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Meerkat / ZOOM Zoo / Gelsenkirchen / North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany
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This little fellow is an expert in his field! A Grey Squirrel that loves peanuts. How does a Squirrel in this part of the country grow up to know that this is something good to eat. The Peanuts don't grow locally, so someone must have taught them that they are good!
Expert commented- APOY round 6, Town and Country. To date I'm in overall 10th place so I can only go up or down from there! Flying the flag for lady photogs though being the only female in the top ten :)
The largest natural lake in the South Tyrol, Lago di Braies is also known as The Emerald of the Dolomites, but, forever changing with the light and seasons, these hues can quickly turn to midnight blue, cobalt and azure.
Having photographed it at different times of the day, it was the early morning that gave the most pleasing light.
Golden hour, if it happens at all, is fleeting because the lake lies in a mountainous bowl which blocks the sun until later in the day. I took this very early in the morning before moonset and while the rising sun was still low but making a brief appearance in-between mountain peaks.
Spot the moon!
Alpine Chough / Alpendohle (Pyrrhocorax graculus)
My first sighting of the awesome Alpine Chough! This was one of a pair that I was pleasantly surprised to see hanging out for a few minutes on the rooftop of the solitary "Grubighütte", situated ~1800m up the at the top of the Grubigstein mountain - just next to the famous 3000m Zugspitze.
Other than their chosen environment, they can be told from other crows by their red legs and slim, downturned bills.
Alpine Choughs are high mountain experts, and are thought to nest at a higher altitude than any other bird. Their eggs are adapted to the thin atmospheres, enabling improved oxygen uptake and reduced water loss. (Wiki)
A white stork efficiently dispatching an eel - apparently their favourite food - on the Ria Formosa at Ludo. The eel was found, killed and swallowed in well under a minute.
I was fooled when I first saw this, thinking it was a real dragonfly.
(Dedicated to my old E-410 ... a great introduction to Olympus cameras).
Not a tank expert, but appears to be a Soviet made T-62 tank. It sits just off the road at Beale AFB, CA, near the entrance to the gun range.
Not knowing the history of this tank, it was probably one used by the US Marine Corps. The United States Marine Corps (USMC) obtained T-62 tanks from Egypt and Israel. The USMC used these tanks at the National Training Center.
The T-62 Main Battle Tank is a Soviet-era armored vehicle.
It was designed in the early 1960s and saw extensive use during the Cold War.
The T-62 featured advanced technology for its time, including a smoothbore gun and composite armor.
The T-62 Main Battle Tank (MBT) was the last in a series of excellent Soviet tank designs that began with the T-34 in the late 1930s.
T-62 production began in 1962, and an estimated 20,000 were built during the next eight years.
The T-62 was not as successful as Soviet designers had hoped. Its main gun could not be aimed low enough to deal with attacking infantry, and its rate of fire was slowed by the complicated fire control system.
I'll readily admit I thought this might be a fragment of fossil wood. However, it has been re-identified by a well-known local expert as the fragment of an Ichthyosaurus rib bone. The specimen is approx 1 3/4" / 4cms long.
Here is Wiki's short version simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyosaurus
Sandy Beach break on a nice day...IF you know what you're doing. If NOT, then an ambulance ride could well be in your immediate future.