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A close-up of a male peacock displaying its magnificent feathers in full fan, showcasing vibrant blues, greens, and iridescent eye-like patterns.
Juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
This summer we enjoyed having some Juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-Herons visit Wildwood Lake
Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, PA.
Close-up of a female Bluebird. I have been away for a bit, our power was out for awhile during almost 0 degree f weather and it took me awhile to recover lol!
British Railways Class 4MT 80097 takes it easy over the speed restriction at Lumb near Irwell Vale,working on the 0900 Bury Bolton Street - Rawtenstall on 13/06/2021
I spent a couple of hours wandering around Sussex Prairie Garden this afternoon looking for subjects for this week's 52Photos group challenge. I found lots, but decided on this metal flower rather than a real one because I've done lots of those recently. Anyway, I like a bit of rust. :)
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.
The short-eared owl is a species of typical owl. Owls belonging to genus Asio are known as the eared owls, as they have tufts of feathers resembling mammalian ears. These "ear" tufts may or may not be visible Photo taken along the Aberdeenshire coastline.
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Due to traffic and awkward positioning
It wasn't easy to get a decent shot.
Was a shame cause they are so pretty.
The peony is named after Paean, who was a student of the Greek god of medicine, Asclepius. Zeus turned Paean into the peony to save him from the anger of Asclepius, who had become jealous of his student’s healing abilities.
Description
Peonies bloom in a number of colours including pink, peach, white and maroon. There are also herbaceous varieties, which die back in winter, and tree peonies that remain active throughout winter.
Habitat
Peonies are native to north Japan, parts of Asia, parts of North America and southern Europe. It prefers woodland habitats, but can be found growing on mountainous terrain as well.
Availability
Tree peonies are available throughout the year and herbaceous peonies are available from late May to early July. Peony seeds have to go through a double chill, as the roots emerge after the first chill and the leaves after the second chill. Seedlings take around five years to mature for flowering.
Species
The genus Paeonia is the only member of the Paeoniceae family. There are around 38 species of peony. The most popular herbaceous peony varieties are P.officinalis and P.lactiflora, while P.japonica is commonly grown in UK gardens.
Care Tips
Peonies prefer full sun and slightly alkaline, well-drained soil. If a peony becomes top-heavy with flowers, staking will prevent the stems from breaking. Once peonies die back in the autumn, they should be cut back to ground level.
Did You Know?
Peonies have been cultivated for over 2,000 years, more for their medicinal qualities than for ornament. The Japanese protect the earliest peony blooms from the snow by protecting them with individual small thatched shelters. The Greeks believed that peonies were an important medicine and could cure more than 20 ailments. The Chinese name for peony is “sho yu” which means “most beautiful”
For more than 1,000 years, the dried root of the white peony has been used in ancient Chinese medicine. It's traditionally used to treat a wide range of ailments, including fever, inflammation, and pain. Some of these medicinal benefits have been proven by science.
Lockhart River, some 800kms north of Cairns and reached by a wild and bumpy road. Site also of an airport and a rich WWII history when thousands of US and Australian servicemen were living here to defend the northern coasts of Australia. It's also home to a number of Aboriginal peoples and has a well known artistic community which we visited. I now have a painting by Fiona Onmeenyo (japingkaaboriginalart.com/collections/fiona-omeenyo-paint... ) which will hang as a momento of my visit. 50% of the profits go to the artist, the rest to the community arts centre for equipment and running costs.
The African elephant (Loxodonta) is a genus comprising two living elephant species, the African bush elephant (L. africana) and the smaller African forest elephant (L. cyclotis). Both are herbivores and live in groups. They have grey skin and differ in the size of their ears and tusks, and in the shape and size of their skulls.
Both species are listed as Vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List since 2004, and are threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation. Poaching for the illegal ivory trade is a threat in several range countries as well.
Loxodonta is one of two existing genera of the family Elephantidae. The name refers to the lozenge-shaped enamel of their molar teeth. Fossil remains of Loxodonta species have been excavated in Africa, dating to the middle Pliocene.
Taken at the Shreveport Water Works Museum. A nationa Historic Landmark. Water Pump #1 was pumped water from the Red River to the settling tanks where the sediment was removed.
The yellow-rumped warblers are out in force in Michigan. They've been the majority of the migrating warblers I've counted.