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Two emersed monk seals faceoff whisker to whisker in the surf zone. This male and female Hawaiian monk seal pair spent the night on the dunes high above the strand to avoid 25’ surf crashing on the beach. In the morning, they galumphed down to the shoreline, entered separately, located each other, then headed out into deep water. Endemic to Hawaii, this species of monk seal was established in the archipelago millions of years before the current human populated main volcanic islands emerged above sea level. Hawaiian monk seals are critically endangered and among the rarest of marine mammals.
No, it's not gratuitous use of the Flood filter, there was plenty of lake in front of this temple; I simply rotated the scene 180 in Photoshop (plus a few other tweaks, of course).
Taken today: Wat Chalerm Prakiat. Nonthaburi.
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Reino:Animalia
Filo:Chordata
Clase:Aves
Orden:Charadriiformes
Familia:Laridae
Género:Lares
Especie:L. argentatus
Lugar Captura:Vaticano Roma.Italia.
Nombre Comun:Gaviota Argéntea.
RESPECTO A LAS GAVIOTAS DEL VATICANO Y A PROPOSITO DEL HECHO DE LAS FOTOS DONDE UNA PALOMA DE LA PAZ FUE ATACADA POR UNA GAVIOTA Y UN CUERVO DEL VATICANO ,TRAIGO UN RELATO DE LA GAVIOTA DEL VATICANOS Y SU RELACION CON EL PAPA FRANCISCO.
Cuando la elección en el segundo día del cónclave de cardenales que elegiría a Jorge Bergoglio(Papa Francisco) un episodio inesperado captó la atención de millones de personas que esperaban el humo blanco.
En la previa de la segunda fumata, una gaviota se posó sobre la chimenea de la Capilla Sixtina;
La primera teoría de los fieles apuntó a que se trataba de una paloma que indicaba la supuesta presencia del Espíritu Santo (el catolicismo suele representarlo con esa ave), inspirando la elección papal; de ahí en más se sumó otra decena de especulaciones que llegó al extremo con la hipótesis de que el pájaro escondía un mensaje apocalíptico.
Sin embargo, la Agencia Informativa Catolica Argentina (AICA), órgano de difusión del arzobispado local, sumó un dato que alimentó el misticismo del mensaje porque, casualidad o no, podría haber indicado la inminente elección de un Papa argentino.
"Quienes no saben distinguir las distintas especies de aves, suponían que era una paloma (...). En realidad, la aposentada en la chimenea de la fumata era una gaviota de la especie Larus argentatus", aseguró AICA.
"Larus es el nombre genérico de las gaviotas, y argentatus hace referencia a su color blanco, color que en heráldica se llama plata (argentum), lo mismo que el nombre del país de donde proviene el nuevo papa: Argentina, cuyo nombre se deriva del Río de la Plata, el río más ancho del mundo, sobre el que se recuesta la ciudad de Buenos Aires, llamada por ello “La Reina del Plata”, que hasta este momento era gobernada eclesiásticamente por el nuevo pontífice", concluyó.
Thirteenth in the series ‘Wild Bonsai’, this tree is forty-eight inches (1.2m) in height and perhaps 1000 years old.
'Wild Bonsai' is a numbered collection of photos of naturally occurring bristlecones (p. longaeva) generally less than five feet in height (158cm) and - as nearly as I can estimate - between fifty and five-hundred years old - some much older. Most will have sprouted and survived in tiny cracks and crevases or miniature basins of sand and gravel. Shaped by the elements, flourishing tenaciously in the most minimalist of conditions, their lives are measured not in the millennia of more robust bristlecones, but in centuries...often mere decades.
'Duality', the cover photo for this album, is to me a matriarch of sorts and will remain unnumbered as a small token of a deeply intuitive and unapologetic respect that remains as transcendent and mysterious to me as it may seem odd to others. The essay that accompanies 'Duality' could, in many ways, apply as well to any other tree I may post in this series.
A perspective: Housed in the Tokyo Imperial Palace, the fifth oldest living cultivated bonsai in the world is something over 500 years old and is a designated National Treasure of Japan.
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Did you really think you would escape the ugly face of today's politics by retreating to nature? There is nothing wrong with being in nature, just do not look the other way. Respect yourself!
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The Golden Sunrise at The Golden Temple or Harimandir Sahib, Amritsar, India. I was taking the early morning pictures on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the first Guru of The Sikhs, Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji and it was time for the early morning ‘Ardaas’ or the prayer. I did not let the opportunity go away when I spotted this Gursikh standing besides the ‘Sarowar’ or the holy pond of The Golden Temple attending to the morning prayer.
The Human Family
As we left the car at Southsea today, I thought I saw a lady feeding swans at one end of the Canoe Lake. As we approached on our walk, it was obvious that she was feeding a group of seven swans by hand.
We said hello and I asked if I could take photos. This was no problem for the 'swan lady' and I took a few shots, then of course wondering if she would participate in my strangers' project. Mary was quite happy with this too.
On the Lake the swans eat weed, including very tiny prawns, and grass. Mary feeds them special swan pellets which have a fishy smell and contain molluscs. Her visits are now restricted to every 3 or 4 days rather than every day because of the increased cost of the pellets.
The swan peering over the back of the seat is named 'Youhoo', a bit of a character. Mary names each one and amazingly can tell one from another. She told us that this is her 'happy place' which began with a swan she called Charlie but who was unfortunately attacked by a dog.
I wondered if Mary has ever had any problems with the swans. She said 'never' and went on to say that she prefers swans to people. It's obvious that she knows how to treat them: an alpha male was once domineering but Mary stood up to him, however also affording him respect in the feeding queue.
Swans congregate at different ends of the Lake depending on the wind direction, peferring to fly into the wind rather than have it at their backs.
They spend good amounts of time preening and at this time of the year, will remove large feathers from their plumage, and in addition use their beaks to access a gland in their bodies which produces a substance to waterproof all their feathers.
Such an unexpected encounter as we had changed our minds about visiting a National Trust property and taken a late decision to go to the sea and have our breakfast.
We said our goodbyes; I've sent Mary some photos and cannot help reflecting on the variety of passions we humans embrace.
I did comment to Mary that I liked the purple shade in her hair; she told me it should really be pink but that she bought the wrong dye............
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Through respect you ask if you can take a picture if they're not dancing, which is exactly what I did of this dancer.
Respect to New Musik from 1980.
The HST came in as the 1T32 14.42 Aberdeen to Glasgow Queen Street, which later formed the 1A83 17.40 to Aberdeen.
The Village Bell Tower
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners — Laurence Sterne
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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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Hong Kong's skyscrapers. IFC and ICC sit on the opposite end. The Central Plaza, Times Square and Central Skyscrapers are visible as well.
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Created for Vivid Imagination's Graffiti & Street Art challenge.
Sometimes I have no idea where an image is going until it gets there. In this case, the opposite was true.
Last year I went to a panel discussion on graffiti and street art. The panelists included a street artist, a gallery owner, a museum curator, and an arts writer. At the time it struck me as ironic that this renegade -- even anti-social -- art form is now subject matter for museums and art galleries.
On the one hand, I think it's great that these outsider artists are getting some well-deserved recognition -- even to the point of receiving commissions to create their work. On the other, I can't help but be struck by the fact that some of the same people now lauded by the art establishment have shown so little respect for others' property in the past. But I guess this is just another example of a familiar pattern: yesterday's outlaws become today's heroes.
In yet another irony, graffiti -- which property owners regularly paint over -- is now preserved on the pristine white walls of the contemporary art gallery -- often referred to (not always with admiration) as "the white cube": "Unshadowed, white, clean, artificial, the space is devoted to the technology of esthetics. Works of art are mounted, hung, scattered for study. Their ungrubby surfaces are untouched by time and its vicissitudes." (Brian O'Doherty, Inside the White Cube: Notes on the Gallery Space)
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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.
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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Native to South Africa, this plant with its pea-like flowers is found on dunes, rocky slopes, in forests, along streams, in scrub and open grassland from the Bokkeveld Mountains near Clanwilliam in the Western Cape to Kwazulu-Natal. It's very happy growing on a dry hill in my back yard.
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j'ai un immense respect , aussi , pour les gens qui entretiennent ces cimetières militaires , tout est toujours aligné , le gazon , les fleurs et tout le reste tout est parfait.
I have immense respect, too, for the people who maintain these military cemeteries, everything is always lined up, the grass, the flowers and everything else, everything is perfect.
A subset of the Seen Series devoted to George Floyd. All scenes are from Portland's Peninsula Park, the site of the city's first organized vigil gathering for George Floyd on Friday May 29, 2020.
These iPhone photos were made the next day as people continued to show their respect and express their sorrow, anger and grief.
Seen. A series of iPhone scenes from daily walks around Portland neighborhoods with the dogs.
The previous train did not only come from the wrong side with respect to the position of the sun, but also in terms of the landscape. In this direction, the Kaimai Range offers a nice backdrop, with this train having just emerged from the eponymous tunnel behind DL 9481. Wardville, 06-10-2023.
We found mariposa lilies blooming along many roads and trails in the foothills of the Eastern Sierra in mid-June. I love the simplicity of these beautiful wildflowers.
Hope you have a good day whenever you see this. Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your kind comments -- I appreciate them all.
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