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Eastern Bluebirds
This capture struck my funny bone... He's got some food and she's got some nesting material...
Due to other priorities and commitments, I was only able to get this shot up now, although this was taken a few months ago in May.
MacRitchie Reservoir is a great place to to get away from the noisy parts of the city, for some peace and quiet. During blue hour, it is surprisngly not very crowded at all, so I was able to experiment as many shots as possible in different settings without too much difficulty.
Alas, I was not able to get a good sunset that day due to very cloudy weather, but the blue hour view more than made up for it.
A day late, but Happy Caturday! I don’t know what it is about boxes, but Josie and Sebastian like them a lot. You should have been here to watch Sebastian take 10 minutes (at least) to squeeze himself into this one. ;) *Beth’s photo.
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She desires
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one man's priority...-Gw
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Found some time, after taking down the Holiday Lights and Christmas Decorations, to scoot over to a local wildlife sanctuary; the trip paid off ;-)
Cooper’s Hawk:
Among the bird world’s most skillful fliers, Cooper’s Hawks are common woodland hawks that tear through cluttered tree canopies in high-speed pursuit of other birds.
Dashing through vegetation to catch birds is a dangerous lifestyle. In a study of more than 300 Cooper’s Hawk skeletons, 23 percent showed old, healed-over fractures in the bones of the chest, especially of the furcula, or wishbone.
A Cooper's Hawk captures a bird with its feet and kills it by repeated squeezing. Falcons tend to kill their prey by biting it, but Cooper’s Hawks hold their catch away from the body until it dies. They’ve even been known to drown their prey, holding a bird underwater until it stopped moving.
Once thought averse to towns and cities, Cooper’s Hawks are now fairly common urban and suburban birds. Some studies show their numbers are actually higher in towns than in their natural habitat, forests. Cities provide plenty of Rock Pigeon and Mourning Dove prey.
(Nikon Z8, 600/6.3, 1/640 @ f/6.3 ISO 90, edited to taste)
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I'm revisiting images of the many faces of Keefer Lake, my home. This is a 'redo' of a photo taken in April, 2009. The thickest and strangest fog/mist formed over the ice on the lake in a pastel 'winter blue' I had not seen before. It was like being inside a Salvador Dali painting! Although we often have ice fog we have not had anything quite like this one ever since.
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What follows is a (very) short story of mine written in the same year the photo was made ... the story and the photo seemed related somehow - at least to me?
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'Finding it, solving it, living it.'
Cool blue seemed to describe what he was seeing. It was soon dark and with it he feared he would be left to himself and he knew from experience that was not safe. How to feel it seemed always to be the fundamental problem but there were countless other difficulties that he constantly confronted and tonight seemed no different. Why is it that the ordinary takes priority over the real issue? Laziness, he supposes … do what is in front of you and brighter in your eyes rather than deal with the shadows in your mind, the things that are off to the side.
With the passing of those thoughts the blue was already gone and only patches of grey lined the horizon and shaped the trees and lake in front of him. Black and white would be easier he mused, grey was the problem of course. Joseph had always known that the lake would be the place where he found it and solved it. However, there was little warmth yet and more to be done. It wasn’t a case of deciding where to start because he knew already there was no beginning. He wasn’t even sure if there would be an ending? What to do at any given time about it he had concluded is about energy and attitude and distractions. The right proportions are essential and even distraction is needed in a measured and timely way. He had not seen in any sustained way that magical place … only glimpsing it from time-to-time although that was enough and it kept him coming back. Joseph often claimed that his only enduring trait was curiosity although he was credited by others as having more. He didn’t seem to care or need their praise and usually shrunk from it when it was offered … shyness perhaps, perhaps not? He reasoned that it wasn’t relevant anyway and wouldn’t help with finding it.
Idleness is, a friend of, maybe a prerequisite to the pursuit of it and Joseph had time on his hands now. You had to be sure though that the distractions of idleness didn’t overwhelm the quest. It was too easy to see them as reprieves when really they were quest busters. Peace of mind was not the same as the lack of stress that sometimes accompanies idleness and Joseph believed it was all about finding peace of mind. The glimpses of it had shown him that idleness only provided a useful means for having time to chase after the peace. “Maybe it wasn’t so much as chase, as follow” Joseph concluded. Curious people are often alone with their thoughts and comfortable in them. Thinking is not being idle although it might appear to be that to those observing.
MJH (2009)
My little friend here sat on the post looking out on the yard and I am sure keeping that right eye on me. This one is a bit skittish but I did manage to get close enough that I did not need to crop this at all.
I may not always have time to thank you all for your visits and comments but rest assured, that I do read them and am very appreciative that you took the time to pop by and see what I see here "North of 7" in Rural Eastern Ontario (North Frontenac Township) or, where ever else I might be with my camera now that I am retired and loving it.
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… and getting my attention. She doesn't quite accept my work on the keyboard when she wants attention (snuggling on my shoulder while I type is only good for a brief time.) She is more than happy to block keyboard access and ability to see display both. Tikki also gets attention by opera arias, moving pictures hanging from walls and sinking claws delicately into my leg but let’s stick with this. Happy Caturday 5 June 2021 “Getting Attention.”
To draw the monkey's attention, I snap fingers, gesture, whistle...., but the distraction proves too great to ignore.
Monkey forest - Ubud - Bali - Indonesia
Wildlife trust info:
Despite appearances, the slow worm is actually a legless lizard, not a worm or a snake! Look out for it basking in the sun on heathlands and grasslands, or even in the garden, where it favours compost heaps.
Statistics
Length: 40-50cm
Weight: 20-100g
Average lifespan: up to 20 years
Conservation status
Protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981. Priority Species under the UK Post-2010 Biodiversity Framework.
When to see
March to October
So we went to the beautiful National Trust site Attingham Park. Clearly the priority was to check out the refreshments first! ;)
Three day lillies in the garden this morning! They bloom and fade in a flash, so ...work will just have to wait.
Five of Union Pacific's six heritage painted SD70ACe locomotives pull a ZCSSC (Canal Street to Salt Lake City) priority intermodal train through Echo Canyon at Castle Rock, Utah on June 27, 2007. The colorful cast were gathered together for a big photo shoot in Salt Lake City for Trains magazine.
Southern Pacific painted 1996, Rio Grande 1989, Chicago & North Western 1995, Missouri Pacific 1982 and Missouri-Kansas-Texas 1988 are present here while Western Pacific 1983 was parked in Salt Lake City, awaiting the big event.
I was targeting the duck lady, who had just devoted herself extensively to plumage care, when the autofocus of my camera (faster than me) paid more attention to this pretty kingfisher...
What a smart camera ;-)))
Out on my daily out and about today. We received an extreme cold warning again but right now it's -13C feels like -19C which is comfortable enough to get out for a walk with the camera.
The snowbanks here are quite high and unlike most other municipalities and cities around us they don't seem to remove the banks rather they just bring a grader to move the pile higher it seems.
Once again I took my Lensbaby system but this time the Composer Pro with the Sweet 35 optic on the Canon 5D Mark II and converted to black and white in ON1 Photo Raw 2022.
Greenhouse drop - 161 of 215 - after watering the plants in the greenhouse today :-) just had to ......
One of my most prized possessions: a roll of dutch priorty mail stickers. It allows me to send postcards all over the world.
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No flowers: 8/20
Ukrainians are changing hunting weapons for military ones, the hunt for the aggressor has begun, Ilford HP5+ 400
Thank you DS56 for sending this in front of the North Platte Van.
BNSF traffic off the Inside Gateway blasts through Mounkes as BNSF 4649 leads a Pasco, Washington to Fresno, California priority manifest through the outskirts of Arboga. As the long standing Great Northern and Western Pacific agreement continues decades later with similar colors to the Great Northern Railroad, passing the Western Pacific's old guards in the Sacramento Valley.
And as for the aforementioned North Platte Van train, if this didn't cruise by it at Oroville we'd have ourselves a classic SD70M Piss Brick to look at instead...
Union Pacific SD60 No. 6004 leads the ZDVRO 22 with 10 priority UPS trailers at Gilluly, Utah the afternoon of June 22, 2001.
I actually put my camera on a tripod today (October 23, 2005) and shot some deep dof shots at about 3- or 4-second shutter speeds. I think I had the 70-300 on for this one. Check EXIF data. Obviously the pond was VERY calm. Schoepfle Garden, 23 October 2005.
Oops: Just noticed the data didn't upload on this: How about 300 telephoto, f22 at 3 seconds. I used the aperture-priority program, closed down all the way and let the camera select the right shutter speed. Also used the timer function to release the shutter.
Note for autumn 2009: This has been viewed more than 2,200 times ... far behind my most-viewed photo, which is at 21,641: www.flickr.com/photos/jonfobes/64021923/
Metra 148 pushes an inbound commute past the UP PALG3, waiting to gain access to the Geneva Sub and head down to Rochelle.