I awakened early yesterday morning, and the stars were out, telling me the morning skies would be clear.

So I decided to brave the cold and try to capture the alpenglow on some nearby mountains. The many peaks of Rundle Mountain are pictured here.

Alpenglow refers to indirect sunlight reflected or diffracted by the atmosphere after sunset or before sunrise. This diffuse illumination creates soft shadows in addition to the reddish color. The term is also used informally to include direct illumination by the reddish light of the rising or setting sun, with sharply defined shadows.

When the Sun is below the horizon, sunlight has no direct path to reach a mountain. Unlike the direct sunlight around sunrise or sunset, the light that causes alpenglow is reflected off airborne precipitation, ice crystals, or particulates in the lower atmosphere. These conditions differentiate between direct sunlight around sunrise or sunset and alpenglow.

The term is generally confused to be any sunrise or sunset light reflected off the mountains or clouds, but alpenglow in the strict sense of the word is not direct sunlight and is only visible after sunset or before sunrise. (Wikipedia)

This pink dolphin was observed at the Seatran Ferry terminal at Don Sak in Surat Thani Province. This was the best series of a few unsuccessful attempts to capture a feeding dolphin,

Wikipedia: The Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) is a species of humpback dolphin inhabiting coastal waters of the eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans. This species is often referred to as the Chinese white dolphin in mainland China, Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan as a common name. Some biologists regard the Indo-Pacific dolphin as a subspecies of the Indian Ocean humpback dolphin (S. plumbea) which ranges from East Africa to India. However, DNA testing studies have shown that the two are distinct species. A new species, the Australian humpback dolphin (S. sahulensis), was split off from S. chinensis and recognized as a distinct species in 2014. Nevertheless, there are still several unresolved issues in differentiation of the Indian Ocean-type and Indo-Pacific-type humpback dolphins.

An adult Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin is grey, white or pink and may appear as an albino dolphin to some. Populations along the coasts of China and Thailand have been observed with pink skin. The pink color originates not from a pigment, but from blood vessels which were overdeveloped for thermoregulation.

Conservation status: Vulnerable

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pacific_humpback_dolphin

Large On Black

"The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors."

The Downy Woodpecker can be differentiated from a Hairy Woodpecker by its smaller body and beak and stipples outer tail features.

In the thrall

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The upper one (with big palps is the male), thanks to mygale for differentiation both sexes.The spiders were not placed for the picture , they were just like this..

This spider is like "wildcard" for me.I usually come to the field when most insects are still very active but this kind of spider are very peaceful and they allow you to work with them quite easily , if in addition to that we join that not move very often ( I took the picture of one on January 1st and yesterday was exactly in the same place ) make it a good subject to hang out.

Natural diffused light (as you can see in first coment) afternoon focus stack .37 pictures taken 7dmk2 + reversed Hexanon 40mm + little extension tube.

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Western Sandpiper is somewhat of rarity in our areas. One showed up recently in Hamilton. They are hard to differentiate from a Semipalmated when they are on their own. Luckily when I took these photos both were foraging side by side. Unfortunately I could only keep one in the focus at a time. So I took two frames, changing focus between two birds and then stitched them together in this composite. Apart from other subtleties, the Western has longer and decurved beak. That's enough hint to recognize which is which. By the way, Western Sandpiper is my life bird. Christie Mudflat, Hamilton, Ontario.

La mayoria de los molinos de la mancha son de color blanco, variando un poco el color del techo, negro, gris, etc, por eso llaman tanto la atención los molinos de Belmonte.

Estos molinos están realizados en piedra antigua y un poco descuidada, que en parte es lo que le da esa belleza especial y los diferencia del resto de molinos con su color marrón claro.

Most of the stain mills are white, varying slightly the color of the roof, black, gray, etc., that's why Belmonte mills attract so much attention.

These mills are made of ancient stone and a bit neglected, which in part is what gives it that special beauty and differentiates it from the rest of the mills with its light brown color.

Belmonte (Cuenca/ Comunidad autónoma Castilla-La Mancha/ Spain).

A small colorful bird that looks 90% similar to the common Tickell's blue flycatcher, but is very uncommon and reported rare in our region. The only differentiation is the throat color which is dark blue for this bird, orange for the Tickell's. The calls too are almost similar between the birds.

I had this view that bird is a migrant from Northern India, Pakistan / Himalayan ranges and migrates to South India during winters. But I suspect there is a resident population in the state in the forests in the northern parts where we can see during summer. I don't remember anyone sighting a nest yet, if that is sighted, it would confirm that it a resident.

This flycatcher is found in thick wooded regions and forests and tends stick to thick canopy areas and dense undergrowth near wet areas. We sighted this in a forest on the side of a hill overlooking a temple. There was a broken water pipe that had small drops rolling down the slope into the undergrowth. And that place had like 5-6 flycatchers and around 15+ birds in total - all close to the ground. The water pooled and stagnated resulting in a lot of flies / insects and thats what attracted the flycatchers I suppose.

Many thanks in advance for your views and feedback. Much appreciated.

Hello friends, you will visit Sicily with me, the next two weeks? = O)

Last summer's trip, Sicily is a land full of beauty and contrasts, contrasts that I want to differentiate in two parts, the first with photos of the most tourist sites and the second is a look of a quotidian life in your streets.

Welcome to my series "La Sicilia è ..."

Have a nice weekend!

A Drongo Cuckoo - with a unique long note call that is easy to remember. The bird migrates from south west of India to the South eastern and central India for a few months of the year around the monsoon season time.

It is a Cuckoo by call and Drongo by look. It has a long 6-8 note call that sounds like a Cuckoo call and without the call, is a bit hard (for me atleast) to differentiate between the regular Black Drongo. I heard this bird's call in the University forest area outside my home a couple of times, but never sighted it. It prefers thick canopy areas and prefers to migrate this season due to the abundance of caterpillars during the rainy season. Shot this at a nearby forest 2 hours away from my place.

Thank you very much in advance for your views and feedback.

The stone blue tail color on both males and females helps differentiate these sapphires from other hummingbirds, especially the Golden-tailed Sapphire (Chrysuronia oenone). White-chinned Sapphires live in humid or riparian woodlands, edges of tropical lowland evergreen forests, and clearings with trees. In southeastern Brazil and in the Amazon, they even inhabit white sand forests and restinga habitats. When foraging for nectar, they hover at flowers of various heights and defend flowers in large canopy trees where the often compete with other hummingbirds. They also eat spiders, beetles, and flies. These hummingbirds breed year-round and males often sing from individual song perches. Their high-pitched, squeaky song is reminiscent of an insect. At times, White-chinned Sapphires have notable population movements with birds suddenly absent from areas typically with a high number of individuals.

This beautiful male was photographed at Ubatuba - SP.

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Cuando los individuos son inmaduros o jóvenes es posible que sean parecidos y no los podamos distinguir por el color.

El caso de Trithemis annulata es claro. En esta edad los podemos diferenciar por los apéndices anales,

En el caso de cierta experiencia, el tamaño también nos lo puede indicar.

En la foto una hembra joven.

Fotograma completo adaptado a formato panorámico.

En el Coto. Villena (Alicante) España

When the individuals are immature or young it is possible that they are similar and we cannot distinguish them by color.

The case of Trithemis annulata is clear. At this age we can differentiate them by the anal appendages,

In the case of certain experience, the size can also indicate it to us.

In the photo a young female.

Full frame adapted to panoramic format.

In the Coto. Villena (Alicante) Spain

I posted an image of a grizzly bear, yesterday, and decided I'd post another bear photograph today. I composed this image on a gloomy and rainy morning while travelling through my beloved Kananaskis Country, west of Calgary.

In sharing this image, I pose this question: "How does one differentiate a black bear from a grizazly?"

Colour doesn't help, unfortunately. Black bears come in a range of colours, as do grizzlies. Adult grizzlies are much bigger than their black bear counterparts, but who knows the age of a bear one sees?

While size may not be a telltale sign, there are several other distinguishing physical features that can help you easily tell the difference between grizzly and black bears. Grizzly bears have a very pronounced shoulder hump, which is one of the quickest ways to distinguish between the two. Grizzlies also have relatively short, rounded ears, while those of black bears are more of an elongated oval shape. Additionally, a black bear's hind quarters or rump will be higher than its shoulders while walking on all four, while a grizzly's will be lower. Finally, a grizzly bear has a concave face profile. Black bears, on the other hand, have a very straight snout from the tip of their nose to their eyes.

This bear has good-sized ears, a straight nose, no shoulder hump and its rear end is higher than its shoulders. Black bear it is, then, in my estimation. Do you agree?

There are many, at least five common species of buttercup in the U.K. but many just lump them together with the name, “Buttercup”!

It is hard to differentiate between the species but one of the common ones in the area, and the one that I think this is, is the “Hairy Crowfoot”, in the species Rananculus Sardous.

Where the common names of plants and animals come from is a mystery most of the time but this one is marvellous! Where the heck does Hairy Crowfoot originate. Has anyone ever seen a crow with hairy feet?

This was next to us whilst sitting by the River Trent in Newark town centre.

For Thursdays “Colourful Nature - Orange or Yellow”!

The number is not the number of cats I have. They are numbered to give an overview and a differentiation possibility.

Samburu National Reserve

Kenya

East Africa

Best seen enlarged.

The Somali ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes) is a large flightless bird native to the Horn of Africa. Enlarged.It was previously considered a subspecies of the common ostrich, but was identified as a distinct species in 2014.

The Somali ostrich is mostly found in Horn of Africa, especially in north-eastern Ethiopia and across all of Somalia. Its range corresponding roughly to the area known as the Horn of Africa.

The Somali ostrich is differentiated ecologically from the Common ostrich, with which there is some range overlap, by preferring bushier, more thickly vegetated areas, where it feeds largely by browsing, whereas the latter is mainly a grazer on open savanna. There are also reports of interbreeding difficulties between the two taxa.

A report to the IUCN in 2006 suggests that the Somali ostrich was common in the central and southern regions of Somalia in the 1970s and 1980s. However, following the political disintegration of that country and the lack of any effective wildlife conservation, its range and numbers there have since been shrinking as a result of uncontrolled hunting for meat, medicinal products and eggs, with the bird facing eradication in the Horn of Africa. - Wikipedia

Dicranosterna immaculata

Subtribe: Paropsina

Family: Chrysomelidae.

Order: Coleoptera

This beetle was found on Acacia.

When disturbed these beetles quickly drop from the leaf to the ground and hide in the surface leaf litter.

The larvae resemble small sawfly larvae.

The larvae and adults of some species in the genus are known to employ a chemical defence of an exuded liquid, derived from the leaves they consume, such as eucalyptus. The liquid is at least noxious, and may potentially be deadly, to some would-be predators. It includes neurotoxins. Most species in the family are brightly coloured, providing a warning that they are not for eating!

Given the toxic chemical defence they can employ, there are other species that mimic the Paropsisterna leaf beetles as an evolutionary strategy to deter predators. There is therefore plenty of potential to mis-indentify this genus.

There are also other Paropsisterna that look similar. For example Dicranosterna imaculata closely resembles Paropsisterna liturata.

Gunter Maiwald had the following to say about differentiating them:

"P. liturata has a very smooth elytral surface, the punctures are very fine and barely discernable - a close examination will show that the majority of them are actually arranged in a number of longitudinal series. D. immaculata has much larger and prominent punctures that are distributed almost uniformly over the elytral surface. The former is found on eucalypts, the latter on Acacia."

This individual was photographed at Nelligan Creek on the south coast of NSW, Australia.

The photo was taken with 100-400mm lens with a 2x teleconverter. This is a bit of an experiment for me to see if it is a viable way to photograph moving insects. (Such shots are all but impossible with Macro lenses and unto now I have used the 100-400mm without the teleconverter for such shots. The jury is still out as to whether the 2x improves the shot. The answer is probably that it gives a marginal improvement but it makes the shot harder to frame and the depth of field is smaller than the 100-400 without the 2x.

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El claustro de Silos es de doble planta, siendo la inferior la más antigua, que se levantó en la segunda mitad del siglo XI y primera del XII, mientras que el claustro superior se construyó en los últimos años de ese mismo siglo.

Como rasgos diferenciadores, los fustes de las columnas de la primera etapa están más separados y presentan mayor éntasis, y las tallas son de poco relieve y escaso movimiento. Las figuras del segundo taller son más realistas y poseen mayor volumen.

En el plano artístico lo más destacable es la colección de los 64 capiteles de que consta el claustro bajo y los relieves que ornamentan las caras interiores de las cuatro pilastras que forman los ángulos de la galería.

The Silos cloister has a double floor, the lower one being the oldest which was built in the second half of the 11th century and the first half of the 12th, while the upper cloister was built in the last years of that same century.

As differentiating features, the shafts of the columns of the first stage are further apart and present greater entasis, and the carvings are of little relief and little movement. The figures from the second workshop are more realistic and have greater volume.

On an artistic level, the most notable is the collection of 64 capitals that make up the lower cloister and the reliefs that decorate the interior faces of the four pilasters that form the corners of the gallery.

This is a photo I took last year in Liverpool on a rainy day. I liked the contrast between those two people. His dark business suit and black umbrella beside her lighter coat and her transparent emoji umbrella differentiated them nicely while they were walking up the stairs beside each other.

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Respiratory roots (or pneumatophores) of mangrove trees in the foreground. These specialized aerial roots enable the mangrove trees to breathe air and survive in habitats that have waterlogged and oxygen-poor soil.

Botanists classify these as aerating roots rather than aerial roots, if they come up from the soil.

Pneumatophores differentiate the black mangrove and grey mangrove from other mangrove species.

Submitted: 06/11/2024

Accepted: 10/11/2024

~American Goldfinch ~

A group of Goldfinches is known as a Charm. When Goldfinches pair, they make virtually indistinguishable calls, so much so that they are able to differentiate between paired couples. The oldest known American Goldfinch was ten years and nine months along when it was released after being recaptured as a banded bird. Goldfinches are among the last of North American birds to breed as they are strict vegetarians and wait to nest until late summer when milkweed and other plants have produced their seeds so that they can feed their young. I have noticed of late that Goldfinches like to be on the very tippy-top of things and I think that is fun. Goldfinches' scientific name is Spinus Tristis - the thistle bird.

A beautiful Common Blue butterfly ( I think) settling down in the evening sun

Or could be Chalkhill Blue or Brown Angus...gave up trying to differentiate 😁

The Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus) is a passerine bird in the sparrow family with a rich chestnut crown and nape, and a black patch on each pure white cheek. The sexes are similarly plumaged, and young birds are a duller version of the adult. This sparrow breeds over most of temperate Eurasia and Southeast Asia, where it is known as the tree sparrow, and it has been introduced elsewhere including the United States, where it is known as the Eurasian tree sparrow or German sparrow to differentiate it from the native unrelated American tree sparrow. Although several subspecies are recognised, the appearance of this bird varies little across its extensive range...

This is The Shuttleworth Collection's Spitfire Mk Vc AR501 flying over its base of Old Warden in June of 2025.

The wire stretching between the red roundel on the side and the tip of the tailplane is an aerial that transmitted a signal that helped differentiate friend from foe on the primitive radar scopes of the early 1940s.

The night of Saint Patty's last year was not spent cross-eyed drunk on green swill during a pub crawl - even though that wouldn't have been a bad way to go. Instead, I found some after hours nirvana under the stars watching the most intense display of northern lights I have seen in the lower peninsula. This was captured from the mouth of Otter Creek looking out over the ice floes of Platte Bay and Empire Bluff. There were many times when the lights were brighter but without question this was the highlight of a night chock-full of magical moments. Three spires gradually appeared out of the apron differentiating themselves in size and brightness over the South Manitou Island. Having been interested in Native American mythology and aware of the legend of the Sleeping Bear Dunes their appearance was not lost on me. They were visible for a couple of minutes and just as slowly as they appeared, faded back into the overall glow of the curtain. After they were gone I found myself standing slack-jawed on the shore filled with a euphoric sense of awe - a feeling that I have seldom experienced other than when I was a boy. A feeling at that moment I hoped would last well beyond the lights themselves.

Pine forest of Marina di Cecina – The Tomboli di Cecina nature reserve is located in Marina di Cecina and includes the Tomboli, long strips of dunes covered with thick vegetation that from the beach, push towards the interior of the coastal strip and represent a characteristic ecosystem created to protect the cultivated areas from sea winds. The reserve, which extends for 15 kilometers, is one of the most beautiful Italian forests, rich in thick and varied vegetation that differentiates as you move from the sea towards the hinterland. It is here that, in 1839, the Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold wanted to create a pine forest at his own expense in order to protect the agricultural crops behind from the saltiness and the violence of the sea winds. Thanks to this far-sighted intervention, today it is possible to enjoy a wonderful forest crossed by a wide path 5 kilometers long to be traveled on foot, by bicycle or on horseback.

This tiny purple jelly is either A. cylichnium or A. sarcoides; apparently they require microscopy to differentiate...

Differentiating Brown Argus and Common Blue from their undersides is problematic, and we need to resort to the pattern of spots. Here we have two distinguishing features. The first is that the Common Blue has a spot on the underside of the forewing that is absent in the Brown Argus. The second is that two of the spots on the leading edge of the hindwing are relatively-close in the Brown Argus, almost forming a "figure of eight", but are more spaced apart in the Common Blue. This diagnostic is particularly useful if the underside of the forewing isn't visible. www.ukbutterflies.co.uk

BTW if anyone can tell me how to tell the difference between a common buckeye (junonia coe.... ) and a gray buckeye (junonia grisia), I would be very grateful. it's a new species differentiation and information is hard to come by.

Sonoma Botanical Garden, Glen Ellen, Ca. June, 2022.

The number is not the number of cats I have. They are numbered to give an overview and a differentiation possibility.

Water bird seen on Lake Havasu from the shore of Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge, western Arizona.

The refuge protects the lower course of the Bill Williams River to its mouth at Lake Havasu reservoir [wiki].

Western Grebe and Clark's Grebe are almost identical but are different species or regarded as subspecies.

Info: 'Clark's grebe... have whiter flanks and paler gray backs when comparing (to western grebe)... The western grebe has black around the eyes and a straight greenish-yellow bill whereas the Clark's grebe has white around the eyes and an up-turned bright yellow bill.' - Western grebe, wiki

'Western and Clark's Grebe were only split into two distinct species in 1985, as prior to that, they were regarded as one species. The two species are very similar, especially in their winter plumage when their primary differentiating characteristic (facial pattern) becomes nearly identical (much less dark around the eye in winter-plumaged Western Grebes). Winter-plumaged birds are best distinguished by bill color... Also note that intermediate birds are often seen. Extent of dark feathering around eye can vary widely in these birds, even in summer plumage, making identification even more difficult.' - www.sdakotabirds.com/diffids/western_clarks_grebe.htm

I rarely see Scaup ducks at the Esquimalt Lagoon. It is also a rather shy duck so, I was surprised to see it so close to the shore. I believe that the unusual cold weather in Victoria this Winter is impacting the behavior of some bird species. The Greater Scaup and the Lesser Scaup are very difficult to differentiate. The following website provides very useful information for comparison purpose.

birding.about.com/od/identifyingbirds/a/scaupidentificati...

Thanks to Gordon Hart who clarified for me the differences between the Greater Scaup and the Lesser Scaup. In this case, the narrow black "nail" on the bill, as well as the peaked head shape are indications that this is a Lesser Scaup. Gordon also indicated that the default for the Victoria area is the "Lesser Scaup" and not the Greater Scaup as I initially mentioned. Great Scaup can be found sometimes at Pat Bay.

C/G ratio 16.85

On Explore Oct 14 , 2013 , #94

The word 'tarim' is used to designate the waters of a river that flow into a lake or that is not able to be differentiated from the sands of a desert . This is an inland river with its waters from the Himalayas which will never reach the sea.

Any of my geographer friends out there , please correct me if I am wrong .

I spotted this Ruff amongst a group of Redshank, another medium sized wader whose vivid red legs differentiated it from this winter plumaged Ruff seen at Welney, Norfolk.

Thank you all for your kind responses.

With a distinctive profile from a long decurved bill, this bristle-thighed curlew is hard to miss. Its name sake bristle feathers around the thighs are the field mark that differentiates it from the similar looking whimbrel. Considered indigenous in Hawaii and known as kioea, this migrant winters in Hawaii and much further south in French Polynesia where it prefers undisturbed short grass fields and sandy shorelines. Nesting in western Alaska and eastern Siberia, some of the French Polynesian cohort selects Hawaii as a mid-migration rest stop.

A resident shrike species - the most beautiful of the 3-4 we have here and a common bird in the countryside. They are easy to id and differentiated from their 2 other cousins by the thick brownish red coat on their backs. Size wise, they are also small and easy to distinguish visually.

Apart from the minor coloration difference, behaviour wise they are very similar the Long Tailed Shrike and Brown Shrike, though the Long tailed Shrike is the biggest of all.

The birds tend to sit on a small thorny bush like this and survey the area - often for 10-15 mins before they dive and get back to the same perch. Sometimes they eat the prey directly where possible, otherwise, the birds impale the prey onto the thorns and eat them.

Thanks in advance for your views and feedback. Much appreciated.

I always find them hard to differentiate in Queensland where their ranges overlap and when in non- breeding plumage, but probably the larger Greater Crested Tern due to pale yellow bill, rather than a Lesser Crested Tern which normally has a slightly more orange bill.

So exegetically we may read the “darkness on the face of the deep” as that darkness from which at another moment Elohim differentiates the light: “God separated the light from the darkness” (1: 4). In other words the original dark is also original light, a depth that contains both darkness and light, or more precisely, transcends that distinction: it would be none other than the “luminous dark.” It is like a picture of the immensity of the universe—vast darkness indeed—through which ripple invisible waves of light-energy. Only with certain instruments, or within the galactic neighborhoods of stars, as with our sun, can the light be distinguished. But Genesis is a theopoetics, not an astrophysics, of light born from this dark.

--On the Mystery, DISCERNING DIVINITY IN PROCESS, Catherine Keller

A thrill to have these fly right past. Note its long beak which differentiates it from the Carnaby's cockatoo.

From my 2023 visit: the shorebird with the longest legs (in relation to body size) patrols shallow water at the edge of the lake. I found a comfortable rock to sit on and just waited for the birds to come to me. Which they did.

This is a female. They are differentiated from males by the brownish plumage on their backs; in the male it is pure black.

Photographed at Pakowki Lake, Alberta (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.

Seventh image in this Insect Series...

The exquisite yellows and golds and oranges on this small butterfly make it a standout, and when paired with the light pink flowers of Sedum 'Autumn Joy', it takes it to an even higher level of beauty.

Two interesting facts about these lovely butterflies:

1 - The species is also commonly called the Alfalfa Butterfly because its caterpillars frequently feed on and are sometimes considered a pest of alfalfa crops.

2 - The males have wings that reflect ultraviolet (UV) light, which is used by the females for species recognition during courtship, helping them differentiate between the Orange Sulfur and similar yellow species.

Photographed in September in our side garden...

The number is not the number of cats I have. They are numbered to give an overview and a differentiation possibility.

The number is not the number of cats I have. They are numbered to give an overview and a differentiation possibility.

The Bristol Scout was designed in 1913 and carries very early WW1 British markings, which were an exact copy of the original French markings - both hastily adopted in an attempt to stop friendly fire from troops on the ground! The British later swapped the red and blue colours to differentiate them.

Of interest is the positioning of the machine gun near the pilot's right arm. You might think that bullets from that could damage the propeller - and they did! Approximately 10% of the bullets fired would go through a propeller blade, and after two or three drums had been discharged, the propeller needed to be replaced! 'Interruptor gear' that synchronised the gun firing with the propeller position didn't come along until 1916, so the Bristol Scout wasn't a very successful fighter plane.

This replica was built by David Bremner, seen here flying it, and his brother and a friend as a tribute to their grandfather who flew one in action in WW1. He survived the conflict, and a few remaining parts of the original plane were found in his possession and incorporated into this fine replica. Seen here at Old Warden, where it is based.

In the Historic Quarters of Pasai Donibane (San Juan) and Pasai San Pedro, the Casa Palaces and family houses of notable importance stand out. These types of buildings, all of them prior to 1800, have a clear typological-architectural differentiation that stands out significantly in the urban fabric: free-standing houses such as the Arizabalo Palace or semi-free houses such as the Platain House, the Miranda House and the Villaviciosa House, all of them in Pasaia Donibane (San Juan).

Excerpts From Wikipedia, 03Nov2021;

Mount Monadnock, or Grand Monadnock, is a mountain in the towns of Jaffrey and Dublin, New Hampshire. At 3,165 feet (965 m), Mount Monadnock is nearly 1,000 feet (305 m) higher than any other mountain peak within 30 miles (48 km) and rises 2,000 feet (610 m) above the surrounding landscape. It is known for being featured in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

Monadnock's bare, isolated, and rocky summit provides expansive views. The summit is barren largely because of fires set by early settlers. The first major fire, set in 1800 to clear the lower slopes for pasture, swept through the stands of virgin red spruce on the summit and flanks of the mountain. Between 1810 and 1820, local farmers, who believed that wolves were denning in the blowdowns, set fire to the mountain again. The conflagration raged for weeks, destroying the topsoil and denuding the mountain above 2,000 feet (610 m).

Monadnock is often claimed to be the second-most frequently climbed mountain in the world, after Mount Fuji in Japan. Monadnock is climbed by 125,000 hikers yearly, while Mount Fuji sees 200,000-300,000 hikers yearly. However, according to UNESCO, Tai Shan in China receives more than 2 million visitors a year, far surpassing the other two peaks in popularity.

The word "monadnock" is derived from an Abenaki word used to describe a mountain. Loosely translated, it means "mountain that stands alone", although the exact meaning of the word is uncertain. The term was adopted by early settlers of southern New Hampshire and later by American geologists as an alternative term for an inselberg or isolated mountain. Mount Monadnock is often called Grand Monadnock, to differentiate it from other Vermont and New Hampshire peaks with "Monadnock" in their names.

Its official name on federal maps is "Monadnock Mountain".