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The Belding's Yellowthroat is endemic to the southern end of Baja California Sur. Notice its similarity to the Common Yellowthroat. The difference lies in the full yellow breast along with its brighter color. The color above the black mask is also yellow, unlike the CYT where this color is white. Its call is also different from the CYT.
The BYT lives in tall reeds like the ones in these two photos. While I found several in the estuary in San Jose del Cabo, they didn't stay out long, nor did they respond to calls. I simply had to go back multiple times and keep looking while taking as many photos as I could. Due to reduced habitats and limited range, this warbler is critically endangered.
This is just an insight into one of the most amazing and unearthly creations I have ever seen. There are similarities with the Yellowstone and Icelandic thermal parks which I have been fortunate enough to enjoy.I still can't really get my head around the colours, the smells and whole atmosphere that such visits offer.
Wai-O-Tapu can be found twenty minutes south of Rotarua, which is located centrally in the north island of New Zealand.
Unfortunately at this time I hadn't mastered the photo stitch process so I had to make do with my iPhone. The obvious limiting factor here being the fact that a I didn't quite have the room to include the full lagoon.
Cattle Egret
The Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) is a cosmopolitan species of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics, and warm-temperate zones. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Bubulcus, although some authorities regard two of its subspecies as full species, the western cattle egret and the eastern cattle egret. Despite the similarities in plumage to the egrets of the genus Egretta, it is more closely related to the herons of Ardea. Originally native to parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe, it has undergone a rapid expansion in its distribution and successfully colonized much of the rest of the world in the last century.
It is a white bird adorned with buff plumes in the breeding season. It nests in colonies, usually near bodies of water and often with other wading birds. The nest is a platform of sticks in trees or shrubs. Cattle egrets exploit drier and open habitats more than other heron species. Their feeding habitats include seasonally inundated grasslands, pastures, farmlands, wetlands, and rice paddies. They often accompany cattle or other large mammals, catching insect and small vertebrate prey disturbed by these animals. Some populations are migratory, and others show post breeding dispersal.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_cattle_egret
The Cornell Lab: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Cattle_Egret/id
National Park Berchtesgaden and Yosemite Valley
Since 2014, the Berchtesgaden National Park and the Californian Yosemite Valley, the second oldest national park in the USA, have been working together. Despite all the differences, there are many similarities in the nature of the two protected areas: the type of rock formations and boulders, the vegetation in the alpine highlands, mountain forests and waters, and also the tourist use of the national park are comparable in many areas. But not only high mountain landscapes characterize the Yosemite Valley as well as the only German high mountain national park in Berchtesgaden, also the biodiversity is particularly high in both national parks. Future collaborations will build on these commonalities, and will focus on research and science, environmental education and public relations, visitor guidance, wildlife management and interaction with user groups.
I stitched 5 high-res 16mm photographs for this panorama.
Nationalpark Berchtesgaden und Yosemite Valley
Seit 2014 arbeiten der Nationalpark Berchtesgaden und das kalifornische Yosemite Valley, der zweitälteste Nationalpark in den USA zusammen. Trotz aller Unterschiede gibt es in der Natur der beiden Schutzgebiete viele Gemeinsamkeiten: Die Art der Gesteinsformationen und Geröllmassen, die Vegetation in den alpinen Hochlagen, Gebirgswälder sowie Gewässer und auch die touristische Nutzung des Nationalparks sind in vielen Bereichen vergleichbar. Doch nicht nur Hochgebirgslandschaften zeichnen das Yosemite Valley ebenso wie den einzigen deutschen Hochgebirgs-Nationalpark in Berchtesgaden aus, auch die Artenvielfalt ist in beiden Nationalparks besonders hoch. Auf diesen Gemeinsamkeiten baut die künftige Zusammenarbeit auf, erstrecken wird sie sich vor allem auf die Bereiche Forschung und Wissenschaft, Umweltbildung und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Besucherlenkung, Wildtiermanagement und den Umgang mit Nutzergruppen.
Ich habe 5 hochauflösende Fotos für dieses Panorama zusammengesetzt.
The Barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) belongs to the genus Branta of black geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species. Despite its superficial similarity to the Brent Goose, genetic analysis has shown it is an eastern derivative of the Cackling Goose lineage.The Barnacle goose was first classified taxonomically by Johann Matthäus Bechstein in 1803. Its specific epithet is from the Ancient Greek leuko- "white", and opsis "faced".
In English, the term "barnacle" originally referred only to this species of goose and only later to the crustacean barnacles. It is sometimes claimed that the word comes from a Celtic word for "limpet", but the sense-history seems to go in the opposite direction.[2]The Barnacle Goose is a medium-sized goose, 60–70 cm long,[3] with a white face and black head, neck, and upper breast. Its belly is white. The wings and its back are silver-gray with black-and-white bars that look like they are shining when the light reflects on it. During flight a V-shaped white rump patch and the silver-gray underwing linings are visible.
Barnacle Geese breed mainly on the Arctic islands of the North Atlantic. There are three main populations, with separate breeding and wintering ranges; from west to east:
Breeding in eastern Greenland, wintering on the Hebrides of western Scotland and in western Ireland. Population about 40,000.
Breeding on Svalbard, wintering on the Solway Firth on the England/Scotland border. Population about 24,000.
Breeding on Novaya Zemlya, wintering in the Netherlands. Population about 130,000.
A new fourth population, derived from the Novaya Zemlya population, has become established since 1975 breeding on the Baltic Sea islands (Estonia, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden), and wintering in the Netherlands. Population about 8,000.
Small numbers of feral birds, derived from escapes from zoo collections, also breed in other north European countries. Occasionally, a wild bird will appear in the Northeastern United States or Canada, but care must be taken to separate out wild birds from escaped individuals, as Barnacle Geese are popular waterfowl with collectors.
This IS a Contraption!! At one stage, I made a number of really FUN Steampunk cloth dolls ( from commercial patterns- by 'Frowning Francis', for the Crafters among you) I collected tons of rusty bottle caps, pieces of rusted metal, springs, a derelict watch that a Dear Friend donated to the cause ( I dismantled it with difficulty) etc! I created this 'thingamy' but never got round to fastening it together. Anyway, for what it is worth, it is my contribution to MM's 'Contraptions' prompt. It is an Alternate Sponser- as, if it WERE all connected, I feel certain that it would Sponse, alternately!! And so it should!! ( please note- any similarity between an Alternate Sponser and Alternate Facts is purely coincidental!!!) HMM
In this ventral view, one cannot deny the similarity of this tiny, scorpion-tailed spider to the Alien face-hugger....the parasitic lifeform that hatches from xenomorph eggs in the Alien movie franchise.
But this little spider is just 10 mm total length.
These distinctive looking Australian spiders were given their common name because they sometimes curl the ends of their abdomens upwards in much the same way as a scorpion does - but there is no venom loaded sting to this tail.
Males are much smaller and lack the extended abdomen.
Link to lateral shot: www.flickr.com/photos/112623317@N03/52576648769/in/datepo...
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Common warthogs are a species of wild pig with many similarities to the domesticated pig raised by humans. They are voracious foragers, using their very powerful neck muscles to drive their snouts into soils to uncover anything edible.
There are certainly similarities in some of the architectures of NYC and Manchester. IMHO.
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Nikon D750 Nikkor 35/f2.0
locals saw in these peaks a similarity to a rake used to collect hay.
Allgäu, from the left Trettachspitze, Mädelegabel, Hochfrottspitze.
see also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trettachspitze
Only after I uploaded this image did I notice the similarities to the style and motifs of the art of the First Nations of Canada's West Coast, and mingled with it near the top, an image reminiscent of Western religious art. What do you see?
“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.”
M. Scott Peck
texture thanks to Neighya and TCP
"Human are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; then be wise"
Park Avenue Trailhead, Arches National Park, Moab, Utah, USA
The Park Avenue Trail is one of the first major attractions within Arches National Park. It is a one-mile trail that follows the bottom of a canyon at the feet of some of the park’s gigantic and well-known monoliths.
The Park Avenue Trail is most aptly named for New York City’s famous street. Early travelers noticed a similarity between these sandstone spires and the famous skyscrapers along New York’s Park Avenue, and the name stuck. The main difference, of course, is that the “skyscrapers” of Arches National Park were sculpted by nature.
Also known as the ‘Elevator of Carmo’, this impressive 45-meter (147-ft) iron structure links downtown Baixa with the higher Largo do Carmo. Opened in 1902 (and originally powered by steam), it was built by the Portuguese-born French architect, Raoul de Mesnier du Ponsard, apprentice to Gustave Eiffel (note the similarities to the Eiffel Tower!)
You can see the similarities—the outward and the inward. This brutal thunderstorm so severe that left you parked along the road, questioning whether you would be able to continue traveling to your appointment where you receive the vital elements that provide support, healing and recovery. Bright bolts of lightning and roaring thunder that send startling vibrations throughout the car, thick, blasting, visually impairing sheets of rain sent sideways by the violent gusts of wind. These major, uncontrollable obstacles make what is necessary for growth, recovery, healing, repair and reworking seem to be impossible. The intense difficulties all seem to be symbolic of how hard you have to fight for your own life, growth, healing, recovery and to accept and receive help and support due to the effects of the brutal harm you’ve endured. It is amazing that as you experience many challenges that cause this healing journey to feel nearly impossible, you courageously work to keep fighting for life.
#NotetoSelf
[image created on 6-29-2023]
Object: Elephant's Trunk nebula (VdB 142) in IC1396 (October 2025)
The Elephant's Trunk nebula or technically VdB 142 (Van den Berg 142) in the northern constellation of Cepheus, is so named because of its similarity in appearance to an elephant’s trunk. The bright outline around the "trunk" is the surface of the dense cloud that is being illuminated and ionized by a very bright, massive multi-star star to the east of the structure known as HD 206267A. The entire IC1396 region is also ionized by this massive triple star system. Look just above the trunk in the picture to see it.
This was done using the SHO or HST (Hubble Space Telescope Palette) which is accomplished by combining sub frames using three narrowband filters that capture light produced by glowing hydrogen (Ha), oxygen (OIII) and sulfur (SII) present in the nebula. Green is assigned to hydrogen, blue to oxygen and red to the sulfur.
Details:
- Acquisition Date: 10/16/2025 to 10/18/2025
- Location: Western Massachusetts, USA
- Imaging Camera: QHY600PH-M -10°C - Mode 1(High Gain) Offset:15 Gain:56
- Telescope: Askar 185 APO 185mm f/7 Triplet Refractor 1295mm f/l
- Flattener: Askar 1x Full Frame Flattener for 185APO
- Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100 w/GTO4
- Guide scope: Celestron Off Axis Guider
- Guide Camera: ASI174m mini
- Software: Sequence Generator Pro, PixInsight 1.9 Lockhart, Aries Astro Pixel Processor, Adobe Photoshop CS5
Filters:
- Chroma Ha 3nm 50mm
- Chroma OIII 3nm 50mm
- Astrodon SII 3nm 50mm
Exposure Times:
- Hydrogen Alpha (Ha): 28 x 10min. (280min) bin 1x1
- Oxygen III (OIII):28 x 10min. (280min) bin 1x1
- Sulfur II (SII):28 x 10min. (280min) bin 1x1
Total Exposure/Integration:840min. (14.0hr)
Sky Quality:
-Magnitude: 19.71
-Bortle Class 5
-1.41 mcd/m^2 Brightness
-1234.6 ucd/m^2 Artificial Brightness
This was Zeus having fun with cirrocumulus clouds and vapour trails back in 2017. He enjoyed adding some mare's tails which provided a unique photo opportunity and a marine similarity.
Until a few months after taking this picture, I did not realize that I had photographed something similar to the "Fibonacci Spiral" on the interior staircase of the Uxama lookout tower.
The similarity is almost perfect.
The interior staircase that gives access to the top of the watchtower of Uxama.
The Watchovers were built with a certain abundance in the Middle Ages in Spain to mark the borders.
They served to warn of the arrival of enemy armies.
There were different types of visual signals to communicate with each other.
The Watchover in this picture is strategically located on the hill where the ancient Iberian and then Roman city of Uxama was located, which gave name to the cities of Osma and El Burgo de Osma in Soria, Spain.
For More info:
LA ESPIRAL DE FIBONACCI EN LA ATALAYA DE UXAMA. 2017
Hasta unos meses después de hacer esta foto, no me di cuenta de que había fotografiado algo parecido a la "Espiral de Fibonacci" en la escalera interior de la atalaya de Uxama.
El parecido es casi perfecto.
La escalera interior que da acceso a la parte superior de la atalaya de Uxama.
Las atalayas se construyeron con cierta abundancia en la Edad Media en España para marcar las fronteras.
Sirvieron para avisar de la llegada de ejércitos enemigos.
Había diferentes tipos de señales visuales para comunicarse entre sí.
La atalaya de esta imagen está situada estratégicamente en el cerro donde se encontraba la antigua ciudad ibérica y luego romana de Uxama, que dio nombre a las ciudades de Osma y El Burgo de Osma en Soria, España.
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The bridge is often referred to as the Bridge of Sighs because of its supposed similarity to the famous Bridge of Sighs in Venice. However, Hertford Bridge was never intended to be a replica of the Venetian bridge, and indeed it bears a closer resemblance to the Rialto Bridge in the same city.
There is a false legend saying that many decades ago, a survey of the health of students was taken, and as Hertford College's students were the heaviest, the college closed off the bridge to force them to take the stairs, giving them extra exercise. However, if the bridge is not used, the students actually climb fewer stairs than if they do use the bridge.
This 327 foot monolith is known by two names, Haystack Rock and Chief Kiawanda Rock, but its similarity to another Haystack Rock up the coast at Cannon Beach makes it a neat place to stop and see. It actually mirrors its smaller 237 foot namesake 60 miles away, but they appear the same size due to its location farther out in the ocean. Cape Kiwanda Natural Area is a good place from which to view it. (Sand Lake State Park area 297.jpg)
A scene from the Shropshire Union Canal as I walked from Ellesmere Port Boat Museum to Chester. The pylons are situated at the Capenhurst section of the canal as they convey electricity from the nuclear power plant in the area.
Despite the similarities in plumage to the Egrets, the Cattle Egret is more closely related to the Herons. They got their name from the fact that they often accompany cattle or other large mammals, catching prey disturbed by these animals.
Centennial Olympic Park. Atlanta GA. 11/10/2017.
There are a lot of similarities in appearance between the Tennessee and Orange-crowned warblers, especially when seen from a side or top down view. Orange-crowned warblers have a more yellow undertail covert compared to Tennessees who in contrast are always lighter in the undertail covert area than the remainder of the underside. Orange-crowneds like Tennessees have a dark eye line but they also have a split white eye ring, and don't have a lighter colored stripe (supercilium) above the eye like Tennessees. Finallly the Orange-crowned has a longer tail. See my previous post for a comparison.
This is eastern warbler species 36 for 2017. Only Pa1m warbler remains to be added to this album.
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Although there are color differences between this bird and the following bird, this can be explained by sun and shade. There are strong similarities between these two birds in the area of the eyes.
John Heinz Wildlife Refuge Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Elephant's Trunk nebula or technically vdB 142 (Van den Berg 142), so named because of its similarity in appearance to a elephant’s trunk. The bright outline around the "trunk" is the surface of the dense cloud that is being illuminated and ionized by a very bright, massive star. The entire IC1396 region is ionized by this massive star, except for dense globules that can protect themselves from the star's harsh ultraviolet rays. The Elephant's Trunk nebula is now thought to be a site of star formation, containing several very young (less than 100,000 yr) stars that were discovered in infrared images in 2003. Two older (but still young, a couple of million years, by the standards of stars, which live for billions of years) stars are present in a small, circular cavity in the head of the globule. Winds from these young stars may have emptied the cavity.
This was done using the HST or Hubble Space Telescope Palette which is accomplished by combining sub frames using three narrowband filters that capture light produced by glowing hydrogen (Ha), oxygen (OIII) and sulfur (SII) present in the nebula. Green is assigned to hydrogen, blue to oxygen and red to the sulfur.
Acquisition Date: 11/08/2015 – 11/09/2015
Location: Western Massachusetts
Camera: SBIG STF8300M @ -15°C
Telescope: Stellarvue SV105T (f/7 – fl 735mm) reduced to f/5.6 (fl 588mm)
Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100
Guidescope: 60mm Stellarvue guide scope
Guide Camera: SBIG STi (mono)
Filters:
-Astrodon 3 nm Hydrogen Alpha (Ha): 11 x 30min. (390min.)
-Astrodon 3nm Oxygen III (OIII):08 x 30min. (240min)
-Astrodon 5nm Sulfur II (SII):07 x 30min. (210min)
Total Exposure:780min. (13.0hr)
Limiting Magnitude: 5.1
Comments: Stellarvue SFFR102 field flattener/reducer (0.8)
By its similarity to and location next the church, I assume this was the parsonage to the church in Sharon Springs. It looks now to be empty.
Cornwall, St.Michael's Mount
This cloud formation just caught my eye.
2 Basking Sharks were here, but my Snaps are crap.
Now its too late in the year, for anymore Cornish sightings !
...le rayonnement de la cascade....comme un air de peinture romantique du XIXe siècle
...the one coming from the waterfall in itself.
A slight similarity with th XIXth century's romantic paintings
better in full size !
Situated aside the rise to the hill encircled by the major bronze and Iron age 'El Castro del Monte Bernorio', and possibly consecrated to San Martin in the 11th century, this man-made cavity was until recently hidden in view as an agricultural storage facility.
The entrance is blocked by a grating, and this montage was taken through a small porthole in the rock ceiling. One heavily worn monolithic sarcophage can be seen on the floor. To the right of the grating a large opening has been blocked during historical ages - perhaps to keep straw dry or animals in.
AJ
Being highly gregarious animals, Impala form herds of several hundred individuals. They have a complex social structure and an interesting mating system. I watched these male Impala go through a ritual of face licking before it occurred to me to take a photo of what looked to be a tender greeting between these animals. Seen in Kanana Game Reserve, Botswana.
I have moved this shot from deep in my photostream to compliment the shot of a Sea Lion Greeting, and to demonstrate some of the similarities between them. Animals everywhere have relationships, care about one another, and share moments of tenderness.
A mushroom, or toadstool, is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source. The standard for the name mushroom is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word mushroom is most often applied to those fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing. lamella) on the underside of the cap. Mushroom also describes a variety of other gilled fungi, with or without stems, therefore the term is used to describe the fleshy fruiting bodies of some Ascomycota. These gills produce microscopic spores that help the fungus spread across the ground or its occupant surface. Forms deviating from the standard morphology usually have more specific names, such as bolete, puffball, stinkhorn, and morel, and gilled mushrooms themselves are often called agarics in reference to their similarity to Agaricus or their order Agaricales. By extension, the term mushroom can also refer to either the entire fungus when in culture, the thallus (called a mycelium) of species forming the fruiting bodies called mushrooms, or the species itself. 20063
On March 11, 2011, before I took up photography, I was living in the desert in Tucson, Arizona. I was in love with making art using pastels. On that day, I was ensconced for several hours at my art table working in silence on this piece. No radio or music, just silence. This image came entirely from within ... I wasn't working from any photo or other image ... and had a kind of relentless 'I WILL be expressed' energy. When I emerged from that lengthy work session, I turned on the radio and learned that a massive earthquake and tsunami had struck Japan, endangering the nuclear power plant at Fukushima. I realized that I had been making this image, with its forceful, pulsing, wave-like patterns, while the earthquake and tsunami were happening. Synchronicity.
When I compare those patterns, shown at the link below, with the patterns in this pastel, I am struck by the similarity. www.livescience.com/39110-japan-2011-earthquake-tsunami-f...
The artistic reputation of Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946) has increased considerably in recent years. Not helped or hindered (cross out what is desired) by academic training, he developed a unique style in which he balances painting and drawing. The fact that he paints with Indian ink is already challenging, the subtle addition of colored pencil is completely unusual.
Spilliaert's depictions are highly symbolic (see also previous post in this stream). In a late ink painting like 'Firebreak between the firs' the year is important to understand the scope. In 1944, the last year of the Second World War, Hitler's defeat was already looming, but the end was bitter. Hunger, cold and the death of hundreds of thousands of soldiers preceded peace.
This exhibition in The Hague builds a bridge between Léon Spilliaert and Dirk Braeckman, who never knew each other. What is that bridge? “That is visualizing what you cannot see,” says curator Thijs de Raedt. “Both are nocturnal animals that intuitively head for the magic of deep black.”
The fact that we now see similarities between the two artists also has to do with the revaluation of symbolism and Spilliaert in particular. In the 1970s, there was a renewed sensitivity to indeterminate and uncanny places. In Belgium, a victim of two World Wars, people are perhaps more receptive to that than elsewhere.