Sailing Ship Success
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Hawk owl returning to its perch[hydro line LOL] after a successful dive in snow
The vole is covered by its wing didn't get a good angle that shows it other that back side of owl this was sharpest image of the burst
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning
and goes to bed at night and in between
does what he wants to do
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Flores de Santa Gemita - Laowa 65 - Oct 2022 - Enhanced-5
From earlier this year. One of the 3 recently fledged juvenile Common Kingfishers with a tasty (albeit tiny) fish. You have to start somewhere.
You can tell this female is a juvenile by the dark feet and the remains of the white aiming spot on the end of the bill.
Mama Red Necked Grebe shows me her eggs for the first time. I believe there are three. I went to check the nest this morning after a lot of rain and very strong winds yesterday. Thankfully the nest is about two inches / five centimetres above the waterline and there is no rain in the forecast.
Sadly, the weather became misting, fogging with heavy rain, our uphill to the Snowndon mountains wasn't a success event.
A royal spoonbill catches lunch at the lagoon. It is a 4 km walk from our friends house around the lagoon and beach and back to the house but always some pictures to be taken!
Hope you have a successful Friday and thanks very much if you have time for a comment.
"We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played." ~ Alan Watts
It took a few years, but finally some success at this spot! Des Moines to Proviso drag freight climbing out of the Rock River valley. The trees are taller, and the code pole line is gone.
In my previous post, a snowy egret had struck at a tiny fish as it flew by the water’s surface hoping for a fly-by catch. It was indeed successful and after gulping this tiny minnow down it continued its search for more.
On this particular morning, the tide was coming in and there was a feeding frenzy like I had not witnessed before. Literally a hundred or more birds were feeding in the shallow water feasting on the bounty of small fish. There were snowy egrets, great egrets, reddish egrets, great blue herons and white ibis to name a few. There was also a pod of baby tarpon feeding nearby, although they definitely didn’t fit the bill of “small fish!”
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Sur la piste synthétique, un tableau saisissant se dessine : au centre, une athlète rayonnante, le corps bandé d’énergie, le visage illuminé par la victoire !
Ses muscles sculptés témoignent d’une préparation impeccable, d’un entraînement sans concession.
Autour d’elle, un cercle de silhouettes effondrées. Dos courbés, regards perdus, elles incarnent l’abattement total. Leurs corps, naguère tendus vers l’effort, sont désormais affaissés, comme vidés de toute ambition.
Son sourire tranche brutalement avec l’atmosphère morose qui l’entoure. Chaque détail de sa gestuelle hurle la réussite, tandis que ses adversaires semblent avoir tout abandonné.
Un moment cristallisé où le sport révèle ses émotions les plus brutales : la gloire absolue contre le désespoir le plus complet !!! 🤔
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On the synthetic track, a striking image emerges: in the centre, a beaming athlete, her body full of energy, her face radiant with victory !
Her sculpted muscles bear witness to impeccable preparation and uncompromising training.
Around her, a circle of collapsed figures. Their backs bent, their gazes lost, they are the embodiment of total despondency. Their bodies, once taut with effort, are now collapsed, as if emptied of all ambition.
Their smiles stand in stark contrast to the gloomy atmosphere around them. Every detail of their movements screams success, while their opponents seem to have given up.
A crystalline moment in which sport reveals its most brutal emotions: absolute glory versus utter despair. !!!! 🤔
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After all of the effort in the previous photo this eagle did not fly away empty clawed. I could spend hours just watching these wonderful creatures. Their intense effort and precision are amazing.
After many years of putting up a variety of birdhouses we finally have a nesting pair of swallows who have taken up our offer and moved in to one of them. They are very attentive parents and are constantly checking the contents of their new home which I assume is one or two eggs.? Two years ago we did find a flying squirrel nesting in one of the other bird houses. The flying squirrel is nocturnal so we had no idea he/she was there until I went to take it down for some maintenance. I almost fell off the ladder when he/she jumped on my shoulder.
It's not much of a photo but I couldn't help but share our delight at our new tenants.
I've had great fun testing out the slow motion video function on my new camera on this pair - but - I am definitely not a videographer.
P.S. I don't own a 300mm f2.8 lens so I don't know why the EXIF info on this shot says that was what it was taken with ... wish I did own one. The photo was taken with a Sigma/Bigma 50-500mm Minolta a-mount with a mount adaptor.
- Rosa's Garden of Earthly Delights, Keefer Lake, Ontario, Canada -
Spent fours hours at the river yesterday watching the Juvenile Kingfishers as they honed their fishing skills ...
Caught this one as it returned to its perch after successfully catching a tiny fish ...
Stay safe out there ...
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