Tiny woodpecker, common and widespread across much of North America. Black-and-white plumage is nearly identical to the larger Hairy Woodpecker. Focus on the bill: Downy has a very short bill, much shorter than the length of the head. Also note the small black markings on the white outer tail feathers. Pacific population has smaller white spots on the wing and a grayer body than Eastern birds. Occurs in any wooded habitat, though western birds are more restricted to riparian areas. Often forages on smaller branches than Hairy Woodpecker. Familiar visitor to backyard feeders, especially fond of suet. Calls include a soft “pik!” and descending rattle, weaker than Hairy Woodpecker. (eBird)

Downy Woodpeckers are ridiculously tame at Mud Lake. They know that they can get handouts from visitors just by following them around. This one was ever hopeful, but we had forgotten the food in the car. He still posed for this photo, though :)

Britannia Conservation Area, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

🎶 Svag

But I can't be in the same room as you without losing my breath

And every time you look at me

feels like my heart stops

Trying to play hard and resist

But you tear down my walls

I don't know what you're doing

But everything you do makes me weak

(sorry for the Swedish language)

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Un cuento:

Nació con la primera luz de la madrugada. Al examinarla con cuidado se dieron cuenta de que era frágil como el cristal. Sus cuidadores pusieron la mayor diligencia y la rodearon de mimos: acolchonaron las esquinas, cambiaron escaleras por rampas y prohibieron los juegos peligrosos. A pesar del cuidado, ella creció con un temperamento impulsivo, decidido y rebelde.

Cuando los años se empezaron a contar en abriles, se enamoró, con ese amor adolescente, ingenuo, irracional y muchas veces injustificado. El destinatario de su amor era de hojalata, proclive a la cobardía y la mentira, con una dureza irrompible, la del egoismo, asi que, fue ella la que se empezó a romper. Su risa y su espíritu se volvieron tan frágiles como su cuerpo.

Se sucedieron los años y también nuevas decepciones. Fue perdiendo la luz y ganando fragilidad, no era débil, era frágil, frágil por dentro y frágil por fuera. Se fue aislando del mundo, de los golpes. Su espíritu rebelde y terco, poco permeable al desánimo fue perdiendo ímpetu, cada vez más encogida, reservada y apagada hasta que un día desapareció, se fragmentó en tantos pedacitos que fue imposible encontrarla.

Llegados a este punto, aún no le hemos puesto nombre, se llamaba Esperanza y seguro que tú conoces a alguien como ella, cuídala, es frágil, sonríele, y no dejes que se acerque a los corazones de hojalata por que la harán añicos.

( Para ti. Todo "ficcionado" ;-)) Gracias por esa Madrugada)

PFM

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A tale:

She was born with the light of dawn. Examining it carefully they realized that it was fragile like glass. Her caretakers did their best and surrounded her with all kinds of care: they cushioned the corners, changed stairs for ramps and prohibited dangerous games. Despite the care, she grew up with an impulsive, determined and rebellious temperament.

When the years began to be counted in April, he fell in love with that adolescent love, naive, irrational and often unjustified. The recipient of her love was tin, prone to cowardice and lies, with an unbreakable hardness, that of selfishness, so it was she who began to break. Her laughter and her spirit became as fragile as her body.

Years went by and also new disappointments. It was losing light and gaining fragility, it was not weak, it was fragile, fragile inside and fragile on the outside. He became isolated from the world, from the blows. Her rebellious and stubborn spirit, little prone to discouragement, was losing momentum, more and more shrunken, reserved and extinguished until one day it disappeared, it fragmented into so many pieces that it was impossible to find it.

At this point we have not given her a name yet, her name was Esperanza(Hope) and surely you know someone like her, take care of her, she is fragile, smile at her, and do not let her get close to the tin hearts because they will shatter her.

PFM

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A weak weather system helped to clear out the air at Crater Lake, revealing falling rain reflected in the water below.

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Taken at the beautiful NorderNey ♥

You learn my love, you hit the target

You get that rush and then you walk out the door

You kept me small, it's what you wanted

I never noticed

You held my hand into the darkness

I didn't care, it made me just want you more

My god, your love, it seems so harmless

I never noticed

And I hate that you're gone

And I hate that I don't wanna let go

And I hate that you think that I'm weak

'Cause I don't wanna let you know

I'm gonna build castles

From the rubble of your love

From the rubble of your love

I'm gonna be more than

You ever thought I was

You ever thought I was (Ooh)

Each time you left, there was a hunger

I felt so dead, I couldn't take anymore

Losing your love, it left me stronger

I never noticed

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

~~ J. K. Rowling ~~

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♫A Perfect Circle - Weak and Powerless

"The devil has my ear today

I'll never hear a word you say

He promised I would find a little solace

And some piece of mind

Whatever just as long as I don't feel so

Desperate and ravenous

I'm so weak and powerless

Desperate and ravenous

I'm so weak and powerless

Over you..."

Tawny Frogmouth. Their species name; strigoides, means owl-like. They are nocturnal and carnivorous but not owls. Related to the Kookaburra and native to Australia. They have rather weak legs and talons to grab prey, instead they pounce and use their wide, hooked beak to dispatch their prey.

Image taken in a small reserve near my home in Canberra, ACT.

The gaffer makes a final inspection. A Timeline photo charter in the loco shed at Didcot railway centre.

A weak sun trying to penetrate the dark winter clouds a few years back.

Stormy island walk Baltrum ...

This is obviously a Horse Chestnut just emerging from its shell in a bed of vibrantly coloured Heather.

It turns out that I'm funnier than I thought I was.....🤔. My weak attempt at humour in the title was to do with the spikes and injections.....BUT my good Flickr friend Sarda has pointed out it actually looks like a virus and she is absolutely right!!!

All I can see now is a wacking big virus.....Mind you if they were this size you could beat them off with a tennis raquet....😁.....

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View from a harbour barge

Strong gate - weak fence! I don’t know what this gate is protecting because the road back into the property seems to be the “road less traveled.” I’ll tell you one thing, by the time one gets finished reading all the signs the dog will be upon you. Apparently, you can’t do anything on this property. Everything fun is forbidden - how boring to live there. They do make signs now that say ‘Trespassers will be Violated’. At least a sign like that is good for a laugh.

There are several ways into this secret property. You could just climb the gate or cut the wire on the fence. I don’t believe that there is a dog, but I’m not that curious to see what is back this overgrown road. If it is a pristine Jaguar in a barn, I will be kicking myself later. If there is indeed a dog, you would see him coming a long ways away and be back over the gate before he gets in attack mode. HFF

“The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel

When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!”

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The sun is growing weak. Light flees, colour draining

in the half light. The bog waits ahead, to the darkening east.

#Mogwai #Dixit

I appear to be stuck on Windmills at present, this one’s a little older, but just as magical - It must be watching Windy Miller and all that Camberwick Green as a Child! (UK 1960’s Children’s T.V)

Ashton windmill is a Tower mill in Chapel Allerton, Somerset, England. Its tower is over 7.5 metres (25 ft) high with stone walls that are 60 cm (2.0 ft) thick. The sails are 13 m (43 ft) across and used to be covered with canvas. The last millstones were 1.2 m (3.9 ft) across and the millstones used to grind wheat for flour and beans for cattle food.

The first mill on the site was medieval, but the present structure probably dates from the 18th century] It was modernized in 1900 with machinery brought from the demolished Moorlinch mill, and iron hoops around the building being added] It was restored in 1967. The mill has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building

It is now preserved, having been given to Bristol City Museum in 1966 and is owned by Sedgemoor District Council, and maintained by volunteers. (Wikipedia)

Perhaps too many clouds this morning for these peak colors to fully establish. Still being in the desert at sunrise is always a special moment.

Picture of the Day

Weak Wintery Sun.

abandoned in the Palouse, Washington state.

The world is goddamned place,the strong prey on the weak,the rich on the poor.....!

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Grange Farm cottage at West Burton, Wensleydale.

The sign post says Witton Steeps 3, this was featured in yesterdays photo.

This is from last year's 7-week roadtrip. I still have several thousand photos to weed through. I was trying to think how I would edit this one when I "accidentally" went B&W. It fit the gloomy overcast of the day where we experienced weak sun, torrential rain and the biggest hail storm ever, all in the space of an hour.

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Blidworth Woods, Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire

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An overall sooty-colored cuckooshrike with broad white tips to the tail feathers. Male is dark sooty-gray with a slaty sheen, slightly paler on rump. Underparts paler toward tail; wings black. Female is very similar to male, but paler in general, often weakly barred with dark and pale gray on underparts. Male has a black mask, while female has dark lores and a faint eyering. Juvenile is blackish-brown above and brownish-gray below, heavily scaled whitish all over, with broad white tips on wing feathers. Immature like female, but more strongly and extensively barred below. Song is a loud series of whistles “pe-pe-pe-peew-peew-pew”; sometimes the starting notes are skipped. Found in all types of woodlands, including broad-leaved forests, sometimes even near cultivation during non-breeding season. (eBird)

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During a very sobering visit to the tunnel systems used by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War, I caught a glimpse of this bird high in the canopy. It brought a little peace of mind, knowing that birds were once again inhabiting this place of war and destruction.

I had originally id'd this bird as an Ashy Drongo but I was wrong. The long tail misled me, but of course, the eBird reviewer let me know my mistake right away :-)

Cu Chi Tunnels, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. January 2025.

Emerald River Cruises.

"And where do you live, Simon?"

"I live in the weak and the wounded, Doc."

["Simon" - Session 9]

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Kinda sequel to this.

Every year since 2007 i try to do a picture using this quote.

Every year i end up deleting it.

Will this be the lucky year? Who knows, ask my two braincells.

Super quick credits again because lazy and also a bit sick, i've probably got the first flu of the season. Much joy, very wow.

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Gosh the sun has been so rare during this winter season and even when it does show itself, it is more often a weak affair and of short duration.

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Across to the Malvern Hills at Sunset

Count on me through thick and thin

A friendship that will never end

When you are weak, I will be strong

Helping you to carry on

Call on me, I will be there, don't be afraid

Please believe me when I say, count on

I can see that it's hurting you, I can feel your pain

It's hard to see the sunshine, through the rain, oh

I know sometimes it seems as if, it's never gonna end

But you'll get through it

Just don't give in cause you can

Count on me through thick and thin

A friendship that will never end

When you are weak, I will be strong

Helping you to carry on

Call on me, I will be there, don't be afraid

Please believe me when I say, count on

You can count on me

I know sometimes it seems as if, we're standing all alone

Be we'll get through it, 'cause love won't let us fall

Count on me through thick and thin

A friendship that will never end

When you are weak, I will be strong

Helping you to carry on

Call on me, I will be there, don't be afraid

Please believe me when I say, count on

There's a place inside of all of us

Where our faith in love begins

You should reach to find the truth in love

The answers there within, oh

I know that life can make you feel

It's much harder than it really is

But we'll get through it, just don't give in

Count on me through thick and thin

A friendship that will never end

When you are weak, I will be strong

Helping you to carry on

Call on me, I will be there, don't be afraid

Please believe me when I say, count on

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