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Animals never cease to surprise me. Miss Piggy, a Kunekune pig, lives on a little farm which is part of the park where I went yesterday to watch the ducklings. I walked past the farm on my way to the pond and noticed Miss Piggy on the pasture. Actually Miss Piggy is hard to overlook as she is huge but what caught my attention was the fact that she seemed to be very interested in the dandelions. I zoomed closer and this is what I saw, a pig blowing a dandelion ! I should really go to this park more often, the animals there seem to be quite fascinating .....
Hua Lamphong Station ~ Pathum Wan District ~ Bangkok, Thailand
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 200, f/8.0, 200mm, 1/250s
Fascinating canyon carved through igneous rock as a series of potholes drilled into the stone and gradually widened and fused together. Hidden Canyon marks the lower end of a series of 6 distinct drops in a 1/4 mile section of the river just above Hwy 61
Fascinating architecture -
This is not a modern railway system, it is a skyscraper.
Looking up to the Skygarden along the reflecting glass facade.
Another mesmerising day on top of the cliffs at Port MacDonnell in South Australia gazing at a gentle swell rolling in from the southwest. The rock formation in the sea to the top right is known as Rhino rock and on really wild days it gets swamped by the breaking waves. It frequently is covered with sea birds, and today there were a good number of black faced cormorants.
Fascinating concertina extension service cables for one side of a moveable pair of buildings (on tracks) that services airplane wings. The top one for compressed air is broken, while the bottom one for electricity is intact.
WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre.
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The Nēnē, or Hawaiian Goose (Branta sandvicensis), has one of the most fascinating ecological and conservation stories in the avian world.
Evolutionary History & Island Life
Canada Goose Ancestry:
DNA studies show the Nēnē evolved from Canada Geese that flew to the islands roughly 500,000 years ago.
No Long Migrations:
Unlike their North American relatives, the Hawaiian Goose is non-migratory. It stays on the islands year-round.
Lava Terrain Adapters: Their feet are only semi-palmated (half-webbed). The webbing has shrunk over millennia to expose longer, independent toes with rugged pads, giving them the grip needed to navigate jagged, cooled volcanic plains (kīpuka).
Flight and Altitude:
While they spend most of their time walking on land, they are fully capable of flight. They can be found from sea level up to volcanic heights of 8,000 feet.
Diet and Hydration
True Herbivores:
They do not forage in water like ducks. Instead, they graze strictly on land, eating the leaves, flowers, seeds, and berries of over 50 native and introduced plant species.
Volcanic Survival:
Because standing water is scarce on porous volcanic rock, they have adapted to pull almost all of their daily hydration from the succulent plants and moisture-rich wild berries they digest.
Social Life and Mating
Lifelong Partners:
Nēnē are deeply loyal and form exclusive, lifelong pair-bonds.
Nesting Habits:
They nest directly on the ground, carefully hiding their large eggs under low-growing brush. They lay 2 to 5 eggs per clutch, which require a roughly 30-day incubation period.
A Historic Conservation Comeback
The Nēnē holds a legendary status in wildlife conservation as a species brought back from the absolute brink: [1]
The Crash:
An estimated 25,000 Nēnē lived in Hawaii in the late 1700s. However, hunting and human-introduced predators (pigs, mongooses, rats, and feral cats) decimated them. By 1952, only about 30 individual birds survived in the wild.
The Rescue:
Renowned conservationist Sir Peter Scott stepped in, bringing a few birds to the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) at Slimbridge in England to initiate a desperate captive breeding initiative.
The Present:
Thanks to that international program and ongoing local predator control by organizations like the Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife, the population has successfully rebounded to around 4,000 birds in the wild. They have officially been downlisted from "Endangered" to "Threatened" status.
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Culross Abbey stands on the hillside above the beautiful and fascinating village of Culross. It's about a third of a mile walk from the centre of the village and a 165ft climb, but the narrowness of the roads at the top of the hill still mean that you are best advised parking in one of the car parks in Culross and walking from there.
A visit to Culross Abbey can be a slightly puzzling experience, because a number of factors conspire to make it more difficult than you might expect to make sense of what you are seeing. One of these is the steep slope of the site, meaning that you are tending to be looking uphill from a basement level perspective much of the time. The second is that the cloister has been made into a garden for the manse, which itself has been made out of the north end of the west range.
Nonetheless, a visit is also a fascinating experience, in part because you need to think about what you are looking at. Access to "the Abbey" leads you past the now open south end of the west range of the cloister, complete with its vaulted ceilings at basement and ground floor level, and past the outside of the inner wall of the south range of the cloister at basement level. You end up in the remains of what would once have been the meeting of the east and south ranges, looking up past the foundations of the chapter house to the south transept of the abbey church.
To continue your investigation you need to exit the gate giving access to the abbey grounds, and go up the hill, past the garden to the west of the manse to the corner of the street beyond it. Here the north wall of the manse leads continuously to the south-west corner of the 84ft tower that stands at the west end of what is now the parish church, though still called Culross Abbey Church.
What you need to realise at this point is that the tower stands in what, until about 1500, was the middle of the abbey church. To its east stood the chancel, now used as the parish church. But there was also a nave which, except for parts of its south wall and what then became the base of the tower, has disappeared entirely. Stone from the nave and other parts of the abbey would have been recycled into the manse, built in 1647, and its western extension, built in 1840: and, doubtless, into other buildings on view in the neighbourhood. The church itself has also been extensively remodelled on a number of occasions since the demise of the abbey in the Reformation in 1560.
Culross Abbey was founded in 1217 by Malcolm, 3rd Earl of Fife, who brought Cistercian monks here from Kinloss Abbey. The sloping site is not an easy one, and it is said that Malcolm picked this spot because it was believed to have been the site of a monastery associated with St Serf, St Mungo and St Theneva in the 500s.
My friends were having some deep conversation while I was enjoying the unlimited views of the fascinating gardens! The one in full suit is so familiar with the views as he’s living there for over a decade. The other in red pullover was a visitor -just like me- but he got entrapped in that conversation and missed out great part of the paradise he was walking though, the thing he later regretted.
To avoid getting entrapped, I slowed down until there was a gap between me and them. So, I took the chance to document that event of my friends conversing in the wrong place at the wrong time!
It’s old and of no great quality, but I really like this photo.
Sometimes light filtered through a cloudy sky can be more fascinating than brilliant sunshine (or maybe that’s the Scot in me talking!).
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
HBW Everyone! :D
“I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.” - Jack Dorsey.
I took this image in June when the ferns were so fresh in the forest. You know they are actually considered a weed by some experts of plants. I was going through some images I had saved on my iPad and this one was a nice reminder that we need to get out and hike more.
Fascinating rocks around Ringing Roger, weather beaten looking like they have been poured on top of each other sitting amongst the heathers.
A stream of early light lit up the Great Ridge beautifully.
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Fascinating Iceland - Mittel-Island, Hochlandpiste Kjölur neben dem Langjökull
Fascinating Iceland - Central Iceland, Kjölur highland track next to Langjökull
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The Icelandic Highland is a huge uninhabited area of Iceland basically covering the center and sometimes stretching to places near the shore. The whole highland area is loaded with natural wonders, hiking trails, places to visit, fascinating geology, mountains, geothermal pools, waterfalls, and much more. It is characterized and defined by altitude as the term Highland implies. It is mostly above 350 meters and thus usually rather cold and seldom specifically warm. In any sense of the word, it is extremely sensitive. The soil, the lava, the moss, the vegetation, the roads, the hiking trails.
Most of the time the whole area is under snow. Almost nine months of the year. Only in the summer does the Highland reveal itself and start blooming and exposing its vegetation, crystal clear creeks, and beautiful mountains with thousands of colors. In large areas, it consists of vast black sands, dark lava, suspiciously looking rocks, powerful rivers flooding from under glaciers, and long horizons. If there is one message or one thing an Icelander would tell you about the Highland it would be to understand the sensitivity of this harsh landscape.
Source: Hit Iceland
Fascinating little creatures. They look like tiny tribal masks on legs. Overall length of this one was about one centimetre.
Vicki, a photographer, introduced herself after I took this image of her observing Jackson Pollock's 'Blue Poles'.
I should have asked her what she was thinking while looking at the painting.
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
While there have been many attempts to recreate the process of flying, none have come closer to paragliding.
Switzerland is often thought of as heaven on earth due to its mesmerizing and spectacular views. Looking at this paradise while soaring in the sky is an extraordinary experience.
People who’ve done it describe the experience as fascinating and almost like being a bird.
I'm happy enough just by photographing them from afar 😊; having a zoom lens would have been wonderful but not possible when traveling light.
(There are two paraglides in this photo.)
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Galapagos Islands
Off the coast Of Equador
San Salvador Island a/k/a Santiago Island
James Bay
The Galapagos marine iguana is an ugly reptile with amazing abilities. Charles Darwin on visiting the islands classified the animals as revolting. I found them to be very fascinating.
The marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) is an iguana found only on the Galápagos Islands that has the ability, unique among modern lizards, to forage in the sea, making it a marine reptile. They can dive down up to 30 feet into the water to find food. They have a natural ability to swim and to move around with speed.
Since much of the Galapagos Marine Iguana’s time is spent in the water there is still a great deal that we don’t know about them. It is known that they must come to land to help with regulating their temperature. The water is too cold for them to remain in it all the time.
When the body temperature drops too much, they have a hard time moving and that makes them vulnerable to predators such as frigate birds and the Galapagos hawk. They will become more aggressive too when they are cooler. They tend to spend time on rocks by the water with their head upwards to soak up as much sunlight as they can at once. - Wikipedia
RKO_6905. From the archives. When scrolling through my archive I found this nice shot. Looking at the image I wonder why I din't take a landscape shot with some more space at the side of its head.....😏
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In a city center it can get impossible to single out people for me, to many and too much. Miss the wild forest , the sea or a giant mountain. Even the fog they created turned black smoke . On the other hand .... i taken the shot .
experiment with long exposure , holding a dark paper on and off the lens.