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A glen in central Perthshire is an excellent place to see the prime of our upland species. A mixture of cropland and pasture in the valley and grassland, heather and grouse moor on the top
Thought this might make a good Valentine's Day card when the time comes.
A mixture of photo editing used - I couldn't reproduce this if I wanted. I must thank Kerstin Frank for her texture. Thank you Kerstin !
Photo - my own.
Thank you, Bob Seger, for the inspiration for my title.
"She is a mixture of magic. Whimsical desires, chaos and peace. She is her kind - a hurricane. Light and grace."
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Male Satin Bowerbirds are well-known for building a large bower decorated with small blue objects. (eBird)
The male Satin Bowerbird is perhaps the best known and well documented of all the bowerbirds in Australia. This fame partially stems from its practice of building and decorating a bower to attract females. This consists of two parallel walls of sticks, is built on the ground, and is used as a courtship arena during the breeding season. The male decorates it with bright blue coloured objects that it collects; blue clothes pegs, drinking straws and bottle tops are among the favourite stolen items, while bright blue parrot feathers, flowers and brown snail shells, make up the majority of decorations away from human habitation. A mixture of chewed vegetable matter and saliva is used to paint the walls of the bower. The bower owner meticulously maintains it throughout the year. Both mature and immature males build bowers and display to prospective females.
On the arrival of a female, the male Satin Bowerbird leaps into a ritualised display of exaggerated movements, such as strutting and bowing, with wings outstretched and quivering, and accompanied by a variety of mechanical-sounding calls, such as buzzing and rattling interspersed with mimicry. One of the bower decorations is usually carried in the male's bill. If impressed, the female moves into the bower avenue for mating and then leaves to perform the nesting duties on her own, while the male readies himself for courting more prospective females. (Australian Museum)
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I couldn't post photos of the bowerbird pair without the appropriate bower. The little tunnel at the top left of the image is the actual bower where the deed will finally take place. The blue decorations are to attract the female in the first place. I was surprised to see so much blue plastic cutlery scattered among the bottle tops. Perhaps O'Reilly's brings it in especially for the birds. As with other bowerbird bowers, these decorations are valuable and are often stolen from neighbouring bowers. A piece can travel between all the different bowers over the course of the breeding season. Before plastic became available, they would collect blue flowers, feathers and perhaps even stones for the bower.
O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat, Queensland, Australia. October 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Eastern Australia.
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Arriving in the city, she was immediately assaulted by the strange scents: smoke, flowers, the hint of prepared food: all overlaid with decay and desperation. There was an odd mixture of urban architecture with pavements and roads consumed by the flowers that spread rampantly throughout, even inside buildings when she peered through hollow windows and broken doorways.
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Reflected at Eulennest Gallery
Exhibiting through to Dec 5
Edensor (pronounced ‘Enzer’) is a small but pretty village situated within the grounds of the Chatsworth House estate in the Peak District National Park.
The original village was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, at which time it was located along the River Derwent, where the buildings were visible from Chatsworth House. This view displeased the then Duke of Devonshire, William Cavendish, however, and between 1838 and 1842 the entire village was dismantled. Many of the residents were moved to the nearby Chatsworth villages of Beeley and Pilsley, and the planning and building of a new village, over the brow of a hill and out of sight of Chatsworth House, was managed by the famed architect Sir Joseph Paxton.
Only one of the houses, Park Cottage, was allowed to remain in its original position, reputedly because its elderly tenant at the time did not want to move and the Duke took pity on him.
The village is made up of a charming, slightly eccentric mixture of different house styles, from Tudor to Norman, with Swiss-style cottages and Italian-style villas. Rumour has it that the architect who worked with Paxton to produce the designs for the houses, John Robertson, presented the Duke with a selection of house styles to choose from at a time when he was particularly busy, and the Duke – rather distractedly – chose ‘one of each’.
The original church of St Peter’s dated back to the 12th Century. However, in the mid-19th Century it was rebuilt and expanded for the 7th Duke of Devonshire, and its beautiful spire now dominates the skyline. The churchyard contains a number of graves of the Chatsworth’s Cavendish family, including a memorial to Kathleen Kennedy, sister of the former US president John F Kennedy, who was the wife of William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington. The churchyard also contains the grave of Sir Joseph Paxton, the famous architect of the Crystal Palace in London.
* This is the last image from our trip to Malaga in January that I will post for a while. This shows the port area that was pleasantly lively on an evening with its mixture of shops restaurants and bars . In the centre is Malagas eighteenth century lighthouse the port would have looked very different when it was constructed .
It was hand held with ISO at 5,000
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While visiting a lake on the edge of a forest where there were some interesting raptors and large Owls sighted - we came across this dead tree - standing solo in the dried up lake bed. The tree was fascinating, but there are not many birds on it surprisingly. When we took a closer look - sighted these Owlets living in it - no surprise.
They were wide eyed about our presence and had a mixture of curiosity, suspicion and alarm about what we could do. We sat on the banks some distance away and enjoyed watching them. Luckily the weather was awesome and it was a memorable day.
These are resident owls in the country and a lot more common than I thought and what most people think. Behind my house in the university there are almost 6-7 of them and sometimes in the night we can hear their calls and fights.
Thank you so much in advance for your views and feedback. Much appreciated.
You never know what you are going to get at the high tide roost at Port Seton, East Lothian. Here we have Red Knot (looking rather grey). Turnstone. Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover and even a Starling thrown in. This was taken in mid-August
The northern edge of Big Cimarron Valley has an unusual mixture of sagebrush, Gambel oak and aspen. Regrettably, I made the trip too early.
"Life is a mixture of light and shadow,
calm and storm, and it's all good."
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and a pleasant weekend for all of you.
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Norman admires the grey house whose stucco is nearly complete. Behind Norman is a brown house that was completed some days ago.
The sky is grey with a mixture of fog and wildfire smoke.
Contractor Norman Hudson called me on February 18, 2021 to tell me he was in line to get the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. He died two days later, at 77 years of age. He thus fulfilled his often-expressed desire never to retire.
I think I can say on this on is the bigger yellow circle represents the sun & the two smaller ones represent the universe then I can say on this one that the purple figure of a man represents a man & the rest of the purple represents a audience you can see other heads of people close to man figure & think he is addressing the other people the red & parts of trees a little green represents nature then below that you can see in yellow a skeleton of a person lying down & in light blue I can say that is another body lying together then you can see a white area that I can say is mankind & it’s complexity of society then you see a horse this represents the animal world & sprites the green & the mixture of colors that the horse is on represents you the view & the world around Thanks for looking!!!!
Finally it's the Japanese maple season, even tho when we went there yday, only 60% of maple trees turned red, but the Green, Orange, Red mixture is pretty as well! Blue color is the color of sky, i'm still trying to remember what was the thing look purple in the picture lol!
"The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue."
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Freezing temperatures and water offer up so many interesting forms. As long as one has sure footing, it's an adventure to headout on the ice.
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A stunning flower both yellow and orange, a glorious mixture.
Everyday I have the pleasure and privilege of working with beauty.
It is a voyage of discovery, working forensically on flowers, new things every day.
Nature at its very best.
I love Ranunculus, densely layered, and this bloom opened beautifully, not always evident, their stems are extremely delicate and do tend to just collapse before the bud can open into a gorgeous voluptuous bloom...
With love to you and thanK you for ALL your faves and comments, M, (* _ *)
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Holga 120N Tri-x in efd.
Kallitype 18x18cm onto Hahnemühle Platinum Rag,
developer 1+1 mixture of 15% Sodium phosphate and 10% Sodium acetate.
Artificial lights - streetlights and lights on the Tay Bridge reflecting in the River Tay, mixing in the fog
Robin - Erithacus rubecula
Our ever reliable Little Robin...
The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in the British Isles, is a small insectivorous passerine bird, specifically a chat, that was formerly classified as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae) but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher.
The robin occurs in Eurasia east to Western Siberia, south to Algeria and on the Atlantic islands as far west as the Azores and Madeira. It is a vagrant in Iceland. In the south-east, it reaches the Caucasus range. Irish and British robins are largely resident but a small minority, usually female, migrate to southern Europe during winter, a few as far as Spain. Scandinavian and Russian robins migrate to Britain and western Europe to escape the harsher winters. These migrants can be recognised by the greyer tone of the upper parts of their bodies and duller orange breast. The European robin prefers spruce woods in northern Europe, contrasting with its preference for parks and gardens in Ireland and Britain.
Attempts to introduce the European robin into Australia and New Zealand in the latter part of the 19th century were unsuccessful. Birds were released around Melbourne, Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington and Dunedin by various local acclimatisation societies, with none becoming established. There was a similar outcome in North America as birds failed to establish after being released in Long Island, New York in 1852, Oregon in 1889–1892, and the Saanich Peninsula in British Columbia in 1908–1910.
The robin is diurnal, although has been reported to be active hunting insects on moonlit nights or near artificial light at night. Well known to British and Irish gardeners, it is relatively unafraid of people and drawn to human activities involving the digging of soil, in order to look out for earthworms and other food freshly turned up. Indeed, the robin is considered to be a gardener's friend and for various folklore reasons the robin would never be harmed. In continental Europe on the other hand, robins were hunted and killed as with most other small birds, and are more wary.
Robins also approach large wild animals, such as wild boar and other animals which disturb the ground, to look for any food that might be brought to the surface. In autumn and winter, robins will supplement their usual diet of terrestrial invertebrates, such as spiders, worms and insects, with berries and fruit. They will also eat seed mixtures placed on bird-tables.
The robin features prominently in British folklore, and that of northwestern France, but much less so in other parts of Europe. It was held to be a storm-cloud bird and sacred to Thor, the god of thunder, in Norse mythology. Robins feature in the traditional children's tale, Babes in the Wood; the birds cover the dead bodies of the children.
More recently, the robin has become strongly associated with Christmas, taking a starring role on many Christmas cards since the mid 19th century. The robin has appeared on many Christmas postage stamps. An old British folk tale seeks to explain the robin's distinctive breast. Legend has it that when Jesus was dying on the cross, the robin, then simply brown in colour, flew to his side and sang into his ear in order to comfort him in his pain. The blood from his wounds stained the robin's breast, and thereafter all robins got the mark of Christ's blood upon them.
An alternative legend has it that its breast was scorched fetching water for souls in Purgatory.
The association with Christmas more probably arises from the fact that postmen in Victorian Britain wore red jackets and were nicknamed "Robins"; the robin featured on the Christmas card is an emblem of the postman delivering the card.
In the 1960s, in a vote publicised by The Times, the robin was adopted as the unofficial national bird of the UK.
In 2015, the robin was again voted Britain's national bird in a poll organised by birdwatcher David Lindo, taking 34% of the final vote.
The last image I edited of the mini-series I've been continuing for a while. One focused on the plants, the other the water, the other the coast...
And the final brings in all the elements together.
Again, all of them were minimally-edited, brought to you by a mixture of nature, smog, and distant wildfires (as all beautiful sunsets in California tend to be).
More views at Trefor Beach.
The beach is a mixture of
Sand and pebbles. It is mostly sheltered but gets winds from the North-West.
You can see a picnic area looking out to Caernarfon Bay.
I don't have a sweet tooth, however my wife quite likes these - a childhood favourite of hers.
I made her wait to eat them as I wanted to photograph them first!
A Roseate Spoonbill leaves its nighttime roost before sunrise in #florida. I used a slow shutter speed (1/15 sec) to blur the beautiful pink wings of the spoonbill while keeping its head reasonably sharp to create a dreamy effect. The rainbow colors in the mangroves behind the bird were created by a mixture of red flowers, bluish shadows and green leaves.
Created for Kreative People's Treat This 348 ~March 2025.
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Thanks to -xandra m- for the 5 starter images.
All work in Photoshop.