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'Against the Wind'
Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) Greater Manchester.
0724.01.23.
I took this image recently with a newly acquired Canon R7 which presently I am having a love hate relationship with. I also acquired a 5D MKIV which I simply love.
'Against the Wind' is a nod to a Bob Seger song which I like and which is appropriate since kestrels only hover against the wind.
Best viewed large. This is a full sideways crop.
Happy to see here...
That shadow looks like a skeleton hand... maybe I am in a spooky mood. :-)
In honor and thanks of www.flickr.com/photos/128301828@N08/
This picture is going to be called: The hand...
Thanks so much, friend !!! What a great vision ! :))))
Actually it's a picture I took in 2013 from a small corner in Barcelona's Diagonal. I wanted to edit it a little bigger and in 4/3 format.
Shadows.... Sombras....
ENG: The Berlin district of Mitte offers ever new views. A view through the new iPhone 11proMAX wide angle lenses to the sky in the Stresemann Kiez.
This is what it looked like with OlloClip FishEye. flic.kr/p/ScuHH5
GER: Der Berliner Bezirk Mitte bietet immer wieder neue Ansichten. Ein Blick durch das neue iPhone 11proMAX Weitwinkelobjektiv in den Himmel im Stresemann Kiez.
So sah es damals mit OlloClip FishEye aus. flic.kr/p/ScuHH5
Common Kestrel (female)
0751.14.01.2023
Best viewed at 2048 pixels for detail. The bird here is the same bird that I have previously uploaded and captured hovering and mating (though not at the same time!).
This is not an ironic Thanksgiving Turkey, as we celebrate the holiday in Canada today. Rather it is an expression of genuine thanks, for the amazing experiences and surprises that come from getting up early and going out in the woods, or along the River, or to the Lake.
This bird was photographed in a conservation area that is more or less surrounded by human habitation. Not tightly surrounded, and not with high density housing, but it classifies I think as an urban conservation area.
Somehow a Wild Turkey (pictured) took up residence there. It is unclear how, and it doesn’t matter. For over a year it frightened, entertained, and occasionally hustled food from, visitors to the area. It roosted in the trees, and kept moving, and it could go weeks without being seen (it is a largish area). Surviving last winter was not a given, but it managed.
So the bird was already one of those surprises that comes from getting up and going out - I have been going there for years and never imagined I would get this close to a Wild a Turkey.
And then somehow this spring it had twelve young. No one knows how, no one saw a male, and yet there it was, escorting the young birds through the bush and hiding in the remote parts of the conservation area.
There are only seven of the offspring still roaming around. Watching them run down the trails is a pretty compelling argument for the birds-from-dinosaurs hypothesis: one feels like one is in a scene from Jurassic Park.
But this is just a way to give thanks to the amazing richness of the natural world, and to the possibility of something new and different that helps to motivate us getting up in the dark, and the cold, and going out for the sunrise.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Source image for:
TT 161 - January 6-January 12
www.flickr.com/groups/1752359@N21/discuss/72157678811492735/
Une maison de chanoine construite en 1512 est toujours visible au no 24 de la Rue Chanoinesse. (4ème Arrondissement)
Cet immeuble du 24, rue Chanoinesse est composé de deux bâtiments faisant l'objet à des titres divers d'un classement aux monuments historiques : à gauche, une devanture et une grille de débit de boisson et, à droite, un second bloc dont l'une des cours intérieures renferme des vestiges de l'ancienne chapelle Saint-Aignan.