 21 days
broods 1
eggs min.: 3
eggs max.: 5
Status: Summer visitor from NW Africa/SW Europe, winter visitor from Scandinavia to Siberia, passage migrant from Greenland (heading south to winter in Africa). Most occur during the mid-winter period.
Conservation Concern: Amber-listed in Ireland as the majority of Dunlins winter at less than ten sites. The European population has been evaluated as Depleted, due to a large historical decline.
Identification: One of the smaller waders and our most abundant one in winter and on passage. A limited number breed in some sandy / grassy locations along the west and north coasts. Plumage is highly variable - in summer, rich chestnut above, streaked on breast, white below with a striking black patch on the belly. The more usually encountered winter plumage bird shows a rather non-descript, uniform, plain brownish-grey on all upperparts and cold white underparts. Juveniles in autumn have warm brown tones on the upperparts and considerable streaking on the breast and underparts. There are many other variations and combinations, depending on the bird's state of moult. It is a rather dumpy bird, with black legs and a longish bill which downcurves slightly. Often occurs in very large flocks. An important bird to get to know (in all its plumages) if you want to successfully identify other similar-sized waders.
Call: A harsh churring trill - "thrrrreeep"
Diet: Feed predominantly on small invertebrates of estuarine mudflats, particularly polychaete worms and small gastropods. They feed in flocks, in the muddier sections of the estuaries and close to the tide edge.
Breeding: Nests on the ground in sparse, low vegetation - in Ireland favours machair habitats.
Wintering: Common along all coastal areas - especially on tidal mudflats and estuaries. Very few inland.
Where to see: Shannon & Fergus Estuary in County Clare and Dundalk Bay in County Louth regularly support >10,000 birds. Other important sites include Cork Harbour in County Cork, Lough Swilly in Donegal and Strangford Lough in Down (6,000- 9,000 birds).
Physical characteristics
This small shorebird is distinctive in breeding plumage, with a black belly-patch extending behind its black legs. Its head and breast are light-colored, and its back is bright rufous. In non-breeding plumage it is drab gray with a brownish head and breast. In flight it has white underwings, a white line down the middle of the upperwing, and white on either side of its rump and tail. The white underwings are especially distinctive in flight. As a flock twists and turns together in flight, white flashes of underwing are evident from a distance.
Dunlin flocks are often huge, most impressive when they display their coordinated aerial maneuvers trying to escape predation by Peregrine Falcons and Merlins. When foraging, they either pick food from the surface or probe in the mud. They feed on exposed mud or in shallow water, making short runs interspersed with periods of feeding. They feed day or night, depending on the timing of low tide.
Habitat
Tundra-breeders, Dunlin typically nest in wet meadow tundra with low ridges, vegetation hummocks, and nearby ponds. During migration and winter, they prefer mudflats, but can also be seen on sandy beaches, coastal grasslands, estuaries, and occasionally in muddy, freshwater areas.
A Dowitcher searching for sustenance in the beach wrack. Seen off of the Estero Bluffs north of Cayucos, ca.
Home Away From Home Campfire
Interplanetary Travel
Youtube: The Moon Meditation
4K | Plutonia - Interplanetary Travel (Tunisia 🇹🇳)
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
Inside a massive, closed warehouse. One could spend days wandering this cavernous space. After closing, this building was intentionally left to rot with the plans of demolition. Workers are slowly removing valuable equipment but there is a long journey ahead with the environmental cleanup of the entire property.
... Thanksgiving Day project ...
Lego #75306
Star Wars Imperial Probe Droid
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Colorado Springs, CO
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Very tidy example seen on the way home from a Saturday morning show and autojumble, making for a pleasing '90s scene with my Lexus.
Mileage surprisingly high at 161k when last MoTed in 2024.
The Orb Probes by Daniel Arrhakis (2015)
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And the Music : Zack Hemsey - "Informing The Target"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFcqN-J6sMo
- We are always on alert with our probes, at any moment we can have the visit of our invaders ... they are our eyes ! This is a image seen within one of them. We call them Sentinels !
In first plan Whorthyr the Prime World of the Trhyarths, our enemy ... the leader mining planet with is huge Circular City .. our orbs are not the only, they also have their ...
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Some of the space elements were modified or transform, others are created. For some planet elements photo credit "Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech".
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