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Pied Flycatcher (M) - Ficedula hypoleuca
The European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. One of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers, it hybridizes to a limited extent with the collared flycatcher. It breeds in most of Europe and western Asia.
It is migratory, wintering mainly in tropical Africa.
It usually builds its nests in holes on oak trees. This species practices polygyny, usually bigamy, with the male travelling large distances to acquire a second mate. The male will mate with the secondary female and then return to the primary female in order to help with aspects of child rearing, such as feeding.
The European pied flycatcher is mainly insectivorous, although its diet also includes other arthropods. This species commonly feeds on spiders, ants, bees and similar prey.
The European pied flycatcher predominately practices a mixed mating system of monogamy and polygyny. Their mating system has also been described as successive polygyny. Within the latter system, the males leave their home territory once their primary mates lays their first eggs. Males then create a second territory, presumably in order to attract a secondary female to breed. Even when they succeed at acquiring a second mate, the males typically return to the first female to exclusively provide for her and her offspring.
Males will sometimes care for both mates if the nests of the primary and secondary female are close together. The male may also care for both mates once the offspring of the primary female have fledged. The male bird usually does not exceed two mates, practicing bigamy. Only two cases of trigyny had been observed.
Population:
UK breeding:
17,000-20,000 pairs
Pied Flycatcher (M) - Ficedula hypoleuca
The European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. One of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers, it hybridizes to a limited extent with the collared flycatcher. It breeds in most of Europe and western Asia.
It is migratory, wintering mainly in tropical Africa.
It usually builds its nests in holes on oak trees. This species practices polygyny, usually bigamy, with the male travelling large distances to acquire a second mate. The male will mate with the secondary female and then return to the primary female in order to help with aspects of child rearing, such as feeding.
The European pied flycatcher is mainly insectivorous, although its diet also includes other arthropods. This species commonly feeds on spiders, ants, bees and similar prey.
The European pied flycatcher predominately practices a mixed mating system of monogamy and polygyny. Their mating system has also been described as successive polygyny. Within the latter system, the males leave their home territory once their primary mates lays their first eggs. Males then create a second territory, presumably in order to attract a secondary female to breed. Even when they succeed at acquiring a second mate, the males typically return to the first female to exclusively provide for her and her offspring.
Males will sometimes care for both mates if the nests of the primary and secondary female are close together. The male may also care for both mates once the offspring of the primary female have fledged. The male bird usually does not exceed two mates, practicing bigamy. Only two cases of trigyny had been observed.
Population:
UK breeding:
17,000-20,000 pairs
~When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something, you can't replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
And high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try, you'll never know
Just what you're worth
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears stream down your face
When you lose something, you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face and I
Tears stream down your face
I promise you, I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face and I
Lights will guide you home~
I 'm in clinic for weeks already... fell and broke some parts of my face,
healing fine though, but bored as in hell I feel mostly
first time succeeding in connecting the internet... gonna have to explore still much more... been off so long!
thanks a lot for liking my old shot... given water they grow still!!! Love the color and the velvet and of course the heart shaped leaves!!
and light bulbs too... loving everything about them... the typical 'house blend', yes, I love... ♥♥♥♥♥ !!!!!
the feeling of arriving, being or coming Home !!!
most important that connection it is, yes, also to me
the closeness in relation, just the same brand it is
even if looking down or depressed, both ways...
always living in/on hope !!!
The old adage of if you don't succeed try, try again is well known to those shooting landscapes and cityscapes. We've all encountered the time when the weather, the sun, the clouds, the city lights, or maybe all of the above just don't want to cooperate when you're trying to get that perfect shot. If we're lucky we get to go back to try again and hope the next opportunity turns out better.
That's the story of this beautiful area along False Creek in Vancouver overlooking Science World and BC Place stadium. I was hoping to get a decent blue hour shot here and luckily was in Vancouver for 4 days which allowed for multiple attempts. On the first attempt the rain came pouring down right around when sunset was supposed to be through blue hour. The second attempt I was very hopeful. It was Victoria Day, a major holiday in Canada, and the weather was going to be wonderful! My hopes were up dreaming of fireworks and the Science World dome with amazing lights... only to find no fireworks and most of the dome lights off with only a small section in red... Luck was on my side on the 3rd try with the dome fully lit with a cool purple! Eureka! Third time turned out to be a charm :)
Pontsteiger is the result of a multiple architectural assignment from 2007. During the development of Houthaven, the municipality formulated the ambition to create an iconic residential building on the IJ on the site of the pont jetty in the IJ.
Pontsteiger is a design by the renowned architectural firm Arons & Gelauff. The location offered opportunities like nowhere else in the city. It could be grand, it could be sky high. And we succeeded: Pontsteiger is fast becoming one of the most controversial buildings in Amsterdam.
Here comes the light, Swiss autumn time, Combe Grède. Canton of Bern. Switzerland. No. 392.
"When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
And high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you,,,"
The Rain in much of the UK through June has been awful but does provide some good photo opportunities even if it is a struggle to keep yourself and your kit dry....I succeeded in keeping the kit dry but also succeeded in getting myself absolutely drenched!
Taken during a heavy downpour in the Peak district
Well no...
It was actually mid afternoon
There's a rumour floating around that the sky is actually blue (not black/grey) and that a bright shiny thing called the sun can be found up there!
I have some fading memories of this Phenomena but can't actually remember the last time I actually saw it
Anyway., this beautiful (and thankfully) almost self illuminating Barn Owl whizzed past us and did his best to brighten up our day!
Which in fact he succeeded in doing
ten succeed by daring to change course — and vice-versa :-)
Robert Brault
HPPT!!
prunus mume, japanese flowering apricot, 'Dawn', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
The little skater shreds...
Skippy was inspired to create his universe with the help of the following:
KraftWork's The Shred Flat, which is part of the new Builder’s Box!
The little man wears the following comfortable and cool clothes:
Vale Koer's Hyperbeast Hoodie, which you can find at TMD!
Vale Koer's Rainyday Boots, available at C88!
Let's keep playing and having fun, creating magic,
and shining so bright, my friends!
To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer. Keith Degreen
Photographing in the woods is always something special for me. Not only that I love to be in the forest, it's the creativ process what is drawing me here again and again. Photographing in the forest is quite ambitious. To find a system inside of this chaos is like searching for the needle in a haystack. So it’s even more delightful when I'm succeeding (what is not hapening every time) and I'm able to create a photograph what is meeting the grade of harmony of a place like this.
Fotografieren im Wald ist für mich immer etwas ganz besonderes. Nicht nur, dass ich es liebe im Wald zu sein, es ist auch der kreative Prozeß, der mich immer wieder dort hin zieht. Fotografieren im Wald empfinde ich als sehr anspruchsvoll. Ein System in diesem Chaos zu finden ist wie die Suche nach der Nadel im Heuhaufen. Um so mehr freue mich mich, wenn es mir gelingt (das passiert nicht jedesmal) und ich ein Bild schaffen kann, was der Harmonie dieses Ortes gerecht wird.
more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de
and enough, I hope, to know that honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom :-)
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Nathaniel Macon, 1819 January 12th
HPPT!!
peony, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
West Pier, Brighton, East Sussex, England
And now for something completely different! Slight interlude in the Scottish photos for something taken at the weekend.
The forecast was nothing special but the tides seemed right for shooting something at Shoreham mid morning. I decided I'd get up early and head over to Brighton to shoot the West Pier again.....who knows how much longer it will survive? This time I wanted to capture some posts (old pier supports?) that I'd seen.
Sure enough the sky was pretty grey and nothing much going on with the sea so I thought I'd try a 'Gary Gough Fine Art' type image. I'll leave it to you all to decide if I succeeded!
Had some challenges sorting out the lens distortion effect as I had to get quite close to the posts to make sure I excluded any beach. Another Tog there said he would clone out the beach if necessary but I wanted to avoid that. It's not 100% perfect but I think the distortion is removed as far as my capabilities/the software allow.
If you want to learn about the history of West Pier then pleasse see a shot I took last year of a Supermoon over the pierhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/184798091@N07/51409111073/in/album-72157719746898331/
© All rights reserved Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
Blowing in the Wind this little Wren was trying to get bird seed in a strong wind, he succeeded but looks a bit annoyed.
Well, it seems winter isn't done with us yet ... just as we were beginning to see the shingles on our rooftops and the gravel in our driveways Mother Nature decided to blanket it all with more snow - and she is not done yet apparently. Those weather wizards are calling for another 20 cm's of snow over the next 3 days. You can see the sun trying to peek through in this photo but he (the sun is a he and the moon is a she - right?) never really succeeded as the day progressed ... the clouds bearing snow won the day.
Yes, it is a colour photograph. :)
- Keefer Lake, Ontario, Canada -
"To succeed in life you need three things:
a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone."
Quote – Dr Kavanagh
~~~~The Three Bones of Life~~~
The wishbone is about the importance of having a goal or a dream. Something to aspire to and focus on. After all ‘if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true’? Anyone singing?! We all need motivation, and a goal or dream is a great way to keep moving forward. Your dream might be short or long term but it will be something that you can aim towards. Dreams help you go beyond your perceived limits and aim high. It’s so important that we don’t allow indecision or fear of failure or change to destroy our dreams and stop us achieving them.
The backbone is about strength and courage, keeping our feet on the ground and our head above water. If we want to achieve our dream, we need to be resilient, to stretch ourselves and see things through. It’s also about believing in yourself and having clear boundaries. Sometimes we have to say no to other people and put ourselves first in order to give ourselves strength and energy. It’s easy to be ordinary, so much harder to stand out from the crowd and stand up for what you believe in.
The funny bone reminds us that humour is so important in our daily lives. We need to be able to laugh at ourselves, be vulnerable and accept that making mistakes is all part of the journey. If we can be less serious and see the funny side of things, we will not only enjoy life more but we will be less self-absorbed and far more optimistic. It’s also about looking for the silver lining in the inevitable clouds.~~~~
Info from the internet
Model: origami Fish Bones
Design: Sebastien Limet (Sebl)
Diagrams in the book 'Origami Fish And Other Sea Creatures by Nick Robinson'
Paper one piece of silver paper 17x17cm
Finasize: length 9cm, height 2,3cm
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
Ernest Renan.
Joseph Ernest Renan (28 February 1823 – 2 October 1892) was a French expert of Semitic languages and civilizations (philology), philosopher, historian, and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany. He is best known for his influential historical works on Early Christianity, and his political theories, especially concerning nationalism and national identity. Renan is credited as being among the first scholars to advance the Khazar theory, which held that Ashkenazi Jews were descendants of the Khazars, Turkic peoples who had adopted Jewish religion and migrated to Western Europe following the collapse of their khanate. Source Wikipedia.
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"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone."
Reba McEntire
“To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you”
Tony Dorsett
try, try again. Snowy Egret on the hunt 6 and final. And that's all folks! Thanks for your visits and hopefully your comments and faves!
Cranes in the sunset. I might have hundreds (if not thousands) of pictures like these. Since these pictures, to me, do not provoke the same reaction as the experience while taking them, I probably did not succeed in doing these moments justice. ButI figured I might as well post them anyway, since I like them as a memory.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8NZa9wYZ_U
As long as you're still smiling
There's nothing more I need
I absolutely love you
But we're absolute beginners
But if my love is your love
We're certain to succeed
♥
Clutching to different reed stems and trying to stand up, this bird succeeded in showing off its skills..
And here's the solution of 'in what it is', (see first comment box if you missed yesterday's photo) There are 4 units, when assembled, you get this 'hollow cube'. Only the top and bottom are closed.
It is always a nice challenge to let the person, (who receives it as a gift), assemble it themselves. A bit of a puzzle, but one always succeeds!
Thanks for all your nice comments, I enjoyed reading them ;-))
Paper:
4 pieces of 5x3 rectangle sturdy paper,I used 12x7,2cm
Final size 5x5x5cm
Model: origami Hollow Cube
Design: Jeff Beynon
Diagrams in BOS booklet #31 "More 'igami" by Jeff Beynon
nothing succeeds like excess ;-)
Oscar Wilde
Public Education Matters! Resist the Ignorant Orange Clown Prince!
flowering quince, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
"I have learned that you measure success not by the situation you have reached in life, but by the obstacles you overcome to try to succeed..."n-Booker T. Washington- ✨
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Gian Carlo Menotti
The City of White Rock has a railway that runs along the waterfront. This single track rail line operates 24 hours a day and is operated by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) and is used by BNSF and Amtrak passenger trains.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC is the parent company of the BNSF Railway (formerly the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway). The company is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, which is controlled by investor Warren Buffett.
History
The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation was incorporated in 1993 to facilitate the merger of Burlington Northern, Incorporated, parent of the Burlington Northern Railroad, and Santa Fe Pacific Corporation, which owned the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe). The corporate merger was consummated on September 22, 1995, at which point shareholders of the previous companies became shareholders of BNSF and the two companies became wholly owned subsidiaries of BNSF. In December 1996, the two holding companies and two railroads were formally merged, and in January 1998 the remaining intermediate holding company was folded into the railroad.
Robert D. Krebs of Santa Fe Pacific was president of BNSF from the merger until 1999, chief executive from the merger until 2000, and chairman from 1997 until 2002. He was succeeded in all three positions by Matthew K. Rose.
On November 3, 2009, Berkshire Hathaway made a $26 billion offer to buy the remaining 77.4% of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation it did not already own, valuing the purchase at $34 billion. The deal, which including Berkshire's previous investment and the assumption of $10 billion in Burlington Northern debt brings the total value to $44 billion. Consummated February 12, 2010, it is the largest acquisition in Berkshire Hathaway's history.
The deal was structured so that the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation would merge with and into R Acquisition Company, LLC, an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. The deal closed on February 12, 2010, and at the same time, the now merged company changed its name to Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC that remains an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.
Wikipedia
White Rock
British Columbia
Canada
Thank-you for all the overwhelming support and many friendships.
Stay Healthy
~Christie
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Junge Küstenseeschwalbe (Sterna paradisaea)
Basalt Insel Grimsey am nördlichen Polarkreis. Zurzeit hat Grímsey 90 Bewohner.
*In Island heisst die Küstenseeschwalbe "Kria"...der Schrei der Kria lässt jeden erschrecken bevor sie angreifen um ihre Jungen zu schützen.
Die Kamera in der einen und den Zeigefinger der anderen Hand hoch über dem Kopf erhoben ist mir diese Aufnahme gelungen !*
Basalt Grimsey Island in the Arctic Circle. At present Grímsey has 90 inhabitants.
In Iceland, the arctic tern is called "kria"...the cry of the kria scares everyone before they attack to protect their young.
The camera in one hand and the index finger of the other hand raised high above my head, I succeeded in taking this picture!
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Nikon Coolpix P900, 1/500, Brennweite 340mm, ISO200
Wood duck
parc Angrignon.
les deux dernières de ma série inespérée du canard branchu! Il est si rare que je réussisse une photo en vol... trois ( la précédente ici www.flickr.com/photos/danielle_champagne222/49872374042/i...) bien c'était tout un cadeau!
The last two pictures of my wood duck in flight! I rarely succeed in getting a bird in flight! well three shots is quite a luck!
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
È meglio fallire nell’originalità che riuscire nell’imitazione.
(Herman Melville)
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Outfit: Meva Review Emile @ TMD
Skin: [ session ] Oscar Tone02 (Catwa HDPro BoM)
Head: CATWA HDPRO George
Today, the terrestrial order, the order of the earth, is coming to an end. It is being succeeded by the digital order. Heidegger was the last thinker of the terrestrial order. Death and pain do not belong to the digital order. They represent disturbances. Mourning and longing are also suspicious. The pain of the nearness of distance is alien to the digital order. Distance is inscribed into nearness. The digital order transforms nearness into the absence of distance, so that it is no longer painful. Under the compulsion of availability, everything is rendered accessible and consumable. The digital habitus is: everything must be available at once. The telos of the digital order is total availability. This order lacks the 'slowness of the hesitant shyness in the face of what cannot be done'.
- Byung-Chul Han, The Ontology of Pain
is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding !!
~ Gian Carlo Menotti.
I initially could not locate the exact spot where this was taken. So I named it 'Between Rain und Petersdorf. April 2023.'
Thanks to Google Earth and Maps I now have found the spot and renamed this more accurately. Thanks to P.Gerhard for thinking along.
This was my original comment and request:
It is not often that I don't succeed in remembering or reconstructing where a photograph was taken. In this case, I somehow lost it. Should someone know where exactly this was taken, please let me know in a comment. I am pretty sure that it was between Rain and Aichach, Northeast of Augsburg.
Even though these birds mate for life, at the beginning of every breeding season; a courtship ritual will happen to strengthen the bond. This might manifest itself through preening (as shown in my photo), other forms or physical contact or offering “gifts” (usually sticks or stones) to each other.
As this shot was taken at the very beginning of their breeding season a few months ago, hopefully by now this couple has succeeded in raising one or multiple offspring.
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Have a great new week everyone.
Copyright© 2013 Kim Hojnacki
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The colour of an flower standing before the lake of Harrold-Odell Country Park, succeeds over darkness.
What became Idaho Falls was the site of Taylor’s Crossing on the Montana Trail which was a timber frame bridge built across the Snake River. The 1865 bridge was built by Matt Taylor who was a Montana Trail freighter who built a toll bridge across a narrow black basaltic gorge of the river that succeeded a ferry seven miles upstream by several years.