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The Tüshaus mill is a water mill near Dorsten-Deuten in North Rhine-Westphalia. The mill is located on the southern edge of the forest area of Üfter Mark, where the water of the Hammbach River from Rhade is stowed to the mill pond.
The history of the Tüshaus-Hof, to which the mill belongs, can be traced back to 1382. The lords of Lembeck, who held the water law in their territory, leased a whale mill driven by the water of the Hammbach in 1615 to a certain Mr. Tuschhaus.
However, the mill was not the first building on this site, as it was built on older foundations. Sheep were mainly kept in the extensive heathland surrounding the area. The wool was rolled in the Tüshaus mill by a hammer mill and sold as felt material to the region's cloth makers for further processing. The billing books include customers from Wesel, Recklinghausen, Westerholt, Dülmen, Münster and Dinxperlo.
The mill had already been increased in 1752 and expanded by a second mill wheel, so that since 1754 it also served the tenant Joan-Heinrich Tüshaus as an oil mill. The oil was obtained mainly from the rapeseed and linseed of the surrounding fields. In 1880 Albert Brosthaus was the Ölmüller, followed by Dumpe and Schetter. The old plants of the oil mill were replaced in 1914 by a modern hydraulic oil mill, which pressed the oil out of the seeds with 350 atü. The operation of the oil mill was discontinued around 1948 for economic reasons.
The Northern Water Dragon is mainly found in the far northern Australian coastal regions in the Northern Territory and the western portion of the Cape York Peninsula. It also occurs in the southern part of New Guinea and on some of the islands to the north of Australia, as far north as the Maluku Islands of Indonesia.
Within its distribution, this semi-arboreal species can be found in a range of habitats, including coastal dunes, tropical savannah woodlands, monsoon forests, paperbark swamps and billabongs, creeks and riverine environments. In particular, it can be found in the Arnhem Land tropical savanna, the Cape York Peninsula tropical savanna, the Carpentaria tropical savanna, the Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands, the Victoria Plains tropical savanna, and possibly the Kimberley tropical savanna.(Wikipedia)
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Our first lizard of the trip! This handsome creature posed nicely for us as we jockeyed around him to get the best view. In total, he is about 10cm in length from nose to tail tip.
George Brown Darwin Botanic Garden, Northern Territory, Australia. October 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Tropical Australia.
Never before have I seen as many Pale Chanting Goshawks as I saw in Namibia, here I include a typical bush scene with a curious juvenile peering out from the background where it rules over its territory...
this is a short clip on one of these birds of prey, if you are squeamish, don't watch it as it is eating a small rodent...
Midnight on The Moon - Robot Koch - Listen
Sooner or later, man has to decide
Whether he worships his own power
Or the power of God.
Singing away on a branch on top of his territory. Very happy with this shot, taken as the clouds began to roll in and the light began to fade.
HindustanTimes: "China did not enter our territory, no posts taken" PM Modi, 19th June, 2020
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Horowitz plays Schubert's Impromptu No, 3
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Erno Von Dohnanyi plays Beethoven Für Elise
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Schubert IMpromptu No 3
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Manuel Quiroga - Sarasate: Romanza Andaluza
New Holland Honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae)
My mate Nev checking out the territory from the top of the still bare Plum Tree that is next to our balcony, as his family, along with the Blackbirds, Wattlebirds and Doves vie for the best real estate to build a nest.
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Archie enjoying the great outdoors, or the back garden to be more precise, of my new home in Ayrshire.
His territory is in for some radical change in the coming few weeks as I have some tall 'back saving' beds on the way so that I can start growing my own food once again. I have so missed the flavour and goodness of growing my own food.
Archie will be no good at keeping the birds away from the seed though, they chase him around!
Happy Caturday to you all!
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04-May-2022: about turism: my perplexities towards a future with more and more bans and more and more over-taxes.
Lake Bohinj and the much more famous Lake Bled are close (less than 20 km) but the second has a mass tourism now rooted, while the first is expanding its tourist reception in recent years, coming out (unfortunately) from the shadow of Bled, that was a lightning rod for peaceful and symbiotic nature lovers.
I am totally against mass tourism because it transforms a relaxing resort into an area where it is difficult even to access it.
Around Lake Bled, even at a certain distance, there are only paid parking lots, which come to cost 6 euros per hour (about the most decentralized and in May...) that, certainly, leave perplexed about the "tourist selection" that "they" would like to implement (high-end tourism) and, in general, certainly drive away the tourist in search of nature and not restaurants, bars, concrete lake-front and crowd baths.
The naturalist tourist should not feel like a tourist in Nature, which is a single great asset of humanity and that only administratively is divided between various Countries, while in Bled, as in Rimini or Cortina d'Ampezzo, they make you feel not only tourist, but also guest, sometimes unwanted if you spend little.
As tourism increases, so do the bans, because unfortunately mass tourism includes many people who don't know anything about Nature and generally only go to very touristy places to make themselves of...people, sowing dirt and ignorance wherever they move.
The imposition of prohibitions/bans to limit the "damage from mass tourism" affects everyone indiscriminately, including locals and naturalists who have always had a symbiotic relationship with these places, thus making them become inhospitable, at least to those seeking pure contact with nature itself.
Of course this happens all over the world, but it should be condemned.
We already pay State taxes for the maintenance of the slice of Nature that falls within our administration, tourist surcharges, exploiting market laws that should be verified and contained, are for the most part unconstitutional, as well as several prohibitions that deprive access and use of public property.
With the money that the tourist municipalities pocket they could very well implement a targeted prevention (controls by foresters, cameras, ad hoc fences for areas subject to micro-pollution...) rather than closing everything and then de-empowering themself on the maintenance of roads and areas (more and more numerous), thus going to save further, starting from the basic taxes that we pay to also have access to given areas.
I can understand that you tax parking at high altitude to maintain the roads, but the amount of the payment should be directly proportional to the expenses that must be incurred to ensure accessibility, not by putting prices at random and with increases of 200% from one year to the next.
I have always appreciated the fact that Slovenia, thanks also that it is not densely inhabited and has a modest tourism (except precisely Bled, Postojna Caves and the Coast), guarantees a wide accessibility and use of its territories and I hope it can continue, limiting the prohibitions and parking lots everywhere.
This song sparrow was singing on territory at Cardinal Marsh this morning. They can really blend in with those brown background rushes.
Leopards are the apex predators in the Jawai area in Rajasthan, India.
This big dominant male was resting on the top of a rocky outcrop from where he can see large parts of his territory
Leopard
panthera pardus
luipaard
léopard
Leopard
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The deep blue-green waters of Emerald Lake, nestled in the mountains just north of Carcross, Yukon Territory, Canada.
One of my attempts at the "Crazy Tuesday" theme "Flat Lay Photography".
Shot with a Leitz "Focotar 50 mm F 4.5" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.
A Steller's Jay looking for food in squirrel territory. You can barely make out the squirrels feet (upper right) as he charges the Steller's Jay.
Red Wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata)
This one always looks a bit grumpy as it watches the nest which is in the next tree.
On New Year's Day there was an unusual strong fog, which I haven't experienced since the 1960s.
I saw this couple, obviously tourists, who didn't know where they were going, as the visibility was less than 50 meters.
Muntjac Deer - Muntiacus reevesi
Doe
Reeves’ muntjac are small, stocky and russet brown in colour in summer and grey/brown in winter. Bucks have short (10 cm) antlers growing from long pedicles. Antlers are usually unbranched but a very short brow tine is occasionally found in old bucks. They also have visible upper canines (tusks) suggesting that they are a primitive species. Muntjac have two pairs of large glands on the face. The upper pair are the frontal glands, whilst the lower glands, below the eyes, are called sub-orbitals. Both glands are used to mark territories and boundaries. They have a ginger forehead with pronounced black lines running up the pedicles in bucks, and a dark diamond shape on does. The haunches are higher than the withers giving a hunched appearance. They have a fairly wide tail, which is held erect when disturbed.
Muntjac were brought from China to Woburn Park in Bedfordshire in the early 20th century. They are now widespread and increasing in number and range. Deliberate releases and escapes from Woburn, Northamptonshire, and Warwickshire led to the establishment of feral populations. Movement and release by humans led to their rapid spread across south and central England and Wales, however, north of the Humber distribution is patchy but reaches close to the Scottish border.
Muntjac like deciduous or coniferous forests, preferably with a diverse understorey. They are also found in scrub and overgrown urban gardens. Unlike other species of deer in Britain, muntjac do not cause significant damage to agricultural or timber crops. However, high densities may prevent coppice regeneration and the loss of some plants of conservation importance, such as primulas. Muntjac trophy hunting has only recently become popular so there is little tradition of muntjac stalking on country and forest estates. The most significant direct economic impact that muntjac have on human interests is in collisions with cars. However, this has welfare as well as economic implications.
In contrast to all other species of deer in Britain, muntjac do not have a defined breeding season (rut). Instead, they breed all year round and the does can conceive again within days of giving birth. Bucks may fight for access to does but remain unusually tolerant of subordinate males within their vicinity.
Does are capable of breeding at seven months old. After a gestation period of seven months, they give birth to a single kid and are ready to mate again within a few days.
Bucks can live up to 16 years and does up to 19 years, but these are exceptional.
Muntjac are generally solitary or found in pairs (doe with kid or buck with doe) although pair-bonding does not occur. Bucks defend small exclusive territories against other bucks whereas does' territories overlap with each other and with several bucks.
They are known as ‘barking deer’ from the repeated loud bark given under a number of circumstances. An alarmed muntjac may scream whereas maternal does and kids squeak.
Muntjac are active throughout the 24-hour period but make more use of open spaces during the hours of darkness in populations subject to frequent disturbance. Peak activity is at dawn and dusk. Long periods are spent ‘lying up’, where the deer lies down to ruminate after feeding.
Created with 2 Wombo images plus hiker added from a third, all blended with Pixelmator Pro.
Prompts: Troll under forest bridge, ultra realistic skin and human eyes, scruffy hair
Style: VFX v2
Used a gray toned texture as an input.
I hope this hiker just turned around and ran the other way.
So glad you joined the this trek!