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Gnadental / Neuss / North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany
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RKO_7696.
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Not the name of the Falls, just the position. Leaving both the top and the bottom of the falls seems to have focused attention on the mid ground. This area is typically part of the narrative and not the story itself. So, I placed it front and center, making it the story.
After all, this is the area of activity. While the top will feed the falls, and the bottom will exit the falls, the mid area is a concentration of activity.
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The one with the blue cere is ♂
Budgerigar
Scientific Name: Melopsittacus undulatus
Description: Since its introduction into captivity, the Budgerigar (or 'budgie') has been bred into a variety of colour forms, including pure white, blue, yellow, mauve, olive and grey. In the wild, Budgerigars are small green and yellow parrots, with black barring above, and a small patch of blue on the cheek. The male has a dark blue cere (skin at the base of the upper mandible surrounding the nostrils). In the female this is brownish when breeding and light blue otherwise. Young Budgerigars are similar to the adult birds, but are duller and have a dark brown eye (which is white or yellow in adults).
Distribution: The Budgerigar occurs naturally throughout much of mainland Australia, but is absent from the far south-west, the north of the Northern Territory, Tasmania and the majority of the east coast.
Habitat: Budgerigars are nomadic and large flocks of birds can be seen in most open habitat types, but seldom far from water. Very large flocks, numbering occasionally in the tens of thousands, are seen after a season of abundant rainfall and food. Flocks are usually much smaller, however, and range from as few as three birds up to 100 or more. Birds in a flock fly in a characteristic undulating manner.
Seasonal movements: Nomadic.
Feeding: Budgerigars feed almost exclusively on the seeds of native herbs and grasses, such as porcupine grass and saltbush. Seeds are mostly eaten from the ground and the bulk of drinking and feeding activity is in the morning.
Breeding: Budgerigars tend to breed in response to rainfall, and may produce several broods if conditions permit. The nest is a bare cavity in a suitable tree branch or in the trunk. The female sits on the round white eggs. As with other parrots, young budgerigars are born naked and helpless.
Calls: The contact call is a warbling "chirrup"; "zit" is given in alarm.
Minimum Size: 17cm
Maximum Size: 18cm
Average size: 18cm
Average weight: 28g
Breeding season: Any time of year when conditions suitable
Clutch Size: 6 to 8 eggs
Nestling Period: 35 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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Just waiting in the early morning light......
SV Tenacious is a unique tall ship designed for inclusivity, allowing both disabled and non-disabled individuals to sail together as crew members.
Launched in 2000, SV Tenacious is the largest wooden tall ship built in the UK in over a century. It was designed by Tony Castro and constructed by the Jubilee Sailing Trust (JST) to accommodate a mixed-ability crew. The ship features innovative designs such as wheelchair lifts, a speaking compass, and adjustable furniture, enabling everyone to participate fully in sailing activities.
Specifications:
Length: 65 meters (213 feet) including the bowsprit
Beam: 10.6 meters (34 feet 9 inches)
Displacement: Approximately 714 tons
Rigging: Three-masted barque with two mizzen gaffs
Maiden Voyage: The ship's first journey was from Southampton to Sark, St Helier, and Weymouth on September 1, 2000.
As of now, the ship is currently for sale, and there is an ongoing campaign to raise awareness and find a new owner or organization that can operate her sustainably. The Save Tall Ship Tenacious campaign aims to ensure that the ship continues to provide opportunities for mixed-ability sailing.
Sugar cane industry at San Pablo - Tucumán - Argentina.
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CP 3002 leads the J21 south through Golden Valley as they approach the stop sign protected diamond that goes over the UP industrial lead. Still nice to see this GP38 roaming the rails.
On January 22, solar reports warned of high solar activity with the presence of two important active regions associated with class M solar flares (www.spaceweather.com/glossary/flareclasses.html). In the image on the left you can see the configuration of the active regions on the Sun's disk. Active region 3559 (detail on the right, left in the complete image of the Sun), had rapid growth and crossed the solar disk in the course of the week. On January 23, this active region and 3561 (on the right in the image of the solar disk separated by around 500,000 km), erupted simultaneously, generating a "sympathetic solar flare", produced by a physical connection between both active regions, which caused shortwave radio blackouts in Australia and Indonesia (www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=23&mo...). The large active region 3559 had a "beta-gamma" class magnetic field and more than thirty sunspots, while 3561 evolved over the course of the week reaching about 100,000 km wide and twenty dark cores.
Details associated with the day of capture: www.spaceweatherlive.com/es/archivo/2024/01/22/dayobs.html
The image of the entire disk on the left was taken with a "Meade" 80/400 refractor telescope and the detail on the right, with an "Explore Scientific" 127, f/15 Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope. In both cases a "Meade" 575 white light filter was used (remember not to expose your eyes to the Sun or photographic equipment without the appropriate filters), a Player One Neptune-M camera and a Player One IR685 filter.
January 22, 2024, 20:40 UT. Zona rural, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina.
Are there extraterrestrials living among us on earth? What do they do? These are the type of questions humans have debated for ages, and after a weekend at Death Valley National Park, I believe I am ready to solve them. Speculate no more, as aliens are playful creatures who, it turns out, live in the mountains around The Racetrack Playa and come out every full moon to move around rocks.
Why you might ask, would aliens do this when there are so many things they could see and do on earth? The answer is simple: to mess with tourists. It’s probably a higher calling on their planets. As the legend goes, no one has ever seen these rocks in Death Valley National Park move. Nonsense. As the hit film Men in Black taught us, aliens have the power to erase our minds. Heck, there’s a good chance I saw aliens the night I took this photo. I don’t remember seeing them, but I cannot say definitively that I did not see them....
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