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Tufted Titmouse.
Sparrow-sized at 6 inches. Gray above and whitish below with rust colored sides and a gray crest. The "Black-crested Titmouse" is a species found in southwestern Oklahoma and Texas and is similar but has a black crest.
Their habitat includes swampy or moist woodlands, and shade trees in villages and city parks.
They range from eastern Nebraska east to Maine and south to Texas in the west and central Florida in the east.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
I always listen his singing before I see him and that makes me run to photograph him.
The Slate-throated Redstart is found from northern Mexico south to northern Bolivia, always in temperate montane habitats. In the north it lives in Pine-Oak forests, farther south in cloud forests and moist montane slopes.
It is a species which shows a high degree of geographic variation. In fact this largely grayish-blue bird with a dark chestnut cap has a striking red belly in the north, and in South America it is yellow-bellied, with orange-bellied forms in-between.
La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes, 2300 meters above sea level.
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Tufted Titmouse.
Sparrow-sized at 6 inches. Gray above and whitish below, with rust colored sides and a conspicuous gray crest. The "Black-crested Titmouse", a species found in southwestern Oklahoma and Texas is similar but has a black crest.
Their habitat includes swampy or moist woodlands, and shade trees in villages and city parks. In winter, at feeders.
They range from eastern Nebraska, southern Michigan, and Maine south to Texas, the Gulf Coast and central Florida.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
Tufted Titmouse.
Sparrow-sized at 6 inches. Gray above and whitish below, with rust colored sides and a conspicuous gray crest. The "Black-crested Titmouse", a species found in southwestern Oklahoma and Texas is similar but has a black crest.
Their habitat includes swampy or moist woodlands, and shade trees in villages and city parks. In winter, at feeders.
They range from eastern Nebraska, southern Michigan, and Maine south to Texas, the Gulf Coast and central Florida.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
Tufted Titmouse.
Sparrow-sized at 6 inches. Gray above and whitish below, with rust colored sides and a conspicuous gray crest. The "Black-crested Titmouse", a species found in southwestern Oklahoma and Texas is similar but has a black crest.
Their habitat includes swampy or moist woodlands, and shade trees in villages and city parks. In winter, at feeders.
They range from eastern Nebraska, southern Michigan, and Maine south to Texas, the Gulf Coast and central Florida.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
Petunia is a genus in the family Solanaceae, subfamily Petunioideae. Well known members of Solanaceae in other subfamilies include tobacco (subfamily Nicotianoideae), and the cape gooseberry, tomato, potato, deadly nightshade and chili pepper (subfamily Solanoideae). It's a flowering plant of South American origin. Petunias can tolerate relatively harsh conditions and hot climates, but not frost. They need at least five hours of sunlight every day and flourish in moist soil and conditions of low atmospheric humidity. Petunias are generally insect pollinated. The Maya and Inca believed that the scent of petunias had the power to ward off underworld monsters and spirits. Their flower-buds were bunched together for magical drinks. 43861
It had rained earlier, and raindrops clung to the petals. [P1040845_lr_2000]
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Thrasher is a great name for this bird. It was thrashing around in that moist marsh with its beak and making all sorts of racket ...it's a little fuzzy but you can see the dirt on the beak.
Stumpy Lake, Virginia Beach, Virginia
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Petunia is a genus in the family Solanaceae, subfamily Petunioideae. Well known members of Solanaceae in other subfamilies include tobacco (subfamily Nicotianoideae), and the cape gooseberry, tomato, potato, deadly nightshade and chili pepper (subfamily Solanoideae). It's a flowering plant of South American origin. Petunias can tolerate relatively harsh conditions and hot climates, but not frost. They need at least five hours of sunlight every day and flourish in moist soil and conditions of low atmospheric humidity. Petunias are generally insect pollinated. The Maya and Inca believed that the scent of petunias had the power to ward off underworld monsters and spirits. Their flower-buds were bunched together for magical drinks. 45144
Daphne striata is a shrub, of the family Thymelaeaceae. It is native to the European Alps and the Dolomites. The shrub is semi-evergreen, and grows up to 30 cm tall. Its branches grow tall and slender and its leaves grow narrow. It grows in cool and moist environments, making mountain environments most ideal. It is often found in short grassland and low scrub at altitudes of 1500 to 3000 m. 30358
Title borrowed from the good old days of Top Gear. This image from last November, taken with the phone
Taken in La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
The White-sided Flowerpiercer (Diglossa albilatera) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. The hooked, upturned bill is used to puncture the bases of flowers for the purpose of feeding on nectar. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest at altitudes between at least 1800 and 2800 m.
Source: Wikipedia
“After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.”
― Fernando Pessoa
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S. Truncata Group 'Flor de Maio Alba'; note the very pointed teeth at the end of the segments, zygomorphic flowers held above the horizontal, and yellow pollen.
May flower: the cactus that offers beauty instead of thorns:
The May flower - common name of the species Schlumbergera truncata - is one of those plants that we tend to despise most of the year. It is, after all, a true botanical commonplace:
since the days of grandma's gardens, it has been hanging around on any balcony or housed in cachepots on some furniture in the living room. It is also a champion of popularity in floras - ready to be pushed by sellers every time the consumer searches for a plant “for beginners”.
This is all true, yes. But, as I was able to feel myself this week, the fact that it is party rice does not eliminate the extraordinary value and the pleasure of having a May flower inside the house. And pleasure is precisely in the miracle that works, out of nowhere, in your metabolism. During most of the year, the May flower is a discreet little thing, with its branches formed by fragile and evergreen buds releasing at most new buds. Suddenly, sometime between the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, behold that dull plant explodes in buttons with extremely striking shapes and colors - mine, for example, pump out between May and July.
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After flowering, it often withers, loses part of the buds and spends the rest of the year trying to recover from the excruciating effort of flowering.
The May flower is from the cactus family, but has no thorns. In its original habitat, the Atlantic Forest, it presents an epiphyte behavior. In other words: like orchids and many bromeliads, it uses tree trunks as a support. Thanks to horticultural improvement, the variety of colors available on the market today is immense. You can splurge, as you can see in this photo that illustrates this description, the flower of May WHITE.
Despite the fact that the May flower is a peaceful and favorable cultivation plant, some precautions are mandatory to avoid unpleasantness. Here is a basic guide to success:
1) SOIL - As it is a succulent, the may flower requires perfect drainage. She does, however, enjoy a lot of organic matter. So, plant it in pots with holes, filled with pebbles and sand at the bottom and the remaining two thirds completed with vegetable soil. Curiosity: if these conditions are met, the May flower can grow a lot and live for years in small pots.
2) WATERING - Do not overdo it and do not leave dishes filled with water under the pot, to avoid waterlogging and root rot. But also be sure to water frequently - two to four times a week, depending on the weather. She likes the slightly damp earth.
3) LUZ - This is, perhaps, the main catch. The May flower hates receiving direct sunlight, but enjoys well-lit environments. The right places for her, therefore, are balconies and bright interiors, but fresh. Or under the treetops.
4) FLOWERING - The May flower releases its buds when two variables combine: the nights become longer and the minimum temperatures are close to 10-15 degrees. And so it lives up to its name: in the Southeast of Brazil, these ideal conditions are usually registered between mid-May and the end of June.
5) POST-FLOWERING STRESS - May flower is a perennial species, that is, it does not die after giving flowers. Often, however, it cannot withstand the thud of its metabolic explosion: after so much effort, the stem buds become wilted and break easily. In the extreme, the plant dies from stress. To avoid this, it is necessary to redouble the care with nutrition. After flowering, increase the watering slightly and add a little earthworm humus or phosphorus-rich fertilizer (the “P” of the renowned NPK trio).
Last tip: take advantage of the loose buds to produce new seedlings. It's very easy, just fix a piece of them in moist soil.
From the series "My Chicago. #1
The soft side of Chicago.
Human activity creates warm moist air, which rises here and catches the last sunlight on a bitterly cold winter afternoon.
“After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.”
― Fernando Pessoa
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Golden-backed snipe flies are one of my favorite insects to find out in the woodlands now in mid-June. Look for them soon though for their flight season is short. Search in shady moist woodlands where they perch on low leaves and wait for tiny bugs to come near and provide lunch. Males have eyes that touch. Females have fatter abdomens and their eyes do not meet in the middle.
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Allium ursinum is a species in the genus Allium that belongs to the family of the Amaryllidaceae.
This species is native to the whole of Europe and the Caucasus. It grows in deciduous woodlands with moist soils, preferring slightly acidic conditions.
The plants reach heights of 15 to 30 centimeters and produce umbels of white six-stellate flowers in May.
The leaves are edible; they can be used as salad, and herbs boiled as a vegetable. The bulbs and flowers are also edible.
It really was though.
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Copper Creek Trestle
Clinchport, VA
the eye doctor told me I have this thing called the "dry-eye-syndrome"
or whatever fancy name he called it.
The dutch wetlands , the grienden III
In the Netherlands we have our own wetlands, looe a bit like a tropical swamp in the summer heat, while in spring time, one can enjoy the special shapes of the willow trees.
The grienden close to our home and in this serie are the Carnisse grienden.
The explanation below comes from: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griend_(beplanting)
A griend or ham is a moist field on which willow wood is grown. Friends were exploited on a large scale until around 1960, after which the demand for griendhout fell sharply so that many friends were no longer maintained. Sometimes they got the status of nature reserve. The reintroduction of the beaver in the Netherlands was an attempt to achieve a natural management of the friends.
Because of the possibility to grow biofuels, they have been in the spotlight again since 2010.
Location
Friends often lay along the sea inlets on the dikes outside the dykes and in the rivers of South Holland and Noord-Brabant, especially the Biesbosch. Due to land reclamation, most of them have now often been located within the dykes, with the exception of, for example, the Rhoonse Grienden. The plantations outside the dykes are subject to tidal movement of the water level. That is why these friends were often provided with a friendly hill; a small mound with a griendkeet on it. This was a simple place where the griend workers could spend the night; they often stayed with the griend all week. Simple houseboats were also used for the same purpose.
Cultivation
The trees were planted and regularly dropped about 25 cm above the ground. New branches grew from the stumps. An annually disposed griend was called cut friend, doubtful or doubtful. The thin twigs were especially suitable for making baskets. Friends who were harvested every five years were called 'heel friends'. The heavier branches were suitable for many purposes, from stems for tools to the braiding of zinc pieces.
I mentioned in a previous post that we spent three very rainy days on the Seward Peninsula during our recent trip to Alaska. It misted, drizzled or downright poured about 99% of the time. Though it was pretty miserable for us human types, I don't think it bothered the muskoxen at all.
This bull was hanging out with another bull nearby. Both seemed to be confirmed bachelors as there were no cows around.
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Tufted Titmouse.
Sparrow-sized at 6 inches. Gray above and whitish below with rust colored sides and a gray crest. The "Black-crested Titmouse" is a species found in southwestern Oklahoma and Texas and is similar but has a black crest.
Their habitat includes swampy or moist woodlands, and shade trees in villages and city parks.
They range from eastern Nebraska east to Maine and south to Texas in the west and central Florida in the east.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.