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Yellowhammer - Emberiza Citrinella
The yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) is a passerine bird in the bunting family that is native to Eurasia and has been introduced to New Zealand and Australia. Most European birds remain in the breeding range year-round, but the eastern subspecies is partially migratory, with much of the population wintering further south. The male yellowhammer has a bright yellow head, streaked brown back, chestnut rump and yellow underparts. Other plumages are duller versions of the same pattern. The yellowhammer is common in open areas with some shrubs or trees, and forms small flocks in winter. Its song has a rhythm like "A little bit of bread and no cheese". The song is very similar to that of its closest relative, the pine bunting, with which it interbreeds.
Yellowhammer males learn their songs from their fathers, and over the course of time regional dialects have developed, with minor differences to the conclusion of the basic song; all are mutually recognised by birds from different areas. Each male has an individual repertoire of song variants within its regional dialect; females tend to mate with males that share their dialect, and prefer those with the largest repertoires.
The pine bunting and yellowhammer are so closely related that each responds to the other's song. The male yellowhammer's song is more attractive to females, and is one reason for the dominance of that species where the ranges overlap.
Yellowhammers of the British and Irish race, E. c. caliginosa were introduced to New Zealand by local acclimatisation societies in 1862, and soon spread over the main islands. They sometimes visit New Zealand's subantarctic islands, although rarely staying to breed, and have reached Australia's Lord Howe Island on a number of occasions. At the beginning of the 20th century, this bunting was seen as a serious agricultural pest in its adopted country.
Populations of yellowhammer have also been introduced to the Falkland Islands, and South Africa.
The yellowhammer is a bird of dry open country, preferably with a range of vegetation types and some trees from which to sing. It is absent from urban areas, forests and wetlands. Probably originally found at forest edges and large clearing, it has benefited from traditional agriculture, which created extensive open areas with hedges and clumps of trees.
Populations have declined in recent decades in western Europe, including the British Isles, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria and Italy. The yellowhammer is a red-list (severely declining) species in Ireland and the UK In eastern Europe, numbers appear to be stable, although the trend in Russia is unknown. Changes to agricultural practices are thought to be responsible for reduced breeding densities. The introduced population in New Zealand has been very successful, with breeding densities much higher than in the UK.
At Night in the Rain
Green Leaves awake again
Rain Drops keep falling on their Heads
And even kiss the Flower Beds
Droplets are dancing on their green
Reflecting in the Starlight Sheen
(Caren)
😄 Happy Sliders Sunday 😄
Taken in a Wild Garden in West Wales (Ceredigion), processed saturation, reduced brightness and uploaded for
ƒ/2.8
4.5 mm
1/80 Sec
ISO 100
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Macro-Monday
Theme: Zipper
HMM and a nice week
mit Apochromat Leitz ELPRO 2 (4,92 Dpt.)
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Groynes reduce longshore transport by trapping beach material and causing the beach orientation to change relative to the dominant wave directions. They mainly influence bedload transport and are most effective on shingle or gravel beaches. Sand is carried in temporary suspension during higher energy wave or current conditions and will therefore tend to be carried over or around any cross-shore structures. Groynes can also be used successfully in estuaries to alter nearshore tidal flow patterns.
Modern aeroplanes have winglets on their wings to reduce aerodynamic drag caused by wingtip vortices.
Maybe a similar principle applies to the primary flight feathers of large birds ….
Species: Great Cormorant / Phalacrocorax carbo / 普通鸕鶿
Thank you for your interest, views, faves, comments and awards ! This image was captured in Hong Kong 香港. (Better viewed on a larger screen.)
© This Image is under full copyright Rick C. Graham. © All rights reserved Rick C. Graham. © This image is subject to international copyright laws and may not be copied, downloaded, reproduced, transferred or manipulated without the express written permission of Rick C. Graham.
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.
Albion’s Falls downstream. Two shots focus stacked in Photoshop. CPL filter used to reduce reflection on water.
(english follow)
GÉNÉRATION
En hommage à Florence, ma petite-fille, qui m’a spontanément proposé le titre de cette image.
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Sur ces rivages bordés d’infini, un père initie son jeune fils à l’art de la pêche en eau peu profonde. Au premier abord, on pourrait croire qu’il s’agit d’une simple scène de pêche, pourtant…
Dans nos sociétés, l’idée de génération est souvent réduite à une opposition statique entre le passé et l’avenir, entre l’ancien et le nouveau. Je crois plutôt qu’il faut y voir un mouvement, un mouvement continu de transmission et d’évolution des connaissances et des mentalités humaines. En somme, cette transmission, notamment par la filiation, permets à l’originel de rester original et de poursuivre l’aventure humaine. * Ce que nous appelons « l’avenir » est, en fait, le résultat de l’interaction et de la transmission par toutes les générations. **
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Ici, sur ces rivages bien en retrait des mondes utopiques qui alimentent la fureur de nos sociétés, le père et le fils renouent avec la patience et la modestie fondamentale de l’existence des êtres. Et aussi avec l’enchantement originel devant la beauté et le mystère de notre monde.
La pêche aura été un bon prétexte pour cela.
Patrice
* Charles Coutel, philosophe français.
** Tim Inglold, anthropologue britannique
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GENERATION
In honor of Florence, my granddaughter, who spontaneously suggested the title of this image.
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On these shores bordered by infinity, a father introduces his young son to the art of shallow-water fishing. At first glance, one might think this is a simple fishing scene, yet...
In our societies, the idea of generation is often reduced to a static opposition between past and future, between old and new. Instead, it should be seen as a movement, a continuous movement of transfer and evolution of knowledge and human mentalities. In short, this transfer, particularly through filiations (kinship), allows the original to remain original and to continue the human adventure.* What we call the future is, in fact, the result of all these generations interacting.
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Here, on these shores far removed from the utopian worlds that fuel the fury of our societies, father and son reconnect with the patience and fundamental modesty of being. Also with the original enchantment in front of the beauty and mystery of our world.
Fishing was a good excuse for this.
Patrice
* Charles Coutel, a French philosopher.
** Tim Ingold, British anthropologist.
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.
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.
Smoke Haze blocks out the sunrise and reduces visibility at Woy Woy Waterfront on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.
Here I am standing on the edge of Lake Michigan during a polar vortex. The wind and blowing snow made it nearly impossible to get one shot without snow completely covering my lens. But somehow I managed to get a few. The sun was trying to shine thru the clouds at sunset. Snow squalls come and go making a very dramatic stormy feel to it.
A fence I used once before. I use it again to christen a new lens, and because the fence pickings ain't so good in our neighborhood. Is anyone running fence tours?
HFF to all: Looking forward to seeing everyone's handiwork.
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/
361/366: 2016
Macro Monday - Redux...all in a row
I saw these Christmas macarons, on Christmas Eve, they were reduced so I bought them for a photo prop. Macro Monday is visiting past themes so I used the macarons for 'all in a row" I really struggled to get a shot I am happy with and am not overly pleased with this but have spent enough time faffing and these macarons aren't going to eat themselves! ;) HMM
💛
The victim mindset dilutes the
human potential. By not accepting
personal responsibility for our
circumstances, we greatly reduce
our power to change them.
- Steve Maraboli
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1954 Felber Modell 101 Möwe Kabinenroller (Hofmann & Moldrich body)
- it is a microcar with a 0.8 mm aluminium egg-shaped coupé bodywork built at Hofmann & Moldrich in Vienna
- this bubble car proved more expensive to produce and the heavier bodywork reduced performance and made the car less stable
- 398cc 2-stroke twin-boxer Rotax engine air cooled
- power 15 bhp
- top speed 75 km/h
- only 10 produced in 1953 and 1954
- this is the only known survivor !!!
The Pink-edged Sulphur butterflies are having a discussion, they are medium-sized sulphur with a bright pink edge on all four wings. The upperside is bright yellow with a black border, narrower on the hindwing, with the black spot in the forewing cell faint or absent. The spot in the middle of the hindwing above is usually orange. The underside silvery spot is single and pink-rimmed. The female has greatly reduced black borders on the upperside and has a rare white form. Wingspan: 35 to 47 mm.
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.
14 x 4-minute ISO 1600 exposures at f/4. Astro-modified Canon 600D and Canon 100mm f/2.8 lens, piggybacked on a Celestron C8 for tracking.
Frames stacked in Deep Sky Stacker software. Result post-processed to increase contrast, reduce noise and colour gradients caused by light pollution and to reduce the stars (which otherwise dominate after stretching the contrast).
Image Details:
11x1200s Ha 1x1 (3hrs 40mins)
8x900 OIII 2x2 (2hrs)
8x1800s 2x1200 SII 1x1 (4hrs 40mins)
Darks, flats and bias, all binned 1x1 @-20c.
Total exposure of 10 hours 20 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, 8.5nm OIII and 8nm SII filters.
Guiding - ZWO ASI120MM + Orion 162mm/F3.2 guidescope with PHD2.
Sequence Generator Pro and PixInsight.
Thanks for looking.