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We are experiencing a particularly hot summer this year. No wonder this Elkhorn Fern's outer fronds are dried and discolored.
Elkhorn ferns (also called Staghorn ferns) are ‘epiphyte’, meaning that they grow on tree branches and trunks naturally. They can grow fairly large, although they require at least 10 years to achieve their maximum size.
These plants make two types of fronds. The shield, or sterile fronds, wrap around the tree or rock on which the plant is growing. These shields usually form a basket which collects debris, providing a medium for root growth, and aiding in moisture collection and retention. The fertile, or normal fronds, grow out from the bud, and the spores are borne on these. Some species make fertile fronds much like the antler of a deer. Others are nearly round, or wedge shaped.
the horbills are quite large birds used to feed on fruit and mainly insects,arachnids and small vertebrates.
but they are not used to kill aduld birds.
in this case an African Grey Hornbill (tockus nasutus) has cought and killed a social weaver.
"a strange behaviour"
Etosha National Park ,Namibia
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Amsterdam - Spiegelgracht
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Seagulls are fondly remembered in Utah for helping Mormon settlers deal with a plague of crickets. The seagull is now the state bird of Utah and a monument in Salt Lake City commemorates the event, known as the ‘Miracle of the Gulls’. Seagulls are very clever. They learn, remember and even pass on behaviours, such as stamping their feet in a group to imitate rainfall and trick earthworms to come to the surface. Seagulls’ intelligence is clearly demonstrated by a range of different feeding behaviours, such as dropping hard-shelled molluscs onto rocks so that they break open so they can eat them, and following ploughs in fields where they know upturned grubs and other food sources will be plentiful.
La Riserva naturale orientata Capo Gallo è una riserva naturale regionale della Sicilia, istituita in data 21 giugno 2001. È inserita nel Piano Regionale dei Parchi e delle Riserve ed è gestita dall'Azienda Foreste Demaniali della Regione Siciliana, che ha compiuto numerosi interventi volti a ricreare le condizioni ambientali originarie del territorio e a renderlo fruibile al pubblico.
La riserva comprende una area di quasi 586 ettari ed è costituita essenzialmente dal Monte Gallo, un massiccio carbonatico, formatosi decine di milioni di anni or sono fra il periodo Mesozoico e l'Eocene medio. Il Monte Gallo termina in un promontorio, denominato Capo Gallo, sul quale è situato un faro che ne segnala la posizione. Il promontorio si trova nella zona nord-occidentale di Palermo e separa i due golfi di Mondello e Sferracavallo, che ospitano gli omonimi quartieri marinari della città.
da: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riserva_naturale_orientata_Capo_Gallo
Il tratto di mare che unisce Capo Gallo con la vicina Isola delle Femmine è stato dichiarato riserva marina. Più precisamente l'Area naturale marina protetta Capo Gallo - Isola delle Femmine (tale è la corretta denominazione), istituita con decreto del Ministero dell'Ambiente del 24 luglio 2002, ha una superficie di 2.173 ettari e la sua gestione è affidata al consorzio creato tra i Comuni di Palermo e quello di Isola delle Femmine.
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Skylark - Alauda Arvensis
Skylarks are characteristic of semi-natural grassland systems from sand dunes through heathland to marginal upland, but are most common in arable farmland, making use of the nesting cover and bare ground for feeding that crops themselves provide throughout the year. Males are highly territorial, using long song flights at high altitude to broadcast to rivals and potential mates because the open landscapes they prefer are devoid of high perches. The stamina required to sustain long song flights has led to song flight length being used as an “honest signal” of male quality by females, allowing male Skylarks to advertise themselves without bright plumage, so they have kept the cryptic, brown and streaked coloration that affords them protection from predators on the ground.
Although migratory in much of northern Europe, British breeding Skylarks are believed not to move far between seasons, although upland birds move to lower latitudes. They can then often begin to breed in March and continue into July, making up to three breeding attempts. In winter, they mostly use crop stubble and fallow fields, in which they forage for weed seed and spilled grain, often in large flocks. Throughout the year, the Skylark’s heritage as a steppe species is apparent in its avoidance of vertical structures, which restricts the suitability of farmland with a high density of hedgerows.
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“Dandelions are just friendly little weeds who only want to be loved like flowers.”
― Heather Babcock
🌻 There are people that don't consider the dandelion a flower, but for me, after reading a lot about it, dandelion is a flower, a herb and a weed.🌻
A little busy at the moment, I haven't taken a photo for many
days. This one is from the same day one year ago.
Happy Sunday!
Edited with Topaz Studio 2
Texture: French Kiss Collection
The nights are drawing in now that autumn is here meaning that I rarely get the chance to go out with my camera during daylight hours!
I came to Stanley Ferry Marina because I wanted to try and capture some of the lovely reflections on the clear, still water.
This is the final image from that night (I took quite a few but most were rubbish!) and I think it's my favourite.
It's looking towards the road bridge that goes over the canal at Stanley.
I was standing in quite a precarious position, right on the edge of the water, so I had to be very careful not to drop my camera in or fall in myself!
I liked the colours - the green/yellow grass and the different shades of blue in the sky and the boats etc; they all seemed to contrast each other and work together.
Where there are fishing nets and boats, there seems to be birds. This is such a common sight in Cochin and the surrounding area.
I first saw Cochin when it was a port of call of the Star Clipper lines. You have seen the water flowers of the backwaters. They also fill some of the harbor of this area too. Imagine slowing coming into port on a huge clipper ship with mammoth sails flying and seeing this fishing paradise.
If that wasn't enough to take your breath away, there are graceful Chinese fishing nets adorning the coast as well. Cochin is a memorable city.
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There are two pair of Nuthatches that nest near to my hide, the other three are very tatty after a busy time feeding their youngsters. This one is looking good and posing well!
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Ok... :) Since we are still under a coat of Winter white here. I thought I'd post a shot I took a few years back to represent Spring!
I did however hear a rumor that Spring was just around the corner for us in the North. We wait with bated breath LOL :-D
Grey squirrels, Sciurus carolinensis, are a type of rodent who mostly live on trees. Grey squirrels are native to North America but are found in Europe and Africa too. They are an important species as natural forest regenerators.
Grey squirrels belong to the class of mammals, as they give birth to offspring like other mammals.
The exact number of grey squirrels in the world is difficult to find as they are found in varied regions. The eastern grey squirrels have adapted well to urban regions too. In certain regions in Europe, eastern grey squirrels are considered an invasive species.
The grey squirrel or eastern grey squirrel is found in the eastern region of the United States from west of the Mississippi River in the south to Canada in the north. The eastern grey squirrel has been introduced to many western states, England, Scotland, and Ireland. Female eastern red squirrels are also introduced in western Canada, southwest British Columbia. In the United States, they are introduced in Oregon, Washington, and California. Later they were introduced in South Africa, Hawaii, Bermuda, Madeira island, the Canary Islands, the Azores, Italy, and Cape Verde.
Lots of Elephants are seen at Marabou Pan, Savuti marshes, Botswana.
I take pictures because I like it, not because I am good at it.
The world is like a book and those, who do not travel, only read the first page.
If you only visit 2 continents in your lifetime, visit Africa, twice.
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There are over 90 species of sundew. The majority are found in Australia and South Africa, but they also grow in hot, humid areas of Georgia, Florida and other similar climates. The plants prefer acidic soils and are usually where there is a bog or marsh and often grow on top of sphagnum moss.
We have wiped out many of the pests and scourges which afflicted humanity. We have advanced science to the edges of the inexplicable and hoisted technology to the sun itself... In brief, we are prosperous, lively, successful, inventive, diligent — but, nevertheless and notwithstanding, something is wrong and we know it :-)
Archibald MacLeish, in LIFE, "Eloquent Guides to America's National Purpose," 1960
HFF! Truth Matter! Character Matters! We can be better...and we know it :-)
rose, 'Rainbow Sorbet', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
I visited Japanese garden again yesterday (1st Sep, the first day in spring here! Fortunately fine day) to see cherry blossoms. They are behind this area. Full bloom now. Australian Cherry blossoms last very long.
@Japanese Garden at Auburn Botanic Gardens, NSW Australia
Anhingas are large and slender waterbirds with long fanlike tails that resemble a turkey's tail. They have a long S-shaped neck and a daggerlike bill. In flight, Anhingas look like a flying cross; the wings are held out flat and the neck and tail stick straight out. They have slim bodies and look rather flattened in flight.
We are having a nice wet spring this year, and that translates to snow in the mountains. We went and shot Mt. Hood in the lower light, it had a little pink in the clouds and the sun highlighted the top of the mountain.
Mount Hood is located approximately 90 minutes outside of Portland on the border between Clackamas and Hood River counties. Mount Hood stands at 11,239 feet (3,425 meters). It is the highest point and mountain peak in the state of Oregon, and the second most climbed mountain in the world (second only to Japan’s holy Mt. Fujiyama).
We literally walked out of Timberline Lodge, at Mt Hood, up a small slope and got this great vantage point shot.
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A cat in greenery is a harmonious combination ... however, cats are always and everywhere harmonious :)
The ancient Egyptians had a special relationship with cats: they were revered as sacred animals; mummified like humans; depicted in sculpture and frescoes. And the very first cat "portrait" was written by the Egyptians.
For a long time it was believed that the Egyptians tamed cats. However, in 2004, a burial site dating back to 9500 BC was discovered in Cyprus. e., in which a cat was found together with a man. A wild beast would hardly have been put in a grave. It turned out that cats lived with people long before they appeared in Egypt. The Middle East began to be considered the birthplace of domestic cats, and Egypt was forgotten for some time. But not for long: in 2008, a burial was opened in southern Egypt, in which six cats were found - a male, a female and four kittens. Although this burial was younger than the Cypriot one (about 6000 years), it became clear that cats were known in Egypt much earlier than was thought until recently.
It is known that the ancestor of the domestic cat was the steppe cat Felis silvestris lybica - it still lives in the steppe, desert and partly mountainous regions of Africa, Western, Central and Central Asia, in Northern India, Transcaucasia and Kazakhstan. In 2007, it was possible to establish that all modern cats descended from him.
Seafarers brought the first cats to Rus' in the pre-Christian era. Exotic animals were a valuable commodity: the cost of a cat until the 15th century was comparable to the value of a healthy arable animal - an ox.
Switzerland, May 2021
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ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
There are several balconies to watch the sunset from hammocks or/and wooden benches, a deck to see a stream/sunset and the possibility of reaching the crystalline waters through well-made trails, a part of the recovered Atlantic forest and original.
The wi-fi works really well.
A couple uses this location as a home base.
... are still a bit shy ;-))
White and red tulips / Tulpen (Tulipa)
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
If you love tulips, have a look at my personal Tulip Collection.
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We have 2 pandas in this Safari Park named Cai Tao (male) and Hu Chun (female), which were adopted from the government of China on Sep 2017.
They both are 12 years old by this Sep 2022.
This one of them ...
Taken at Bogor Safari Park, West Java - Indonesia,
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We saw this big horn sheep as we were approaching the Logan Pass on Going to the Sun Road. My husband noticed a herd grazing on the field below the parking lot. They were just hanging out and people were taking pictures. Luckily, no one was that close and gave the sheep plenty of distance. I used my 75-300 lens to get a close up.
that bloom, shed and then simply go.
That's the wonders of life: One minute you're here and the Next minute you're gone!
This is where Mother Nature teaches us, how fragile we can become and yet still contain within ourselves, what we really are and should be.
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Hard to read, eh?haha
Paraskevidekatriaphobia is fear of Friday the 13th.
Anyway, let's all have a wonderful time...
Let's all THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY!!!
Zaandijk - Zaanse Schans - Lagedijk - Julianabrug
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Here we are at Currumbin Beach, Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia. The beach is known for its beautiful vistas, family-friendly activities, and a popular beach break for surfers. It's a great place for relaxing, swimming, surfing, and kayaking; where I have both a surf board and open kayak or sit-down paddle board.
It also has an annual Swell Sculpture Festival (on the beach) which is well attended and a lot of fun. This shot was taken in mid-winter, and is one of my favourite surf spots, away from my home beaches on The Stradbroke Island, off Brisbane in Moreton Bay.
"Escaping Time" (Benjamin Martins 2019): www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Li9-Qu6cdg&list=RD9Li9-Qu6cd...
Explore 19 July 2020
Canon EOS 7D Mark II, TAMRON 16-300mm
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are so much easier to give up than bad ones :-)
Somerset Maugham
HBW!! Protect the ones you love...wear a mask, vaccinate...take care :-)
prunus mume, pink flowering japanese apricot, 'Rose Bud', j raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
There are moments that you wish to never end. This was one such situation.
The view was beautiful, with the amazing blue of the sea contrasting with the variegated green tones on land and all of it was covered by fantastic cloud formations, creating a unique atmosphere that was reinforced by the absence of any sound or movement.
*****
Ponta da Piedade, Pico Island, Azores, Portugal
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*Luna, for Happy Caturday's theme: "Owner's choice".
Luna loves being in this hammock.
Happy Caturday to you all ❤
LACPIXEL - 2022
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You are my sister, we were born
so innocent, so full of need….
Blue anemones in gentle ICM.
👱♀️🎧 You Are My Sister ( Antony And The Johnson ).
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I stare at my reflection in the mirror
Why am I doing this to myself?
Losing my mind on a tiny error,
I nearly left the real me on the shelf
No, no, no, no
Don't lose who you are, in the blur of the stars
Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing,
It's okay not to be okay
Sometimes it's hard, to follow your heart
Tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising,
Just be true to who you are
and Tra, am not entirely sure, but I think i managed to anchor it 😉 ❤︎