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Taking a temporary break from images of Germany to bring some local ones taken yesterday.
Mt. St. Helens, which last erupted 36 years ago and is rebuilding itself with a lava dome inside the crater, ( which eventually will form her new top ) and lot of new growth, including an abundance of wildflowers this year.
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The goldfish (Carassius auratus) is a freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes. It is one of the most commonly kept aquarium fish. A relatively small member of the carp family (which also includes the Prussian carp and the crucian carp), the goldfish is native to East Asia. It was first selectively bred in ancient China more than 1,000 years ago, and several distinct breeds have since been developed. Goldfish breeds vary greatly in size, body shape, fin configuration and coloration (various combinations of white, yellow, orange, red, brown, and black are known). Goldfish have strong associative learning abilities, as well as social learning skills. Goldfish are gregarious, displaying schooling behavior, as well as displaying the same types of feeding behaviors. 27345
My "Critters in Winter" series continues today with something more conventional (after an insect and an arachnid, equally improbable to find active at this time of year). American Robins nest and breed in the village; during May and June their wake-up calls begin around 3:30 to 4:00 a.m. Some years they linger quite late and get caught in the first winter storms. This surely must decrease their survival chances; migration is a hazardous time for them even when all goes well.
My own misgivings aside, robins and other migratory passerines have provided me with plenty of good photo ops in the late fall and first days of winter. In 2014 my neighbour, Adam, had a bumper crop of crabapples on his trees, and half a dozen species took full advantage. So did I. I especially liked the obvious colour co-ordination here, and the hoarfrost that coated all the branches and fruit.
Perhaps this fruit festival powered them southbound to their next stopping point, likely somewhere in Montana. I'll never know. But the robins keep returning each spring, so whatever they do seems to be working for them.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2014 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
With a brood to feed this male great spotted woodpecker was very active looking for food after several heavy downpours a week or 2 at the most and the young will never be giving him a moments peace.
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Ronald William Wycherley (17 April 1940 – 28 January 1983), better known by his stage name Billy Fury, was an English singer from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s albert dock, liverpool april 2013
Another shot of the American Bittern that was hunting along the ditch actively.
Taken in Richmond BC.
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For Flickr21Chellenge Day4.. what are Donuts MADE from? tee-hee, i dont have any donut pix but wanted to take part and flour is an essential ingredient #fact
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Making donuts at home can be a delightful experience! Here's a basic recipe for classic fried donuts:
Essential Ingredients:
2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
1/4 cup warm water (110°F / 45°C)
3/4 cup lukewarm milk
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 large egg
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (plus extra for rolling)
Oil for frying (vegetable, canola, or peanut oil)
For Glaze:
2 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions:
Activate the yeast: In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in warm water. Let it sit until frothy, about 5 minutes.
Make the dough: In a large mixing bowl, combine the yeast mixture, lukewarm milk, sugar, salt, butter, and egg. Gradually add the flour and mix until a dough forms.
Knead: Turn the dough onto a floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes. Place the dough in a greased bowl, cover, and let it rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 1 hour.
Cut out donuts: Roll the dough out to about 1/2 inch thick. Use a donut cutter or two different-sized round cutters to cut out donuts and holes. Place them on a floured surface and let them rise again until doubled, about 30 minutes.
Fry: Heat oil in a deep fryer or large pot to 375°F (190°C). Fry donuts in batches, turning them once, until golden brown (1-2 minutes per side). Drain on paper towels.
Glaze: Mix the powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla extract until smooth. Dip the warm donuts into the glaze and let them cool on a wire rack.
Enjoy your homemade donuts! 🍩
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The Eurasian coot (Fulica atra), also known as the common coot, or Australian coot, is a member of the rail and crake bird family, the Rallidae. It is found in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and parts of Africa. The Eurasian coot is 32–42 cm long and weighs 585–1,100 g, and is largely black except for the white frontal shield (which gave rise to the phrase as bald as a coot, in use as early as 1430). As a swimming species, the coot has partial webbing on its long strong toes. The juvenile is paler than the adult, has a whitish breast, and lacks the facial shield; the adult black plumage develops when about 3–4 months old, but the white shield is only fully developed at about one year old. This is a noisy bird with a wide repertoire of crackling, explosive, or trumpeting calls, often given at night. The coot breeds across much of the Old World on freshwater lakes and ponds. It occurs and breeds in Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. The species has recently expanded its range into New Zealand. It is resident in the milder parts of its range, but migrates further south and west from much of Asia in winter as the waters freeze. The Eurasian coot is much less secretive than most of the rail family, and can be seen swimming on open water or walking across waterside grasslands. It is an aggressive species, and strongly territorial during the breeding season, and both parents are involved in territorial defence. During the non-breeding season they may form large flocks, possibly related to predator avoidance. 52470
CSX C623, rounds the curve at Pineville, KY with Creech mine run. There wye on the straight to Straight Creek Branch has recently become active with Wen Lar starting to load trains again.
The Naugatuck Railroad is that rather rare tourist railroad and museum which is also a common carrier freight railroad. However, as a non profit the freight revenue returns to support the ongoing preservation, restoration, and expanded excursion goals.
This view looks north near MP 6.9 on the Naugatuck Railroad's mainline as NAUG 686 shoves a cut of empty construction debris/trash gons north for storage on the mainline just south of the Thomaston Station since no passenger excursions were operating at the time during the museum's winter off season. This unit is an EMD GP9 painted in a scheme mirroring its original look as Norfolk and Western 686 for which it was built in Mar. 1959. It and sister 859 came here in 2019 from South Carolina's Hampton and Branchville Railroad.
The the train is passing under Reynolds Bridge which carries Waterbury Road (unsigned State Road 848) over the Naugatuck River. Built in 1928, it is one of a small number of surviving concrete open-spandrel arch bridges in the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The bridge is a three-arch open spandrel concrete structure, with four concrete beam approach spans on either side. The main span is 169 feet long, while the secondary arches are each 97 feet; the brige has a total length of 487 feet. At the time of its construction in 1928, the open-spandrel design was used for long concrete bridge crossings, and this was the longest designed by the Connecticut State Highway Department up to that time. The Cornwall Bridge, built a few years later over the Housatonic River and railroad, has a longer span. It has also been featured here and photos of it can be found in my Housatonic album.
As for the railroad, the Naugatuck is the operating arm of the Railroad Museum of New England. Home to one of the largest collections of preserved historic railroad equipment in New England, RMNE and its predecessor organizations have been active since the 1960s and the RMNE name was adopted in 1987.
This line goes back to the original Naugatuck Railroad which was chartered in 1845, to be built between Bridgeport and Winsted, adjacent to the Naugatuck River. Construction began in April, 1848, and was completed by May, 1849. The first regular train service began June 11, 1849. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad began leasing the Naugatuck in 1887; and formally merged it in 1906.
Passenger service between Waterbury and Winsted was discontinued in 1958. Facing hard economic times as a result of the decline of its New england industrial base in the 1960s, the New Haven Railroad became a part of the Penn Central merger on January 1, 1969. The branch line suffered during the Penn Central years, losing freight customers and falling into disrepair and was left out of inclusion in Conrail by the USRA's final system plan.
In 1976, the State of Connecticut stepped in to save the northern portion when it purchased the line between Waterbury and Torrington, and Conrail was named the designated operator. In 1982, Boston & Maine leased the line line when under progressive president Alan Dustin it expanded into Connecticut for the first time in its history. But traffic continued to decline on the route, and Guilford Rail system (owners of the B&M) discontinued regular freight service on August 2, 1995. The future of the line was in question. Looking for a new home where it could establish a tourist operation the RMNE moved from Essex on the Valley Railroad to Thomaston.
The RMNE restored the original Naugatuck Railroad name from 1845 when it obtained a state charter for its new wholly owned operating subsidiary on June 7, 1995. The first passenger trains ran in October of 1996. They operate regular excursion service on the southern portion of the lines and occasional charters and specials to the northern end in Torrington.
In 2016 the the NAUG also began regular freight operations when Cherry Hill Construction opened its brand new C&D Transfer Facility called Frost Bridge about 2.5 miles south of this point. To learn more about the Naugatuck's freight operations check out their page here: www.naugfreight.com/
Thomaston, Connecticut
Thursday January 22, 2026
This photo is from Marado [Mara Island]. Marado represents the southernmost point in South Korean territory. The island is about 30km from the southern port of Jeju and the trip by ferry took about 15-20 minutes. The island is comparatively small (approximately 0.3 square kilometers) and you can walk around its entirety at a leisurely pace in about 90 minutes. Marado is home to about 90 residents and "…has long been known for its population being composed of strong women and docile men." (Wiki). While there, we saw traditional "haenyeo" women divers actively working at their trade of free diving to gather seafood.
A small busy bird always active around bushes / flowers and a delight to watch. These Sunbirds are one of the most common birds we have. This along with the Purple Sunbird are sighted very commonly and I love both the birds - they are such a joy to watch. I love the energy of these birds - they are always flying and often chasing each other.
On a lake embankment that slopes to one side into the paddyfields, they are often seen foragingin on the bushes - hunting spiders and other insects. This one just hunted a spider and landed on this perch for a few seconds before she flew away. Since we were in the vehicle, they came to the top of the bushes where we got a close shot with a lovely background.
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I shot this image from near Hope's town hall and pizza parlor while looking west across the choppy water of Lake Pend Oreille toward the fire's active edge. Gray smoke from the smoldering Sunset Fire trailed leftward from about 3/4 fo the way up the rugged, timbered mountainside overlooking Idaho's northern Panhandle, starkly contrasting the colorful clouds above and fiery sunset beyond.
Scattered pines stood sentinel along the nearest shoreline, framing a lone boat dock and large cabin amid the serene bay, with low clouds hugging the distant peaks while separate gray fire smoke drifted below. The Sunset Fire scorched over 3,200 acres starting August 13, 2025, reached full containment by early September, and left this vivid scar visible from miles away during its volatile upslope runs.
I came across numerous wildfires in the Pacific Northwest on my three-month overlanding trip this past summer. At times, it was difficult to find a place to camp where the air was not contaminated with smoke, and the wildfire maps were ablaze with fires--Canada, only miles to the north, seemed completely engulfed. 2025 was a bad year for fires.
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The Southern Meat Ant (Iridomyrmex purpureus) is endemic to Australia. It was described by British entomologist Frederick Smith in 1858. It is among the best-known species of ant found throughout mainland Australia. Its enormous distribution, aggression and ecological importance have made this ant a dominant species. It is characterised by its dark-bluish body and red head. It is a medium to large species; workers and males are approximately the same sizes at 6–7 mm and 8 mm, respectively. The queens are the largest and appear mostly black, measuring 12.7 mm. The iridescence in workers ranges from green or blue to plain green and purple, varying in different body parts and castes. Meat ants inhabit open and warm areas in large, oval-shaped mounds that are accompanied by many entrance holes. The nest area is always cleared of vegetation and covered with materials including gravel, pebbles and dead vegetation. They are also polydomous, where a colony may be established in a series of satellite nests connected by well-defined paths and trails. Satellite nests are constructed away from the main nest and nearby areas with valuable food sources so workers can exploit them.
Queens mate with a single male and colonies may have more than one queen until the workers arrive, where they both exhibit antagonism. It takes around one or two months for an individual egg to develop into an adult. Colonies range in size, varying between 11,000 individuals to over 300,000. The meat ant is a diurnal species (active throughout most of the day), especially when it is warm. It forages on trees and collects sweet substances such as honeydew and nectar, and also captures insects or collects the remains of animals. A number of predators eat these ants, including the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), numerous species of birds, blind snakes and spiders. Meat ants establish territorial borders with neighbouring colonies and solve disputes through ritualised fighting.
Meat ants play an important role in both the environment and for humans. A single nest is capable of dispersing over 300,000 plant seeds; moreover, meat ants have formed symbiotic relationships with many insects. This ant may be used as a form of pest control to kill the cane toad, an invasive species. They can also help farmers to remove animal carcasses by consuming and reducing them to bones in a matter of weeks.
Lake Moodemere, Rutherglen, Victoria
Boeing 767 - MSN 26327
Status : Active
Registration : C-FMLV
Airline Air Canada Rouge
Country : Canada
Date : 2013 -
Codes RV ROU
Callsign : Rouge
Web site : www.aircanadarouge.com/
Serial number26327 LN:621
Type767-316ER
First flight date08/07/1996
Test registration
Plane age22.4 years
Seat configurationC30 Y191
Engines2 x PW PW4060
17/07/1996LAN ChileCC-CEB
23/07/2004LAN AirlinesCC-CEBLsd From Ilfc
28/08/2012Caribbean Airlines9Y-LGWStored 11/2015
Lsd From Aercap (since 05/2014)
10/03/2016Air Canada RougeC-FMLVlsd from Aercap
Tiny very active little bird. I just noticed it has a white spot behind its head.
Brown-headed nuthatch (Sitta pusilla)
A migratory cuckoo famous for two things - predicting rains and brood parasitism. It flies a week or less ahead of the rains and hence is a sign of good luck for people in the countryside. I remember myself feeling very happy at seeing this bird last year when the summer was quite hot and was looking forward for the rains.
The bird also uses this time to lay its eggs in other birds nests mostly Bulbuls, Tailorbirds etc... It gobbles up one of the hosts eggs while it lays one inside.
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The coal tit is a small tit of coniferous woodland, although it can be found in parks and gardens where there are conifer trees. It nests in holes in trees, but is just as happy to use nestboxes. Coal tits are active feeders, hunting out insects and spiders among the smaller branches and leaves of trees in woolands. But they are also well-adapted to gardens and towns and will visit birdtables and feeders. In winter, they form flocks with other tits, roaming woodlands and gardens. They have a song of repeated phrases that are similar to those of great tits, but sound thinner and more high-pitched, like bicycle pumps.
The coal tit is grey above and buff below, with white cheeks, a black cap and a white neck patch. It can be distinguished from the similar marsh tit and willow tit by its white wingbars and the white patch at the back of its head; marsh and willow tits have plain wings and entirely black caps.
Late summer and autumn dragonflies include: darters, the Migrant Hawker and Southern Hawker. Some of our commonly seen dragonflies are active in areas not only near water, but also around woodland, grasslands and gardens. This male Migrant Hawker was seen this afternoon along a wooded track, but not far from a small pond.
Beautiful Lewin's Honeyeater (Meliphaga lewinii) being very active in the early morning light in Springbrook, QLD. The second picture is one of him calling.........
An unguided hydrogen-alpha image of a very active afternoon sun taken today with a ZWOASI224MC planetary camera and an IR cut filter attached to a Coronado Personal Solar Telescope. Five images were stacked using Registax and then processed with Gimp and Adobe Lightroom.
Image of the large sunspot that makes up Active Region 3780. In detail, the umbra and penumbra and the luminous bridges that cross the main spot, with various indentations and outdentations, can be seen very clearly. The main active regions are shown on the complete solar disk.
Base image of Active Region 3780: Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope "Explore Scientific" 127 mm, f/15. Complete solar disk: achromatic refractor telescope "Meade", 80 mm, f/5. In both cases, Meade 575 solar filter, Player One Neptune-M camera, Player One IR685 filter.
August 10, 2024, 18:17 UT.
Zona rural, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina.
On the River Exe at Countess Wear, Exeter, Devon, England. Probably a slightly oiled bird; it was actively preening. [Scanned from original slide.]
📍 Château Gaillard le 10 Octobre 2024
This picture of the October 10th Northern lights was taken almost at the beginning of the event as seen from France.
We drove to Château Gaillard, in Normandy, to escape Paris' light pollution. When getting out of the car we immediately noticed a red glow above the horizon. It was not even 9pm local time, and the aurora was already very active. The rest of the night was even more fantastic!
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Nikon Z6 & Nikkor Z 20mm f1.8
20mm / f2.2 / ISO1600 / 5s
This shot is of a small stream. The leaves on the left side are several inches under water, the leaves on the right are floating on top of the water, the water itself is reflecting the bare trees that once nurtured these leaves.
A picture of the Landschaftspark in Duisburg during the "Extraschicht" where industrial sights are opened all night long.
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旧年中はほんとにお世話になりました。
最近投稿をごぶさたしておりますが、今年は活発に活動したいと思っています。
今回は年賀状をAIで作ってみました。プロンプトには蛇と波をモティーフにして構図は黄金分割を意識してと指示し、参考に渦巻状の黄金分割図を添付したら、黄金分割構図にはならずやたら同心円が多い年賀状を作ってきました。
Happy New Year.
Thank you for looking at my photos last year.
I haven't posted recently, but I'd like to be more active this year.
This time I tried making a New Year's card using AI. I instructed the prompts to use snakes and waves as motifs and to keep the golden section in mind for the composition. I attached a diagram of the golden section for reference, but the New Year's card I created did not follow the golden section composition and instead had an excessive number of concentric circles.