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The comic of the falconry display at Chester Falconry with many ways of getting the food rewards without the effort of flying.
One from a couple of weeks back.
What was supposed to be a 90 minute journey to Spurn ending up taking nearly 3 hours due to 2 crashes on the way. This, followed by hiking with my mountain bike across sand for 20 mins, and finally a 10 mins bike ride to the lighthouse, meant it was a bit of a mission to get there.
At least i was rewarded with some lovely evening light.
Having spent a whole afternoon @ the lake, the result was rewarding. No filters, or processing. A photo as served by nature!
Coming down from Goodale Pass (10,997'), we crossed over the Silver Divide into the eastern Sierra, with magnificent views of Lake of the Lone Indian (left), Papoose Lake (right), and Mt. Izaak Walton the high point at right.
Pano stitch of 6 vertical photos.
my bonus for picking up garbage along the highway. it's in french so i'm imagining some canadian exhausted his prayers, then thoughtfully gave us americans the same opportunity by tossing it out the window. must have worked because my kids didn't get hit by an 18 wheeler.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Seven metres at 11:36am on Thursday May 12th 2022 off the Mall and Horse Guards Road within the grounds of St James's Park in Central London, one of the Royal parks of London situated in South West London.
THE EASTERN GRAY/EASTERN GREY SQUIRREL (SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS)
By Paul Williams
The Grey (or Gray) squirrel, you either love 'em or you hate 'em. Cute and fluffy little funsters or destructive critters who ruin trees, kill bird chicks and trees and damage our homes... oh and it's their fault we lost our native Red squirrels as well!
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I get it and I see both sides of the story of course. For my part, I am a nature, wildlife and landscape photographer who prefers the company of animals and natural beauty to fellow humans who are systematically plundering Mother Earth's resources and killing off her beautiful creatures at an alarming rate! I believe there is a natural order of things, creatures kill other creatures to survive, they adapt to situations and when mankind encroaches on their territory to make a fast buck, those animals sometimes adapt to survive and the order changes. That is the balance of nature which is ever changing and affected by us..... the dumbest of the great apes. Some species are driven out by others, some may be destined to become extinct, the fittest will survive, and sometime a species will need intervention and help from mankind in order to survive... usually as a direct consequence of mankind's own actions in destroying the animal kingdom's natural habitat of course.
I adore these little fellas and at almost sixty years old, I never grew up knowing red squirrels at all. I've seen reds in Scotland and black squirrels in Stanley Park on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, but in my beloved home country of England I have always known and loved the cute little Greys. They visit my garden and give me hours, days, weeks of happiness and wonderful photographic opportunities, and I see them in Parks and forests all around me, so it's time to offer up an insight into the Grey squirrel, much loved, much hated... a sort of Marmite rodent if you will.
WHAT EXACTLY IS A SQUIRREL?
The word 'Squirrel', was first recorded in 1327 and hails from the Anglo-Norman word 'Esquirel', from old French 'Escurel', which was a reflex for the Latin word 'Sciurus'.The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is also known as the Eastern Grey squirrel or simply grey squirrel depending on the region of the world it is found. It is a tree squirrel, of the squirrel family Sciuridae including over one hundred arboreal species native to all continents of the world other than Antarctica and Oceania. Tree squirrels live mostly in trees, apart from the flying squirrel. The best known genus is Sciurus, containing most of the bushy tailed squirrels which are found in Europe, North America, temperate Asia as well as central and south America.
The scientific classification for the Eastern Grey is:
KINGDOM: ANIMALIA PHYLUM: CHORDATA CLASS: MAMMALIA ORDER: RODENTIA FAMILY: SCIURIDAE GENUS: SCIURUS SUBGENUS: SCIURUS SPECIES: SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS
They were first noted by German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist - Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788.
A mammal and rodent, predominantly herbivorous they are none the less an omnivore with a life span of between two and ten years. They can grow to 70cm in length and weigh up to 8kg. There are more than two hundred and sixty species of worldwide squirrel, the smallest being the African pygmy squirrel at just 10cm in length, whereas the Indian giant squirrel is three feet long! The oldest fossil of a squirrel, Hesperopetes, dates back to the late Eocene epoch period Chadronian period of 40-35 million years ago. The tree squirrels rotate their ankles by 180 degrees, so that the hind paws pointy backwards gripping tree bark which enables them to descend a tree headfirst.
Originally native to Eastern and Midwestern United States of America, they were first introduced into the United Kingdom in 1876 in Henbury Park, Macclesfield in Cheshire when Victorian banker Thomas V. Brocklehurst released a pair of Greys that he brought back from a business trip to America after their attraction as pets had waned. Victorians had a penchant for collecting exotic animals and birds of the world, but trends came and went and subsequently animals were simply discarded into the wilderness. There are early records of greys released near Denbighshire in north Wales from private collections. Later introduced to several regions in the UK, they quickly settled and spread, colonizing an area of three hundred miles in a quarter of a century between Argyll and Stirlingshire in Scotland.
Introductions of the Greys between 1902 and 1929 (the year of the last recorded introduction), included: Regent’s Park in London, Berkshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk and Hampshire. Grey Squirrels spread into Gloucestershire and eastern Wiltshire with animals coming directly from the United States or from Woburn. One hundred greys were released in Richmond Park in Surrey in 1902, Ninety one into Regent’s Park between 1905 and 1907 and a further ten New Jersey imported greys were introduced into Woburn Park in Bedfordshire.
Predators include hawks, weasels, raccoons, bobcats, foxes, domestic and feral cats, snakes, owls, and dogs, African harrier-hawks in Africa and... oh yes, Mankind pretty much everywhere who despise, mistreat, cull or eat it .
FACTS, MYTHS AND THAT POXY PARAPOX!
The massive decline in native red squirrels blamed upon the spread of the invasive greys has always been perhaps a little harsh as reds were already in a steep decline due to loss of habitat and disease and thus the greys simply took over the areas where the reds were dwindling. It's also a fact that reds were also seen as a plague, branded as pests who killed birds and damaged trees and the culling of reds almost brought them to the brink of extinction. Licenses to kill reds could still be obtained up until the seventies!
Reds suffered at the hands of mankind thanks to a combination of agricultural deforestation also linked with war and fuel needs which caused extinction in Southern Scotland and Ireland by the early eighteenth century, way before greys had been introduced. Harsh winters killed off the less hardy red population in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Greys are more adept at finding food and adapting to locations and environments, but also carry the squirrel poxvirus (SQPV) which although not particularly harmful to them, is a serious infection for the reds.
Parapox in red squirrels causes swollen lesions around the mouth, eyes, ears and nose also the front paws and sometimes genitals and skin ulcers and kills a red within fifteen days. There is no definitive correlation between the spread of the virus and the spread of the Greys, it actually arrived in several areas before the greys began to colonize there. An epidemic virus was observed in Red squirrels from at least 1900 with isolation attempts failing, and the first case of Parapox in the UK was in 1980 in the county of Norfolk. Greys cannot transmit the virus to reds via saliva or faeces, but reds can between each other from bodily secretions and at animal feeders in gardens. The transmission from greys to reds is though to come from parasites. Eight to ten per cent of reds survive the virus, and there is some evidence that reds are slowly building an evolved resistance.
Greys are seen as pests to forest land, stripping bark from trees during May and June, and are also capable of destroying household bins, water pipes, causing roof damage not to mention taking eggs and killing young chicks of ground nesting and songbird populations. They also take from bird feeders and there is a whole industry for creating squirrel proof feeders these days.
THE CULLING OF GREY SQUIRRELS
Grey squirrels have limited legal protection and can be legally controlled all year round by a variety of methods including shooting and trapping. Methods of trapping and killing include Drey poking and shooting, Tunnel trapping using spring traps set in accordance with BASC’s trapping pest mammals code of practice. They can also be shot using a shotgun or powerful air rifle or up until September 30th 2014 poisoned by Warfarin (Now outlawed).
Whilst professional trapping and extermination is hopefully done as humanely as possible, there have been cases, many of them where cost savings have been gained by battering the squirrels to death! Grey squirrels are trapped in ghastly metal contraptions for hours and hours, wearing themselves out frantically trying to escape by gnawing at the metals bars. They bite the floor and scratch at them with their claws and do not get a moments peace or rest through absolute fear. Once the traps are retrieved, each squirrel, terrified will be thrown into a sack and smacked on the head countless times with a blunt instrument. When a mother is slaughtered, her babies who are totally dependent on her, will die a slow death of thirst and starvation.
There is an argument for the control of Greys on many grounds but also a counter argument that Culling does not work, and has not on countless times where, once a population of greys have been culled, the nearest group will move back in and claim the land. The university of Bristol concluded that there was little evidence that culling greys to save red squirrels was effective, and that perhaps finding a way of boosting red squirrel immunity to the poxvirus or planting areas of yew trees where reds are known to thrive and spending money on research into positive moves might be a better option.
In Ireland, the re-introduction of the Pine marten, a species made extinct originally by the very same land owners who also wish to do the same to the grey squirrel, has seen the rapid demise of the grey and the reintroction of the native reds. Red squirrels are smaller and more nimble than their grey counterparts, and as such can get to the very ends of tree branches where neither the pine martins, nor more importantly the heavier greys can, thus surviving and thriving. As a result in Ireland, the grey squirrel population has crashed in approximately 9,000 km2 of its former range and the reds has become common once more after a thirty year absence... oh and Pine Martens are protected again!
In Scotland, Pine Martens exist in areas where Red squirrels thrive, and greys do not. So perhaps there is a lesson here, as in England where there are no pine martens, the greys are prolific breeders. So there is an argument against the barbarity of shooting and poisoning greys, and if, as so many believe, the greys MUST be controlled, how about a more humane and natural method that nature intended.. with re-introduction of predators. Just a thought!
So a few facts and figures on the greys and to wrap up, from a purely personal perspective I love these little guys, as I do almost every creature in nature other than those eight legged beasties that shall not be named and for which I have a deep and powerful phobia that borders on paranoia!
I could no more harm an animal deliberately than eat a McDonald's McRib (Once saw how they are made and let me just say... eeeuuuuuwwwww!!).
They are small, cute, cuddly, furry, they photograph beautifully, have great personality and make me smile. They trust me enough to take food from my hand in parks, and I can't bare the though of ugly, hairy land owners sticking a shotgun in their face and blowing them away! I appreciate they can be a pest, a problem, a menace, that their PR managers might have a bit of a problem winning you over when they flay small chicks alive on your lawn or decimate the songbird population by stealing their eggs.... and perhaps there is a need to keep the population under control and try and re-establish the red population.....
Yep I get that....
I just hope we can solve the problem more humanely to create a peaceful coexistence of the reds and greys in different areas. A man can dream can't he.
Paul Williams June 18th 2021
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still very busy with my family and friends regarding to the holiday seasons , I am in the slowly catching up to you guys , hopefully of can returning the rewards back to every one comments as soon as I can .. Merry Christmas and happy new year ahead to all my Flickr friends , my best wishes to you and your family.. thanks for viewing , fave, comments.. very appreciate.... Rose..
Time Invested Wisely Now Will Generate Rewards For Years To Come
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The above image was taken on Sunday 13th Oct 2013 during a Welshot Rewards day. The purpose of this event was to use off camera flash with a Singer/Songwriter called Ashley Fayth and her band.
I’ve written up this event for Welshot on their blog, see the link:
www.welshotimaging.co.uk/blog/2013/10/contacts-networking...
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This image is on flickr explore #170 16th Oct 2013
CCC XII - Best intentions
1318AD, Autumn time, Wolmer Forest. King Edward II rewards Morris, one of his kitchen staff for making him laugh.
Haven gone out for a hunt one of the Kings kitchen staff, Morris, keeps falling from his horse. The numerous accidents make the King laugh and once the hunt is over he pays Morris twenty shillings - the equivalent of a years salary. Being a meticulous record keeper the King notes the payment to Morris in his private expenses which end up in the possession of a Thomas Astle an English antiquary and palaeographer (22 December 1735 – 1 December 1803).
Mono Hike Rewards. Another frosty morning, numb finger on the shutter button, shots between shaking.
Entertainment in the streets of York. The entertainer is chained up and has to release himself Houdini style in a set time. The audience participates and helps to chain him up. (1840)
I love how the late summer sun is low enough to light the trees from the back and directly on the front. Gives so much depth to a scene.
Jodie having a look back at the Carn Mor Dearg arete. It was pretty grim on Carn Mor Dearg but we knew the weather was improving and got the rewards as the day went on.
This is the main house in the Palheiro estate - now public gardens - in the hills over Funchal. The estate belonged to the Blandy family whose fortune was made as Madeira wine merchants.
How many tiny fish does it take to sustain a Great Egret?
The incredible patience and explosive energy expended in catching them is always so impressive.
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Farrah rewards her horse with a Fuji Apple.
This is a Christmas Eve Farrah (the 8th Black Label Black Label by Noel Cruz for www.myFarrah.com) finished on Christmas Eve!
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I carry nothing but my wallet, phone, and keys (all Macro Monday no-no's), but my wife carries everything except the kitchen sink.
This is a shot of her Rewards and Loyalty Cards on a Star Trek
Communicator Key Chain.
When she needs a card, she flips it open like Captain Kirk, it beeps, and she shows the appropriate card. Then she looks at the clerk and says, "Scotty, beam me up!"
The transporter does the rest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTcMmXVUXw8
Image measures 2 3/4" across
7 Image focus stack shot with Nikon D5500, Nikon 18-55mm @ 55mm and 12mm extension tube.
For Macro Mondays
Theme: EDC (Everyday Carry)
of Canopy Fishing. This Reddish Egret is about to enjoy it's breakfast, tiny as it is.
Canon 1DX, Canon 500, F4.5, 1/1250, ISO 200
Happy, happy weekend.
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When I finally got through the old gardens and remnants of buildings up more steps this was my reward, the aching feet seemed worth it( I think)?
"The world needs your help, and you'll love the spiritual
rewards that will be yours when you give it."
~ unknown
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. This elderly gentleman struggling to light a cigarette in the wind that rattles through the city. The pose and lighting was simply perfect for a candid shot that I simply had to capture. Enjoy full screen by pressing 'L'.
After a gray and wet morning, I decided to stick around once the clouds started to break. I thought, this is rainbow weather. I even used the PlanIt Pro app to help determine where a rainbow may form and got into position on one of my favorite compositions.
I just had a cancelation on my once sold out Oregon Coast workshop Oct 22-26. Details on my site.
“When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hostility to this world, came over him...It was all drowned in the sea of cheerful common labor. God had given the day, God had given the strength. Both day and strength had been devoted to labour and in that lay the reward...Levin had often admired this life, had often experienced a feeling of envy for the people who lived this life, but that day for the first time...the thought came clearly to Levin that it was up to him to change that so burdensome, idle, artificial and individual life he lived into this laborious, pure and common, lovely life.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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Staithes, Yorkshire - UK
The sleepy village of Staithes, North Yorkshire - we waited, unsure of what the clouds would do, the drive in was uncertain as they appeared flat and featureless.
We were rewarded with a quick and spectacular show of colour - what a morning to be alive!
I took this shot of a Little Owl at very low level in a field of Buttercups. The Owl has been in this area for quite a while now so has become used to the ODD human interaction.
It often perched on the branch in its search for food around the field.
Patience does have its rewards. March wrens live in a dense world of cattails and reeds and getting a shot of one isolated with a creamy, blurred bokeh was a goal I had set for this particular morning. I had been waiting by a cattail hoping that a marsh wren would land on it. While one did land behind it, the bird never did come into full view. After about 10-15 minutes I packed the camera and tripod back up in my jeep (but not without getting the sora seen in Sweet Sora). Crawling along I saw this little fellow posing exactly as I was hoping for! Not wanting to scare him away, I picked the camera up off the seat and with the 600mm lens balanced on the passenger window sill I snapped away. He obliged my patience and rewarded me with about four minutes of singing and posing before he flitted away. I think we both went away happy!
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The rewards of a steep hike up Mont Tremblant is one killer view. On a reasonably clear day like this one you can see for miles and miles. I've combined four vertical frames into this panoramic view from Mont Tremblant towards the lake below. I like this technique as it gives you an incredible amount of resolution to work with along with a more natural framing. Lightroom's panorama mode makes stitching a very quick exercise and delivers seamless results. If you would like to see more of my Tremblant shots and read my article about it as a travel and photography destination, just click here: bit.ly/2aXAOWd
Technical Information: Canon EOS M3 + Canon EF-M 28mm f/3.5 Macro IS STM, Processed in Adobe Lightroom CC, Photoshop CC, and Alien Skin Exposure X (use code "dustinabbott" to get 10% off)
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