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Mount Rainier, Washington
It doesn't always rain in the Pacific Northwest! And on clear days like today, Mount Rainier is on full display. I took this photo today on my daily walk up to the park near my house.
Redstart (M) - 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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The visibility was excellent by the time we reached the summit of Snowdon. This is the view in the direction of our ascent, over Llyn Llydaw.
We followed the Pyg Track, the upper one in the middle. To the left of it you can see Crib Goch, the ascent on the mountain cliff. And in the middle below the Pyg Track, runs the Miners' Track, the one we would follow for the descent.
The trail to the right is the "Watkin Path".
Passo dei Salati near Gressoney-la-Trinité in Valle del Lys (Aosta)
Monte Rosa, Italy 01.02.2015
Schlechte Sicht
Passo dei Salati nahe Gressoney-la-Trinité im Valle del Lys (Aosta)
Monte Rosa, Italien 01.02.2015
The traffic sign from the other day, minus the snow covering.
Image from Jan 2019, taken on a cold morning after a night of heavy snowfall, best conditions!
A large fishing boat is moored at a village seashore at a time when thick haze covers most of the surroundings, thus preventing clear views of Subic Bay.
The foggy-like haze has reportedly also reduced visibility in other parts of Luzon, including Metro Manila. Luzon is the largest island of the Philippines.
Taken in the municipality of Subic, Zambales, in the aforesaid Southeast Asian country.
Smoke Haze blocks out the sunrise and reduces visibility at Woy Woy Waterfront on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.
Bryce Canyon, UT
The overcast and intermittent rain in the low southwestern deserts made for days of frustration with little end in sight. The system was stalled, no breaks in the canopy, no good for photography. I laid out my Indian Country map and plotted a course north, where maybe I’d find snow in the higher deserts. It bore out. Fresh snow had moved through Zion and past the Paunsaugunt Plateau, and I arrived at Bryce as the storm petered out. I followed someone else’s trail through the forest thinking I had a shortcut to the Rim Trail, and continued on like an idiot after it was obvious they had turned back, snow to my knees and looking for oxygen in my exertion at 8000 feet. Thankfully I brought micro spikes, and needed them when I reached the beaten path, frozen and refrozen, and under the fresh inches today. There is clarity in the air after rain or snow, or so it seems. I’ve heard that the precipitation picks up dust particles, that some kind of ionization takes place effectively cleaning the air and increasing visibilty. Is it what we see, or how we see it? We learn through the lens of what came behind us, not what is ahead. And yet, some directions we look in are clearer than others. An undecided sky let the afternoon sun peekaboo features in the landscape. It dappled the horizon in degrees of shadow and light. Beyond Boat Mesa, Canaan and Tablet Top, some 30 miles away, were alight with rising mists where perhaps the storm still brewed. Beyond them is where I will head tomorrow.
nocturnal return to our cottage in Iceland under very difficult conditions of total darkness, roads that were not cleared and a steadily growing blizzard that turned visibility into an abstract feature.
Subfreezing temps, and steam from two of the largest hot springs in the world combine to obscure almost everything on this cold morning at Midway Geyser Basin in Yellowstone. Rudyard Kipling, who visited Yellowstone in 1889, immortalized this basin by referring to it as "Hell's Half Acre."
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This picture was taken a couple of years ago on a trip to the MacGillycuddy Reeks in Ireland.
Having just descended from the windy and wet summit of Carrauntoohil, visibility was regained as we reached the col. It is always a great relief when you descend out of the cloud. Our route from here would take us over Beenkeragh and down the distant ridge past the the two lochs to the right. the two lakes are Lough Gourach and Lough Callee. We had hiked a circular walk that day and our ascent and descent both started and concluded beyond the third lake.
Instances like this when you have been engulfed by cloud for so long and then all of a sudden visibility reappears are exciting times. I know that a might sound odd but regained visibility is always a great reward.