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Since 1998, bald eagles have been full-time residents at the Pennsylvania Game Commission's Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area. The sizable stick nest, characteristic of bald eagles, sits in the forked branches of a sturdy red oak along the south shore of the lake. The nest is secure within the restricted Propagation Area, where entry is prohibited. The eagle pair guards its territory and shows little tolerance for other eagles in the area, particularly other adult eagles.
Between late winter and early spring, the eagle nest is visible from several locations around the lake. Just north of the Visitors Center, a parking lot on the east side of Hopeland Road provides access to Willow Point, an observation area with a panoramic view of the upper end of the lake. The enjoyable hike to Willow Point takes about 10 minutes and is an easy, mostly level walk. From Willow Point, the distant nest is visible to the east with a spotting scope or binoculars. A flooded stand of dead trees protrudes from the water across the lake. Eagles often perch in the snags, particularly in the largest of the stand.
After March 1, when the wildlife driving tour opens, visitors can follow the auto route past Stop #3, which leads to the opposite side of the snag area and nest site. Driving past this tour stop and just beyond the gated crossroads there is a good vantage point along the road to view the nest. A little farther on the tour, Stop #4 provides another location to spot eagles and the nest, probably the closest view. A good pair of binoculars or a spotting scope enhances eagle watching at Middle Creek, and late April is probably the best time to watch nesting activity. At this time, the nest is bustling with the adult eagles feeding and tending to the growing eaglets and deciduous trees have not leafed-out yet. Once trees attain their spring foliage, the eagle nest becomes concealed in the dense canopy. Check with Visitors Center staff for where-to-go details for eagles and other wildlife.
The bald eagle pair inhabits Middle Creek throughout the year, fishing the shallow lake and surrounding ponds in all seasons. As open water diminishes with the frigid temperatures of winter and as opportunity presents itself, the eagles sometimes switch their diet from fish to waterfowl, which is almost always available here. The eagles most often prey on weak and injured ducks, geese and swans.
The 360-acre main impoundment and about 70 additional acres of marsh-lined ponds, puddles and potholes along with the surrounding land provide vital food, cover and protected space for many wildlife species. More than 275 species of birds have been spotted throughout the seasons, including 23 species of ducks, five species of geese, loons, cormorants and grebes. Many of the birds pass through during spring and fall migrations, but 109 species breed and nest at Middle Creek. This property is designated as an Important Bird Area in PennsylvaniaOpens In A New Window and recognized as a Globally Significant Important Bird AreaOpens In A New Window because a large percent of the world's population of tundra swans and snow geese utilize Middle Creek as a staging ground during the northbound migration in late winter and early spring.
Each February and March, at least 5,000 tundra swans come to Middle Creek to rest and feed. Numbers vary yearly and up to 15,000 swans may stop here on their way northward. Large whistling strings of swans descend out of the late winter skies over the complex and surrounding landscape. Depending on weather, the stay may be brief or last for weeks. With the loss of many southern wetlands, tundra swans have switched somewhat to agricultural areas for winter foraging. As their name indicates, these swans are bound for the great northern boreal wetlands. In North America, tundra swans are often called whistling swans.
Snow geese numbers may exceed 170,000 birds, an unimaginable spectacle that attracts many human visitors. This staging along the Atlantic Flyway is marked by seemingly endless formations of white geese filling the skyline, flying to and from the surrounding agricultural fields. The massive flocks settle on the lake and periodically rise by the tens of thousands in a deafening cacophony. Like the swans, their stay is unpredictable and the birds may leave and continue north toward arctic breeding grounds at any time.
In front of the Visitors Center, Hopeland Road passes between the main impoundment and a pond. A variety of ducks frequent this end of the lake and the pond. It is a good location to spot mallards, black ducks, green-winged teal, northern pintails, northern shovelers, gadwalls, American wigeon, ring-necked ducks and common mergansers during spring migration. Many of these ducks also migrate through in autumn. Some of the harder-to-spot ducks include buffleheads, ruddy ducks, lesser scaup, hooded mergansers, blue-winged teal and wood ducks. The best location to find wood ducks is at the series of ponds at the dead end road just before turning right to reach Stop #4 on the driving tour. Canada geese are commonly found year-round throughout the fields surrounding the lake and ponds. The ponds and streams that attract waterfowl also provide viewing opportunities for belted kingfishers and other smaller water birds. Ospreys often are seen in spring and fall during migration.
As the driving tour leaves Hopeland Road, the tour passes through a small section of woodland and then opens to grasslands and crop fields as it meets Chapel Road. A right- or left-hand turn on Chapel Road will provide opportunities to encounter grassland birds, such as grasshopper sparrows, bobolinks, red-winged blackbirds and eastern meadowlarks. American kestrels, red-tailed hawks and northern harriers hunt these fields for voles, mice and other prey. Eastern bluebirds and tree swallows are common near the bird boxes throughout the complex. Killdeer, spotted sandpipers and least sandpipers are common at the muddy edges of the ponds and puddles while lesser and greater yellowlegs may be found wading in the shallow waters. The pools also are a place to find blue-winged teal, Wilson's snipe, green herons, solitary sandpipers and rusty blackbirds in migration.
Songbirds like the gray catbird, northern cardinal, willow flycatcher, yellow warbler, common yellowthroat, eastern towhee and brown thrasher may be seen in the shrubby areas bordering the woodlands and fields. Both Baltimore and orchard orioles can be found in the tall trees at Middle Creek. The woodlands and their edges are good places to find the eastern wood-pewee, great crested flycatcher, wood thrush, veery and ovenbird. Hedgerows and open areas give you a chance to see tail-wagging eastern phoebe, the indominatible eastern kingbird, as well as the ever-popular and colorful indigo bunting and American goldfinch.
In winter, the open fields of Middle Creek can be good places to spot rough-legged hawks, northern harriers, or, perhaps, short-eared owls, in addition to the resident red-tailed hawks. Horned larks, American pipits and snow buntings are among the prized open field birds that can be spotted on snowy fields.
Hmmm...maybe she thinks I've taken enough pictures for one day. 😋
Well I do hope Daisy remembers following me around with her camera like a puppy dog back in the day. Cause what goes around...comes around. 😜
Text of the memorandum, which is read in many theatres all over Europe in occasion of the European Theatre Day for Tolerance in English, Deutsch, Français: see comment
Part of: "an apple a day keeps the doctor away - An ENSO (Japanese: circle, Japanisch: Kreis) a day .... " Aktion Kreis Tagebuch A circle diary - Start of the 365-days Project: 1. September
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This guy was smiling though.
Rites of Passage Tattoo Festival, Sydney Olympic Park, Australia (Saturday 15 Oct 2016)
Rinpoche said: Tolerance sees what is – not what should be.
The difference between religion and science I think is the difference between judging and witnessing.
Those who do not judge are called the Tolerant.
When you fall into an emotion you judge.
Emotions are called angels or demons.
If you cannot love your emotions you suffer from them.
Suffering finally makes you tolerant.
HKD
Der Unterschied zwischen Verurteilen und Beurteilen ist der zwischen Religion und Wissenschaft.
Durch Verurteilung kommt die Sünde in die Welt.
„Was ist Sünde?“ fragte ich und Rinpoche antwortete: „Alles, was du dir selbst verbietest.“ Er lächelte. „Daher ist es deine vornehmste Aufgabe, deinen kämpferischen Geist zu reinigen. Was du in dir versündigst, hast du zum Feind. Die Kraft, die du entsündigst, machst du dir zum Freund. Befreie dich von deiner Versündigung, dann befreist du die ganze Welt von den Sünden.“
HKD
don't know why i never posted this poster. I did it a few months ago for school. the main subject was "Tolerance".
the poster deals with the high tension between the religious and the non religious jews here in israel. it's really hard to explain - if you don't experience it living here. there is basically no seperation of religion and state and it drives me nuts.
the text is taken from the bible, book of Psalm 133 : "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!"
sounds so cool in english hehe.
1 In the beginning was The Constant Outrage, and The Constant Outrage was with San Francisco, and The Constant Outrage was not some little joke, okay? 2 I don’t leave these notes because I ENJOY having to remind you not to put your uneaten dead animal muscles in the compost bin. 3 I don’t scowl at you in the hall because I ENJOY your inability to intuit that you take very loud showers every morning at the precise moment I’m concentrating on giving my cats medically necessary Reiki. 4 And I hope you know I don’t ENJOY the oil- and blood-soaked frivolities that half-filled all the plastic bags you only ever used once and then threw at a dying planet like some big genocidal land mine. 5 I don’t ENJOY anything. Because no justice no peace. And Mumia. And Bush lied. And I need you like a fish needs a bicycle. 6 Maybe if I had an overcompensating quadra-wheeled hatemobile like yours, I could buy some toxic plastic stickers and THAT would get through to the hegemonic penis captain you call a brain. If you can read at all. Do they even teach Reading in whatever broken flyover state you were born in? 7 And stop leaving "funny" comments on these notes. I did not move to San Francisco to be surrounded by intolerance. Peace. 8 And the unevolved breeder/polluter comprehended it not.
Painting acrylic on canvas,size 50+50 cm,2018.This is an abstract picture, color association with the word softness.
The Anne Frank exhibit had a wall made of old clothes, that started colorful and became increasingly dark and gray as her life became darker.
This is England a very green and pleasant land, a place of tolerance and welcome to others!
Lets not lose this lifestyle to barmy politics from a bygone age when as we know nationalism turned into a rather ugly plague. Europe have we not learned from past mistakes. Far right or left is not the way to go.
All I ask is you think before putting the x beside the next dictators name.
Soap box has know been put away.
Across the Potomac River from Theodore Roosevelt Island, looking near Georgetown.
Washington, DC, USA.
The most important lesson I have learned from my dad.
Tolerance is the appreciation of diversity and the ability to live and let others live. It is the ability to
exercise a fair and objective
attitude towards those whose
opinions, practices, religion,
nationality and so on differ from
one's own.
I'm off for a few days. Have a great weekend!
The American Heritage Dictionary
In the European Union, domestic violence against women remains an alarming phenomenon, and the most consistent and pervasive human rights violation across the region. According to the Council of Europe, one in four women experiences domestic violence at some point in her life, and between 6-10% of women suffer domestic violence in some form in any given year. Despite the progress that the EU has made in terms of raising public awareness and understanding, 78% of respondents in a recent Eurobarometer survey recognised that domestic violence remains a common problem.
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