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I was lucky enough to go on a little photo excursion with my Camera Club this weekend. Here is a shot I got from the Bird Sanctuary in Cape St. Mary's, near St. Brides.
This week's assignment: Our assignment this week is Still Life Photography, one of the oldest known photographic techniques.
Please use only inanimate objects in your compositions and refrain from landscape shots. No humans, pets or other animals!
On our way walking to Paleis Het Loo, lots of nesting-boxes in a variety of colors (not shown here).
Concrete nesting boxes at the end of CJK van Aalststraat in Rietland, in Amsterdam's Ooostelijke Havengebied. The boxes are a standard size but are cleverly customised for different sorts of birds by fitting bungs with larger or smaller holes.
Janice and I were thrilled to watch the construction of about eight nests as blue heron couples tore twigs from treetops and wove their nurseries, far above our heads. We wished we could have had a higher vantage point!
A trio of casks, nesting together like Russian dolls.
On the bottom: kilderkin (18 UK gallons, which is 21.6 US gallons, or 172 US pints).
In the center: firkin (9 UK gallons, which is 10.8 US gallons, or 86 US pints).
Atop: pin (4.5 UK gallons, which is 5.4 US gallons, or 43 US pints).
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Photo courtesy Stephen Jones, brewer for Oliver Breweries of Baltimore, Maryland, who is posing with his casks.
May be reprinted only with permission, as per Creative Commons.
Work for upcoming show at: www.aokayofficial.com/ in April!
I can take commissions for custom nesting dolls :)
I went to Banner Marsh this morning to look for the swans. I found them, which was exciting, but they were really far off. I also found a nice little cluster of Mudhens, but they were very uninterested in being photographed.
I've never seen the water as choppy as it was today. Lots of wind.
Mixed nesting aggregation of Andrena vaga (Hym. Andrenidae) and Colletes cunicularius (Hym. Colletidae), 2.iv.2010, Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium.
Double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) nesting in red mangrove on the ragged keys. Biscayne Bay Naitonal Park, Florida.
If you ever came into my home
you would know just how VERY tidy and clean I am !!!!!
To say I have OCD would be rather OTT
as I do not have any strange habits
and being tidy does not rule my life
but let's just say there kind of is a rule .....
Day One ..... Relax and Create one hell of a mess .....
usually due to experimenting with new creations
or having a total veg out, pig out and chill out
Day Two ..... Notice the 'One hell of a mess'
and remarkably add to it ten fold as I am usually too lazy to tidy up
Day Three ..... start to twitch ..... not literally
which leads me to go crazy and cleeeeean to my heart's content.
I have to say
I have a love hate relationship with my tidiness
and ride the wave of chaos until my nest is shining again
everything in it's place
yes ..... wardrobe colour co-ordinated and CD's on alphabetical order
and then I feel
calm
♥ dommie ♥
I was surprised to see this Little Grebe nesting on the pond in the middle of Summer. That's if you can call this mild weather Summer.
I saw numbers of these guys as we kayaked past their apparent nesting ground. Isabel Inlet, Frisco, NC. I had never seen whimbrels prior to this trip.
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Midnight is when the Olive Ridley turtles come nesting at Kadmat. The islands are safe for them ... from the people. They protect them. But other predators ... specially dogs and birds .. do dig up the eggs.
A pair of rainbow lorikeets at their nest in a tree hollow, G J Walter Park, Cleveland, February 2014.
Two large female snapping turtles nesting at Lakeside Park.
During the summer of 2010 and again during the summer of 2011, The City of Kitchener will be studying turtles in natural areas across the City.
The main study locations for this project are the Huron Natural Area, Laurentian Wetland and Lakeside Park. Our project involves catching turtles and recording information about their age, sex and health as well as gently notching (putting a mark) their shells so that we can identify them when we catch them at a later time.
We are also working with a dedicated group of volunteers who are helping to monitor turtles in different natural areas. These volunteers are helping us to learn more about where and when turtles are nesting (digging holes to lay eggs) as well as whether the eggs are hatching and the young turtles are able to make it to the ponds safely. We have also started to protect some turtle nests from predators!
We will be sharing information about our project with people all across the City so watch for information about upcoming presentations and events on Kitchener’s Natural Areas website at www.kitchener.ca/knap.
Thank-you to the City of Kitchener Local Environmental Action Fund (LEAF), Region of Waterloo Environmental Stewardship Fund and TD Friends of the Environment Foundation for supporting this project!
It was a cool day so we went shopping and this is the only photo I took. Driving through a chopping centre and saw a Canadian Goose sitting in a flower bed. When I got up close I discovered she is sitting on a nest and someone placed a water dish in the bed for her. Never know what a Canadian will do.