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It was so nice to see all the birds at the platform at the entrance to Colusa National Wildlife Refuge. There were birds everywhere and we were excited to get this pair of Ross’s Geese flying high together.
Both Ross’s and Snow Geese have seen population explosions as climate change has warmed their arctic breeding grounds, reducing snow cover and increasing plant growth. The two species seem to be hybridizing more frequently as warming allows their breeding ranges to come into contact.
Red Squirrel - Sciurus Vulgaris
Highlands, Scotland.
The red squirrel is found in both coniferous forest and temperate broadleaf woodlands. The squirrel makes a drey (nest) out of twigs in a branch-fork, forming a domed structure about 25 to 30 cm in diameter. This is lined with moss, leaves, grass and bark. Tree hollows and woodpecker holes are also used. The red squirrel is a solitary animal and is shy and reluctant to share food with others. However, outside the breeding season and particularly in winter, several red squirrels may share a drey to keep warm. Social organization is based on dominance hierarchies within and between sexes; although males are not necessarily dominant to females, the dominant animals tend to be larger and older than subordinate animals, and dominant males tend to have larger home ranges than subordinate males or females.
Red squirrels that survive their first winter have a life expectancy of 3 years. Individuals may reach 7 years of age, and 10 in captivity. Survival is positively related to availability of autumn–winter tree seeds; on average, 75–85% of juveniles die during their first winter, and mortality is approximately 50% for winters following the first.
Although not thought to be under any threat worldwide, the red squirrel has nevertheless drastically reduced in number in the United Kingdom; especially after the grey squirrels were introduced from North America in the 1870s. Fewer than 140,000 individuals are thought to be left in 2013; approximately 85% of which are in Scotland, with the Isle of Wight being the largest haven in England. A local charity, the Wight Squirrel Project,[26] supports red squirrel conservation on the island, and islanders are actively recommended to report any invasive greys. The population decrease in Britain is often ascribed to the introduction of the eastern grey squirrel from North America, but the loss and fragmentation of its native woodland habitat has also played a role.
In January 1998, eradication of the non-native North American grey squirrel began on the North Wales island of Anglesey. This facilitated the natural recovery of the small remnant red squirrel population. It was followed by the successful reintroduction of the red squirrel into the pine stands of Newborough Forest. Subsequent reintroductions into broadleaved woodland followed and today the island has the single largest red squirrel population in Wales. Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour is also populated exclusively by red rather than grey squirrels (approximately 200 individuals).
Whenever we go grocery shopping, I find that I look at the packaging our food comes in as a possible photographic subject. One afternoon my husband came home with a large bag of tangerines. I enjoy that fruit, yet the bag holding the orange orbs made me especially happy.
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We went drove along scenic Highway 1 between Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz, California. There was some haze along the coast.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from three RAW exposures, and reduced the color saturation to give the scene a dreamy look.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, NEX-6, _DSC8868_9_0_hdr3bal1e
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Species: Phalacrocorax carbo.
The Cormorant is a large, black, fish-eating bird with a long, hook-tipped bill. They can be seen on both coastal and inland waters. When on water they swim low with their bill raised, and often dive with a leap from the water's surface. Their plumage is not waterproof but this has the advantage of allowing them to dive deep, as buoyancy is reduced. Info: BTO.
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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
Four days after the big snow, removal of the snow banks was done on our street. Although the road had been cleared as the storm occurred, we were left with big banks that reduced the road to one lane.
This was a very quick phone grab from my window of the blower filling the truck and the concomitant spray skyward.
© AnvilcloudPhotography
The Teatro Reale di San Carlo, is an opera house in Naples, Italy, connected to the Royal Palace and adjacent to the Piazza del Plebiscito. It is the oldest continuously active venue for opera in the world, having opened in 1737, decades before either Milan's La Scala or Venice's La Fenice.
The opera season runs from late January to May, with the ballet season taking place from April to early June. The house once had a seating capacity of 3,285, but has now been reduced to 1,386 seats. Given its size, structure and antiquity, it was the model for theatres that were later built in Europe.
Dunlins (Calidris alpina) in Fujimae Tidal Flat, Nagoya, Japan. Fujimae Tidal Flat is a symbol of environmental protection in Nagoya.
This site was planned to be filled in for waste disposal. But after strong opposition, the waste was separated and reduced in volume. The landfill was cancelled, and Fujimae Tidal Flat was saved.
藤前干潟で採食するハマシギです。
A strong dairy barn stands ready to do what it once did but instead now houses goats. Once we reach a certain stage in life, our life's work is replaced by something else, usually with us playing a reduced role.
shot with a fujifilm x-s10, a pixco 0.71x focal reducer, and a pentax smc 50mm f/1.4 screw-mount lens.
My old friends, Though I have not spent time lately due to the pressures of life but I must do so as it is so rewarding especially a bird so skittish and difficult to photograph well.
Reduced in numbers over most of their range .
Happy Sliders Sunday :)
I haven't been around on Flickr much recently because of a nasty feverish infection that still keeps me confined to bed most of the time. But I wanted to send a little sign of life, even if it's from the archives. I wanted to upload something lighter / brighter after the many dark images I've shown recently, and I also wanted it to be a LX100 image which helped to reduce the images to chose from :). This one shows a detail of the Berlin Congress Hall (which, as some of you already know, has been nicknamed "pregnant oyster" by the Berliners). We (= Sabine.R and I) had been there fairly late, because we wanted to take blue hour captures of the Congress Hall, but we still had to wait until 11 p.m. before the sky finally assumed that magical blue (please check the image in the first comment if you like).
We'd had a cloudless blue sky back then, and in LR I'd played around with the HSL sliders to remove the fading evening blue - and quite liked the result. Actually this image had already been developed and edited for a long time, but since I'm checking out Topaz DeNoise (30 day trial) right now, I thought I'd give it another noise (which can be quite strong on the LX100 with its 13 MP sensor) reducing treatment. Topaz DeNoise did a really good job here, I think, and - so far - I'm really impressed with the results it yields. More on Topaz DeNoise later :)
I'll try to catch up with you, but at the moment I'm still feeling somewhat under the weather. Have a great new week ahead, dear Flickr friends!
Kleines Lebenszeichen aus dem Archiv, da ich ja schon eine Weile nichts mehr hochgeladen habe, woran eine fiese Fieber-Husten-Geschichte Schuld ist, die mich schon seit Längerem plagt. Nach all den doch recht dunklen Fotos der letzten Zeit wollte ich endlich wieder ein helleres Bild zeigen, außerdem sollte es auch mal wieder ein LX100-Foto sein, was dann die Auswahl angenehm eingeschränkt hat :) Hier seht Ihr ein Detail der Berliner Kongresshalle (auch bekannt als "schwangere Auster"). Als wir (= Sabine.R und ich) an einem Mai-Abend vor knapp zwei Jahren dort waren, wollten wir Blaue-Stunde-Fotos der Kongresshalle machen, mussten dann aber noch bis 23 Uhr warten, bis sich das magische Blau endlich zeigte. Der Tag an sich war wolkenlos gewesen, und beim Entwickeln / der Bearbeitung kam mir die Idee, die zarten, verblassenden Blautöne des Abendhimmels per HSL-Regler zu entfernen, was mir letzten Endes auch recht gut gefiel. An sich war das Foto schon lange fertig bearbeitet, aber da ich gerade Topaz DeNoise ausprobiere, habe ich dem Bild spaßenshalber mit sanfter (erneuter) Entrauschung noch den letzten Schliff verpasst. Bislang bin ich von den Topaz-DeNoise-Ergebnissen ziemlich beeindruckt, gut möglich, dass ich das Programm nach der Testphase kaufen werde.
Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne neue Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde! Und bitte nicht böse sein, wenn ich im Moment mehr Sternchen verteile als dazu auch Kommentare schreibe, ich bin noch nicht wieder ganz auf dem Damm.
Final series of Aussie bushscapes for a while. This was taken at Pinnaroo Memorial Park. The typical bush scene although the undergrowth is "managed" within this park to reduce fire risk. My wife can be seen enjoying the view.
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/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10, a pixco 0.71x focal reducer, and a pentax smc 50mm f/1.4 screw-mount lens.
High Brown Fritillary - Argynnis adippe
This large, powerful butterfly is usually seen flying swiftly over the tops of bracken or low vegetation in woodland clearings. In flight, the males are almost impossible to separate from those of the Dark Green Fritillary, which often share the same habitats. However, both species frequently visit flowers such as thistles and Bramble where it is possible to see their distinctive underside wing markings. The Dark Green lacks the orange ringed 'pearls' on the underside of the hindwing.
The High Brown Fritillary was once widespread in England and Wales but since the 1950s has undergone a dramatic decline. It is now reduced to around 50 sites where conservationists are working to save it from extinction.
Size and Family
Family: Fritillaries
Size: Large
Wing Span Range (male to female): 60-67mm
Conservation status
Section 41 species of principal importance under the NERC Act in England
Section 42 species of principal importance under the NERC Act in Wales
UK BAP: Priority Species
Butterfly Conservation priority: High
European status: Not threatened
Fully protected in Great Britain under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act
Caterpillar Foodplants
Common Dog-violet (Viola riviniana) is used in all habitats, but Hairy Violet (V. hirta) is also used in limestone areas. It may occasionally use Heath Dog-violet (V. canina) and Pale Dog-violet (V. lactea).
UK conservation status: Red
The decline in song thrush numbers has probably been caused by the loss and degradation of preferred feeding and nesting habitats.
Loss of hedgerows and wet ditches removed feeding and nesting sites, while increased land drainage and tillage are likely to have reduced the number of earthworms and other crucial invertebrate prey available to song thrushes on farmland.
Grazed permanent pasture (especially cow pastures) and woodland are important habitats with plenty of food for song thrushes. Both of these have been lost or degraded in many lowland areas. RSPB
I normally fly my drone for work purposes but on this day I turned the drone around to check out the view.
There are a few boats waiting to come in and guess what coloured car is popular in Australia.
Take a look around.
The photo has been reduced in size to make it internet friendly.
Completed in 1914, the outer piers (or pier extensions) were added to the main piers to reduce the swell in the main harbour.
Now reduced to running three days a week (down from five), CN 324 has just left Taschereau Yard and is on its way to Vermont, with CN 5612 & CN 2665 for power.
Monsoon dusk throwing interesting light over the Ganges. Heavy clouds rolling in reducing light further heralding a dark and wet night.
The Bangui Wind Mills were built by the NorthWind Power Development Corporation to take its share in reducing the emission of harmful greenhouse gases (GHGs) causing global warming and to accelerate the rural electrification of the goverment.
Location: Bangui, Ilocos Norte
Philippines
source:www.waypoints.ph