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The wholemeal crackers with butter and "caramel" (if you do not know the "dulce de leche" you have to taste it: it is one of the best inventions in the world, and it's no joke), or with cheese spreadable, they are one of the most delicious refreshments and nutritious ones that exist. Ideal at any time of the day, and to combine with coffee, "mate", soft drinks or beer.
"Don't count the days. Make the days count." (Muhammad Ali)
Eat well! Do exercise!! Stay healthy!!!
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HMM!
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Adult psyllid beside lerps that provide protection to the nymphal stages while they grow. The lerp is constantly enlarged as the nymph grows.
This one is on a gum leaf from a tree in my garden. This species of lerp is very common. The lerp material itself is highly nutritious and provides food for many small and not so small birds.
Canberra, Australia, February, 2014.
The colorful flower of a kind of Indian spinach in my garden. It is around 2 cm in dia !!! The leaves of this plant are very nutritious and tasty and we regularly consume it !!!
Have a great day, friends !!
நின்னைச் சரண்புகுந்தால் நீகாக்கல் வேண்டுமல்லால்
என்னைப் புறம்விடுதல் என்னே பராபரமே !!!
தாயுமானவர் பராபரக்கண்ணி
I have families of Blue Tits, Coal Tits, Great Tits, Gold Finches and Chaffinches, along with other birds but these are my actual regular garden/woodland birds at Long Acre Manor. As they've gotten familiar to me, they have become braver. The Blue Tits are quite skittish and nervous. As I garden and plant my vegetable garden, the trust is growing although they will never be as bold as my Robin or my Crazily funny Pheasant who squawks every morning asking me for food. I have provided these nervous birds with safe food places and boxes for breeding and tables throughout my garden and woodland with a supply of good nutritious food. I have been unable to catch an image of any of the Blue Tits till this image last week. Although taken with a 600mm lens I was actually very close. Its been so lovely to build up trust that they now feed in front of me as long as I sit quietly and just watch he'll hop quite close to me and I find such joy in this trust. Happy Friday ~ KissThePixel2019
The Hortus here is always a wonderful place to visit; but now in Full Spring it's especially delightful. Pencilled Geranium's seductive powers much add to the varieties of insects one might see. They're attracted by its scent and guided to the nutritious stuff by those flower lines in deep pink. A Wool Carder Bee is consuming its fill!
Arusha National Park
Tanzania
East Africa
The common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) is a wild member of the pig family (Suidae) found in grassland, savanna, and woodland in sub-Saharan Africa.
The common warthog is the only pig species that has adapted to grazing and savanna habitats. Its diet is omnivorous, composed of grasses, roots, berries and other fruits, bark, fungi, insects, eggs and carrion. During the wet seasons, warthogs graze on short perennial grasses. During the dry seasons, they subsist on bulbs, rhizomes, and nutritious roots.
Although they can dig their own burrows, they commonly occupy abandoned burrows of aardvarks and other animals. The common warthog reverses into burrows, with its head facing the opening and ready to burst out if necessary.
Although capable of fighting (males aggressively fight each other during mating season), the common warthog's primary defense is to flee by means of fast sprinting. The common warthog's main predators are humans, lions, leopards, cheetahs, crocodiles, wild dogs and hyenas.
Common warthogs are not territorial, but instead occupy a home range. Common warthogs live in groups called sounders. Females live in sounders with their young and with other females. Subadult males associate in bachelor groups, but live alone when they become adults. – Wikipedia
African honey bee
The back part of the bee is visible. The front part of the body is busy taking honey.
Afrikaase honingbij
Het achterste gedeelte van de bij is zichtbaar. Het voorste gedeelte van het lijf is bezig honing tot zich te nemen.
Afrikanische Honigbiene
Der hintere Teil der Biene ist sichtbar. Der vordere Körperteil ist mit der Honigaufnahme beschäftigt.
Abeille africaine
Le dos de l'abeille est visible. La partie avant de son corps est occupée à récolter du miel.
香蒲
"Many parts of the Typha plant are edible to humans. Before the plant flowers, the tender inside of the shoots can be squeezed out and eaten raw or cooked.[16] The starchy rhizomes are nutritious with a protein content comparable to that of maize or rice.[17] They can be processed into a flour with 266 kcal per 100 grams,[4] and are most often harvested from late autumn to early spring. They are fibrous, and the starch must be scraped or sucked from the tough fibers.[18] Baby shoots emerging from the rhizomes, which are sometimes subterranean, can be picked and eaten raw. Also underground is a carbohydrate lump which can be peeled and eaten raw or cooked like a potato.[19] Plants growing in polluted water can accumulate lead and pesticide residues in their rhizomes, and these should not be eaten.[18]
The outer portion of young plants can be peeled and the heart can be eaten raw or boiled and eaten like asparagus. This food has been popular among the Cossacks in Russia, and has been called "Cossack asparagus".[20] The leaf bases can be eaten raw or cooked, especially in late spring when they are young and tender. In early summer the sheath can be removed from the developing green flower spike, which can then be boiled and eaten like corn on the cob.[21] In mid-summer when the male flowers are mature, the pollen can be collected and used as a flour supplement or thickener.[22]"
Quite serendipitously, we ended up at a carnival after going out to eat at one of our favorite restaurants down by the sea! As we were heading home, along the ocean, we spontaneously drove into the parking lot and found ourselves caught up in the carnival atmosphere! It's a good thing we had devoured a nutritious dinner, or our senses would have caved in to all the sugar/fat filled junk food!
Native to Eurasia and the British Isles,Sheep's Sorrel has been introduced to most of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere. It is commonly found on acidic, sandy soils in heaths and grassland. It is often one of the first species to take hold in disturbed areas, such as abandoned mining sites, especially if the soil is acidic.
Livestock will graze on the plant, but it is not very nutritious and is toxic in large amounts because of oxalates. Ground-feeding songbirds eat the seeds, and larger animals like rabbits and deer browse the greens. The American copper or small copper butterfly depends on it for food, although its larvae can consume some related plants.
The plant is widely considered to be a hard-to-control noxious weed due to its spreading rhizome. Blueberry farmers are familiar with the weed because it thrives in the same conditions under which blueberries are cultivated. (Wikipedia)
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We found patches of this invasive weed growing along the shoreline in British Columbia. Pretty to look at and a source of food for many animals.
Delta, British Columbia, Canada. May 2023.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Ultimate British Columbia.
The Importance of Farmland in Cornwall
More than 70% of Cornwall’s land is dedicated to agriculture, making it a vital part of the region’s economy and ecosystem. The fertile soil and favorable climate allow for the cultivation of a wide variety of crops, including fruits, vegetables, and cereals. Additionally, Cornwall is known for its dairy farming, producing high-quality milk and cheese.
The abundance of farmland in Cornwall not only provides us with nutritious food but also contributes to the preservation of the region’s natural resources. Sustainable farming practices, such as organic farming and agroforestry, can help enhance soil quality, reduce pollution, and support wildlife habitats. By working collaboratively with farmers, we can ensure that nature thrives alongside agricultural activities.
Exploring Cornwall’s Agricultural Landscape
Cornwall is home to expansive farmlands, with picturesque countryside vistas that attract visitors from around the world. The largest county in the South West, Devon, has around 72.4 percent of its land dedicated to commercial farm holdings, with a majority of it consisting of grasslands. This creates a lush and vibrant landscape that adds to Cornwall’s allure as a tourism hotspot.
Shot with the nikon D3 and the Nikon 50mm 1.4G.
American hornbeam is one of my favorite small trees to find out in the forest, seen here as several slim trunks clumped together in the foreground. American hornbeam has several other common names, including blue beech and musclewood. American hornbeam is often called blue beech because it has very smooth bark, similar to a beech tree, that is bluish-gray in color. That unique fluting in the tree trunks looks like a bodybuilder is flexing their arm muscles, hence the name musclewood. In addition, American hornbeam is often called ironwood too but that name is more often associated with American hop-hornbeam, a close cousin in the birch family. American hornbeam wood is very hard and tough so it was once used to fashion yokes for holding oxen together when pulling wagons - beams to hold their horns. American hornbeam is a wonderful tree for wildlife too as wild turkeys and squirrels eat their nutlets and wintering songbirds like American goldfinches and pine siskins will seek out their nutritious male catkins
We are starting to have interesting ducks visit this little lake in Central Park, attracted by the nutritious duckweed… To start, a juvenile Wood Duck hen, who seems to enjoy hanging out with the much larger Mallards. She is also quite small. At the Pool, Central Park, New York.
Abencerraje del tomillo - Panoptes blue
Como siempre madrugadora en la temporada y por su pequeño tamaño cuesta localizarla. Entre los licénidos figura como de los más diminutos. Su presencia univoltina (en algunas ocasiones desde final de Febrero) transcurre siempre alrededor de su planta nutricia, Thymus sp., en esta zona Thymus vulgaris (tomillo silvestre), sobre la que aparece en la foto. El anverso azul-grisáceo indica que se trata de un macho.
Panoptes blue
As always an early riser in the season and due to its small size it is difficult to locate it. Among the lichenids it appears as one of the smallest. Its univoltine presence (sometimes since the end of February) always passes around its nutritious plant, Thymus sp., In this area Thymus vulgaris (wild thyme), on which it appears in the photo. The blue-gray obverse indicates that it is a male.
Panoptes blue
Comme toujours un lève-tôt dans la saison et en raison de sa petite taille, il est difficile de le localiser. Parmi les lichénidés, il apparaît comme l'un des plus petits. Sa présence univoltine (parfois depuis fin février) passe toujours autour de sa plante nutritive, Thymus sp., Dans cette zone Thymus vulgaris (thym sauvage), sur laquelle il apparaît sur la photo. L'avers bleu-gris indique qu'il s'agit d'un mâle.
A nice, broken buck focused on feeding on a tall weed with a rounded seed pod...must have been a tasty and nutritious seed pod as he stayed in this small area for 15 minutes before moving on in search of does.
This Chestnut-backed Chickadee has obtained a nutritious tidbit while foraging near the ocean. This bird was at Sandcut Beach in Jordan River Regional Park on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The moderate climate there allows dense vegetation to thrive right to tideline.
Planet Clingon? Yes, that's right. Because, as has been recently discovered, there's a sister species of the Klingons. I assume the differences between the Klingons and the Clingons are pretty similar to those between the Vulcans and the Romulans. This means that the Clingons are peaceful, polite, kind, and generally super nice, extremely relaxed people. What you see is a solar storm rising behind their home world. Solar "storm" in the Clingon solar system means a warm, gentle, slightly fuzzy breeze because, well, everything in the Clingon world is a little fuzzy. A favourite chill-out activity of theirs is smoking "pod", a very healthy and nutritious plant that, as a most welcome side effect, gives you sunny, bright (and somewhat fuzzy) vibes. Peace, folks!
Late in the game with this "lucky last shot". Nothing I'd tried before had worked out. With almost every MM theme, I try to make my subject look "different" so you won't recognize at once what it is. But when this is exactly the task, I go "What? How do I do that? And what could I possibly photograph?!?" As usual :) This is a single shot of a cling foil/film roll, taken with the Laowa 50mm Ultra 2x macro at a magnification somewhere between 1.5:1 and 1.25:1. Processed in DXO PL7, Analog and Color Efex Pro.
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
He returns to the nest with a fish from which he has already eaten the highly nutritious head.
The grey background is forest fire smoke, completely obliterating the other side of the lake only a mile distant.
Below are some ingredients of my soup. Easy ,nutritious , and satisfying to me on a cold spring day1
SW Coastal Walk Torbay .Flax, plant of the family Linum usitatissimum, in the family Linaceae. , cultivated both for its fiber, from which linen is made, and for its nutritious seeds, from which linseed oil is obtained. Though flax has lost some of its value as a commercial fiber crop, flaxseed has grown in popularity as a health food.
This double-banded scoliid wasp has those two broad white bands - the double-bands - on its abdomen that help to identify it in the field. This striking sizable specimen is a female since she has short antennae and we can't see her stinger - males have some tiny spines at the back end of the abdomen that might be mistaken for stings. She has a working stinger filled with venom and would definitely defend herself if you foolishly tried to touch her. But she would rather save that venom for the larvae of June beetles, those big ugly white grubs that damage your lawn grass in the summer. She can detect those buried grubs and digs down in the dirt to reach them before stinging said grub(s) to paralyze them. After laying an egg on the hapless grub, she departs the crypt and the wasp larva eats the grub from inside out upon hatching. The grub's hollow shell makes a nice place for the larva to spend the winter before pupating the following spring and emerging as an adult later on in the summer. These wasps are superior pollinators on late summer flowers like this stiff goldenrod for their bodies are very hairy and the pollen sticks to them as they fly around feeding on various nutritious nectar sources.
All sunflower seeds are favorite foods for American goldfinches. Even though we're more familiar with the large tame sunflower seeds that get put out in our feeders, the birds also feast all fall and winter on the many nutritious wild varieties out in prairies or fallow fields.
Mondays...stressful day of the week for many of us...who wouldn't like a place like this to retreat during their day to restore some sanity? I know I would!! In this scene we have some fantastic new items from Granola, [Merak], and [ keke ]...
From Granola. we have a gorgeously textured and versatile set:
Odeletta Radio Cabinet in Grey (come in three colors; grey, green, white)
Odeletta Lemon Bowl. Burlap. ( three lemon bowl cloth covers )
faMESHed: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/FaMESHed/129/157/1998
Granola. Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Daydreams/86/121/30
Granola. Facebook Link: www.facebook.com/GranolaHomeDecor/
From [Merak] we have the Elegant Shower Cabinet. It comes in PG and Adult. Beautifully made. The tiles are fab and there is even a sitting area in the shower! The Elegant Shower Cabinet can now be found at Uber: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Uber/126/129/1200
[Merak] Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bijouter%20Isle/213/159/21
Other [Merak} items used:
[Merak] - Hair Products
[Merak] - Bath Salts
both now at The Arcade: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Arcade/135/134/32
From [ keke ] we have just what you need for a great snack or start to your day!! The bullet blender and blender tray filled with nutritious goodies.
[ keke ] blender tray
[ keke ] bullet blender
Out now at faMESHed: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/FaMESHed/129/157/1998
[ keke ] Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Manet/125/162/22
Other decor used:
Nutmeg. Country House Bench w/Grey Blanket
Nutmeg. Bachelor Bag Nude
Nutmeg. Backyard Stool Brown
Apple Fall Basil Sproutlings
Apple Fall Banana Tree
{vespertine}- birds of paradise palm.
{vespertine}-rainbow succulent bowl
MudHoney Rory Pillow Basket
.:revival:. basket light white
.:revival:. basket light weathered
dust bunny . quirky planters . llama
Have a great week and make sure to take the time to relax!! 😊
Carcharodus alceae = Papilio alceae = Papilio malvarum
Piquitos castaña - Piquitos de las malvas.
Sus principales nutricias son la malva, (Malva sylvestris), Malva real (Alcea rosea), Malva de hoja redonda (Malva neglectum), (Malva moschata) etc. Y parece ser que en España también se nutre de Hibiscus sp.
Inverna como oruga adulta envolviéndose perfectamente en las hojas que repliega de la planta nutricia.
Mallow skipper
Its main nutrients are mallow, (Malva sylvestris), royal mallow (Alcea rosea), round-leaved mallow (Malva neglectum), (Malva moschata) etc. And it seems that in Spain it also feeds on Hibiscus sp.
It winters like an adult caterpillar, wrapping itself perfectly in the folded leaves of the nutritious plant.
Grisette, Hespérie de l'alcée
Ses principaux nutriments sont la mauve, (Malva sylvestris), la mauve royale (Alcea rosea), la mauve à feuilles rondes (Malva neglectum), (Malva moschata), etc. Et il semble qu'en Espagne, il se nourrit également d'Hibiscus sp.
Il hiverne comme une chenille adulte, s'enveloppant parfaitement dans les feuilles pliées de la plante nutritive.
I don't have to go very far to see these beauties. Just on the edge of the town of Madison Virginia (my home town) there is a Mennonite owned and operated store where you can find all sorts of good and nutritious things... home made bread for instance! And off to the side of the store there is a "petting zoo". They call it a petting zoo, but really you can't pet anything there. Just buy the feed and give it to them. (which you can't even do that now because of Covid) They have all sorts of exotic chickens and several Peacocks along with a pure white one. Some fancy pigeons and goats and bunnies etc etc. A real exercise to get photos through the mesh they have them enclosed in! Some day perhaps I will share the ferocious bunny photo I took that day.......
Samburu National Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
Warthogs “kneel” down to feed. Their short necks, long legs and the special protective pads on their wrists/knees allow them to eat lower grasses easily.
The common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) is a wild member of the pig family (Suidae) found in grassland, savanna, and woodland in sub-Saharan Africa.
The common warthog is the only pig species that has adapted to grazing and savanna habitats. Its diet is omnivorous, composed of grasses, roots, berries and other fruits, bark, fungi, insects, eggs and carrion. During the wet seasons, warthogs graze on short perennial grasses. During the dry seasons, they subsist on bulbs, rhizomes, and nutritious roots.
Although they can dig their own burrows, they commonly occupy abandoned burrows of aardvarks and other animals. The common warthog reverses into burrows, with its head facing the opening and ready to burst out if necessary.
Although capable of fighting (males aggressively fight each other during mating season), the common warthog's primary defense is to flee by means of fast sprinting. The common warthog's main predators are humans, lions, leopards, cheetahs, crocodiles, wild dogs and hyenas.
Common warthogs are not territorial, but instead occupy a home range. Common warthogs live in groups called sounders. Females live in sounders with their young and with other females. Subadult males associate in bachelor groups, but live alone when they become adults. – Wikipedia
The highlight of this morning's walk was seeing this handsome six point buck, feasting on a nutritious breakfast of mixed greens. Wildwood Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Ramen is a delicious, aromatic soup dish with noodles, vegetables, meat and egg. It is increasingly popular as it is a very balanced, nutritious and comforting meal, as the broth is prepared over low heat and served piping hot.
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Excerpt from Wesley.ca:
Wesley’s newest social enterprise is a hydroponic, vertical and year-round farm that provides fresh produce and meals to the local community.
Summary
Local, high quality fresh produce that is organically and hydroponically grown.
Increases food security by providing free produce to tenants of Vanier Towers and nutritious meals cooked by First Start Café & Catering.
It is located in downtown Hamilton, surrounded by Vanier Towers, in partnership with CityHousing Hamilton.
Lettuce, kale and herbs are available for purchase and sold in bunches or crate.
Scribbly Gum
"The scribbly gum moth larvae (Ogmograptis genus) bore a meandering tunnel through the eucalypt tree’s bark at the level of the future cork cambium, first in long irregular loops and later in a more regular zigzag which is doubled up after a narrow turning loop.
When the cork cambium starts to produce cork to shed the outer bark it produces scar tissue in response to the feeding of the caterpillar, filling the doubled up part of the larval tunnel with highly nutritious, thin-walled cells.
These replacement cells are ideal food for the caterpillar which moults into its final life stage with legs, turns around and eats its way back along the way it has come. It now grows rapidly to maturity and leaves the tree to spin a cocoon at its base, where it pupates.
Not long after the caterpillar leaves the tree, the bark cracks off and exposes the iconic scribbles beneath." csiropedia
A decade ago, I sat in a friend's garden and photographed a flock of House Finches as they worked over his sun-cured, standing sunflowers for nutritious seeds.
I always plant sunflowers in my own garden for the same reason - to attract some seed-eating migratory birds in the fall (in addition to adding some beautiful splashes of colour by mid-summer).
Last week I spotted a single House Finch, hiding amid a tangle of tree branches. It never did come out for a photo. Five or six other birds did, so my efforts paid off, but my best House Finch shots are still from this 2013 session in glorious late autumn light. Lots more fall photos still to come - a celebration of my second-favourite prairie season (spring will always be number one).
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2013 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Also known as Spear Thistle, this plant, introduced from Eurasia, is now a common in Yellowstone region. The roots, stems and young flower buds are nutritious.
I returned to the day lily bed to see if the katydid was still "hiding" and discovered they eat the pollen off the anther of day lilies. I have to assume it must have nutritious qualities.
This little guy/gal was living the good life on a cool August morning surrounded by a smorgasbord of nutritious green grasses. His sibling and mom were nearby...I'll post an image of all three someday. Custer State Park, South Dakota.
Last in my ungulate series and tomorrow back to south Texas birds.
Saw my first Humming bird today, was delirious with excitement, took a good few shots, none of them very good. This is a photo of record.
From today's Journal:-
Woke feeling tired this morning, everybody is struggling with the time change. I start the day feeling so tired it's ridiculous and sleep intermittently throughout the day. It's not just me, we're all doing it.
In China I wrote of my dining room adventures, never expecting it would be the same here, but it is. What is it about hotels and toasters that don't work? Really, how is it that a country who sends spacecraft to other planets cannot make a toaster that browns bread?
And what's with this sweetened white substance that masquerades as butter? It doesn't look like butter, is the wrong colour, has the consistency of mushy hommus, is sweetened (well, everything here is sweetened to within an inch of its life) and is passed off a butter. At least in China they served real New Zealand butter.
I thought the Chinese wafer thin, over cooked, manufactured bacon was a travesty. Now I know the Chinese were serving American bacon cooked to suit the American taste.
Don't get me started on the waffles and pastries they imagine I want for breakfast. A man could die of starvation for want of any real and nutritious food in an American dining room. Either that, or assume the proportions of a stegosaurus from eating sugar laden rubbish at the trough of indulgence.
Macro Mondays - Snack
Nuts and dried fruit can be a nutritious choice but in small portions as they can be high in calories.
Nuts and dried fruits are healthful foods because of their nutrient profiles. They provide dietary fibre, potassium (K) and a variety of health protective bioactive compounds.
The squirrels have not been able to overcome the barriers to the birdfeeders and when they arrive have to spend their time foraging for whatever particles of seeds that they can find
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Have you noticed that birds gulp berries down whole with no chewing? This is because birds do their chewing further down, in a muscular organ called the gizzard. Also birds don't have teeth to chew, although some like Mergansers have bill serrations that look like teeth: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/50648124258/in/photolist You can see on this Redwing that the hard tongue is being used to push the berry down the throat. If you double click you can zoom in to see the detail of the tongue, perfectly designed for this job. The berry then moves towards the gizzard where it is macerated so the nutritious fruit can be digested leaving the seeds to be voided elsewhere in their own package of fertiliser. In fact the whole reason berries evolved was so that birds and animals could disperse the seed. But what about poisonous berries like Deadly Nightshade? Well although they are poisonous to humans birds can eat them without ill effect. I have seen Pheasants gorging on the berries and living to tell the tale. And even some mammals can eat them, like cows and rabbits.
These dried dates are super-hard!
I can’t eat them as I don’t want to break my teeth but there are those in India and the Middle East who do chew merrily upon them. People, like us, often soak them overnight to soften them before eating.
They are very nutritious and in their dried form will keep for a very long time as their water content is extremely low, preserving them for ages.
Crossbills usually prise open pine cones in situ to extract the nutritious seeds inside and will often hang acrobatically to achieve this. But sometimes they use their bills like secateurs to snip off the cone and carry it somewhere more convenient for extracting the seeds. This female Crossbill was caught in the act of doing just that, and you can even see the cut stump where she has just taken it from. Crossbills are often common in the Peak District woodlands but their numbers fluctuate massively and this winter I have only seen one or two. I took this photograph in local woodlands back in March when there were dozens around. They specialise in eating conifer seeds, and even feed their young on a porridge of regurgitated seeds when most finches switch to an insect diet.