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I promise it's the last one I'll upload this season... unless another one lands on a flower and stays long enough to have a photo taken.
Today it is cold and rainy and really windy so I don't expect to see any around.
The weather has changed. It seems about the 15th of August things go from blistering hot to sort of cool already. And, the past week has been noticeably cooler especially at night ... only +4C this morning... brrrr... already..... I think I'll bake some bread to warm up the kitchen at least. I hope we don't have to turn on the furnace for heat already.. this is just too early to even think about winter weather.
This is a little lady... apparently the two dots on each of the wings indicates that.... a little tidbit I learned this year...
Latham's Snipe (Gallinago hardwickii)
I needed to get out for a walk this morning so decided to head for Skeleton Creek. I went via the Federation Trail Bicycle Path and glad I did. This Snipe was on the western bank of the creek, as I was and I hadn't seen it until it flew across the creek to the eastern bank. Thankfully I chose to take a shot from a great distance (this image has been very heavily cropped) before moving upstream hoping to get a better angle and closer shot. I got the one shot before it flew into the long grass a bit behind where it is here. But at last I have a shot of a Latham's Snipe on the ground - having been trying for years to achieve this result at the Heathdale Glen Orden Wetlands and failing. I have not seen Snipe along Skeleton Creek before. They arrive from Japan (where they breed during the northern hemisphere Spring/Summer) during our Spring and return during our Autumn.
I never expected to see a Yellow-sided skimmer in September since they are usually an early Spring sighting - if at all. She had an odd appearance from my first view here and I wondered if she was an old Spangled skimmer at first with faded "spangles". But then those yellow wings and the thoracic markings. At the wetlands this week, N Georgia
Looking east from Mogshade Pond nr Minstead, new Forest National Park
Well this wasn't what I was expecting when I set off at about 04:30am to go and shoot some heather with the hope of some mist. I went to Bratley View to see what was going on and was pretty disappointed as when I got there not a hint of mist and no obvious shots 'near' the parking area as light was flat and I could not spend long as had to get to work. I thought I'd go scout the area around Mogshade pond on the other side of the road whilst I was there.
Started shooting but light remained mostly flat with the odd burst of light when the sun briefly found a gap in the clouds.
However, across to the east there seemed to be some light coming through and when I glanced back the next time a small area of the landscape was really kicking off!
I quickly banged on the 70-200mm lens and forgot about heather and just started snapping away. It was just a few mins then the sun rose a bit too high but for those few mins the mixture of light generating the heat to create the mist was fabulous to see. It was no more then a few degrees on the horizon but the power of the zoom really brings the image to life. Wished I hadn't left the 100-400mm in the car!
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We expect a species with the name Western Bluebird will be colourful, and it doesnāt disappoint. This male has the additional highlight of an area of bright chestnut plumage. This individual was seen in the White Lake Grasslands Protected Area near Okanagan Falls in southcentral British Columbia, Canada ā a great spot to sight the species.
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I expected a nice sunset today on the beach. In El Porto, I always take a few shots of the power plant as the sky is always pink n that direction. Today the reflection of the lights on the sand was very nice, and the surfboard is a nice coincidence.
When planning a fall trip to Montana I never expected three separate snow storms within a week but that exactly what happened. Here an eastbound empty hopper train climbs Bozeman Pass on the morning after the third storm of the week as the sun highlights the mountain peaks above.
We traveled North looking for snow with a good forecast promised. Patchy low cloud was disappointing until we reached Earl Sterndale and could see Chrome and Parkhouse Hills with their heads above the cloud. The choice of walk was then easy to make!
After two hours of waiting I hear a gentle rustling of dry leaves and then here she comes out of the woods.
The scene will repeat itself punctually for several evenings.
Dopo due ore di attesa sento un delicato rumore di foglie secche e poi eccola uscire dal bosco.
La scena si ripeterĆ per alcune sere.
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Reine on Moskenes island, Lofoten archipelago in Northern Norway. All day we had most amazing cloudscapes showing up over these picturesque basalt mountains.
As expected the charger for my camera made a surprise reappearance on the day after Iād bought a new one. Anyway, I was able to take photos of my new home again and did a little tour around a bird sanctuary on Sunday where I took this shot. Unfortunately my computer is still in a box, and I canāt geotag my photos on my tablet; but honestly that doesnāt really matter anyway as the Flickr app tells me that supposedly I took all my geotagged photos in Arinacrinachd, Scotland. (I hope I got that right... does anyone know how to pronounce it? Just out of curiosity LOL)
Yes, it is April but that does not mean that we are guaranteed no more snow. I remember one year we had a major storm on April 17. So I am keeping those snow tires on and the shovel in the trunk.
At no point this year did I expect to catch a matched pair of warbonnets on a CPKC train...nearly 30 years after the official loss of Santa Fe to the BNSF merger.
After hours of blocking moves by UP at Valley Junction in East St. Louis, Illinois, CPKC M259 is finally on the move and headed for M&O Junction. There, the crew will flip the power to put the bad-ordered leader in trail, then head north to Roodhouse, and west to Kansas City.
Had to get this cool and unusual consist once I heard about it coming down on M258 the day prior. Thanks to DL and DM and all the other birdies who kept track of this move for the greater good of mankind.
It's always fun to find the unusual examples of the early wildflowers. As you might expect, Wild Blue Phlox is usually.....blue. The blue can range from very light blue to very dark purple. But I don't see the white ones too often.
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Beginning in February we expect to see wild mustard and greening grass turn Northern California fields, hills, and vineyards into a feast for the eyes.
Brassica ā wild mustard ā is not native to California, and is considered invasive. I read somewhere that it was brought here by early Franciscan missionaries ā but that might just be a legend. Grape growers find it useful as ground cover which they turn under later as mulch.
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They expect me to take part in the annual Lunar Festival, as if it's an easy feat to step into the spotlight without a momentās rest. Yet no time is given to rehearse, no space offered to prepare ā only expectations piled high like moonlight on snow. So here I am, practicing in secret, hidden away in quiet corners, stealing moments just to make sure I don't embarrass myself when the curtain rises.
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Another bird we expect to see in our visits to Southern Arizona.
From the Cornell Lab:
"Dapper in looks and cheerful in song, the Pyrrhuloxia is a tough-as-nails songbird of baking hot deserts in the American Southwest and northern Mexico. Theyāre closely related to Northern Cardinals, but they are a crisp gray and red, with a longer, elegant crest and a stubby, parrotlike yellow bill. During breeding season Pyrrhuloxias are fiercely and vocally territorial, but in the winter they forget their disputes and join together in large foraging flocks."
This one was following the script, being "fiercely and vocally territorial" in Sabino Canyon Recreation Area, Arizona.
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Not expecting much input re this image however when trawling through some old files I re-found this. I liked it at the time as it's such a magical part of the world.
I certainly did not expect to see a merganser cruising the crystal clear waters of Lake Tahoe, but here she is. We came upon her sleeping on a beach area. A crow startled her and she slipped into the water to resume her napping. Eventually, she did the routine - a little preening, drinking that fresh water, and finally off to fish. She was all alone. I don't know if she missed the flight. But it was a lovely afternoon for a cruise I guess.
Do not be tethered by your expectations, they may often dissappoint. Expectations without attachment allows you to be flexible in all situations. Expect nothing, receive everything.
Expect one, get two! A pair of Network Rail's Stoneblowers stop off briefly on centre road at Lincoln Station before carrying on to their final destination 4th October 2021.
These two are always going at it (rough housing) ....teeth bared and hooves flying. It took me by total surprise to turn around and see this for a change: )
I didn't expect i will share this photo in such circumstances.
Crocus City stands on the stripe of land outside the Moscow's border, right between Moscow Circular Road (ŠŠŠŠ) and the river. It consists of a few commercial buildings: few malls, oceonarium and finally music hall / exposition hall - a very large pavilion left to the Giant Wheel on this photo.
Yesterday's night it has been under a terrorist attack allegedly executed by 4-5 migrants from Tajikistan and ISIS claimed to stand behind it.
By now the media claim 115 people died and more than a hundred hospitalized, many in critical condition. There is no official info yet but i believe about a half of the victims could die because of the intoxication due the fire caused by the attackers while the victims were hiding somewhere in the building.
This seems to be the major failure of our security services in ages. When Russia got involved in the fight on ISIS in Syria in 2015 the islamists threatened us badly, but backthen a few attacks were prevented by FSB (as i remember also a group of Tajik nationals were caught once). But in today's reality our security services are busy of putting in prison hundreds of people who verbally opposed the war in Ukraine or the anti-corruption activists related to Navalny, as they are now called the "extremists" as well as the LGBT movement etc. Of course they have not enough time to investigate islamic terrorism, even after being warned by US officials. Pathetic.
edit: 133 died by the end of 23.03.2024
June 16, 2017 - Hwy 30 East of Schuyler Nebraska US
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Not many chase days in the month of June 2017, as this day turned out way better than expected. You never know what you might encounter on a decent moderate risk day which was mostly on the eastern side of Nebraska and Western Iowa.
These first cells were moving from the north to the south as I encountered them just to the east of Schuyler Nebraska. I didn't have to to travel to western Iowa as all the action stayed in eastern Nebraska that day. It was mostly an HP mess for most of the ride till then.
Some decent structure out in front of this cell, so you know I what I was doing!
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Working atm on the June 2020 exhibition @ Nitroglobus
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Do make a note in your agenda: Monday 8 June, 12 pm SLT (= 21 hrs GMT+1) it's party time!
Surely we've said goodbye to winter, expecting to move from a warm Spring towards summer as May arrives!
Well, not here in northern Scotland! Sadly we have had too many sub-zero nights, with snow, hail and driving rain to call it anything but winter! The garden is determinedly trying to offer fresh green buds as the apple blossom struggles to replace the pink of our Japanese plum tree. As I write this I've been out shooting a hillside shrouded in mist ... and the birds are still needing their winter rations of seed in the feeders. Even the pheasants are still sheltering in the garden. Not much summer evident yet! All our hopes now hang on the new month ushering in the true warmth of summer.
Somehow April has slipped past so quickly that it's hard to remember it ... so my collage has been a good reminder to me that actually the 30 days were full of brightness, if only through the camera lens - and snatched moments of early sunshine. So much indoors shooting ... as the weather permits little else.
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