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Sacred Kingfisher
Scientific Name: Todiramphus sanctus
Description: The Sacred Kingfisher is a medium sized kingfisher. It has a turquoise back, turquoise blue rump and tail, buff-white underparts and a broad cream collar. There is a broad black eye stripe extending from bill to nape of neck. Both sexes are similar, although the female is generally lighter with duller upper parts. Young birds are similar to the female, but have varying amounts of rusty-brown edging to feathers on the collar and underparts, and buff edges on the wing coverts.
Distribution: The Sacred Kingfisher is common and familiar throughout the coastal regions of mainland Australia and less common throughout Tasmania. The species is also found on islands from Australasia to Indonesia and New Zealand.
Habitat: The Sacred Kingfisher inhabits woodlands, mangroves and paperbark forests, tall open eucalypt forest and melaleuca forest.
Seasonal movements: In Australia, Sacred Kingfishers spend the winter in the north of their range and return south in the spring to breed.
Feeding: Sacred Kingfishers forage mainly on the land, only occasionally capturing prey in the water. They feed on crustaceans, reptiles, insects and their larvae and, infrequently, fish. The birds perch on low exposed branch on the lookout for prey. Once prey is located, the Sacred Kingfisher swoops down and grasps it in its bill, returning to the perch to eat it.
Breeding: For most of the year Sacred Kingfishers are mainly solitary, pairing only for the breeding season. Usually two clutches are laid in a season. Both sexes excavate the nest, which is normally a burrow in a termite mound, hollow branch or river bank. The nest chamber is unlined and can be up to 20m above the ground. Both sexes also incubate the eggs and care for the young.
Calls: The voice of the Sacred Kingfisher is a loud "ek ek ek ek" repeated continuously throughout breeding season. Birds also give a "kee kee kee" in excitement and a series of chirring, scolding notes when alarmed.
Minimum Size: 19cm
Maximum Size: 24cm
Average size: 21cm
Average weight: 45g
Breeding season: September to December; occasionally extended to March, if conditions are favourable.
Clutch Size: 3 to 6
Incubation: 18 days
Nestling Period: 26 days
(Sources: www.birdsinbackyards.net and "The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds - Second Edition")
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Love little blue butterflies. Probably the least blue of the blues, but we have a wonderful population nearby. In one clump of grass earlier this week there were probably fifty or so, and there are many similar clumps and bushes. The same field holes many species of insects. It is full of moths, bees and butterflies. It also has a number of nesting skylark at the moment and hobbies have been hawking damsels there. My worry is that it is a “brown field site” so one day may end up being a housing estate. Hopefully not though, it should be protected IMHO. A wonderful wildflower meadow.
The average goldfinch is 12–13 cm (4.7–5.1 in) long with a wingspan of 21–25 cm (8.3–9.8 in) and a weight of 14 to 19 g (0.49 to 0.67 oz). The sexes are broadly similar, with a red face, black and white head, warm brown upperparts, white underparts with buff flanks and breast patches, and black and yellow wings.
On closer inspection male goldfinches can often be distinguished by a larger, darker red mask that extends just behind the eye. In females, the red face does not extend past the eye. The ivory-coloured bill is long and pointed, and the tail is forked. Goldfinches in breeding condition have a white bill, with a greyish or blackish mark at the tip for the rest of the year. Juveniles have a plain head and a greyer back but are unmistakable due to the yellow wing stripe. Birds in central Asia (caniceps group) have a plain grey head behind the red face, lacking the black and white head pattern of European and western Asian birds.
The song is a pleasant silvery twittering. The call is a melodic tickeLIT, and the song is a pleasant tinkling medley of trills and twitters, but always including the trisyllabic call phrase or a teLLIT-teLLIT-teLLIT.
At an average elevation of 8000 feet above sea level, Ayubia National Park is located between Pakistan’s most popular hill stations, Murree and Nathiagali. Superb scenery, pine forests, green mountain slopes, clear water streams and lots of wild flowers and colorful butterflies combine together to offer an enchanting panorama.
This species averages 51 cm (20 inches) in length. Its long, pointed grey and black tail with a white median band is distinctive. A white wing patch is conspicuous in flight. The bill is black in male, pea-green in the female.
Please look carefully in the lower left part of the picture. ...He's smarter than the average .....🐻
Kangra valley (average altitude 2000 feet)with the Dhauladhar ranges as a stunning backdrop is my favourite destination in Himachal Pradesh.Thankfully it is not as popular with tourists as Shimla and Kullu- Manali but I think few places in India can rival its sublime beauty. I have earlier uploaded photos of this picturesque valley in the springtime.This shot was taken on a recent trip.It is relatively early winter and since there has been no snowfall as yet, the ranges were barren.However, the valley still looked very beautiful especially with the early morning sun lighting up the magnificent peaks.
The Dhauladhar range is one of the ranges of the Middle Himalayas,.They lie entirely in the state of Himachal Pradesh in India.They are distinctive in their typical dark granite rocky formations with a remarkably steep rise culminationg in streaks of snow and ice at the top of their crested peaks.The elevation of the Dhauladhars ranges from around 3500 metres to nearly 6000 metres avove sea level.They are best seen from the beautiful Kangra valley from where they appear to shoot up almost vertically.
Source -: Wikipedia
Our average temperature for the whole month of January in this part of Northeast Ohio has been 21.6° (–5.5°C). Winter's not been here for a month yet, and it can already be called the coldest in about the last 5 years. These two northern cardinals don't seem to mind the frigid conditions. Male in foreground and female in back.
The average winter temperature over the past 30 years has increased by 1.4-1.5 degrees compared to previous decades. The greatest warming is observed in January, where the temperature increased by 2.0-2.5 degrees.
Зима згадала, що вона Зима.
26 січня в Києві зафіксували одразу два температурні рекорди 2025 року. Середньодобова температура повітря виявилась найвищою за час проведення спостережень для цього дня і склала 4,7°С. Це перевищило попередній рекордний показник 1902 та 1999 років на 1,4°С, а кліматичну норму — на 9,7°С.
«Середня температура зимового періоду за 30 років зросла на 1,4-1,5 градусів порівняно з попередніми десятиліттями. Найбільше потепління спостерігається у січні, де температура збільшилась на 2,0-2,5 градуса.
Крім того, за останні 60 років середня температура в Україні зростала швидше, ніж у світі загалом. Швидкість зростання середньої річної температури становила 0,41 градуса протягом десяти років, тоді як у Європі цей показник дорівнює 0,34 градуса. Основне потепління відзначається насамперед взимку.
Не лише на півдні України, а й у Києві три роки поспіль не було кліматичної зими, що свідчить про тенденцію до потепління, що триває.»
/РБК-Україна, віцепрезидентка Національної аграрної академії наук Ануш Балян/.
[HAIRBASE] [MR] No Average Hairbase [TMD]
[HAIR] no.match_ ~ NO_AVERAGE ~ [TMD]
[BEARD] Volkstone Agnus Beard [EQUAL10]
[HEAD TATTOO] [ES] Face and Head Tattoo . Respect
[BEER / PHONE] [ES] Bottle Beer Green -
[SHIRT] -ODIREN- Will Shirt - [TMD]
[EARRING] [M E M E N T O] - H0RN. Earrings
A habit? An escape? An addiction?
According to the statistics in the UK and US people are watching TV an average of 3-4 hours per day, every day.
If I only count up to 80 years, that's 10 years without sleeping, 87.600 hours in blue light from birth to death.
Adverts, news, weather, sport, shows, movies, episodes, repeat...
Is this how we are supposed to spend our time on Earth in our evenings till the end?
We all need escapes, no question about that. But it matters where we escape into and for how long for.
I stopped broadcast TV 15 years ago and stopped streaming from devices 5 years ago. I'm off the Blue Wheels now.
What can I report?
I've spent around 2000 evening hours on learning to play the guitar, then 2000 evening hours on creating, thinking, reading, learning and writing thanks to learning photography.
The next thousands of blue light free evenings will contain learning meditation, drawing a portrait, sculpting a bust, clarinet, trumpet, the list will go on as long my mind and body will go on.
I was born into TV culture and only by being away from it I've gained perspective and insight for myself that I wasn't just consuming TV - TV was consuming me and my time.
I feel extremely grateful that I have this pocket of time available to me just now, and for living in an era where most lessons/knowledge is free and available at my fingertips to grow and be more balanced in my life.
My evenings are containing silence, palpable joy and meaning personal to me now. TV is not designed to give me those, it's not in it's nature.
TV is designed only to give me the blues.
Along the Ocean Path Trai in Acadia National Park. Sans tripod. about 25 pics stacked and averaged in PS to smooth the water.
Situated within the Þingvellir National Park in Southwest Iceland, the Öxarárfoss waterfall is one of the best-known waterfalls of Iceland.
It flows from the Öxará river that cascades in two streams over the Almannagjá gorge cliffs, that touch the eastern boundaries of North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. With a height of 13 meters and an average width of 20 meters, this waterfall is positioned inside Almannagjá, in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
03-November-2023
It happens on average every 15 years, now around 20, that the south-westerly wind blows strong and prolonged into the Gulf of Trieste coming from northern Romagna.
The gulf is very windy, but there are also long periods of calm, but no wind, even the strongest one, Bora, can create high waves, given that within this stretch of sea the maximum distances between the coasts are around 30km.
The only exception is provided by the wind that comes from the south-west in the wind rose and enters the only opening towards the rest of the Adriatic between the Grado peninsula (FVG, Italia) and tip/rt Savudrija (Istra, Hrvatska).
Through this passage the wind fishes on approximately 250km of sea surface and manages to generate waves of up to 3/4m (sea force 4/5 on the Douglas scale) which are decidedly important values for the area.
This is what happened on Friday 3 November 2023, due to a strong Atlantic front generated by the extratropical storm called "Ciaran" to which a strong high tide was added, flooding the adjacent State Road 14 (viale Miramare) in the Barcola section and where wood, branches, porphyry cubes, concrete blocks dragged for meters and metres, algae, sea stones'n'gravel and seafood were found.
The road surface is approximately 6m above the sea level.
The photos were taken in reportage style, so point and shoot without paying too much attention to the composition and limiting the image quality to have a quick shot with very short times.
The purpose is not that of likes, obviously, but to document an event which for those who know these little waves areas was very significant.
The precedents of the last 70 years are very few (1957, 1969, 1984 and 2003) and each time the seafront and the popular bathing establishments have been strengthened so, from the significant damage that occurred, it can be argued that it could have been the strongest storm ever or, at least, among the strongest for this area.
Our daily average temperature has been dropping since July and hit rock-bottom a few days ago. Today the tide turned and we inched up a degree if this were a "normal" year. To celebrate, here's a look back at those balmy summer days. The orange sulphur is sometimes called the alfalfa butterfly because its caterpillars like to eat alfalfa leaves. However, the caterpillars also eat the leaves from a variety of other legume plants. Females have light-colored spots that break up the solid black bands that form a border on their dorsal wing surface, visible in this backlit view. Male orange sulphurs would be all black along that wing border.
(Lanius humeralis)
Ngorongoro Crater
Tanzânia
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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 Tanzânia (2025) (377)
- All the photos for this order PASSERIFORMES (3553)
- All the photos for this family Laniidae (Laniídeos) (98)
- All the photos for this species Lanius humeralis (7)
- All the photos taken this day 2025/05/05 (62)
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The Blue Lagoon was spared in the latest volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula, but it was close. A high earthen wall has risen around Blue Lagoon to hold back the lava. To reach Blue Lagoon, a road has been built over the fresh pitch-black lava. It all looks rather eerie.
The Blue Lagoon is a geothermal spa in southwestern Iceland. The spa is located in a lava field 5 km (3.1 mi) from Grindavík and in front of Mount Þorbjörn on the Reykjanes Peninsula, in a location favourable for geothermal power, and is supplied by water used in the nearby Svartsengi geothermal power station. The Blue Lagoon is approximately 20 km (12 mi) from Keflavík International Airport, and is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Iceland.
The water's milky blue hue is due to its high silica content. The silica forms soft white mud on the bottom of the lake which bathers rub on themselves. The water is also rich in salts and algae.
The water temperature in the bathing and swimming area of the lagoon averages 37–39 °C (99–102 °F).
How about some more WATCO? This time in the flat lands of Central Illinois. I came down here last year hoping for one of their new GP59s or WSOR geeps leading. Close, but no cigar. That said, I wasn't going to waste good light. So I gave chase to Tuscola and went looking for other things. All told this was a pretty average day down here last year.
CP 223 is right about to go through Gare Du Canal in Lachine, Qc as an outbound exo departs the station. Leading 223 is BNSF 4289, not your average CP gevo!
(Rhinoptilus africanus)
Etosha National Park
Namíbia
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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 Namíbia (2015) (260)
- All the photos for this order CHARADRIIFORMES (1170)
- All the photos for this family Glareolidae (Glareolídeos) (27)
- All the photos for this species Rhinoptilus africanus (15)
- All the photos taken this day 2015/12/24 (31)
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12 to 18 inches
The average stitch length is 2.5mm.
Generally, skirts, dresses, and coats have wider hems (2 to 3 inches or 5 to 7.5 cm)
Don’t make me do Math when I’m tired. It’s not fair!
“If I only could. I’d make a deal with God and I’d get him to swap our places” (I like my lyric better)
Children is an irregular plural, not a regular one.
Therefore, the suffix is 's , and the possessive form is children's
Apparently, just a spoonful.
I took too many but medicine tastes awful.
Are you putting your head directly into those buckets? It matters….
Or, is it more of a full body immersion in caffeine kind of experience?
People are into a lot of weird things these days!
Male sea otters live between 10 and 15 years, while females live slightly longer, from 15 to 20 years.
Lucky otters, I wonder if spinning helps elongate their lifespans!
How many years do they spend feeling dizzy…that’s another thing I wonder about.
Arctic Ocean/Max depth is 17,881′
When the mother and father wolves stay together, their babies live longer.
Some live long enough to go to Wolf University and live to be the professors of otters
Some wolves like peanut butter so much that
One wolf started a band and named it Peanut Butter Wolf!
I think actually it could depend on the length of the song.
28 is the number of dinosaurs found in Argentina.
They have names like Abelisaurus and Alvarezsaurus.
All the children I don’t have would likely be named something like this and might hate me forever.
Altogether, there are over 50,000 Hanzi characters.
Many of them are quite friendly and memorable.
They would make strong novel protagonists!
Oh, that’s right, it was Fritz Lang!
Hard to define…on the tip of my tongue….
but it depends on the size of the dish
Are you a super taster, anyway?
Dolphins surpass humans by recognizing themselves at 7mo. (humans are 12 mo.)
Is anyone really all that surprised?
July 17, 1954. She’s a Cancer but hopefully doesn’t have Cancer.
16 plays but you only the remember the ones where
the gun appears early on.
Manuever.
40 humans with tails. Many more wish they were cats, though.
There are 7,500 varieties of apples in existence throughout the world
I can name at least ten.
Saying ti·nuh·tuhs makes my ears ring.
What kind of olives are you looking for in Seville, Spain because they can actually get pricey
Point your right index finger towards your head and then move both of your hands in front of you round and round
Like you are caressing a very small world in your hands
1,010,450 days to build Rome
So, the people who started building it never got to see it finished.
But, I bet they didn’t imagine it would ever get destroyed.
Who knows, maybe they also never conceived of its temporary greatness
They were all a part of
"Dividing the potential energy of the pyramid by 450 kJ implies that
It took 5.3 million man-days to raise the pyramid.
If a work year consists of 300 days, that would mean almost 18,000 man-years, which, spread over 20 years,
implies a workforce of about 900 men.” who never got to view their work to completion either!
Cleopatra was Greek!
I know so many answers and yet,
I feel even emptier. I think it was better to imagine than to know.
These answers are based on the questions previously asked here that I was wrong about:
www.flickr.com/photos/kirstiecat/50898158236/in/dateposted/
**All photos are copyrighted**
The average European goldfinch is 12–13 cm (4.7–5.1 in) long with a wingspan of 21–25 cm (8.3–9.8 in) and a weight of 14 to 19 g (0.49 to 0.67 oz). The sexes are broadly similar, with a red face, black and white head, warm brown upper parts, white underparts with buff flanks and breast patches, and black and yellow wings.
On closer inspection, male European goldfinches can often be distinguished by a larger, darker red mask that extends just behind the eye. The shoulder feathers are black, whereas they are brown on the female. In females, the red face does not extend past the eye. The ivory-coloured bill is long and pointed, and the tail is forked. Goldfinches in breeding condition have a white bill, with a greyish or blackish mark at the tip for the rest of the year. Juveniles have a plain head and a greyer back but are unmistakable due to the yellow wing stripe. Birds in central Asia (the caniceps group) have a plain grey head behind the red face, lacking the black and white head pattern of European and western Asian birds. Adults moult after the breeding season, with some individuals beginning in July and others not completing their moult until November. After moult birds appear less colourful, until the tips of the newly grown feathers wear away.
The song is a pleasant silvery twittering. The call is a melodic tickeLIT, and the song is a pleasant tinkling medley of trills and twitters, but always including the tri-syllabic call phrase or a teLLIT-teLLIT-teLLIT.
Your comments and faves are greatly appreciated. Many thanks.
Brown Treecreeper
Scientific Name: Climacteris picumnus
Description: The Brown Treecreeper is the largest of Australia's treecreepers. It is mostly pale brown in plumage. Birds of northern Queensland are darker brown. The head, throat and upper breast are pale greyish-brown, while the lower breast and belly are strongly streaked with black and buff. In flight, a buff stripe can be seen in the wing. The sexes are similar, except females have rufous edges to the feathers of the upper breast, while in the male these edges are black. Young Brown Treecreepers resemble the adults, but are duller, have less obvious stripes on the underparts and the lower belly is a pale rufous colour.
Similar species: Other treecreeper species that overlap in range with the Brown Treecreeper include the White-browed Treecreeper, Climacteris affinis, and the White-throated Treecreeper, Cormobates leucophaeus. The White-browed Treecreeper is darker grey-brown with a more distinct white stripe above the eye (edged with red-brown in the female). The eyebrow of the Brown Treecreeper is less distinct and is more buff. The smaller White-throated Treecreeper has much darker upperparts, a contrasting white throat and little or no marks above the eye.
Where does it live?
Habitat: Found in the drier open forests and woodlands, the Brown Treecreeper stays in the same area all year round.
Feeding: The Brown Treecreeper climbs up the trunks and branches of trees in search of food. It probes into cavities and under loose bark with its long downward curving bill. In this way it searches for insects and their larvae. The most favoured insects are ants. Some feeding also takes place on the ground on fallen logs. Sometimes, birds can be seen diving on ground-dwelling prey from a perch in a tree. Feeding normally takes place in pairs or small groups.
Breeding: The nest is a collection of grasses, feathers and other soft material, placed in a suitable tree hollow or similar site. Both sexes build the nest, but the female alone incubates the eggs. Pairs often have two broods during each breeding season. Occasionally, other birds ("helpers") assist the breeding pair with building of nest and feeding the young chicks. Brown Treecreepers are highly sociable birds, living and breeding communally. Each year, the previous year's offspring will remain to help the breeding male feed the female and rear new chicks. Interestingly, it is usually only males which remain to perform this duty.
Calls: The Brown Treecreeper has a loud 'spink' call, which is given either singly or in a series, and normally betrays its presence before the bird is seen.
Minimum Size: 16cm
Maximum Size: 18cm
Average size: 17cm
Average weight: 33g
Breeding season: June to January
Clutch Size: 2 to 3 eggs
Incubation: 17 days
Nestling Period: 26 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
© Chris Burns 2021
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White flower in the front garden of a house along Nursery Street in Hornsby - northern Sydney.
I often walk along this street as part of my mega trek from Cherrybrook to Wahroonga.
It is, I would argue, an average white flower!! It was part of a band of average white flowers in this cottage garden. But nevertheless they looked quite magical in Sydney's soft rain.
Photographed last November (2020).
The cottage garden also features white roses and white hydrangeas, and a magnificent, huge, white-flowering dogwood. It is the garden of Dorothy who has lived here for over 50 years. She and her husband brought up their daughters in this house. The house belonged to her parents before that. Circa 1920. Her husband has now been dead for 22 years but she still tends the garden.
Recently I gave her my 'Firefighter', 'Valencia' and 'Best Friend' hybrid tea-roses for the front garden. I purchased them last year but, given all my time constraints, they were still in their pots from the nursery!! But now they are in Dorothy's garden. And I will be able to pop over, as I do from time to time to keep her company, for a cup of English breakfast tea and a biscuit, and see the roses from the front porch. Dorothy is 85 years of age today - 9th August, 2021.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, with the Canon f 2.8 L 100mm macro lens.
The Average White Band, of-course, is famous for its mega hit from 1975 - 'Pick Up The Pieces'. There are a number of versions.
Here are two versions:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpflST8xWm8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnH_zwVmiuE
But one of the best 'live' versions is by Candy Dulfer!! Very funky and cool.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgQQ7k30Ti4
The Average White Band is also renowned for their hit 'Cut The Cake'.
In case anyone is frightened by temperature changes of our planet.
Grok Question:
Average annual temperature of Yukon compared to Hawaii?
Answer:
The average annual temperature in Yukon, Canada, is considerably lower than in Hawaii due to their vastly different climatic conditions:
* Yukon: Given its subarctic climate, the average annual temperature varies by region, but for Whitehorse, a significant city in Yukon, the average would be around 0°C (32°F). However, considering the entire Yukon territory, including colder areas, the average might be even lower, possibly around -2°C to -4°C (28°F to 24°F).
* Hawaii: With its tropical climate, the average annual temperature for Hawaii is much higher, typically around 75-78°F (24-26°C) at sea level. This average can slightly vary between islands but remains consistently warm year-round.
So, when comparing the average annual temperature:
* Yukon: Approximately -2°C to 0°C (28°F to 32°F).
* Hawaii: Approximately 24°C to 26°C (75°F to 78°F).
This comparison clearly shows Hawaii's much warmer climate in contrast to Yukon's cold, subarctic conditions.
Peaking out. We're still not finished with winter here though. There is much prediction of when the last frost will appear. The earliest last frost dates range from Feb 5 to 16. The last frost dates range from Apr 23 to 25. The average last frost date for this area is around March 30. Some predict it as March 23. Much confidence and much inaccuracy.
Not your average 10-pin
Hi all,
I’m adding my soapbox to this post.
Currently I am avoiding groups with big gaudy awards — IMHO, they could be adequately replaced by just the name of the group, maybe in bold and a colour. Those big graphics take up a lot of space in the comments, are distracting, and most likely chew up too much bandwidth. (How about a movement to rid Flickr of them ?)
Also, I am not posting to groups where you have to award x number of other posts for every one of yours. This just creates situations where one is making awards just to fill a quota. I rather award images that I find appealing and that I admire.
Would love to hear comments of others.
PLEASE: Do not post any comment graphics.
03-November-2023
It happens on average every 15 years, now around 20, that the south-westerly wind blows strong and prolonged into the Gulf of Trieste coming from northern Romagna.
The gulf is very windy, but there are also long periods of calm, but no wind, even the strongest one, Bora, can create high waves, given that within this stretch of sea the maximum distances between the coasts are around 30km.
The only exception is provided by the wind that comes from the south-west in the wind rose and enters the only opening towards the rest of the Adriatic between the Grado peninsula (FVG, Italia) and tip/rt Savudrija (Istra, Hrvatska).
Through this passage the wind fishes on approximately 250km of sea surface and manages to generate waves of up to 3/4m (sea force 4/5 on the Douglas scale) which are decidedly important values for the area.
This is what happened on Friday 3 November 2023, due to a strong Atlantic front generated by the extratropical storm called "Ciaran" to which a strong high tide was added, flooding the adjacent State Road 14 (viale Miramare) in the Barcola section and where wood, branches, porphyry cubes, concrete blocks dragged for meters and metres, algae, sea stones'n'gravel and seafood were found.
The road surface is approximately 6m above the sea level.
The photos were taken in reportage style, so point and shoot without paying too much attention to the composition and limiting the image quality to have a quick shot with very short times.
The purpose is not that of likes, obviously, but to document an event which for those who know these little waves areas was very significant.
The precedents of the last 70 years are very few (1957, 1969, 1984 and 2003) and each time the seafront and the popular bathing establishments have been strengthened so, from the significant damage that occurred, it can be argued that it could have been the strongest storm ever or, at least, among the strongest for this area.
The average goldfinch is 12–13 cm (4.7–5.1 in) long with a wingspan of 21–25 cm (8.3–9.8 in) and a weight of 14 to 19 g (0.49 to 0.67 oz). The sexes are broadly similar, with a red face, black and white head, warm brown upperparts, white underparts with buff flanks and breast patches, and black and yellow wings.
On closer inspection male goldfinches can often be distinguished by a larger, darker red mask that extends just behind the eye. In females, the red face does not extend past the eye. The ivory-coloured bill is long and pointed, and the tail is forked. Goldfinches in breeding condition have a white bill, with a greyish or blackish mark at the tip for the rest of the year. Juveniles have a plain head and a greyer back but are unmistakable due to the yellow wing stripe. Birds in central Asia (caniceps group) have a plain grey head behind the red face, lacking the black and white head pattern of European and western Asian birds.
The song is a pleasant silvery twittering. The call is a melodic tickeLIT, and the song is a pleasant tinkling medley of trills and twitters, but always including the trisyllabic call phrase or a teLLIT-teLLIT-teLLIT.
(Garrulax milleti)
Di Linh
Vietname
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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 Vietname (2022) (206)
- All the photos for this order PASSERIFORMES (3553)
- All the photos for this family Leiothrichidae (Leiotriquídeos) (71)
- All the photos for this species Garrulax milleti (2)
- All the photos taken this day 2022/12/12 (31)
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The average European goldfinch is 12–13 cm (4.7–5.1 in) long with a wingspan of 21–25 cm (8.3–9.8 in) and a weight of 14 to 19 g (0.49 to 0.67 oz). The sexes are broadly similar, with a red face, black and white head, warm brown upper parts, white underparts with buff flanks and breast patches, and black and yellow wings.
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Your average southern summer frog strangler is drenching the Mississippi Export Railroad's daily southbound freight near Agricola, Mississippi. The freshly painted GP38-2 67 leads GP50 68 on what is a now typical Saturday AM run for this train. The rainy conditions made a shot that is often on the wrong side of the sun attainable this day.
Thanks for looking!
The Ribeira do Moinho comes out of a small canyon on the North end of Flores Island in the Azores near the ruins of an old structure, probably a mill. The stream located in the parish of Ponta Delgada (Flores) originates on Morro Alto at an altitude of around 900 meters in an area of high rainfall. In addition to the runoff, it is fed by two springs, one in Pico da Burrinha and the other, the highest flowing one on Morro Alto, which is the highest point on the island of Flores. Though the flow was low on this day, during stormy periods because of its large drainage basin, Ribeira do Moinho can carry a lot of water. It has one of the highest average flow rates of all the streams on Flores. Its stream flows into the Atlantic Ocean near a place called Terra da Costa, between Ilhéu Francisco (east) and Ponta do Albarnaz (west).
Reference: pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribeira_do_Moinho
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavar_Zawacki Ontario, Canada- (Correction- this building possibly near Buffalo, NY, USA- thanks for your input and comments) I could find no listing or documentation validating this installation (in Canada) but the work certainly looks like his style. This is my first encounter with this fascinating artist who I may begin to embrace. buffaloah.com/a/main/1665/1665.html
While a lot of focus is on the Cascade Green in Brantford, CN has multiple BNSF GP38-2s running around their system right now. In Oakville, BNSF 2968 (H4) is paired up with CN 4125 (Zebra), making for a very unique duo!
Death star.
When an average G-type star like our Sun grows old, it uses up all its hydrogen, begins burning helium and swells up into a red giant. As it uses up its helium it ejects its outer layers, which expand outwards forming what we call a planetary nebula.
The life span of the nebula is relatively short - about 10,000 years.
Left behind is the star’s core, which becomes a white dwarf star, no longer undergoing nuclear fusion. It just radiates its heat away over billions more years until it cools into a black dwarf.
It is believed that the Universe is not yet old enough for black dwarfs to exist.
Exposure: 30 x 30 sec = 15 min.
SkyWatcher ED120 telescope + ZWO ASI071 camera.
Date: 2019-08-24
The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), which occupies the same niche as the bald eagle in the Palearctic. Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all of the contiguous United States, and northern Mexico. It is found near large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply and old-growth trees for nesting.
The bald eagle is an opportunistic feeder which subsists mainly on fish, which it swoops down upon and snatches from the water with its talons. It builds the largest nest of any North American bird and the largest tree nests ever recorded for any animal species, up to 4 m (13 ft) deep, 2.5 m (8.2 ft) wide, and 1 metric ton (1.1 short tons) in weight. Sexual maturity is attained at the age of four to five years.
Bald eagles are not actually bald; the name derives from an older meaning of the word, "white headed". The adult is mainly brown with a white head and tail. The sexes are identical in plumage, but females are about 25 percent larger than males. The yellow beak is large and hooked. The plumage of the immature is brown.
The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States of America and appears on its seal. In the late 20th century it was on the brink of extirpation in the contiguous United States. Populations have since recovered, and the species's status was upgraded from "endangered" to "threatened" in 1995, and removed from the list altogether in 2007.
The bald eagle has a body length of 70–102 cm (28–40 in). Typical wingspan is between 1.8 and 2.3 m (5 ft 11 in and 7 ft 7 in) and mass is normally between 3 and 6.3 kg (6.6 and 13.9 lb).[16] Females are about 25% larger than males, averaging as much as 5.6 kg (12 lb), and against the males' average weight of 4.1 kg (9.0 lb).
This image was taken near Red Rock Lighthouse, close to Victoria on Vancouver Island in Canada
Happy Bench Monday...
on average 8 million tones of plastic finds it's way into the ocean each year and it never goes away, it breaks down eventually, but even then the pellets that it becomes is in turn eaten by the marine life. We need to do more than recycle, we need to stop using plastic containers and being a throw away society.
Give it some thought, don't put your lunch in a baggie, put it in a glass container. Bring a thermos of water, not a bottle, and buy beer in bottles, not cans.... :-) (due to the plastic thingy that binds them)
dashing to work now, blow it up and check out the beautiful and awful mural.
Granada is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of four rivers, the Darro, the Genil, the Monachil and the Beiro. Ascribed to the Vega de Granada comarca, the city sits at an average elevation of 738 m (2,421 ft) above sea level, yet is only one hour by car from the Mediterranean coast, the Costa Tropical. With a population of 233,532 as of 2024, it is the 20th-largest city in Spain.
Nearby is the Sierra Nevada Ski Station, where the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1996 were held. Its nearest airport is Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaén Airport.
The area was settled since ancient times by Iberians, Romans, and Visigoths. The current settlement became a major city of Al-Andalus in the 11th century during the Zirid Taifa of Granada. In the 13th century it became the capital of the Emirate of Granada under Nasrid rule, the last Muslim-ruled state in the Iberian Peninsula. Granada was conquered in 1492 by the Catholic Monarchs and progressively transformed into a Christian city over the course of the 16th century.
The Alhambra, a medieval Nasrid citadel and palace, is located in Granada. It is one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture and one of the most visited tourist sites in Spain. Islamic-period influence and Moorish architecture are also preserved in the Albaicín neighborhood and other medieval monuments in the city. The 16th century also saw a flourishing of Mudéjar architecture and Renaissance architecture, followed later by Baroque and Churrigueresque styles. The University of Granada has an estimated 47,000 undergraduate students spread over five different campuses in the city. The pomegranate (Spanish: granada) is the heraldic device of Granada.
We use on average 5,000 words every day, apparently. I cannot tell you if this information came from a reliable source as I heard it on the radio but it was the good old BBC :). Courtesy of Steve Wright in the Afternoon.
Maybe someone can count the number of words they say in a day just to confirm ;)
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Six months ago, a female Little owl I got to know very well disappeared from the place I always saw her. As she had surpassed the typical 3-year average wild lifespan, and I didn't see her for months, I feared the worst. This weekend I finally saw the pictured individual in the same spot, but I can't tell whether it's a new bird that has moved into the territory, or my old friend back again. Either way I'm happy!
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