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Just as the sun went down we stopped on the side of the road just before Hammersley Gorge to take in the view (then get eaten by mozzies the size of a horse!)
Northern Flickers LOVE ants, and this one found an anthill in a field of grasses and flowers. It was quite happy to ignore me as it fed...as long as I didn't get too close!
For my birthday I got a first class ticket on the fast train from St Petersburg to Moscow. It cruises at 250 km/hr but on the outskirts of Moscow (my geo-location is just a guess) it slowed enough to get a shot through the window. In Russia they call these places "anthills" - this is a pretty modest example, actually.
In the Waterberg Plateau Campsite, in the region of Okaka Rara (Namibia) we see a giant anthill under the Milky Way.
Aquí llegaron las hormigas
Vamos conquistando tierras enemigas
Invisible silenciosa y simultanea
Toda la invasión es subterránea
Sin disparar al aire
Sin tirar misiles
Sin tener que matar gente
Usando proyectiles
La guerra la peleamos sin usar fusiles
De bloque en bloque como los albañiles
Han tratado de pararnos un par de vaqueros
Pero ya esta construido el hormiguero...
Calle 13 - El Hormiguero
on my walk through a bog that has been dryed to extract turf/peat/duff but has been flooded again I saw a giant anthill build into the fence just beside the path. i took some macros (pretty hard) and this one turned out the best. it's hard to believe that the co2 that were once stored there and freed up in a short period of time will need 1000s of years to be reaccumulated, as a bog grows only 1mm per year. so please when buying soil take care that it's explicitly free of turf/peat/duff.
As I was across west of the Pennines yesterday photographing Foxes we decided to call in at Dunham Massey to see if Green Woodpeckers were showing. I was rewarded with this close capture of a male bird foraging on an ancient anthill. I was going to say he was so close I could see the whites of his eyes, but that expression doesn't really work for a bird with white eyes. But as well as being able to see the detail of the face pattern, you can also see the yellow rump, which isn't easy to capture. You can tell he's a male because his moustache is filled red, whereas it is all black in females.
There are supposedly about 52,000 pairs of Green Woodpecker breeding in Britain, which makes them similar in abundance to Tawny Owl or Kestrel. Yet I encounter Green Woodpeckers far less frequently than these two. Green Woodpeckers have also declined in my local area over the past couple of decades, yet nationally they are green-listed of no conservation concern. The breeding atlas shows them petering out in northern and upland areas, and I live in the upland Pennines, so I'd probably see more if I lived in the southern lowlands.
Green Woodpeckers feed primarily on ants which they capture using a long extendable tongue (c10cm) with barbs at the tip for extracting ants when they push it into ants' nests. There's not much to say about the name. It's scientific name Picus viridis translates as Green Woodpecker, and that name has been the preferred name since the seventeenth century, with the name Yaffle or Yaffingale only being a local name. Though many people of my generation know the name Yaffle from the wooden woodpecker Professor Yaffle from the 1970s children's TV show Bagpuss. And incidentally, Oliver Postgate based the Professor Yaffle character on Bertrand Russell, whom he had once met.
There are a few "anthills' in a crack in my driveway. I always marvel at the strength of these small, common, brown ants we see outside. This photo shows the relative sizes of the grains of sand to the ant. Rebuilding needs to take place, after yesterday's rain sent sand down into the tunnels. One by one, each grain will be carried up and out, by the marvelous teamwork and individual strength of the colony's members, and carefully placed to create another sandy hill. Interesting to see the bright reflection of the sun off a piece of mica, in the area towards the back of this ant.
photo size: w0.9 in by h0 .7 in and w2.5cm by h1.8cm
Theme: "Sand"
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From the Big Trip 3D slide archives - 2004.
These anthills or termite mounds were a very typical roadside view somewhere north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. They often took on some quite elaborate shapes, and in a cruel trick for the thirsty outback traveller, they sometimes looked like little beer bottles lined up at the side of the road! (They did to me!) Here, for a sense of scale, the taller ones were around my height at around 6 feet, but they can get much taller than that.
This shot would have been somewhere north of Threeways on the Stuart Highway on our journey north towards Darwin.
(Slide scanned using Canon RP with 24-240 and Nisi close up lens. Original taken using Fuji Sensia 100 slide film)
Northern Territory Gothic
Simulacrum
Voices from the Ant Hill
Whispering at Sunrise
Read more: www.jjfbbennett.com/2020/12/simulacrum-voices-from-ant-hi...
My favourite subject was well lit again this morning. The Anthill stands just west of Torrey Utah. This is the view from my back yard.
© 2015, Fremont River Photography
One monkey at peak of the anthill, another close by.
and the third half way. Photo courtesy of Cousins
Amelia and Claudia.
Pan 180 degrees following the way of the Milky Way galaxy. From horizon to horizon with a african anthill. The light Gegenschein (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gegenschein), only possible in very very dark skies appreciated. This light is a faint light the night sky in the visible region of the ecliptic in the opposite direction to the sun. This phenomenon manifests itself as a softly glowing, oval region a few degrees wide and 10-15 ° longitude, oriented along the plane of the ecliptic. At the time of photography we have both circumstances, very dark sky and the plane of the ecliptic near the zenith in excellent to capture this weak light conditions.
The Main Concourse is located on the upper platform level of Grand Central, in the geographical center of the station building. The 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m2) concourse[34] leads directly to most of the terminal's upper-level tracks, although some are accessed from passageways near the concourse.[35] The Main Concourse is usually filled with bustling crowds and is often used as a meeting place. At the center of the concourse is an information booth topped with a four-sided brass clock, one of Grand Central's most recognizable icons. The terminal's main departure boards are located at the south end of the space. The boards have been replaced numerous times since their initial installation in 1967.
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