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At the San Luis NWR, in Los Banos, California, above the door I noticed some Cliff Swallows starting to build their mud nests. It was quite interesting to see them form their nests. It seemed they were used to people, and they just kept on working. It was taken on April 7th, 2013.
Like most of the National Parks that I have visited in the US, Zion is incredibly accessible. We parked our car and took one of the regular hop-on-hop-off shuttle buses (complete with commentary) that run up and down Zion Canyon Scenic Drive.
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The cliff swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) is a very social species (there were a lot more of them than just this fellow) that builds mud nests under horizontal overhangs - such as the roof of this I-80 rest stop building descending from Donner Pass. Highway overpasses are especially popular nesting sites and good places to look for the birds in flight - they will be small, quickly flapping silhouettes that change direction abruptly, as they catch insects on the wing.
The Cliffs are probably one of the most photographed spots in Ireland .. So I thought I should add one to my stream as well :)
The shot was taken a couple of years ago during a holiday in the West.
The Echo Cliffs is a prominent monocline in northern Arizona that runs for dozens of miles in a north-south direction, within the Navajo Nation and Coconino County, in northern Arizona. It is to the east of Grand Canyon National Park.
U.S. Highway 89 runs parallel to it in the valley on its western side.
Prominently exposed in the cliffs are the Chinle Formation of the Colorado Plateau. Its rocks are of the Glen Canyon Group above and the Moenkopi Formation below.
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I love the colors and textures of this nest. The parent(s) must be artist(s)!
- Within a Cliff Swallow colony some swallows lay eggs in another swallow's nest. Sometimes the swallow may lay eggs in its own nest and then carry one of its eggs in its bill and put it in another female's nest.
- When young Cliff Swallows leave their nests they congregate in large groups called creches. A pair of swallows can find its own young in the creche primarily by voice. Cliff Swallows have one of the most variable juvenile plumages, and the distinctive facial markings may help the parents recognize their chicks by sight too.
Definitely a must see place on the West coast of Ireland. Unfortunately full of tourists, even on day with terrible weather.
The cliffs of Aldeyarfoss are an extraordinary place for Arctic River Beauty to flourish, as this perennial herb usually grows on snowmelt-flooded gravel bars and scree.
A quick up load of some views of the Cliffs Of Moher taken yesterday. It was another cloudy day but not a bad day.. Off to Galway this morning from Limerick.
Black Sand Basin (Yellowstone National Park), an isolated group of the Upper Geyser Basin, was originally named the Emerald Group by A.C. Peale in 1878. But turn of the century tourists began calling it Black Sand Basin because of the small fragments of black obsidian sand which cover portions of the basin.
Black Sand Basin contains a small collection of jewel-like geysers, and colorful hot springs. Emerald Pool is the most colorful and famous of these springs. It is a deep emerald green fringed by an outer ring of yellow and orange. Another colorful pool is Opalescent Pool. This recently formed pool inundated a stand of lodgepole pine, creating a stand of white skeletons amidst a rainbow-colored pool. An unusual geyser formed on the bank of Iron Creek. Cliff Geyser formed a rim or wall-like ridge of sinter around its crater from which it erupts 30 to 40 feet high.