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Woody Woodpecker figured out how to get suet from the feeder.
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Caspian Tern. Best Viewed Large On Black They feed mainly on fish, which they dive for, hovering high over the water and then plunging. They also occasionally eat large insects, the young and eggs of other birds and rodents. They may fly up to 60 km from the breeding colony to catch fish; it often fishes on freshwater lakes as well as at sea. IMG_1866
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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Loon family...Day 2 Part 2 !! It's very hard to get close, they have a 20 foot radius you cross that boundary line (comfort zone) and they yodel "back off"!! I didn't need Google to tell me that I had plenty of time to study their language, although, never outstaying my welcome. It's an insult to have anyone think I'd keep the little one as I'm not a diver or live in the water. My firm motto in life (always has been) is if you love something set it free, if it comes back, it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was. I love this little one dearly, even though he was only with me for 24 hours. He is the one lifting his head up slightly as I peeped...his sibling is swimming next to dad.
The morning of reuniting Yogi with his family butterflies consumed my stomach as I had a lot of pressure to get this right. Yogi's life depended on it. When I arrived at the dock a lovely old couple greeted me and the sweetest faced lady who reminded me of my dad's mother was standing with her walker. She immediately asked me what on earth was wrong as I was crying from the overwhelming task ahead. She hugged me and said, "sweet angel, bless your heart for doing this, takes a special soul." Was as if God placed her there just for me as reinforcement. After their well wishes I then headed out in search of Yogi's parents praying the whole way I'd find them in a good spot.... It was crucial!! There they were...I paddled up as close as I could to the sibling chick. Kissed Yogi goodbye, scooped up my little bundle of fluff and placed him on my paddle, extended him as close as I dared and, Plop, dropped him into the water next to his sibling and...hurrah, he floated! I spun around to head out of dodge and the mother loon rushed over and scooped Yogi up onto her back. Success! Glancing back I was relieved to see the reunited loon family all swimming away. That night the haunting call of the loons had a special meaning for me and I smiled contentedly as I watched the loons floating in the moon splashed waves. I go to visit them every day, morning and night. So far so good, my heart does a happy dance every time I see him, on the third night the proud male paraded his family right by my kayak to show off their kids...the male's idea...after I saw the female giving him shit. It was priceless!...Every day is a blessing!
Dedicated to Elizabeth ....the sweet lady on the dock and Yogi, my miracle baby :)
Happy Canada Day!
An Olive Thrush (Turdus olivaceus) had success catching some worms in our backyard pot...
Southern Suburbs, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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.
I knit a sweater for my Middie. With sweater weather upon us, I guess I will be busy knitting up cozy sweaters for my Middies, Blythes and Cakes. Yay!!!
Sweater and sweater smock pattern by Pollymakes.co.uk
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.
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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Abellio London 2557 (YX17NVD) is seen at White City Bus Station on route 207.
This vehicle is branded up for route 427 as part of the new Hayes route branding scheme, so shouldn't really be on this route.
Étretat est une commune française située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime en Normandie (anc. Haute-Normandie).
Naguère modeste village de pêcheurs, Étretat est devenue une station balnéaire de renom. Elle se trouve au nord du Havre en Normandie, sur le littoral de la Manche en pays de Caux. L'aspect extraordinaire et monumental de ses falaises de craie blanche presque immaculée et ses plages de galets grisâtres en ont fait un des lieux du tourisme international. Des peintres comme Gustave Courbet, Eugène Boudin ou Claude Monet ont beaucoup contribué à sa publicité, en en immortalisant la spécificité. Des écrivains comme Gustave Flaubert et Guy de Maupassant ont été des fidèles du lieu tandis que Maurice Leblanc, qui y vécut, contribua au mythe entourant le site dans une aventure d'Arsène Lupin intitulée L'Aiguille creuse.
Le site des falaises d'Étretat est classé dans le programme des Opérations Grands Sites (OGS), piloté par le ministère de l'Écologie et du Développement durable.
Étretat vu par le satellite Spot.
Les falaises d'Étretat sont constituées de calcaire du Crétacé, c'est-à-dire, pour l'essentiel, de la craie blanche à silex du Sénonien, plus précisément du Turonien au Coniacien. Il n'y a pas d'autres minéraux, contrairement à ce que l'on observe ailleurs sur ce même littoral cauchois (par exemple le grès dans le nord du département de Seine-Maritime, aux environs de Dieppe), ni de calcaire oolithique du Jurassique comme celui des falaises du Calvados qui est de teinte plus jaune. On y distingue donc uniquement les strates régulières de silex, ce qui explique la présence de galets sur la plage. En effet, à la suite de l'effondrement de pans de falaise, le calcaire et le silex se trouvent au contact de l'eau de mer qui dissout le calcaire et l'action des vagues polit le silex pour en faire des galets.
Strates de silex qui expliquent la présence de galets sur la plage. Encoches de sapement creusées par la mer au pied des falaises.
Plus à l'est, on trouve à Fécamp des falaises calcaires qui comptent parmi les plus hautes de ce type avec 105 m au cap Fagnet et 120 m en haut de la côte de la Vierge, contre seulement 75 m au maximum côté aval et 84 au maximum côté amont à Étretat. Au pied des falaises, on constate la présence d'éboulis qui proviennent de la chute de pans entiers de roche. En effet, l'eau de pluie s'infiltre dans la craie poreuse et l'action du gel peut alors s'ajouter à ce phénomène destructeur. Comparativement, l'action de la mer est moindre, bien que sa responsabilité soit également établie dans le processus de destruction des falaises, car elle en érode la base en pratiquant des encoches de sapement. Autrement dit, « les agents d'érosion les plus actifs sont davantage continentaux que marins. C'est d'ailleurs ce qui permet de comprendre les éboulements fréquents au long de la vallée de Seine, qui ne doivent évidemment rien à la mer.
L'existence de trois arches successives : la porte d'Amont, la porte d'Aval et la Manneporte ne serait pas liée à l'origine à l'érosion marine, mais à l'action d'une rivière côtière parallèle à la plage qui aurait creusé son lit dans la falaise avant le recul de celle-ci, matérialisé par l'« aiguille » d'un calcaire plus dur qui a empêché sa dissolution définitive, d'où cette extraordinaire création de la nature. Ensuite, la mer aurait élargi les arches, donnant au site l'aspect qu'on lui connait aujourd'hui. Une autre hypothèse met au contraire l'accent sur une érosion différentielle par la mer, qui serait liée aux caractéristiques de dureté de la craie locale dans la zone de balancement des marées.
After waiting patiently for what seemed like forever, this great blue heron finally plucked his breakfast out of the water at his feet. He's looking real proud of himself, so I "glorified" his surroundings for Sliders Sunday, using a variety of stuff in Topaz Studio.
And here we are taking another step upwards in our journey of success..
Thank you allah for helping us reach where we have reached today, and may i ask you to help us go on ..
Okay so in this post i'd like to thank my classmates and some other girls from school for the ADORABLE birthday party, I HAD A BLAST.
Oh btw flickr members i turned 17 on 26-2-2008.
And thanks to those who congragulated me by flickr posts, fone msgs, pm's, gifts, hugs or by anything i cant remember now ;p without you people my life is meaningless ;p
Models: Mayarah *on the left* Ragla *on the right / not in flickr*
Taken by me in school ba3ad 3ana2 w sha8a2 ;p
So that day was the day we were supposed to take photos in school with our graduation gowns, and we went crazy ;p ofcourse hatha '3air the day they gave us our graduation gowns *which was 3 days prior* OMG T5ABALNA WE SCREAMED AND RAN AROUND AND CRASHED INTO CLASSES AND DID EVERYTHING STUPID IN THE WORLD.
CONGRATS SENIORS 08 3U8BAL IL REAL TA5AROJ WIL AVERAGE ILI YBAYYE'6 IL WAYH ;D
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Thanks aunt and cousins for the lovely Bday party, even though u embarrassed me infront of my uncles and MALE cousins ;p cant express how much i love u ALL...
Landmark Mercantile
Mesquite, Texas
April 16th, 2023
Capturing the thrill of the ride, one click at a time. Witnessing the incredible teamwork of these cowboys and cowgirls as they rope their way to success in under 15 seconds is simply amazing. Even with the long hours and dead batteries, I'm proud to have been a part of it all.
© 2023 Kristina Truluck
Yesterday, I saw this Great Blue Heron standing in the water about 200- 400 yards up the beach from me. So, I slowly made my way up towards it to hopefully get a shot or two. But I hadn't gone very far before I could tell it was about to go fishing, so I quickly grabbed a few shots as it came up with this fish. Looks like a perch of some kind. I took some shots of one fishing in this area a few years ago and it came up with an eel.
This is obviously a crop. If you want to see how much of one, check the next image. Lots of detail as you can see ... water drops, bill piercing the fish, etc. Certainly happy with the Sigma 150-600/ D810 combo.
I did get a little closer and the next shot after the original from this one is a crop from one of those closer images. Better, as you can see.
As a comparison of the Sigma 150-600/Nikon D810 gear, compare it with a shot I took in much the same area in July of 2013 with the Sigma 150-500/NikonD300. That one is not a crop, by the way. Wish I could get that close now.
Osprey flies with its prize over the 'Deep Hole' at Lower Myakka Lake, Myakka State Park, Florida (5 March, 2020) Almost got some eyeshine in the fish, which may be a white crappie.
I managed to get us both in the shot, but look at all the mud :P It was in my mouth too, with a reserve supply in my mustache.