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We ran into two sets of fox cubs at the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge. The youngsters showed different looks while doing different moves. This one was resting next to the fox hole and seemed to be laughing at the photographer although ignoring us.
A few more 'looks' are given in photos in the comments below.
Ready, Steady, 'GrOw'!....seems the January snow had an unusual effect on the fungi in my local park, Trentham Gardens. I wouldn't be at all surprised if one of these days we actually see a Trentham fairy sitting on the top of one of the caps...they like to move around the park when no one is looking! :))
The lake, seen in the background, is frozen over. A pretty but cold walk around the lake that day!
1. Ready Steady Go! - Theme for 116 pictures in 2016
There always seems to be one Reddish Egret that waits for me to visit Ding Darling NWR each February ;-)
Reddish Egrets are amusing to watch when they are looking for a meal. They run around the impoundment trying to scare up a fish or invertebrate, stop abruptly and raise their wings to shadow the shallow water for a better look, and continue the process until they find something that seems to be worth eating.
Short Eared Owl - Asio flammeus
Over much of its range, short-eared owls occurs with the similar-looking long-eared owl. At rest, the ear-tufts of long-eared owl serve to easily distinguish the two (although long-eared owls can sometimes hold its ear-tufts flat). The iris-colour differs: yellow in short-eared, and orange in long-eared, and the black surrounding the eyes is vertical on long-eared, and horizontal on short-eared. Overall the short-eared tends to be a paler, sandier bird than the long-eared.
The short-eared owl occurs on all continents except Antarctica and Australia; thus it has one of the most widespread distributions of any bird. A. flammeus breeds in Europe, Asia, North and South America, the Caribbean, Hawaii and the Galápagos Islands. It is partially migratory, moving south in winter from the northern parts of its range. The short-eared owl is known to relocate to areas of higher rodent populations. It will also wander nomadically in search of better food supplies during years when vole populations are low.
Hunting occurs mostly at night, but this owl is known to be diurnal and crepuscular as well. Its daylight hunting seems to coincide with the high-activity periods of voles, its preferred prey. It tends to fly only feet above the ground in open fields and grasslands until swooping down upon its prey feet-first. Several owls may hunt over the same open area. Its food consists mainly of rodents, especially voles, but it will eat other small mammals such as mice, ground squirrels, shrews, rats, bats, muskrats and moles. It will also occasionally predate smaller birds, especially when near sea-coasts and adjacent wetlands at which time they attack shorebirds, terns and small gulls and seabirds with semi-regularity. Avian prey is more infrequently preyed on inland and centers on passerines such as larks, icterids, starlings, tyrant flycatchers and pipits.
It seemed to be the season when all a the males join the herd to look for some love interests. I think they make a cute couple.
The birds seem to have started their nesting early here in SE Florida. Wood Storks, which generally begin to arrive in their nesting area usually show up after the Great Blues and Great Egrets have chicks. This year, they are beginning to show up early. It will be interesting to observe how things unfold. Here's a shot from April of this year of a stork bringing in some nesting material.
This is a Monk Parakeet we saw in Barcelona. We saw a few in Athens as well.
Coming from the north we had not seen them before and we loved them.
But they seem to be a menace in the countries they settle in. It is considered an invasive species 🤔
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Highway run
Into the midnight sun
Wheels go round and round
You're on my mind
Restless hearts
Sleep alone tonight
Sending all my love
Along the wire
They say that the road ain't no place to start a family
Right down the line it's been you and me
And lovin' a music man ain't always what it's supposed to be
Oh, girl, you stand by me
I'm forever yours
Faithfully
Circus life
Under the big top world
We all need the clowns
To make us smile
Through space and time
Always another show
Wondering where I am
I'm lost without you
And being apart ain't easy on this love affair
Two strangers learn to fall in love again
I get the joy of rediscovering you
Oh, girl, you stand by me
I'm forever yours
Faithfully
Faithfully
I'm still yours
I'm forever yours
Ever yours
Faithfully
When The Night Seems Unfriendly
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Badger
Major changes were made with regard to the lighting arrangement at the Badger drinking trough (flash will never be used on nocturnal creatures)
It seems to have paid dividends and augurs well for the future.
This is a new animal at the trough and I suspect is the same badger that has previously been photographed climbing the tree stump.
It seemed this guy was just waiting for me to take his photo folks, so I could do nothing but oblige, this was a gift folks, and have a wonderful weekend.
These petunias seem to be subject to some sort of somatic mutation, where the color gene(s) are not expressed in an early cell, and the white spot that cell develops into enlarges as the flower grows. I think. At any rate, these petunias are both beautiful.
Thank you for looking. Isn't God a great artist?
I seem to be molesting a magnolia tree.....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YhR5UfaAzM
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ZIBSKA Noir Pack #5 Eyemakeup
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Alirium Dwarf Forest Golden
HOTDOG Rat Animation (hands)
Hive Birch Tree
Inspired from Manowar's song ''Master of the wind''
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLrfzWNyIDM
Location, Kastoria, Hellas.
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Seems like it is very early for this Avocet to be so far along in getting his breeding plumage.
Pier 94 Salt Marsh, San Francisco, CA
suggestion of my friend Milan
Best on black!
This is variation in colour (slightly different composition) from the same place. I deleted the b&w variation in the group with photographs that are not technically correct. I apologize to everyone who gave feedback.
Thank (in advance) to you all, very much my friends!
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These two wild stallions were exchanging postures in a stand off over who had the right to have his herd in the area. Sometimes it seems this is exactly the posture you see between humans.
COLORADO wild horses
Off the water and back to the woods to soak up some of the remaining color which is holding fairly well, especially given the strong winds we've had the last few days. I went out specifically to take a bunch of photos to upload into my "new friend," with the single and not unrealistic (I thought) hope of being able to find them...which I did, but not until after numerous wrong guesses as to where I thought they seemingly should be...like "Pictures."
By the way, I appreciate your support and tips re: my new desk top (not a laptop as some seem to have guessed), and it progresses slowly. I really don't use a computer for much other than my photos so I haven't even begun to tap the capabilities of this one...and am uncertain as to whether I will even try or not. What I would like to find is the 90% of my photos which did not appear with the others when I transferred them from the flash drive to the new computer. 10% are in fancy new folders...the rest unpleasantly invisible. Everything sees very hit and miss...mostly miss for now causing me to simply walk away from the computer and find other occupations. My learning curve and patience have both suffered with old age.
[Larger puts you on the path]
Seems like more show up each day. And this is nothing. I'll post some down the road where you'll see how it is. Lots of them
Silence seems to envelop existence, the quiet is disturbing. I observe in religious silence while breathing deeply. The infinite is before me. For a moment I am close to God!
the Dutchess:
“Be what you would seem to be – or, if you’d like it put more simply – never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Great Egret
Seems to be waiting for something to happen while standing in the early morning light streaming over the ocean and sand.
From the National Park Service:
Second only to the Great Blue Heron in size, the Great Egret (Casmerodius albus), sometimes called the Great White Egret, is one of the largest of the wading birds that inhabit the Everglades. Standing over 4 feet in height with a wingspan of more than 50 inches, it is similar in appearance to the Snowy Egret but can be distinguished by its long black legs, black feet, stout yellow bill, and tremendous size. The Snowy Egret is smaller than the Great Egret and has a black bill and yellow feet.
Although numbers of Great Egrets have recovered throughout most of the United States in response to conservation measures, numbers have declined in some parts of the southern United States because of habitat loss. Data indicate that the Florida Everglades has undergone a 90-percent reduction in the number of breeding pairs of wading birds.
Not so used to shoot straight but in this pose i loved it.
This pose is called ''Im sorry'' and it will be available inworld only, as group gift (later today).
Here is the shop limo: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Zen%20Soul/20/161/25
Have to thank Tomis for being so patient and posing with me. She did snap her own picture too.
Please check out her stream she is simply amazing!
Her version here: www.flickr.com/photos/155245904@N08/26316179268
My song inspiration
Blue featuring Elton John - Sorry seems to be the saddest word
that seems to take the bite out of being alone :-)
Louis J. Camuti
Happy Caturday!! if you are enduring this time of sheltering at home alone, consider a rescue cat :-)
emma, our rescue cat, 3 years old, cary, north carolina
I drove out to Agua Caliente park this morning. I was watching this Great Egret hunting for fish. Seems like it would take an awful lot of fish this size to make it worth his while.
There seems to be one tall tree in this forest, the sole survivor of an ancient battle ...
View near Alp Puzzetta in Val Medel, Switzerland. Looking towards Disentis Abbey, just visible in the far distance. [Explored on 22/03/2021, #142]
it seems very likely that St Anthony's Chapel was closely associated with Holyrood Abbey, which stood just a few hundred yards away to the north-west. The two were linked by a well-made stone track (now heavily worn) with prominent kerbstones that can in places still be seen, and about three quarters of the way along this track up to the chapel is the spring and carved stone bowl known as St Anthony's Well.
It's tempting to think of St Anthony's Chapel as an outlying chapel for Holyrood Abbey, perhaps constructed as a means of getting pilgrims out from under the feet of the monks in the abbey. It has also been suggested that the chapel served as a sort of religious beacon, designed to be clearly visible to sea-borne pilgrims coming to Holyrood Abbey as they sailed up the River Forth.
As for dating, there are references to a grant paid for repairs to St Anthony's Chapel by the Pope in 1426, suggesting the building could date back into the 1300s or beyond. Details of its demise are equally unclear, but presumably, like Holyrood Abbey itself, St Anthony's Chapel fell into disuse and disrepair after the Reformation in 1560.
Today, all that remains of the chapel are parts of the north wall plus remnants of another building a little to the south-west, which has sometimes been called a hermitage but was probably just a store room. The remaining chapel wall shows signs of vaulting, and it is thought that when complete the building would have comprised a small three-bay chapel, with a three-storey tower at its west end. This odd shape, almost as tall as it was long, supports the idea that the chapel was designed as much to ensure distant visibility as to accommodate worshippers.
I almost missed this shot. I was taking a shot in the other direction and I looked over my shoulder and spotted this girl staring at me. And, of course, there was a fence..;) She seems as surprise to see me as I am to see her.
These trees seems to cry for help, probably any help will be too late 😢
Location: National Park "Hoge Veluwe", The Netherlands
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Another photo of Sakura, the new puppy of a very close friend.
Just a few weeks old, she is tiny!
It seems that my boots are comfortable...
And a good place to rest for a while...
Seems like every year on the range bring changes to motive power and operations on the former Missabe. However a few of the old reliables still earn their keep such as this former DM&IR tunnel motor taking empty limestone cars south along Rt 7.
"Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared."
- Tupac Shakur, "The Rose the Grew from Concrete
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A Super Spinto Tenor previously Overlooked
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dVLtEilCuc
Gilels in response to Richter said, Lazar Bergman is the best pianist amongst the three of them. Whether he really meant it is off the point, the point is this pianist is of the same league with them :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C4SOb_gA2M&t=347s
Vasa Prihoda - Toselli's Serenade (1930s)
Tiny seemed to think the fake bird just might want in on the stash and she really didn't want to share. I thinks she's negotiating as most of the peanuts (her favorite) are around the bird.
Lots of bunny tracks around here this morning. They seem to know when there is no dog around. I'm always amazed by the abundance of wildlife outside my door. Too bad it wasn't wearing a white winter coat but it still cheered me up, nonetheless. I had a bad morning getting stuck in a swamp with my skidoo, the new snow and ice disguised the water underneath. I swear I have a permanent black cloud over my head.
It was as if this bunny was saying "Listen Up, don't think you are eating me for Easter" It sure got fat off all the oats my horses left behind this winter. I do eat bunnies this time of year but it is the white chocolate ones ;-)
It seems we always get a snowstorm around Valentines Day and Mr. Blue Jay is waiting for me to come feed him and the squirrels.
It seemed for about a week, that I couldn't spot a mantis, and I was confused as to whether they relocated, died...or possibly ate each other ;-) The past couple of days, I've realized why they were hard to spot...and I'm sure you can guess from the image. After their last...and possibly final molt, most have changed color. Out of the 4 I found in one area, 2 were all pale brown, one was a combination of brown/green...like this male here...and one was all green, but with brown accents. When I looked around, and noticed how much of the brush is already changing, I could see how a more brown appearance helps them blend. Whereas in spring and early summer, when everything was lush and green, their bright green color was better camouflage.
The next difference....wings! Yes...we now have flying stick figures floating around our yard lol. But I found the wings covering the abdomen was making it difficult to determine gender. So with research and more watching, I found both genders have wings. But the females, being larger, with the thicker, heavier abdomens, do not fly, and therefore have wings that are just about the length of their body. Whereas the lighter, narrower males sport longer wings that are a little longer then their abdomen, and are the ones that are seen flying, usually to find a mate...of course ;-)
And they've grown much bigger! No more are they the little bitty green aliens I was used to holding. But I've found these larger, more intimidating mantises are just as friendly, and even try and climb on my camera when I get it close lol. So my mantis study continues ;-) Please view large.
The kids are going back to school in a couple of days, so being loaded with back to school arrangements and activities, this will probably be my last post for the week, but I'll be stopping by to check in with everyone. Have a wonderful week, my friends :-)
Potluck..Seen at Gibraltar point sailing club where a kind gentleman told me all the yachts would be lowered by crane into the river the following weekend...my timing is always off but never mind , this abandoned liite hulk will get its five minutes of fame instead lol....
Btw this was taken just a week or so ago, I noticed my Fuji x100v was bracketing exposure and iso..have no idea how I did that because I did not set it up to bracket.
I altered the settings to stop the bracketing and set to single shot. However it must have gone to default settings. I did notice and fully intended to remove the date to upload date but forgot 🤔
Located on the River Steeping at Gibraltar Point nature reserve, the last accessible part of the medieval port of Wainfleet Haven.
Being located at the entrance to the Wash, the club is ideal for exploring the nearby ports and harbours of the Norfolk coast as well as venturing further in, to the mystical Wash with its shifting sands and unique wildlife.
Apologies Nigel, also to anyone else who may have bothered to fave this shot before I had to move it to today. This shot seems to be entirely jinxed and dropped back 3 days lol..it is in its rightful place now..