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Looks like there are 5 in the nest. About an hour after I took this photo, the first fledged and landed on the deck, sat there a while, then flew off to join Mom & Dad surfing the air patterns around the big dome at CSAC. That was yesterday ... this morning another one left ... and now we are three!
I remember watching my dad and my uncles build this dock when I was a kid. I added the ladder a few years ago to make it easier to climb out of the pond without walking through the mud. The pond is looking very rustic without me being able to mow around it.
These tiny mud barrels were fashioned by a spider wasp (family Pompilidae) in the genus Auplopus or Phanagenia, and adhered to a brick surface atop Mount Sugarloaf in South Deerfield, Massachusetts.
The small plovers, sanderlings and sandpipers searched the mud for food while the Great Blue Heron kept its feet dry while waiting for the tide to come in.
Kerri Kikkert makes her way through the mud bath obstacle during the Unbridled Mud Trials at Island 22 on Sept. 28, 2013. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
“Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles, and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving until the right action arises by itself?” ~ Lao-tzu
These mud volcanos are unique to Azerbaijan. Unlike volcanos, they are cold mud. Water seeped into the earth, and pressure formed to spill the mud from craters. These mud volcanos are close to Qobustan nature reserve one and a hlaf hours away from Baku.
The head bobbing just above the surface of the water is a Mud Digger, whose job it is to dive to the bottom of the river, grab an arm full of mud, and put it in his boat. The boats hold two tons of mud, which takes one mud digger only 45 minutes to fill! I forget exactly what our guide told us they pay for a boat load of mud, but I seem to remember it was about 80 rupees (about two dollars, US). The land in Kerala is constantly sinking back into the river bed that it's built upon, so part of life there is shoring up dams and filling in the land that their houses are built upon.