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The Canada Goose is a large wild goose species with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. Native to arctic and temperate regions of North America, its migration occasionally reaches northern Europe. It has been introduced to the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, and the Falkland Islands.
Like most geese, the Canada goose is primarily herbivorous and normally migratory; it tends to be found on or close to fresh water.
Extremely successful at living in human-altered areas, Canada geese have proven able to establish breeding colonies in urban and cultivated areas, which provide food and few natural predators. The success of this common park species has led to its often being considered a pest species because of its depredation of crops and its noise, droppings, aggressive territorial behavior towards both humans and other animals, and its habit of begging for food (caused by human hand feeding).
The oldest known wild Canada Goose was a female, and at least 33 years, 3 months old when she was shot in Ontario in 2001. She had been banded in Ohio in 1969.
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(600mm, 1/1600 @ f/6.3, ISO 2000)
I just hoped that no traveller through Iceland's North depended on this petrol station ... :)
Those are the days in Dystopia!
Kuznetsky Most is one of the most beautiful pedestrian streets in the historical center of Moscow.
The street got its modern - and at the same time historical - name thanks to the Kuznetsky Bridge across the Neglinnaya River. Today, Kuznetsky Most Street attracts citizens with its high-quality landscaping, an abundance of architectural monuments and an unusual relief: due to the significant difference in heights between Petrovka and Rozhdestvenka, the city landscape looks especially picturesque.
Kuznetskaya Sloboda on the high bank of the Neglinnaya River - Neglinnaya Upper - appeared in the 12th century, but its heyday came only at the end of the 15th, when the Cannon Yard was built in the vicinity, and the Moscow prince Ivan III ordered to settle in it blacksmiths and grooms who served new production. At the turn of the 15th-16th centuries, Novgorod and Pskov were annexed to the Moscow principality, and craftsmen of various professions from these cities were moved to the Neglinny Upper.
In 1737, the street burned out during the Trinity fire, but rather quickly new buildings were built on it, in which foreign shops began to be located. Gradually, the street turned into the abode of foreign trade: the French showed particular zeal, opening fashion and haberdashery shops here, thanks to which Kuznetsky Most became the main shopping street in Moscow. During World War II and the fire of 1812, it practically did not suffer from the fire, since the French guard took over the protection of the business of compatriots. After the war, trade flourished again, and many fashionable shops were opened on it (almost all of them were foreign, most of them were French). The abundance of foreign shops made Kuznetsky Most the most fashionable and aristocratic street in Moscow, which it remained until the 1917 Revolution.
During the Soviet era, the street lost part of the historical buildings, many buildings were rebuilt, and the street gradually took on a modern look.
After the reconstruction carried out in 2012, the Kuznetsky Most section from Bolshaya Dmitrovka to Rozhdestvenka became pedestrian.
Today Kuznetsky Most Street is a well-maintained pedestrian zone, where city holidays and festivals are often held.
Despite the losses of the Soviet years, a large number of architectural monuments have been preserved on it: tenement houses, partially preserved city estates and passages. Among them are famous Moscow sights: the building of the Moscow International Trade Bank, Khomyakov's trading house and others.
Today it is King's day but we stay all at home and celebrate it inside or in the garden....:)
27 april 2020
Lovely and sunny at home, not so along the coast at the hides, but some nice waders about. This Snipe got very close to the hise
I'm pretty sure there were 4 blue candles unless I took the shot before all the candles were in place.
The cake was delicious and as a rare treat my grandson was also allowed a small piece.
May all the years ahead be as memorable and happy as the past Athos.
Today, Sept 23rd 2022 is the Autumn Equinox and we are very happy!
Ziva David wishes you a wonderful season 🍁
Sun setting behind Groat Knowe, a rounded hillock to the north west of my house.
It had been raining for most of the day, then, about 9pm, there was a suggestion of yellow in the sky. The sun slowly dropped down beneath the higher clouds as the lower cloud (here, outlined in a peachy-white colour) filled the Girvan Valley, below.
I sat for about an hour, in alternating light drizzle and very strong dying sunlight.
There is a 'burning bush' right in the middle of the sun; I think this is a goat willow sapling, nothing more 😄
(I think this picture was taken about 9:45pm)
Taken from my garden.
South Carrick Hills,
SW Scotland