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Because the Coronavirus is keeping many of us confined to home, I have a little more time to bake and practice food photography.There is an old saying, "You eat with your eyes first!" With this in mind I decided to create a beautiful Focaccia bread that was colorful and fun. Focaccia bread is a type of Italian yeast bread baked in flat sheet pans. It is flavored with olive oil, herbs and other vegetables.
A walk to the antiques market in Faversham on the 2nd February 2025 and haircut day. Orange filter used.
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Protest for Ukrainian POWs and imprisoned Civilians
Berlin 2024 July 28th
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This is the second photo of this majestic animal in captivity. I have slightly toned it down with this pass.
The largest and most ferocious owl in the world. They have a Deep two tone hoot. A wild Eagle Owl can live for 20 years &Double in captivity. A wild eagle owl was once seen carrying a Red fox in it’s talons!
Family: Phoenicopteridae
Length: 1.2 to 1.45m Wingspan: 1.4 to 1.7m Weight: 3 to 4kg (Males tend to be larger than females). Lifespan: Averaging between 30 to 40 years. (In captivity, The Greater Flamingo has been known to live 50 to 60 years plus).
This is the largest living species of Flamingo and is found in parts of North Africa, Southern Asia, (mainly around the coastal regions of India and Pakistan). In Europe, they are more locally around the Southern parts of Europe, from Spain, Portugal, along the coastal regions of Southern France, as well as other southern and Eastern countries, bordering on the Mediterranean coast line; also found in the Middle Eastern countries.
Habitat: Found in a variety of saltwater habitats, especially shallow coastal lagoons, salt pans, mudflats, also alkaline lakes. Flamingos maybe even be seen feeding from freshwater inlets and lakes.
Some of the Flamingos natural habitats are under threat, mainly due to building developments close by, especially pollution from manufacturing Industries that produce chemical wastes. When pollution is spilled into their natural water supplies, the habitat can instantly die!
Here in Spain, The Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) are seen in large numbers on the Salt lakes in Santa Pola, Alicante.
Flamingos are social birds, they will be seen mainly in flocks, (Flamingo flocks are referred to as a ‘colony,’ or a ‘stand’).
Feeding:
Greater Flamingos are omnivores and are filter-feeders. They usually feed head submerged, with its bill upside down, sieving through the shallow water for small crustaceans. This is achieved by sucking in the water through the partly closed bill, the water is then pushed out by pumping their tongue up and down continuously, (about 5 to 6 times a second) this can last up to 20 seconds while the head is still submerged. It was fascinating observing them as they scuffle their feet, disturbing the underwater sediment, for tiny crustaceans, such as shrimp, molluscs, tiny fish, plankton and insect larvae. Plant material is also eaten, such as decaying leaves, algae, seeds, and small young water plants.
The immature Flamingo lacks the mature Flamingos colourful, pinkish-white body plumage and red wing coverts; also lacking the colourful pink bill, with a black tip. The adults attain their colourful plumage, which mainly comes from their diet of shrimp and other pink crustaceans, living in the warm saltwater.
Nesting: April to May. Consisting of a small pillar/mound of mud, constructed in shallow water, usually safe from land-based predators. One chalky-white egg is laid, both parents take it in turn to incubate the egg, which usually takes between 27 to 31 days to hatch. While the chick is hatching, the parents will help the young chick to break away the shell.
Flamingo nests are plundered, mainly by seagulls, raptors, crows and I suspect herons and egrets will also take the opportunity if a nest is left unattended. Chicks are covered mostly in grey with some white, fluffy down. The new born chick being more vulnerable to predation, in their early days of life. The Chick will be fed entirely by both parents for up to four weeks or more. While feeding, both parents produce a rich creamy pink liquid, this is known as “crop-milk”. A chick will fledge around ten weeks but will remain in the “flamingo creches” for another month. Each chick has its own unique call, remarkably the parent birds are able to distinguish their chicks call, amongst hundreds and sometimes thousands of other young chicks, that are grouped together in these “flamingo creches”. Flamingos have just one brood/chick a year.
Flamingo chicks are grey and white when born and do not develop their pink colouration for around 2 years. The chick is fed for at least the first 3 – 4 weeks entirely by the parents who secrete a creamy pink liquid called ‘crop milk’ which comes from the parents upper digestive tract. Either parent can feed the chick this way and other flamingos can act as foster feeders.
The chicks fledge after 10 weeks, but remain in creches for a further month. The chick is born with a straight bill which starts to curve at about one month and can filter feed properly at two and a half months. Amazingly, the adult flamingo is able to locate its chick from hundreds or thousands of other chicks, by its ‘call’.
Flamingos are fully grown at 2 years and are able to mate at 3 years. Most flamingos will not breed for the first time until they are 5 to 10 years old. Flamingos may not breed when wetlands are dry and food is scarce. Some years, their feeding pools are teeming with life and there is plenty of food with which to feed their chicks. However, other years the pools are nearly empty. As a result, flamingos may only breed when conditions are just right.
The Greater Flamingo can live to the age of over 60 years old in captivity. The average life span in the wild is around 30 – 40 years.
An Old Captivity.
This must rate as the most unusual name for a vessel, An Old Captivity.
Franklin marina, Tasmania, Australia.
Cockatoos, corellas, magpies, and 'noisy mynahs' congregate at the horse's feeding trough at the end of the day, to steal what they can, as Banjo comes up from the paddock for a his daily treat of carrot and a bit of grain.
I say 'old cockies', as they live such a long time!
Around 70/80 yrs in the wild and 120 in captivity… but I reckon they're far happier with the first option..
I've never seen a sad, scraggy one that's out in the natural.
They always look so robustly healthy and full of energy, I can't tell the difference between the young and older ones.
I chose this title because it reminds me of years ago when my mum would refer to elderly, wiry, weatherbeaten farmers as 'old cockies'.
She was born on a sheep station in 1929, and carried the affectionate or humorous euphemisms of rural culture from that era into my own childhood in the 60's.
This knickname however, seemed to embody a respect for the early Australian farmers, as the rural industry was only a few family generations young by that time, therefore their knowledge of the land was borne out of sheer hard yakka and their own experience of a climate far different from their grandfathers' countries of origin.
There's many words that I just don't hear anymore, the old language is in deed dying out with the older generations, so I'm going record what I can remember with my pics.
Anzac Day is coming up this week, and knowing how much WW1 impacted on the rural communities, maybe I'm getting a little nostalgic.
Anyway, here's a pair of happy cockies on the farm fence, so HFF to my friends x :)
Taken at twilight, sooc..
pues espero q les gusthe
la vdd
fue uno de los trabajos q mas empeño
le puse casi todos los detalles son creados por
mi las plumas una negra i una blanca me recordo a yinyang
pues no es copial el candin q lleva la modelo pues
la teniia la modelo original i solo la use para complementhar
la imagen saluds
bye
in the garden
Magdeburg / Germany
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As mentioned in a previous posting, since the 1970s, wild Ring necked Parakeets thought to have either escaped captivity or freed, have spread across S.E. England & into London. Not a native bird, originally from tropical countries such as Africa and India, they have adapted to our colder weather in suburban areas, where there is plenty of food and shelter. I spotted this fellow & his partner in our local park. They have now arrived in our part of N.W. London. He turned around to glare at me as I took a photo :) There is concern about their impact on native British birds, which is being monitored.
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.
Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947)
I would almost guarantee that everyone on flickr that has been to Port Angeles has at least one shot of this beast.
(this one taken on a foggy smoky overcast grey day, some separation was required to distinguish 'pus from background)
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Summer 2015: "Up was Down"
July 7th: Walking tour of Port Angeles, Striped Peak.
we love the circus, but without animal exploitation.
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the sky is off limits?
same bit of sky, different angles
Spectra, PZ680 color protection, set at 1/3 dark