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By 17:40 ish it had opened one pair of wings but the centre pair were still partially stuck, so I gingerly parted them with a pen.
And, PING! all was well !
Here it is still not ready to go as the wings are still not at full tightness, but an hour later it was gone.
It does have a dent in the left eye complex, so it's possible i shall recognise it if I see it around!
Shown here: Cattle Egrets and a Snowy Egret.
Egrets and herons nesting at water level in this freshwater pond in Taylor, Texas leaves nests and birds vulnerable to devastating losses during flooding. I've only observed drought conditions here in recent years and will have to research flooding in the area in the past. However, as a fairly new rookery (4 or 5 years old or so, I believe), I've not seen any prior flooding of the rookery).
This shot was taken 13 days before the severe Memorial Day 2015 flooding which inundated a significant proportion of the nests at this nuisance rookery in Central Texas .
Williamson County, Texas, USA; May 18, 2015.
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A day out on the 10th December, which was to be my last outing of 2025, to photograph Kingfishers. Weather was very variable.
I didn't expect much but ended up getting several visits through the day.
At last the Kingfisher climbs away with a Fish.
The Common Kingfisher is a small bird with unmistakable plumage. Its back is bright metallic blue and its breast is a coppery-brown. The beak is long and black, though females have a orange patch at the base.
Ieri notte mi è successa una cosa bellissima…
percorrevo il solito tragitto della metro gialla, fino a casa mia, con sul lettore mp3 una canzone messa in loop….che da qualche giorno è la mia ossessione…(per un sacco di motivi....ma anche perché è in inglese, si, ma il testo è breve e semplicissimo…ho imparato le parole e la canto bene…senza sbagliare..o farfugliare pronunce improbabili!!!)
Tenevo la testa appoggiata sul braccio, a sua volta appoggiato nel ferro del sedile delle metro….(quando viaggio la sera sto sempre in questa posizione..molto rilassante)
….per tutto il tragitto c’era un tizio di fronte a me…si vedeva che era pensieroso…..occhi enormi, arrossatissimi….sguardo perso…. (o magari semplicemente si era ammazzato di canne…)
Io pensavo …a pensieri….pensieri di ogni genere…..futuro, lavoro, studio, passioni, amori, non amori, sessi, non sessi..dubbi e perplessità, varie ed eventuali…. ….le solite stronzate di noi femmine….(ho notato che mi piace crogiolarmi nelle mie insicurezze, la sera quando torno dal lavoro…)
Uscita dalla metro c’era il diluvio….una pioggia fortissima, ogni goccia era cicciona ma non pesante…morbida….molto dolce…
….ho iniziato a correre sotto la pioggia a più non posso (ok …sono lentissima..il mio “più non posso” corrisponderà ad un “passo svelto” per la maggior parte degli esseri umani!!!)…e nel lettore sempre quella canzone …..ad un tratto..avevo il fiatone….e ho rallentato, fino a riprendere una andatura calma e rilassata….percepivo adesso i capelli bagnati, e le gocce che mi cadevano dappertutto, sul viso…e il vestitino tutto appiccicato addosso..(che faceva molto porno star anni 90)…e ho cominciato a ridere….ad amare la pioggia…..
impagabile sensazione di libertà…
….. ho pensato che sarei anche potuta morire, quando la canzone sarebbe finita per l’ennesima volta….
I have had a fixed bee hotel in the garden for several years without a single guest. This year I tried mounting a new hotel on an old bird table stand so I could try a more open location which has worked very well.
The photo shows a female Willughby's leafcutter bee bringing a leaf into one of the larger bedrooms. Earlier in the year red mason bees colonised the smallest tubes, sealing them with mud. Middle size tubes were colonised by patchwork leafcutter bees. Definitely an advantage having tubes of different diameter and an open aspect is obviously critical.
My photographer friend and I got one opportunity to get "the shot" of Bald Eagles fishing below The Dalles Dam on the Oregon side. That might be enough for standing in the cold breeze on uneven basalt rock for 3 hours. At least the Shad was significant in size!
I've always wanted to photograph badgers, but have had a hard time finding them and photographing them.
I spotted my first Badger down in San Benito County in 2017 while photographing Golden Eagles. That sighting was on a distant hillside. This sighting was a lot closer, and I was thrilled to get a clean image just past sunset at a crazy low shutter speed and high ISO. Amazing how modern cameras focus in such low light and how much post-processing software has advanced. It's always a great feeling to get a nemesis species, especially when battling challenging conditions to do so and after a 7-year wait!
Species: American Badger (Taxidea taxus)
Location: California, USA
Equipment: Canon EOS R5 + RF 100-500mm IS
Settings: 1/10s, ISO: 12800, f/7.1 @500mm, Handheld, Electronic Shutter
After so many failed attempts, she finally managed to stand up on the board! :)
Have a lovely day, everyone...
A regular feature along our coasts is the lovely oystercatcher with a song so distinctive even I can recognise it.
This one was probing with success the shoreline of Oban Bay.
Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
Oban Bay - Scotland
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I made Bar B Qued Venison Ribs for Christmas eve. I had no recipe, nor had I ever made them before. They dissapeared pretty quick and the "Regular" Venison eaters of the family gave a thumbs up.
We finished up our recent trip down south with a day on the Pee Dee River Railroad. The weather could have been better, with clouds ,rain and wind, but we made the best of the situation. Here, we find the eastbound freight train approaching McColl, SC and the interchange with CSX. Power was two former CSX/SBD GP16's. Leader No. 1842 began life in Feb., 1952 as Seaboard Air Line GP7 No. 1795. It was rebuilt to a GP16 in June, 1982 at Seaboard System's Uceta Shop in Tampa, FL. I remember from back then that Seaboard System hoped to get another 10 years out of them with the rebuild. Well, 40 years later No. 1842 still carries on, and I think the rebuild could be judged a success.
Ever since I saw my first Ospreys back in 2013, diving in a local storm water pond for Goldfish, Koi or Catfish I was hooked. Every summer since I scout various storm water ponds around Greater Toronto Area over the week-ends for an opportunity to watch and photograph the spectacle. Sometimes I get lucky, most often I don't. These storm water ponds are mecca for migrating Ospreys. By end of first week of September they are very much gone from our area. A very narrow window of opportunity, but what an opportunity that is because of proximity of these ponds and their relative smaller size afford photographing these magnificent birds from close range.
Red-breasted Nuthatch extracts a seed from the Fir Cones and then will fly back to the interior of the tree and then come back out to continue hunting.
Recently restored by HET and Sydney Trains is heritage Red set W3 seen passing through Regents Park on run 880D bound for FMC from Campbelltown after a successful second shakedown run
W3 consists of 2 Commonwealth Engineering Sputnik cars built in 1955 C3708 & C3702 and 2 Double Deck Tulloch cars built in 1964 T4801 & T4814. Each car is represented in different liveries of their time in service and were the first Suburban cars to enter service with Powered doors
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. . . may be a good way to describe a flower. I don't like hearing "spectacular" to describe a bombing. Michigan lily (lilium michiganense) in my native wildflower garden now. Webster Groves, Missouri.
Confidence Will Lead To Success…
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Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. Do you agree?
I love photography. I went through this online program recently and noticed a lot of photographers seem to be having success with it.
I have just joined this program,
Maybe it would help you out the good stuffs at around the hour mark,
Woody Woodpecker figured out how to get suet from the feeder.
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Success!!!
This fish had been dropped after an aerial food fight at Conowingo Dam, then two juveniles tried unsuccessfully to retrieve it.
Finally this adult came down and showed the youngsters how to do it
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La Fernehturm se dresse au Panoramastraße 1A, Berlin, Allemagne. Une vue à partir de l’Alexanderplatz située au nord-est de la tour.
À Berlin, le régime communiste a disparu depuis longtemps, mais il a laissé un héritage durable qui prend la forme de cette Tour de communication haute de 368 m et surmontée d’une sphère qui domine la place et le secteur. Surnommée la "Grande asperge" (Telespargel), la tour a été construite en 1969 pour célébrer le 20e anniversaire de communiste Allemagne de l'Est.
L'emplacement de la Tour de télévision fut soigneusement choisi pour la rendre visible sur chacun des grands axes menant au centre historique de Berlin. Elle visait à montrer la puissance du nouvel État athée. Ironie de l'histoire, le reflet du soleil sur la sphère dessine une croix. Ce phénomène fut rapidement baptisé la "Vengeance du Pape" (Rache des Papstes) en référence à la politique de discrimination des institutions religieuses sous le régime de RDA. D'un objet de fierté du régime est-allemand, la Tour de Télévision devint, à une certaine époque, un sujet de raillerie.
Berlin est la capitale et la plus grande ville d'Allemagne et la ville la plus peuplée de l'Union européenne. Située dans le Nord-Est du pays, c'est également l'un des seize Länder de la République fédérale.
Fondée au 13e siècle, Berlin a été successivement capitale de l'électorat du Brandebourg (1247-1701), du royaume de Prusse (1701-1871), de l'Empire allemand (1871-1918), de la république de Weimar (1919-1933) et du Troisième Reich (1933-1945). Après 1945 et jusqu'à la chute du mur de Berlin en 1989, la ville est partagée en quatre secteurs d'occupation. Pendant la guerre froide, le secteur soviétique de la ville, nommé Berlin-Est, est devenu la capitale de la République démocratique allemande, alors que Berlin-Ouest était politiquement rattachée à la République fédérale d'Allemagne, devenant ainsi un bastion avancé du « Monde libre » à l'intérieur du Bloc communiste.
Après la chute du mur, Berlin redevint, en 1990, la capitale de l'Allemagne alors réunifiée, et les principales institutions fédérales y emménagèrent en 1999.
After striking out so many times when attempting to shoot the nightly M704 on the Hudson Line, I was finally able to catch it on this cool October's night. CSXT484 leads a roughly 11000ft train northbound through Peekskill.
Sort of. This little female Hooded Merganser is a very efficient hunter, while I watched she caught 4 blennies, an eel-like fish. Seems that catching them's the easy part, though, she really had a struggle getting them down. Mind you, they weren't terribly cooperative either. There's a video here that shows her difficulty. Have a good weekend, and don't fight with your food.
Not everyone in life is successful. Some try harder than others and success seems to find those with a combination of luck and determination. And sometimes not even those people will make it.
Defeat is not a shameful conclusion.
Because to be defeated means that you actually tried.
Those who don't try can't expect success.
Or happiness.
Had the opportunity to observe a pair of great tits bringing in food for their freshly hatched baby birds. It's an exhausting labor done by both the male and the female and it goes on for hours on a day.
They provided strictly proteins and it was not longer than 2-3 minutes between raids. Every single one being a success and ending with yet another insect dropped into the nest.
E’ piuttosto volgare il buonsenso. Abbassa il livello delle aspirazioni, valuta le possibilità di successo e soprattutto quelle di fallimento, calcola. Il coraggio, la sincerità e l’istinto non hanno nessuna possibilità di resistergli, se gli dai il tempo di organizzarsi e preparare la controffensiva. L’impulso che ci spinge a cambiare, il vento che rovina, non ha quegli argomenti, anzi spesso non ne ha affatto. Non si lascia corrompere da ragioni di convenienza e non pretende di aver ragione. Propone scelte estreme e irresponsabili e non promette risultati. Possiamo assecondarlo o sopprimerlo, prenderlo o lasciarlo, dire si o no. E’ questo il bello.
Mancarsi - Diego De Silva
questo silenzio così duro da raccontare...
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