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Curlew - Numenius Arquata
They are one of the most ancient lineages of scolopacid waders, together with the godwits which look similar but have straight bills.
Curlews feed on mud or very soft ground, searching for worms and other invertebrates with their long bills. They will also take crabs and similar items.
Curlews enjoy a worldwide distribution. Most species show strong migratory habits and consequently one or more species can be encountered at different times of the year in Europe, Ireland, Britain, Iberia, Iceland, Africa, Southeast Asia, Siberia, North America, South America and Australasia.
The distribution of curlews has altered considerably in the past hundred years as a result of changing agricultural practices. Reclamation and drainage of marshy fields and moorland, and afforestation of the latter, have led to local decreases, while conversion of forest to grassland in some parts of Scandinavia has led to increases there.
Population:
UK breeding:
66,000 pairs
UK wintering:
140,000 individuals
Jay - Garrulus Glandarius
Although they are the most colourful members of the crow family, jays are actually quite difficult to see. They are shy woodland birds, rarely moving far from cover. The screaming call usually lets you know a jay is nearby and it is usually given when a bird is on the move, so watch for a bird flying between the trees with its distinctive flash of white on the rump. Jays are famous for their acorn feeding habits and in the autumn you may see them burying acorns for retrieving later in the winter.
The word jay has an archaic meaning in American slang meaning a person who chatters impertinently.
The term jaywalking was coined in 1915 to label persons crossing a busy street carelessly and becoming a traffic hazard. The term began to imply recklessness or impertinent behavior as the convention became established.
In January 2014, Canadian author Robert Joseph Greene embarked on a lobbying campaign among ornithologists in Europe and North America to get Merriam-Websters Dictionary to have a "Jabber of Jays" as an official term under bird groups.
Population:
UK breeding:
170,000 territories
they call this male Cheetah in the Kwara concession due to his special abilities. He´s often found climbing trees which is unusual for a Cheetah.
The world is like a book and those, who do not travel, only read the first page.
All rights reserved. © Thomas Retterath 2021
They (the police) started to shut down traffic,
thinking I was a jumper! Check more of my photo journey through life here: www.facebook.com/SteveBondPhotography
I visited Japanese garden again yesterday (1st Sep, the first day in spring here! Fortunately fine day) to see cherry blossoms. They are behind this area. Full bloom now. Australian Cherry blossoms last very long.
@Japanese Garden at Auburn Botanic Gardens, NSW Australia
They are the hieroglyphics of angels...
Lydia Maria Child
Lychnis viscaria
Sticky catchfly
Caryophyllaceae
They are not weight lifting equipments. The middle "bar" is stabbed into your earlobe. So they're really little.
Macro Mondays 【The Periodic Table】
Silver 925 consists of 92.5% genuine silver(Ag). The other 7.5% will be alloy to help prevent tarnishing. Typically copper(Cu) is used, although zinc(Zn), platinum(Pt) or geranium(Ge) are also common.
Happy Macro Mondays
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They only bloom for a few days and yet they are fascinating and - don't worry, they don't have to be watered...
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they speak for themselves :-)
Jeb Dickerson
HMM!!
prunus, flowering cherry, 'First Lady', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
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A lovely mute swan family at Chew Valley Lake in Somerset.
Aren't they cute! :-)
Hope all my friends are having a great weekend!
Love Carl xx
At 6.45PM, yes they prefer to go home...
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Although they are the most colourful members of the crow family, jays are actually quite difficult to see. They are shy woodland birds, rarely moving far from cover. The screaming call usually lets you know a jay is nearby and it is usually given when a bird is on the move, so watch for a bird flying between the trees with its distinctive flash of white on the rump. Jays are famous for their acorn feeding habits and in the autumn you may see them burying acorns for retrieving later in the winter. What they eat: Mainly acorns, nuts, seeds and insects, but also eats nestlings of other birds and small mammals (Courtesy RSPB).
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“They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the wind, sets you ablaze, makes you burn through the skies and ignite the night like a phoenix; the kind that cuts you loose like a wildfire and you can't stop running simply because you keep on burning everything that you touch! I say that's a good love; one that burns and flies, and you run with it!”
― C. JoyBell C.
They say: "You don't know what you've got till its gone".
Truth: "You knew exactly what you had, you just thought you'd never lose it".
And, as they say, here is the rest of the story. Again, I don't believe it's a real train station. But, it looks pretty good.
Yesterday, we had a major catastrophe in my little town. A truck ran off the road and knocked out an electrical pole around 10am. The whole town was without Internet, phones and TV until after 10pm. It was really sad because everyone here depends on the tourist coming here and spending money on the weekends. Sadly, no one carries cash. And since the ATM machine couldn't work either, no one could sell anything. Also, there was a fund raiser for my favorite restaurant that burned down. No one could access there money so they didn't raise as much as they had hoped. I went, and enjoyed listening to the music. I had to drive for a ways until I found a place where my phone would work and I could pay on line for my ticket. Crazy world we live in
Small upright duck. Male is gray with a brown head, while the female is more heavily marked with pale marks on face. Nests in tree-hollows and can be quite noisy when perched up in the branches. Often abundant in urban parklands and grassy areas. (eBird)
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Mom with seven almost adult youngsters. This section of the park was filled with little piles of fluffy young ducks trying to stay dry as the rain came and went. Mom, in the middle, came by to make sure they were all right.
Royal National Park, New South Wales, Australia. October 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Eastern Australia.
Got a job
That’s okay
But they’ve got me workin’ night and day.
Punchin’ in
Punchin’ out
Is this really what life’s all about?
What you are gonna do
What you are gonna feel? I don’t know.
What you ore gonna feel
What you are gonna do?
Won’t someone tell me?
What yov wanna say
What you wanna do
There’s only one thing left to say.
What you wanna do
What you wanna say.
C’est la vie
C’est la vie –
That’s iust the way it goes – That’s right!
C’est la vie
C’est la vie –
That’s iust the way it goes – That’s right!
Baby’s gone all alone
Are you sad because you’re on your own?
Get back up
Party down
There’s so many good ones still around.
What you are gonna do
What you are gonna feel? I don’t know.
What you are gonna feel
What you are gonna do?
Won’t someone tell me?
What you wanna say
What you wanna do
I guess there’s just one thing to say.
C’est la vie
C’est la vie –
That’s iust the way it goes – That’s right! . . .
Hey
It’s J.J.
What you been doin’?
You say your car broke down
The thing just isn’t movin’.
Say J.J.
Don’t you know when you’re down
There’s just one way to go
And that’s singin’
C’est la vie
C’est la vie –
That’s iust the way it goes – That’s right! . . .
C’est la vie
C’est la vie –
That’s iust the way it goes – That’s right! . . .
C’est la vie
C’est la vie –
That’s iust the way it goes – That’s right! . . .
"Paalhoofden" @ golden Hour
These breakwaters can be found on almost all beaches in Zeeland. They are wooden piles on an embankment made of stones and boulders, also called pile heads. Depending on the ebb and flow, the piles are completely or half submerged.
They are all over these days. Feeding on scale insects, tiny flies, and little bugs, these beauties have occupied the parks in couple of recent days, in order to migrate south.
Pseudofumaria lutea (Papaveraceae) 149 22
Pseudofumaria lutea (syn. Corydalis lutea) is a short-lived perennial plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae. It is native to the southern foothills of the south-western and central Alps of Italy and Switzerland but widely introduced elsewhere.
It grows to 30–38 cm tall. Leaves are finely divided and yellow-green to gray-green, often remaining over winter.
Flowers are 2 centimeters long, borne in racemes on short, branched, leafy stems from late spring to autumn. They have 4 petals, the top and bottom ones crested, the top one with a short, rounded spur curved downwards, and the 2 inner ones connected at the tip.
Source: Wikipedia.
“Boats in the harbour are safe but that is not what they are meant for.” – Zig Ziglar
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Your love, lifting me higher
Than I've ever been lifted before
So keep it it up
Quench my desire
And I'll be at your side
Forevermore
You know your love (your love keeps lifting me)
Keep on lifting me (love keeps lifting me)
Higher (lifting me)
Higher and higher (higher)
I said your love (your love keeps lifting me)
Keep on (love keeps lifting me)
Lifting me (lifting me)
Higher and higher (higher)
Listen
Now, once I was downhearted
Disappointment was my closest friend
But then you came and it soon departed
And you know, he never
Showed his face again
That's why your love (your love keeps lifting me)
Keep on lifting me (love keeps lifting me)
Higher (lifting me)
Higher and higher (higher)
I said your love (your love keeps lifting me)
Keep on (love keeps lifting me)
Lifting me (lifting me)
Higher and higher (higher), alright
I'm so glad I finally found you
Yes, that one in a million, girl
And now with my loving arms around you
Honey, I can stand up
And face the world
Deep in the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut, the Thorncrest Dairy Farm Milk House serves with pride.
They look like mystic dancers
Belive it or not, these trees got an 'educational' cut. The pic's core is a street scenery. Visit the location via google streetview.
Taking a walk last Saturday through the dark woods. The fog slowly disappeared and the morning sun broke through. What a mystique mood, just like beeing visited by the aliens some steps ahead behind the trees.
They have a highly audible song for such a small bird. It took several minutes before I could locate him as he sang a few phrases from one place, and then started again in another location. Luckily for me, he flew down to an open perch very close where he sang and raised his crown.
It was a bright overcast backlight situation. I was close enough to get detail though, and I really like the way those red crown feathers were lighted from behind.
If you have never heard its song, Check the link below.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruby-crowned_Kinglet/sounds
Beaumaris Lake. Edmonton, Alberta.
Elephant seals: They're huge, loud and so ugly, they're cute. And each year, they gather on California's Central Coast for mating, birthing and molting seasons. Visitors to San Simeon can catch elephant seals there year-round, but the population grows at certain times of the year as the seals go through different phases in their life cycle. The peak months for viewing elephant seals are from October through March, when their population on San Simeon's shores can reach 17,000. So if you've planned a trip to Hearst Castle or San Luis Obispo in the fall, winter or early spring, consider dropping by San Simeon to watch the elephant seals in action.
From this point up & down 3 miles, the elephant seals estimated of 25,000 there.
So amazing to witness this, they do smell tho when you get near.