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Once was a railroad bridge then converted to a road bridge, north of Byars, Oklahoma along the Washita River.
Betagan - a medicine used to control glaucoma. This has no preservative so after use, the plastic container has to be discarded. I suppose that we humans have to accept that there will be some some single use items we can't do without. I recycle these so I hope they go to be melted down and made into other things.
Bittern - Botaurus Stellaris
Norfolk
The bittern is a thickset heron with all-over bright, pale, buffy-brown plumage covered with dark streaks and bars. It flies on broad, rounded, bowed wings. A secretive bird, very difficult to see, as it moves silently through reeds at water's edge, looking for fish. The males make a remarkable far-carrying, booming sound in spring. It's very small, reedbed-dependent population make it an Amber List species.
It is also a Schedule 1 species.
Unlike the similar storks, ibises, and spoonbills, herons, egrets, pelicans, and bitterns fly with their necks retracted, not outstretched.
Eurasian bitterns feed on fish, small mammals, amphibians and invertebrates, hunting along the reed margins in shallow water. British records include eels up to 35 cm (14 in) and other fish, mice and voles, small birds and fledglings, frogs, newts, crabs, shrimps, molluscs, spiders and insects. In continental Europe, members of over twenty families of beetle are eaten, as well as dragonflies, bees, grasshoppers and earwigs. Some vegetable matter such as aquatic plants is also consumed.
Males are polygamous, mating with up to five females. The nest is built in the previous year's standing reeds and consists of an untidy platform some 30 cm (12 in) across. It may be on a tussock surrounded by water or on matted roots close to water and is built by the female using bits of reed, sedges and grass stalks, with a lining of finer fragments. Four to six eggs are laid in late March and April and incubated by the female for about twenty-six days. After hatching, the chicks spend about two weeks in the nest before leaving to swim amongst the reeds. The female rears them without help from the male, regurgitating food into the nest from her crop, the young seizing her bill and pulling it down. They become fully fledged at about eight weeks.
The Eurasian bittern has a very wide range and a large total population, estimated to be 110,000 to 340,000 individuals. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its overall conservation status as being of "least concern because although the population trend is downward, the rate of decline is insufficient to justify rating it in a more threatened category. The chief threat the bird faces is destruction of reed beds and drainage and disturbance of its wetland habitats. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. The southern race has suffered catastrophic decline during the 20th century due to wetland degradation and, unlike the northern race, is of high conservation concern.
In the United Kingdom, the main areas in which the Eurasian bittern breeds have been Lancashire and East Anglia with an estimated 44 breeding pairs in total in 2007. However, the Lancashire population at Leighton Moss RSPB reserve has declined in recent decades, while bitterns have been attracted to new reed beds in the West Country. In Ireland, it died out as a breeding species in the mid-19th century, but in 2011 a single bird was spotted in County Wexford and there have been a number of subsequent sightings. In the 21st century, bitterns are regular winter visitors to the London Wetland Centre, enabling city dwellers to view these scarce birds.
Population:
UK breeding:
80 males
UK wintering:
600 birds
Europe:
21 - 29,000 pairs
I climbed down the icy rocks to get a better look and perhaps some more definition to my photos and noticed that one of the eagles had flown off. The light was pretty but quickly vanishing so I watched it for a while, took a few shots and left as well.
Pelargonium exstipulatum
for the theme " Una sola Flor/A single Flower " in Looking close... on Friday!
Went into our "wilderness area" of garden to photograph a single pink rose but the bee came along so shot this instead
One planet, one experiment. Edward O. Wilson
You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.
Bill Maher
The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.
Stephanie Mills
Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something.
Carl Sagan
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John Muir
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo❤️ ❤️
The African fish eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer) or the African sea eagle, is a large species of eagle found throughout sub-Saharan Africa wherever large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply occur. This species is related to the bald eagle of North America
For those who are interested, an extract from my Journal of that day:
After lunch, a two hour siesta and high tea, we went on an afternoon game drive. It wouldn't have been my first choice, but it was what the German couple wanted, so I went along with it.
Owner was determined to find yesterday's leopard, so we drove around all over the countryside looking for it. We saw elephant, giraffe, buffalo, lechwe, impala, kudu, pelicans and four crocodiles, but no leopard. Only as we approached the camp in the dark at around 7 o'clock did we see the leopard. It was, walking along the bush track towards us, we pulled off the track to let it pass. The light was impossible and not a single shot was taken.
Dinner was a traditional African meal, meat, beans, cabbage, butter nut squash and mealie pap (a corn porridge) all prepared and served African style.
The one nice thing about our unseasonably cool Spring so far is that the woodland wildflowers seem to be lasting longer. Fairly late for a bloodroot to still be blooming so perfectly! Photographed in Perrot State Park near Trempealeau, Wisconsin.
Ethnographic Museum Complex Etar, Bulgaria
I tested this bench, and it was indeed very comfortable with its organic shape made from a single hollowed-out piece of wood.
For the Smile on Saturday challenge: "observe the O..."
I've got folders full of shots of oranges .. they have such importance in my memory. As a post-war baby brought up with rationing of absolutely everything that you didn't grow in your own garden ..... Christmas was the one time we tasted a real orange! It was always in the toe of the Xmas stocking (which really was a woollen stocking!) and the last delight to emerge.
So there is a special place in my heart for the orange. And the most exotic oranges I can find are the ones with some leaves attached.
Cliché and Smile on Saturday: Here
My Food and drink set: Here
Leaves, grasses, fruit, seeds: Here
Shoot as a test with Topcor-S 5cm f2 lens. A LTM lens from late fifties (1958). Short flange distance make use of focusing helicoids a breeze.
This twisted dried out leaf in the darkness of the forest was illuminated by a single sunbeam finding it's way through the branches. Hand held with a Nikkor Micro 40mm f/2.8 lens
Two happy lovers make a single loaf,
a single drop of moon in the grass,
They leave walking two shadows that meet,
they leave a single empty sun in a bed.
Of all the truths they chose the day:
They were not tied with threads but with a perfume,
and did not shatter peace or words.
Bliss is a transparent tower.
The air, the wine go with the two lovers,
the night gives them its happy petals,
they have the right to all the carnations.
Two happy lovers have no end or death,
are born and die many times while they live,
they have the eternity of nature.
by Pablo Neruda
Soul2Soul River - soul2soulsl.com, Pondichery (214, 139, 26) - Moderado
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Flowerworks that look like fireworks?
Yes, my burning passion for flowers, the capturing of their beauty in a thousand different ways, a wonderful challenge... everyday!
There are people who 'talk' to the flowers and plants?
Me, I just 'listen' to them, I open the wrapping, they fall open on the table and tell me.
The closer I looked the more they invited me in, to listen , yet keeping the center of the flower still very secret... They emerged from the dark.
Have a great day and thank you for your visit and comment, M, (*_*)
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Sunset at Oceanside beach. I love the transition from the close round rocks and the sand flow out to the Three Arches offshore that make such a nice subject to frame a photo with. It's also nice that the sky went nuclear :D
Single Shot, 1 Trick: I have the closest sand developed with a warmer color temp and then blended between the sky to the sand for a nice transition - this made the sand look more natural - the red in the sky reflecting on the sand didn't look right to me.....
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