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Photographed at my home while snowing. More snow forecast for this afternoon and tonight. Snow results in large number of birds at my feeders. This bird or perhaps several Sharp-shinned Hawks are frequent visitors to my home. IMG_9052
66519 is the leading end of the 6X08 0525 Thorne Jct - Stapleford as it approaches Thornhill and a signal check due to NR working near Masborough Jct , bringing up the rear is 66522.
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Wishing you all a very Happy & Healthy New Year!
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Long Island, New York
The story: We were away last week, staying at a motel, when this topic came up. Always up for a challenge, I grabbed their corkscrew and my tiny Lumix TZ220, which has a digital macro zoom setting. Their kitchenette was dark so I tilted myself around so that the light from the window in the next room, provided the back lighting, thus putting the corkscrew almost in shadow with the sharp section highlighted. Amazing what you can achieve when you need to. 😀
This image features a nuthatch clinging to the side of a tree trunk, with its body angled downward. Nuthatches are skilled climbers, often seen creeping headfirst down tree trunks, a unique behavior among birds.They forage for insects, seeds, and nuts in tree bark crevices, using their sharp beaks to pry food out. Nuthatches are territorial, particularly during the breeding season, and will defend their area vigorously.
They use a variety of calls and postures to communicate with intruders or rivals.
Great Gray Owl
Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, OR
Gray suit, bow tie, every girl's crazy about a sharp-dressed owl. Or at least I am.
From the archives, shot with a Nikon D300 and manual focus Nikkor 500mm lens with 1.4 teleconverter.
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Long Island, New York
‘She would have been a good woman if there had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life’!
-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find
This quotation, at the end of the story, reveals the Misfit’s understanding of what has occurred in the grandmother’s final moments, and he seems to recognize two things about her. First, he fully understands that despite her obvious belief in her moral superiority—which she conveys through her self-proclaimed identification as a “lady” and religious instruction—the grandmother is not, in fact, a good woman. She is flawed and weak, and her age grants her no particular rights for respect or reverence. Second, the Misfit recognizes that when facing death, the grandmother has the capacity to be a good woman. In her final moments, she foregoes the moral high ground she’d staunchly held and instead embraces her and the Misfit’s common humanity. The Misfit observes this shift and seems to realize what it means: if the grandmother could have lived her life at gunpoint, so to speak, she could have gained the self-awareness and compassion that she’d lacked.
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“For me Christian faith fulfils us by dismantling us in unwelcome ways.“
-The Human Poetry of Faith A Spiritual Guide to Life Michael Paul Gallagher, S.J.
“Even on a human level we are afraid to love. We fear its price. Therefore we compromise and look for a cheaper way to live.“
.. “Can we ever be changed by grace without a blasting annihilating light, a blast that will last a lifetime? Grace is not always gentle. It has to be rough to get through the fortifications.”
-The Human Poetry of Faith A Spiritual Guide to Life Michael Paul Gallagher, S.J.
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Captured up close, I loved the sharp focus of this woman looking down the street and was so pleased to get some sharp focus of my own for the image.
This is the same woman I captured 'Turning Around' here flic.kr/p/MHyk6A. She had such a strikingly beautiful profile but I was so pleased to, unusually for me, click the shutter again when she turned around. Enjoy!
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We have occasional visits from Coelioxys Sharp-tailed Bees in our Staffordshire garden. Here's the first I've seen in 2020. Coelioxys bees are brood parasites of various leafcutter bee species, so if you have a bee-hotel in your garden, keep a look-out for them.
Three species have been recorded in the county; C. inermais, C. elongata and C. rufescens. They are very difficult to differentiate, even more so from photographs. This female was on one of our bee-hotels. I managed to catch her and photograph her. I returned her safely to the same spot afterwards.
Sharp-tailed grouse.
Recently we were invited to visit Manitoulin Island to see a sharp tailed grouse lek.
It was amazing. We were in a blind and the birds were about 10 feet away.
We saw about 40 birds, some down in the grass and a few more in the open. This one was at the road side as we were leaving.
May 1, 2025, Ontario, Canada.
Tympanuchus phasianellus
Scientists place Sharp-tailed Grouse in genus Tympanuchus, the prairie-chickens. The word means “drum nape” and refers to the purple air sacs (extensions of the esophagus) that displaying males inflate at the side of the neck. These sacs are not simply adornments. They amplify the male’s cooing courtship call and may help to show off his overall health.
While trying to photograph a group of agitated blue jays at my feeder, this young hawk came out of the trees and landed directly in front of me on a trellis. It stayed long enough for me to take this shot.
Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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Those little things that you stick in the ends of your corn cob so you don't get your fingers messy. In theory anyway.
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This is the new shopping centre in Las Vegas. The building on the right is a Prada store. I took a similar shot in a different orientation which I will put in the comments.
Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) male on a "lek" or dancing grounds on the prairie landscape of Camp Wainwright Military Base at Wainwright, Alberta, Canada.
3 May, 2016.
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Walking through the neighborhood this evening and my sharp eyed son spotted this sharp shin hawk. The hawk was not 10 feet up the tree and sat for a minute as I got off at least 10 shots.
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Another shot of a Sharp-tailed Sandpiper feeding along the sand flats at low tide.
Scientific name: Calidris acuminata
The peculiar design of the CC-40110 electric powered locomotive launched in 1964 on French railways, retired in 1996. AJECTA, Longueville (77)
Small as accipiters go, but high intensity — that encapsulates the identity of Sharp-shinned Hawk (a smaller relative of Cooper’s Hawk and American Goshawk [formerly called Northern Goshawk)]. This image from Carburn Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, shows some salient features of Sharp-shinned Hawk: those piercing eyes, the long talons, and a long banded tail (which enables navigating among trees in chase of prey, usually small songbirds).
sep 8 2011
Today is my girlfriend's 19th birthday! yay~! :D
It's too bad we can't enjoy her birthday together. :(
Today i also learn that, even if you come first, you may not be the "winner".
Also,
"Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you..."~
Ngày 8 tháng 9 năm 2011
Hôm nay là sinh nhật của bạn gái mình, nhưng tiếc là cả hai không gặp nhau được :(.
Mưa quá... cũng nhờ mưa mà mình mới biết được, nếu mình tới trước thì cũng chưa chắc mình đã "được" một cái gì đó.
Chúc mừng sinh nhật "ấy" nhé~! ^^