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La costa intorno a Tintagel è composta da ardesia devoniana, che fa colorare di verde turchese il litorale e le acque (nel periodo caldo).
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Suite de l'histoire des rouge queues du jardin : 5 petits sont nés, quand on s'approche ils essaient toujours de se cacher mais ils sont devenus tellement gros (quasi adultes) que leur queue dépasse du nid. un des parents a disparu, sans doute pris par un chat. le soir quand je surveille les environs, je défait la partie basse du compost et le rouge queue vient prendre des cloportes pour nourrir les petits. et voilà le résultat !
Le Rougequeue noir (Phoenicurus ochruros) est une espèce de petits passereaux partiellement migratrice très répandue, de la famille des Muscicapidés. On l'appelle également rossignol des murailles ou queue rousse.
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Hopefully you remember the ongoing Shroomington Space Program I mentioned in my last picture. Since then the shroomy engineers have come a long way as they moved from an UFO on a stick to actual rockets. Well, they don't really fly yet, but at least they are compostable, if not sometimes even edible. :)
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Tipico Regionale DTR Lombardia, composto "omogeneamente" da carrozze MDVC ed MDVE Trenitalia, in uscita da Milano Rogoredo in una soleggiata giornata di marzo.
Roberto Giovagnorio, 5/03/2017
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We were surprised to look out to see these sweet ladies in our yard. One of them was very interested in our compost!
I feel terrible for wildlife lately because the air quality is horrendous due to the Canadian wildfires. For several days it’s been in the “unhealthy” and “very unhealthy” range, with a constant haze in the air. While we have the option of closing windows & filtering our air, they do not.
In your garden, pull up any dead plants and lay them on the ground around healthy plants. You can also chop them up and mix them into the soil.
While leaves changing color in the fall are dying, they are not dead. A cold snap will kill the leaves the same as it will on the leaves of most your other plants.
We’ve been taking steps to impact the earth less and minimize our waste, such as reducing our plastic use and purchasing less. One thing I’ve been wanting to do for a while is to start composting again (we weren’t very successful with it several years ago), and after researching it for a while, we finally started. The bin works great for this environment because we tend to get a lot of dampness & humidity here. Plus, it’s made from untreated cedar instead of plastic. The pail is for keeping on our kitchen counter and is perfect, complete with a filter to keep the smells in the pail.
Superb Fairy-wrens were particularly observant and appeared already while I was busy with the compost and they seemed to be working alongside me.
(Malurus cyaneus)
Explore #129.
This is what our compost looks like at the moment. It proves that the compost soil is excellent, and that the garden care is somewhat neglected :)
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Nikon D300, 18-200@200mm, 1/30s, f/6.5, ISO 320. Treatment: shady white balance, increased saturation, added vignette. (DSC_1761)
On its way to the compost bin...
Most of the strawberries were lovely - this one seems to be growing rather a lot of mould !!!!!
Macro Mondays - Trick or Treat
Some years ago we warned local children that if they threw eggs at our house when denied a treat their compost heap would become infested with ghoulish horrors.
This creature was recently found on one of their garden paths - clearly tortured to reveal the location of where where others might be hiding. You have been warned!
No apples were actually harmed during the capture of this individual, it's a mock up.
The Flickr Lounge-Made Of Wood
These are wood pallets we got from a local business to use for our compost bins. The Rhubarb is growing on the left side and a volunteer Delicata Squash is growing in front of the bin.
Four months ago I took this picture because I felt so captivated by the ordinary details I found in these pieces of peppers I had sliced that were to be discarded. Even though this would become compost material I really appreciated the colors, shapes, and light I saw here. I find “real” food/fresh produce so beautiful and interesting in appearance and love how I feel so thankful and excited when thinking about the nutrients and benefits fresh produce provides for our bodies. I’m thankful I took the time to capture what I saw.
* On Tuesday I spent a pleasant morning turning over my three compost bins yes I have an exciting life . I was joined by a very friendly robin and I broke off from time to time to photograph him . The only problems with friendly Robins is that they get so close you have to be careful not to stand on the little fellas . I am curious do American robins have this sort of behaviour . Robins are the only wild birds in England that interact so closely with humans. They don't seem to learn this behaviour as their life span is only about a year, it seems positively hard wired .
As for the photo the ugly white bucket is a bit of an eyesore but I could not face the time consuming job of trying to paint it in PS. The bird is sharp at least and has not been cropped as it was only about three feet away from me
An extract from the RSPB site on Robin behaviour
In Britain robins are often associated with gardeners, following them around as they dig the ground. People may even have robins in their gardens that are tame enough to feed from the hand.
There are a few reasons which may explain why robins appear friendlier than other birds. When robins live in the wild in woods or forests they are known to follow large mammals, such as wild boar or deer, using their inbuilt curiosity to find new ways to find food.As the animals move around they disturb the ground bringing worms and insects to the surface which robins can easily forage on. In more urban areas robins are mimicking this behaviour by following humans, taking advantage of the freshly dug up soil to find food.
It is interesting to note that in the rest of Europe robins are much more shy and rarely leave the confines of the forest. There has long been a tradition of hunting and trapping small birds on the continent so robins have remained fearful of humans whereas in Britain robins have co-existed with humans for many years and learned that there is no threat in being close to us.
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The largest of the abandoned barges I photographed on this day. The wood timbers are so substantial that they partially turn to compost long before they totally disintegrate. Some of the barges have a thicket of shrubbery growing on top; this one had smaller plants on the side.
The compost heaps are still alive with bank voles although I've not seen them as often as I did in winter. Possibly the marauding sparrowhawk has something to do with that.
The original swimming pool is still intact on the grounds of the circa-1910 Cornish Estate near Cold Spring, N.Y. There had to have been a great view of the Hudson Highlands down the slope before all these trees sprouted.
Not the tidiest of gardens, it takes a lot of work keeping it this scruffy LOL.
We get a lot of wildlife though and the compost gets used up every year. Squizzy loves this bit as it is close to the trees and he/she can make his/her getaway. The snow has now gone from the back garden, not so with the front.
In my garden Stafford UK 23rd January 2023
I peeked inside and saw a well 'cooked', well sifted, taller than me pile of compost. Brown gold! I said, darn, I didn't bring my bolt cutters!!!
The Trevor Carpenter 2018 Photo Challenge
WEEK 15: APRIL 2008/2010 FLASHBACK – ENTROPY
We keep this little metal pail in our kitchen to throw out vegetable matter for compost.
I opened it today and thought, since the stuff hadn't decayed all that much, the variety of colors and textures were pretty cool. I thought it would make for an interesting photo for Entropy.
I've sunk to new lows in trying to get some pictures taken during the lock down. This is the contents of my backyard composter.