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There's quite a population of Canada Geese...
Schloss Blutenburg (Blutenburg Castle) was first mentioned in 1432 though it's origins reach back to a moated castle from the 13th century.
In the years 1438–39 Duke Albert III, Duke of Bavaria rebuild the castle as a hunting-lodge.
Nowadays it houses the International Youth Library (Internationale Jugendbibliothek) and the library of the Michael Ende Museum.
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Generally quite dark compared to other orb web spiders and can be found close to water where their webs are spun on fencing, buildings and bridges and rarely on vegetation. Close to a river near me where I live a river flows under a road in a tunnel these Orbweb spiders can be found and seen in their webs close to the lights that help to light up the pathway where they have the best of both worlds, warmth from the lights where I have even seen the adults spiders here in February with snow outside and plus their prey such as moths and flies are attracted to the lights also. Its amazing to see their webs so close together and not eating each other, nature can be truly amazing at times.
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Quite often We run out of Time..... It is the most valuable thing that we have
So Today make Time to tell someone that you. Love them, Spend Time with someone..... and most important it is Time to Smile.
All is quite as the tide ebbs at mid-night in a remote part of East Greenland. In the far right distance icebergs that have become grounded in a narrow channel can be seen.
Photo taken July 2019.
Camera: Olympus EM5 MkII
Lens: Olympus 8mm f1.8 Fisheye
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Sighted quite by accident next to some reeds while I was looking for Yellow Bittern. The bird flew right to nearby reeds and landed there briefly giving me this shot. Named after the rich cinnamon color of the body, this is a resident bird in India, but migratory for short distances within the country though. They are also found outside of India.
The female is more shy of the pair and they are less seen compared to the males. The area has several males and females - the males are seen flying a lot, but the female tends to stay with the nest. I am sure there is a nest nearby - but since the reeds are pretty tall, its hard to get a sight of the chick.
Its preferred habitat is reed beds on the edges of shallow lakes, wet rice / paddy fields, swamps and marshy areas surrounded by reeds.
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Location:Corfu/Greece. (Only crop/720mm)
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At the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague. This cemetery was in use from around the early 15th century up to the late 19th - then the area was completely full and a new cemetery was needed.
It is estimated that some 100 000 persons have been buried here, and there are around 12 000 tombstones preserved.
Quite a well-grown chick, there were also some very tiny ones, either a long breeding season or a relay after failure
Quite sure this is a song sparrow...has the dark patch on its chest, not as well seen in this view.
...a magical moment for us as we sat outside our cabin and were treated with many moments of a glorious song....his mate was on the ground looking for nesting materials. I tried to find a recording of what we heard, but nothing quite matched the joy in this male's song.
Definitely a moment to stop and simply enjoy!...and so the same for you even if you can't hear the song:)..
Best wishes to you, flickr friends, and many thanks for your visit...Pat....xo
***Hungary just tied Iceland in the European Cup; yes, I'm a soccer fan...
This was one of those shots when you looked at the original thumbnail I thought was a bad quality shot until you take a couple sips of your favorite caffeinated beverage and do some work with your photo software.
Quite a famous place in Lisbon near the tram N28 stop. Nearby the descent begins down to the Alfama district.
"Now she's lit by the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night"
- David Levithan, Every Day
Beautiful sunset over North Star Lake in the Chippewa National Forest near Marcell, Minnesota.
Photo was taken from my campsite at the North Star Lake National Forest Campground on Minnesota Highway 38, aka the Edge of the Wilderness Scenic Byway.
This stretch of highway is one of the most scenic in the state. The Highway 38 road bed still retains a fair amount of its original upsy-downsy curvyness. It goes north out of Grand Rapids and runs until it intersects Minnesota Highway 1 in Effie.
This is part of the Nidderdale Way footpath between hamlet of Hayshaw and the village of Dacre Banks in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire looking towards Dacre Banks
The path across this field of rough grazing is quite indistinct so it was a relief to reach the gate.
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This was one of several cedar waxwings enjoying the berries on this bush. They let me get quite close for shooting!
Standing quite alone, far in the forest, while the wind is shaking down snow from the trees, and leaving the only human tracks behind us, we find our reflections of a richer variety than the life of cities.
- Henry David Thoreau
Photo taken @ Solus
This is quite a busy intersection. Tsuen Wan Road and Kwai Chung Road run parallel at ground level before they split to different directions. The overpasses on the right belong to three MTR lines: Airport Express, Tsuen Wan Line and Tung Chung Line. In the left background the flyovers to Tsing Kwai Highway. Shot from the footbridge beside the Lai King MTR station.
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This Cormorant was struggling to swallow the large fish that it had just caught. It did succeed in the end!
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I dug out an old and very cheap watch. It is quite dead which makes me sad as it was beautiful for summer. When I did my close up I noticed all the little lines going out from the middle, I never saw them before. So I tried to do them justice by choosing this section of the watch face.
Brandenburger Tor, Berlin
"Das Schwanken zwischen Euphorie und Depression. Die Behauptung der eigenen Biografie gegen den Verdacht sinnlos, wenn nicht gar schuldhaft verbrachten Lebens. Das Staunen über die Selbstgewissheit der Westdeutschen, von denen keiner Veränderung verlangte im vereinten Vaterland, während von den Ostdeutschen radikale Metamorphosen gefordert wurden."
Jutta Voigt: Im Osten geht die Sonne auf (2009)
It was quite a climb but it was worth it for the panoramic views including this view of the Kasbah Ait Benhaddou. It gives you a good look at the famous crenellated towers.
In the desert areas of Morocco kasbah means a large estate home like a manor house in English or hacienda in Spanish. The beautiful Kasbah Ait Benhaddou has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and has been the location for many movies. It sits in a small oasis next to a mostly dry stream bed with towering hills of stone behind it.
Amaryllis 'Bingo' is a variety developed in Brazil.
It is a plant with conical flowers, large, beautiful and red in color.
Its foliage is also quite ornamental.
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The first intense red amaryllis to bloom today.
I was pollinated by the Orange Sovereign amaryllis (orange color) at my birth.
It was quite sunny when I drove there, a bit on and off but regularly enough the sun came through.. I went there especially because with the poplars being bald yet I hoped to be able to take a good picture of the chapel and the rest of the old abbey in the distance behind them, but non of my pictures worked.. it was either too dark and grey or too fainted of an image, my camera or me just couldn 't adapt that fast and then these big puffy clouds appeared.. just totally hiding what I was there for! Going through my pictures again now -searching for something else than flowers at this season- I realized this view on itself was quite extraordinary, so..
Not quite a partridge in a pear tree, but this pretty little house finch in a pine tree will have to do.
At a nearby lake, I sighted a pair of these birds quite by accident - assumed they were male / female. They were perched quietly on some fences in an area which had a Shikra, couple of Kingfishers and lots of babblers. There were probably some rats / moles in the fields and the Owlet made 2-3 rounds to check for them before diving.
I sat on the roadside under a tree to get a better view when one of them flew past this spot to get a view and perched again. It made an diving attempt to get one of the rodents and missed it, but gave me a couple of good shots.
These are resident birds in the country and usually active during the crepuscular times and late nights.
When I checked these birds last week, they are gone as their habitat was destroyed due to real estate development . A large ugly boundary fence was setup and the trees - home of these owlets - were destroyed.
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After spending quite a few wonderful minutes in this dramatic landscape getting beautiful sunrise shots, I couldn't resist walking down the slopes to catch the sunlight through the holes in the pinnacles.
Can you please crawl out your window is a. Bob Dylan song sung by Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey on my playlist. I think the generally wild and windy week had made these special moments just dazzle.
Quite amusing watching these burying their winter stash but always finding time for a snack in between
Summer vista on this quite attractive passerine @ Mississippi River Park.. Anoka County, central Minnesota.
Visitors: Invited to check out my photostream & albums for various seasonal pix of wildlife/scenics/florals.
Not quite the Springlike weather I expected last weekend … hey ho, that’s England for you.
This is the view from Starkholmes looking towards Matlock Bath.
Keel billed Toucan, (Ramphastos sulfuratus ), seen in the cloud forest of Costa Rica
The keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus), also known as sulfur-breasted toucan, keel toucan, or rainbow-billed toucan, is a colorful Latin American member of the toucan family. It is the national bird of Belize. The species is found in tropical jungles from southern Mexico to Colombia. It is an omnivorous forest bird that feeds on fruits, seeds, insects, invertebrates, lizards, snakes, and small birds and their eggs.
I ve quite enjoyed my photos going from grey to orange these past few days and the heatwave.
This was Studland Bay in Dorset yesterday evening. I wasn't expecting to get my telephoto lens out but it was one of those hazy sunsets at the end of a sweltering hot day with the sun a red ball instead of my usual starburst. This is normally a great location for long exposures but I was mesmerised by those gentle ripples.
It's definatly cooling down now and with a thunderstorm in the air.
Quite a few months since I last saw Gamora, I'm still hoping there may come a day when we bump into each other again and rekindle our precious moments with each other again. I really do hope she and the other foxes just decided to move on from all the building work and disturbance that was going on in their area and that nothing sad happened to her and the others. I will really miss that famous squint of those eyes !
Making quite a sight, four "Super Fleet" FP45's make their first trip together on the Eastbound 893 train on the North Main of Cajon Pass in November of 1989. The quartet included Santa Fe 102, 101, 100 and 104.
It is quite amazing how much fish a great blue heron can consume during its morning feed, and how much it can swallow at once. In this image the blue heron I had been photographing just caught a large catfish which was about to be swallowed whole.
Поездка сюда была спонтанной. Кто-то предложил встретить рассвет на Истре и мы все поддержали, тем более погода обещала быть морозной. Зимой Истра практически не замерзает из-за большого обилия родников подпитывающих реку. Температура родников около +8С, поэтому то река и подогревается зимой. В сильные морозы река начинает парить, окутывая все вокруг пушистым инеем.
Это было довольно прохладное утро, всего -26 по Цельсию. Стоял очень плотный туман над рекой, пришлось ждать, когда поднимется солнце, чтобы хоть что-нибудь было видно. Я переживал за фототехнику, штатив покрылся инеем и работать с ним было очень тяжело. Что ж, это был довольно интересный опыт.
The trip here was spontaneous. Someone offered to meet the dawn on Istra and we supported everything, especially since the weather promised to be frosty. In winter, Istra practically does not freeze due to the large abundance of springs that feed the river. The temperature of the springs is about + 8C, so the river is heated in winter. In severe frosts, the river begins to soar, enveloping everything around with fluffy hoarfrost.
It was quite a cool morning, only -26 Celsius. There was a very dense fog over the river, we had to wait for the sun to rise in order to see at least anything. I was worried about photographic equipment, the tripod was covered with frost and it was very difficult to work with it. Well, it was quite an interesting experience.