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An amusing name! Thick-headed fly - Conopidae (Conops sp.). They are parasitic on bumblebees, but never in great enough numbers to do any serious damage to populations and are important components of the ecosystem in their own way.
During the long 3+ hour drive we all were nervous seeing how thick the storm clouds were.. but once we passed over the coastal ridge we saw that in the distance, a small gap was opening up... So we sped up & rushed to the location about 1 hour before sunset. Lucky for us the sunset didnt disappoint :)
Magical ice conditions with Giljajuvet were it was full of thick ice. Just spectacular sight and the place feels like another place on earth. I like the trees at the left top which really creates a sense of scale and wonder to the image and frozen waterfall. I processed the image in a way to enchance and feature the beautiful ice structure and glacier blue and green color tones from the reflected light in the ice. The ice is lightpainted with lume cube from the side.
Giljajuvet, Norway, Rogaland, Gjesdal
29.01.21
May 16, 2021: Loaded CSX Grain Train G379 (Evansville, IN-Bolivar, GA) creeps through the thick woods off the wye track heading for the K&A main line on the CSX Etowah Subdivision at Cartersville, GA with an ET44AH GE engine leading the string of covered hopper cars.
台南西門路 - 司法宿舍藍晒圖 / 蝴蝶蘭是一種厚實的花
Simon Road of the Tainan City - Judicial Dormitory Bule Print / Phalaenopsis is a thick flower
Simon Vial de la Ciudad de Tainan - Judicial dormitorio Bule Imprimir / Phalaenopsis es una flor espesa
台南西門路 - 司法の寮が青くて感光させます / 胡蝶蘭は分厚い花です
Simon Straße der Stadt Tainan - Gerichtliche Schlaf Bule Print / Phalaenopsis ist eine dicke Blume
Simon route de la ville de Tainan - judiciaire Dortoir Bule Imprimer / Phalaenopsis est une fleur épaisse
Tainan Taiwan / Tainan Taiwán / 台灣台南
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Melody 曲:JAPAN / Words 詞:Sheesen / Singing : Sheesen
{ 夢旅人 1990 Dream Traveler 1990 }
家住安南鹽溪邊
The family lives in nearby the Annan salt river
隔壁就是聽雨軒
The next door listens to the rain porch
一旦落日照大員
The sunset Shineing to the Taiwan at once
左岸青龍飛九天
The left bank white dragon flying in the sky
The gull-billed tern (Gelochelidon nilotica), formerly Sterna nilotica, is a tern in the family Laridae. The genus name is from Ancient Greek gelao, "to laugh", and khelidon, "swallow". The specific niloticus is from Latin and means of the Nile.
This is a fairly large and powerful tern, similar in size and general appearance to a Sandwich tern, but the short thick gull-like bill, broad wings, long legs and robust body are distinctive. The summer adult has grey upperparts, white underparts, a black cap, strong black bill and black legs. The call is a characteristic ker-wik. It is 33–42 cm (13–17 in) in length and 76–91 cm (30–36 in) in wingspan. Body mass ranges from 150–292 g (5.3–10.3 oz).
In winter, the cap is lost, and there is a dark patch through the eye like a Forster's tern or a Mediterranean gull. Juvenile gull-billed terns have a fainter mask, but otherwise look much like winter adults.
Juvenile Sandwich terns have a short bill, and are frequently mistaken for gull-billed tern where the latter species is uncommon, such as North Sea coasts.
It breeds in warmer parts of the world in southern Europe, temperate and eastern Asia, both coasts of North America, eastern South America. This bird has a number of geographical races, differing mainly in size and minor plumage details.
All forms show a post-breeding dispersal, but the northern breeders are most migratory, wintering south to Africa, the Caribbean and northern South America, southern Asia and New Zealand.
The gull-billed tern is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
This species breeds in colonies on lakes, marshes and coasts. It nests in a ground scrape and lays two to five eggs. While widely distributed in freshwater areas in Eurasia, it is associated almost solely with saltwater, coastal areas in North America.
This is a somewhat atypical tern, in appearance like a Sterna tern, but with feeding habits more like the Chlidonias marsh terns, black tern and white-winged tern. It used to be grouped in the genus Sterna but is now placed on its own in the genus Gelochelidon.
The gull-billed tern does not normally plunge dive for fish like the other white terns, and has a broader diet than most other terns. It largely feeds on insects taken in flight, and also often hunts over wet fields and even in brushy areas, to take amphibians and small mammals. It is also an opportunistic feeder, and has been observed to pick up and feed on dead dragonflies from the road.
For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gull-billed_tern