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This video is for all those sites and people who keep saying that Monarch caterpillars feed "exclusively" on Milkweed leaves. I have seen them eat just about everything on the Milkweed plant - flowers, buds, stems and leaves.
Howard County Conservancy
Mt. Pleasant
Woodstock, Maryland
May your 2026 be filled with moments of grace and a heart at rest. Sending love and light to all my Flickr friends,
thank you for being part of my journey.
A moving view over Osaka Station, one of my final nights capturing the city’s glow before heading back to Sweden for the holidays. Filmed from the same spot as my last photo, this video is a little time capsule of lights, buses, and people, so I can always revisit the memories of this journey.
Combattant varié, (Calidris pugnax)
Bergeronnette grise (Motacilla alba)
Diaporama d'une course-poursuite entre un Combattant varié et une Bergeronnette grise !
Qui va gagner ? 😉
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Merci beaucoup à toutes et tous pour votre visite, commentaire et appréciation. Je vous souhaite une belle journée!
Thank you very much to everyone for your visit, comment and appreciation. I wish you a nice day!
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nur in diesem Fall kann man einen neuen Versuch starten...
wenn Mediziner einen schwerwiegenden Fehler machen,
wie 2018 an mir, in einer Uniklinik , gelingt das eben nicht...
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Myths, Legends and Rock Formations:
Due to the strange rock formations, and some formations on a wall in the form of writing or signs, Pedra da Gávea carries along with its name many legends and myths. Among the main myths and legends, one of them involves characters engraved in stone and the hypothesis of the Phoenician sphinx. Another theory that some raise about Pedra Gavea is that there is a great portal to Agartha.
By observing the stone well, several associations can be made and below are some of the most common ones.
The Giant's Head or Emperor's Head:
Looking at Pedra da Gávea, seen from Pedra Bonita or from the Canoas road that goes around Pedra Bonita, as well as from the Hang Gliding and Paragliding ramp that is almost at the top of Pedra Bonita, you can see the head of a large sculpted giant in stone. Whether an accidental work of nature or not, the resemblance is very great and it really does look like a sculpture.
As to this resemblance, whatever the cause of such formation, not even the most skeptical of men can deny.
Enigmatic Inscriptions:
At the top of the Rock, next to the Head on the left, beginning of the video, there are some formations and erosions that look like inscriptions or what look like letters carved in the stone. With the naked eye it is not always possible to see, but looking at enlarged photos taken with telephoto lenses that provide better details at long distances, one can see what appear to be inscriptions (words engraved in stone) of some primitive alphabet.
What most intrigues many observers of Pedra da Gávea is not exactly the shape of a "human head" at one end, nor the shapes of "portals" that may be random formations, made over the years, by erosion, a natural phenomenon.
Some observers are not satisfied with admitting that the marks in the form of writing are a mere chance of nature. This fact suggests a curious and creative hypothesis to try to explain the enigma of the writings on the stone.
First Findings About Engraved Characters:
The shapes of the rock, which bear resemblance to a human face, drew attention for a long time, as well as the characters that were also first objects of study since the time of Dom João VI's stay in Brazil.
Friar Custódio, a religious specialist in epigraphy, that is, studies of stone engravings, made a report about the inscriptions on Pedra da Gávea, and concluded that they were made at the time of the discovery of Brazil, and this report was delivered to Dom João VI .
In 1839, the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute decided to analyze the subject, and organized an expedition for this purpose. Historians J. Cunha Barbosa, Manoel de Araújo Porto Alegre and imperial chaplain J. Rodrigues Monteiro participated.
The report that followed, after the expedition and subsequent analyses, recognized Phoenician characters in the inscriptions, appearing to have been made in antiquity, and being deteriorated by time. However, the report also saw the inscriptions as a product of erosion, which ultimately led to the hypothesis that the characters were made by nature to prevail.
However, in 1928, a new hypothesis appeared that attributed the engravings of characters in Pedra da Gávea to the Phoenicians.
The last translation made below shows the sequence of these studies.
Jeth-Baal or Yet-Baal, is a name that refers to two twin brothers, older sons of Badezir.
And finally, what does this mean? Looking back at history, there existed in the year 856 BC, a Phoenician King named Badezir, who according to the first translation replaced and succeeded King Jethbaal, his father, on the royal throne of Tyro. But according to the second translation, Badezir was the father of the Jeth-Baal brothers.
If this hypothesis were confirmed with archaeological evidence, it could be believed that the Phoenicians were in Rio about 800 years before Christ, and that Pedra da Gávea would be a tomb where Badezir or Jeth-Baal would be buried, and human features shaped on the stone would be the face of Badezir or Jeth-Baal.
Whose face would the sphinx be, already eroded by erosion, and without the nose? It would be the representation of the face of King Badezir or Jeth-Baal. And was that formation really the representation of an unfinished sphinx? Or eroded by erosion?
There are those who claim from the height of all their wisdom that it is a sphinx. And one of the staunchest defenders of this hypothesis is the president of the Brazilian Association of Speleology and Archaeological Research in Rio, Roldão Pires Brandão, who stated:
"It is a sphinx engraved in granite by the Phoenicians, which has the face of a man and the body of an animal lying down. The tail must have fallen off due to the action of time. The rock, seen from afar, has the grandeur of monuments pharaonic figures and reproduces, on one of its sides, the severe face of a patriarch".
Pedra da Gávea is also related to the Agartha portal, an entrance to a subterranean world inside the Earth, arising from the Hollow Earth theory.
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Credits:
Drone footage taken by my mountaineering guide, Marcelo Kastrup (Adrena Rio);
Song: The Floating World by Simple Minds (Album Cry).
No AI was used on the Clipchamp platform.
If you look carefully you will see a beetle carrying something back to the mossy mound towards the front Badger from the bottom of the frame and freezes when it sees the Badgers. (It is about 13 seconds in)
Although the bulk of their diet is made up of earthworms, they also eat slugs and insects and have a keen sense of smell and sharp claws that can root up grubs from under the soil surface.
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Cambridgeshire Fens
The hide is fully booked for July and most of August but I have one slot remaining (for a solo photographer) on Monday 7th August.
The hide will close for the season at the end of August although I intend to open again next year (provided the owls are successful) from mid-May. Bookings now being taken.
For details and contact information please visit the website: www.khrimages.co.uk
Video also on YouTube: youtu.be/njG1MUWb_5w
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Top Striker : Beautiful “Holy White” – Face Tattoo – Cross, Mole, leaves line. It’s unisex. Group member get store credits.
We have to learn to beat the challenges of unfairness and to create change without anger. We have to show strength. Love and friendship are positive; anger is negative. If enough of us get together in friendship and with love, we can bring about change.
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DANCE:
Sync'D Motion BEAT @ TMD
King of the beat? no problem.. with this dance .. yes.. absolutely u can go for it with any music and yes is unisex.
Make sure u check the original dance video campaign by Sync'D Motion at:
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Music on the background is used only as educational purposes to show dance moves on the theme of it
To celebrate the new year, here's an AI animation of one of my photos from early December.
Auteur de l'animation: B.TOUSSAINT (Atelier des Antonins - Lyon)
WhatsApp Video 2026-01-01 at 14.17.25
Waves at Jervis Bay, Australia. Normally waves there are about a metre high but after a week of storms they were about 3 m high.
I love watching waves, particularly, large ones. They are like flames - enticingly beautiful but nevetheless potentially dangerous.
The boom of the waves as they broke reverberated along the beach. Unfortunately, the sound recorded with the video was poor so I have switched it off.
The waves had torn red algae from the sea bed so they have a reddish tinge. It was very hazy day.
Wild Tawny Owl footage, filmed from my woodland hide in Cambridgeshire.
Hides are now open for a third season. For details please visit www.khrimages.co.uk
Video also available on YouTube: youtu.be/LsTu6-5WaaI
This breathtaking aerial photo captures a dramatic Arctic landscape in Norway. Snow-covered, jagged mountains rise sharply from the sea, their peaks glowing softly under light breaking through thick, textured clouds. In the foreground, a narrow road stretches across small rocky islets, curving gracefully over low bridges that connect patches of land surrounded by calm, glassy water. Raw winter wilderness balanced by a thin ribbon of human engineering cutting gently through it, makes it both powerful and peaceful!
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