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Brant/Brent Goose - Branta bernicla
The brant, or brent goose (Branta bernicla), is a species of goose of the genus Branta. The black brant is a pacific North American subspecies.
It used to be a strictly coastal bird in winter, seldom leaving tidal estuaries, where it feeds on eel-grass (Zostera marina) and the seaweed, sea lettuce (Ulva). On the east coast of North America, the inclusion of sea lettuce is a recent change to their diet, brought about by a blight on eelgrass in 1931. This resulted in the near-extirpation of the brant. The few that survived changed their diet to include sea lettuce until the eelgrass eventually began to return. Brants have maintained this diet ever since as a survival strategy. In recent decades, it has started using agricultural land a short distance inland, feeding extensively on grass and winter-sown cereals. This may be behavior learned by following other species of geese. Food resource pressure may also be important in forcing this change, as the world population increased over 10-fold to 400,000-500,000 by the mid-1980s, possibly reaching the carrying capacity of the estuaries. In the breeding season, it uses low-lying wet coastal tundra for both breeding and feeding. The nest is bowl-shaped, lined with grass and down, in an elevated location, often near a small pond.
The brant goose is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds applies.
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Today is an orange day at Color my World Daily and the theme at Crazy Tuesday is Car details. And since Mr. Teddy Bear is truly a car lover, he is the best for presenting this theme. Of course we celebrate Happy Teddy Bear Tuesdays at the same time, so it is a win -win situation.
Mr. Teddy Bear loves cars and he has quite a collection. No wonder he had such a hard time choosing the car for this theme. But, Mr. Teddy Bear’s Ferrari is the car with the most beautiful details for sure … So that is why, this was Mr. teddy’s choice. I must admit: even on a Ferrari toy, the details are very well made … I absolutely love the stylish star shaped details on the wheels… ant during moments like this, I ask myself : would I drive more often if I had a Ferrari ?? Maybe, if I get a Ferrari as a Christmas gift I will become a car lover ?? But those kind of questions disappear very quickly from my mind… I still hate driving and I don’t think there is a car in this world which will make me love driving… Except if it comes with a private driver or maybe if it is a self driving car…
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For today's theme I chose macaroon-shaped soaps. We have an artist in town who makes pastry-shaped soap creations. I chose the Morello cherry, Crunchy Nougat and Caramel and salted butter scents.
The soaps are approximately 2.5 cm in diameter.
Located on the west coast of Fuerteventura, next to the Jandia Peninsula, La Pared is a unique beach worth visiting. Molded with the passage of time, wind and water have created incredible geological structures.
La Pared, Pájara, Fuerteventura, Islas Canarias
With heart-shaped face, buff back and wings and pure white underparts, the barn owl is a distinctive and much-loved countryside bird. Widely distributed across the UK, and indeed the world, this bird has suffered declines through the 20th century and is thought to have been adversely affected by organochlorine pesticides such as DDT in the 1950s and '60s.
Nocturnal birds like the barn owl are poorly monitored by the Breeding Bird Survey and, subject to this caveat, numbers may have increased between 1995-2008.
Barn owls are a Schedule 1 and 9 species.
They eat: Mice, voles, shrews and some larger mammals and small birds. (Courtesy RSPB)
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The small church in front is the Protestant parish church of St. Ulrich. The much larger church behind it is the Catholic Basilica of SS. Ulrich and Afra.
The onion shaped tower of the late-gothic Catholic church, which was finalized in 1594, became a model of lots of Baroque onion shaped church towers in Bavaria.
The little onion shaped tower of the Protestant church was built in the years 1709 and 1710.
With heart-shaped face, buff back and wings and pure white underparts, the barn owl is a distinctive and much-loved countryside bird. Widely distributed across the UK, and indeed the world, this bird has suffered declines through the 20th century and is thought to have been adversely affected by organochlorine pesticides such as DDT in the 1950s and '60s.
Nocturnal birds like the barn owl are poorly monitored by the Breeding Bird Survey and, subject to this caveat, numbers may have increased between 1995-2008.
Barn owls are a Schedule 1 and 9 species.
They eat: Mice, voles, shrews and some larger mammals and small birds. (Courtesy RSPB)
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One of my favorite sunflowers (with beautiful heart-shaped leaves) bowing to the setting sun....
Taken last August....
xoxoxox
They are fan-shaped peaks. The river is dark green, and the hills and fertile fields are probably a new sight to most people
Taken @Yangshuo, China
Il sentiero che va a Monte della Cavalla si chiama 'sentiero dei narcisi', ma potrebbe anche chiamarsi 'sentiero degli asfodeli', perché ce ne sono molti.
Di fronte una nuvola a forma di cuore. Forse si potrebbero vedere delle piccole ali lateralmente, con un po' di fantasia.
In realtà qualcuno mi ha detto :' Ma dove lo vedi un cuore?'
Molte volte la natura ci parla, ci dà dei segni, con oggetti, figure, forme casuali, in cui il nostro subcosciente riconosce forme note. Penso che vediamo ciò che vogliamo vedere.
A me piace pensare che siano segni che ci rincuorano, ci accompagnano, magari nei momenti di maggiore difficoltà. Sarebbe bello, perché non lasciare nel mistero?
Al ritorno, sul sentiero ho trovato ancora una volta una pietra a forma di cuore ( che magari fotigrafero', perché non ne ho avuto il tempo). Questa volta era leggera, l'ho tenuta.
Il fenomeno con cui si tendono a riconoscere forme note in quello che ci circonda si chiama
παρειδωλια, pareidolia, dal greco : πάρα, parà, che significa vicino, simile ed είδωλον, eidolon, immagine.
Mi conforta sapere che Leonardo, in suo scritto, parlava di questo fenomeno , in cui ci vuole un po' di immaginazione
A cloud heart ♥ shaped
inspired by... NiRVANA - Heart-Shaped Box www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6P0SitRwy8
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for Macro Mondays.
I was going to do just that tiny pink heart-shaped button which is all that remains of a dress I wore for years till it fell to pieces, but then I found some vanilla macarons sprinkled with pink sugar at the supermarket and could not resist them.
Antelope Canyon carved from the red sandstone for millennia by seasonal flood rains and wind, the canyons are narrow passageways that lead several hundred feet away from the mouth. Antelope Canyon is also one of the most famous slot canyons in the world. Magnificent Antelope Canyon was named for the herds of pronghorn antelope that once roamed the area.
That was stacked from 102 individual pictures.
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The Roseate Spoonbill is a large wading bird with a distinctive spoon-shaped bill and vibrant pink plumage. These flamboyant birds can grow to 30–40 inches long with a wingspan of 50–53 inches.
Photographed at the Lawton Pond Rookery, Hilton Head Island,
SC, USA
Heart shaped box by Nirvana, is fine for what I saw as a heart shaped cloud winking at me on a beach shaped box. Cloud formations always make the day different, and this line of cloud was ever changing and kept my attention .
We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think.
So when we create more positive thoughts, we become happier.
With heart-shaped face, buff back and wings and pure white underparts, the barn owl is a distinctive and much-loved countryside bird. Widely distributed across the UK, and indeed the world, this bird has suffered declines through the 20th century and is thought to have been adversely affected by organochlorine pesticides such as DDT in the 1950s and '60s.
Nocturnal birds like the barn owl are poorly monitored by the Breeding Bird Survey and, subject to this caveat, numbers may have increased between 1995-2008.
Barn owls are a Schedule 1 and 9 species.
They eat: Mice, voles, shrews and some larger mammals and small birds. (Courtesy RSPB)
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Canon EOS 6D - f/3.2 - 1/125sec - 100mm - ISO 100
acorns in a plash of water
- Acorn: the typically ovoid fruit or nut of an oak, enclosed at the base by a cupule.
The acorn, or oak nut, usually contains a single seed (rarely two seeds), enclosed in a tough, leathery shell, and borne in a cup-shaped cupule. Acorns vary from 1–6 cm long and 0.8–4 cm broad. Acorns take between about 6 and 24 months (depending on the species) to mature.
Acorns play an important role in forest ecology when oaks are the dominant species or are plentiful. The volume of the acorn crop may vary wildly, creating great abundance or great stress on the many animals dependent on acorns and the predators of those animals. Acorns, along with other nuts, are termed mast.
Wildlife which eat acorns as an important part of their diets include birds, such as jays, pigeons, some ducks, and several species of woodpeckers. Small mammals that feed on acorns include mice, squirrels and several other rodents.
Large mammals such as pigs, bears, and deer also consume large amounts of acorns; they may constitute up to 25% of the diet of deer in the autumn.
Some animals, such as squirrels and jays serve as seed dispersal agents. Jays and squirrels that scatter-hoard acorns in caches for future use, effectively plant acorns in a variety of locations in which it is possible for them to germinate and thrive.
Even though jays and squirrels retain remarkably large mental maps of cache locations and return to consume them, the odd acorn may be lost, or a jay or squirrel may die before consuming all of its stores. A small number of acorns manage to germinate and survive, producing the next generation of oaks.
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- Een eikel of een aker is de vrucht van een eik. Het is een noot met één, soms twee zaden. De lengte van een eikel varieert tussen de 1 tot 6 cm en is 0,8 tot 4 cm breed. Meestal duurt het tussen de zes en de 24 maanden voordat een eikel kiemt.
Afhankelijk van het weer vallen de meeste eikels in september en oktober. De hoeveelheid zaad die eiken produceren verschilt erg per jaar. Eens in de zoveel jaar, als de weersomstandigheden goed zijn en de bomen genoeg reserves hebben, produceren ze veel meer eikels dan anders. Deze jaren van overdadige vruchtvorming worden mastjaren genoemd.
Eikels zijn belangrijk voedsel voor dieren, zoals muizen, eekhoorns, wilde zwijnen, hertachtigen, sommige eenden en andere vogels en beren die in de buurt van eiken leven. Bij deze dieren bestaat soms 25% van de wintervoorraad uit eikels. Eikels werden vroeger gebruikt om varkens te voeren (mast).
De eik is voor het voortbestaan vooral afhankelijk van de gaai en van de eekhoorn. Een eikel valt niet ver van de boom en kan onder het bladerdak van de boom niet uitgroeien. Hij is dus aangewezen op dieren om de eikel verder van de boom te verplaatsen. Eekhoorns begraven voorraden eikels voor de winter. Als een eekhoorn omkomt of de voorraad niet of onvolledig aanspreekt of vergeet, is dat een ideale plaats voor de eikels om te kiemen.
Gaaien, zoals ‘Vlaamse gaaien’ officieel heten, zijn echte verzamelaars. Van eikels wel te verstaan. Ze leggen er een wintervoorraad van aan. De gaaien nemen de eikels mee in hun keel en stoppen ze een eindje verderop onder de grond. Een enkele gaai kan in het najaar zo duizenden eikels verstoppen. Gedurende de winter zoekt de gaai zijn voorraadplekken op. Zelfs in het voorjaar worden jongen nog gevoerd met ontkiemde eikels.
Parliament Square, Edinburgh, is located off the High Street, part of the Royal Mile. The square is not a formal square, but consists of two sections surrounding St Giles Kirk on three sides: an L-shaped