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A Great Blue Heron takes off in the early morning on Little Queenstown Creek in Queenstown, Maryland.
Just as the sun was rising over the marsh, the pair of swans took off into the morning air.
Burnham Prairie
Gulls are so common but I love photographing them for their beauty. They are great subjects for birds in flight too.
Same Red Shouldered hawk as yesterday's post but just a second earlier.
I liked this shot, too. So I decided to share it with you.
I was just so happy he stayed long enough for me to get a few shots of him. I hope he comes back again.
There are lots of these hawks in my area and I hear their calls all the time and often see them off in the distance. Rarely do they come this close to my house.
A real treat
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You get a real sense of speed from this Spitfire FR Mk XIV as it leaves the ground. The undercarriage is in the process of retracting - we can see the left main wheel folding up into the wing, and the small tail wheel at the rear is almost inside.
The round window on the side is a camera port for taking air to ground photos - this model of Spitfire could be used as both a Fighter and Reconnaissance aircraft, hence the FR designation in the name.
Powered by a Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, this type could achieve more than 440mph in level flight. Photographed at Duxford in Oct 2024.
A sandhill crane graces the skyline on its way back to its nesting site in the marshes which lie just beyond the trees.
As you may be able to tell, I awakened the canoe yesterday and, while a bit nippy, it was good to be out. This event was not without incident. It is quite a steep drop to the water and a chore to hoist the craft up every year, turn it over, and tie it off to a tree. On the other hand, returning it to the water is quite easy as a chute of sorts has formed over the years and, once turned over, the canoe glides smoothly down into the water. All one needs do is keep a firm grip on the rope. Need I say more?
I watched bemused as the rope and the canoe went quickly down the hill and headed merrily toward the middle of the lake. I had simply let the rope slide right out of my hand. I stood there wondering what I could have been thinking, quickly coming up with the obvious answer...nothing relative to what I should have been. More importantly, I had no idea of how I was going to retrieve it with the water temps what they are and strongly discouraging wading.
After a few seconds of again cursing getting old, I realized that the slight wind was pushing it toward a spot at which I might intercept it if I hurried...that definition (like mental acuity) also changing dramatically as yet another consequence of aging. Heading toward the spot through the trees, I was pleased that I only fell once, tripping on something under the leaves, and arrived just in time to catch my escaping canoe before it headed for destinations unknown. Tying it off, I realized how truly lucky I was that the prevailing winds were exactly what they were and returned to the house for a well-deserved and necessary nap prior to this year's maiden voyage.
Red Deer Hind in Canal cooling off...
Red Deer - Cervus elaphus
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London Royal Parks
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Asia Minor, Iran, parts of western Asia, and central Asia. It also inhabits the Atlas Mountains region between Morocco and Tunisia in northwestern Africa, being the only species of deer to inhabit Africa. Red deer have been introduced to other areas, including Australia, New Zealand, United States, Canada, Peru, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina. In many parts of the world, the meat (venison) from red deer is used as a food source.
The red deer is the fourth-largest deer species behind moose, elk and sambar deer. It is a ruminant, eating its food in two stages and having an even number of toes on each hoof, like camels, goats and cattle. European red deer have a relatively long tail compared to their Asian and North American relatives. Subtle differences in appearance are noted between the various subspecies of red deer, primarily in size and antlers, with the smallest being the Corsican red deer found on the islands of Corsica and Sardinia and the largest being the Caspian red deer (or maral) of Asia Minor and the Caucasus Region to the west of the Caspian Sea. The deer of central and western Europe vary greatly in size, with some of the largest deer found in the Carpathian Mountains in Central Europe.Western European red deer, historically, grew to large size given ample food supply (including people's crops), and descendants of introduced populations living in New Zealand and Argentina have grown quite large in both body and antler size. Large red deer stags, like the Caspian red deer or those of the Carpathian Mountains, may rival the wapiti in size. Female red deer are much smaller than their male counterparts.
The European red deer is found in southwestern Asia (Asia Minor and Caucasus regions), North Africa and Europe. The red deer is the largest non-domesticated land mammal still existing in Ireland. The Barbary stag (which resembles the western European red deer) is the only member of the deer family represented in Africa, with the population centred in the northwestern region of the continent in the Atlas Mountains. As of the mid-1990s, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria were the only African countries known to have red deer.
In the Netherlands, a large herd (ca. 3000 animals counted in late 2012) lives in the Oostvaarders Plassen, a nature reserve. Ireland has its own unique subspecies. In France the population is thriving, having multiplied fivefold in the last half-century, increasing from 30,000 in 1970 to approximately 160,000 in 2014. The deer has particularly expanded its footprint into forests at higher altitudes than before. In the UK, indigenous populations occur in Scotland, the Lake District, and the South West of England (principally on Exmoor). Not all of these are of entirely pure bloodlines, as some of these populations have been supplemented with deliberate releases of deer from parks, such as Warnham or Woburn Abbey, in an attempt to increase antler sizes and body weights. The University of Edinburgh found that, in Scotland, there has been extensive hybridisation with the closely related sika deer.
Several other populations have originated either with "carted" deer kept for stag hunts being left out at the end of the hunt, escapes from deer farms, or deliberate releases. Carted deer were kept by stag hunts with no wild red deer in the locality and were normally recaptured after the hunt and used again; although the hunts are called "stag hunts", the Norwich Staghounds only hunted hinds (female red deer), and in 1950, at least eight hinds (some of which may have been pregnant) were known to be at large near Kimberley and West Harling; they formed the basis of a new population based in Thetford Forest in Norfolk. Further substantial red deer herds originated from escapes or deliberate releases in the New Forest, the Peak District, Suffolk, Lancashire, Brecon Beacons, and North Yorkshire, as well as many other smaller populations scattered throughout England and Wales, and they are all generally increasing in numbers and range. A census of deer populations in 2007 and again in 2011 coordinated by the British Deer Society records the red deer as having continued to expand their range in England and Wales since 2000, with expansion most notable in the Midlands and East Anglia.
WC engineer Bob Lewis has them in run 8 on the evening of June 16, 1994 as train 34 accelerates out of Trout Lake with 6543, 4151 and 589 leading the way.
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The 'Crab' eases out of Irwell Vale on her second run of the day pulling the Santa Special train on day 2
Last night, the 6pm 691 didn't bring the train south. Here we see the 5am Lenexa switch crew doing so instead (6am 692 doesn't work Monday). The Liberty Memorial stands tall on the hill.
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An F-35B Lightning II from VMFA-122 "Flying Leathernecks" is seen performing an incredible take off at the 2019 MCAS Yuma air show to start off its demonstration.
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Although there was a breeze these wind turbines were standing still. Apparently, there was no demand for the power they could produce. We urgently need a way to save this power.
Zeiss-Ikon Ercona mit Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 3.5/105, handheld, no filter, Bergger Panchro 400 developed in Rodinal 1+25 using a Jobo drum, constant inversions for the first minute, then 3 inversions every 30 seconds for the remainder of the developing time, scanned on an Epson V800, adjusted in Lightroom.
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"I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there".
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Enhanced with Flypaper textures and cloud-brushes by RoseCabriolet on DeviantArt.
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with a slobbery bull snog :) I have the whole thing but did a tighter crop to show how calm the bullfighter is. Part 3 Blue Semen. I just love this bull. I might make you wait for another week or two to see part 4 depending how lame the comments are :D The best is yet to come!
Here it is the middle of January, and still no snow except on the mountains tops. The temperatures so far this winter have been namely above 0°. It's rare for Skaha Lake to freeze over, but normally by this time of the year there should be some ice along the shoreline. The sign on the red buoy is warning swimmers of the extreme drop-off on this part of the beach.