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Never a dull day in the desert! One of our goals was to photograph a Great Roadrunner. We had been looking high and low with little success. This one came to us!! Beep! Beep!
Black-Capped Chickadee.
Between 4 3/4 to 5 3/4 inches long. Black cap and throat, white cheeks, gray back and dull white underparts. Wing feathers narrowly and indistinctly edged with white.
They can be found in deciduous and mixed forests, and open woodlands and suburban areas in winter.
They range from Alaska east across Canada to Newfoundland, and south to northern California, northern New Mexico, Missouri and northern New jersy. Winters south to Maryland and Texas.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
A trip to Banff would not be completed without taking a photo of this iconic turquoise color lake with Victoria Glacier as the backdrop, even on a dull, cloudy and windy day! 😊
Thank you sincerely for your kind visit, please have a nice week ahead!🌹💕
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Het groot sterrenscherm of Zeeuws knoopje (Astrantia major)
De wortelstok en het kruid worden tot op vandaag in de volksgeneeskunde gebruikt als maagversterkend middel. Stoffen in de plant werken gunstig op de afscheiding van maagsappen en worden bijvoorbeeld in poedervorm ingenomen. Wordt ook gebruikt als eetlustopwekkend middel.
Overdosering kan tot vergiftigingsverschijnselen leiden.
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The large star screen or Zeeland knot (Astrantia major)
The rhizome and herb are used in folk medicine to this day as a stomach tonic. Substances in the plant have a favorable effect on the secretion of gastric juices and are taken, for example, in powder form. Also used as an appetite stimulant.
Overdose can lead to poisoning symptoms.
"smile on saturday" theme "flowers in march".
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Black-Capped Chickadee.
Between 4 3/4 to 5 3/4 inches long. Black cap and throat, white cheesk, gray back and dull white underparts. Wing feathers narrowly and indistinctly edged with white.
They can be found in deciduous and mixed forests, and open woodlands and suburban areas in winter.
They range from Alaska east across Canada to Newfoundland, and south to northern California, northern New Mexico, Missouri and northern New jersy. Winters south to Maryland and Texas.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
Today people in Germany celebrate „ Sunday in commemoration of the dead“, traditionally the last Sunday before Advent. Our language even deals with an expression for the typical weather for this day. Totensonntagwetter as we say is dull, grey and misty. And as any self fulfilling prophecy we experienced this in the highest degree the worst pessimist could imagine. Nevertheless we were hiking on the new motorway (will be opened in two weeks). Bikers, skaters and hikers had great fun waking on ta track where in a fortnight vehicles will perform with high speed. Unfortunately the mist was too dense to take goo shots. So I place an October shot in b/w. Porta Westfalica, Ostwestfalen, Germany.
This photo was taken at the Mistico Arenal Hanging Bridges trails. It is a very difficult bird to photograph... Always near to the ground and in the darkness of the rainforest.
La Fortuna de San Carlos - Costa Rica
"Don’t leave your room, don’t commit that fateful mistake.
Why risk the sun? Just settle back at home and smoke.
Outside’s absurd, especially that whoop of joy,
you’ve made it to the lavatory--now head back straight away!
Don’t leave your room, don’t go and hail a taxi, spend,
the only space that matters is the corridor, its end
a ticking meter. She comes by, all ready for caressing,
mouth open? Kick her straight out, don’t even start undressing.
Don’t leave your room, just say you have the influenza.
A wall and table are the most fascinating agenda.
Why leave this place? Tonight you will come home from town
exactly as you were, only more beaten down.
Don’t leave your room. Go dance the bossa nova,
shoes without socks, your body bare and coat tossed over.
The hallway holds its smells of ski wax and boiled cabbage,
writing even one letter more is excess baggage.
Don’t leave your room. Do you still look handsome?
Just ask the room… Incognito ergo sum,
as petulant Substance once remarked to Form.
It’s not exactly France outside. Don’t leave your room!
Don’t be an idiot! You’re not the others, you’re an exclusion!
Choreograph the furniture, essay wall-paper fusion.
Make that wardrobe a barricade. The fates require us
to keep out Cosmos, Chronos, Eros, Race and Virus!"
Joseph Brodsky
1970
The dull light of Autumn made this a difficult shot.
Wren - Troglodytidae
Cycle Path Appin Scotland
Many thanks as always to those kind enough to comment and fave my photos or even to drop by for a quick peek. It is very much appreciated.
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I hope you all of you had a merry Christmas. We just arrived from our second visit to Costa Rica.
This photo was taken at the Mistico Arenal Hanging Bridges trails. It is a very difficult bird to photograph... Always near to the ground and in the darkness of the rainforest.
La Fortuna de San Carlos - Costa Rica
Red Grouse - Lagopus lagopus scotica
Scottish Moors
The red grouse, Lagopus lagopus scotica, is a medium-sized bird of the grouse family which is found in heather moorland in Great Britain and Ireland. It is usually classified as a subspecies of the willow ptarmigan but is sometimes considered to be a separate species, Lagopus scotica. It is also known as the moorcock, moorfowl or moorbird. Lagopus is derived from Ancient Greek lagos (λαγος), meaning "hare", + pous (πους), "foot", in reference to the feathered feet and toes typical of this cold-adapted genus, and scoticus is "of Scotland".
The red grouse is widely known as the logo of The Famous Grouse whisky and an animated bird is a character in a series of its adverts. The red grouse is also the emblem of the journal British Birds.
The red grouse is differentiated from the willow ptarmigan and rock ptarmigan by its plumage being reddish brown, and not having a white winter plumage. The tail is black and the legs are white. There are white stripes on the underwing and red combs over the eye. Females are less reddish than the males and have less conspicuous combs. Young birds are duller and lack the red combs.
The red grouse is endemic to the British Isles; it has developed in isolation from other subspecies of the willow ptarmigan which are widespread in northern parts of Eurasia and North America.
It is found across most parts of Scotland, including Orkney, Shetland and most of the Outer Hebrides. They are only absent from urban areas, such as in the Central Belt.
In Wales there are strong populations in places but their range has retracted. They are now largely absent from the far south, their main strongholds being Snowdonia, the Brecon Beacons and the Cambrian Mountains. There are reports of Welsh birds crossing the Bristol Channel to Exmoor.
In England it is mainly found in the north – places such as the Lake District, Northumberland, County Durham, much of Yorkshire, the Pennines and the Peak District, as far south as the Staffordshire Moorlands. There is an isolated introduced population on Dartmoor, and overspill Welsh birds visit the Shropshire Hills such as Long Mynd, where they breed. The Exmoor population would now appear to be extinct, with the last birds sighted as recently as 2005. An introduced population in Suffolk died out by the early 20th century, though a population on Cannock Chase in Staffordshire lasted longer.
The British population is estimated at about 250,000 pairs with around 1–5,000 pairs in Ireland. Numbers have declined in recent years and birds are now absent in areas where they were once common. Reasons for the decline include loss of heather due to overgrazing, creation of new conifer plantations and a decline in the number of upland gamekeepers. Some predators such as the hen harrier feed on grouse and there is ongoing controversy as to what effect these have on grouse numbers.
Red grouse have been introduced to the Hautes Fagnes region of Belgium but the population there died out in the early 1970s.
The red grouse is considered a game bird and is shot in large numbers during the shooting season which traditionally starts on August 12, known as the Glorious Twelfth. There is a keen competition among some London restaurants to serve freshly killed grouse on August 12, with the birds being flown from the moors and cooked within hours.
Terrell's Island, Lake Butte des Morts
Omro/Oshkosh/Winneconne, Winnebago County, Wisconsin
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Another dull, wet and very windy day today.
The Starlings and their young were all over my feeding station must have been 20 of them in quite a small area.
The Sparrowhawk missed, I can only assume he wasn't really hungry.
Settled in the tree for a while but no birds came back until he had gone.
I don't let the weather stop me as long as it's not raining.
The Puntledge river near the Comox Lake Dam Courtenay.
Grauscheitel-Ameisenvogel - Sipia laemosticta
This bird is always on the ground of the dark rain forest.
At the end of October I went over to Burnham Beeches to photograph the autumn colours. it was a dull day but that highlighted the colours
Standing under the Winter tree
Mist it falls , on you and me
By the lake, so beautiful
Shining under the sky, now dull
That kisses the mist that doe fall
On the tree, so cold and tall
Where we stand, hand in hand
Lost in sweet dreams, of our secret land
Really dull in winter, but so beautiful in breeding plumage. But I almost always photograph them in winter. :-(
Vraiment très ordinaire l'hiver, pourtant tellement magnifique en plumage nuptial. Mais bon, je les photographie presque toujours l'hiver. :-(
San Francisco Bay, CA, USA
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day...
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Last weekend I had a early start and it looked very promising, but the beautiful morning light did never come. Making one stop just to collect proof for being out, and then back home preparing breakfast for the family.
A close up of some of the many gorse bushes on Coombe Hill, the yellow flowers brighting up a dull day.
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Binnenin de vrucht bevindt zich een harig pluis met de zaden. Deze pluis wordt gebruikt om jeukpoeder van te maken, en het is dan ook raadzaam om handschoenen te gebruiken bij verwijdering. Ook is het onverstandig om de pluis op te eten omdat deze de maag kan irriteren
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Inside the fruit is a hairy fluff containing the seeds. This fluff is used to make itching powder, so it is advisable to use gloves when removing it. It is also unwise to eat the fluff because it can irritate the stomach