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A few have mentioned they never tire of fall foliage shots and I reckon we'll continue to test that theory for a while. The winds over the last few days have done their annual duty, yet the oaks endure as they tend to do, the last to give up the ghost...tho some only do so with the arrival of new buds in the spring, somehow hanging on throughout our trying winter.
Another very nice day for late October, so off we go to the canoe to enjoy a relatively rare windless day.
Tendance discrète dans le ciel mauve de ce matin. Bonne journée !
She's very discreet in the mauve sky, early this morning. Nice day to everyone !
Tenrecs tend to sleep thoughout the day but are more awake at tea time. Whilst she is very tiny indeed, the cherry blossom reflects her tiny size. Her curiosity and personality more than makes up for her tinyness.
Attraverso la tenda si percepisce l’azzurro del cielo e il bianco del terreno che si congiungono all’orizzonte sotto la luce del sole. E’ comunque difficile capire la vera natura del paesaggio che attende lì fuori. Forse uscendo troverei la spiaggia bianca della mia memoria, con me bambino che nella canicola racconta a se stesso una storia di pirati, o forse il lago di sale senza fine che appartiene al futuro e che compare nei sogni dove è facile perdersi.
Attendo incerto, mentre quel poco di vento che dà vita alla tenda cerca di trattenermi nel presente.
Sirad 2012, "La traccia labile"
ROCCA DELL’ABISSO MOUNT/ROC DE L’ABISSE and FORT CENTRAL. La Rocca is on the crest of the watershed between Italy and France in the conjunction of 3 valleys: the Gesso Valley, the Roia Valley and the Vermenagna Valley, the Fort is in France. Surroundings of the Tenda Pass, Piedmont, ITALY/FRANCE.
Purple Sandpiper - Calidris Maritima
In Britain, these birds occur in winter in good numbers principally along the east and south coasts, where they favour rocky shorelines adjacent to the sea.
It is much rarer as a breeding bird, found only in a localised area of the Cairngorms National Park, where 1–3 pairs have bred since the 1970s. Records of breeding by this species in the UK are monitored and archived by the Rare Breeding Birds Panel.
They are late migrants and move to rocky ice-free Atlantic coasts in winter. most go no further south than North Carolina and northern Portugal. They are fairly gregarious, forming small flocks, often with ruddy turnstones. This species is tame and approachable.
Their breeding habitat is the northern tundra on Arctic islands in Canada and coastal areas in Greenland and northwestern Europe. They nest on the ground either elevated on rocks or in lower damp location. The males makes several scrapes; the female chooses one and lays 3 or 4 eggs. The male takes the major responsibility for incubation and tends the chicks. The young feed themselves.
An apparent case of hybridization between this species and the dunlin has been reported from England.
A couple of pairs nest in Scotland, but this species is mainly a winter visitor to almost any rocky coast in the UK. Most are found in Orkney, Shetland and along the east coast of Scotland and northern England - it is scarce south of Yorkshire, other than Devon and Cornwall. The breeding areas in Scotland are kept secret to protect the birds from egg thieves and disturbance.
It is listed on Schedule 1 of The Wildlife and Countryside Act.
Summer skies tend to glow with residue from surrounding areas around the British Columbia Province, including Washington State, USA
Scotch Pond, a historic moorage site during a late sunset
Some of the boats moored in this lineup include:
Miss Port Edward
Mythmaker
Galaxie
Double Dragon and various other commercial fishing vessels
Scotch Pond consists of a pond, originally a slough, dredged in the early 1950s and connected by a channel to the Strait of Georgia. Along with the pond are the remains of wooden boardwalk pilings which run directly along the south edge of the pond and were constructed in 1899 as part of the Scottish Canadian Cannery operation.
Garry Point Park on the Fraser River
Steveston, Richmond
British Columbia
Canada
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Happy Clicks,
~Christie ( happiest ) by the River
Nautical me
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Spotted at Baron's Haugh nature reserve, Motherwell.
This melodic warbler is widely distributed across Britain & Ireland through the breeding season, and increasingly in winter too.
Blackcap breeding numbers have steadily increased in the UK since the late-1970s, and have also expanded their breeding range throughout northern Scotland and the island of Ireland during this time. They are now absent only on the highest Scottish peaks and farthest flung islands. In autumn, these breeding birds depart for southern Europe and are replaced by Blackcaps from central Europe. BTO research has helped show how garden bird feeding led to the evolution of this new migratory route and wintering strategy. Although widespread in winter, Blackcaps tend to be absent from the uplands at this time of year.
Blackcaps have a greyish overall appearance. The eponymous black cap is only found in the males; females and juveniles have a brown cap instead. The song is very similar to that of the Garden Warbler, but can be distinguished with practice. Blackcaps are found in parks, deciduous woodland and scrub, as well as at garden feeding stations.
Good morning everyone. Featured today on day five of the "snowbird" series is a female Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus), One of my favorite woodpeckers to photograph since they tend to be great posers in spite of being very wary birds. The male of the species is even worse...one of the most difficult of photo subjects when it comes to birds. At least for me :-(
Thank you for stopping by...and I hope you're having a truly nice week.
Lacey
ISO1600, aperture f/8, exposure .004 seconds (1/250) focal length 434mm
I have been away from making pics for a bit....but trying to get back in the swing....This is a pic of a statue that we did have at our SL home. (Now in my inventory--as Clive and I tend to "redecorate a lot" LOL!).....but I was struck by this piece for long while.....and this is what my mind saw. 🌸🌸🌸
I tend to put in many miles a day when out and about. Subsequently I'm often at a beautiful place when the sun is in an undesired position, like here. The Sun is the boss, as we know. But I click away anyway.....
I try my best in pp to bring back the essence and beauty I remember, not overblown with details lost in the shadows. A good challenge. I thought this special moment and scene was worth a share.
Thanks for taking a look! Always appreciated.
There are always plenty of maintenance staff in Bangkok Parks. Watering is particularly important after the end of the rainy season
As Cleo tends to wait for the snacks to fly right into her mouth, no birds were hurt during or after this photo shoot. She still considers herself as a great huntress, though, who could catch every bird she wants if she thought it was worth the effort (what - of course - will never happen).
I add another capture in the comments.
Although our holiday home is only about four miles from Polperro, we rarely go there. It's a beautiful tradititional fishing village on the south coast of Cornwall, but it does attract vast crowds of people. The worst thing is that the car park is about three-quarters of a mile away from the harbour, up the hill. And it costs £5 for three hours. So when I do go I tend to take a fair few photos. Apologies for that. This is one of the traditional views of the harbour, but I simply can't resist it.
Antigua cola de maniobras, cuando la línea terminaba en Bolívar (este lugar). Desde el 3 de junio de 2019, este túnel conecta con la estación Correo Central.
Dato extra: Se puede ver el comienzo del tendido de la catenaria aérea rígida, también llamado tercer riel aéreo.
Well, these building may not be the first to catch the eye along Billionaire Row just south of Central Park but I couldn't resist the composition. I thought it interesting to find window A/C units and an old school water tank in real estate that runs way into the millions if not billions. A lot was being prepared for another skyscraper.
Technical Note: The perspective of this image drove me crazy, I couldn't figure out why the bottom of the center-right plane of the building looked a bit off (pulled in) even though the vertical lines are pretty straight. I thought it might have something to do with straightening the perspective or perhaps some lens distortion going on. What I concluded after plenty of study is it's a bit of an optical illusion with the four rows of lower windows having a different horizontal spacing than the top four rows! The result is that they tend to "pull" the image to the right a bit, IMO. Anyway, it was fun trying to figure this out and I was relieved that I didn't have to blame my 24-70. I shot this at 55mm which is a focal length I don't use too often for buildings. That being said, I'll have to run a few field tests next time I'm around tall buildings to confirm my hypothesis.
New York City: 57th St.looking north between 6th and 7th Ave.
Female.
The male tends to pose far better than the female so photographing a female is always tricky (even the male is a challenge).
In una splendida giornata di gennaio la D445.1108 è stata incaricata di soccorrere le carrozze rimaste a Ventimiglia dell'IC Ventimiglia-Milano che doveva partire il 17.01.2015 ma che non ha potuto effettuare la corsa a causa del deragliamento del IC660 ad Andora a seguito di una frana sui binari, bloccando di fatto l'intera circolazione nell estremo ponente ligure.
Grazie alla meravigliosa linea Cuneo-Ventimiglia, la stazione di Ventimiglia è stata rifornita, con invii materiali come intere composizioni di E464+MD! oppure carrozze PR liguri (Vedasi link). In questo caso la locomotiva si fece carico dell'ultima tranche di Z1 (4 carrozze), creando un verosimile Intercity sulla linea del Tenda.
Un saluto a Luca Verzeroli incontrato quella meravigliosa giornata.
I tend to shoot a lot of trees for some reason and thought I'd dice it up a bit with some contemplative sheep. Shot with my Lumix S1, with an adapted Nikon 300mm f4.5 made in 1977.
Tricolored Herons are quite common here in Southeast Florida but given their good looks and antics they are rarely taken for granted. Sometimes they fish like Reddish Egrets, throwing out their wings to cause shade from which they can more easily spot their prey. I see this more often in saltwater environments than fresh water. At Wakodahatchee Wetlands, a freshwater habitat where this image was taken, they tend to fish on the fly, catching small minnows by darting their bill underwater as they fly past. Snowy Egrets tend to fish the same way. In this image, the water was dark and the light was primarily landing on the bird, nicely separating it from its background. It gave me a nice low bank with a reflection to boot. (Egretta caerulea) (Sony a1, 200-600 lens @ 600mm, f/6.3, 1/4000 second, ISO 640)
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Here is an adult bald eagle, the female I believe, tending to her hatch in her nest near us. I have probably said this many times. If, as a Boy Scout in the 1960s and having never seen a bald eagle, someone told me that I would have a nesting pair within a few miles of my house as an older man, I would have thought you crazy. Thank-you to all of the conservationists, not the least of which thank-you, John Dingell, one of the architects of the Endangered Species Act.