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‘Golden brown, texture like sun’.
At most times you will see the male Red Grouse photographed and as seen on the 'Famous' Grouse Whisky bottle...So, here's a portrait of the beautiful golden brown female, captured on a sunny morning on a North Yorkshire moor, strutting out and showing off her feather covered feet that help to keep her warm in winter...Grouse also have feathered nostrils. Their legs are feathered to the toes, and in winter the toes also have feathers or small scales on the sides, an adaptation for walking on snow and burrowing into it for shelter.
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The Red Grouse is an unmistakeable bird - plump and round, with a gingery-red body (male) as its name suggests. Found on upland heathlands, it is under threat from the nationwide, dramatic loss of these habitats.
Red Grouse Notes and information:
Category: Grouse, partridges, pheasant and quail
Statistics
Length: 40-43cm
Wingspan:60cm
Weight: 600g
Average lifespan: est. 2-7 years
Conservation status
Classified in the UK as Green under the Birds of Conservation Concern 5: the Red List for Birds (2021). Priority Species under the UK Post-2010 Biodiversity Framework. Protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981.
When to see
January to December
About
The Red Grouse is a plump bird about the same size and shape as a grey partridge. It feeds on heather and can be found on upland heathlands and moorland - it's often spotted as it's flushed from the heather, suddenly flying upwards with rapid, whirring wingbeats. There are actually two subspecies of red grouse: Lagopus lagopus scotia (the red grouse of the British Isles) and Lagopus lagopus lagopus (the willow grouse of Scandinavia and Alaska).
How to identify
The red grouse is a plump bird with a rich, gingery-brown body, short, black tail and red 'eyebrows'.
Distribution
Found in North and South West England, Wales and Scotland.
Habitats
Heathland and moorland
Did you know?
The red grouse is the 'Famous Grouse' that appears on whisky bottles. The grouse brand was born in 1896 in Scotland and deliberately named after an iconic Scottish bird. But it was the popularity of it that inspired the makers to add 'Famous' to the title WT notes.
Habitat
Red Grouse are found only on heather moorland, where they live throughout the year. The red grouse is native to Britain, but its close relative the willow grouse is found throughout northern Europe, Asia, Canada and Alaska.
Appearance
The red grouse is a plump, dark brown bird, about the size of a small farmyard hen. Its mottled brown feathers provide good camouflage amongst the heather. It has pale-coloured, feathered legs and feet to help keep itself warm in winter. Male red grouse have a bright red stripe above their eye, which is used to attract females at mating time. Females don’t have this red eye stripe and are a little paler in colour.
The red grouse gives a very distinctive call that sounds like ’Go back! Go back! Go back’ as it flies fast and low above the heather.
Lifestyle
Red grouse have a short, strong beak designed for eating shoots, seeds and flowers of heather, but they may also take some berries such as bilberry and other moorland plants. They also eat grit which helps to break down food in the gizzard. Insects are an important source of food for the chicks, and the adults often take the chicks to boggy areas where insects are more numerous.
Red grouse nest on the ground in hollows lined with grass, and the females lay between 6 and 12 eggs in April or May. Only the female sits on the eggs, but the male helps to feed the chicks for about three weeks until they are able to fly. Like many ground-nesting birds, adults can pretend to have a broken wing to distract predators away from the nest. When a peregrine is in the area grouse crouch down amongst the heather and keep still as peregrines usually catch flying birds. The adults and chicks then stay in a family group until the autumn.
Conservation
Since Victorian times grouse shooting has been a country sport. Red grouse cannot be bred in captivity easily, so gamekeepers look after the moors to suit the grouse. Ideally there will be some grouse to shoot and plenty left to breed the following year.
Red grouse need young heather with tender, green shoots for feeding and older, taller heather in which to shelter and build nests. Gamekeepers achieve this by burning small areas of old heather every year, which encourages new heather plants to grow.
The number of red grouse on the North York Moors changes from year to year, depending on how many birds die as a result of disease and predation. In a good year there may be up to 40 pairs per square kilometre. You can help red grouse by keeping your dog on a lead to avoid disturbing chicks in the breeding season.
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Taken 27 January 1995 Rainford Lancashire. Olympus OM2N camera Tamron SP 70-210mm F22 60th I Braun 800 flash , Kodachrome 64 colour slide. The keeper and I were walking through reeds looking for a place to film Teal on the pond beyond, when we came upon this bird who seemed to assume a threat posture. before it sneaked away.
A robot and his doll emerge from a really bad dust storm in Camp Threat (@ 6:15 & G) at Burning Man 2018.
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Threat was what I felt when I saw those dark clouds approaching from the west. Half an hour later the skies broke loose and it rained and rained ...
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The Ferrari 430 Scuderia from above. I made this photo also in Spa-Francorchamps. It was a great sunny day with Fabian Räker | Photography and FBN Photography.
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Just over four years ago, the residents of Swarkestone in South Derbyshire had some serious worries about flooding as the River Trent rose above its banks. This has become an increasingly familiar story as time goes on as flood events in the UK become more frequent and I cannot remember a winter that has been as wet as the one that we have just had.
Baltimore Orioles outfielders:(L-R) Luke Scott, Adam Jones and Nick Markakis.
Strobist info: 6 light setup. One over head pointing straight down, two at about head level at a 45 degree toward subjects, two about waist level at a 45 degree toward subjects and last one pointing towards background. All strobes at 200watts each. Used multiple reflectors to light up each person face.
Post-processing done in photoshop.
My third and final Vic Viper for Novvember. Went with a super aggressive star-fighter style for this one, and really enjoyed putting it together. The side pods are mounted on click hinges so you could adjust their placement if you like, and the stand also has several options to allow display at different angles. It’s all quite solid and very swooshable!
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The old feed store holds the last of its curious personality intact, little wooden accents of a past smoothed out for straighter language. Perched at the fork of a strange and sleepy crossroads, split with three stop signs in the shape of an "A". Your odds of meeting anyone incoming are low enough, especially after nightfall. It's been a long while now since the passing of original purpose, more folks like me who only remember the years intervening. There's no gap I aim to bridge – that's for others – I just want to experience the very distinct beauty and draw of dilapidation. Coming down with perfect timing, whatever rate the worst of winter choose. Each spring survival suggests another shot at summer before the threat of fall arrives in autumn. What you lose with sifting leaves makes a match with hope that's growing.
June 4, 2022
Nictaux Falls, Nova Scotia
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It did rain eventually a couple times that afternoon and I had to take shelter under one of these little huts and cover up my camera.Varadero,Cuba.
Pilanesberg National Park
This Hippo was not happy that 4 lionesses were coming for a drink of water and let them know..
Do not mess with Paul Kersey.
Death Wish II (1982)
Kersey apparently did not relapse into hunting muggers in Chicago, but encountered a previous friend who ran a radio station in Los Angeles. Paul Kersey and his daughter Carol, who is still catatonic, now live in Los Angeles because Paul accepted a deal from the NYPD to leave town so they wouldn't tell anyone that he was the vigilante. Paul now has a new woman in his life, KABC news reporter Geri Nichols. One day while he's out with Carol and Geri, he is mugged by a gang of five punks. Paul fights back, but they get away. The muggers go to his house, gag, rape, and murder Kersey's housekeeper, and kidnap and rape Carol, who tries to run away, jumps through the second story window, and dies when she's impaled on an iron fence stake. When he learns of his daughter's death, Paul is beside himself with grief and rage, rents a ratty hotel room, disguises himself, and sets out to find the five punks/rapists who killed Carol in order to kill them with his new .380 Beretta Model 85 pistol. When the LAPD deduces that they have a vigilante on their hands, they decide to consult with the NYPD, who fear that Kersey is killing criminals again. Fearing that Kersey, when caught, will reveal that they let him go instead of prosecuting him, the NYPD sends Ochoa to make sure that doesn't happen. Kersey began using the alias "Kimble" during this period as dictated by the situation. The events mentioned above involving his daughter's death took place in 1981 (as stated by Officer Reiner in Death Wish 4, Kersey's daughter died in 1981).
Death Wish 3 (1985)
As seen at the end of Death Wish II (in which three shots are heard over the end of the closing credits), Kersey resumed his mugger slayings even after slaying the final member of the gang that kidnapped and murdered his daughter. Richard Shriker of the NYPD kept tabs on Kersey's activities or at least activities he suspected Kersey had a hand in. Namely, Shriker recalled reading of six mugger slayings in thirty-six hours in L.A., four gang members slain in Kansas City (Shriker does not specify whether this was in Missouri or Kansas), and two mugger-rapists in Chicago. Shriker and Kersey's paths intersect again, as Shriker puts it "ten years" after Shriker's found out Kersey was the New York vigilante (therefore present day). Paul Kersey returns to New York to visit his friend Charley, who lives in one of the worst parts of New York City. But when Paul arrives at Charley's apartment, he finds Charley dying after a vicious beating by a gang led by Manny Fraker, and the police enter the apartment and find Paul standing over Charley's body. Paul is arrested for the murder, but police chief Richard S. Shriker offers a deal: Paul can kill all the criminals he wants if he keeps the cops informed about the death count. Though Kersey says that he stopped his mugger slayings, Shriker releases Paul to go after Fraker. Paul moves into Charley's apartment in a decaying building in the middle of a bombed out gang war zone. The building is populated by a group of elderly tenants who are absolutely terrified of Fraker and his gang, who control the neighborhood. Among the tenants are Charley's friend Bennett, an old watch repairman who keeps a couple of machine guns in his closet. There is also an elderly Jewish couple who live on the first floor. Paul buys a .475 Wildey Magnum pistol with big-game cartridges, spends an afternoon hand loading the bullets, and loads up for war against Fraker.
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
Evidently, Kersey had largely retired from slaying muggers shortly after Death Wish III, since in Death Wish 4, Phil Nozaki mentions a mugger shot downtown two years previous to the events of Death Wish 4, to which Officer Reiner responds by saying that "the vigilante retired years ago". In any event, Kersey kept regular residence in L.A., regardless of his breaking off his mugger slayings. Paul Kersey is back in Los Angeles, and is dating reporter Karen Sheldon, who has a teenage daughter named Erica. While Erica is at an arcade with her boyfriend Randy Viscovich, Erica dies of a crack cocaine overdose. Later, Randy goes back to the arcade, with Kersey following him. Randy confronts JoJo, the dealer that Erica got the crack from. Randy tells JoJo that he's going to the police, but Jojo kills him to keep him quiet. Kersey shows up and shoots JoJo with a .380 Walther PPK pistol, and watches him land on the electrical roof of the bumper-car ride, where he is electrocuted. Next, Paul gets a note and a phone call from publisher Nathan White, who tells him that he knows about the death of JoJo. Nathan explains to Kersey that his daughter had died of an overdose, so he wants to hire Kersey to wipe out the drug trade in L.A. -- and in particular to target Ed Zacharias and Jack Romero, rival drug kingpins who are the city's two main drug suppliers. Kersey asks for a few days to think about it, and accepts Nathan's offer. Nathan supplies Kersey with weapons and information so he can go after Zacharias and Romero. Kersey is able to orchestrate an inter-gang war between the Zacharias and Romero crime organizations. After most of the two warring factions are killed, Kersey meets again with Nathan White, but is almost killed. After escaping, Kersey realizes that White is not who he claims to be, and is actually a drug kingpin himself, who has tricked Kersey into removing his competition. Kersey's girlfriend (Karen) is subsequently taken captive and ultimately murdered. Immediately after Karen is murdered, Kersey is able to kill the last remaining drug kingpin. A LAPD detective is able to approach Kersey after his last killing. With his gun drawn and his sights on Kersey, the detective demands that Kersey surrender. Kersey walks off, stating "Do what you have to."
This is a shot from "Car d' Alene" earlier this year in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. Kicked it up a notch trying out a photoshop plug-in "Topaz Adjust"!
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"The CORE" set
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The CORE set comes in a total of 5 pieces with many graphical ways you can choose from. The CORE Boots have 12 colors and 1 size/rig fits all bodies listed on ad. Every item is sold separately and can be purchased on Marketplace. The thong comes with the skirt, All items can be worn by itself and or with other pieces. The CORE set is "Fluffy and ready" for purchase.
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A trio of Kazakh eagle hunters charging down the river with their birds. I just love the facial expressions on each of their faces.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - Bats emerged from their hiding places and fluttered about as the rumbles of thunder drew closer. A herd of bighorn sheep and a couple of bison were grazing around me as I awaited the arrival of the storm. The sun had already gone down over the South Dakota Badlands, but the nearly continuous flashes of lightning provided enough light for my camera. The storm was advancing slowly, but once this striated shelf cloud emerged ahead of the rain core, then it picked up speed. I could hear and smell the rain before I felt it. Once the wall of water hit, the downpour wouldn't let up until 3 hours later. This perhaps wasn't the best night to be camping in the Badlands. Although my tent held up well enough with minimal leakage, the entire campground was a muddy mess the next morning.