View allAll Photos Tagged canoneosR6
A small charcoal-colored songbird endemic to New Zealand. Confined to central North Island and a few offshore predator-free islands. Favors mature native and exotic forest stands. Male is almost all black with a white spot above the bill. Female and juvenile grayer, with lighter patches on breast and throat. Can be incredibly confiding and curious about humans. It is possible to bring individuals out into the open by disturbing leaf litter and then sitting quietly. Actively flushes out prey with foot trembling and by flicking its wings and tail. Male song is a loud and simple phrase of notes including “pwee-pwee-pwee.” (eBird)
------------------
This little robin was not quite so prepared to come out and meet the humans as they were rumoured to be. She stayed just off the trail in the gloomy part of the forest and surveyed us carefully. We tried disturbing the leaf litter, which worked somewhat, but given the overall density of the forest, she was never going to be in good light. Still, an enchanting moment with this little bird.
Maori name: Toutouwai
Pueora Forest Park, New Zealand. February 2024.
Roadrunner Birding Tours.
Het Oude Loo
(=The old open space in the woods) is a 15th-century castle on the estate of Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. The castle was built as a hunting lodge and is surrounded by a moat. The castle is currently used by the Dutch Royal Family as a country house and guest residence. It is not open for the public.
History
The castle was built in the 15th century. In 1684, the castle and the surrounding land was bought by William III of Orange. On this land, he had Het Loo Palace built. The castle was used by the court, among other things as an apothecary. In the 19th century the castle came in the hands of Louis Napoleon who filled up the moat. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands had the castle and the moat restored by architect Pierre Cuypers. Since 1968, the castle is owned by the Dutch state. Since 1973, it is a national heritage site. The castle is currently used by the Dutch Royal Family as a country house and guest residence.
Gardens
The gardens of the castle have a statue pond, a maze made out of beech trews, and an outdoor bowling alley. The gardens can be visited in the months April and May.
Small brown grebe with a stout bill. Note dark eyes. During breeding season, look for black ring around white bill. In winter, neck is often washed with a cinnamon tone. Juvenile has stripes on head. Fairly common and widespread throughout the Americas, where it occurs on ponds and marshes, often with emergent vegetation. Frequently dives underwater to feed on fish. (eBird)
-------------
An immature bird enjoying the sun. Timmins was having an unseasonably warm autumn and the birds were staying around longer than usual.
Hollinger Tailings Ponds, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. September 2023.
While La Creusaz obviously isn't the most famous ski resort in Switzerland, it welcomed its first tourists as early as 1895. At the time, the main attraction was a little telescope that people used to try to watch alpinists climbing on the Mont Blanc.
Today, it's a little ski resort whose particularity is not using snow cannons since there is no water on the site. The view on the Mont Blanc, that appears gradually as you go up with the cable car, is still mostly the same as what it was more than 100 years ago.
The meerkat (Suricata suricatta) or suricate is a small mongoose found in southern Africa. It is characterised by a broad head, large eyes, a pointed snout, long legs, a thin tapering tail, and a brindled coat pattern. The head-and-body length is around 24–35 cm (9.4–13.8 in), and the weight is typically between 0.62 and 0.97 kg (1.4 and 2.1 lb). The coat is light grey to yellowish-brown with alternate, poorly defined light and dark bands on the back. Meerkats have foreclaws adapted for digging and have the ability to thermoregulate to survive in their harsh, dry habitat.
Swans are birds of the family Anatidae within the genus Cygnus. The swans' closest relatives include the geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini. Sometimes, they are considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae. There are six living and many extinct species of swan. Swans usually mate for life, although "divorce" sometimes occurs, particularly following nesting failure, and if a mate dies, the remaining swan will take up with another.
Camellia japonica, communément appelé camélia, est une espèce d'arbustes.
Historique
D'abord cultivé en Chine, puis au Japon, notamment pendant la période Edo, où il jouait un rôle majeur dans la cérémonie du thé (en particulier les types Higo et wabisuke), (ne pas confondre le Camellia japonica et le Camellia sinensis que l'on utilise pour le thé), le camélia s'est très vite répandu dans toute l'Europe au cours de la première moitié du xixe siècle, avant de sombrer dans un oubli relatif, jusqu'à l'apparition des premiers hybrides dans les années 1930. Elle est aussi appelée Rose du Japon.
Le caméllia "de Higo", ancienne province appelée aujourd'hui Kumamoto, était un emblème des Samouraïs de cette région car il avait la particularité d'avoir plus de 200 étamines qui occupaient la quasi-totalité de la fleur, composée de 5 à 9 pétales disposés à plat. Pour les Samouraïs, cela faisait référence à l'importance du "cœur" par rapport à celle du corps (à l'inverse des camélias "wabisuke", symboles d'humilité et de recueillement). Plus tard, durant l'ère Meiji, le camellia devient un symbole de mort: il était surtout planté autour des cimetières, et la fleur fanée qui tombe entièrement sans perdre ses pétales évoquait les décapitations "trophées" par les samourais (Nantabuki), avant de redevenir à la mode à la fin du 20e siècle.
C. japonica aurait été rapporté du Japon par les marchands portugais au xvie siècle, puis à plusieurs reprises par les Britanniques en provenance de Chine, à la fin du xviiie siècle.
Joséphine de Beauharnais en a lancé la mode en France. Au 19e siècle Nantes et Angers étaient les principaux centres de production des camélias (d'abord surtout utilisés comme fleur coupée, avant de devenir des plantes de parcs). Aujourd'hui, la grande majorité des camélias français est produite dans le Finistère.
Certains spécimens japonais sont âgés d'au moins 500 ans.
Source: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam%C3%A9lia_du_Japon?wprov=sfla1