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Wood Warbler - Phylloscopus sibilatrix
The wood warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix) is a common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe, and just into the extreme west of Asia in the southern Ural Mountains.
This warbler is strongly migratory and the entire population winters in tropical Africa.
It is a summer visitor to the United Kingdom, seen from April until August. It has declined there in recent years. It is now very rare in Ireland, where only one or two pairs are recorded breeding in most years, usually in County Wicklow.
Various factors associated with forest structure, including slope, forest cover, proportion of broad-leaf forest, canopy height and forest edge length, all influenced the occupancy rates of this declining forest species. Conservation measures are therefore required that provide and maintain the wood warblers preferred forest structure. There is also a preference for forest in the non-breeding season, however this habitat is declining in wintering areas such as Ghana. Despite the decline in forest habitats, there has been no change in number of wood warblers as it appears that this species can use degraded habitats, such as well-wooded farms. However, further loss of trees will likely have a negative impact on this species in the future
The yellow-throated warbler (Setophaga dominica) is a small migratory songbird species breeding in temperate North America. It belongs to the New World warbler family (Parulidae). Yellow-throated Warblers are small, well-proportioned birds with sharp and pointed bills. Compared to other warblers, they are a bit more heavy-bodied with a longer and thicker bill. From below, note the blunt, only slightly notched tail. Yellow-throated Warblers are gray and white with a splash of yellow on the throat and black streaks down the sides. The yellow throat is offset by a black triangle below the eye and a white eyebrow. From above they have a gray back and 2 white wingbars. From below look for the white belly and white tail. Females and first-year males look similar, but are slightly paler.
The great grey owl (Strix nebulosa) is found throughout Northern Europe, Northern Asia and a significant proportion of North America. They are quite large birds, rivalling the Eurasian Eagle Owl in size. The great grey owl has a large, rounded head and yellow eyes, with light underparts mottled with darker grey feathers. Their wings and back are darker grey with lighter bars.
The great grey owl has a large "facial disk." The facial disk is a concave circle of feathers around the eyes of the bird. It helps to collect sound waves and direct them toward the owl's ears, helping the owl to locate its prey by sound. The great grey owl has the largest facial disk of any bird of prey.
Their diet consists mainly of small mammals and their preferred prey is voles, however they will also eat gophers, weasels, squirrels, rabbits, rats and mice. They nest in dense coniferous forests in most of the northern hemisphere.
The female will lay between two to six eggs at one- to two-day intervals. The female does all of the incubation, which starts when the first egg is laid. After four to six weeks the chicks hatch. The male provides all the food for the young, which is torn into smaller pieces by the female. When food is scarce the female great grey owl will often starve herself in order to feed her chicks, and may lose up to a third of her body weight. The chicks will leave the nest after approximately a month and can fly well after two months. The young stay close to home and are cared for by the female for some time after leaving the nest.
The great grey owl (Strix nebulosa) is found throughout Northern Europe, Northern Asia and a significant proportion of North America. They are quite large birds, rivalling the Eurasian Eagle Owl in size. The great grey owl has a large, rounded head and yellow eyes, with light underparts mottled with darker grey feathers. Their wings and back are darker grey with lighter bars.
The great grey owl has a large "facial disk." The facial disk is a concave circle of feathers around the eyes of the bird. It helps to collect sound waves and direct them toward the owl's ears, helping the owl to locate its prey by sound. The great grey owl has the largest facial disk of any bird of prey.
Their diet consists mainly of small mammals and their preferred prey is voles, however they will also eat gophers, weasels, squirrels, rabbits, rats and mice. They nest in dense coniferous forests in most of the northern hemisphere.
The female will lay between two to six eggs at one- to two-day intervals. The female does all of the incubation, which starts when the first egg is laid. After four to six weeks the chicks hatch. The male provides all the food for the young, which is torn into smaller pieces by the female. When food is scarce the female great grey owl will often starve herself in order to feed her chicks, and may lose up to a third of her body weight. The chicks will leave the nest after approximately a month and can fly well after two months. The young stay close to home and are cared for by the female for some time after leaving the nest.
However, roughly 1 in 3 people worldwide still view the vaccine with distrust and uncertainty. Instead of a safety guarantee, they see the jab as a new risk that must be overcome. And when we look at the countries, which have very different health care systems and distribution plans, different perspectives are beginning to emerge. Confidence in the safety, efficiency and general distribution of the vaccine is very high in China, India and the UK, and lower than the US average. It is possible that uncertainty among the public will decrease as more people get the vaccine, but in March vaccination rates were still very low. 17 percent of respondents worldwide say they have been partially or fully vaccinated, while 83 percent have not received any dose. And it's unclear when vaccines will be available to anyone who wants one. Nearly 4 in 5 respondents who want the vaccine expect to receive it this year - but given the slow pace of global distribution, this seems unlikely. In January, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) predicted that immunization programs for most of the world's population will continue through mid-2022. This is critical, as a slow or uneven rollout jeopardizes the pursuit of herd immunity in the short term. As long as not enough people are vaccinated worldwide, there is a risk that a vaccine-immune variant will develop. It is unknown what proportion of the population needs to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to induce herd immunity.
UNMISTAKABLE gamebird as well, and a joy to hear and see. It is estimated 15 million captive-bred birds are released each autumn. Of these, around 7 million are shot duriing the winter months and a significant proportion of those that escape the guns succumb to natural winter starvation. Take a walk or a drive in lowland countryside and you will surely see a pheasant. The species provides most interest in late winter and early spring after shooting has ceased. Once again seen at Elmley Marshes, Sheppey Kent, these ones are safe, from the gun here, and many do learn to feed and breed in the wild.
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"GODS BEAUTY is SIMPLY AMAZING !"
“There is no exquisite beauty…
without some strangeness in the proportion.”
Quote ― Edgar Allan Poe
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You reap what you sow. Lincolnshire is known as the 'The Bread Basket' of the UK. Due to its rich silt soil a large proportion of the country’s vegetable and cereal crops are grown here including potatoes, cauliflowers, carrots, Brussels sprouts, pumpkins, onions, wheat and barley.
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The Royal Liver Building /ˈlaɪvər/ is a Grade I listed building in Liverpool, England. It is located at the Pier Head and along with the neighbouring Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool Building is one of Liverpool's Three Graces, which line the city's waterfront. It was also part of Liverpool's formerly UNESCO-designated World Heritage Maritime Mercantile City.
Opened in 1911, the building was the purpose-built home of the Royal Liver Assurance group, which had been set up in the city in 1850 to provide locals with assistance related to losing a wage-earning relative. One of the first buildings in the world to be built using reinforced concrete, the Royal Liver Building stands at 98.2 m (322 ft) tall to the top of the spires, 103.7 metres (340feet) to the top of the birds and 50.9 m (167 ft) to the main roof.
The Royal Liver Building is one of the most recognisable landmarks in the city of Liverpool with its two fabled Liver Birds which watch over the city and the sea. Legend has it that if these two birds were to fly away, the city would cease to exist.
The Liver Birds are 5.5 metres,18 feet high. Their added height gives the Royal Liver Building an overall height of 103.7 metres, 340 feet. A building of skyscraper proportion, and once one of the tallest buildings in the country, the Royal Liver Building is currently the 4th tallest building in Liverpool.
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage"
Anaïs Nin
"La vie se rétrécit ou s'agrandit proportionnellement à son courage"
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"La proportion, c'est le coeur de la beauté."
Ken Follett
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Dive into Port Phillip Bay under the watch of 82 distinctive bathing boxes, a row of uniformly proportioned wooden structures lining the foreshore at Brighton Beach.
Built well over a century ago in response to very Victorian ideas of morality and seaside bathing, the bathing boxes remain almost unchanged. All retain classic Victorian architectural features with timber framing, weatherboards and corrugated iron roofs, though they also bear the hallmarks of individual licencees' artistic and colourful embellishments.
Thanks to these distinctive decorations, the boxes turn the Brighton seaside into an immediately recognisable, iconic beachscape that can transform by the hour according to season, light and colour. Just try to resist pulling out your camera and snapping away.
Content: Tourism Victoria
Jan. 30/2016
Iconic Brighton beach box sells for foreshore record of AU$285,000
Eurasian blue tits, usually resident and non-migratory birds, are widespread and a common resident breeder throughout temperate and subarctic Europe and the western Palearctic in deciduous or mixed woodlands with a high proportion of oak. They usually nest in tree holes, although they easily adapt to nest boxes where necessary. Their main rival for nests and in the search for food is the larger and more common great tit.
The Eurasian blue tit prefers insects and spiders for its diet. Outside the breeding season, they also eat seeds and other vegetable-based foods. The birds are famed for their skill, as they can cling to the outermost branches and hang upside down when looking for food.
A high proportion of my Western Meadowlarks are singing from fence posts, so it was gratifying to find one by the roadside, perched on a little pile of debris. This is a common bird in my area throughout spring and summer - one of the first migrants to return, a harbinger of spring. And its song is very sweet, rivalled, perhaps, only by the Bobolink's.
(My apologies to anyone who faved the White-crowned Sparrow that I uploaded earlier in this spot and have now removed. A clerical error; I had already shared it, 4 years ago. You can find it in my Best of 2017 album.)
This ends my "farewell to the birds of summer" series. Tomorrow I will begin posting more recent images. October was a busy month, lots of wildlife coming up so stay tuned!
Photographed from the rolling red Toyota blind in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2021 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
A good proportion of the railways of Rajasthan are flat and direct (to my surprise in my ignorance), and the last remaining metre gauge line in this part of the state proved to be no exception.
Seen here, at an ungated road crossing just south of Sonthaliya, is North-Western Region liveried Alco YDM4 unit 6651 hauling the 10.30 Sikar - Jaipur Junction (train 19736) in some pleasantly clear light.
Out of shot is the policeman assigned to "guard" the crossing and whose job is to ensure there are no obstructions, or foul play, preventing the train making a safe passage. It makes a pleasant change to frame a shot to include telegraph poles and wires - whether they survive the line's conversion to broad gauge remains to be seen.
16th March 2016
A Black-necked Stilt Chick finds Refuge under Mom’s Wing.
A striking black-and-white bird with very long, thin red legs, the Black-necked Stilt is found along the edges of shallow water in open country.
They have the second-longest legs in proportion to their bodies of any bird, exceeded only by flamingos.
The oldest recorded Black-necked Stilt was at least 12 years, 5 months old. it was banded in Venezuela and found in the Lesser Antilles.
Black-necked Stilts inhabit shallow wetlands from the western United States to Central America and parts of South America. In the United States, Black-necked Stilts are commonly found in salt ponds, flooded lowlands, or shallow lagoons. Human-maintained wetlands such as sewage ponds or flooded pastures are particularly suitable habitats for these birds, since such environments have some sparse vegetation without being too overgrown.
Black-necked Stilts wade in shallow waters to capture their meals of aquatic invertebrates and fish. They often consume such fare as crawfish, brine flies, brine shrimp, beetles, water boatmen, and tadpoles. They peck, snatch, and plunge their heads into the water in pursuit of their food, and will herd fish into shallow waters to trap them there.
Black-necked Stilts wade for their food, and will only swim or dive when under duress. During breeding and during winter, they are strongly territorial birds, and are particularly aggressive to chicks that are not their own. When not breeding, Black-necked Stilts roost and forage in closely packed groups, often staying within a foot of each other. Black-necked Stilts are semi-colonial when nesting, and they participate en masse in anti-predator displays. The displays include one in which no incubating birds fly up to mob predators, and one in which all birds encircle a predator, hop up and down, and flap their wings.
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Keep your sense of proportion by regularly, preferably daily, visiting the natural world.
Catlin Matthews
The boat is a large when it's on dry land, but small when in a large lake, surrounded by large hills and trees. Our view from our camping spot this past weekend.
Sunrise in autumn landscape Maashorst with bare trees, heather bushes, green grass and people in proportion with trees and surrounding landscape against blue sky with clouds illuminated by warm sunlight
United Kingdom, London, Barnes, Winter 2025
Barnes is a district in south London, part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England. Its built environment includes a wide variety of convenience and arts shopping on its high street and a high proportion of 18th- and 19th-century buildings in the streets near Barnes Pond. Together they make up the Barnes Village conservation area where, along with its west riverside, pictured, most of the mid-19th-century properties are concentrated. Barnes Common is an important open space and a local nature reserve. Barn Elms reservoirs were turned into a wetland habitat and bird sanctuary in 1995. The majority of the WWT London Wetland Centre comprises areas of standing open water, grazing marsh and reed bed.
This partial Albino Male Cardinal was captured Saturday at the Laguna-Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge.,To heck with kites. This was the beauty of the day and worth the trip…
Kites will come later…
"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." — Francis Bacon
The blackbird (Turdus merula) or blackbird, sometimes also cabbage or blackbird, is a bird species from the family of thrushes (Turdidae). In Europe, the blackbird is the most widespread representative of this family and at the same time one of the best-known birds of all. Its body length is between 24 and 27 centimeters. The males are black in color and have a yellow bill, while the plumage of the females is mostly dark brown. The melodious and loud territorial song of the males can be heard in Central Europe mainly between the beginning of March and the end of July and may begin before dawn.
The breeding range in Europe has no major distribution gaps except for the far north and the extreme southeast. In addition, the blackbird occurs in parts of North Africa and Asia. In Australia and New Zealand, the blackbird has become naturalized. In Central Europe, some of the birds leave the breeding area in winter and migrate to Southern Europe or North Africa.
Originally, the blackbird was a bird of the forest, where it can still be found today. In the 19th century, it began to penetrate urban centers via parks and gardens close to settlements and has become a cultural successor. Blackbirds forage mainly on the ground. They feed mainly on animal food, mostly earthworms or beetles. Depending on availability, the proportion of berries and fruits eaten increases. Blackbirds are free breeders and nest mainly in trees and shrubs.
Die Amsel (Turdus merula) oder Schwarzdrossel, manchmal auch Kohlamschl oder Schwarzamsel, ist eine Vogelart aus der Familie der Drosseln (Turdidae). In Europa ist die Amsel der am weitesten verbreitete Vertreter dieser Familie und zugleich einer der bekanntesten Vögel überhaupt. Ihre Körperlänge liegt zwischen 24 und 27 Zentimetern. Die Männchen sind schwarz gefärbt und haben einen gelben Schnabel, das Gefieder der Weibchen ist größtenteils dunkelbraun. Der melodiöse und laut vorgetragene Reviergesang der Männchen ist in Mitteleuropa hauptsächlich zwischen Anfang März und Ende Juli zu hören und kann bereits vor der Morgendämmerung beginnen.
Das Brutgebiet in Europa weist außer dem hohen Norden und dem äußersten Südosten keine größeren Verbreitungslücken auf. Darüber hinaus kommt die Amsel in Teilen Nordafrikas und Asiens vor. In Australien und Neuseeland wurde die Amsel eingebürgert. In Mitteleuropa verlässt ein Teil der Vögel im Winter das Brutgebiet und zieht nach Südeuropa oder Nordafrika.
Ursprünglich war die Amsel ein Vogel des Waldes, wo sie auch heute noch anzutreffen ist. Im 19. Jahrhundert begann sie über siedlungsnahe Parks und Gärten bis in die Stadtzentren vorzudringen und ist zum Kulturfolger geworden. Ihre Nahrung suchen Amseln vorwiegend am Boden. Sie ernähren sich überwiegend von tierischer Nahrung, meist Regenwürmer oder Käfer. Abhängig von der Verfügbarkeit steigt der Anteil gefressener Beeren und Früchte. Amseln sind Freibrüter und nisten vorwiegend in Bäumen und Sträuchern.
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A photo taken at a cafe in Dong Van.
Vietnam has many unique inventions. The dripper in the photo does not need paper as coffee is filtered through pinholes in the metal plate inside. And more importantly, it is very cheap.
Coffee cultivation was first introduced to Vietnam in the mid-19th century by the French, but it was the Doi Moi economic reform in the 1980s that spurred private individual farmers to grow coffee as a cash crop, which eventually made it one of Vietnam’s major export products. Vietnam is now the second largest coffee producer in the world only next to Brazil.
With the increase of coffee production, Vietnam developed its own coffee culture.
The taste of Vietnamese coffee is similar to, but different from, French coffee and now has its own right thanks to the dripper and a distinctive roasting techniques.
Cafes are everywhere like in France, but the difference is that the stools are often very low. Someone said that the price of a cup of coffee in Vietnam is in proportion to the height of stool in the cafe. I mean, low stool cafes are cheaper.
Bereits um das Jahr 150 n. Chr. befand sich auf dem Hügel der Walterichskirche ein römisches Heiligtum, das dem Sonnengott Mithras geweiht gewesen sein könnte. In ihrer heutigen Form stellt sich die Walterichskirche als schlichtes gotisches Bauwerk dar, das vor allem durch seine harmonischen Proportionen besticht. In seiner langen Geschichte ist es aber aus einer merowingischen Kirche (um 750) über die Karolingerzeit (um 820) und Romanik (um 1100) erwachsen.
In der Kirche das wiederaufgefundene Grab des „Sankt“ Walterich. (Er wurde nie in der offiziellen Liste der Heiligen geführt, aber vom Volk als solcher verehrt). Zu seinem Grab gab es eine Wallfahrt, die in der Karwoche dem Städtchen einen großen Zulauf brachte. 1801 ließ der Prälat die Grabplatte entfernen und umarbeiten und das Grab verdecken, um der „katholischen“ Wallfahrt ein Ende zu bereiten.
In seinem Grab wurden römische Steine mit Darstellung von Romulus und Remus mit der kapitolischen Wölfin gefunden (Carl-Schweizer-Museum). Es handelt sich um die einzige bekannte Darstellung dieser Art nördlich der Alpen. Zur Bedeutung der Walterichskirche trägt auch der nördlich am Chor befindliche Ölberg von 1525 bei, der jeweils am Karfreitag geöffnet wird.
Like all honey bee species, the western honey bee is eusocial, creating colonies with a single fertile female (or "queen"), many normally non-reproductive females or "workers", and a small proportion of fertile males or "drones". Individual colonies can house tens of thousands of bees. Colony activities are organized by complex communication between individuals, through both pheromones and the dance language.
The western honey bee was one of the first domesticated insects, and it is the primary species maintained by beekeepers to this day for both its honey production and pollination activities. With human assistance, the western honey bee now occupies every continent except Antarctica. Because of its wide cultivation, this species is the single most important pollinator for agriculture globally[citation needed]. Western honey bees are threatened by pests and diseases, especially the Varroa mite and colony collapse disorder. As of 2019, the western honey bee is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List, as numerous studies indicate that the species has undergone significant declines in Europe; however, it is not clear if they refer to population reduction of wild or managed colonies. Further research is required to enable differentiation between wild and non-wild colonies in order to determine the conservation status of the species in the wild.
Western honey bees are an important model organism in scientific studies, particularly in the fields of social evolution, learning, and memory; they are also used in studies of pesticide toxicity, to assess non-target impacts of commercial pesticides.
De honingbij komt van oorsprong voor in Afrika en Europa. In Europa loopt het natuurlijke verspreidingsgebied tot ongeveer 60 graden NB. Door toedoen van de mens komt de honingbij inmiddels wereldwijd voor. Honingbijen worden door de mensen die zich met de studie van de wilde bijenfauna bezig houden niet in kaart gebracht Een verspreidingskaartje van de honingbij ontbreekt dan ook. Ongetwijfeld is de honingbij in elk 5 x 5 km-hok aan te treffen. De honingbij is de hoogst ontwikkelde sociale soort onder de bijen. Een volk bestaat uit een koningin met een groep werksters. In bepaalde tijden van het jaar ontwikkelen zich tevens jonge koninginnen en mannetjes of darren. In de vrije natuur wordt vooral in holten genesteld (o.a. holle bomen). De soort bouwt uit was verschillende verticaal naast elkaar hangende raten per nest. De koningin kan enkele jaren oud worden. De werksters vliegen op allerlei planten (uitgesproken polylectisch) en communiceren met elkaar door middel van een speciale bijentaal. De vliegtijd van de honingbij in ons land ligt tussen februari en november met pieken in april - mei en augustus wanneer de volken hun grootste omvang (tot 60.000 exemplaren) bereiken. Afgelopen jaar is er ook in ons land enige discussie ontstaan over de concurrentie van honingbijen met andere bloembezoekers.
The little globe is about 10 cm in diameter. That works out to about 31.4159 cm circumference or .314159 meter. According to google, Earth's circumference at the equator is about 40,075.017 km, in the neighborhood of 127,562,848.7 times bigger than this tiny thing. That works out to a earth to globe ratio of something like 1.28x10^8:1 Someone correct me if my calculation is wrong. Enjoy creating on Flickr Friday and thanks for any views, faves, and comments.
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This is a Red Tail Hawk that has been seen numerous time along the Grand River across from the Grand Ravines North Park. The white condition of this hawk is called "Leucism". Not the greatest shot of this hawk as it was a few hundred yards away across the Grand River.
Here is some facts about Leucism.....
Leucism in birds is defined as the complete or partial absence of eumelanin and pheomelanin in one or more feathers, but not in the eyes, bill or feet, resulting in white patches in all or part of the plumage. Only 236 of the 5.5 million birds reported each year had leucism or albinism, making up a tiny proportion of birds with abnormal plumages. In other words, only about 1 bird in 30,000 has leucistic or albinistic plumage. Based on these results, leucism and albinism are very rare occurrences among birds.
Oshki is a Georgian monastery from the second half of the 10th century located in the historic province of Tao, now part of the territory of Turkey. The main church, dedicated to St John the Baptist, was built between 963 and 973. The Monasterys location in Turkey is in the village of Çamlıyamaç, in northeastern Erzurum Province, bordering Artvin Province.
he construction of the monastery at Osk/Oshki was sponsored by the Georgian Kings Bagrat eristavt-eristavi (prince of princes) and David III Bagrationi Kuropalates.
The blind arches are an important part of the whole decoration. In Oshki they stretch along the outer walls of the church in the south, east and north. It is an early example of the use of decorative blind arches on the facades. They divide the wall in line with the general architectural rhythm. The central part of the facade is mainly decorated with bas-reliefs.
Bas-reliefs, placed high above the central arch, are given the place of honour on the southern facade, which is the main facade of the church. They stand out from the flat surface. The eagle with an animal in his talons probably symbolises victory, and the whole sculptural composition the triumph of the heavenly forces represented by the archangels Michael and Gabriel. Oshki monastery was a major centre of Georgian literature and enlightenment during the Middle Ages.
In the province of Tao the power lay in the hands of the ruling dynasty of the Bagrationi, whose members Bagrat eristavt-eristavi and David Magistros are depicted lower down on the same facade, near the deesis, to show that the heavenly forces were the family's patrons. The figures are well proportioned, elegant in contour and form. The static postures of earlier donor portraits give way to free movement, and an equal attempt can be traced in the near three-dimensional renderings of the archangels and the deesis of the southern facade, as well as on a column in the southern gallery. The decorative system of the Oshki church also includes the low reliefs characteristic of the so-called transitional period in medieval Georgian art (8th - 10th centuries), when the old style had not yet given way completely, and new ways were evolving. Sculptors of the different generations must have worked on it. The church in Oshki already shows the tendencies that would eventually develop in the 11th century.