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Sensitive natural area of Thézillieu, Plateau d'Hauteville, France
Espace naturel sensible de Thézillieu, Plateau d'Hauteville, France
"Port Moody has one of the few remaining large mudflats in Burrard Inlet. It is an environmentally sensitive area that is home to many nesting shoreline species such as purple martins, osprey, and great blue heron. The mudflats are home to a biodiverse community of fish, shellfish, and other significant tidal species that are sensitive to disturbance. The city’s trail system, including wooden boardwalks that wrap the head of the inlet, is designed so visitors can experience and enjoy the wildlife that live there, while staying off the mudflats. Residents and visitors can stay out of danger, and ensure this special place remains for future generations, by remaining on the designated trails and keeping dogs on a leash."
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A composite of the same bird with two different sides of it. This is one of the rarest of all warblers found in Ontario. They are flagged as 'sensitive' species on eBird and thus no report of sighting is available to public in general.
After years of restoration effort of their habitat in Simcoe County Forest, about an hour drive north of Toronto, 6 males showed up this year with the exciting prospect that females would soon follow and they start breeding there. Arranged visitation was organized to allow people to see or hear them from safe distance. One could hear them sing and occasionally see them at a distance. However, finding them closer and out in the open was sheer luck. On this day (it was my second attempt), after an hour of waiting I finally saw one male chasing a Cedar Waxwing and landing on a red pine tree nearby for a total of 20 seconds of viewing, just enough to get some decent photos. Needless to say that it was a life bird for me.
EXPLORE. FRONT PAGE. January 07 & 08, 2009.
Thanks to photography, I have been delighted by Mother Nature many many times, mostly in her simplest ways.
Things I haven't noticed before are now sharply visualized right before my very eyes. I am more sensitive to her smiles, and frowns, and carefree moments.
A cloud formation, a neighborhood sunrise, a raindrop, my daughter's jump and laughters... A friend's pensive moment... I see light now...
Around us is beauty, we just have to really open our eyes...
HBW, my friends!!!
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The butterfly is a symbol of soul, resurrection and has the meaning of spiritual metamorphosis, but it also stands for beauty, symmetry and balance.
(Parides eurimedes) is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae.
It is commonly known as the mylotes cattleheart, Arcas cattleheart, pink-checked cattleheart, and true cattleheart.
A tropical day butterfly from Central America, South Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica.
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Pitaya - Decorative ribbons - Fresh 2
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[Merak] - Pillows and Blanket Wicker A
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Charles, the Prince of Wales and future King of England, wrote an influential book called "Harmony". In it he outlined his vision for a balanced way of life, being completely sensitive to the requirements of a sustainable environment, and also maintaining a productive life. This is a vision worth striving for. Balance and harmony are two words that we desperately need to rediscover in our fractured world.
After retiring from the Australian senate in 2012, Dr Bob Brown decided to gift "Oura Oura" to the Australian people. He did this through entrusting it to the care of Bush Heritage Australia.
Bush Heritage Australia is an independent not-for-profit that buys and manages land, and also partners with Aboriginal people, to conserve our magnificent landscapes and irreplaceable native species forever.
Nature, harmony and a balanced lifestyle. That's what we need today.
This is one of three juvenile tiger siblings that we sighted in Ranthambore National Park, India. It's rare to see multiple tigers because they are solitary animals that will sometimes fight to the death over territory. We sighted three at once because they are siblings still under the protection of their mother. Male tigers have very large territories and can have multiple tigress territories within their own. There are now about 70 adult tigers in the park, which once had numbers as low as 16 or 17. The area remained mostly wild because little of it is suitable for agriculture. Tigers have unique stripe patterns so they are tracked and monitored by motion-sensitive cameras.
—from Wikipedia
Ranthambore National Park is a national park in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It covers a total area of 1,334 km2 (515 sq mi). It is bounded to the north by the Banas River and to the south by the Chambal River. It is named after the historic Ranthambore Fort, which lies within the park. Ranthambore National Park was established as the Sawai Madhopur Game Sanctuary in 1955, initially covering an area of 282 km2 (109 sq mi). It was declared one of the Project Tiger reserves in 1974. It was declared as a national park in 1980.
Mom trumpeter swan closely monitoring her young chicks in the nest. Imaged in July of 2022 @ Springbrook Nature Center.. Anoka Co., central Minnesota.
Visitors: Invited to check out my photostream & albums for seasonal images of wildlife/scenics/florals.
Dartford Warbler - Sylvia Undata
The Dartford warbler (Sylvia undata) iDs a typical warbler from the warmer parts of western Europe and northwestern Africa. It is a small warbler with a long thin tail and a thin pointed bill. The adult male has grey-brown upperparts and is dull reddish-brown below except for the centre of the belly which has a dirty white patch. It has light speckles on the throat and a red eye-ring. The sexes are similar but the adult female is usually less grey above and paler below.
Its breeding range lies west of a line from southern England to the heel of Italy (southern Apulia). The Dartford warbler is usually resident all year in its breeding range, but there is some limited migration.
The Dartford warbler was first described by the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant from two specimens that were shot in April 1773 on Bexley Heath near Dartford in Kent.
The species is naturally rare. The largest European populations of Sylvia undata are in the Iberian peninsula, others in much of France, in Italy and southern England and south Wales. In Africa it can be found only in small areas in the north, wintering in northern Morocco and northern Algeria.
In southern England the birds breed on heathlands, sometimes near the coast, and nest in either common gorse (Ulex europaeus) or common heather (Calluna
Dartford warblers are named for Dartford Heath in north west Kent, where the population became extinct in the early twentieth century. They almost died out in the United Kingdom in the severe winter of 1962/1963 when the national population dropped to just ten pairs. Sylvia undata is also sensitive to drought affecting breeding success or producing heath fires, as occurred during 1975 and 1976 in England when virtually all juveniles failed to survive their first year.
However, this species can recover well in good quality habitat with favourable temperatures and rainfall, thanks to repeated nesting and a high survival rate for the young. Indeed, they recovered in some areas of the UK, but numbers are once again on the decline in other regions of their natural range.
The range of the Dartford warbler is restricted to western and southern Europe. The total population in 2012 was estimated at 1.1–2.5 million breeding pairs. The largest numbers occur in Spain where there were believed to be 983,000–1,750,000 pairs. For reasons that probably include loss of suitable habitat, the Spanish population appears to be declining. The species is therefore classed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being Near threatened.
A period of climatic warming since 1963 has seen the UK population increase to "more than 2,500 pairs in 2006 (Wotton et al. 2009). Expansion into patches of structurally suitable habitat (up to an altitude of 400m), more northerly areas and away from the core of the range, from Dorset and Hampshire to Derbyshire and Suffolk, is likely to have been facilitated by milder winter weather (Wotton et al. 2009, Bradbury et al. 2011)... The Dartford warbler population in the UK is expected to continue to increase. However, future climate-based projections for the European range indicate that by 2080, more than 60% of the current European range may no longer be suitable (Huntley et al 2007). There is evidence that this is happening already, with severe declines in Spain and France (Green 2017). For this reason, the species is classified as Near Threatened on the IUCN Global Red List. If the declines in southern Europe continue, the UK will become increasingly important for global conservation of this species".
Population:
UK breeding:
3,200 pairs
Well, once again into the unknown. We thought about staying out here, but the camps in the backcountry here sell out months in advance, and we were informed that while we were allowed to do astro photography anywhere in the park, falling asleep while doing it is strictly prohibited unless sanctioned and paid for. This is some of the most remote desert in the southwest if you get deep enough, however, given the biological soil crusts (which can actually be seen on the left hand side of the photo in the light) the more people that walk around here off trail, essentially destroy desert habitat that took ages to build. Whenever I'm walking in the back country, I'm always aware of this face, as I'm often in a sensitive habitat. The biological soil is made of #cyanobacteria and often look like areas of dirty dirt, they also include the lichens, mosses, algae, microfungi, and bacteria (some of which is seen on the rocks in the foreground). What inspired this tree to reach so far with one of it's branches is beyond me... it clearly didn't work out. But despite the failure, this tree lives on in a formidable landscape environment, through epic storms, winter snow, and searing heat.
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La Plaza de España - Sevilla
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_de_Espa%C3%B1a_(Sevilla)
La Plaza de España es un conjunto arquitectónico enclavado en el parque de María Luisa de la ciudad de Sevilla (España). Fue proyectada por el arquitecto Aníbal González. Se levantó entre 1914 y 1929 como una de las construcciones principales de la Exposición Iberoamericana de 1929. Constituye el edificio más grande de todos los que se levantaron en la ciudad durante el siglo XX, comparable a las otras dos construcciones históricas destacadas de los extramuros de la ciudad, que son el hospital de las Cinco Llagas (siglo XVI) y la Real Fábrica de Tabacos (siglo XVIII).
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La plaza tiene grandes dimensiones (170 metros de diámetro) y forma semi-elíptica, que simboliza el abrazo de España a sus antiguos territorios americanos, y mira hacia el río Guadalquivir, como recorrido a seguir hacia América.
Su superficie total es de 50 000 m² cuadrados aproximadamente, de los que 19 000 están edificados y los 31 000 restantes son espacio libre. Está bordeada por un canal que recorre 515 m y es atravesado por cuatro puentes. Los edificios que envuelven la plaza se estructuran en un edificio central, alas con edificaciones intermedias que compensan una excesiva longitud y torres en los extremos. Esta planta responde de forma muy cercana al esquema formal del tipo de villa palladiana con alas curvas, como la Villa Badoer de Fratta Polesine o Villa Trissino en Meledo, mostradas por el arquitecto italiano Andrea Palladio en sus Cuatro libros de la arquitectura, que Aníbal González conocía.
La construcción está realizada con ladrillo visto y cuenta con una amplia decoración de cerámica. Los techos de la galería de la plaza cuentan artesonados de madera que se sostienen con columnas de mármol. Los respaldos de los bancos y algunas farolas están realizadas en hierro forjado.
Los medallones con efigies de españoles ilustres, las columnas marmóreas y los artesonados dan al conjunto un ambiente renacentista. Según los escritos de Aníbal González su inspiración para diseñar la plaza había sido el Renacimiento español, aportándole el arquitecto sevillano nuevos elementos modernos.13 Las dos torres que flanquean la plaza, que proporcionan un ambiente de estilo barroco, miden 74 metros de altura.
Torre Sur con la ría.
La fuente central, obra de Vicente Traver, ha sido muy cuestionada porque rompe la rotundidad de vacío de la plaza. El canal que contiene es cruzado por 4 puentes que representan los 4 antiguos reinos de España (León, Castilla, Aragón y Navarra).
En las paredes de la plaza se encuentra una serie de 48 bancos que representan, por orden alfabético, cuarenta y seis provincias españolas peninsulares (todas excepto Sevilla) y los dos archipiélagos (Canarias y Baleares), con su escudo, un mapa y un paño de azulejo pisano con hechos históricos destacados de ese territorio. Los bancos se encuentran divididos en cuatro tramos, y al principio y final de cada uno, se encuentra un paño de azulejo relativo a la provincia de Sevilla. Los bancos tienen, también, a los lados, dos pequeñas torres con anaqueles que han sido usados en alguna ocasión para colocar libros.14
Otros detalles destacables son sus múltiples relieves realizados por el escultor Pedro Navia:
Seis ventanas renacentistas.
El escudo de Sevilla que adorna las puertas de Navarra y Aragón.
Las 24 águilas imperiales con el escudo de Carlos I.
Los 48 medallones con la efigie de personajes ilustres sobre cada arco que comprende cada provincia.
Los cuatro heraldos de tres metros de altura, que representan a los antiguos reinos y flanquean las dos torres.
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The Plaza de España - Seville
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_de_Espa%C3%B1a,_Seville
The Plaza de España ("Spain Square", in English) is a plaza in the Parque de María Luisa (Maria Luisa Park), in Seville, Spain. It was built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. It is a landmark example of Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of the Baroque Revival, Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival (Neo-Mudéjar) styles of Spanish architectureMaria Luisa Park
Main article: Maria Luisa Park
In 1929, Seville hosted the Ibero-American Exposition World's Fair, located in the celebrated Maria Luisa Park (Parque de María Luisa). The park gardens were designed by Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier.The entire southern end of the city was redeveloped into an expanse of gardens and grand boulevards.
The centre of it is Parque de María Luisa, designed in a "Moorish paradisical style", with a half mile of tiled fountains, pavilions, walls, ponds, benches, and exhedras; lush plantings of palms, orange trees, Mediterranean pines, and stylized flower beds. Numerous buildings were constructed in the park to provide spaces for the exhibition.
Plaza de España
The Plaza de España, designed by Aníbal González, was a principal building built on the Maria Luisa Park's edge to showcase Spain's industry and technology exhibits. González combined a mix of 1920s Art Deco and Spanish Renaissance Revival, Spanish Baroque Revival and Neo-Mudéjar styles. The Plaza de España complex is a huge half-circle; the buildings are accessible by four bridges over the moat, which represent the ancient kingdoms of Spain. In the centre is the Vicente Traver fountain.
Many tiled alcoves were built around the plaza, each representing a different province of Spain. The Plaza's tiled Alcoves of the Provinces are frequent backdrops for visitors' portrait photographs, taken in their own home province. Each alcove is flanked by a pair of covered bookshelves, now used by visitors in the manner of a "Little Free Library". Each bookshelf often contains works with information about their province. Visitors have also donated favorite novels and other books for others to read.
Today the buildings of the Plaza de España have been renovated and adapted for use as offices for government agencies. The central government departments, with sensitive adaptive redesign, are located within it. Toward the end of the park, the grandest mansions from the fair have been adapted as museums. The most distant museum contains the city's archaeology collections. The main exhibits are Roman mosaics and artefacts from nearby Italica.
The Plaza de España has been used as a filming location, including scenes for Lawrence of Arabia (1962). The building was used as a location in the Star Wars movie series Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) — in which it featured in exterior shots of the City of Theed on the Planet Naboo. It also featured in the 2012 film The Dictator.
The plaza was used as a set for the video of Simply Red's song "Something Got Me Started".
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This was an extremely rare sighting of Crocodilus Cirrocumulus, the ever-elusive (and always hungry) Cloud Croc. I almost missed it, but luckily, I looked up at the right moment and was able to capture the moment when it was about to nibble on (or rather take a hearty bite of) the roof of Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus (MELH), a prominent building in Berlin's government district. I'm not sure where in terms of culinary quality MELH is placed but the Cloud Croc must have changed its mind at the last minute because the roof is still intact. Maybe this particular specimen didn't like the taste of modern architecture or the materials used in the construction (Cloud Crocs are known for their extremely sensitive sense of smell)... Well, we will never know but at least my photo is proof that Crocodilus Cirrocumulus exists.
This is some minimalist cloud creature fun for Sliders Sunday, another oldie that I wanted to upload for a long time but always forgot about when I returned to my newest images in LR. Out of sight, out of mind, I guess. When I took the photo, I didn't even notice the croc (or maybe dragon or snake, what do you see?) but thought that the cloud (cirrocumulus, I'd say) looked as if it had been shaped by the roof. It was a quick snap before the cloud changed its shape and the creature was gone.
I'd processed the photo a long time ago, and only added some "Brilliance and Warmth" to it in Color Efex yesterday when I decided it was finally time for an upload. So, unfortunately, I can't tell you much about the previous processing steps. I think I enhanced the clarity and did some denoising before, and I'm sure other stuff as well because almost all my images are post-processed (often a lot) because I enjoy processing as much as photography itself.
HSS, Everyone!
Tofu is truly a sensitive soul. There are a lot of things he is afraid of, like the vet, the vacuum cleaner, the garbage truck, the doorbell, the neighbour's dogs, people he doesn't know, etc. Whenever something worries him he hides either behind me or behind Cleo and if that isn't possibe he disappears behind the sofa. On the other hand he is a very kind, sweet, charming and peaceful cat. He is the only cat I have ever had who can sit under a birdfeeder for hours while birds come and go and no bird will get harmed because he just wants to watch them.
Posted for the Happy Caturday theme "Personality traits".
On our Northern British Columbia, Yukon, and Alaska road trip adventure, we drove to Chicken, Alaska, from Dawson City. We did it on the Top of the World Highway, a distance of about 200 km one way. The highway is gravel all the way except for the first 10 km at Dawson City and 10 km at the US-Canada border. The entire portion of the highway in Yukon is also known as Yukon Highway 9. The Alaskan portion is part of Alaska Route 5 and is a portion of the Taylor Highway Scenic Byway. The highway is so named because for much of its length it skirts the crest of the hills, looking down on the valleys. At those latitudes, it's also one of the most northerly highways in the world. Driving this route, the incredible views are never-ending. During winter, the border crossing is closed from mid-September to mid-April, and the entire road is not cleared of snow.
Roads this far north are built on top of permafrost, which is very sensitive to heat. Asphalt absorbs the sun's heat, melting the permafrost under it, leaving dips on the road. In winter the opposite happens; as the moisture under the road starts to freeze, it creates a frost heave. As vehicles run over these dips and heaves, the asphalt cracks and breaks apart, making repairs extremely difficult and expensive. The gravel roads are easy to repair, and for the most part they are in excellent condition.