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I will have to wait 17 years to once again see the tree-branch tip damage from Brood X cicada oviposition. Their numbers at this location in the Catoctin Mountains was impressive. Frederick County, Maryland
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Small, yellow-orange, flies close to the ground. Perches with its wings closed.
The Small Heath is an inconspicuous butterfly that flies only in sunshine and rarely settles more than a metre above the ground. Its wings are always kept closed when at rest. Underside of forewing has eyespot at tip. Hindwing banded with brown, grey and cream. The number of broods and the flight periods are variable and adults may be seen continuously from late April to September on some sites in southern England.
This relatively widespread butterfly can occupy a range of habitat types and, although its range has changed little, many colonies have disappeared in recent decades. Widespread in Britain and Ireland.
Female Osprey's Brood Patch (?) showing... from in Maryland this past Spring.
Just 4 months and the Osprey will be arriving again. Btw, I spotted an Osprey in Maryland on Saturday (11/2/2013) so they haven't all left! I've heard in the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay there are now a population of Osprey that do not migrate.
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Finglas/Cabra/Ashtown
Dublin 19-11-2021
[group] Wagtails and pipits | [order] PASSERIFORMES | [family] Motacillidae | [latin] Motacilla cinerea | [UK] Grey Wagtail | [FR] Bergeronnette des ruisseaux | [DE] Gebirgsstelze | [ES] Lavandera Cascadena | [NL] Grote Gele Kwikstaart | [IRL] Glasóg liath
Measurements
spanwidth min.: 25 cm
spanwidth max.: 27 cm
size min.: 18 cm
size max.: 20 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 11 days
incubation max.: 14 days
fledging min.: 13 days
fledging max.: 14 days
broods 2
eggs min.: 4
eggs max.: 7
Status: A widespread resident along fast flowing streams and rivers throughout Ireland.
Conservation Concern: Green-listed in Ireland. The European population has been evaluated as Secure.
Identification: Slightly larger than Pied Wagtail. A very striking bird, with the dark grey head and back offfset by extensive yellow on the breast, belly and vent. The rump is also bright yellow. Grey Wagtails also have a black throat, as well as a white stripe through the eye. The beak and legs are dark grey, the latter with a variable pinkish tinge. The yellow wash on the lower body is less intense on female birds, while juveniles lack the black throat patch and have the yellow restricted to the vent and rump. Juvenile Grey Wagtails also have pink legs and bill in contrast to the adults.
Similar species: Pied Wagtail
Call: The main call is similar to that of the Pied Wagtail, though slightly higher pitched "ti-zick". The song is a repeated "zri-zri-zri" delivered from a perch.
Diet: Grey Wagtails feed mainly on insects caught on the ground or in flight.
Breeding: Breeds mainly along streams and rivers, frequently building its nest under a bridge.
Wintering: Generally sedentary. Some birds move to coastal areas, especially those where large amounts of seaweed have washed up.
Where to See: Common throughout waterways of Ireland
Physical characteristics
Longer and more attenuated than any other west Palearctic wagtail, with slimness of rear body enhanced by exccptionally long tail. Very graceful, lithe, slim wagtail, with almost constantly grey above and yellow below. Wings largely black and tail black with white outer feathers. Male has black bib in summer. Flight action exceptionally bounding. sexes dissimilar, seasonal variation marked in male.
Habitat
In west Palearctic, occurs mainly in temperate middle and lower-middle latitudes, overlapping sparingly into boreal and Mediterranean. Typical breeding habitats include combination of 1) Fresh water, especially fast-running streams and rivers, but also canals, lowland streams, and margins of lakes, both oligotrophic and eutrophic. 2) Rock slabs, boulders, vertical rock faces, shingle or gravel stream beds, or artefacts. 3) Sheltering trees, shrubs, or dense herbage. 4)Holes, ledges, or hollows for nesting.
Other details
Motacilla cinerea has a discontinuous breeding distribution in western and southern Europe, the Caucasus and the western Urals, with Europe accounting for less than a quarter of its global breeding range. Its European breeding population is large (>740,000 pairs), and was stable between 1970-1990. The species remained stable overall during 1990-2000, with the vast majority of national populations stable or increasing?including the key one in Romania.
Feeding
Diet based on insects. Two main foraging techniques: 1) Bird walks or runs, repeatedly picking up small items or chasing more mobile prey, with tail wagging and snapping up, down, or to one side,apparently to flush insects, may also wade in shallow water picking up tadpoles or lunging for small fish. 2) Flies from perch or ground, in addition, may hover to obtain flying insects or prey from leaves or tree crevices.
Breeding
Nest site in hole or crevice in wall or bank, and among tree roots, sometimes under bridge. Nest cup of grass, roots and small twigs, often with moss, lined hair. Build by both sexes. 4-6 eggs, sub-elliptical, smooth and glossy, whitish, cream or grey-buff, faintly marked grey or grey-buff. Incubation by both sexes.
Migration
Mainly a partial migrant, but wholly migratory or resident in some parts of range. Found in winter throughout most of European breeding range but some move to Africa as far south as southern Malawi. Winter range also includes Middle East, and birds from central and eastern Asia move to India and south-east Asia as far as New Guinea, with single record from northern Australia. Populations of Azores, Madeira, and Canary Islands are resident. In autumn, movements within Europe of over 200 km mainly between north-west, south-west, and south-east in central and western Europe, and mainly around south-west in Britain. Coastal autumn passage occurs in Britain and Ireland, most marked at southern headlands and inshore islands and almost synchronous throughout, peaking mid-September. Northward passage in spring generally inconspicuous.
A light rain sweeping across Pen yr Helgi Du (Hill of the Black Hunting), Pen Llithrig y Wrach (Hill of the Slippery Witch) and Creigiau Gleision. Taken from the foothills of Moel Siabod above Capel Curig in Snowdonia, North Wales.
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For generations women would gather on "Ladies Lookout" to watch for signs of their husbands boats returning home from the fishing ground on the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland.
The view in this photo is of Cuckold's Cove Head as seen from Ladies Lookout.
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This Magicicada tredecim was emerging from its nymphal case about 10 p.m. on the wall of my house, along with several others. I caught a few shots of the process, and then kept it in an enclosure, perched on a stick, so I could observe the adult in the morning.
Eerste foto voor een expositie van in totaal negen foto's binnen een week te fotograferen. Dat wordt doorwerken.
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Bier en Brood, een Rotterdams collectief, gespecialiseerd in kunst op muren van gebouwen, meestal in zwart/wit/grijs. Is begonnen met het beschilderen (met spuitbussen) van een groot canvas op het Plein in Den Haag. Alles in het kader van de verbouwing van heet Binnenhof. In totaal zijn hangen er momenteel 5 van dit soort borden die door verschillende graffiti-kunstenaard verfraaid gaan worden. Op de gele achtergrond staan teksten die gaan over de bouwgeschiedenis van het binnenhofcomplex.
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I’m always on the hunt for an image like this, and you’ve got to drive a fair distance to find a spot where the view is un-hindered for as far as you can see! So I guess you’d say I was fairly excited when we pulled up here with a storm brewing to the north. Had a few minutes where the sun decided to sneek through, and it just went pop!
5D2 & Nodal Ninja head, 6 images stitched in PS.
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Updated**** 17.9.2010
Ok so i guess you guys like it. This is Embleton Bay or Embleton Beach. I eventually found it, not the easiest place to get to given the number of shots taken of this place. Oh its in Northumberland
At this point on a patchy day a storm was moving in, but there was that lovely warm light you get in September in the later afternoon. I loved the way the light was catching the grass and the broken clouds leading to spot lights on the background. I dragged the shutter enough to catch some movement on the long dune grass but not too much.
I think the changes in contrast and light not to mention tone really suits the black and white form.
Within 10 minutes of taking the shot i was back in my car just in time for a huge rain storm to rip through, great timing. But proof if it were ever needed that if you want to take landscape images you dont have to wait for blue skies.
Shot with a 5D and 17-40F4L I used a Lee 1.2 soft grad and Lee 100mm CPL slide, on a gitzo 1541 traveller tripod.
Written by my sister:
As a very popular old song says, “If you can’t have the one you want, love the one you’re with.” We’ve all, as doll collectors, at one point in our life had those “grail dolls.” The fantasies. I’m sure many of you will relate when I say that, as kids, Shelly and I spent a lot of time thinking out loud about what we’d do when we got our hands on certain dolls. We figured that our doll games would be so much more exciting after Shelly got a Tarzan Jade doll. We spent months leading up to Christmas plotting what we’d do in our scenarios when Shelly got her hands on the Winning London dolls. For my sister in particular, “the next thing” was an all consuming obsession. I remember a lot of time we could have spent playing dolls but, instead, spent brooding about the one she wanted at the time.
As doll collectors, we’ve all experienced getting one doll when our first choice was unobtainable. You go to many stores and, when the doll you’ve wanted isn’t there, you take the next best thing. After a while, you “love the one you’re with” and forget who you were seeking in the first place. I can think of this scenario playing over many times in my life as a doll collector--having to get Fashion Party Nikki instead of Totally Yo Yo Nikki for Christmas 2002, Shelly wanting the original Deuce but, him being unavailable at the time, deciding to settle on Scaris then deciding to buy a Swim Class Lagoona after hours of searching for a Scaris Deuce, and Shelly getting both the Bratz Wild Wild West and Rock lines when our quest to find 10/10/10 Party Cloe didn’t succeed after hours of searching. Until around March 2016, when rewriting “fun facts” for line photos, I’d actually forgotten that my original choice for the perfect Nikki doll was the Totally Yo Yo doll but that she wasn’t in stores anymore so Dad bought me the Fashion Party doll. To me “Nikki” will always be Fashion Party Nikki. Many times, we’ll forget that the doll we are having so much fun with was just a placeholder...or a replacement. Other times, the novelty of a doll being a replacement makes her that much more special. For instance, Katie and Heidi: My favorite Kid Kore Katie doll lost an arm. I dragged Dad to a billion Walmarts to replace her. The second Katie wound up meaning WAY more to me--even though I got the first a few months before Mom passed away and I have a lot of good memories of Katie that involve Mom. The same is true of Heidi. The first Heidi was a Travel in Style Barbie that Shelly randomly bought, using mostly quarters, at a KB toy store one weekend with Dad. However, Shelly made the poor choice of giving her a haircut. When Dad had to resort to the internet to replace Heidi, Shelly became even more attached to the newer doll. In these instances, being a replacement/placeholder made the doll more dear.
Sometimes we end up eventually getting the doll we initially were pursuing sometime down the road--but the doll we took in their stead ends up becoming such an important part of our lives that the “grail doll” doesn’t hold a candle to her! I could probably give at least ten examples, but the most memorable example, to me at least, is the story of a sad little doll I named Margie Valentine. In what I recall to be spring 2002, Shelly and I were with our parents at the same flea market we still go to to this day. She bought a Pretty Surprise Barbie and we decided to buy a blue dining room table (that we still use all the time to this day). The seller had dolls sitting at the table. She moved them over to pack up the chairs. I noticed a sweet, blue-eyed blonde Skipper that intrigued me because the only doll we had on that body at the time was Daphne, our Teen Time Courtney we’d had since Shelly was two! I secretly wanted her but didn’t say anything. However, seeing her really sparked my interest in all things Skipper (a passion I still have to this day). I started playing with Daphne after that, I believe, and wanted to come across more Skippers. It was a regret I had every time I looked at our blue table.
Fast forward six months--my life had changed so much. Mom had passed away over the summer so it felt like a different world. In the fall, I started collecting Skipper officially--buying Robin (Pet Pals) boxed and several in stores. I was buying as many Skipper outfits as I could get my hands on. One chilly weekend in early 2003, we came to the GROSSEST indoor flea market I’d ever seen (at the time). The guy wanted way too much for his disgusting dolls--he had three “old” Skippers that he wanted five dollars a piece for. I wanted them so much that I bought them (now I’d walk away laughing at the ridiculous price) and hadn’t seen any like them. I found Cool Crimp Courtney, 1990 Babysitter Skipper, and Hawaiian Fun Skipper. Of course, I didn’t know who they were at the time--I’ll admit it added to their mystique. Hawaiian Fun Skipper, who I named Margie, reminded me a bit of the doll I’d seen and deeply regretted not buying, the doll that kick started my Skipper obsession. By then, Robin was the queen bee, my favorite. I chose Margie for her best friend and Beach Party Cloe’s sister. Ironically, Beach Party Cloe was also a placeholder, not the “perfect Cloe” and Cloe, just like Margie, wormed her way into our hearts and our story line.
Over the next six months, Margie ended up being a huge part of our doll games and our lives. She went pretty much everywhere we did--to the beach, to visit relatives, to go to the flea market and the toy stores to buy more friends...Sometime during summer 2003, a doll collector’s miracle occurred, one I NEVER honestly thought possible: my dream doll reappeared at the flea market! Of course, I didn’t pass her up a second time--she’s a lovely Wet ‘n Wild Skipper I call Sonya. Never for a moment have I looked at her and not felt super grateful that we were reunited. However, as precious as that once-in-a-lifetime experience as a doll collector is to me, she doesn’t come close to being as special as Margie! That is because, while Margie started as a placeholder in my heart--a doll standing in for the one I thought I’d never have a chance to buy again--she wound up becoming an irreplaceable friend and playmate.
In fact, when I look back at our doll “cast” from the two year span when dolls were the most important to us they’d ever been, 2002 and 2003, about half of our main “cast” consisted of dolls that started as replacements or placeholders--Margie, Cloe, Heidi, Nikki, Katie, and Jasmine. Shelly’s all-time favorite fashion doll, and “leading lady” of the day, Sparkling Jasmine was never in the original plan either. For years, Shelly wanted a new Jasmine doll. The Classics we’d grown up with were well out of stores. When the King of Thieves movie came out, Mom told her she could either get the wedding doll or the VHS. Like the day I didn’t buy Sonya at the flea market back in 2002, Shelly made the mistake of passing up Jasmine as a beautiful bride. She pined for her for a long time, then became enamored by the Holiday doll. When the Holiday Princess too disappeared from stores, she settled on the only Jasmine in stores at the time--Sparkling Jasmine.
I think dolls like Margie--the dolls you never planned to love--are one of the biggest reasons why I love being a collector. I also think that dolls like Margie are a big part of the reason why I collect the way I do. Most of the time, the dolls we buy are the ones we come across by chance, like Margie. We buy them in bulk and get a lot of duplicates--and each one has a different...personality. We find dolls like Lindsey and Maya (MAG #41) that we NEVER planned to get and end up falling very much in love with them because of the memories--like that day we bought Lindsey, the “Ken Suitcase Lot,” and stopped at Dunkin Donuts. We also buy a lot of our dolls opportunistically--on a sale. For example, I don’t think either of us “wanted” the Freak du Chic dolls--but we’ve really had a great time with them since they turned up so cheap at Walmart. I’m not saying we don’t buy special dolls for special occasions or that I wouldn’t be overjoyed if Totally Yo Yo Nikki found her way to my flea market. The dolls we make a point of tracking down are special in their own way too. What I mean is that those dolls like Margie that just find their way into your life also find a way into your heart that can be just as special as the doll you pined for for months or years! Dolls like Margie and Swim Class Lagoona have shaped our collection, our memories, and who we are as doll collectors. I wouldn’t take back the memories we made with Margie, Cloe, Heidi, Nikki, Katie, and Jasmine. The mishaps and adventures that led to them being in our lives are part of our most special doll memories. That’s why… “When you can’t have the one you want, love the one you’re with."