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It felt so good to go on a trip even it was right here in BC not overseas (yet). Happy Blue Mondays.
Voyager en CB c'est bien aussi. Ici notre traversier en rencontre un autre dans le secteur qu'on appelle Active Pass.
Active volcano Bromo - one of the most popular volcanoes in Indonesia. The crater Bromo is much easier to look, than other craters of volcanoes. Together with other calmer volcanoes fumed Bromo is a spectacular sight from the lookout on Mount Penandzhakan.
Bromo is an active volcano in Indonesia, part of the Tenger volcanic complex. Located in the east of Java. It has a height of 2392 meters. Bromo Volcano is a part of the Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park. The volcano has been in a state of constant activity for the last 20 years, its crater is filled with smoke from active fumaroles.
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With 4 inches of fresh snow greeting me this morning, I actually went out early to shoot a few photos but it all looked too familiar to me...scenes I've shot many times before...so I returned to a more colorful autumn day on the lake. Plenty of snow pics ahead.
It was a particularly good year for these berries, soon to vanish as the birds seem to relish them. The birds are particularly active today with the woodpeckers, nuthatches, and chickadees at the feeders, and a large group of juncos pecking in the snow beneath. The flock of robins which makes its appearance annually about this time of the first snows is busy eating the rowan berries out front. It's always a pleasant surprise to see them now, gorging on these and other berries, before they make the trip south. Interestingly, the entire band is always composed of males, their red breasts prominent. I assume it's because the females have already departed.
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A variety of bird species were actively feeding on the mass of herring bubbling near the surface of the water on the Pacific Ocean northwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada. A Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) landed in the mass and plucked a herring from the water while a Mew Gull (Larus canus) passes overhead and swoops to pick one up for itself. It was a very busy airway with all the gulls and Bald Eagles flying over head.
23 July, 2019.
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Dante wrote the Comedy out of the one compulsion, that is, simply for truth’s sake – for truth’s sake you write theology because there is something that needs saying that calls for it, and you write poetry because that is the only way truthfully to say it.
-Dante the Theologian, Denys Turner
Wide angle shot of a a beautiful adult male Smooth Snake (Coronella austriaca). He was seen actively crossing a road on a sunny afternoon running through a steep and elevated patch of open Juniper woodland (Juniperus foetidissima). The location was Mikri Prespa NP in Greece.
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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
Out this moring at sunrise to photography the Osprey activity. Had to wait a couple of hours as there was a heavy fog this Saturday moring. But once the fog lifted and the blue skies appeared the Ospreys were active like these two were on the grounds of Fort Pickens on the West end of Pensacola Beach Florida. For the shots today I used the Sony A9 with the Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS lens. Be safe!
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Scattered thunderstorms from northeast to northwest (10/05). Thunder was heard from storm at right. Bright backlit rain shafts contrast the darker Catalina Mountains at center. Faint anti-crepuscular rays can be glimpsed at left.
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Stephens' Banded Snakes occur in forests along the coast and ranges of eastern NSW and Qld. They are arboreal, generally hiding in hollows or under bark and are most active nocturnally, but are sometimes observed active in the day.
Photographers taking advantage of the morning light at Piazza San Marco with the Basilica St Marco, Venice, Italy.
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.
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.
We had a lovely conversation with the leaseholders of this property. Their life lease will run until the passing of the youngest family member alive at the time of the original lease in the 1930s.
While chatting with them, we were paddling upwind to stay near their dock. Of course the wind died down before it could help our return paddle.
I was hoping for some more eastbounds in the earlier morning light up on the bluffs, but the closest things were a couple of Zs working at Midway. Naturally, when I decided to move and go for an intercept I missed one; but I still added a new angle to the collection.
The first Z is done with its work at the St. Paul Intermodal Facility and is easing down the hill and through the plant at the Jackson Street control point and is about to pass under Phalen Blvd.