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Large, green parrot of tropical lowlands, mainly in drier areas. Uncommon. Found in semiopen areas with forest patches, big trees, and forest edges. Most often seen flying overhead early and late in the day, often fairly high and usually in pairs or loose groups made up of pairs. Note the dark gray bill and overall plain head with a bright yellow nape (yellow reduced or lacking on immatures). Like other parrots in the same genus, in flight shows a red patch on the flight feathers. (eBird)
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Amazing how well this beautiful parrot blends into his surroundings,. We were fortunate to see a small flock fly into a tree. Unfortunately, this species is one of those prized by the pet trade and so is now considered Critically Endangered. Therefore, I am not putting him on the map, nor will I add his precise location to this comment.
Here’s the link to our Costa Rica trip list: ebird.org/tripreport/477692
Puntarenas, Costa Rica. February 2026.
Eagle-Eye Tours.
Here is one of the captures from my recent trip to Ricketts Glen, PA that I played with in Lightroom by reducing the saturation of color by 33%. I liked the resulting moody tones and colors. It was very green and luscious ... but this is a more subdued view allowing us to focus more on the waterfall and less on the surroundings.
This is for my Flickr friends who rarely or never get to see snow where they live. We are under a winter storm watch as I type this. However, the earlier prediction of 5 to 8 inches has now been reduced to 3 to 5 inches. I'll be happy with the minimum. Still, I must say I totally enjoyed watching this little red squirrel this morning as it busily tunneled under the snow and then suddenly came popping up to look around (and maybe catch its breath!)
These guys are not to everyone's taste but are nevertheless very cute. However measures are planned to humanely reduce their numbers.
Grey Squirrel - Sciurus carolinensis
Golden Acre Park - Yeadon
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Maasvlakte, Rotterdam industrial area, South-Holland the Netherlands.
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© 2015 Bart van Damme
The GDF Suez Onyx Power coal plant [DHV Architects] is one of two recently built coal plants on the Maasvlakte.
A recent court ruling forced the Netherlands to reduce CO2 emissions by 2020 by at least 25%. Now the government is heading for just 17%. Urgenda [an organization for sustainability and innovation] had filed the lawsuit, arguing that the government has a duty of care to the citizens and therefore has to do everything to prevent an environmental disaster. The judge ruled in favour of Urgenda.
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Today (30 November, 2021) on the news: this coal-fired power station (one of biggest polluters of the Netherlands, build in 2015) will be closed, maybe as soon as within the next two months. Necessary for NL to be able to live up to the Paris Agreements. There's three more coal fired power stations to go.
Breeding Season Starts.
Buckpool and Fens Pool Local Nature Reserve
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The Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) is a large, widespread wild goose species native to North America, easily recognizable by its black head and neck with a distinctive white chinstrap. It is found near freshwater areas like ponds, lakes, and marshes, and is well adapted to urban environments.
Key Characteristics
Appearance:
They have a brown body, a black head and neck, white cheek patches, and a black beak and legs. Males and females have similar plumage, though males are slightly larger.
Size:
They typically range from 75 to 110 cm in length, with a wingspan of 1.5 to 1.8 meters.
Diet:
Canada geese are primarily herbivores, or plant-eaters, using their serrated bills to graze on grasses, leaves, roots, seeds, and grains. They will also feed on aquatic vegetation and occasionally small insects or fish.
Behavior:
They are social birds that form large, noisy flocks. They are known for being very territorial and can become aggressive if they feel their nests or young are threatened, hissing and charging at perceived dangers.
Habitat and Distribution:
While native to North America, the Canada goose was introduced to Europe (including the UK) in the 17th century as an ornamental bird and has since established widespread populations there. They prefer open, grassy areas near water, which provides a safe escape route from predators.
Migration:
Canada geese are well-known for their seasonal migrations, often flying in a distinctive V-shaped formation that helps conserve energy by reducing wind resistance. The front position is rotated among the flock members as the lead bird tires.
However, not all populations are migratory. In areas with mild climates and consistent food sources (such as urban parks and agricultural fields in the US and UK), many populations have become non-migratory or sedentary year-round residents.
Reproduction:
Canada geese typically form monogamous pair bonds, often mating for life. The female incubates a clutch of around five eggs in a nest built near water, while the male stands guard. Goslings (baby geese) hatch with their eyes open and are able to walk and swim within 24 hours. Both parents lead and protect the goslings, which may form "gang broods" with other families.
Taken at ISO 2500 last evening full frame I reduced the noise and cropped in approx 25%. This young Barred was curious and very cooperative other than the perch it selected.
day 2 of the monsoons. At least we don't have the wind today. The dog keeps whining to go out, then puts her nose out of the door and comes straight back in. So looks like a day to catch up on some paperwork - whoopeeeee!
All function, no form, or at least none that has a bit of visual appeal. Some farmer has an innate feel for brutalist design, yet... see that latch? It's brilliant; releasing the bolt allows it to slide securely into place, reducing the chance that the gate will be left open. Oddly enough, the path beyond leads to one of the most beautiful and most photographed fishing huts in Connemara, Ireland...
Europhenix liveried 37611 slows for a signal check at Beck Foot before getting looped at Grayrigg to allow faster traffic to pass. The tractor is dragging Transpennine 397005 running as 5N32 Kilmarnock - Longsight.
More photos at: cogloadjunctionphotography.weebly.com/
Saunders County, Nebraska
This is the first Milky Way panorama I've tried. I've admired many on here on Flickr and decided it was time to try one. This is a composite of 4 sets of 8 night sky photos oriented horizontally to make the sky panorama along with 4 photos oriented horizontally for the foreground. Each set of 8 sky photos were composited in Photoshop to reduce noise. The resulting 4 photo composites were stitched in Lightroom. I honestly didn't think that they would stitch because I've had some previous failures with night sky photos stitching in Lightroom, but this time it had no problem at all. The foreground photos were shot looking west on the night of the full moon and the Milky Way photos were shot 2 weeks earlier on a night of no moon looking eastward at a different location. The overall composite was done in Photoshop. The camera body for all the photos was an Olympus OMD EM1.2. The lens for the sky photos was a Olympus 12mm f2 and the lens for the foreground photos was an Olympus 12-100mm f4.
The name "Linoma" comes from a combination of the names of the nearby cities of Lincoln and Omaha. If you zoom in on the name you'll notice that the "N" is outlined in Red. This mimics the symbol that the University of Nebraska - Lincoln uses for it's sports teams.
A few years ago there was severe flooding along the Platte River which destroyed nearly all of the nearby buildings at Linoma Beach but the Lighthouse survived. The roadway in the foreground was underwater for about a month.
"The base of the lighthouse was a gas station, built in 1938. The 110-foot-tall tower was added the following year. There are ten floors inside, and the builders may have wanted the lighthouse to become a novelty motel, but that never happened. The lighthouse worked as a real lighthouse for years, with a spiral staircase to the top and a bright neon beacon, but it gradually fell into disrepair and was abandoned. Nearing collapse, the lighthouse (and its surrounding RV park) were bought in 2010, and its restoration began in the summer of 2013. In 2003, Linoma Beach was listed in the National Registry of Historic Places, and the lighthouse was especially significant as a representation of early 20th Century roadside architecture." (RoadsideAmerica.com)
2023 Nebraska State Fair - 3rd Place - Panoramas
This gopher is one of the most abundant rodent in California. It is found pretty much throughout the state. This individual is coming above ground to harvest grasses which it fills its cheek pouches to reduce the number of visits above ground. As you can see they can pack a lot in those pouches. This species lives a mostly fossorial life and is vulnerable to predators when they come to the surface to feed. I photographed this little fellow at Point Reyes National Seashore, California.
Yeah, now it’s my turn. Screw Trump and Biden! I’m taking over now! With me as president we will have public healthcare for all, legalized marijuana, gay clubs in all towns and cities with more than 10.000 inhabitants, legalized prostitution, reduced taxes on alcohol, reduced taxes on cigarettes, working days reduced to Tuesday – Thursday, weekend from Friday to Monday and the normal day will be extended from 24 hours to 30 hours so that people get more time to do their shit.
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The Curious Hobby of Collecting Things (02)
The Times Weekly Issue 1920 - 21
A vast number of years ago I used to buy and sell second-hand books, mainly because I collected and it reduced the cost of collecting. However, since those far off days every once in a while I come across things I cannot resist buying. This next item entitled ‘The Times Weekly Edition with Illustrated covers starts on 12th November 1920 and finishes 28th January 1921. This only represents 11 issues but it is filled with a whole variety of subjects including News, Sports, Fashions and General Advertising. Each issue contains approx. 24 pages.
This is the first of many postings ……
So I was let go by one of my sponsors, and no I wont name them lol. But they stated that they were reducing their blogging staff, which is fine, it's their choice and maybe someday I will blog for them again.
But with every closed door a new one opens and that has already happened. My new sponsor is Tooty Fruity and I already love what they have to offer.
Owned by Sami Enchanted and she really does outstanding work. She also owns .Nine for the Men out there. So I'm really excite for the new adventure. And if you like what you see join her groups. The Tooty Fruity group cost 99L (which is nothing really) and it gives you access to free gifts as well as 10% off at the In World Store. She also has a group for .Nine that offers the same.
So that being said here is my first, of what will be many, postings for Tooty Furity.
Mer de Glace glacier is losing around one metre (around 3 ft) each year, a rate which has remained unchanged for 30 years.
The Mer de Glace, the largest glacier in France, has been shrinking since the beginning of the 20th century. Since 1900, it has shrunk by about a third of its volume. In total, it has lost around 1.5 cubic kilometers of ice. That’s equivalent to more than half a million Olympic swimming pools of ice. The loss has accelerated over the past two decades.
At the bottom of the glacier, there are marks with different years where you can see how long Mer de Glace used to be in different years, starting with sometime in the 1800s up to our days. It's a lot of walking one has to do on gravel between these marks, a lot of lost glacier surface.
Mont Blanc is heating up more than twice as fast as the rest of the world.
If humans keep emitting greenhouse gases at our current pace, glaciers in the Alps will lose about 90% of their volume by the end of the century. Imagine Europe with no glaciers in 2100.
Animal agriculture emits 60% of the greenhouse gases. Meat production, in particular, emits a lot of carbon dioxide, primarily methane. When a kilogram of beef is produced, 60 kilograms of CO2-equivalents are released, whereas a kilogram of peas emits only 1 kilogram of CO2-equivalents.
We must do everything in our power to reduce our carbon footprint, not just because it is the right thing to do, but also because it is beneficial to our health.
Eating less meat can both reduce carbon footprints and improve our health. So, if you go grocery shopping, be sure to pick up some plant-based foods to help reduce your carbon footprint while also improving your health.
Going Vegan is even better both for your health and for Mer de Glace glacier and all the glaciers on our planet. And, of course, for the animals.
Forggensee is a lake located north of Füssen in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria, Germany. One of many lakes in the region around Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein castles, Forggensee is the fifth-largest lake in Bavaria, with a surface area of 15.2 km². The River Lech flows through it. Forggensee is known primarily as a tourist destination for aquatic sports and recreation. The lake provides ideal conditions for surfing, sailing, fishing and boating. The lake is stocked with pike, trout and eel. Two ships navigate the lake on two different routes.
Forggensee is a man-made lake. It was created in 1954, when the River Lech was dammed for the first time to create the Lechsee Lake. The option of letting water in and out reduces the risk of flooding when the snow melts in the spring and regulates the flow of water over the "Power Plant Step" located downstream.
Despite this Red Squirrel's environment being severely reduced by forestry works it has chosen [at less temporarily] not to relocate.
Image Details:
15x1200s Ha 1x1 (5hrs)
14x1200s OIII 1x1 (4hrs 40mins)
18x1200s SII 1x1 (6hrs)
Darks, flats and bias, all binned 1x1 @-20c.
Total Exposure 15 hours 40 mins.
Optic - SW Evostar ED80 DS-PRO with SW 0.85 reducer.
Mount - HEQ5 PRO Synscan with Rowan Belt Drive mod.
Sensor - Atik 383l+ Mono CCD + Baader 36mm 7nm Ha.
Guiding - ZWO ASI120MM + Orion 162mm/F3.2 guidescope with PHD2.
Sequence Generator Pro and PixInsight.
Thanks for looking.
Celestron 9.25 + Celestron f/6.3 Reducer + ZWO ASI533MC + Optolong L-Pro
EQ6-R Pro
Guiding with ASI120MC-S + William Optics UniGuide 32mm
214x120" lights calibrated with darks and bias frames
Nebulosity4 for Mac
PixInsight
Cairns, Australia
Bortle 6
The Iconic Eastern Span of our Bay Bridge. Shot with the flying Hasselblad at morning twilight.
This is five images shot in burst mode. I stack them within adobe bridge - 'Load files into photoshop layers' under the tools tab. Auto-align, then convert to a smart object, lastly change the stack mode to Mean or Median, this cleans up the noise quite well. I will even reduce noise further in camera raw when necessary, and sharpen for final output.
Viewed from canoe by shore up on a tree with the sun behind reducing the detailed view. I rarely access these skittish birds that take off so far from us paddling. Another view below…
On a very wet and poor light day on 17.11.2010 BR Standard 71000, Duke of Gloucester reduces the light level even more with this wonderful display of exhaust as it power's through Consall station on the Churnet Valley Railway. This was a Russ Hillier organised photo charter.
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While at Echo Amphitheater in Abiquiú, I shot some infrared.
I've tended to process my infrareds to black and white as I never felt satisfied with my attempts at false color processing with channel swapping.
I've been learning more this past year about working with color prior to converting to black and white.
In the first comment box below is the unedited shot, pretty much all brown. Shot through the Hoya R72, 720 nm filter. The custom white balance that I had set keeps it from being totally magenta.
As has been my common result, using the Channel Mixer adjustment layer and swapping values for the red and blue channels wasn't great.
I've been learning what the Selective Color adjustment layer does, so opened that under the Channel Mixer layer.
It allowed me to play with how much red, yellow, green, blue, cyan and magenta are within colors and thereby fine tune what the Channel Mixer does.
Things were better.
Then I opened a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer above Channel Mixer and found that playing with the Master and moving the Hue slider helped too.
After working on tonal ranges, using midtone luminosity masks on curves layers and dodging and burning, I still didn't like how much purple was in the sky.
I tried the Select Color command to isolate the sky and that created a mask when I opened the Color Balance adjustment layer. Mostly working on shadows and midtones to reduce red, increase blue and increase green got the deep blue color.
I've been learning about the Hard Mix blend mode, and after using the color picker to grab the color of the trees, I opened a Color Fill adjustment layer, set it to Hard Mix and then reduced the Fill opacity to 7%. This enhanced the tree color.
Finally, I got a false color infrared that actually had definite color.
Why did I do all this?
This extreme edit became the underlying base to a black and white version of the shot. All the color stuff I've been learning was part of tutorials on processing for BW.
Barring unforeseen circumstances, I hope to post that on Thursday for Donnerstagsmonochrom.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
Imaged January 19th and 20th 2018, near Cambridge UK.
Image Details:
4 hours 50 mins total exposure.
12 x 600s Luminance 1x1 (2 hours)
11 x 300s Red 1x1 (55mins)
12 x 300s Green 1x1 (1 hours)
11 x 300s Blue 1x1 (55mins)
Scope - Altair Astro Wave Series 115mm Refractor, Planostar 0.79x reduced to 642mm/F5.54.
Sensor - Atik 383l+ Mono CCD + Baader Ha/OIII/SII filters. -20degC.
Scale - 1.73 arcsec/pixel.
Mount - Altair Astro Pier mounted iOptron CEM60.
Guiding - Lodestar X2 and SX OAG with PHD2.
Sequence Generator Pro and PixInsight.
Thanks for looking.
Soft after sunset light reduces the north shore and Copper Island to shapes while Shuswap lake takes on the pink hue from the sky.
Pan Am’s PL-1 is rolling westbound along the former New Haven RR’s “Highland” route in Plymouth, CT, with interchange traffic for Waterbury. Historically this line was important enough to have been re-built two times through this area; first to add a second track and reduce number of curves and grades; and second to detour around the Hancock Brook flood control dam, which is one of many in the area built in the 1960’s by the US Army Corps of Engineers in response to destructive flooding in the region. By 2010 this end of the line was operated twice a week at best with only one steady customer left to the west, but this thankfully changed around 2016 with the opening of a construction debris transfer facility in Watertown and a new propane terminal in Plymouth (where the truck passing over the train is almost certainly coming from).