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Glossy Ibis- Plegadis Falcinellus
Flocks of Glossy Ibis forage quite close together, advancing slowly as they probe a muddy area. This activity often attracts Snowy Egrets and other species of waders, which capture minnows and other prey moving away from the feeding ibis flocks.
Glossy Ibises nest in colonies, often among other species of ibis, heron, egret, or spoonbill. Colonial nesters have the advantage of many extra sets of eyes looking out for predators. Colonies might also be places where highly gregarious species like ibises can share information about the most productive foraging areas.
Glossy Ibis is a cosmopolitan species, also found in Europe, Asia, and Africa. In recent decades, its population in Spain has been increasing rapidly, probably helped by increased rice cultivation there. Glossy Ibises banded in Spain have turned up as far away as Barbados, having crossed the Atlantic—a remarkable feat but one that several species of heron and egret have managed as well.
The oldest recorded Glossy Ibis was at least 21 years old and lived in Virginia between 1971 and 1992.
Living higher up, especially in winter, is a great advantage here in Switzerland. On this January morning the landscape was covered in thick fog, but the people living in this farm were lucky and could enjoy the sun!
White Squirrels now have the advantage over other squirrels. They blend better with the snow covered trees and ground and are less noticeable to predators, such as raptors,foxes,coyotes,dogs and cats.
Exeter, Ontario
Canada
I have been blessed to photograph Cedar waxwing on several different occasions and in several different states. This is the first one I have ever seen in a cedar tree.
Taken on 09 May, 2022 at J Percy Priest Lake, Nashville TN.
Somebody decided a quick 'rest break' was needed........would of been rude really not to get the camera out; coat, boots and feet were already wet so I thought why not......but I did feel truly soaked cold and horrible by the time we got home!
An advantage of going to this location is the possibility of getting close enough (with a long lens) for a sharp portrait. That, of course, is up to the birds and I never got one I liked in the past. A good closeup was a priority today and the photo gods smiled on me. Needless to say, this is one of nature's most enchanting creatures.
Taking advantage of the cool and drizzly conditions by the River Tyne, a jogger makes his way along the waterfront possibly glad of the flat ground just here - for sure the climb back into Newcastle city-centre will give the lungs and quads more than a decent work out.
Meantime, two-car class 156 'Sprinter' unit 156480 slowly makes its way over the High Level Bridge as it edges towards Central Station with Northern's 12.49pm Whitby - Carlisle service (2N15).
The gulls are circling overhead - better not stop now!
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3.45pm, 26th March 2023
The advantage for me of living in a big city is that there is such a variety of people out on the street every day. Taking street portraits, brings me into a few moments of close contact to someone previously totally unknown: Every one of these meetings truly enriches my life…
This female Blue Jay quickly took advantage of the peanuts that were put out. She took 3 in her beak, flew off to parts unknown, then returned for more.
Taking advantage of a sunny Spring morning, Comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album), basking over Celandines (Ficaria verna), Farnborough Hall woodland. North Oxfordshire
Having been pestered by friends and family, I have produced greetings cards of this image, which can be viewed by accessing the following link.
Après la tempête, les oiseaux sont nombreux aux mangeoires et le rapace qui contrôle le coin n'y était pas. J'en ai profité pour mon plus grand plaisir. /
After the storm, there are many birds at the feeders and the raptor who controls the area was not there. I took advantage of it for my greatest pleasure.
Delson, Québec, Canada
I came across this rattlesnake at a very dark zoo exhibit. Her face was almost touching the glass cage. I took advantage and knelt in front of her and put my camera lens against the glass and took several photos of her face. She didn't flinch, she seemed bored perhaps because of the many blows that the children had given to her glass cage to get her attention. Her name is Cayenne (love the name) and was born in August 2011...so happy 12th birthday, Cayenne!
www.zooamerica.com/animals/western-diamondback-rattlesnake/
Macro Mondays: #Animal
The original photo was within the 3" size but I cropped it more for the challenge".
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Took advantage of a sunny bank holiday Monday for a visit to Achill Island. The weather was perfect and it made the views that bit more enjoyable. Sorry for reuploading this photo-I felt the colour temperature was wrong on the other version. #WildAtlanticWay
An overcast day with intermittent drizzle made for some lighting that actually worked to my advantage in capturing this woodpecker.
One advantage I've found in buying a pre-loved camera is that it came with a basic instruction booklet and a more advanced CD. Plus it has a beautiful brown leather case. It was obviously not pre-loved for long as it was boxed with all accessories tidily wrapped inside.
I tried it out around the garden and found its operation rather different from that of my a6000 and look forward to understanding more about it today.
Have the pleasure of looking at yesterday's shots on my new 24" screen today. (It's not even the 25th of any month....)
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Bulls*** Asymmetry Principle
The amount of energy needed to refute bulls*** is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
Also known as Brandolini’s Law, the Bulls*** Asymmetry Principle captures a circumstance we’ve all experienced. Those with an indifference to the truth are at an advantage. An argument is easily made. But dissecting a claim and verifying propositions and evidence is tiresome. And what if it’s part of the bulls****er’s plan to keep us busy refuting his nonsense?
I share the above principle, created in 2013 as a segway into this photograph. It is from my archives and was taken on 07 October, 2018 in Silver Glen on the docks of The Juniper Club.
As a tradition, I pass on photographing blue herons as they have become like robins…they are everywhere and way too easily photographed! In this case, a large pickerel looking to be near death swam slowly just below the docks. The heron stabbed it, snatched it up, walked it over to the grass behind the dock and proceeded to try and swallow it. As I sat in my chair fishing, I lifted my camera that unfortunately had my 600mm on it, deciding to capture its attempt to swallow the fish whole. This shot is not cropped vertically, it was all I could get without getting up and walking away.
Watching as it lifted it, I did some “Fancy Cyphering” (Jethro Bodine reference) and realized that the length of the fish was greater than the length of the heron body (minus tail feathers) and if swallowed, some of the fish’s tail would surely be in the heron’s neck. Not to mention the girth of the fish. I sat my camera back down to watch the action. The heron rocked the pickerel back and forth a few times building momentum, then with what seemed to be all the strength it had, while maintaining this grip, swung the fish high in the air and swallowed it with ease!
I watched in amazement as the large lump in its throat quickly slid out of sight and into its stomach! My mind quickly spun back into fancy cyphering mode as I tried to guess the weight of the bird* vs the weight of the fish…and if it would be able to fly now with that heavy a load of cargo?
*I just googled the average weight of a blue heron. It can range from roughly 4-8lbs. Let's call this one 6lbs…the fish was certainly in the 4-5lb range…that is a huge get for this hunter!
It continued to stand around for a few minutes until I decided to change locations. Once I got up, it swatted down for takeoff, pushed off the dock into the air. Remarkably, the weight of its meal didn’t seem to slow it down a bit.
Had I not seen “the swallow” for myself, I might have thrown the BS card on someone else telling this tale!
Taking advantage of a pleasant day for photography in sunny Somerset, 47614 and 47593 "Galloway Princess" passes an emerging maize crop at Allerford with the 1Z72 06.20 Wolverhampton-Paignton "English Riviera Statesman" charter.
Taken with the assistance of a pole and my then-new 40mm prime which was used on this occasion to extenuate the amazing panorama at this location (thanks for the endorsement Sparky).
"If you look, you will see.
if you paddle, you will see more." Pondering, paddling and picture taking with Pentax gear in the 518. Prose penned by me. Rockwood, New York
Who of us likes to get up early when it's drizzling rain and fog outside? This morning, however, the not so fine breakfast drove us very quickly out of the hotel. On the way to Skógafoss the drizzle turned into rain, which had the advantage that the parking lot was empty except for two vehicles. The advantage had to be used and when the camera snapped on the ball head it stopped raining. Who now thought great, then you stay dry has thought wrong, the spray cloud from the waterfall did its job excellently.
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One advantage of being an early riser is the solitude, I often feel that I have the mountains and coastline all to myself.
Beinn Tarsuinn and Beinn Nuis on the Isle of Arran. Always wondered how the view would look from 30m higher up. Now I know.
The fog was lingering around for quite awhile last night, so I tried to take advantage of it while it lasted. Kemptville, Ontario, Canada.
This image came together after spotting this beautiful little Robin frequently paying a visit to a fallen branch in a dark wooded area. The fallen branch itself had a lot of interest and was most eye catching in its shape and formation. Having such a lovely little bird like the Robin in on the scene made up for a rather nice frame...Hope you agree too?
Matera is a city and the capital of the Province of Matera in the region of Basilicata, in Southern Italy. With a history of continuous occupation dating back to the Palaeolithic (10th millennium BC), it is renowned for its rock-cut urban core, whose twin cliffside zones are known collectively as the Sassi.
Matera lies on the right bank of the Gravina river, whose canyon forms a geological boundary between the hill country of Basilicata to the south-west and the Murgia plateau of Apulia to the north-east. The city began as a complex of cave habitations excavated in the softer limestone on the gorge's western, Lucanian face. It took advantage of two streams which flow into the ravine from a spot near the Castello Tramontano, reducing the cliff's angle of drop and leaving a defensible narrow promontory in between. The central high ground, or acropolis, supporting the city's cathedral and administrative buildings, came to be known as Civita, and the settlement districts scaling down and burrowing into the sheer rock faces as the Sassi. Of the two streambeds, called the grabiglioni, the northern hosts Sasso Barisano and the southern Sasso Caveoso.
The Sassi consist of around twelve levels spanning the height of 380 m, connected by a network of paths, stairways, and courtyards (vicinati). The medieval city clinging on to the edge of the canyon for its defence is invisible from the western approach. The tripartite urban structure of Civita and the two Sassi, relatively isolated from each other, survived until the 16th century, when the centre of public life moved outside the walls to the Piazza Sedile in the open plain (the Piano) to the west, followed by the shift of the elite residences to the Piano from the 17th century onwards. By the end of the 18th century, a physical class boundary separated the overcrowded Sassi of the peasants from the new spatial order of their social superiors in the Piano, and geographical elevation came to coincide with status more overtly than before, to the point where the two communities no longer interacted socially.
Yet it was only at the turn of the 20th century that the Sassi were declared unfit for modern habitation, and the government relocation of all their inhabitants to new housing in the Piano followed between 1952 and the 1970s. A new law in 1986 opened the path to restoration and reoccupation of the Sassi, this time – as noted by the architectural historian Anne Toxey – for the benefit of the wealthy middle class. The recognition of the Sassi, labelled la città sotterranea ("the underground city"), together with the rupestrian churches across the Gravina as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in December 1993 has assisted in attracting tourism and accelerated the reclaiming of the site. In 2019, Matera was declared a European Capital of Culture.
The Tri-colored Herons also possess quite a reach and can definitely do a bit of a stretch if the prey tends to be a bit far away. Photo taken on Horsepen Bayou.
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We have had a lot of cloudy & rainy days in Pittsburgh, I got going early to take advantage of the sky this morning.
After a lengthy trip to the heart of BNSF territory, I racked up two SD70MAC leaders. Most of the MAC fleet were in storage while newer orange locomotives handled the tonnage. Meanwhile, Progress Rail purchased several of them from BNSF and put them into leasing service while they started rebuilding Norfolk Southern SD70's. All of these things led to me catching a mint SD70MAC, in current "swoosh" paint, not on the prairie but right in my own back yard, leading train 15T through Pennsylvania. Don't let the lack of patches fool you; this is no longer an BNSF locomotive. The traditional PRLX black patches were applied months after this shot was taken.
Took advantage today of a rare dry day in between the many rainy ones to make use of our #nationaltrust membership to visit beautiful Powis Castle near Welshpool, Powys, Wales.
Powis Castle is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country house near Welshpool, in Powys, Wales. The seat of the Herbert family, earls of Powis, the castle is known for its formal gardens and for its interiors, the former having been described as "the most important", and the latter "the most magnificent", in the country. The castle and gardens are under the care of the National Trust. Powis Castle is a Grade I listed building, while its gardens have their own Grade I listing on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
The present castle was built in the 13th century. Unusually for a castle on the Marches, it was constructed by a Welsh prince, Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, rather than by a Norman baron. Gruffydd was prince of the ancient Kingdom of Powys and maintained an alliance with the English king Edward I during the struggles of the later 13th century. He was able to secure the position of his son, Owain, although the kingdom itself was abolished by the Parliament of Shrewsbury in 1283. After his father's death, Owain was raised to the peerage as Owen de la Pole, 1st Lord of Powis. Following his own death c. 1293, and the death of his only son, he was succeeded by his daughter, Hawys Gadarn, "the Lady of Powis". Hawys married Sir John Charlton in 1309.
In the late 16th century the castle was purchased by Edward Herbert, a younger son of the earl of Pembroke, beginning a connection between the family and the castle that continues today. The Herberts remained Roman Catholic until the 18th century and, although rising in the peerage to earls, marquesses and Jacobite dukes of Powis, suffered periods of imprisonment and exile. Despite these setbacks, they were able in the late 17th and early 18th centuries to transform Powis from a border fortress into an aristocratic country house, and surround it with one of the very few extant examples of a British Baroque garden.
In 1784 Henrietta Herbert married Edward Clive, eldest son of Clive of India, a match which replenished the much-depleted Herbert family fortune. In the early 20th century, George Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis redeveloped the castle with the assistance of the architect George Frederick Bodley. Herbert’s wife, Violet, undertook work of equal importance in the garden, seeking to turn it into "one of the most beautiful, if not the most beautiful, in England and Wales". On the 4th earl's death in 1952, his wife and his sons having predeceased him, the castle passed into the care of the National Trust.
It was a Seagull that made the catch. Other Seagulls immediately gave chase, causing him to drop the fish. Bald eagles watch for such openings and sure enough, this one took advantage!
Some nice eagle action on the lake today as the thawing continues. It's 64 degrees as I'm typing this!! Cold again tomorrow. Welcome to March.
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What does not matter ?
1.What to photograph - Camera.
2.Where to photograph - Place.
3.When to photograph -Time.
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What is important ?
1.Study and tune the camera.
2.Learn where you are going.
3.Study the lighting at different times.
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What's the secret?♀️
1.Feel the instrument, hear what it says.
2.Feel the atmosphere of the place, catch the wave.
3.Switch on .Catch the moment!⚡️
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Make a choice!
✨Finding the observer, comes awareness!✨
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Clouds played a game over Skjálfandafljót river and earned an advantage which resulted in this shot ;)
We took advantage of the dry summer conditions this year to descend a technical slot canyon in Zion. This particular slot is well known for potholes. In high water, potholes pose few problems and you can usually just swim and climb out of them. But when the water is low, you could be faced with a high slippery wall that is well above your head! These deep potholes require special gear and technique to escape from. This spot is probably the most photographed part of the canyon. Normally there would be a pool of water down where I was, but it was bone dry this year. Evelyn was the last one down in our group and I had her pose momentarily in the lighted shaft. This was a really fun day with some great friends!!