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Black-capped Chickadee digging a nesting hole. Les Sherman park, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. 27 March 2022
still digging into the past (aka. hard drive) a bit looking at some shots I might have missed. This one is from around Lake Minnewanka on a cold morning. Banff, Alberta, Canada
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This oystercatcher was doing a pretty good job at finding which shell contained some food and which ones were empty.... How can they know and be so effective in their search? I am not sure, but here is what the Cornell lab of Ornithology says of their eating habits. I did not know that the search for food could be that dangerous to them.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Oystercatcher/lifehi...
American Oystercatchers use their long, bladelike, orange bills to catch shellfish unawares, seizing them before they can close up. They walk across shellfish beds and when they encounter one that is partially open, they jab their bill into the shell and sever the strong muscle that clamps the shells shut. The technique is not without its risks though—oystercatchers do sometimes drown after a tightly rooted mussel clamps down on their bills and holds the bird in place until the tide comes in. The birds also feed by carrying loose shellfish out of the water and hammering at the shell, or by probing for buried soft-shell or razor clams the way some other shorebirds do.
Berlin, Germany – 2018, September 29
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Still life with dandelions, string and terracotta pots. That's about the extent of my gardening skills.
Conrail JR-5 has just been lit up at CP Port and continues south down the Garden State Secondary with SD40-2s 8850, 8029, and GP40-2 6228.
I'm digging into the archives, haven't had too much time to take new pics lately.
Here, the praying mantis has returned. He's on my hand. He's all alien-proud and bug-happy. Because soon he's gonna eat himself a big fat carpenter bee. Yum! Mmm. Delicious.
Listen, let's be clear, praying mantises are weird. I'll tell you a story about a mantis. The wife and I were sitting outside a museum, and upon the bench arm sat a praying mantis.
As cars would go by down the street, his head would turn and follow them. And he'd gaze quizzically as they passed.
Now, I don't know about you, but I've never seen an insect with that kind of... awareness? If you moved your hand around, he watched it, followed it.
It was like playing with a cat or something, if the cat were green and small and looked like something from Mars.
1940's poster, seen at Hughenden Mansion, a National Trust property in Buckinghamshire. Propaganda has always been part of the war effort. However, here at Hughenden, a lot more than propaganda was created. In fact, this place was the most secret centre of aerial photography and cartography which in turn allowed British and American bombers to target (mostly) German cities. The Germans were aware of this facility and, in vain, tried to attack it from the air.
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On the way home last night I saw cars that were completely buried, these folks are the "lucky" ones!
For Our Daily Challenge.
The challenge - Scattered
45cm is more than a scattering of snow!
#4 on Flickr Explore December 28th, 2012
I'm not sure if this fox squirrel is looking for some goodies—or maybe planting something for the future! Last summer when I went to replant annual flowers in my deck pots, I found a little cache of peanuts down in the soil!
E-P5 / Olympus 60mm 2.8 / Raynox DCR-250
Messing around with a new technique, doing combined natural light and flash focus stack of unknown parasitoid wasp. Was observed taking massive beetles much larger than itself from a tree in a controlled fall and dragging them into a burrow in muddy soil next to mangroves.
My sister's Jack-O-Lantern Goodie Bowl was a fairly big, so the squirrels had to dig deep in order to reach those sumptuous goodies stashed inside.
Most squirrels just hung precariously on the edge, like this one, perhaps not quite willing to "commit" and jump right in just yet.
Needless to say, our Backyard Harvest Fest, for our furry and feathered friends did not disappoint.
This is from back in the day when there was plenty of activity down in the open cast pit at Fuxin. But the bucket shovels were searching for seams of coal that were already running out.
I detect there is a narrow gauge electric line at the top of the picture. I guess that’s the track running to the depot on the south side of the pit, but how did it fit in with the grand scheme of things.
The big electric loco was bringing the coal up to the rim for use in the local power station.
Fuxin open cast coal mine, Liaoning Province, China.
September 2004. © David Hill.