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New Year's eve revelry Philippine style =) Every year on new year's eve millions of pesos worth of fire crackers are used by private citizens to usher in the new year. I've long since stopped ( almost 16 years and counting) buying fire crackers and instead is content to watch my neighbors burn their money =) Didn't get too shoot much, just stood with my family and watched. HAppy New Year everyone and may God's blessings be upon you all =)
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This very quiet and subtle piece is definitely my favorite work in the garden and I do want to make a special point and say that.
It is also extremely difficult work to photograph, due to the roaming nature of the beasties. I spent a lot of time and shot countless pix - however, this is the best that I could do. And still it ain't great!
Some books and websites call this species Lesser Redpoll (Acanthis cabaret) but there is no genetic difference between these and Common Redpolls (A. flammae). And from 1 January 2018 BOU officially dropped this species to become a subspecies of Common Redpoll when they adopted the IOC species guidelines (see here www.birdguides.com/news/bou-to-adopt-ioc-world-bird-list/ ). So this is now Common Redpoll (Acanthis flammae subsp cabaret). But oddly Lesser Redpoll is still on the BOU Official List nearly three years later www.bou.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/British-List-20... . Lesser Redpoll's status as a species was only short-lived as BOU only accepted it as a species in 2001 on the basis of a small population in Norway in 1994 that held 6 pairs of cabaret and 5 pairs of flammae, with no evidence of mixed pairs.
The name Redpoll refers to the red on the head, as poll originally meant head. The red on the forehead is just visible here, as is the distinctive black moustache. The meaning of poll as a vote came about, as a poll was originally a head count. It now rarely survives in its original meaning although the bit between the ears on a horse or cow is called a poll, and a poll axe wasn't used for chopping trees.
I photographed this Redpoll recently in the Crowden Valley in the Peak District. I was photographing Ring Ouzels and the Lammergeier had just flown over, then this little Redpoll landed in a nearby tree giving me a photo-opportunity. I say "little" because they are tiny. For comparison a House Sparrow weighs 34g whereas this chap weighs just 11g.
La quatrième gare de Heerlen a été conçue par l'artiste Michel Huisman et fait partie du Maankwartier. Il a été mis en service le 5 août 2019, après que les voyageurs aient dû se contenter d'une station d'urgence pendant sept ans.
Heerlen's fourth station was designed by the artist Michel Huisman and is part of the Maankwartier. It was put into service on August 5, 2019, after travelers had to make do with an emergency station for seven years.
Bien contente d'avoir pu la voir et surtout la photographier avant la neige. Son camouflage est tout simplement parfait, toute une chance de l'avoir repérée dans ce secteur.
The south coast of Iceland is an interesting sort of place. For most of the journey, and where the ring road allows it, you could pull up and wander off to your heart's content and probably not see another soul for hours. Well in my case I'd still see Lee, a man who's bought and sold so many cameras and lenses that eBay have sent him a carriage clock in recognition of his services to their balance sheet. He's currently got a Fuji XT something or other, or at least he did have last time I spoke to him. By the time lockdown is over he'll probably have sold it and ploughed the proceeds into something else. I'm interested to see how long it will be before he ends up where he started. He seems to take fantastic pictures with whatever he has in any case, which I guess reminds us that as a great man once said, "the most important thing about a camera is the 12 inches behind the viewfinder."
But then there are places like Jokulsarlon, where it seems that almost every visitor to this blissfully sparsely populated nation has gravitated. Including us of course. And so the answer to the title of this picture is that to the right of me was a large car park, rammed full of cars and coaches that had disgorged their occupants into the space around me in considerable numbers. There was also a fish and chip van, sadly closed by the time we arrived (you can only have pasta so many nights in a row you know). The object of everyone's fascination was a glacial lagoon, brimming with chunks of ice of varying sizes, which gradually catch the pull of the current that takes them underneath the handsome suspension bridge and out to sea. At which point most of them are washed onto the black sands of Diamond Beach to make glorious subjects for snap happy like minded souls. I've already shared a couple of the results from that delightful episode.
Standing here you can watch the floes suddenly come loose and race along the current, sometimes crashing into their counterparts, which in turn sets them free. It's almost like watching a huge game of billiards. It's about 9 months since our visit, but every so often an image I'd ignored before catches my eye. For some reason it was this one today, perhaps something in that sense of a journey for the ice floes that we're all missing a bit as we stay at home to play our part in fighting this terrible virus that has taken over our world for now. Stay safe, fellow Flickrites.
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Excerpt from www.crca.ca/wp-content/uploads/PDFs/LakeReports/2017-Fact...:
Upper Beverley Lake is a natural, shallow, warmwater lake located on sandstone bedrock and enhanced by the construction of a dam. Like the majority of lakes within the Cataraqui Region, Upper Beverley Lake mixes in the spring and fall due to lake water warming and cooling. During this mixing process, nutrients are cycled throughout the lake, giving the water a cloudy appearance as well as a brown or green hue from algae that feed off the cycling nutrients. Later in the spring, summer, and winter, water temperatures vary by depth (thermal stratification) so multiple fish species are found at different depth and temperature
ranges.
Originally, Upper Beverley Lake was two small waterbodies until the creation of the Delta Dam. Water levels are controlled by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) at Delta Dam directly on the lake and are maintained within a one-meter fluctuation based on seasonal variations in rainfall, snowmelt and evaporation. The majority of the lake’s shoreline remains in its natural state.
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