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whippoorwill, (Caprimulgus vociferus), nocturnal bird of North America belonging to the family Caprimulgidae (see caprimulgiform) and closely resembling the related common nightjar of Europe. It is named for its vigorous deliberate call (first and third syllables accented), which it may repeat 400 times without stopping. It lives in woods near open country, where it hawks for insects around dusk and dawn; by day it sleeps on the forest floor or perches lengthwise on a branch. About 24 cm (9 1/2 inches) long, it has mottled brownish plumage with, in the male, a white collar and white tail corners; the female’s tail is plain and her collar is buffy.
The weeping tree knows,
green-leafed spring is almost here.
The full moon hangs above.
(*A haiku is a traditional Japanese form of short poetry, with just three sentences - five, seven and five syllable length).
The Great Kis-Ka-Dee gets it's names from its three syllable call and the fact that this bird has aggressive bold markings and an attitude that goes along with it. They are easily found out in the open.
Thursday 3rd December - 9th December 2020 - WHAT A CON! is the theme for the Group Our Daily Challenge.
CONsider a range of words that CONtain the syllable "CON"
home from hydrotherapy
costume out to dry
anticipation of lunch
posting for Smile on Saturday: clothes pegs
Happy weekend and thank you for all visits!
Great Tit:-
The largest UK tit – it is green and yellow with a striking glossy black head with white cheeks and a distinctive two-syllable song. It is a woodland bird, which has readily adapted to man-made habitats to become a familiar garden visitor. It can be quite aggressive at a bird table, fighting off smaller tits. In winter it joins with blue tits and others to form roaming flocks, which scour gardens and countryside for food.
Courtesy: RSPB
The killdeer is a large plover found in the Americas. It gets its name from its shrill, two-syllable call, which is often heard. Three subspecies are described. Its upperparts are mostly brown with rufous fringes, the head has patches of white and black, and two black bands cross the breast. The belly and the rest of the breast are white.
clinging in the breeze
a bud emerging
field by the small church
posting for: Freitagsblümchen - friday flora
glove-hat-biting-cold
crackly beech leaves
a walk round the lake
posted for MosaicMontageMonday: Muted Tones.
HMMM!
The Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus lupus), also known as the common wolf, is a subspecies of grey wolf native to Europe and Asia. It was once widespread throughout Eurasia prior to the Middle Ages. Aside from an extensive paleontological record, Indo-European languages typically have several words for "wolf", thus attesting to the animal's abundance and cultural significance. It was held in high regard in Baltic, Celtic, Slavic, Turkic, ancient Greek, Roman, Dacian, and Thracian cultures, whilst having an ambivalent reputation in early Germanic cultures.
It is the largest of Old World grey wolves, averaging 39 kg (86 lb) in Europe; however, exceptionally large individuals have weighed 69–79 kg (152–174 lb), though this varies according to region. Its fur is relatively short and coarse, and is generally of a tawny colour, with white on the throat that barely extends to the cheeks. Melanists, albinos, and erythrists are rare, and mostly the result of wolf-dog hybridisation. According to Erik Zimen, the howl of the Eurasian wolf is much more protracted and melodious than that of North American grey wolf subspecies, whose howls are louder and have a stronger emphasis on the first syllable.
Many Eurasian wolf populations are forced to subsist largely on livestock and garbage in areas with dense human activity, though wild ungulates such as moose, red deer, roe deer and wild boar are still the most important food sources in Russia and the more mountainous regions of Eastern Europe. Other prey species include reindeer, argali, mouflon, wisent, saiga, ibex, chamois, wild goats, fallow deer, and musk deer.
I used to see Killdeer in marshlands and grasslands near the Delta. I'm assuming that they're still there, but I saw this one at the march by the Carquinez Strait. From the first time I saw one about 25 years ago, I thought they were one of the most beautiful and saddest birds ever. It always looked worried, and one it tried its broken wing defence on me. That was on the mountain on a dirt trail. I just let him be ... after getting the one shot. (Broken-wing defence: the bird pretends to have a broken wing and it flops on the ground. Now, I don't know whay that's supposed to work, but evidetly it does and it does just as well as playing dead with other animals. Sometimes nature is just too complex for me.
The killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a "large" plover found in the Americas. It gets its name from its shrill, two-syllable call, which is often heard.
The nonbreeding habitat of the killdeer includes coastal wetlands, beach habitats, and coastal fields. Its breeding grounds are generally open fields with short vegetation (but locations such as rooftops are sometimes used); although it is a shorebird, it does not necessarily nest close to water.
The killdeer primarily feeds on insects, although other invertebrates and seeds are eaten. It forages almost exclusively in fields, especially those with short vegetation and with cattle and standing water.
Its range is throughout the U.S. where it is a resident and almost all of Canada which is its breeding range.
From where we write when the word is orphaned and there is an abyss of ellipses opening a fissure in that intimate space between the lines that have yet to be born.
Then there is an orphanage of verses that sigh when it rains and syllable by syllable dissolve on the paper dreaming that they escape along with the tinkling of the drops.
From where one body joins another if the time was already ripe and while one sleeps with the orphaned syllable another uses an umbrella under a flood...With their backs turned, they will never see the same sun. Where inspiration and dreams are born.
Moon~
august sun
autumn early
flowers falling
thank you for visits, faves, comments
Hope you have a mellow sunny day!
cada grosor del aire
es impenetrable un agujero en el cemento hermético
si las palabras no estuvieran
todo sería más triste- pienso
el ahogo una condena de silabas mudas
si las palabras no fueran esas huellas
la luz se iría opacando
ensombreciendo
no haría ruido el manojo de llaves
que siempre tintinea en el bolsillo
los peces aullarían como en una superstición
y en cada puerto solo viento
perdido.
Claudia Ainchil
each thickness of air
is impenetrable, a hole in the airtight cement
If the words weren't there
everything would be sadder, I think
the suffocation a condemnation of silent syllables
If the words weren't those traces
the light would be fading
darkening
the bunch of keys would make no noise
always jingling in the pocket
the fish would howl like a superstition
and in each port only wind
lost
✿ NO WAR ✿
Wislawa Szymborska.
When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
sunlight and shadow
a tide of white yellow green
small cheerful faces
- many different flowers to be found in this beautiful garden
heartfelt thanks for all visits
In photography, bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image. Bokeh has also been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light". Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause very different bokeh effects. Some lens designs blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce distracting or unpleasant blurring ("good" and "bad" bokeh, respectively). Photographers may deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions, accentuating their lens's bokeh.
Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it is often associated with such areas. However, bokeh is not limited to highlights; blur occurs in all regions of an image which are outside the depth of field.
The term comes from the Japanese word boke, which means "blur" or "haze", or boke-aji, the "blur quality". This is derived as a noun form of the verb bokeru, which is written in several ways, with additional meanings and nuances such as blurry, hazy or out-of-focus, whereas the spellings refer to being mentally hazy, befuddled, childish, senile, or playing stupid.
The English spelling bokeh was popularized in 1997 in Photo Techniques magazine, when Mike Johnston, the editor at the time, commissioned three papers on the topic for the May/June 1997 issue; he altered the spelling to suggest the correct pronunciation to English speakers, saying "it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth, with equal stress on either syllable". The spellings bokeh and boke have both been in use since at least 1996, when Merklinger had suggested "or Bokeh if you prefer." The term bokeh has appeared in photography books as early as 1998. Source Wikipedia.
TD: 1/2500 f/2.8 ISO 800 @50 mm
And yes, it's a colour picture!
There's no fringing!
Cast : 1 plastic net, 1 pin, sunlight
Subject to sensor plane distance 230 mm
Crop factor 1/2
Editing ACR, converted in CS6
light breeze soft sunshine
conversation's ebb and flow
an afternoon tea
for Sliders Sunday
heartfelt thanks for all visits, faves and comments
Yes, they built a network of roads the grid of which is still the basic template for much of Britain's roads today. Here, south of Markyate in Hertfordshire, overlooking the Ver valley, you see the village of Flamstead on top of the hill. The syllable "flam" is a contraction of Latin "Verulamium", the name the Romans gave to the city which is now called St. Albans. "Ver" means "spring" ("Fruehling"). Along the River Ver ran the road connecting London and the Midlands. That road came to be known as "Watling Street", then became the A5 and now is the A5183.
a sunny day
light filled green leaves
cerise pink rose
posting for:
Freitagsblümchen - friday flora
Octubre Rosa / Pink October
Today we are going to enjoy a day out. Nothing unusual ( being retired) about that, of course, but the day is quite special as on this date August 22nd, in 1970, we embarked on this 'institution' called marriage. And here we are in 2025 - how did that happen, I ask myself?!
Have a great day yourselves, everyone!
summertime
a pink hollyhock
once upon a time
Mittwochsmakro - Wednesday Macro
Octubre Rosa / Pink October
thank you for all visits
Great Tit
Parus major
This is the largest UK tit with a distinctive two-syllable song. It has a green and yellow body and a striking glossy black head with white cheeks. It's a woodland bird that has readily adapted to man-made habitats to become a familiar garden visitor. It can be quite aggressive at a bird table, fighting off smaller tits. In winter, it joins with Blue Tits and others to form roaming flocks which scour gardens and countryside for food.
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Crimson Rosella
Platycercus elegans
Description: There are several colour forms of the Crimson Rosella. The form it is named for has mostly crimson (red) plumage and bright blue cheeks. The feathers of the back and wing coverts are black broadly edged with red. The flight feathers of the wings have broad blue edges and the tail is blue above and pale blue below and on the outer feathers. Birds from northern Queensland are generally smaller and darker than southern birds. The 'Yellow Rosella' has the crimson areas replaced with light yellow and the tail more greenish. The 'Adelaide Rosella' is intermediate in colour, ranging from yellow with a reddish wash to dark orange. Otherwise, all the forms are similar in pattern. Young Crimson Rosellas have the characteristic blue cheeks, but the remainder of the body plumage is green-olive to yellowish olive (occasionally red in some areas). The young bird gradually attains the adult plumage over a period of 15 months
Similar species: The adult Crimson Rosella is similar to male Australian King-Parrots, but differs by having blue cheeks, shoulders, and tail, a whitish, rather than red, bill and a dark eye. Immature Crimson Rosellas also differ from female and immature King-Parrots by having blue cheeks, a whitish bill and a more yellow-green rather than dark green colouring.
Distribution: There are several populations of the Crimson Rosella. Red (crimson) birds occur in northern Queensland, in southern Queensland to south-eastern South Australia and on Kangaroo Island. Orange birds are restricted to the Flinders Ranges region of South Australia, while yellow ones are found along the Murray, Murrumbidgee and neighbouring rivers (where yellow birds meet red birds they hybridise, producing orange offspring). Red birds have been introduced to Norfolk Island and New Zealand.
Habitat: Throughout its range, the Crimson Rosella is commonly associated with tall eucalypt and wetter forests.
Feeding: Crimson Rosellas are normally encountered in small flocks and are easily attracted to garden seed trays. Once familiar with humans, they will accept hand held food. Natural foods include seeds of eucalypts, grasses and shrubs, as well as insects and some tree blossoms.
Breeding: The Crimson Rosella's nest is a tree hollow, located high in a tree, and lined with wood shavings and dust. The female alone incubates the white eggs, but both sexes care for the young. The chicks remain dependent on their parents for a further 35 days after leaving the nest.
Calls: The Crimson Rosella has a range of calls, the commonest being a two-syllabled "cussik-cussik". It also has a range of harsh screeches and metallic whistles.
Minimum Size: 32cm
Maximum Size: 36cm
Average size: 34cm
Average weight: 129g
Breeding season: September to January
Clutch Size: 4 to 8 (usually 5)
Incubation: 20 days
Nestling Period: 35 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Platycercus-elegans)
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last on the bush
end of the season
shrivelled split alien
found in the walled garden at Mottisfont Abbey
Doesn’t care if you neglect to invite him to
All your popular haggis parties
Or if you insist
Kindle is better than paper
He doesn’t mind if
You read more political news articles
From your phone than books by
Jenni Fagan, Ali Smith, and Iain Banks combined
Arms, he has nought but
The novels he has sought
Can be absorbed as if by osmosis
Sucking in syllables like candy
Consuming pages in large doses
That’s how he stays fresh and dandy
Walking unpopular and less traveled streets
Recording observations about all he meets
Who needs a nose?
When you’re filled to the brim with prose
Who needs four limbs
When you can read classics for every whim
But do watch your diction
Whether you’re stating fact or fiction
He won’t publish rubbish
Poor syntax will cause friction
This man takes his time walking the city
Bothered not by the people who don’t think he’s pretty
His binding can be thoughtful and witty
He exists for paragraphs and poetry
Lives in the silence between sentences
Nae, he will always say
“Sticks and stones may break my bones but...
Words will never hurt."
**All poems and photos are copyighted**
All the letters I can write
Are not fair as this—
Syllables of Velvet—
Sentences of Plush,
Depths of Ruby, undrained,
Hid, Lip, for Thee—
Play it were a Humming Bird—
And just sipped—me—
Tall Meadow Rue taken at Blandford Nature Center where the meadows sleep and wait for green. "Meadow" is one of my favorite words. The sound itself is beautiful with the "m" moving into into the first syllable and ending on the "ow". It is derived from the Old English word "mædwe".
This is the longest Mani stone wall in the world ( estemated 1500 m ) ; it's located in Sershul County. Dza Patrul Rinpoche began its construction.
Mani walls
Along the paths of regions under the influence of Tibetan Buddhism the traveller is often confronted with Mani walls. These stone structures are a compilation intricately carved stone tablets, most with the inscription "Om Mani Padme Hum" which loosely translates to "Hail to the jewel in the lotus".[4] These walls should be passed or circumvented from the left side, the clockwise direction in which the earth and the universe revolve, according to Buddhist doctrine.
They are sometimes close to a temple or chorten, sometimes completely isolated and range from a few metres to a kilometre long and one to two metres high. They are built of rubble and sand and faced with mani stones engraved in the elegant Tibetan script.
Mani stones are stone plates, rocks and/or pebbles, inscribed with the six syllabled mantra of Avalokiteshvara (Om mani padme hum, hence the name "Mani stone"), as a form of prayer in Tibetan Buddhism. The term Mani stone may also be used in a loose sense to refer to stones on which any mantra or devotional designs (such as ashtamangala) are inscribed. Mani stones are intentionally placed along the roadsides and rivers or placed together to form mounds or cairns or sometimes long walls, as an offering to spirits of place or genius loci. Creating and carving mani stones as devotional or intentional process art is a traditional sadhana of piety to yidam. Mani stones are a form of devotional cintamani.
sea breeze
summer daze
just fishing
I was always fascinated to see a 'carrelet', or two, during a holiday on the Atlantic Coast in France.
thank you for all your visits
Created for Artistic Manipulation Mixmaster Challenge 43.
➤ Your image must be an open-card-style diptych (not just side-by-side panels … see first two entries below for examples).
➤ Your diptych must portray an illustrated, self-created HAIKU OF EXACTLY 17 SYLLABLES** with the haiku on one side panel and the illustration on the other (though it’s okay if your illustration bleeds onto the haiku side).
➤ Your illustration must include purple and/or blue flower(s).
➤Also one or more black or dark-colored silhouettes (human and/or animal).
➤ NO WATER of any kind.
Diptych template and big dragonfly from Pixabay. Text and small dragonfly from Pics Art. Flowers and haiku are my own.
L’expression “laisse béton” est une locution verbale en verlan qui signifie “laisse tomber”. Elle est formée à partir du verlan de l’impératif singulier de l’expression “laisser tomber”. Cette phrase est utilisée dans le langage familier pour demander à quelqu’un d’abandonner une situation ou de ne pas s’en préoccuper davantage !
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The expression “laisse béton” is a verbal phrase in verlan that means “drop it” or “let it go.” It is formed by reversing the syllables of the singular imperative form of the phrase “laisser tomber.” This phrase is used in informal language to ask someone to abandon a situation or not to worry about it further.
credit : Z5-2 + Z85 mm f/1.8
A couple of standard SOOC shots from my archives manipulated and collaged along with added graphic and drawing elements. A return to a form not employed for a few years. The title was pulled from the random text elements in the image. I take a great deal of my inspiration from the techniques and thoughts of the classic Dada-ists and Surrealists of the 20th century.
Created April 28, 2023. Explore April 29, 2023.
Music Link: Brian Eno, "Kurt's Rejoinder" - from his album "Before and After Science". Kurt Schwitters was one of the most influential of the Dada "Anti-Artists" of his time. Eno takes a pirated recording of a Kurt Schwitters performance of completely non-sensical but rhythmically sophisticated syllables from his "Ur Sonate" and adds his own mash-up of words, music and imagery.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYAlDZqO7rs&list=RDUYAlDZqO7r...
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by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1893)
Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.
Even as our cloudy fancies take
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
In the white countenance confession,
The troubled sky reveals
The grief it feels.
This is the poem of the air,
Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
This is the secret of despair,
Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
Now whispered and revealed
To wood and field.
in full summer greenery
slow gliding through trees
broad river's calm reflections
my gratitude for all your visits
on the back house wall
the sweet scent of ripe peaches
pink with yellow tinge
- the climbing rose bush in our garden is blooming in profusion this summer
- my haiku today has a total of 17 syllables, arranged in 3 lines with a pattern of 5-7-5
- I like experimenting
- I have a tendency to be verbose, was not good at précis at school and writing haiku forces me to be concise!
Just like we each have our own voice, each male Lazuli Bunting sings a unique combination of notes. Yearling males generally arrive on the breeding grounds without a song of their own. Shortly after arriving, they create their own song by rearranging syllables and combining song fragments of several males. The song they put together is theirs for life. Copyright © Kim Toews/All Rights Reserved.
The largest UK tit - green and yellow with a striking glossy black head with white cheeks and a distinctive two-syllable song. It is a woodland bird which has readily adapted to man-made habitats to become a familiar garden visitor. It can be quite aggressive at a birdtable, fighting off smaller tits. In winter it joins with blue tits and others to form roaming flocks which scour gardens and countryside for food. (RSPB)
in pink dark and light
by a house window
late summer roses
I always like this mix of grey and red bricks used in building older houses...
thank you for all visits, comments and faves
I find the color on this guy just gorgeous. This is a Lazuli Bunting (accent is on the first syllable when pronouncing "lazuli"). They were pretty abundant in Southeast Arizona during my 2.5 day birding trip there last week. Being breeding season, the males are looking their sharpest. I've heard the females described as SBJs (Small Brown Jobs). I.e. very nondescript, brown birds. But the boys are pretty snazzy, at least to me.
This Great kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus) sat at the entrance to the South Padre Island Birding Center as a tease for what was to come. They range all over South and Central America and into South Texas. They are named for their three syllable call and are the largest in the tyrant flycatcher family.