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Photograph taken at an altitude of Seven metres at 11:36am on Thursday May 12th 2022 off the Mall and Horse Guards Road within the grounds of St James's Park in Central London, one of the Royal parks of London situated in South West London.
THE EASTERN GRAY/EASTERN GREY SQUIRREL (SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS)
By Paul Williams
The Grey (or Gray) squirrel, you either love 'em or you hate 'em. Cute and fluffy little funsters or destructive critters who ruin trees, kill bird chicks and trees and damage our homes... oh and it's their fault we lost our native Red squirrels as well!
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I get it and I see both sides of the story of course. For my part, I am a nature, wildlife and landscape photographer who prefers the company of animals and natural beauty to fellow humans who are systematically plundering Mother Earth's resources and killing off her beautiful creatures at an alarming rate! I believe there is a natural order of things, creatures kill other creatures to survive, they adapt to situations and when mankind encroaches on their territory to make a fast buck, those animals sometimes adapt to survive and the order changes. That is the balance of nature which is ever changing and affected by us..... the dumbest of the great apes. Some species are driven out by others, some may be destined to become extinct, the fittest will survive, and sometime a species will need intervention and help from mankind in order to survive... usually as a direct consequence of mankind's own actions in destroying the animal kingdom's natural habitat of course.
I adore these little fellas and at almost sixty years old, I never grew up knowing red squirrels at all. I've seen reds in Scotland and black squirrels in Stanley Park on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, but in my beloved home country of England I have always known and loved the cute little Greys. They visit my garden and give me hours, days, weeks of happiness and wonderful photographic opportunities, and I see them in Parks and forests all around me, so it's time to offer up an insight into the Grey squirrel, much loved, much hated... a sort of Marmite rodent if you will.
WHAT EXACTLY IS A SQUIRREL?
The word 'Squirrel', was first recorded in 1327 and hails from the Anglo-Norman word 'Esquirel', from old French 'Escurel', which was a reflex for the Latin word 'Sciurus'.The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is also known as the Eastern Grey squirrel or simply grey squirrel depending on the region of the world it is found. It is a tree squirrel, of the squirrel family Sciuridae including over one hundred arboreal species native to all continents of the world other than Antarctica and Oceania. Tree squirrels live mostly in trees, apart from the flying squirrel. The best known genus is Sciurus, containing most of the bushy tailed squirrels which are found in Europe, North America, temperate Asia as well as central and south America.
The scientific classification for the Eastern Grey is:
KINGDOM: ANIMALIA PHYLUM: CHORDATA CLASS: MAMMALIA ORDER: RODENTIA FAMILY: SCIURIDAE GENUS: SCIURUS SUBGENUS: SCIURUS SPECIES: SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS
They were first noted by German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist - Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788.
A mammal and rodent, predominantly herbivorous they are none the less an omnivore with a life span of between two and ten years. They can grow to 70cm in length and weigh up to 8kg. There are more than two hundred and sixty species of worldwide squirrel, the smallest being the African pygmy squirrel at just 10cm in length, whereas the Indian giant squirrel is three feet long! The oldest fossil of a squirrel, Hesperopetes, dates back to the late Eocene epoch period Chadronian period of 40-35 million years ago. The tree squirrels rotate their ankles by 180 degrees, so that the hind paws pointy backwards gripping tree bark which enables them to descend a tree headfirst.
Originally native to Eastern and Midwestern United States of America, they were first introduced into the United Kingdom in 1876 in Henbury Park, Macclesfield in Cheshire when Victorian banker Thomas V. Brocklehurst released a pair of Greys that he brought back from a business trip to America after their attraction as pets had waned. Victorians had a penchant for collecting exotic animals and birds of the world, but trends came and went and subsequently animals were simply discarded into the wilderness. There are early records of greys released near Denbighshire in north Wales from private collections. Later introduced to several regions in the UK, they quickly settled and spread, colonizing an area of three hundred miles in a quarter of a century between Argyll and Stirlingshire in Scotland.
Introductions of the Greys between 1902 and 1929 (the year of the last recorded introduction), included: Regent’s Park in London, Berkshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk and Hampshire. Grey Squirrels spread into Gloucestershire and eastern Wiltshire with animals coming directly from the United States or from Woburn. One hundred greys were released in Richmond Park in Surrey in 1902, Ninety one into Regent’s Park between 1905 and 1907 and a further ten New Jersey imported greys were introduced into Woburn Park in Bedfordshire.
Predators include hawks, weasels, raccoons, bobcats, foxes, domestic and feral cats, snakes, owls, and dogs, African harrier-hawks in Africa and... oh yes, Mankind pretty much everywhere who despise, mistreat, cull or eat it .
FACTS, MYTHS AND THAT POXY PARAPOX!
The massive decline in native red squirrels blamed upon the spread of the invasive greys has always been perhaps a little harsh as reds were already in a steep decline due to loss of habitat and disease and thus the greys simply took over the areas where the reds were dwindling. It's also a fact that reds were also seen as a plague, branded as pests who killed birds and damaged trees and the culling of reds almost brought them to the brink of extinction. Licenses to kill reds could still be obtained up until the seventies!
Reds suffered at the hands of mankind thanks to a combination of agricultural deforestation also linked with war and fuel needs which caused extinction in Southern Scotland and Ireland by the early eighteenth century, way before greys had been introduced. Harsh winters killed off the less hardy red population in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Greys are more adept at finding food and adapting to locations and environments, but also carry the squirrel poxvirus (SQPV) which although not particularly harmful to them, is a serious infection for the reds.
Parapox in red squirrels causes swollen lesions around the mouth, eyes, ears and nose also the front paws and sometimes genitals and skin ulcers and kills a red within fifteen days. There is no definitive correlation between the spread of the virus and the spread of the Greys, it actually arrived in several areas before the greys began to colonize there. An epidemic virus was observed in Red squirrels from at least 1900 with isolation attempts failing, and the first case of Parapox in the UK was in 1980 in the county of Norfolk. Greys cannot transmit the virus to reds via saliva or faeces, but reds can between each other from bodily secretions and at animal feeders in gardens. The transmission from greys to reds is though to come from parasites. Eight to ten per cent of reds survive the virus, and there is some evidence that reds are slowly building an evolved resistance.
Greys are seen as pests to forest land, stripping bark from trees during May and June, and are also capable of destroying household bins, water pipes, causing roof damage not to mention taking eggs and killing young chicks of ground nesting and songbird populations. They also take from bird feeders and there is a whole industry for creating squirrel proof feeders these days.
THE CULLING OF GREY SQUIRRELS
Grey squirrels have limited legal protection and can be legally controlled all year round by a variety of methods including shooting and trapping. Methods of trapping and killing include Drey poking and shooting, Tunnel trapping using spring traps set in accordance with BASC’s trapping pest mammals code of practice. They can also be shot using a shotgun or powerful air rifle or up until September 30th 2014 poisoned by Warfarin (Now outlawed).
Whilst professional trapping and extermination is hopefully done as humanely as possible, there have been cases, many of them where cost savings have been gained by battering the squirrels to death! Grey squirrels are trapped in ghastly metal contraptions for hours and hours, wearing themselves out frantically trying to escape by gnawing at the metals bars. They bite the floor and scratch at them with their claws and do not get a moments peace or rest through absolute fear. Once the traps are retrieved, each squirrel, terrified will be thrown into a sack and smacked on the head countless times with a blunt instrument. When a mother is slaughtered, her babies who are totally dependent on her, will die a slow death of thirst and starvation.
There is an argument for the control of Greys on many grounds but also a counter argument that Culling does not work, and has not on countless times where, once a population of greys have been culled, the nearest group will move back in and claim the land. The university of Bristol concluded that there was little evidence that culling greys to save red squirrels was effective, and that perhaps finding a way of boosting red squirrel immunity to the poxvirus or planting areas of yew trees where reds are known to thrive and spending money on research into positive moves might be a better option.
In Ireland, the re-introduction of the Pine marten, a species made extinct originally by the very same land owners who also wish to do the same to the grey squirrel, has seen the rapid demise of the grey and the reintroction of the native reds. Red squirrels are smaller and more nimble than their grey counterparts, and as such can get to the very ends of tree branches where neither the pine martins, nor more importantly the heavier greys can, thus surviving and thriving. As a result in Ireland, the grey squirrel population has crashed in approximately 9,000 km2 of its former range and the reds has become common once more after a thirty year absence... oh and Pine Martens are protected again!
In Scotland, Pine Martens exist in areas where Red squirrels thrive, and greys do not. So perhaps there is a lesson here, as in England where there are no pine martens, the greys are prolific breeders. So there is an argument against the barbarity of shooting and poisoning greys, and if, as so many believe, the greys MUST be controlled, how about a more humane and natural method that nature intended.. with re-introduction of predators. Just a thought!
So a few facts and figures on the greys and to wrap up, from a purely personal perspective I love these little guys, as I do almost every creature in nature other than those eight legged beasties that shall not be named and for which I have a deep and powerful phobia that borders on paranoia!
I could no more harm an animal deliberately than eat a McDonald's McRib (Once saw how they are made and let me just say... eeeuuuuuwwwww!!).
They are small, cute, cuddly, furry, they photograph beautifully, have great personality and make me smile. They trust me enough to take food from my hand in parks, and I can't bare the though of ugly, hairy land owners sticking a shotgun in their face and blowing them away! I appreciate they can be a pest, a problem, a menace, that their PR managers might have a bit of a problem winning you over when they flay small chicks alive on your lawn or decimate the songbird population by stealing their eggs.... and perhaps there is a need to keep the population under control and try and re-establish the red population.....
Yep I get that....
I just hope we can solve the problem more humanely to create a peaceful coexistence of the reds and greys in different areas. A man can dream can't he.
Paul Williams June 18th 2021
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Dedicated to Dr. Perry S. Ong, a well-loved Academician and respected icon in the Philippine scientific world and environmental movement, who passed away yesterday. A loving father, husband, friend, mentor of mentors and a national treasure who will be dearly missed. upd.edu.ph/ong-takes-the-helm-at-cs/
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A few days ago, on the flickr universe, I had the misfortune to see some pictures really disrespectful towards a little animal ...
If you really can not love them, would be enough a bit of RESPECT!... Idiot!
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Castel Meur, a famous little house at the coastal landscape of Le Gouffre des Plougrescant (in English: "The Abyss of Plougrescant"), Brittany, France
Some background information:
Le Gouffre de Plougrescant is a coastal landscape in the very north of the French department of Côtes-d’Armor. It is located on the western edge of the Côte de Granit Rose (in English: "Pink Granite Coast") on a little peninsula. Le Gouffre de Plougrescant is world-renowned for a tiny residential home, which was built right between two huge rugged rocks. This residence is known as "Castel Meur" (in English: "Large Castle") resp. "La Maison du Gouffre" (in English: "The House at the Abyss"). Well, at the latest when you see the house, you realise that its first name is ironical while its second name isn’t.
Built in 1861, this little house embedded in the granite turns its back to the sea to protect itself from the wind and waves. In front of the house there’s some sort of natural basin that fills with seawater at high tide, which is why some photographers have the chance to take a picture of both the house and its reflection. However, we were there at low tide, which is why I didn’t get the reflection. But in compensation we had a rather beautiful sky.
160 years ago, people didn’t need building permits or licenses to build a house. Hence, they could build their house anywhere, even between two jagged rocks that protect it against storms coming from the sea. Castel Meur has been passed down from generation to generation and is still privately owned. Currently it belongs to the great-granddaughter of the first owner and she uses it at least as her temporal domicile.
Until some years ago, the house was accessible for visitors and people could even walk up to its door. However, some tourists couldn’t resist climbing up the rocks and even climbing on the roof, just to get some extraordinary portrait photos. But by doing that they damaged the roof and it had to be repaired. I guess, that was the moment when the owner was fed up with all those thoughtless and irresponsibly acting visitors, who respected neither her privacy nor property.
So she commissioned a low stonewall to be built around her plot and prohibited tourists to set foot on her property. If you ask me, this step is not only a blessing for the house owner, but also for photographers, who have no problems with other visitors spoiling the view since then.
The owner also had a legal dispute with the tourist authorities of the department of Côtes-d’Armor and all Brittany. The reason was that the authorities used pictures of the house to promote holidays in Brittany without prior agreement. Due to that, more and more tourists visited the house. Hence, she refused the authorities the permission to make use of photos of her house and finally won the case. Since then, the local tourist authorities cannot apply images of Castel Meur any longer.
Nevertheless, the house has become a world-renowned sight and the favourite photo subject as well as the most famous landmark of Brittany. But contrary to what I had expected, the area of Le Gouffre de Plougrescant was not overcrowded. When we were there only a view visitors explored the coastal scenery and the rather small parking area wasn’t anywhere near its capacity limit.
The seacoast of Le Gouffre de Plougrescant derives its name from a huge split rock in the proximity of Castel Meur. If you look through the gap, there’s an abyss of about ten metres and you can look down to more rocks near the surface of the water. These rocks form a little basin that fills with seawater, in particular at high tide.
But it’s not only the house between the rocks and the abyss that makes Le Gouffre de Plougrescant a very special coastal landscape. The whole scenery with its cliffs and rocks at the shoreline is really spectacular and different footpaths make it easily explorable. It seems to be impossible for bigger ships to steer clear of the rocks and even for fishermen with smaller fishing boats it seems to be a difficult task to find a navigational route through the rocks. So I guess, fishermen really have to know their way around.
Plougrescant is a village in Brittany in the department of Côtes-d’Armor in northwestern France. It has less than 1,200 residents. The little peninsula, where Plougrescant is situated, is bordered by the English Channel to the west and the mouth of the River Jaudy to the east.
The area of Plougrescant was already inhabited in the Bronze Age: In 1845, a farmer found a bronze sword while cutting furrows, which dates back to 1700 to 1550 BC. In the 20th century, numerous male citizens of Plougrescant died during the wars: 76 during World War I, 28 during World War II, two during the Algerian War and another three during the Indochina War.
But this loss of human life is not the main reason for the demographic decline since the beginning of the 20th century. Instead, it’s most likely the lack of jobs contingent on the segregated location of the village. Many people have moved away, although some others have moved to Plougrescant thanks to its breathtaking scenery.
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47776 'Respected' is captured at Hunt's Lock, along the Weaver navigation at Northwich working 5K44 Manchester Piccadilly - Crewe empty coaching stock which, instead of working direct to Crewe took a round about route via the Mid Cheshire line and reversal at Chester. I can only think to maintain driver route knowledge?
Tug 'Clifton', operated by KD Marine UK and was working on the river with hopper barges Halton & Sutton. One of which can just about be seen in the big lock behind.
El martín pescador (Alcedo atthis) es otro miembro del Orden Coraciiformes, lo mismo que las abubillas y los abejarucos, cada cual en sus respectivas familias: Alcedinidae, para el primero, Upupidae para la segunda y Meropidae para los terceros. ¡¡Vaya tres aves espectaculares, verdad!! Si de la abubilla puedo estar medio contento de las fotos que guardo, de los otros dos me da coraje no poder decir lo mismo, pues el volumen de archivo que tengo es bastante escaso. No se me logran como quisiera. Aparte de las imágenes que tengo ya subidas del martín pescador con otros posaderos, he visto esta distinta y me animo a subirla. Es un ave que veo desde mi ventana de vez en cuando, pero para la que no encuentro un buen lugar cercano a casa para hacerles sesiones (lo mismo me pasa con el abejaruco, ¡¡qué rabia!!), así que me tendré que conformar con lo que otros fotógrafos muestran por las redes.
Aquí os dejo a este adolescente (se le nota por las zonas oscuras de las patas) del que desconozco si podemos asegurar que se trata de un macho por tener el pico negro (como todos los machos adultos) o de una hembra, pues parece querer intuírsele los inicios de una futura mandíbula inferior naranja como muestran las mamás adultas. Si alguien conoce este aspecto estaría genial que comentara si los pollos hembras tienen o no la mandíbula inferior siempre con el típico color naranja o, si por el contrario, la tienen al principio negra y con el tiempo se les va extendiendo la citada mancha.
En cualquier caso, gracias por vuestras observaciones sobre la imagen. Un saludo a todos.
My photo album dedicated to the sun, "In the respect to the sun collection".
For now 51 different photography with nice landscape, nature and rich colors of sun.
Bayon Temple, Angkor, Cambodia.
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While on a road trip through Colorado, a peregrine falcon landed on a fence post a few feet away. It flew away before I could react, and just like that, I was obsessed. Since then, I made it a point to look out for the members of the falcon and the hawk family whenever I can. While many cool birds belong to these bird families, no one is more iconic than the Bald Eagle. As a symbol, it's everywhere you look, especially in the United States, but the real deal has eluded me so far, until last Sunday.
We were close to our breaking point from staying home and dealing with a toddler who is growing rebellious by the day. So we decided to do a quick drive on the scenic drive nearby. While photography was not part of the original plan, I decided to grab my birding gear anyway. While on our drive, I noticed some movement by the road and decided to check it out. It turns out what I watched was a bald eagle landing on a tree nearby. But once I stopped, we noticed that there were two birds. They were perched on a dead tree near a small pond. Unfortunately, the pond was quite far from the road, and there were no access roads. We drove around a bit to get close to the birds, but it was still far, even with my 700mm focal length. As I pondered my options, the golden hour started, and warm side-lighting began to come into the scene. Even though I could not get close to this iconic bird's portrait, I am still super stoked with this environmental portrait.
"Our ancestors knew that nature is beautiful and terrifying, that rainbows are courted by storms, that day shares the sky with night, that decay caresses beauty's cheek..."- Tree Keepers Oracle Angie Sullins
The Gray Fox has walked this Earth for much longer then us <3
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This friendly bearded dragon wandered into our pergola which immediately set off
the "hunting program" in our young cat "Jerry".
(In case you're wondering what did happen next....Jerry backed off with respect realising this was
a much bigger lizard than what he was use to chasing....we took the beardy back to the garden)
Taken with Samsung galaxy 7 edge cellphone. Do not have a camera quite yet but will purchase one soon thinking about the Cannon Sx 720 or 730 Powershot I like Macro for me to be a beginner.
Blooming in my Lake Tahoe garden, quite early for these blue beauties.
Hope everyone has a great weekend. Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your kind comments -- I appreciate them all.
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I'm not sure if anyone noticed, but things have been a little "different" lately, right? Even my friends on the street have noticed.
Not all of them get minute by minute news updates like many people do. Nor do all of them understand the extent of what is happening. But it is affecting their lives too. There used to be plenty of traffic for Hillbilly to panhandle in. Now some mornings the neighborhood is like a ghost town. Many of the friendly businesses, pallet yards, recycling places, etc... are closed. No segment of the population seems to be unaffected.
But as I drop food, clothes, etc... off in the mornings (or tonight for Levita, Vera, and Squirrel), there is a level of respect. A hug or handshake has been replaced with a virtual elbow bump. Food gets handed out and I distance myself, and they understand my concerns. Nobody gets offended when I say "Sorry, I can't take ANY chances."
I'm not sure if they observe these new social rules amongst themselves, but I appreciate the fact that understand me.
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I spent hours with these animals, relaxing, meditating and mourning before making the decision to photograph them. I was chasing away poachers (teeth) with my LED Lenser X21r.2. That worked!
I then spent an entire day with the South Australian Museum research team at the dissection. That was one of the most horrific experiences of my life. But documenting it for them was such a humbling experience.
The image was created with the utmost of respect for the animals. I only know one way to try and show beauty.
Peace, Denis
Oh go on then, just the one more ;)
I spent a good few hours watching a group of Gannets tearing up the bank on the edge of the cliff ripping the long grass out and flying off with it for nesting material, I sneaked up on this one but it spotted me and gave me the Gannet Stare! ;)
A fantastic early morning at RSPB Bempton Cliffs.
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Just recently, a day hiker lost his footing above Sol Duc Falls and tumbled over two spillways. He is extremely lucky to have survived. As you can see in my photograph the water is a torrent of action as it cuts through this narrow passageway.
Story is here; www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20160522/NEWS/305229981
Note to hikers......respect these places!
Another of Stormie Mills's early works in an adjacent laneway. Nice to see it hasn't been desicrated after so many years. stormiemills.com/
Los tractores de la serie 310, concretamente los números 10 y 21 respectivamente, remolcan en doble tracción un corte de cisternas de biodiésel vacías, procedentes de Huelva-Mercancías con destino a la planta de DECAL.
Saludos al personal de cabina.
I personally am very moved by the respect value and tradition that the poppy represents.
How lucky it was that on the evening I had chosen to photograph these poignant flowers at West Pentire near Crantock, that growing between them were a vast array of native arable wildflowers which are managed by the National Trust to ensure their continued conservation.
Somehow it seemed very fitting bearing in mind the words from armistice day “the going down of the sun” how respectful the setting sun was to only show its subdued rays on this particular evening and in turn illuminated the sea in such a way to make us realise how lucky we are to have what we have compared to those who gave so much for our tomorrow.
Finally as it is Umbellifer Wednesday it was quite appropriate to include Umbellifer’s silhouetted along the top of the hedge on the left hand side of shot, who appear to be providing a guard of honour to the whole evenings happenings.
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No overtime for the first time in three weeks !
ws and I went for a stroll in Central Park and paid respect at the Imagine mosaic.
The white shirt project.
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