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Fun fact, Pup was created by an extremely talented lady of the Yootz family. Proud to have such a gifted distant cousin.
Redstart (F) - Phoenicuros Phoenicuros
The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), or often simply redstart, is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus. Like its relatives, it was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family, (Turdidae), but is now known to be an Old World flycatcher (family Muscicapidae).
Common redstarts prefer open mature birch and oak woodland with a high horizontal visibility and low amounts of shrub and understorey especially where the trees are old enough to have holes suitable for its nest. They prefer to nest on the edge of woodland clearings. In Britain it occurs primarily in upland areas less affected by agricultural intensification, but further east in Europe also commonly in lowland areas, including parks and old gardens in urban areas. They nest in natural tree holes, so dead trees or those with dead limbs are beneficial to the species; nestboxes are sometimes used. A high cover of moss and lichen is also preferred. They also use mature open conifer woodland, particularly in the north of the breeding range. Management to thin out the trees is thus favoured.
In England, where it has declined by 55% in the past 25 years, the Forestry Commission offers grants under a scheme called England's Woodland Improvement Grant (EWIG); as does Natural Englands Environmental Stewardship Scheme. It is a very rare and irregular breeding bird in Ireland, with between one and five pairs breeding in most years, mainly in County Wicklow.
It is a summer visitor throughout most of Europe and western Asia (east to Lake Baikal), and also in northwest Africa in Morocco. It winters in central Africa and Arabia, south of the Sahara Desert but north of the Equator, from Senegal east to Yemen. It is widespread as a breeding bird in Great Britain, particularly in upland broadleaf woodlands and hedgerow trees, but in Ireland it is very local, and may not breed every year.
The males first arrive in early to mid April, often a few days in advance of the females. Five or six light blue eggs are laid during May, with a second brood in mid summer in the south of the breeding range. It departs for Africa between mid-August and early October. It often feeds like a flycatcher, making aerial sallies after passing insects, and most of its food consists of winged insects. The call is chat-like and the alarm a plaintive single note, wheet, like that of many other chats.
The male’s song is similar to that of the Robin, but never more than a prelude, since it has an unfinished, feeble ending.
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These guys are extremely shy and hide quite efficiently. This one was foraging under the yew tree and thus made me look through possible branches openings to find him. He sat for a moment, creating a photo opportunity, while brunches around created a lovely brush effect.
Thank you very much for all views, faves, and comments.
Monument Valley "Ndzisgaii in Navajo", meaning valley of the rocks, is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. It is located on the Arizona–Utah state line, near the Four Corners area. The valley lies within the territory of the Navajo Nation Reservation and is accessible from U.S. Highway 163.
Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Director John Ford used the location for a number of his best-known films and thus, in the words of critic Keith Phipps, "its five square miles have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West.
Took this shot through the window, while riding the cable car all the way up to the watchtower......as you can see, the clouds starting to gather, thus, the Matterhorn, the highlight of this trip, was all covered by it. And began to snow a bit....What a disappointment!
* Bon c'est vrai, j'aurais pu inverser la photo et ainsi l'intituler "ascension", mais je n'ai pas eu le courage.... ,)
* Well it's true, I could have reversed the photo and thus titled it "ascension", but I did not have the courage.... ,)
Henry Cat AKA No Bones Jones Happy Caturday he was napping until he heard the camera then he had ot mug some, he gets in weird position thus the "no bones Jones" nickname.
This track is part of the Tabular Hills Walk in North Yorkshire, England.
The Tabular Hills Walk (48 miles) can be a continuation of the Ebor Way (70 miles) which finishes in Helmsley and also a link from the Cleveland Way start (109 miles) to connect again with the Cleveland Way in Scarborough thus creating a circular walk
Here it passes through two crops of winter sown barley which are rapidly turning towards harvesting
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HMM- the theme for today, 5/25, is handle and this one is probably my favorite of the 3-4 macros that i'll put up. the whole buttonhook is in the first comment box, hopefully along with a story :)
here's the story: sam levenson, who was a humorist, told of a little boy who was just learning to read and had never seen a question mark before. he had, however, seen one of these tools which were used to button up shoes, before the advent of laces. so he read it thusly:
where are you going, little buttonhook?
The Netherlands and thus also our Hortus have been caught up by really hot weather much like that in the Tropics. Not that I mind; I rather enjoy it... And Tropical Butterflies, escaped from their glass hothouse, are frivolous on flowers outside in the Garden. Here's a Julia Heliconian, Dryas iulia, nectaring on a Cutleaf Coneflower, Rudbeckia laciniata. These Heliconians - flamboyant as they are - vary slightly in their markings. You have to look very carefully, though. Those differences distinguish various subspecies. Which one this is, I don't know and - given the hot weather - I've no patience to try to look it up. So Dryas iulia will have to suffice...
La cascata delle Marmore, in provincia di Terni, nella Valnerina, ha un dislivello complessivo di 165 metri, su tre salti. È la più alta d’Europa di origine artificiale, essendo stata formata, ai tempi dei Romani, con la modifica del percorso del fiume Velino, che confluisce così nel Nera, affluente del Tevere. È una meta turistica molto apprezzata, raggiungibile in un paio di ore da Roma, in auto.
The Marmore waterfall, in the province of Terni, in the Valnerina, has an overall height difference of 165 metres, over three jumps.
It is the highest in Europe of artificial origin, having been formed, in Roman times, with the modification of the course of the Velino river, which thus flows into the Nera, a tributary of the Tiber.
It is a very popular tourist destination, reachable in a couple of hours from Rome, by car.
Osborne Bull in Venez-Malaga
All it takes is a drive across Spain to see the legendary brandy advertisement that has become a symbol of Spanish culture both here at home and abroad.
The Osborne Bull is the black silhouette of bull that stands on hilltops and along the roadside in many – but not all – parts of Spain. It began as nothing more than an advertisement in 1956 when the Osborne Group set out to promote 'Veteran' brandy. An Andalucian artist by the name of Manolo Prieto suggested the bull and thus set a legend in motion. Spanish Tour 2018/19.
Kunst im Römerpark Ruffenhofen. Die ersten Metallblumen wurden aus gebogenen Nägeln aus der Schalung der Ausgrabung 2005 im Kastell Ruffenhofen hergestellt. Insgesamt gibt es 223 sehr unterschiedliche Blumen: große, kleinere, mit oder ohne Blätter, verwelkt und voll erblüht. Die Blumen sind somit ein Symbol für uns unterschiedliche Menschen.
Art in the Ruffenhofen Roman Park. The first metal flowers were made from bent nails from the formwork of the 2005 excavation at Fort Ruffenhofen. In total there are 223 very different flowers: large, smaller, with or without leaves, withered and fully bloomed. The flowers are thus a symbol for us different people.
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Berliner Hinterhofromantik
Die Wohnhöfe werden abends geschlossen und garantieren auf diese Weise nächtliche Ruhe. Ausgedehnte Büroflächen wurden in den früheren Fabriketagen geschaffen. Genutzt werden diese Räume überwiegend von Angehörigen kreativer Berufe wie Architekten, Internetdesignern, PR-Agenturen. Die kleinen Ladengeschäfte entsprechen ihrem speziellen Angebot von Designprodukten, die in den Höfen gestaltet, hergestellt oder weiterverarbeitet werden.
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Berlin backyard romance
The residential courtyards are closed in the evenings, thus guaranteeing peace at night. Extensive office space was created in the former factory floors. These rooms are mainly used by members of creative professions such as architects, internet designers and PR agencies. The small shops correspond to their special range of design products that are designed, manufactured or processed in the courtyards.
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Great grey owl, Strix nebulosa, lapinpöllö, Finland.
A great grey owl searching for food in a cloudy spring evening. They have had hard times lately with lots of snow but not so many voles to eat. Thus a number of owls have been seen near residential areas.
It is taken with my compact camera (thus the poor quality) which is the only one I could carry with me on this 120 km in 4 days trek from Santiago to Costa da Morte.
The Triangulum Galaxy (known as Messier 33 or NGC 598) is a beautiful large spiral galaxy in the constellation of Triangulum. It can be (barely) seen with the unaided eye as a faint small smudge only under a truly dark, transparent sky. It is thus one of the most distant objects visible to the unaided eye, since its distance is calculated to be about 3 million light-years. However and due to its relatively large apparent size (almost as large as the area covered by four full Moons), it has a low surface brightness and therefore it is a difficult object to observe under less than ideal conditions.
M33's loosely-wound spiral arms are filled with numerous reddish HII regions (emission nebulae of ionized hydrogen), as well as bluish clouds of young stars. Many of them have their own NGC numbers, the most prominent being NGC 604 (visible at the lower left of the spiral at 8 o' clock position from the nucleus). NGC 604 has a diameter of nearly 1,500 light-years and is estimated that it contains at least 200 newly-formed hot stars.
The galaxy was probably discovered in the 17th Century by Giovanni Batista Hodierna and rediscovered later in 1764 by Charles Messier, who gave it the catalog name M33. It was among the first "Nebulae" identified as extragalactic objects and it was E. Hubble that measured its distance using pulsating stars known as Cepheids, that placed it well outside our own Milky Way.
M33 is the third-largest galaxy of the Local Group, after the Andromeda Galaxy and our own Milky Way, with an estimated diameter of 50,000 light-years, about half the size of the Milky Way. Some astronomers believe that M33 may be a remote but gravitationally bound companion of the Andromeda galaxy.
Image Details:
Telescope: Orion EON ED 80/500 refractor
Mount: Modified Vixen Sphinx (NexSXW)
Camera: Canon EOS 20Da
Light frames: 34 x 3 mins (total: 102 mins), ISO 1600, Daylight WB
Support frames: Darks, Bias
Guiding: Skywatcher 80/400 refractor, Skywatcher Synguider autoguider
Date & Location: 16/10/2018 - Chalkidiki, Greece
Processing: DSS 4.1.1, Adobe Photoshop CS6 with Astronomy Tools Actions Set (spikes added to brightest stars)
Acorn woodpeckers drill holes in tree bark and fit acorns into those holes for food storage for winter. I was quite surprised when this one came out of a nest hole carrying an acorn in its mouth. San Luis Obispo County, CA
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House : The Springfield
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*Dench Designs* Rookery Stone Planter
*Dench Designs* Rookery Gazebo
*Dench Designs* Rookery Boat & Rug
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[Spring flowering in rocks] Nature Scene GM49
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Tree : *Thus Magic*~Enchanted Tree_1 GREEN_BLUE
but I am arrogant enough to mean "lower forms of animal life" when I refer to animals. Thus, when I say that I like animals, I do not necessarily include my own species, among whom are large numbers of individuals for whom I have no fondness at all, and some whom I hold in utter contempt. Indeed, I sometimes wonder why "You're an animal" is an insult; it seems to me that, if animals could talk, "You're a human" would be one of their favorite insults :-)
Richard E. Turner (1937–2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. "The Mudge," "Animal People," 2004
HPPT!!
camellia, "October Affair', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Le Queyras est une vallée du département des Hautes-Alpes, mais également un parc naturel régional, où se pratiquent le ski en hiver et randonnée pédestre en été. Il est notamment traversé par le GR 58 qui permet d'en faire le tour ou le GR 5.
La vallée est traversée par le Guil et comporte sept communes aujourd'hui regroupées au sein d'une communauté de communes : Arvieux, Abriès-Ristolas, Aiguilles, Ceillac, Château-Ville-Vieille, Molines-en-Queyras et Saint-Véran. Ceillac ne faisait pas partie du Queyras historique : il appartenait à l'évêché d'Embrun et n'entrait pas dans l'escarton du Queyras.
Le parc est délimité au nord et à l'est par la frontière avec l'Italie, depuis le sommet du Grand Glaiza jusqu'à la tête des Toillies via le col Agnel. Puis il suit la crête délimitant le bassin versant de l'Ubaye jusqu'à la Mortice et remonte au nord-ouest jusqu'à Guillestre, dans la basse vallée du Guil, qui constitue la principale porte naturelle sur le Queyras. Depuis Guillestre, la limite suit la crête orientée Nord séparant la vallée d'Arvieux de la Durance et passant par le pic du Béal Traversier puis prend une direction nord-est jusqu'au col d'Izoard, passage mythique du tour de France cycliste et finit par la ligne de crête séparant la vallée des Fonts au nord et passant par le pic de Rochebrune, jusqu'à la frontière italienne. Le Queyras correspond au bassin versant du Guil ; son point culminant est le pic nord des pics de la Font Sancte et non le mont Viso dont le sommet se trouve dans le Piémont en Italie, mais dont le tour passe par le Queyras.
The Queyras is a valley located in the French Hautes-Alpes, of which the geographical extent is the basin of the river Guil, a tributary of the Durance. The Queyras is one of the oldest mountain ranges of the Alps, and it was one of the last ones to be opened to public tourism towards the end of the 20th century, thus being relatively untouched by environmental destruction.
The Queyras is also one of the 58 Regional nature parks of France.
The GR58, also known as the Tour du Queyras ("The tour of Queyras" in French), is a long-distance walking route that forms a 108-km hiking loop in the Queyras.
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Spotted some squirrels at All Saints Church, Kingston that seemed to be getting up very close to people. Thus, couldn't resist a photo opportunity... quickly went and bought a bag of mixed nuts and managed to get this beauty to pose for me. He was actually taking and eating the nuts out of the bag from my lap!
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The wine spring of Western Han Dynasty is the highlight to see and has a beautiful story to share. In 121BC of the Western Han Dynasty, the General Huo Qubing from the Han Court won a total victory in the famous Hexi Battle against Huns. In order to celebrate the success, the Emperor Wu awarded him a pot of luscious wine. The General Huo thought the contribution should have come to the whole army. So he poured the wine into the spring and drank it with his soldiers,thus the spring got the beautiful name "Wine Spring".
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Medieval Crystal Fountain (touch resize)
Mystical Moon Stone - blue
Mystical Moon Stone - purple
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SR Fantasy Lantern Double Roses
SR Fantasy Lantern Mirror
SR Fantasy Lantern
SR Fantasy Lantern Mirror Double Roses
SR Mystical Spiral Lights *Light Design change by touch
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Grass Flower by Simply Shelby main store
Peace Wildflowers - pink mix (plain)
Peace Wildflowers - purple/yellow mix (plain)
Peace Wildflowers - blue/orange (plain)
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The winter section of my store ! Please visit and enjoy :)
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Marketplace store -
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As it happens, quite a lot when you miss-click; was it ever thus as the saying goes. Been rather thoughtful lately and this seems to be reflected in some of my images. I'm sure all of you have a space to retire to and think, so I hope 2023 is better for you all. May it bring all the good things you wished for.
⦿A&D Clothing - Jacket -Alek- LEGACY (and jumper - with vast colour hud for both included)
At the Men Only Event Jan 2023
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⦿//Rowers// - Lucius Pants Fatpack Legacy
At the Men Only Event Jan 2023
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⦿B(u)Y ME: - Gabriel Pose 1
At the Men Only Event Jan 2023
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⦿Six Feet Under - Wendigo Earrings
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This window is in a local United Methodist Church. It is a side window and very high off the ground, thus the low vantage point. It is located in Lancaster County, Virginia.
Happy Window Wednesday!
The glasswing butterfly , a baseball-size flier that lives throughout Central and South America, is one of hundreds of butterfly species with transparant wings. Thus rare adaptation helps it evade potential predators.
Butterflies have long been considered symbols of positive transfromation. The Glasswing butterfly is native to Mexico and central Americam , with transparant wings that represent our organizations's commitment to transparancy, Just like the butterfly effect, we believe one small act act can achieve great things.
How many glasswing butterflies are there?
The study specifally focused on Ithomini or glasswing butterfliesm a larg group with nearly 400 species that occur throughout nuch of Central and South America
The Small Ground-Finch is one of the most common and highly adaptable, as well as widespread of the Darwin’s Finches of the Galapagos Islands. In towns and villages they are found foraging on dusty margins of streets and act very much as would a House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) in other parts of the world. Yet in higher and moister areas they may be seen perched on a Galapagos Tortoise, waiting for bugs or seeds to be uncovered by the movements of the large reptile. This is the smallest and smallest billed of the ground-finches and thus it eats the smallest seeds available.
La Ceja, Antioquia, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
The House Wren is a very small songbird. It occurs from Canada to southernmost South America, and is thus the most widely distributed bird in the Americas. This bird's rich bubbly song is commonly heard during the nesting season but rarely afterwards. (Wikipedia)
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Shot at Mystic Meadow, Oniro - Mystic Meadow at Oniro, the Romantic Land of Dreams
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Tree by *Thus Magic* ♥ White Sakura Tree - Round ♥
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The Athena statue was constructed from 1982 to 1990, Designed by Alan LeQuire
The Parthenon, a full-scale replica of the one in Athens, Greece, was built largely out of plaster as a temporary exhibit building (the Nashville pavilion of the 1897 Centennial Exposition). It was saved from demolition by public sentiment and the nickles and dimes of school children and tourists, thus preserving this symbol of Nashville as the "Athens of the South". In the 1920s the temporary plaster building was replaced with a permanent, concrete and steel incarnation, which remains today.
In the rainy season, the Salar resembles an enormous mirror that merges in the horizon with the sky. Thus the tours are restricted to some areas.
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
William Shakespeare
This shot is taken in JPEG (NOT in RAW), thus very minimum editing made. Essentially, what you see here is what was there. It is one of my works for an Nat Geo Assignment from a Nat Geo producer. The assignment prompted me to explore area less visited by people, injecting something new in the photography community.
Disney just shut down a wonderful photography community, Nat Go Your Shot (Nat Geo YS), forcing me, a Your Shot photographer to migrate my works from Nat Geo YS to flickr and/or instgram. Your Shot is a place to be missed. Other than socially connecting people, YS inspires and encourages every photographer.
As always thanks in advance for your faves and/or comment..
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*Thus Magic* ~ Five (5) Urban, Sci-fi, Steampunk Trees
Five unique MESH, urban fantasy trees -
for city,
steampunk environment,
underground club,
sci fi role-play area,
biker store or club,
urban sim,
dirty alley,
dark street,
garage.
After a long search I found in the basement this old, rusty wrench that I have never used. In the first pictures I made of this tool, the red blossom was missing and thus a major eye-catcher, which gives the picture not only color contrast, but also a hard-soft contrast.
Nach langem Suchen habe ich im Keller diesen alten, rostigen Schraubenschlüssel, den ich noch nie benutzt habe, gefunden. Bei den ersten Bilder, die ich von diesem Werkzeug machte, fehlte die rote Blüte und damit ein wesentlicher Blickfang, der dem Bild nicht nur Farbkontrast, sondern auch einen hart-weich-Kontrast verleiht.
Thank you for visits, comments and favs!
Vielen Dank für Eure Besuche, Kommentare und Sternchen!
293) LongBilled Spiderhuter
Long-Billed Spiderhunter, Arachnothera robusta, Kelicap Jantung Paruh Panjang
This spiderhunter can be found in the rainforest of SouthEast Asia. Usually hunting in the highest part of the canopy, thus not easy to spot. The long bill is the obvious characteristic that differentiate it from another spiderhunter species.
This photograph was taken during my visit to Dubai Marina in last November.
It was breezy, and thus a long exposure was used to record the blurred reflections around the yacht club, with yachts seen in the foreground. The unique landmarks, including their colourful reflections are captured in this nightscape.
La Ceja, Antioquia, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
The House Wren is a very small songbird. It occurs from Canada to southernmost South America, and is thus the most widely distributed bird in the Americas. This bird's rich bubbly song is commonly heard during the nesting season but rarely afterwards. (Wikipedia)
Pompéu, MG, Brazil.
The species belongs to the monotypic genus Micropygia
Although not considered rare, they are extremely shy and elusive and thus very difficult to be spotted.
Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.
Known in Brazil as "maxalalagá".
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Micropygia Bonaparte, 1856
Species: M. schomburgkii (Cabanis in Schomburgk, 1848)
Binomial name: Micropygia schomburgkii
The Laguna Verde covers an area of 1700 ha, and a narrow causeway divides it into two parts. It is at the southwestern extremity of the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve and Bolivia itself. It has mineral suspensions of arsenic and other minerals which renders colour to the lake waters. Its color varies from turquoise to dark emerald depending on the disturbance caused to sediments in the lake by winds.
In the backdrop of the lake there is the inactive volcano Licancabur of 5,868 metres (19,252 ft) in elevation, which is a nearly perfect cone. It is believed that an ancient crypt used to be at its peak.
Icy winds are a common phenomenon there and lake waters can attain temperatures as low as -56 degree C but because of its chemical composition its waters still remain in a liquid state. It is 30 km away from Palques Lake.
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"Licancabur" Volcano derives from the Kunza words used by the Atacameño people to refer to the volcano: lican ("people", or pueblo) and cábur ("mountain"); thus, "mountain of the people". It is also known as "Volcan de Atacama" and "Licancaur".
Leffrinckoucke, Dunkerque.
2020 ©MichelleCourteau
'REFLECTION', the blockhouse-mirror, Anonyme, artist.
The battery of Zuydcoote, is a work of the system Séré de Rivières, built from 1877 to 1878, in annex of the fort of the Dunes. It is thus called because it is responsible for defending the pass of Zuydcoote.
Located on the town of Leffrinckoucke 5 km east of Dunkirk, the Zuydcoote’s battery was integrated into the Maginot line, then was completed by blockhouses of the Atlantic Wall.