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This photo is part of a series within a series. In my post of the female bighorn sheep yesterday, I mentioned that the males of some ungulate species aren't the only ones with horns or antlers. So within my horns and antlers set, I'm posting some ladies with horns.
Here, a Plains Bison cow makes her way across the grasslands of Custer State Park, South Dakota.
...des Zauns ist das Gras immer noch ein wenig grüner. - wer kennt diese Redewendung nicht?
Als ich den Blick in die Landschaft vor knapp zwei Wochen fotografierte, wünschte ich mir ein wenig mehr Sonne, Wärme, Sommerwetter.
Heute blicke ich sehnsüchtig auf die satten Farbtöne der Aufnahme, lechze nach ein paar Grad Abkühlung und warte auf - Regen! ... ;-)))
TGIF right? It’s been highly anticipated this week to be honest. I’m still roaming around the town and looking to shoot some more IR images. It gets me out of my usual routine and that is always a good thing. If you would like to try something different in your photography, what would that be?
camera Zenit ET, lens Helios-44M 2/58, film Rollei RPX 100, dev in Fomadon Excel W27 for 9½ min.
Yes, it's my absolute favorite barn. When I get a new camera in my hands I usually test it on this barn. I hope it will stand against wind, snow and rain for several more years. It stands on a plain formed by a meteorite crater for about 560 million years ago. The plain is 6 km in diameter. It is one of the last barns on the plain, in the 1940s there were over 3000 barns here. Modern agriculture has no use for the barns and therefore only a few remain. It's a pity.
Elk Island National Park
There were 2 fellows coming our way and Tabby, my dog, and I going the other way with this bison in between. It took 20 minutes to coax her/him off the trail.
The slaughter of the buffalo on the plains, being the main source of food and clothing for indigenous people contributed to their plight of hunger.
There are approximately 400 bison in Elk Island park
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Explore January 20, 2008
The herd of Plains Bison that reside near Delta Junction Alaska came from Montana back in 1928. As of the last count, there are around 900 Plains Bison that roam Alaska in the wild. The biggest herd is the one near Delta Junction Alaska. There are smaller herds located in Chitna Alaska, Copper River Alaska and Farewell Alaska.
The male bison can weigh up to 2000 lbs and stand 6 feet tall while the females can weigh up to 1000 lbs and stand up to 5 feet tall.
Commonly, Bison are referred to as Buffalo. The word buffalo is derived from the French “bœuf,” a name given to bison when French fur trappers working in the US in the early 1600s saw the animals. The word bœuf came from what the French knew as true buffalo, animals living in Africa and Asia, and bison comes from the Greek word for beef animal or ox.
The River Avon in Bristol flooding due to the super high Spring tides, with The Clifton Suspension Bridge and Hotwells in the background.
With a difference of 15-metres/49-foot between high and low tide, the River Avon has the second largest tidal range in the world. Only the Bay of Fundy in Canada has a higher tide, with an average of 16.8 metres/55-foot)
Across the plains of the Serengeti sprinted dogs with wild frisbee catch in their jaws. From Saturday morning when Jasper got to run his new frisbee through it's paces. Jean and I are on vacation this week in Oregon doing some waterfall, wildlife and winery viewing. Perfect, except for the lack of Jasper :-( Sorry if I don't comment much this week
Op de koude maar inmiddels zonnige morgen van 14 oktober 2016 mocht de 1615 een lange sleep korte vierassige Railpolska ketelwagens naar Rotterdam brengen. We zien de lege styreentrein 49514 hier passeren ter hoogte van Moordrecht waar de boompjes ook al wat herfstkleuren beginnen te krijgen.
A pair of younger Bison bulls on the Summer range at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Indiahoma, OK. Our beautiful world being passed on.
The trees to the left provide cover for a paved trail that was once a railroad track. This provides a perfect way to enjoy a hike on a hot, summer day.
We found many of these very large skinks under rocks.
I recently did some extreme social distancing with my son in the wilds of Kansas. We were able to turn up many reptile species and some good birds while staying far away from people. I will be posting photos from this trip for quite a while.
I hope all my flickr friends are staying safe and healthy.
www.tourduvalat.org/en/newsletter/la_reserve_naturelle_re...
A remarkable site for temporary ponds
The Tour du Valat Foundation is the owner of a 2560 ha estate made up of natural and agricultural lands, grazed by some 450 Camargue cattle and 80 Camargue horses. The natural zones form a mosaic of the emblematic and now rare habitats of the fluviolacustrine Camargue, the area at the interface between riverine and maritime influences.
These relatively non-saline habitats were largely destroyed in the past for the development of agriculture. The result is a natural heritage of exceptional value, adapted to the particular conditions of the area. Since July 2008, 1845 ha of the Estate (i.e., 72% of its total surface area) have been granted the protection status Réserve naturelle régionale or Regional Natural Reserve (RNR).
Of the many natural habitats that make up the site, the temporary ponds are among the most remarkable. Some of them (the least saline) are examples of a habitat of priority community interest under the European Habitats Directive, which are in sharp decline around the Mediterranean basin, Mediterranean Temporary Ponds (MTP)1. Such ponds cover a total surface area of 18.3 ha on the Tour du Valat Estate, i.e. 65% of all the MTPs in the Camargue.
In all, there are 65 ponds of various kinds on the Estate covering a total surface area of about 60 ha (their size is highly variable in function of water level). They vary considerably in size, shape, depth, level of isolation, and salinity, with consequent influences on the plant and animal communities that live in and around them.
In particular, there is a wide diversity of plant species, certain of which are highly threatened. Among the eleven protected species (four at national level, and seven at regional level) found in the Tour du Valat RNR, two are of major importance for conservation:
The Starfruit or Water star (Damasonium polyspermum) is an attractive little white-flowered annual plant, a member of the Alismataceae family. This Western Mediterranean endemic is typical of Mediterranean temporary ponds. Its world conservation status is listed as Vulnerable by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and it is protected by ministerial decree in France, where it is present at some ten sites, including the Tour du Valat. In the RNR, it is found, sometimes in populations of several thousands, in six oligosaline (very slightly salty) ponds with a sunny exposition and scattered emergent vegetation; it emerges only when flooding conditions are favourable, i.e. when there is enough water in early spring.
Riella helicophylla is a small aquatic liverwort just a few centimetres in height. Endemic to the Mediterranean basin, it is listed in Annex II of the Habitats Directive, and is currently being added to the list of French protected species. It is fond of distinctly saline, shallow, clear, temporary flood water, with limited plant cover. It was only recently discovered at the Tour du Valat (March 2012) in saline borrow pits and some low depressions in the flooded sansouïres bordering the Baisse Salée and the Saline ponds, covering at least 1.2 ha. Until then, it had only been found at one (former) site in the Hérault Department, and at Salin du Caban, east of
In terms of animals, the temporary ponds are also of primordial interest, for branchiopod crustaceans, odonates (dragonflies and damselflies), and amphibians. In wet springs, they literally teem with animals of kinds: from Triops cancriformis, a real living fossil, to the impressive tadpoles of the Common parsley frog or the Mediterranean/stripeless tree frog, and larvae of Zygoptera (damselflies, close relatives of the dragonflies). In this category, one of the commonest species in the Tour du Valat ponds, although highly threatened in France, is the Dark emerald damselfly or Dark spreadwing (Lestes macrostigma). This attractive damselfly, listed as Vulnerable in Europe by the IUCN, is only found in a few sites in France, along the Atlantic coast, in Corsica, and in the Camargue.
To conserve this natural heritage, it is necessary to maintain the natural hydrological regime of these ponds, characterised by their isolation and long completely parched periods in the summer. Their appearance thus varies immensely in function of precipitation level, ranging from bare cracked soil in late summer to vast flooded areas in wet springs, verdant and teeming with life.
*Habitat type 3170 in the Habitats Directive n° 3170.
Find out more:
Bigot L. 1999 Sur la réponse de Damasonium polyspermum Cosson (Alismataceae) aux variations des conditions édaphoclimatiques, d'après un suivi de 43 ans (1954-1996) dans une mare temporaire de la Tour-du- Valat (Camargue, Bouches-du-Rhône, France). Bull Soc Linn Provence 50 : 83-88 (in French)
With the old searchlights standing strong the night gas heads back to Missoula knocking down Plains on the way back.
camera Praktica B 100, lens Pentacon Prakticar 1:2.4 f=50 mm MC, film Astrum 100 Black&White film, developed in Fomadon Excel W27 for 11 min
Plains, Georgia
For more info on this church and other historic rural churches in Georgia go to: www.hrcga.org/church/plains-baptist/
Parc animalier de Thoiry ( WOW Safari Thoiry)
Circuit safari en voiture
De nombreuses hypothèses ont été émises pour expliquer l’utilité des rayures des zèbres : identification des individus, camouflage, perturbation des prédateurs, thermorégulation… L’explication principale retenue par la communauté scientifique est finalement que les rayures des zèbres repoussent les insectes piqueurs comme les taons ou la mouche tsé-tsé. Ceux-ci pouvant transmettre des maladies, diminuer les risques d’être piqués est un avantage conséquent. Les sous-espèces de Chapman (présentée à Thoiry) et de Burchell ont la particularité d’avoir des rayures beiges entre leurs rayures noires au niveau de la croupe.