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Oh Mister Duck! It is far too windy out here, and Kyle obviously has her camera on the wrong setting. Either that, or the pills we took were the wrong sorts of pills.
So excited to have this cover!
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We've hit the late autumn "gray" in Michigan, so that leads me to looking back at brighter days, like this one at Dow Gardens in Midland, MI, summer, 2024. I miss the greater prevalence of butterflies and hope those days return, too.
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Less than a mile from the Garden is where I did much of my first "birding" such as it was. And one of my first encounters with what was one of my longest lasting nemeses, the male Belted Kingfisher.
First, this was at Heather Farm Reserve when it was more wildlife than human. There is a very large pond with an island that creates a lagoon. And in this lagoon lived (maybe still does) a Belted Kingfisher which have a ratcheting call and a bill like an Australian Kookaburra. He would perch on a favorite snag (which the city cut off five years later) and call. As soon as you'd come running, he would fly to the other side of the island and, dutifully, I would run to try and get just one decent shot. This training of humans - I wasn't the only one - went on for almost five years when I spotted him before he saw me.
This was not the greatest shot, and it has been archived for eight years until my software came with a clarity brush and I was able to bring this character out in the open.
I keep mentioning the male. That is because the female Belted Kingfisher was only seen once and that was in 2019. The female has two bars across the chest, an example of sexual dimosphism. I saw her once, and never again.
When the City began pruning, chopping, fencing and doing other inane things to a park that had existed for over 100 years, the wildlife left and me along with them. I saw one of the people I used to see every day at the Reserve (now at the Garden), and she told me it has been dead as a doornail for three years. That includes the dragonflies because the ponds are low, no fish, and unsuitable for even the small number of Odonata we used to have.
I feel like a Burrowing Owl who keeps getting moved by planning developers, something I witnessed first hand and four times with the local colonies. Now, they're too far for me to go...
Seen recently on Flickr, i used to go past this every day when i worked in the area and thought it must have been scrapped, but no, it survives and is taxed and MOT'd until late 2023 too.
As seen on an apartment building in the East Village. But there is nothing more maddening to see how other people come along and scribble over a beautiful piece of art.
iPhone 3GS. I kinda promised myself I'd go easy on the processing and create simpler images...so, this happened.
The shells are multiple feet deep in layers and it becomes overwhelming to try to find a specific type of shell here.
it's just been one of those days!
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I guess it may depend in which direction you are driving over it but it always seems to go on forever.
A contextual shot for the previous two shots. This is the same structure as the previous shot, but from the other side, and also is the same location as the Industrial foreshore shot, but looking about 90 degrees clockwise.
Pleased with the subtle light and delicate colours that an unusual morning visit lent to this prospect
Made a trip to a local bird hide and although there were a few migrating arrivals, it was still too early and pretty quiet. We had the place virtually to ourselves as far as people went, too - though that will change in the next few weeks as more migrating birds arrive and a birding festival draws large crowds of people.
I have this shot with the light coming through the hole in the rock. This one has better color. I think I like this better.
Thanks for looking
Kenny
We made an early stop at Loch a' Chlachain. The 'How?' here was just how this old boathouse is still standing. We had last visited a couple of years ago and it looked close to collapse then but I was really pleased to see it is still hanging in there. Some nice warm light and reflections added to the scene.