Not liked by the average person but some species of blow fly can help forensic scientise pin down the time of death of a body by looking at the size of the maggots. Some species can live for several months or even a year if overwintering. Here you can see the extended mouth part called the pseudo trachea and at the end what looks a bit like a mop is a device that consist of many tubes. Through these tubes the fly will gulp its stomach contents over the food to help digest and turn the food into a liquid to be swallowed up. Which reminds me where did I put my last large slice of Victoria Sponge as I'm very hungry now !

It was a gray day in Winneshiek County with some scattered sprinkles since the temperatures topped 40 F, a full ten degrees above average. This downy woodpecker was doubtless pleased to get a break from February's bone-chilling cold.

The Bare-nosed wombat is a marsupial. They grow to an average of 98 cm (39 in) long and a weight of 26 kg (57 lb).

Bare-nosed wombats have been described as ecological engineers as their burrow building results in soil turnover and aeration, which assists plant growth, and provides habitat for a range of invertebrate and vertebrate species. They are a solitary, territorial species, with each wombat having an established range in which it lives and feeds. In this area, they dig a tunnel system, with tunnels ranging from 2 to 20 m in length, along with many side tunnels.

Bare-nosed wombats are herbivorous, subsisting on grass, snow tussocks, and other plant materials. Foraging is usually done during the night. They are the only marsupial in the world whose teeth constantly grow. Due to the underlying enamel structure of the teeth, the continuously growing teeth maintain a self-sharpening ridge which allows easier grazing of the diet consisting of mainly native grasses. (Wikipedia)

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Why did the wombat cross the road? It is likely because his burrow was flooded due to the heavy rain in the area. On the other side of the road was a nice, dry culvert into which he wedged himself. I was surprised by how big they are.

Glen Alice, Capertee Valley, New South Wales, Australia. October 2022.

Eagle-Eye Tours - Eastern Australia.

At 9 am, the sky had partly cleared up and the sun had melted most of the fresh snow covering the red mountains bordering Laguna Lejia's northwestern shores.

The highest red mountains are Cerro Lámpara (in the center, 5198 m) and Cerro Corona (behind it to the left, 5291 m).

Laguna Lejía (Bleach Lagoon) is a salt lake in the Atacama desert.

It is located in the Chilean Altiplano of the Antofagasta Region,

100 km (62 mi) south-east of San Pedro de Atacama,

at an altitude of 4325 m (14,200 ft).

It is shallow and has no outlet, currently covering an area of

nearly 2 km² (0.77 sq mi) with an average depth of 1.2 m (4 ft).

#308 in Explore on Apr 22, 2023.

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Lake Seliger is located on the Valdai Hills at an altitude of 205 meters above sea level. The coastline is very intricately cut and, for the most part, covered with coniferous and mixed forest. The area of ​​260 square meters. km (Seliger area in the twenty of the largest lakes in Russia), the average depth of 5-6 meters, maximum 24 meters. There are many islands on the lake, mostly small, but there are two large ones, Hachin and Gorodomlya. Lake Seliger has a maximum size of 70 km from north to south and 40 km from east to west. By origin Seliger is a glacial lake formed 70-11 thousand years ago. Not far from here at the village. Volgoverhove. is the source of the Volga River. Seliger has many islands, the largest of them are Hachin and Gorodomlya.

Barn Owl - Tyto Alba

Like most owls, the barn owl is nocturnal, relying on its acute sense of hearing when hunting in complete darkness. It often becomes active shortly before dusk and can sometimes be seen during the day when relocating from one roosting site to another. In Britain, on various Pacific Islands and perhaps elsewhere, it sometimes hunts by day. This practice may depend on whether the owl is mobbed by other birds if it emerges in daylight. However, in Britain, some birds continue to hunt by day even when mobbed by such birds as magpies, rooks and black-headed gulls, such diurnal activity possibly occurring when the previous night has been wet making hunting difficult. By contrast, in southern Europe and the tropics, the birds seem to be almost exclusively nocturnal, with the few birds that hunt by day being severely mobbed.

Barn owls are not particularly territorial but have a home range inside which they forage. For males in Scotland this has a radius of about 1 km (0.6 mi) from the nest site and an average size of about 300 hectares. Female home ranges largely coincide with that of their mates. Outside the breeding season, males and females usually roost separately, each one having about three favoured sites in which to conceal themselves by day, and which are also visited for short periods during the night. Roosting sites include holes in trees, fissures in cliffs, disused buildings, chimneys and haysheds and are often small in comparison to nesting sites. As the breeding season approaches, the birds move back to the vicinity of the chosen nest to roost.

Once a pair-bond has been formed, the male will make short flights at dusk around the nesting and roosting sites and then longer circuits to establish a home range. When he is later joined by the female, there is much chasing, turning and twisting in flight, and frequent screeches, the male's being high-pitched and tremulous and the female's lower and harsher. At later stages of courtship, the male emerges at dusk, climbs high into the sky and then swoops back to the vicinity of the female at speed. He then sets off to forage. The female meanwhile sits in an eminent position and preens, returning to the nest a minute or two before the male arrives with food for her. Such feeding behaviour of the female by the male is common, helps build the pair-bond and increases the female's fitness before egg-laying commences.

Barn owls are cavity nesters. They choose holes in trees, fissures in cliff faces, the large nests of other birds such as the hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) and, particularly in Europe and North America, old buildings such as farm sheds and church towers. Buildings are preferred to trees in wetter climates in the British Isles and provide better protection for fledglings from inclement weather. Trees tend to be in open habitats rather than in the middle of woodland and nest holes tend to be higher in North America than in Europe because of possible predation.

This bird has suffered declines through the 20th century and is thought to have been adversely affected by organochlorine pesticides such as DDT in the 1950s and '60s.

Nocturnal birds like the barn owl are poorly monitored by the Breeding Bird Survey and, subject to this caveat, numbers may have increased between 1995-2008.

Barn owls are a Schedule 1 and 9 species.

Population:

UK breeding:

4,000 pairs

Europe:

110-220,000 pairs

'Small, average, large...' On White

Rutog County

The average altitude of 4,500 m (14,800 ft) with a maximum altitude of 6,800 m (22,300 ft).

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Uhu (Bubo bubo) - Eurasian eagle-owl

Weather conditions improved in the late afternoon. This is a northwestward view from a hill that used to be the site for Chichijima's weather station.

The island in the left is Nishijima (西島, western island), while those in the right are Hyoutanjima (瓢箪島 gourd island), Anijima (兄島 older brother island), and Hitomarujima (人丸島).

According the climate data provided by Japan Meteorological Agency, average temperature of the coldest month in Chichijima is 18.5 degree Celsius, which means Chichijima has a tropical climate.

Annual precipitation of Chichijima is 1,296 mm, and the precipitation of the driest month is 51.6 mm, which means Chichijima has the tropical monsoon climate (Am) as compared to the humid subtropical climate (Cfa) in the Izu islands and the main island part of Tokyo.

Chichijima's climate is relatively dry judging from the Japanese standard; annual precipitation of downtown Tokyo is 1,530 mm.

Average this - average that

average ----- NO!

Her beauty is held

within a moments arch

that spans cold air.

A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The banana plant is the largest herbaceous flowering plant. All the above-ground parts of a banana plant grow from a structure usually called a corm. Plants are normally tall and fairly sturdy, and are often mistaken for trees, but what appears to be a trunk is actually a "false stem" or pseudostem. Bananas grow in a wide variety of soils, as long as the soil is at least 60 cm deep, has good drainage and is not compacted. The leaves of banana plants are composed of a stalk (petiole) and a blade (lamina). The banana fruits develop from the banana heart, in a large hanging cluster, made up of tiers (called hands), with up to 20 fruit to a tier. The hanging cluster is known as a bunch, comprising 3–20 tiers, or commercially as a banana stem, and can weigh 30–50 kilograms. Individual banana fruits (commonly known as a banana or finger) average 125 grams, of which approximately 75% is water and 25% dry matter. The fruit has been described as a leathery berry. There is a protective outer layer (a peel or skin) with numerous long, thin strings (the phloem bundles), which run lengthwise between the skin and the edible inner portion. The inner part of the common yellow dessert variety can be split lengthwise into three sections that correspond to the inner portions of the three carpels by manually deforming the unopened fruit. In cultivated varieties, the seeds are diminished nearly to non-existence; their remnants are tiny black specks in the interior of the fruit. 32533

(Actinodura cyanouroptera)

Sattal

Uttarakhand

Índia

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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.

So, you may find:

- All the photos for this trip Índia (2023) (213)

- All the photos for this order PASSERIFORMES (3553)

- All the photos for this family Leiothrichidae (Leiotriquídeos) (71)

- All the photos for this species Actinodura cyanouroptera (2)

- All the photos taken this day 2023/03/10 (34)

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Not often I can get close to these in the wild. Was fantastic to visit this one on a post where I have seen one before a few years ago.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA A popular day hike for Forest visitors. Greer Spring is the second largest spring in Missouri. Its average daily flow of 222 million gallons more than doubles the size of the Eleven Point National Scenic River into which it flows. The Eleven Point is one of my favorite float trips. ;)

The design and operation of a windmill depended on various characteristics of the wind such as wind speed and changes in wind speed, wind direction and changes in wind direction, wind turbulence, and the height of the wind above the ground. An average windspeed of 15 to 25 miles per hour and a prevailing wind were necessary for operation of a mill. The critical component of a mill's operation was the sails. The force of the wind on the sails caused them to turn and rotate the axle, or windshaft, on which they were set. The brake wheel, located inside the top of the mill, also was attached to the windshaft, and its movement drove the millstones and all other machinery inside the mill.

Mills usually had four sails, but five, six, and eight-sailed mills were also built. The earilest sails were wooden, cloth-covered frames known as common sails. They were light and powerful but had to be stopped for the miller to furl the sails. As windmill design advanced, the cloth sails were replaced with sails with shutters. In 1807, William Cubitt invented a sail which could be adjusted while the sails were turning. The shutters of this sail could be opened and closed automatically and worked like venetian blinds to aid in utilizing the wind. A windmill's sails had to always be square into the "eye of the wind" as the mill was designed and balanced to resist pressure from the front only. If a mill was tail-winded, the cloths or shutters could be blown out, the cap blown off, or the mill itself blown over, often with the miller in it. Because the wind changes, the mill had to be capable of being turned into the wind whatever the direction. This was called "winding the mill." The turning gear was the tail pole, and bodily force was used to effect the turn.

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The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge (a divergent or constructive plate boundary) located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world. In the North Atlantic, the ridge separates the North American from the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate, north and south of the Azores Triple Junction respectively. In the South Atlantic, it separates the African and South American plates. The ridge extends from a junction with the Gakkel Ridge (Mid-Arctic Ridge) northeast of Greenland southward to the Bouvet Triple Junction in the South Atlantic. Although the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is mostly an underwater feature, portions of it have enough elevation to extend above sea level, for example in Iceland. The ridge has an average spreading rate of about 2.5 centimetres (1 in) per year (Wikipedia).

www.amusingplanet.com/2014/09/the-mid-atlantic-ridge-in-i...

With an average body height of four feet and wing length of nine feet, the American White Pelican gives off a dino vibe.

While gangly on land, their soaring abilities are amazing and they know how to use the air currents both in their migrations as well as in daily flight.

This one passed directly over me as I fired off several shots.

Here's a link to 10 Fun Facts About Pelicans :)

www.mentalfloss.com/article/515654/10-fun-facts-about-pel...

Just doing what they do at this time of year, feeding up on fish for the next stage of their ongoing journey.

This was taken on the banks of Marsworth Reservoir,Tring where one corner seems more prised territory. This tern will chase of any interlopers, and it regularly needed to.

One source says the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains range is about 1,000 km (620 mi) in length. Its highest point is 7,090 m (23,260 ft) located 100 km (62 mi) to the northwest of Lhasa. The range is parallel to the Himalayas in the Transhimalayas, and north of the Brahmaputra River. [3] Another source says the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains extend 460 miles (740 km) from Nyêmo County in the west to Ranwu County (the southwestern part of Baxoi County) in the east.

Its highest peak is Mount Nyenchen Tanglha (Nyainqêntanglha Feng) at 7,162 metres (23,497 ft).[4]

The southern side of the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains is precipitous, and falls by around 2,000 metres (6,600 ft), while the northern side is fairly level and descends about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). Most of the mountains are below 6,500 metres (21,300 ft).[5] They contain 7080 glaciers covering an area of 10,700 square kilometres (4,100 sq mi).[4]

The Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains have an average latitude of 30°30'N and a longitude between 90°E and 97°E. Together with the Gangdise Shan located further west, it forms the Transhimalaya [a] which runs parallel to the Himalayas north of the Yarlung Tsangpo River.

The Drukla Chu river rises in the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains, where it is called the Song Chu river, and joins the Gyamda Chu river. The combined rivers run about 100 kilometres (62 mi) southeast to the Yarlung Tsangpo river.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyenchen_Tanglha_Mountains

18-march-2022: the perpetual alternation between low and high tide, more marked precisely in this area where the tidal masses are channeled along the entire narrow Adriatic Sea, has greater variation in conjunction with the days around the full moon and the new moon.

It is therefore an astronomical phenomenon, but that Weather Patterns can alter, even massively.

In "my area", for most of the winter and with a peak in March, there were numerous extreme low tides and minimal high tides, this due to the over 1040hpas of adiabatic pressure and the continuous currents prevailing from the East or North-East.

So, every +1hpas over the terrestrial average pressure (gravity) value of 1013hpas corresponds to 1cm less in the level of that sea placed under the adiabatic pressure of the anticyclone and obviously vice versa in case of decreasing pressure.

The north-eastern currents tend to move the water masses towards the West and then towards the South following the anti-clockwise current that goes up the Adriatic along the Dalmatian coast and descends it from the Italian side.

All these factors "empty" the Gulf of Trieste which is also the Northernmost Spot of the entire Mediterranean Sea!

The exact opposite occurs with Low Pressure and the activation of persistent "long currents" from the South or South/East, in which cases not only Venice ends up under the surface of the Northern Adriatic Sea.

A cockatoo is any of the 21 parrot species belonging to the family Cacatuidae, the only family in the superfamily Cacatuoidea. Along with the Psittacoidea (true parrots) and the Strigopoidea (large New Zealand parrots), they make up the order Psittaciformes. The family has a mainly Australasian distribution, ranging from the Philippines and the eastern Indonesian islands of Wallacea to New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Australia. Cockatoos are recognisable by the prominent crests and curved bills. Their plumage is generally less colourful than that of other parrots, being mainly white, grey or black and often with coloured features in the crest, cheeks or tail. On average they are larger than other parrots; however, the cockatiel, the smallest cockatoo species, is a small bird. Cockatoos prefer to eat seeds, tubers, corms, fruit, flowers and insects. They often feed in large flocks, particularly when ground-feeding. Cockatoos are monogamous and nest in tree hollows. Some cockatoo species have been adversely affected by habitat loss, particularly from a shortage of suitable nesting hollows after large mature trees are cleared; conversely, some species have adapted well to human changes and are considered agricultural pests. 9123

A cockatoo is any of the 21 parrot species belonging to the family Cacatuidae, the only family in the superfamily Cacatuoidea. Along with the Psittacoidea (true parrots) and the Strigopoidea (large New Zealand parrots), they make up the order Psittaciformes. The family has a mainly Australasian distribution, ranging from the Philippines and the eastern Indonesian islands of Wallacea to New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Australia. Cockatoos are recognisable by the prominent crests and curved bills. Their plumage is generally less colourful than that of other parrots, being mainly white, grey or black and often with coloured features in the crest, cheeks or tail. On average they are larger than other parrots; however, the cockatiel, the smallest cockatoo species, is a small bird. Cockatoos prefer to eat seeds, tubers, corms, fruit, flowers and insects. They often feed in large flocks, particularly when ground-feeding. Cockatoos are monogamous and nest in tree hollows. Some cockatoo species have been adversely affected by habitat loss, particularly from a shortage of suitable nesting hollows after large mature trees are cleared; conversely, some species have adapted well to human changes and are considered agricultural pests. R_7015

Another brisk day, woke up to 0°F after a surprising full 8 hours of sleep (I normally average 6 1/2). I have to admit that as much as I dislike the cold I have become aware of the wonderful silence that accompanies it. People and their animals stay inside so there is very limited noise pollution from vehicles running, dogs barking, birds chirping, and even leaves rustling in the trees. It is stillness and silence and peace.

Oh, the tea is "pomegranate burst" green tea from Good Earth, it is one of my favorites! Also, the journal has returned since that was my goal this week to include it in every shot. My daughter and I have been drawing together for 30 minutes each morning before she goes to school. I have very limited drawing skills and hope that I will improve with practice if not, that's ok, I just love spending the creative time with my girlie.

This lizard was basking in the sunshine, Arne RSPB reserve Dorset. It's a male in its breeding colours.

According to Wildlife Trust website:

The sand lizard is extremely rare due to the loss of its sandy heath and dune habitats. Reintroduction programmes have helped establish new populations.

Restricted to a few isolated areas in Dorset (my home county), Hampshire, Surrey and Merseyside. Reintroduced into other areas in the South East, South West and Wales.

Statistics

Length: 20cm

Weight: 15g

Average lifespan: up to 20 years

Conservation status

Protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981. Priority Species under the UK Post-2010 Biodiversity Framework. Listed as a European Protected Species under Annex IV of the European Habitats Directive.

When to see

April to October

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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.

This previously unpublished shot was captured during an unseasonably warm period in March 2017. This past week in March 2022 has been unseasonably warm too. Today, in fact, we have summer-like temperatures. The weather is set to turn though, with a North-easterly wind and temperatures falling below average by the end of the week. The proverb in the title reminds us to keep our winter clothes close at hand until summer properly arrives.

If you are in the UK don't forget to put your clocks one hour forward at 0200 this Sunday morning - British Summer Time arrives this weekend. Enjoy!

After a long time away from Flickr, finally I'm back and can admire your wonderful photos, dear friends.

The vision of my new eye is like a full hd monitor resolution and the vision of old eye is like a normal monitor.

My mind makes the average between them :-)

Thank all of you for the support in this difficult moment ♥

🌟 [[EXPLORE]] October 18, 2021 # 168 🌟

Running at mach 10 these lovely little birds were a challenge to photograph whilst laying in the wet sand.

I wish I had nailed the focus slightly better as these two Juv hobbies flew past. Looked like they were just having fun.

and the feeble mentality of the average adult :-)

Sigmund Freud

HFF!! Science Matters!

day lily, little theater garden, raleigh, north carolina

Moon canyon, Kazakhstan

Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Cheers.

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

Scientific Name: Coracina novaehollandiae

Description: Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes have a black face and throat, blue-grey back, wings and tail, and white underparts. They are slender, attractive birds. They have a curious habit of shuffling their wings upon landing, a practice that gave rise to the name "Shufflewing", which is often used for this species. This shuffling is also carried out by most other species in this family. Young birds resemble the adults, except the black facial mask is reduced to an eye stripe.

Similar species: Young Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes may be confused with the White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike, Coracina papuenis, which also has a black eye stripe. However, this species is much smaller (26 - 28 cm).

Distribution: The Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike is widespread and common. Outside the breeding season, large family groups and flocks of up to a hundred birds form.

Habitat: The Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike is found in almost any wooded habitat, with the exception of rainforests. It is also familiar in many suburbs, where birds are often seen perched on overhead wires or television aerials.

Seasonal movements: Partially nomadic; some northwards migrations.

Feeding: Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes feed on insects and other invertebrates. These may be caught in the air, taken from foliage or caught on the ground. In addition to insects, some fruits and seeds are also eaten.

Breeding: Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes may mate with the same partner each year, and may use the same territories year after year. The nest is remarkably small for the size of the bird. It is a shallow saucer of sticks and bark, bound together with cobwebs. Both partners construct the nest and care for the young birds.

Cuckoo-shrikes are neither cuckoos nor shrikes, but are so called because their feathers have similar patterns to those of cuckoos and their beak shape resembles that of shrikes.

Calls: The call most often heard is a soft churring, often being described as a warbling "creearck".

Minimum Size: 32cm

Maximum Size: 34cm

Average size: 33cm

Average weight: 112g

Breeding season: August to February; varies in more arid areas

Nestling Period: 21 days

(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)

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Pharaoh Khufu began the first Giza pyramid project, circa 2550 B.C. His Great Pyramid is the largest in Giza and towers some 481 feet (147 meters) above the plateau. Its estimated 2.3 million stone blocks each weigh an average of 2.5 to 15 tons. I photographed the pyramids from different angles and perspectives, but this long shot is one of my favorites.

ice Storm, Ellenville, NY.

February 14th

You say you wanna see me

I'm thinking chocolate and flowers

We meet for breakfast

I'm feeling restless

Been gettin' ready for hours

Ondarreta, San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, España.

La playa de Ondarreta es una playa urbana de la ciudad de San Sebastián (España) situada en la bahía de La Concha.

Ondarreta es la más occidental de las playas donostiarras y la de menor longitud, aunque debido a su localización su anchura media sea mayor que la de la playa de La Concha por estar menos expuesta a la variación de las mareas. De hecho, pese a tener una longitud menor de la mitad de la longitud de playa de La Concha, su superficie media, de 60.000 m², es 6.000 m² mayor que la de esta última.

Su perfil es más juvenil e informal que el de la playa de La Concha, aunque su uso es igualmente masivo. Antes de la reforma profunda acometida en la Playa de La Zurriola era frecuentada para la práctica del surf, que hoy se ha trasladado por completo a esta última. La playa cuenta con vestuarios, duchas y baños públicos, y dispone de una cafetería.

El paseo de Ondarreta, que bordea la playa, dispone de varios tramos con la famosa barandilla de La Concha, mientras que otros están abiertos a la playa, al ser la diferencia de cotas entre ambos de unos pocos metros. Junto al paseo hay unos jardines en los que se encuentra una escultura de comienzos del siglo XX de la reina María Cristina. Los edificios cuyas fachadas dan al paseo tienen poca altura: se trata de villas independientes de pocos pisos.

The beach of Ondarreta is an urban beach of the city of San Sebastián (Spain) located in the bay of La Concha.

Ondarreta is the westernmost of the beaches of San Sebastian and the shortest one, although due to its location its average width is greater than that of La Concha beach because it is less exposed to the variation of the tides. In fact, despite having a length less than half the length of La Concha beach, its average area of 60,000 m² is 6,000 m² larger than the latter.

Its profile is more youthful and informal than that of La Concha beach, although its use is equally massive. Before the deep reform undertaken at La Zurriola Beach, it was frequented for surfing, which has now been completely transferred to the latter. The beach has changing rooms, showers and public toilets, and has a cafeteria.

The Ondarreta promenade, which borders the beach, has several sections with the famous La Concha railing, while others are open to the beach, as the difference between them is only a few meters. Next to the promenade there are some gardens in which there is a sculpture of the early twentieth century of Queen María Cristina. The buildings whose facades give the walk have little height: they are independent villas of few floors.

Average daylight, darktime (colortime)

Die Postalm ist ein Almgebiet in der Gemeinde Strobl im Bundesland Salzburg. Mit 42 Quadratkilometern ist es das größte Almengebiet in Österreich. Das Hochplateau besitzt eine mittlere Höhe von über 1300 m.

The Postalm is an alpine pasture area in the municipality of Strobl in the province of Salzburg. With 42 square kilometers it is the largest alpine pasture area in Austria. The plateau has an average altitude of over 1300 meters.

Noblex Pro 6/150 UX

Kodak TMY 400

Lithprint auf Kentmere Kentona (2007)

1) SE5 1+7, +1,5 f-stops, 2:20 min

2) Siena 25 + NH4Cl 8 + Carbonat 15 + H2O 800, 1:20 min

Lichter gebleicht

MT1 Selentonung 1+20, 1 min

From about 7am there were about 30 Jackdaws making such a noise flying over & around my house. According to my neighbour he could see them trying to chase off a Sparrowhawk that had taken one of the "family". The noise eventually stopped & nearly 2 hours later my husband noticed the Sparrowhawk in our garden devouring the bird.

We could only take photos through the window as we did not wish to scare it away & as we clicked it kept turning its head towards the house looking for the source of the noise. It stayed about 30 mins & then flew off with the remains of breakfast in its claws.

Statistics

Length: 33cm

Wingspan: 62cm

Weight: 150-260g

Average lifespan: 4 years

Sorry for all of you who may have already viewed several photos taken by Richard, he's just faster at editing or could it be more spare time.😉

The average Clan member and his family lived in a small single family home, which were grouped into small villages or townships consisting of only a few families. Due to the sever winters in this area of Scotland, snows of 6 and 7 feet are not uncommon, the livestock was kept in the home during the worst part of the winter. The average house was divided into two areas. The first and lowest in elevation were the animal pens. The rest of the house was the living area with the centre section serving as a living room, dining room, kitchen and bedroom in one small room. The other end of the house was reserved for storage of items during the winter and a very special box bed. There were no walls separating the areas just dividers, which were sometimes made out of wicker.

The Brodten cliff is a so-called active cliff, which recedes by an average of around 50 to 100 cm per year due to the influence of the Baltic Sea. The demolition occurs mostly in the winter months due to the impact of waves during storms and after heavy rains due to the sliding of parts of the cliffs when they are destabilized by the water escaping from individual layers.

Ludwig Erhard Haus

Berlin

Architect: Sir Nicholas Grimshaw

"There are many places in Berlin, which are almost unknown, because the average tourist won't visit them.

Most of them are symbols of the ambitious construction programs initiated by the government of the reunified Germany in order to give to the city a new distinctive character and to launch Berlin into the third millennium.

The Ludwig Erhard Haus is a unusual and futuristic building located in the borough of Charlottenburg, just a few meters from the famous Zoolisches Garden and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.

It was designed by the English architect Nicholas Grimshaw in 1994.

Fifteen tremendous arches create the building’s signature ribbed structure that adapts to the slight curve in the irregular property at its base.

The Ludwid Erhard Haus was designed as a service center for the Chamber of Commerce and the Berlin Stock Exchange and it hosts many public and private offices as well as fairs, conferences and forums

Today, a vertical facade on the side of the building facing the Fasanen Strasse hides the actual round form of the structure. Due to his external structure, Berliners call the building "armadillo"."

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(Philepitta schlegeli)

Ankarafantsika

Madagascar

This family of passeriformes, consisting of 4 species, all endemic to Madagascar, was entirely unknown to me until we began preparing for the visit to the country.

Ankarafantsika was a bit distant from the route we had initially planned, and the 10-hour journey each way represented an extra 2 days, one for going and another for returning, but it's well worth the effort.

However, the trip offers magnificent landscapes, and the journey ends up being quite enjoyable (despite the potholes on the road, and Ana letting her phone 'fly' while filming the scenery from the car window).

Moreover, we also managed to capture photos of three more species that can't be seen anywhere else in the world (except, perhaps, in zoos): the Vulnerable White-breasted Mesite, the Endangered Van Dam's Vanga, and the Critically Endangered Madagascar Fish-Eagle. All excellent reasons not to ignore this location! We managed to photograph all of them.

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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.

So, you may find:

- All the photos for this trip Madagascar (2023) (174)

- All the photos for this order PASSERIFORMES (3553)

- All the photos for this family Philepittidae (Filepitídeos) (4)

- All the photos for this species Philepitta schlegeli (3)

- All the photos taken this day 2023/11/19 (16)

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