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Iris germanica
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Monocots
Order:Asparagales
Family:Iridaceae
Subfamily:Iridoideae
Tribe:Irideae
Genus:Iris
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Colorado Springs, CO
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My photography has been more or less on hiatus for the past couple of years but I decided to go to Tisvilde Hegn, a forest in the northern part of Sjælland (Sealand). I went both to enjoy the warm spring day but also to see if I could grind some of the rust off. It turns out that there is a lot more rust than I thought - I had trouble just finding interesting subjects. And on quite a few of those I did spot, I just couldn't seem to catch what I wanted.
Anyway... A pond with some trees on the edge did actually lend itself beautifully to me and I managed to get this onto the memory card.
São Bento Railway Station - Oporto - Portugal. “The station is located in the Historic Centre of Porto, which has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site and as a National Monument of Portugal”.
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White-throated kingfisher / ধলাগলা মাছরাঙা
Bird# 12
Bird details: flic.kr/p/2eDnui2
Mesquite Dunes, Death Valley, California
The face of a dune catches the morning light. In the distance are the Grapevine Mountains.
Original Zippo record sleeve. I no longer have a record player. Thought about getting a USB turntable, but I've replaced most of my vinyl with CDs. Even those are outdated by downloads.
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Photo: Wendelin Jacober
Lost Place:
Rue Georges Tourneur
6030 Charleroi
Belgien
Google Maps Koordinaten: 50°23'41.1"N 4°22'53.2"E
50.394759, 4.381457
Piraeus, Greece
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Did you know that osprey are unusual among hawks in possessing a reversible outer toe that allows them to grasp with two toes in front and two behind. (Cornell Lab)
The web can run from the top of a tree 6m high and up to 2m wide. Unlike other spider webs, the Golden Orb Web Spider's web is not dismantled often and can last several years.
Designed to catch large flying insects, the web is slightly angled. It is not a perfect wheel and is usually off-centre. To make its web, the spider releases a thin thread into the wind. When it catches on something, the spider walks along it trailing a stronger non-sticky thread. It repeats the process in the centre of the line to form a strong Y-frame. Around this, it spins the rest of the web out of sticky capture silk.
The silk is so strong that it can trap small birds, which the spider doesn't eat. These trapped creatures often destroy the web by thrashing around. To avoid such damage, the spider often leaves a line of insect husks on its web (like the safety strip across glass doors!); or builds smaller barrier webs around the main web.
The male is many times smaller than the female, some are 1,000 smaller! There are suggestions that it is not a case of the males being dwarves, but the females being giants! The male is so tiny that he can live on the female's web, stealing her food, often without her even noticing him. She may not even notice that he has crept up and inseminated her! Nevertheless, just to be sure, he usually does the deed when she is feeding. In some, mating can take up to 15 hours! The female lives only slightly longer than the male.
Spider from Spider Pavilion Natural History Museum. Los Angeles. California.
This little patch of green just caught the morning sun as it filtered through the frosty branches of the woodland.
Wishing dear Barbara a happy Birthday for the 7th! juntos
Sigi Kolbe Photography website
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