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Magnificent Australian National park.
The Warrumbungle volcano began to form around 17 million years ago with intermittent eruptions for more than three million years. It pushed through the ancient Pilliga sandstones than were laid down when much of Australia was covered by inland sea.
Over millions of years erosion of the softer rocks has left an amazing landscape of the the harder solidified vents of the volcano, lava domes and flows, dykes and other volcanic formations.
The image has notes on it with names for each rock features.
I walked to these mountains at Grand High Top hike.
Note the white "goatee" at top of his gorget, and white wing feathers, indicating leucism?
Here's a brief video of this bird standing his ground from harassment by another Allen's...
Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus)photo from our visit to RSPB Bempton Cliffs on the 30.6.21.
It's the only place I've ever seen them
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For this weeks Macro Monday theme-contraption. This steel fridge magnet is 2" in length, and is a note, list or card holder. This is a side view of it on it's back but when upright the sliding bearing holds paper in place! Quite useful except that I never use it! HMM!
This is basically how I've been feeling lately, but I thought
my sister could portray it well and she did! Thanks kiddo.
Here is the video of the school children making this remarkable garden chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz/359/ and the announcement for the award they won goo.gl/FEO52N
Note the Seahawks 748 and the first 727 (N7001U) parked in the background. The 727 has now moved to the Museum of Flight KBFI.
Note: This is a real fisherman, not one of those fake ones in strange poses searching for tips
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I saw this BCNH last spring tucked into his favorite island of bushes (it must be his favorite: it's every other BCNH's), but I was puzzled. That's a new molt which makes him look like a juvenile; it hasn't grown in his two top knot feathers; and yet he has the coloring of a BCNH in breeding season (note green patch behind the beak).
Very well camouflaged, and since he didn't move (do they ever?), I almost missed him. Looks like a healthy if not stealthy fellow.
It's true, by the way, that after photographing BCNHs for seven years, I've seen exactly one hunting. Ninety percent of the time, they must be hunting at night 'cause they're usually napping during the day. The greatest number of BCNHs I've ever seen at one time was eight on the island at Heather Farm. It IS a favorite breeding place though there have been squabbles with the dozen Double-crested Cormorants on the same island in healthy numbers, though they roost at the top of the trees while the Night Herons are in the bushes down below.
"Hunting"
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