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"As perennial as the grass", do you remember that line from Desiderata? **
Well, come October 1, the Jacarandas clock on and they are as perennial as the grass. One day, no flowers and within a day or so, like switching a light on, the trees start to bloom with their beautiful purple. As the weeks pass they get thicker and then, as fast as they come, they go and the season moves south. But while they are in bloom, Brisbane is Jacaranda city.
This shot was taken near Coronation Drive in Toowong. I rather,like the flowing architecture of the high rise behind, a bit of a difference to the bog standard cubist style! It is called "Rivers on the Park".
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Still perennial in these times of great trial.
In a deep valley a few kilometres east of Carvoeiro is the little fishing village of Benagil. The beach here is possibly a clue as to what Carvoeiro was like many years ago. However, at Benagil there is still a busy little fishing fleet with boats that can be seen pulled up on the beach at the bottom of the slipway.
There are other similarities to Carvoeiro too, such as the high ochre cliffs that flank the beach and the fact that these two stretches of golden sand are approximately the same size. The main difference is you will probably have a little more room to spread out at Benagil. [...].
The limestone cliffs around Benagil have been eroded into various weird and wonderful forms over the years. In varying degrees of yellow and orange, grottoes, arches, pinnacles and caves have all been carved into the cliffs. Google
The difference between the morning temperature and the midday one is very huge!
When the sun is up it still looks like summer!
We were at the park here! With this usual abandoned and metallic thing! I think I’m the only one who find it useful!
The sky was beautiful and I needed to put it in my camera!
Lassie and I wish you all Happy Sunday from our blue sky (we’re sitting on a cloud just to be closer to the sky!!!!...yes, usual madness… :D )
PS
yes....it's better!
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
-Frank Lloyd Wright
What a difference a month can make, especially in Alaska! I was blessed to visit the region surrounding the city of Nome in both July of 2024 and August of 2025.
Six major differences were noted between these two trips.
This year:
The salmon run was all but over. Remnants from this year’s run were noticeable by both sight and smell. The cycle of the Alaskan salmon’s life was starting anew.
The muskox was in full rut. The females were a bit more concerned with my being there while the males couldn’t care any less. They had been anxiously waiting, fighting off other males for months for the right to reproduce. An old fat Italian guy with a clicking camera certainly wasn’t going to ruin his mood!
The weather was very different as I experienced frozen morning windshields and only one day above 50 degrees. When most all of your weather comes across Siberia and the Bering Sea, unpredictability is the norm.
Flocks had assembled and were much more noticeable. For most species, some ducks and loons excluded, where I found 2-3 last year, once found this year there may have been between 20-100. In 2024 I did not see a single owl in an area with easily multiple miles of visibility. This year they were seen on three different days in three different areas as they began to flock (Parliament) together to travel south for the winter.
The locals, mostly the native Inuit people were out in family units collecting berries. I was told that these berries would become a vital part of their subsistence living over the winter. Not just berries, but hunting season for the Inuit people had started. Last year I was blessed with both brown bear with cubs and moose. This year, the bear, moose and caribou had already moved out further into the valleys as far away from humans as possible. Sadly…airplanes and quad runners now make impossible for them to move far enough out to be hunted.
Lastly, the white winter plumage of the ptarmigan was in full display (as photographed here) as it creeps up from bottom to top. Hundreds of ptarmigans were seen on both trips. No white feathers were noted in 2024 just a month earlier. All seen this year openly displayed that (a personal favorite cowboy saying) “Winter is a coming” appearance.
This young and recently fledged roseate spoonbill gave me a nice profile shot to highlight the differences between it and a full adult. It's bill is noticeably shorter and its eyes are much darker than an adult. It also has very soft colored pink feathers that will darken and grow richer with age.
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Benoît est un adulte que j'accompagne en tant qu'éducateur depuis plus 16 ans..c'est un homme lumineux..
Merci a lui et à sa mère de m'avoir permis de poster ce portrait dont je suis particulièrement fiert...
Benoît is the man... I host him since more than ten years in the adult handicap center I worked..A bright man...
What a difference a week makes! When I photographed this scene last week on my walk to Cholesbury, it was dull and grey. This time I headed down to Chesham Vale then up to the Ashley Green Road.
The Vale is a dry valley where a spring is one of the headwaters feeding the River Chess. In the 1930s the road would regularly turn into a river after torrential rain and the flood even reached Chesham. Th problem was largely overcome by the building of a pumping station further up the Vale to supply Aylesbury with water. However recent heavy storms still cause flash flooding!
HFF and have a great weekend Flickr friends.
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We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what the color. - Maya Angelou
We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. - Jimmy Carter
I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it’s own greatest strength - it’s diversity. - Melissa Etheridge
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained. - W.H. Auden
If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear. -
Gene Roddenberry
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. - Charles Evans Hughes
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The difference of a lonely person before and after the lockdown
Much visited by performers from the nearby Empire Theatre over many decades.
I took this from the roof of the multi storey car park serving Lime Street Station.
I need to go back and take a new shot showing the differences post development.
A couple of photos a couple of flaps apart showing a difference in the top and bottom side in flight.
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This Lauda Air 767 was used by its Italian sister company between 1997 and 2000. The only difference in livery was the use of green.
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Chestnut-eared Aracari - Wild - Pantanal - Brasil. Have a Peaceful Friday and a great Global Big Day!
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A pair of white pelicans seemingly watching over a bunch of American avocets and a lone gull. The size difference between the pelicans and avocets is really striking!
Taken at the Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary, Texas.
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Male on the left. Female on the right.
Yesterday I posted two shots of this species to illustrate the difference between the males and females in the dorsal view. I was lucky to get both male and female in this one shot to illustrate the ventral view differences.
The sexes of this species are more easily differentiated in the dorsal view, but if you look closely, you will see that the female (R) has a more vivid orange colour on the top wing with a more sharply defined border. Also, the band on the bottom wing is a more vivid red compared to the lighter band of orange on the male (L).
This might well be the last Butterfly post for this season. I am running out of local butterflies, and the shorebird migration is on.
My next series will be Shorebirds with maybe a new late season Butterfly.
there seems to be an unwritten (or possibly it is?) rule among residents that none shall paint his bathing hut in the same colour as his neighbour.
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Common Gallinules are ubiquitous everywhere there is fresh water in these parts.
For the most part, they don't make very interesting subjects photography wise. But now and then they have some issues that need settling.
These two guys went at it repeatedly for several minutes.
Not sure what got settled, but after a while, they both stopped their bickering and went back to what gallinules do; swimming around and eating pretty much whatever gets in their way.
Blackcap - Sylvia Atrcapilla (M)
The Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) usually known simply as the blackcap, is a common and widespread typical warbler. It has mainly olive-grey upperparts and pale grey underparts, and differences between the five subspecies are small. Both sexes have a neat coloured cap to the head, black in the male and reddish-brown in the female. The male's typical song is a rich musical warbling, often ending in a loud high-pitched crescendo, but a simpler song is given in some isolated areas, such as valleys in the Alps. The blackcap's closest relative is the garden warbler, which looks quite different but has a similar song.
The blackcap feeds mainly on insects during the breeding season, then switches to fruit in late summer, the change being triggered by an internal biological rhythm. When migrants arrive on their territories they initially take berries, pollen and nectar if there are insufficient insects available, then soon switch to their preferred diet. They mainly pick prey off foliage and twigs, but may occasionally hover, flycatch or feed on the ground. Blackcaps eat a wide range of invertebrate prey, although aphids are particularly important early in the season, and flies, beetles and caterpillars are also taken in large numbers. Small snails are swallowed whole, since the shell is a source of calcium for the bird's eggs. Chicks are mainly fed soft-bodied insects, fruit only being provided if invertebrates are scarce.
In July, the diet switches increasingly to fruit. The protein needed for egg-laying and for the chicks to grow is replaced by fruit sugar which helps the birds to fatten for migration. Aphids are still taken while they are available, since they often contain sugars from the plant sap on which they feed. Blackcaps eat a wide range of small fruit, and squeeze out any seeds on a branch before consuming the pulp. This technique makes them an important propagator of mistletoe. The mistle thrush, which also favours that plant, is less beneficial since it tends to crush the seeds. Although any suitable fruit may be eaten, some have seasonal or local importance; elder makes up a large proportion of the diet of northern birds preparing for migration, and energy-rich olives and lentisc are favoured by blackcaps wintering in the Mediterranean.
The German birds wintering in British gardens rely on provided food, and the major items are bread and fat, each making up around 20% of the diet; one bird survived the whole winter eating only Christmas cake. Fruit is also eaten, notably cotoneaster (41% of the fruit consumed), ivy and honeysuckle, and apple if available. Some birds have learned to take peanuts from feeders. Blackcaps defend good winter food sources in the wild, and at garden feeding stations they repel competitors as large as starlings and blackbirds. Birds occasionally become tame enough to feed from the hand.
Aristotle, in his History of Animals, considered that the garden warbler eventually metamorphosed into a blackcap. The blackcap's song has led to it being described as the mock nightingale or country nightingale. Verga's 1871 novel Storia di una capinera, according to its author, was inspired by a story of a blackcap trapped and caged by children. The bird, silent and pining for its lost freedom, eventually dies. In the book, a nun evacuated from her convent by cholera falls in love with a family friend, only to have to return to her confinement when the disease wanes. The novel was adapted as films of the same name in 1917, 1943 and 1993. The last version was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and its English-language version was retitled as Sparrow. In Saint François d'Assise, an opera by Messiaen, the orchestration is based on bird song. St Francis himself is represented by the blackcap.
Folk names for the blackcap often refer to its most obvious plumage feature (black-headed peggy, King Harry black cap and coal hoodie) or to its song, as in the nightingale names above. Other old names are based on its choice of nesting material (Jack Straw, hay bird, hay chat and hay Jack). There is a tradition of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm bases being named for birds. A former base near Stretton in Cheshire was called HMS Blackcap.
Population:
UK breeding:
1,200,000 territories
UK wintering:
3,000 birds