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The Greylag Goose - Anser anser - is the largest and bulkiest of the wild Geese native to Britain and Europe at 76-89cm long, a wingspan of 147-180cm and weighing 2.9-3.7 kg. They will eat roots, cereal leaves, grass and spilled grain and can often be found in pastures grazing the nutritious grass alongside sheep or cows, surprisingly they can also be found in ploughed fields searching for potatoes which they love. I caught this one just as it was landing on one of the waters at Martin Mere Wetlands.
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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.
The Autumn day was splashing with color. Here are two Mexican Sunflowers named for the companion of the Greek goddess of Sunrise Eos, Tithonus. Their visitor is a Garden Bumblebee foraging for nutritious delights.
The winter weather this year has been quite extraordinary. During the week of Christmas, we had 30 inches of wet snow with an inch of rain in the middle of the snowstorm.
This weather event is creating extreme stress on much of the wildlife here in the interior. For moose the concern is that they will consume a great deal of energy moving thru the deep snow with the ice layer in the middle at a time they need to conserve energy as their food source in the winter isn't very nutritious. For us humans the concern is the moose will now fight to maintain plowed or packed trails as they don't want to work thru the difficult areas.
Owls and foxes that depend on the voles that live in the grass under the snow can no longer get to the voles due to the layer of ice, not to mention, the voles can't come to the surface to make air hole to their tunnels.
Nara Park, Japan. The local herd of deer come into the park during the day to beg food from visitors. Special biscuits which are nutritious for deer are available for a small charge. They can get quite frisky so some of the stags have antlers removed for the safety of tourists.
During the fall migration for the last several years, Cape May Warblers will stop at a stand of Kousa Dogwood trees to feed on the veritable smorgasbord of berries. The fruit are fairly nutritious and a great source of sugar. I believe this is a 1st-year female (thanks Steve A).
It is surprising to think that this small, delicate looking plant has been used so widely through centuries in the making of clothes and linen but the strong and flexible stems are perfectly suited for the purpose. A comprehensive description of the process can be found here.
www.madehow.com/Volume-4/Linen.html
The name 'usitatissimum' means many uses of which there is a long list. Some of the main ones are the use of the seeds for making nutritious seed cake particularly for feeding cattle. The oil is used to make linseed oils as well as in the making of other paints, varnishes and similar products, also in making quality papers especially for cigarettes. It has medical uses especially to help the digestion.
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Our friendly neighborhood ducks that come to the backyard for nutritious food.
Danvers, Massachusetts, USA
I could have written about global warming, shrinking glaciers, the extinction of more animal species, rising sea levels, bleaching of coral reefs, more droughts and as a result crop failure which could lead to the loss of nutritiously critical vegetables. That is when the world population is expected to grow to 10 billion by 2050.
Instead, I written a few lines about reforestation. Many scientists agree that reforestation is vital to tackling the climate crisis, and some are of the opinion that it may very well be one of the top solutions to take carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere. It is all about giving nature an opportunity to restore itself. It is not a quick fix, but at least might mitigate global warming as it facilitates bio-sequestration of carbon dioxide. Instead, there is a critical amount of deforestation in the Amazon, and I won’t even start writing about the Australian bush fires.
I probably should have posted an image of a tree. Next time.
These raspberries are growing in my back garden! Yesterday I ate about 20 of these little gems, I couldn't resist!! It's such a treat to go out & pick some every few days at this time of year! Happy Fence Friday everyone =)
Europeans call it fungi, and so should all English-speakers, I suppose. Whatever the name, they are delicious and healthful fresh food available to us humans--Berkeley Bowl offers a wide range of selections--these mostly grown in Canada, I observe. When I lived in rural NC, several of my neighbors grew their own fungi on specially prepared logs. Some sold them at the farmer's market. It's fun to see that in action.
Phengaris alcon (Dennis & Shiffermüller, 1775)
Huevos de Phengaris alcon en su planta nutricia, Gentiana cruciata.
Phengaris alcon eggs in its nutritious plant, Gentiana cruciata.
Oeufs de Phengaris alcon dans sa plante nutritive, Gentiana cruciata.
I've spent quite a bit of time recently learning how to cook. My favorite dish? Split-pea soup with ham. Mmm...delishus.
Pigeons produce a very nutritious milk-like liquid in their crop for their young. It serves the same purpose as the milk of mammals.
It is produced by both sexes.
Many species fledge after about 3-4 weeks.
==> Lake Tana is located in the highlands of Abyssinia, 1,800 m. There are carp, cichlids, flathead loaches and gill-sack catfish.
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Tauben produzieren in ihrem Kropf eine sehr nahrhafte milchähnliche Flüssigkeit für ihre Jungen. Sie dient demselben Zweck wie die Milch von Säugetieren.
Sie wird von beiden Geschlechtern produziert.
Viele Arten sind nach etwa 3-4 Wochen flügge.
==> Tana-See 1.800m befindet sich im Hochland von Abessinien mit Karpfen, Buntbarsche, Flachkopfschmerlen und Kiemensackwelse.
The common Nasturtium. . . grows like a weed in parts of CA. . . . I don't know about where you live. High in vitamins, they say, and has a bit of a tang, not unpleasant. Fancy chefs are fond of the flowers on a plate, but it's all good.
garden.org/learn/articles/view/4112/
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"Can you see the vole that was given to me? Pretty gross but our parents say it is highly nutritious to us birds and I should eat it. I don't understand too much about proteins, fats and minerals but I do want to grow strong for our long flight south this fall.
So, I took the vole and shook it violently from side to side as I saw my parents do to them, double making sure it was no more living. And then I tried to eat it. As it turned out I couldn't possibly swallow it whole, and my blunt bill wasn't much of a use to rip mouth size pieces out of it either. Even though I am a pretty big bird now I needed help with that. Dad was right there, watching and seeing my struggles...and he helped me. I heard someone say "but you're a goose, geese don't eat voles" ... I don't know what they are talking about."
- The Gosling ❤️-
This tiny berry packs quite a nutritious punch, and includes high levels of vitamin C, sorbic acid, and dietary fibre, but they are mostly praised for their unique antioxidant composition.
The fruit, depending on the cultivar, can actually be toxic in some cases, but most of that toxicity fades if heated or frozen for extended periods of time. Commonly, the berries are used in alcoholic beverages or liqueurs, but can also be used as a bitter side flavouring of certain game dishes. They are also commonly pressed into jams and jellies.
When rowan berries are picked in the wild, they contain high levels of parasorbic acid, which can actually cause a range of illnesses. However, once frozen or heated, this acid changes to the beneficial sorbic acid, which our body finds very useful. Therefore, don’t go out picking wild rowan berries, make sure you properly prepare them first to get the most benefits!
This hungry American goldfinch is sitting on top of a sorghum stalk and having a few of those nutritious sorghum seeds for breakfast. They would be the equivalent of oatmeal for us on a brisk winter morning.
A fairly common herbaceous perennial in my area, the Indian Breadroot has edible tuberous roots. It's also known as Wild Turnip and Prairie Potato. Apparently it can be eaten raw or cooked, and can be dried and ground into flour, and is very nutritious. It was a staple food of indigenous people across the Great Plains of North America in the days before large scale agricultural development.
Nutritional benefits aside, it is a lovely plant in its flowering stage. I found a number of them on a rainy day in June as I walked along the rim of a deep coulee. I also found five or six old tipi rings in the vicinity - a place with sweeping views and enough wind to be fairly bug-free, ie. a good place to camp.
For this shot I used the tripod, macro lens, and mirror lockup via cable release (shoot with a mirrorless camera and you won't have to deal with potential vibrations... but I'm not there yet). The light was nice and soft, perfect for macro work.
The centre column of my tripod can be positioned sideways for ultra-low shooting, but the legs always get in the way and it's just really awkward... so I did what I always do: I took a hacksaw and cut the column short. I shoot low far more often than I shoot high.
A few more shots still to come from this beautiful wet day on the northern prairie...
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2024 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Found along northeastern Australia from Mackay to Cooktown, the Cairns Birdwing is Australia’s largest endemic butterfly. The females’ wingspan can measure a whopping 18cm, and they’re easily recognized thanks to their vivid coloration. I think their highly adapted lifecycle is their most fascinating attribute.
Male Cairns Birdwing Butterflies are smaller, but more colourful than the females. They are fussy butterflies who lay eggs on native rainforest Pipe Vines (Aristolochia tagala and Pararistolochia deltantha). Females find the ideal vine using chemical receptors in their legs and abdomen to ‘sense’ tender, caterpillar-friendly leaves. Newly hatched caterpillars eat their own nutritious egg shell, and will even eat other caterpillars if times are tough. Caterpillars are brightly coloured to ward off predators, and store toxins absorbed from Pipe Vines so attackers won’t make the same mistake twice!
The Cairns Birdwing caterpillar uses bright colours and sharp spines to ward off predators.
When caterpillars are almost ready to pupate they ringbark their vine. Although leaves droop from water loss, the flow of nutrients is concentrated so the caterpillar gets a more nutritious meal before pupation. Pupation occurs in a cleverly camouflaged cocoon, which resembles a dead, dried leaf.
As soon as adult butterflies hatch the race is on to mate, as they only live for 4 – 5 weeks. Males are extremely territorial, performing early morning patrols and competing with other males to find fresh, newly hatched females. Courtship can be lengthy (up to 36 hours) and aggressive, and apparently the female slips the male a sedative to ensure he behaves himself!
The species was once under threat due to wide-scale clearance of its native rainforest habitat, and the spread of exotic vines including Dutchman’s Pipe (Aristolochia elegans). A. elegans closely resembles the native A. tagala vine, and is lethal to the butterflies in their larval stage.
beforeitsgone.com.au/2011/05/03/backyard-beauties-the-cai...
An American Robin has foraged in my backyard for nutritious protein for the little ones, and now is standing on the fence ready to depart. Just one of countless trips.
Robins aren't difficult to photograph, but here I was shooting between the overhanging branches of a Manitoba Maple that grows on my neighbour Adam's side of the fence. Adam has offered to cut the branches, but I like them, and so do the birds. However, in this case an out of focus branch was bisecting the lower part of this robin; you can see traces of it at the lower left. Clearly some processing was needed.
Removing the branch digitally wasn't an option, so I did a fairly tight crop on the head, then upscaled the image using ON1 Resize. After that I ran it through Topaz DeNoise for some moderate noise removal. Finally I used Photoshop's Dodge Tool to lighten the eye a touch, and saved the 300 ppi version as an uncompressed TIFF file. Then I changed the colour space from Adobe RGB (1998) - which is best for printing, and the one preferred by most publishers - to sRGB, the universal colour space for sharing online, and finally reduced the resolution to 72 ppi, which is all that the average monitor can read, and sharpened that version using the Photoshop Unsharp Mask. For this I used Luminosity Sharpening, which is yet another step in the workflow, but I like the result as it reduces the halo effect around contrasty subject lines that is a clear sign of over-sharpening.
I can imagine the yawns of boredom now, folks begging me to shut up or just shoot them. Sorry. I generally fly through these steps in a few minutes. Taking care with the processing allows me to provide a high quality, publishable image to a client on demand. It's a huge step up from the days of slides in plastic boxes.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2022 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
I saw this in the Ventura Mission garden. Purple kale is ornamental as well as nutritious. It's flavor is a bit stronger than green or black kale.
"LINES ON A YOUNG LADY'S PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM"
By Philip Larkin
At last you yielded up the album, which
Once open, sent me distracted. All your ages
Matt and glossy on the thick black pages!
Too much confectionery, too rich:
I choke on such nutritious images.
My swivel eye hungers from pose to pose --
In pigtails, clutching a reluctant cat;
Or furred yourself, a sweet girl-graduate;
Or lifting a heavy-headed rose
Beneath a trellis, or in a trilby-hat
(Faintly disturbing, that, in several ways) --
From every side you strike at my control,
Not least through those these disquieting chaps who loll
At ease about your earlier days:
Not quite your class, I'd say, dear, on the whole.
But o, photography! as no art is,
Faithful and disappointing! that records
Dull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,
And will not censor blemishes
Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards,
But shows a cat as disinclined, and shades
A chin as doubled when it is, what grace
Your candour thus confers upon her face!
How overwhelmingly persuades
That this is a real girl in a real place,
In every sense empirically true!
Or is it just the past? Those flowers, that gate,
These misty parks and motors, lacerate
Simply by being you; you
Contract my heart by looking out of date.
Yes, true; but in the end, surely, we cry
Not only at exclusion, but because
It leaves us free to cry. We know what was
Won't call on us to justify
Our grief, however hard we yowl across
The gap from eye to page. So I am left
To mourn (without a chance of consequence)
You, balanced on a bike against a fence;
To wonder if you'd spot the theft
Of this one of you bathing; to condense,
In short, a past that no one now can share,
No matter whose your future; calm and dry,
It holds you like a heaven, and you lie
Unvariably lovely there,
Smaller and clearer as the years go by.
Rich soil, Rich history
Located in the heart of the prairies, we farm near Indian Head, Saskatchewan. As far back as 1882, people were attracted to the fertile land in the area. In 1887, one of Canada’s first agricultural research stations was established to research crops and dry land agricultural practices. The town of Indian Head was incorporated in 1902 and was one of the world’s largest initial shipping points for wheat.
With 17,000 acres of land, CanMar Foods is committed to providing healthy, nutritious foods to people everywhere, starting right at the farm. Today, the CanMar Foods farm at Indian Head stretches over 12,000 acres. We also have two other conventional grain operations located near Lang, Saskatchewan and Russell, Manitoba, covering approximately 5,000 acres.
Indian Head Saskatchewan Canada
When you touch the stems of Silene viscaria you'll sense a stickness, an exudation from glands which can trap small insects. I'm not sure why Silene does that because it's not a carnivorous plant in the sense that it derives nutrition from those small animals. Whatever the explanation, our Hoverfly is far too big and strong to be thwarted in his quest for nutritious pollen. And he doesn't stick to pink but will court any colorful flower of which he can access nectar and pollen.
This past weekend I went to Abbey Hill Farm in Manotick to see some amazing displays of pumpkins, corn, fresh apples & so much more! Lots to see & enjoy for the whole family! Best viewed large!
I’m going to be out & about with family this weekend so I’m posting 4 days worth of prompts today.
#DoodlewashOctober2022 prompt: Bowl.
#Inktober prompt: Empty.
Did you know that power bowl is a term used to describe a nutritious all-in-one meal in a bowl, usually made without meat?
#DoodlewashOctober2022 prompt: Armor.
#Inktober prompt: Armadillo. Did you know that the humans and armadillos are the only species that can spread leprosy?
#DoodlewashOctober2022 prompt: Chicken.
#Inktober prompt: Rooster. Did you know that roosters will tidbit - a behavior where they make a show of picking up and dropping bits of food to let the hens know about them? He lets them eat first, and only takes what is left over. What a gentleman!
#DoodlewashOctober2022 prompt: Pretzel.
#Inktober prompt: Salty. Did you know that the pretzel was important with the Catholic Church in the 7th century, being a popular food for Lent, and often given out as a reward to youngsters for reciting prayers correctly.
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This American robin is guarding its big cache of tasty ripe crabapples at Lake Meyer Park today. Large flocks of American robins that spent their summer up in Canada are coming back home to America now😊 They will fuel up on several nutritious ripe fruits for the next week or so before continuing south where there's less snow and cold for the winter.
Taken from the car yesterday while on my way to the city, I consider this my first wildlife shot of the season, at least of the returning visitors. I have only seen a few very small groups flying in a V-formation, so I was suprised to see so many in fields along the way.
It must be tough for them as there is still a fair amount of snow covering the fields and with a couple of warm days a week or so ago there was some melting, and then it got cold again creating a crust on the surface. Where it has melted or evaporated there really can not be much in the way of nutritious food for them. I know they must eat along the way, but still migration must take a lot of energy, so they must be hungry.
A single pomegranate fruit showing it's love 💗
Pomegranate
(Punica granatum)
The average pomegranate fruit hold around 600 arils.
The soft juicy red fleshy part surrounding the seed is delicious and very nutritious, the seeds can be chewed and eaten also to provide roughage.
A typical 100g serving of pomegranate seeds and flesh contain on average: 7g of fiber, 3g of protein, also impressively almost a third of our required vitamin C intake.
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Pigeons produce a very nutritious milk-like liquid in their crop for their young. It serves the same purpose as the milk of mammals.
It is produced by both sexes.
Many species fledge after about 3-4 weeks.
==> Lake Tana 1,800m is located in the highlands of Abyssinia with carp, cichlids, flathead loaches and gill-sack catfish.
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Tauben produzieren in ihrem Kropf eine sehr nahrhafte milchähnliche Flüssigkeit für ihre Jungen. Sie dient demselben Zweck wie die Milch von Säugetieren.
Sie wird von beiden Geschlechtern produziert.
Viele Arten sind nach etwa 3-4 Wochen flügge.
==> Tana-See 1.800m befindet sich im Hochland von Abessinien mit Karpfen, Buntbarsche, Flachkopfschmerlen und Kiemensackwelse.
Returning to Kansas and home, I stopped back at Ash Hollow to stretch my legs and to eat lunch. Lunch consisted of a banana, Pringles, tapioca pudding and a coke. Very nutritious.
Abencerraje del tomillo - Panoptes blue
Entre los licénidos es de los más pequeños de tamaño junto a Cupido mínimus. Su presencia univoltina es primaveral y transcurre siempre en torno a su planta nutricia, Thymus sp. (Tomillo silvestre).
En la foto aparece posada en una rama, creo que de esparraguera silvestre.
Panoptes blue
Among the lichenids it is one of the smallest in size along with Cupido minimus. Its univoltine presence is springtime and always passes around its nutritious plant, Thymus sp. (Wild thyme).
In the photo it appears perched on a branch, I think that of wild asparagus.
Parmi les lichénidés, il est l'un des plus petits avec Cupido minimus. Sa présence univoltine est printanière et se déroule toujours autour de sa plante nutritive, Thymus sp. (Thym sauvage).
Sur la photo elle apparaît perchée sur une branche, je pense à celle des asperges sauvages.
This Grizzly Bear has just caught a female Chum Salmon, her favourite prey at this time of year as they are full of nutritious eggs. But if you look closely the salmon has squirted a long string of eggs that has made a passable outline of Africa above the bear's head. One of her twin cubs is moving in to share her catch. This was taken on the Nekite River in British Columbia.
A big grizzly that was eating a salmon comes out of the sedge grass on the river bank to try for another salmon. During the fall salmon run the objective is to eat as many nutritious salmon as possible, effectively doubling their body weight as they bulk up for the long winter hibernation when they live off stored fat reserves. Cariboo Chilcotin, BC.
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