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Onset of Storm Barbara; heavy rain and winds gusting to 70mph.
Hatches are all battened down...
South Carrick
SW Scotland
WINTER: 21 December, 2016 - 19 March, 2017
The onset of dusk.
Open blue sky, clouds, sunset lighting, pasture, a highway, and gravel road... recipe for a typical rural Midwest scene.
Rush hour out here.
Barnes County, North Dakota
June 2021
With the onset of mask-wearing, my lipstick doesn’t get much use these days. I bought this one about a year ago and you can see how little wear there is. But it’s always in my handbag, just in case. This is the compact version, about 2” (5cm) tall.
A little bird whispered to me that I'm on vacation from now on. It was this little young great tit that just a short time before had eyed me so attentively.
Due to the sudden onset of winter in Slovakia, with minus 15 degrees and 10 cm of fresh snow in one night, my holiday planning has changed significantly. Instead of going to the High Tatras, I'm starting twards Tuscany tomorrow morning. I have nothing prepared and absolutely no plan but I think I'll find something down there. I'll catch up on the tour to Slovakia in the fall.
Ein kleines Vögelchen hat mir gefüstert, dass ich ab jetzt Urlaub habe. Es war diese kleine junge Kohlmeise, die mich kurz zuvor noch so aufmerksam ins Auge gefasst hatte.
Auf Grund des pötzlichen Winterausbruches in der Slowakei, mit minus 15 Grad und 10 cm Neuschnee in einer Nacht, hat sich meine Urlaubsplanung allerdings stark verändert. Statt in die Hohe Tatra mache ich mich morgen früh auf den Weg in die Toskana. Ich habe nichts vorbereitet und absolut keinen Plan aber ich denke, mir wird dort unten schon irgend etwas einfallen. Die Tour in die Slowakei hohle ich dann im Herbst nach.
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As this female demonstrates, Grackles have a significant change in food choices come spring, and the onset of breeding season. They are normally seed eaters (they have a special ridge inside their bill for eating nuts, and they are the real threat to cornfields, despite the name ‘scare crow’), but become opportunistic omnivores as the insect world comes back here in April and May.
There will be fewer dragonflies down the road, as this bird has quite a haul of the various developmental phases in its mouth.
I was on the edge of the Lake, waiting for some shorebirds, when this bird popped up from the water onto a rock right in front of me and gave me a great head turn before flying up to the nest.
Despite the somewhat off-putting array in her mouth, this bird is participating in its own way in the great spring reproductive surge that overtakes the animal world. And those bundles of protein are anything but off-putting to her.
Photos taken yesterday and today at Reumannplatz in Favoriten, the 10th district of Vienna
In the background you can see the Amalienbad, a beautiful indoor swimming pool from the time of Red Vienna (it was completed in 1926). The Christmas tree, indicating the beginning of the pre-Christmas season, stands rather lonely due to the simultaneous lockdown.
*Wintereinbruch im Buchenwald*
There has been some snow here since yesterday morning and has certainly surprised the last beech trees that still had their autumn leaves.
Seit gestern Morgen liegt hier etwas Schnee und hat sicherlich die letzten noch belaubten Buchen im Wald überrascht.
Onset of lowtide as seen from the Waddijk. The Waddenzee falls dry twice a day when thousands of birds are foraging for food.
Ferenberg-Bantigen BE
Schweiz
2024
Olympus XA4 macro, Zuiko 3,5/28 mm
Eastman Double-X 5222, Kodak D-76 (1+1)
Print onto Adox Variotone, Moersch ECO 4812
Selen MT 1, 1+9, 45 sec
bleached with Hexacyanoferrat/Kaliumbromid 1+49, 20 sec
Variotoner MT 3 (50+150+800)
At the onset of blue hour, C39-8 #1032 emerges from the towering rock walls of the high Andes, flying high over the trestle at Inferno. The FCCA climbs almost 16,000 feet between the port of Callao and the summit at Galera, passing through countless switchbacks and tunnels, and over several majestic trestles.
We are at approximately 11,000 feet (3,350m) here at Inferno, but the biggest hazard is not the high elevation nor is it the treacherous climbs to the shots…rather it is the completely unhinged, chaotic, lawless, and often lethal highway that parallels the mainline. Up-grade, slow, overloaded, unregulated semis meet down-grade, aggressive, and often erratic counterparts on narrow roads, all the while cars, motorbikes, and buses alike zip in and out, often flipping into opposing traffic with reckless impulse, and at the narrowest of margins. Turning a bend to find a wrong-way semi barreling down at you is commonplace and often involves a split-second swerve (hopefully not over the cliff) into the shoulder (if it exists) or opposing lane (if empty), all at dizzying heights. We came within inches of our life multiple times. We saw the aftermath of several gruesome and fatal collisions. Navigating Peru’s mountain highways are not for the faint of heart and by God’s grace, we made it out alive.