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Mesquite Flat Dunes in Death Valley. This dune field includes three types of dunes: crescent, linear, and star shaped. Polygon-cracked clay of an ancient lakebed forms the floor. Mesquite trees have created large hummocks that provide stable habitats for wildlife. Sand boarding is permitted on these dunes. The highest dune rises only about 100 feet, the dunes actually cover a vast area.
Early morning at Mesquite Sand Dune in Death Valley, photobombed by an unsuspecting model in a flowing outfit (upper right corner of the photo).
Low morning light spreads across the sand dunes in Death Valley, California.
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Sand Martin - Riparia riparia
The sand martin (Riparia riparia) or European sand martin, bank swallow in the Americas, and collared sand martin in the Indian Subcontinent, is a migratory passerine bird in the swallow family. It has a wide range in summer, embracing practically the whole of Europe and the Mediterranean countries, part of northern Asia and also North America. It winters in eastern and southern Africa, South America and the Indian Subcontinent.
The sand martin is sociable in its nesting habits; from a dozen to many hundred pairs will nest close together, according to available space. The nests are at the end of tunnels of from a few inches to three or four feet in length, bored in sand or gravel. The actual nest is a litter of straw and feathers in a chamber at the end of the burrow; it soon becomes a hotbed of parasites. Four or five white eggs are laid about mid-late May, and a second brood is usual in all but the most northernly breeding sites.
Population:
UK breeding:
100,000 nests
In some areas of the Lake Michigan shoreline, the sand dunes are known as "shifting dunes", meaning that wind-blown sand causes the dune to move over time. But many of the forested "hills" along the shore are actually stabilized sand dunes. One of the first stabilizing agents is Dune Grass, its root system holding the top layer of sand in place. When hiking on the dunes, we see "blowouts" where strong wind blows-out a section of sand (and the plants).
This picture is taken at the top of the first "dune climb", Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The lake above is Little Glen Lake; beyond the bridge at the horizon is Big Glen Lake. The Glen Lakes are often proclaimed in publications as among the most beautiful in the world.
(I usually carry my camera in a plastic bag when walking on sand, or when rain is threatening.)
Taking the hike out to the dune field long before sunrise rewards you with soft, defused and sometimes colorful light. On this trip in early April, the sand flats were covered with these odd sage green plants that I assume were born from a wetter than normal March.
Late afternoon hike along the West Beach Trail. On the other side of the sand dune are some smaller dunes, the beach and Lake Michigan.
Started reviewing the unprocessed images from our 2019 Utah trip and will begin to post some of them. These ancient colorful sand dunes are 190 million years old and consist of high-angled cross-bedded sandstone. It's a great place to climb and explore on foot.
Having miss timed the sunrise and on hands and knees on the water edge, it was a long half hour wait. I used a 6 stop ND to smooth the water a little. Powlett River just behind the sea entrance
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
~Aristotle
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
~Albert Einstein
Solitude is independence. ~Hermann Hesse
Loneliness is the poverty of self;
solitude is the richness of self.
~ May Sarton
Te Paki stream, New Zealand. I think this is toetoe grass, but if a local wants to correct me..........