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Alaska is beautiful in all seasons - even in the dead of winter. Give us a tiny window of good weather, and we will jump in our vehicle and travel the backroads of our wild and wonderful state.
Explore # 136
This beautiful corner is just one little corner of the beautiful hotel I stayed in Riobamba, Ecuador!!!! My only regrets ( and 11 others in my group), we came in late and left too early!!! It was a jewel of a place, if I wasn't tired and dark, I would have stayed up all night and walk around and absorb the beauty and serenity!!!!
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Waited for the sun to be on top of the skyline before it goes down as viewed from Antipolo, Philippines
🆔 Slate-crowned Antpitta - Grallaricula nana
©️ Naun Amable Silva
🌎 Manizales, Colombia
📅 March, 2020
📷 Canon 5D Mark IV - Canon 600mm
f/ 6.3 - 1/60 - iso 1250
Untamed Birds of Colombia Expedition
This is one of the smaller members of the Antpitta family. So much so that it was given the species name "nana' meaning dwarf. These little fluffballs are 10-11cm in size.
It has a patchy distribution from western Suriname to the northern border of Peru. Yet there aren't many places where you have a chance of seeing it.
So of course we are going to visit the place where the odds are good! This one was photographed near Manizales, Colombia.
We got several viewings of this individual as she hopped about the hillside undergrowth, occasionally coming into the open, taking a look around before retreating back into the protection of the dense vegetation.
Let's see if we are as lucky on our next trip to Colombia in June!
Created for TMI - ITSO Ukiyo-e Challenge.
(Winner, 1st place) Tied.
Coral & Shell, purchased from Mischief Circus.
Sea plant, purchased from Renderosity.
Watercolor, Wave brushes & Japanese text, purchased.
BG - Sakura tree in bloom, mine.
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Snapped with a Helios 44, early silver version.
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Beautiful Demoiselle (f) - Calopteryx Virgo
Mainly found along streams and rivers, particularly those with sand or gravel bottoms. The males rest on bank side vegetation waiting for females.
Males are territorial, perching in bankside plants and trees, waiting for females or chasing. They chase passing insects, often returning to the same perch. Males can stray well away from water, females live away from water unless egg-laying or seeking a mate.
As with the banded demoiselle is also in the blue wing-demoiselle a pronounced territorial behavior of sexually mature males. These days occupy territories that they defend against other males. The defense consists mostly in threatening gestures. For this they spread their wings and put them on display so clearly visible, there is also Drohflügen and in rare cases to air combat between rival males. Optimal areas correspond to the optimal nesting places for the females and are characterized by a normally increased flow and a suitable oviposition substrate in the potential breeding sites from. The size of the spots and their distance apart is the density of the population dependent as well as the occurrences of the water and may be between several meters and a few decimetres. Males who do not occupy spots can keep themselves in the vegetation on the shore and try to mate with fly to females or to fill vacant spots. Especially when only a few males are present, the territorial defense is very aggressive, with a higher number of competing male aggression but decreases significantly. The males sit in their areas mostly in exposed places in the vegetation, which extends over the water, sometimes on vegetation or rocks cushions amid the waters. This seat is waiting at the same time the center of the district they do their gaze primarily on the aquatic center and will show a behavior that is referred to as "wings lapping" and in which the wings beat quickly down and slowly lifted. It is believed that it is mainly used for communication, it also supports the ventilation in the thorax and accordingly probably also plays a role in thermoregulation of the animals
Beautiful Bow Lake in the Canadian Rockies. Taken with the Canon EOS 5DSR
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Red Dragonflies are a rare sight,They have a way of mysteriously and surprisingly appear in the events of life and death its said. and there is a lot of the latter now
Continuing this brief series of cool sights I saw on a single morning outing to Grasslands, the park at my doorstep. These two Moose with their calves were a surprise; I tend to see moose more often in fall and winter. And last year there was considerable noise and commotion as contractors built a new bridge across the Frenchman River - resulting in many wildlife species, including moose, steering clear of the area until things settled down.
But.. they're ba-ack!
I'm so happy. They add an extra touch of wildness to the prairie landscape. Twenty-four years ago, when I first spent some extended time hanging out in this place, moose were a rare sighting. In the interim, they have arrived to occupy the valley, and other prairie locations, too; biologists are not sure why.
My theory? They find ample food and shelter here, where there are no natural predators, no hunting, and an abundance of peace and quiet. Essentially these are the same reasons I moved here full time in 2011. I'd like to think I'm smarter than the average moose. But maybe I'm not.
More to come...
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2024 James R. Page - all rights reserved.