A Guide To The Birds Of Europe
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♂Aeshna affinis (Vander Linden,1820). Habia volando a nuestro alrededor varios ejemplares, acercándose a veces tanto que no entraban en el encuadre de la cámara. Aguna se paro y se dejo retratar. Pasamos unos dias increibles de amigos y bichos en Carboneras de Guadazaón, Cuenca.
Southern Emerald Damselfly
Zwervende pantserjuffer
Leste sauvage
Lestes barbarus
Südliche Binsenjungfer
El caballito del diablo esmeralda
Vandrande smaragdflickslända
Pałątka południowa
Foltosszárnyjegyű rabló
Uno de los mas bellos Aeshnidae, lo tenía pendiente de fotografiar en España, ya lo había conseguido hace unos años en Kirguistán donde es abundantísimo, no lo es tanto en nuestro país y en concreto en Madrid está muy localizada.
En una visita ayer a una de sus colonias conocidas pasé un buen rato fotografiando unos pocos ejemplares (6 ó 7) todos machos y ya algo batallados como se puede apreciar en sus alas, de las hembras, ni rastro.
Out doing stuff with Charlie, so will catch up from work tonight. Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.
Stonechat - Saxicola Torquata
The stonechat is 11.5–13 cm long and weighs 13–17 g, slightly smaller than the European robin. Both sexes have distinctively short wings, shorter than those of the more migratory whinchat and Siberian stonechat.
The summer male has black upperparts, a black head, an orange throat and breast, and a white belly and vent. It also has a white half-collar on the sides of its neck, a small white scapular patch on the wings, and a very small white patch on the rump often streaked with black. The female has brown upperparts and head, and no white neck patches, rump or belly, these areas being streaked dark brown on paler brown, the only white being the scapular patch on the wings and even this often being buffy-white.
European stonechats breed in heathland, coastal dunes and rough grassland with scattered small shrubs and bramble, open gorse, tussocks or heather. They are short-distance migrants or non-migratory, with part of the population (particularly from northeastern parts of the range, where winters are colder) moving south to winter further south in Europe and more widely in north Africa.
Population:
UK breeding:
59,000 pairs
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Die Traubenhyazinthe kam im 15. Jahrhundert aus der Türkei nach Deutschland. In Unterfranken wird sie "Schlotfeger" genannt.
(Opteka Nahlinse 10x)
- Grape hyacinth -
Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people. No food and three gallons of gas in the tank. The father is trying to repair a tire. Three children. Father says, "It's tough but life's tough anyway you take it"
Dorothea Lange, photographer, August 1936
Original picture:
www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8b29791/
Library of Congress, USA
© Dorothea Lange, 1936
© Alain Girard, Restored & Colorized, 2022
One year, possibly even two years. The (first) winter is spent as an egg. Hatching occurs over a long period (no clear peak), from late June to late September.
The larval skins can be found up to several decimeters high on stems of bankside or embankment vegetation.
All kinds of stagnant and slow-flowing, often nutrient-rich and non-acidic waters. In the bankside zone or silted-up vegetation, between plant stems and dead plant material.
The larva can also develop in slightly brackish conditions.
In the Netherlands, the Migrant Hawker breeds in all types of stagnant water, including small and medium-sized ponds, pools, garden ponds, and ditches. It prefers waters with well-developed riparian vegetation, such as broad belts of reeds (Phragmites australis), cattails (Typha sp.), yellow irises (Iris pseudacorus), or rushes (Scirpus sp.), but reproduction also occurs in waters with peat moss (Sphagnum sp.), watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), and water soldier (Stratiotesaloides). The larvae can even develop in brackish water, such as (former) drinking wells, ponds, and small pools in Zeeland, South Holland, and the Wadden Islands.
(Tunisie) - Les îles Kerkennah ont longtemps été un petit paradis dont les habitants vivaient de la pêche et du tourisme. Mais depuis 2018 le paradis est devenu l’une des portes de l’enfer. Les migrants qui souhaitent gagner l’Italie, utilisent les ports du petit archipel tunisien pour rejoindre l’île de Lampedusa en Italie. Certains pêcheurs locaux se sont reconvertis en passeurs, activité lucrative dans un pays cruellement touché par le chômage.
D’autres, qui pour des questions morales, préfèrent continuer à gagner leur vie avec la pêche, remontent de nombreux cadavres dans leurs filets les lendemains de tempêtes.
La photo ci-dessus a été prise en 1996 dans le port de Kraten époque bénie où seuls les poissons se prenaient dans les filets.
Leica M6, 35 mm Summicron, HP5+
Négatif numérisé avec un Nikon D750
The port of Kraten has become the gate of hell
(Tunisia) - The Kerkennah Islands have long been a small paradise whose inhabitants lived off fishing and tourism. But since 2018 paradise has become one of the gates of hell. Migrants wishing to reach Italy use the ports of the small Tunisian archipelago to reach the island of Lampedusa in Italy. Some local fishermen have become smugglers, a lucrative activity in a country severely affected by unemployment.
Others, who for moral reasons, prefer to continue to earn their living with fishing, bring up many corpses in their nets the day after storms.
The photo above was taken in 1996 in the port of Kraten, a blessed time when only the fish were caught in the nets.
Leica M6, 35 mm Summicron, HP5+
Negative scanned with a Nikon D750
“The Rufous Hummingbird makes one of the longest migratory journeys of any bird in the world, as measured by body size. At just over 3 inches long, its roughly 3,900-mile movement (one-way) from Alaska to Mexico is equivalent to 78,470,000 body lengths.” ~ Cornell's all aboutbirds.org
No wonder the little male peanut chooses to perch on the tiny stick each night while here.
"One of the feistiest hummingbirds in North America. The brilliant orange male and the green-and-orange female Rufous Hummingbird are relentless attackers at flowers and feeders, going after (if not always defeating) even the large hummingbirds of the Southwest, which can be double their weight. Rufous Hummingbirds are wide-ranging, and breed farther north than any other hummingbird. Look for them in spring in California, summer in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, and fall in the Rocky Mountains as they make their annual circuit of the West."
Love to see these tiny, feisty hummingbirds.
Chipping sparrows nest here at Lake Meyer Park during the summer, but they also nest as far north as the Canadian arctic region and this bird is almost certain to be a northern migrant. It has a pink bill like field sparrows do, but notice that distinct black stripe running right through its eye. It also sports a neat rusty-red cap. I will be away from Flickr for the next couple nights as I enjoy the season's finest fly fishing action for trout here in the Driftless Region.