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Last year, we had many green herons at Koll fishing. Drew crowds of photographers. This year, I've just seen this one. I was fortunate enough to have it near shore when it went fishing, and got some shots of its success.
Balancing Rocks in the Ottawa River.
Remic Rapids Park is situated on the shore of the Ottawa River, Ottawa, Canada.
To enhance the park’s beauty, artist John Felice Ceprano has created balanced rock sculptures on the river’s edge since 1986. The artist uses fossilized and colourful rocks found on the shore to build these sculptures by hand. They provide a free and exploratory public art experience that complements the park’s natural setting.
With such long legs and an uncooperative tree limb, it takes a balancing act to find the perfect perch to rest upon.
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Snow Bunting - Plectrophenax Nivalis
Snow buntings are large buntings, with striking 'snowy' plumages. Males in summer have all white heads and underparts contrasting with a black mantle and wing tips. Females are a more mottled above. In autumn and winter birds develop a sandy/buff wash to their plumage and males have more mottled upperparts.
Globally, they breed around the arctic from Scandinavia to Alaska, Canada and Greenland and migrate south in winter. They are a scarce breeding species in the UK, in Scotland, making them an Amber List species. They are more widespread in winter in the north and east when residents are joined by continental birds.
They are listed under Schedule 1 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act.
The snow bunting lives in very high latitudes in the Arctic tundra. There is no apparent limit to its northern range, while the southern range is limited by the duration of daylight, which influences their reproductive activity. This species is found in the high Arctic tundra of North America, Ellesmere Island, Iceland, higher mountains of Scotland, Norway, Russia, North Greenland, Siberia, Novaya Zemlya, and Franz Josef Land. During the winter, this bird migrates to the circumglobal northern temperate zone including the south of Canada, north of the United States, north of Germany, Poland, Ukraine, and east to central Asia. During the last ice age, the snow bunting was widespread throughout continental Europe.
During the breeding period the snow bunting looks for rocky habitats in the Arctic Since the vegetation in the tundra is low growing, this bird and its nestlings are exposed to predators, and in order to ensure the survival of its offspring, the snow bunting nests in cavities in order to protect the nestlings from any threat. During this period, buntings also look for a habitat rich in vegetation such as wet sedge meadows and areas rich in dryas and lichens. In the winter, they look for open habitats such as farms and fields where they feed on seeds in the ground.
Population:
UK breeding:
60 pairs
UK wintering:
10,000-15,000 birds
For roughly 2 seconds Danni was perched atop her dog Boo.
Dad was just off to the left and kept her from toppling over.
Not sure who this is, but the pose is fantastic. Obviously, I shouldn't come any closer than this... Really made my day! (Squirrels-2021-8015.jpg)
Gradually, with ever decreasing visibility, or by a sudden black-out? Or, by an intentional and stage-managed theatrical act (think of David Bowie's last video showing him disappearing into a cabinet)? How will we be going and disappearing from Flickr? What will happen to the visual wake we are leaving behind? Fuji X-Pro1 plus Fujinon XF 1.4/35.
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The Dutch proverb "de aap komt uit de mouw". Literally translated: "the monkey leaves the sleeve". It means the truth is revealed.
Created for the Magnificent Manipulated Masterpieces
159th MMM Image of a Cosplay girl
Thanks to Paul Young for Cosplay Girl.
Background images reworked from Cirque de Soleil screen shots.
Tattoos by Lottas Act
Macro Mondays theme: desk
Things found on my desk, in my balancing act we have my stylus and glasses attached to the magnet in between.
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Who knew that it is so difficult to balance Dolly Mixtures! After multiple collapses I had to enlist the help of my patient engineer husband to build my Dolly Mixture pyramid! Between the builder and the photographer we managed the balancing act!!!!!
Most spiders get bad reputations from the true dangerous spiders but no spiders are purposefully out to hurt humans. Most bites are in an act of self defense and their venoms true purpose is for preying for food.
[Adorable in my opinion ;) ]
Jumping spider Virginia 8/8/25
...this little lady bug is precariously balanced atop a still life of clear marbles and plastic forks...I think she is looking for her reflection on the shiny surface below!
Like nearly every wildlife species, eagles are not into posing for photographers.
But if you observe them over a few years, you become familiar enough with them to catch them in moments of action that show unique movements.
When a large bird either arrives to perch or is leaving their perch, there are always some things going on that are difficult to catch without a closer look.
When eagles land, they often go through last second balancing acts before they find branches strong enough to hold them.
Much of their balance is achieved through deft movement of their wings.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
Op de eerste dag van het nieuwe jaar 2004 lag er sneeuw.
Toen reed ACTS nog regelmatig met ketelwagens tussen Sloe haven en de Duitse grens.
De trein bestond uit een 1200 en een 6700(ex reeks 62 van de NMBS)
In Goes werd de 1200 van de trein gehaald en de 6700 reed met de keteltrein door naar Sloe haven.
De 1251 en 6705 rijden Goes binnen.
Goes, 1 januari 2004.
They gather each night to watch the show in the best seats in the house. The boats bob in anticipation, the Gull's cheer, and the ducks quietly quack excitedly to each other.
Yesterday, we brought my nephew to the Circus Circus hotel. The place used to bring me unmeasurable joy when I was little kid. Today, it looks like shit.
Ooh, find the word circus :) Actually "Circu" lol
Smoking hot music played by the Walking Dead at Beelitz Heilstätten...
Urbex is short for Urban Exploration. It is the act of going to and exploring lost and forgotten places that are not visited and often even inaccessible to the general public. Such places include abandoned factories, hospitals, schools, offices and other derelict buildings, unused nuclear bunkers, old military buildings, disused rail yards etc. The real urbexer will NOT break anything in (or to get into) these places. In fact that is considered VERY bad form. But if access can be obtained without causing any damage, then that's considered fair game. Vandalism and graffiti are NOT allowed. It's like nature photography: Leave only footprints, take only pictures.
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Excerpt from www.gananoque.ca/sites/gananoque.ca/files/2019-093-Munici...:
Statement of Cultural Heritage Value or Interest:
The property is valued for the 19th century in the Thousand Island region, and is a unique example of ltalianate style and is a rare surviving example of an early 19th century rural property.
Alm Villa is a grand masonry structure with a symmetrical design with a commanding central wood cupola, side gables of the front/main section, and back ell (extending the east side wall, and setback from the front section on the west side) which accommodates both the principal stair and, further back, the lower service wing. The main section is 2.5 storeys (including the principal stair portion) and the service wing is 1.5 storeys.
The property has contextual value as a local landmark and has contributed to the character of Gananoque since the 1850s. Although located within the town limits, its primary visual links are to the Thousand lslands.
Heritage attributes of Alma Villa are:
• An excellent example of the Italianate style;
• Grand masonry structure with a symmetrical design topped by a commanding central wood cupola, side gables of the front/main section, and back ell (extending flush with the east side wall, and setback from the front section on the west side) which accommodates both the principal stair and, further back, the lower service wing;
• 2 5 storey main/front section (which includes the principal stair window) and the 1.5 storey service wing;
• The central focus of the building on the slightly projecting front entrance bay, with the wide arch over the ground level main entrance, flanked by side lights: above which are paired round-headed windows, and then an oculus window under the gable;
• The detailing of the wood cupola, with its two round-headed windows on each angle, and finial top;
• The random course sandstone walls with more finely dressed treatment for the quoining, the principal door surround, and the arches of both the entrance on the west elevation below the large round-headed stair window, and the rear service wing door - all set below shallow, wide segmental arches;
• Limestone window sills, with the principal windows featuring a bracket at each end - and four below the trio of arches of the side gables, with the remaining windows have simple lug sills;
• The non-structural decorative wood surrounds of the front/main component of the house, featuring prominent keystones and 'ears' or 'shoulders' at the upper corners or bases of the arches;
• Exposed yellow brick for the other windows and openings of the voussoirs and surrounds;
• The original casement opening windows of the main/front section of which many extend to the floor that provided access to shallow balconies or the original east veranda (i.e., French doors);
• The triple-groupings of round-headed arches under the side elevation gables of the front/main section, with the lower windows flanking a taller blind centre arch (located directly below the corresponding chimney);
• Exposed yellow brick of the chimney stacks which are decorated with shallow relief arches with limestone keystones, set over simple brick pilasters;
• The symmetrical side elevations under the gables of the front/main section of the house;
• The wide eaves of both the main roof and the cupola supported by decorated brackets, with dentils augmenting the decoration of the cupola eaves, which contrast with the simple timbers supporting the eaves of the service wing;
• The back service ell with its mostly flat-topped voussoirs openings save for the segmental arch of the near door on the south, and the paired, round-headed windows that provide the only illumination to east elevation;
• Remnant of a villa estate lot property.
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― Cassandra Clare
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