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I spied this heron perched in a bush as it watched for fish. Then it made its move to a lower branch closer to the water. I liked the catchlight in the shot.
A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building common in northern Europe. The name derives from the building's structure of post and lintel construction, a type of timber framing where the load-bearing pine posts are called stav in Norwegian.
In 1880 a stave church in the rural village of Gol was bought by the Norwegian Preservation Society and moved to the Norsk Folkemuseum in Oslo, which is an open air museum containing more than 150 historical buildings, relocated from towns and rural districts.
This cormorant was working one part of the lake, then evidently was dissatisfied, so moved to the west end. Fortunately for me, I was well situated for the flight.
It's still "Mother's Day" in my time zone so I'm sneaking this one in under the wire. Long-tailed Weasel mom relocates her youngster, half dragging half carrying. She's probably saying something like "I TOLD you not to play in the street". I'm sure our hard-working moms of the world can relate.
Just an older shot. We may be relocating in a few months so I better get out there and shoot a supply for later....lol
Happy Truck tHuRsDay
Black Skimmers relocating along the shore line on a wind swept day.
From FWC:
Appearance:
The black skimmer is a seabird with defining physical characteristics that make it easily distinguishable from others. The key physical feature of the skimmer is its large red and black bill. The bill begins to widen at the top and gradually becomes smaller as it forms a sharp tip at the end of the bill. The lower part of the bill is longer than the top, which is important because they use their bill to skim along the top of the water to catch fish, for which they are aptly named. Skimmers can reach a height of 19.7 inches (50 centimeters) with a wingspan of 3 to 3.5 feet (.9-1.1 meters) (The Cornell Lab of Ornithology 2011, E. Sachs pers. comm. 2011). Skimmers have a black back, black wings with white edging, and a white belly and head.
On one of the roads towards the great freshwater lake named Tonle Sap, central Cambodia. Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia flooding a vast area in the rainy season and retreating significantly in the dry season. Small homes are often relocated closer to the waters edge in the dry season.
With rain and clouds approaching and good light waning I scrambled to get into position to capture a reflection of Cathedral Rock in a tranquil pool along Oak Creek, only to be stymied by two ducks muddling the surface. Instead I relocated below the waterbird kerfuffle and obtained this composition.
Cormorants moving from one end of the pond at Delores Fenwick Nature Center to the other. About 50 birds in this mini-migration. Could have used more DoF. Pearland, Texas.
At Fernald, Lodge Pond is a sure-fire spot to observe many ducks. if one is patient, afternoon light hits the ducks flying in or simply relocating across the pond. The dry weeds on the banks provide great background.
I was digging through my photos, and decided to put this up.
If you go out alone and do landscapes and nature, you need to know how to behave around the wild animals, once in a while you can even get the chance to get a shot of a animal, even though you are not out after wildlife shots.
Note: for People who have never been around bears,
When you are in bear country always make noise so the bear's know you are out there, I have a bell I wear and it works good.
Any thing you do to a bear equals a angery bear, so if you scare a bear because the bear did not know you were out there, the bear is going to get angry, also keep a destance that is safe " Never look aggressive ", remmeber the angry bear rules.
Never have any food on you, bear's do not have good eye sight, but they can smell food from a long distance.
Never feed the bear's,
Never run from a bear, Stand your ground, you will not out run him, the bear can climb a tree much faster than you can.
Stand your ground and try to make yourself look big and scream loudly at the bear.
What I do is always have two cans of bear repellent on me and if I need I can stand my ground with a very painful spray that will send the bear away.
I have never needed to use the bear repellant.
I almost never see a bear.
This bear was never a danger to me.
Mostly bears do not want to hurt humans so as long as you keep the bear rules, you will be fine
Know about the animals in the area you are traveling to and in.
You are out there alone, no one is going to save you if something goes wrong.
you might not see a bear but they know you are out there.
And that is a good thing.
The idea here is to make it back to the car, with your eye balls still in your skull lol
I was thrilled to see this bird standing in the upper most pond of Fernhill Wetlands mitigation area. I got as close as I could without scaring it, took numerous photos of it sitting still and hunting, but I really wanted a flight shot. I don't intentionally disturb birds, so I waited and waited. Finally after about an hour, two people walked up to the pond even nearer the bird, and loudly said, "I WONDER WHAT THAT PHOTOGRAPHER IS LOOKING AT?" Seconds later I had my shot!
BNSF 6643 heads down the BNSF Hannibal Sub. just north of Elsberry, MO. with 25 CitiRail Gevo's in tow. Running in a 1x2 formation to haul the units at this point of the journey under the symbol D-ALNSTL3 05T. This is 1 of 4 planned moves to relocate the units from Alliance, NE to St. Louis, MO. The units are headed for the Prairie Lines yard for storage in St. Louis, MO., I'm guessing that Citi got tired of paying BNSF for storage.
CitiRail units in this move: 1333, 1410, 1212, 1350, 1429, 1303, 1332, 1434, 1412, 1347, 1318, 1435, 1213, 1208, 1325, 1338, 1210, 1310, 1345, 1415, 1411, 1314, 1419, 1316, & 1201.
Praying Mantis
A species of Mantid that I don't see very often. You can see some yellow colouring. This year we have cleared the garden alongside our driveway where these appeared from time to time. This one was on our Wisteria, looks like it has found a new home.
I was looking for a tiny Butterfly that I had seen flying around the Polygala bush, when I came upon this Katydid, well hidden between flowers and a lovely, clear raindrop on the left of the insect. Zoom in.
The Katydid was relocated after the photo was taken :) /
Je recherchais un petit Papillon que j'avais vu voler autour du massif de Polygale, lorsque je suis tombée sur cette Sauterelle, bien cachée entre deux fleurettes, ainsi que sur une jolie goutte de pluie pleine de reflets, a gauche de l'insecte. Agrandir l'image.
La Sauterelle s'est vue relocalisée après la photo :)
This birdhouse has been moved a few times under my watchful eye. I didn’t think it was being used enough. Location, location, location is that the problem. Well I did move it to its current location. I think my “Birdhouse Relocation” program was a success as I see it’s getting more use. Gratitude and Kindness are being paid by the current occupants.
Daresbury School built in 1903 is typical in size of the small prairie schools in Alberta. The unusual thing about this school is it's large bell tower. It appears to be in the process of relocating. Destination and purpose unknown.
Ashikaga, Tochigi, Japan
It is the relocation project of a three-span arch bridge. The work had been carried out over approximately three years, and it was successfully completed two days after this day.
It's embarrassing how many cobwebs and dog hairs the small animals find behind our furniture. Here I bring this stag beetle girl outside. Yesterday we had a cornu aspersum with cobwebs and dog hairs. We've put it outside. Fun fact is, that the giant house spiders don't collect dirt before I find them and scream (I would be good in a bad horror movie). Two days ago, I saw a giant house spider in the bathroom. I screamed, and the brave husband caught the girl (it was a girl) in a glass and threw her outside. I'm sure she comes right back inside to look for a cosy spot for to make a cocoon. She was completely clean!
Holy water in Mission Espada which is part of the Mission Trail National Park in San Antonio, Texas. It was relocated here in 1731 from east Texas where it was established in 1690.San Antonio Missions Trail is five missions connected by the San Antonio River. The trail is The San Antonio Missions National Historic Park. The 15 mile trail consists of bike, jogging and hiking paths with about 2 1/2 miles between each mission. Mission Concepcion is just one of the five missions. It was completed in 1731 and is a U.S. National Historic Landmark as are the other missions located on the trail. The Mission Alamo is also on this trail. The missions on this trail are a UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The five missions on the trail are Mission Concepcion, San Antonio de Valero ((Alamo), San Jose, San Francisco de la Espada, and San Juan. They were built by Spanish Colonial residents.
Relocation of a puffin (Fratercula arctica) conference
Umzug einer Konferenz von Papageitauchern (Fratercula arctica)
As partof 51's relocation from the Roundhouse to the Car Shop, there were a number of pieces of equipment that required movement. The 147 dates to the 1800's, and was pretty neat to see out in the light of the day.
Sitting along the Northeast Corridor in Harrison, NJ under a fresh dusting of snow is a handful of AEM-7 AC rebuilds waiting to complete their trip to their new home in Connecticut for storage.
The night before there were nearly twice as many but due to a multiple lite engine restriction on Metro-North's New Haven Line the collection of retired motors had to be cut in half to complete the move.
Unassigned Power @ Hudson Yard, Harrison, NJ
AMTK AEM-7AC 905
AMTK AEM-7AC 941
AMTK AEM-7AC 917
AMTK AEM-7AC 919
AMTK AEM-7AC 920
AMTK AEM-7AC 908
AMTK AEM-7AC 935
A few short weeks ago I was photographing ducks, blackbirds, terns, frogs, Wilson's Snipes, and even an American Bittern in this small marshy area in Grasslands Park. When I visited yesterday, it was completely dry - not an unusual scenario as we segue into late summer, but nevertheless disappointing, and raising some concern in the dim recesses of my mind. This is an arid part of the prairie. Wetlands contain such biological diversity. I don't want to lose them.
Fortunately, by late July all birds have either concluded or are in the final stages of their reproductive cycle. This mama Northern Shoveler stashed at least three ducklings in among the cattails and sedges before boldly - and noisily - swimming over to check me out. I shot from my rolling red Toyota car-blind, with morning light behind me. My files contain thousands of shots from this precise location.
But what's going on with the wetlands? We're having a rainy summer, meaning we have been receiving a few mm to a few cm of rainfall per week. However, recent winters have produced very little snow; I know this because I have to shovel the stuff, and I've gotten off easy, of late. Contrast this with the winter of 2010-11 - the year before I relocated here full time. I was out on the west coast, wrapping up business there. Friends stayed in my house that winter, while renovating their own new digs on the edge of the village. Like me, they came from another part of the country. "Prairie winters here are cold, but there isn't much snow," I had told them.
Naturally, it snowed and snowed that winter; it wouldn't stop snowing. Long-time residents said it was the deepest snow pack in 50 years. The park's resident Pronghorn herd was wiped out. The largest hibernaculum (snake den) in the area collapsed, killing a lot of snakes. Deer were wandering into the village, dying of starvation. And all the nearby wetlands, ditches, sloughs, ponds, and dugouts were topped up for years to come. The following summer, I saw Horned Grebes nesting and raising their young in the park, for the first and only time. Waterfowl and shorebirds were plentiful. So were mosquitoes.
Since then, we have slipped back into a relatively dry cycle. The wetlands are drying up. Will they be renewed? Or is this the new normal? And if the latter, to what extent is it the result of widespread climate change? Obviously no one can answer these questions definitively, and as a photographer I can only observe and report. And speculate.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
I couldn't find any inspiring Halloween photos downtown, so I moved this house from downtown to the woods using AI and added some extras.
©AnvilcloudPhotography
Architect: Amanda Levette. Originally part of the M pavilion series, 2015 by the Naomi Milgram foundation and located in the Queen Victoria Gardens, now relocated to Melbourne Docklands.