OBLIQUE ANGLE
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Oblique winter light on my hill.
Happy St Valentine’s Day
From Scotland - and a wonderful Scottish band - Biffy Clyro!
💙💙💙
“Well I get lost sometimes,
With you I am found.
I get lost so I'll follow the light to your heart
Will you wait, will you wait for me?
There's always a space in my heart.
I'm still caught in your gravity -
No matter the distance between us
Our joy lives in the moments we share.
Love's truest meaning lives when you're not there
Will you wait, will you wait for me?
There's always a space in my heart for you.”
Biffy Clyro - “Space”
From Girvan Valley Floor - almost!
South Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
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Contrairement aux apparences, la photo est à l'endroit.
Contrary to appearances, the photo is right side up.
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I see and photograph quite a lot of Crossbills but it is still always an achievement to capture one that shows off the crossed mandibles. This is a young male that often have yellow admixed with their red plumage. Birds don't have teeth so macerate (ie "chew") their food in a muscular organ called the gizzard at the start of their digestive tract. Some birds eat grit which they retain in their gizzard to help them break down the food. Birds that eat hard, dry material, such as Red Grouse which eat Heather, need a lot of grit to break down the food. Crossbills need grit because they feed mainly of the seeds of conifers which they extract from cones using their specialised crossed bill. Even the young are fed on a mashed-up porridge of pine seeds by the parents. The scientific name Loxia curvirostra refers to the specialised bill. Loxia means oblique or crosswise, and curvirostra means curved beak. This was taken near Holmfirth in West Yorkshire a few weeks ago. I am still seeing them occasionally, and have seen quite a few today, but usually distant and in flight when their jip-jip-jip calls alert me to their presence. Here are some jip-jip calls recorded by my friend David Pennington: www.xeno-canto.org/583426
Taken at Gamble Garden, Palo Alto. Actually there are around ~6000 different species of them! This is just one!
A new species for my prairie bee and wasp species set, with a confirmed iNaturalist ID. This is the only bee I've seen around here with some reddish-colored fuzz. I've looked for more of these in subsequent days but didn't find any.
Some species info: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1630911-Epimelissodes-obliquus