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A male Hooded Merganser showing off for the female with a dramatic headthrow in hopes of impressing her. These ducks are a lot of fun to observe and photograph.
It's been a while since I posted something here. Lost a bit of interest in Flickr give the fact that they might get rid of him so it's a bit weird. Today I managed to get few shots here in Waterloo where these guys keep showing off their skills. This one is a good take with my F1.4. It took a while to get it perfect but in the end I got it. I hope you like it. I need to catch up with some pictures from few months ago so hopefully you'll see you more soon.
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Starting off the new year with some photos to recap our last "get-away" of last year.
The week before Christmas, one of my out-of-town friends and I enjoyed our favorite yearly tradition of visiting the Fantasy In Lights event at Callaway Gardens, in Pine Mountain, Ga.
I let her do all the driving, and thank goodness, as we encountered some foggy conditions on the way! It had recently been very foggy up north, and it seems they wanted to share - and sent some down our way.
Naturally, the Flickrite in me had to grab a few shots! LOL!
Metro-North 4906, a GP40FH-2M, shoves its train off the Moodna Viaduct, heading towards Harriman.
GP40FH-2M
Moodna Viaduct
Port Jervis Line - MNR
Never having been a train driver, railway instructions are a complete mystery to me. This one, at Imperial Wharf station in London, rather caught my attention - but perhaps that's to do with (very) basic schoolboy humour...
For this image, I loved how the sun was coming out just enough from the clouds to bring out some colors to this setting. Off in the distance are Bowen Mountain, Mount Baker, Paprika Peak and Mount Stratus. I also loved seeing the small points of aspen trees here and there on the far off mountainsides.
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Osprey, Blue YD, ringed as a chick at Balgavies Loch in Angus in 2012, seen with a partially eaten flatfish on the Eden Estuary near Guardbridge in Fife.
Just shy of a 5 minute exposure, a nice lil stop off to stretch the legs in the middle of France.
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The mother Red Fox leaves the two kits and heads off to hunt.
Nikon D500, VR200-500 f5.6E ISO2500 1/500 f5.6
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UPY 733 North brings the LPJ04 north at Elva, IL on a summer afternoon. Since I lived in DeKalb at the time, I'm sure I heard them get a signal across the BNSF down at BX and I ran out to intercept. Elva has the unique grain elevator and former CNW depot off to the side.
08-04-2006
Around a curve in the forest about 8 km or so up we came upon three roughed grouse. Very dark, but if I can get any shot of these birds, I feel lucky!
Following on from my recent upload “Mind The Gap” just as we were about to saddle up and move on to the next location on Dartmoor, Horace came scurrying out of the woods and informed me that he had found some interesting rocks further up the River Dart.
Up the three of us go and this scene greeted us. It was tricky setting up with one leg of my three legged friend in the fast flowing river, so I tethered myself to Hoof, and a few shots were bagged.
Off to the next location, Hoof suggested we stop at The Tavistock Inn just up the hill from here. He thought it would be rude just to ride on by without saying hello, as this is where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, who stayed at the Inn while he wrote 'Hound Of The Baskervilles', and of course as you know Hoof was heavily involved in the film version.
However, a couple of hundred yards from the pub there was a lot of traffic backed up. Bear in mind a lot of the roads in this area are very narrow so we waited and waited.
I decided to dismount as did Horace and we went to see what was causing the tailback, this bit you cannot make up (if ever) there were six of the biggest meanest looking moorland bullocks just sat across the road chewing their cud, I just had to laugh, though other people did not see it so funny, the age we live in !
People who are familiar with Hoofs background will know that he is ex Blues and Royals and was mainly involved in intelligence gathering but he has had some training in negotiation skills plus he speaks fluent cow, so he came forward and started to talk to this group of hooligans, well even with his softly softly catch ye cow skills this organised gang of highly trained bullocks were going nowhere, a real stand off situation had developed.
Now there was traffic backing up towards Dartmeet in one direction and Ashburton the other.
With that Horace came rushing out of the Tavistock Inn, I thought hell Horace don’t you even think about having a tear up with this lot, but the next sequence of events were incredible. Horace found himself a comfortable piece of granite to sit on and started reading these challenging beasties a story (Hoof had taught Horace to read and be multi lingual)
Well Horace had not been there more than a few minutes and these bullocks took off like a Top Gun Pilot on a mission.
Horace was greeted with a huge round of applause from all the angry motorists.
So in the pub I said to Horace what did you read to them my boy, oh he said I found a copy of Mary Berry’s cookbook in the pub and I read them some story of how to make a beef casserole, plus I showed them a jar of mustard, they knew I meant business.
I will leave you with this thought, why do cows wear bells,
Because their horns don’t work.
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A very unusual sighting of an African Jacana in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. It may have been blown off course by the wind of the day before we sighted it for the first time at Thirteenth Borehole. Favouring surfaces covered by water lilies, they are are common sightings at fresh water and the margins of slow-flowing rivers, but not in the dry western regions of our area, or the semi-desert of the kalahari.
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