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"Pileated Woodpeckers sometimes visit backyard bird feeders, especially for suet.
"The Pileated Woodpecker is one of the biggest, most striking forest birds on the continent. It’s nearly the size of a crow, black with bold white stripes down the neck and a flaming-red crest. Look (and listen) for Pileated Woodpeckers whacking at dead trees and fallen logs in search of their main prey, carpenter ants, leaving unique rectangular holes in the wood. The nest holes these birds make offer crucial shelter to many species including swifts, owls, ducks, bats, and pine martens."
www.allaboutbirds.org aka The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
This large, shy female beauty was captured by my husband, Howard Marsh. (Makes have a red moustache stripe.)
Thanks for looking. I'm not happy to require a suet feeder to entice this bird into our area, but until our trees grow large enough...
We did have four leaping deer yesterday morning, but we have to keep planting ever larger trees.
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Or, October glory maple trees in all their autumn hues with a small male House Finch adjusting a feather.
After looking for a 'wood' subject that would become a decent macro for Macro Mondays, I became sad. We have so many objects made of and from wood, including our floors. Everywhere. Poor trees...
This is my favorite female red squirrel, Hazel. She is now 1.5 years old and it looks like she is soon to become pregnant for the very first time. After endless chasing, she moved in with Streifi, our hot male squirrel, last week... (Squirrels-2020-1806.jpg)
...on a rainy day last week. We need more rain! We have smoke in the air!
“The American goldfinch is a granivore and adapted for the consumption of seedheads, with a conical beak to remove the seeds and agile feet to grip the stems of seedheads while feeding. It is a social bird and will gather in large flocks while feeding and migrating. It may behave territorially during nest construction, but this aggression is short-lived.
“Its breeding season is tied to the peak of food supply, beginning in late July, which is relatively late in the year for a finch. This species is generally monogamous and produces one brood each year.”
~ Wikipedia
Early light on the back forty, where we let things grow wild. Webs glisten.
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“sunset and moonrise over the ocean, from the boardwalk.” [IG Remix.] (Rehoboth Beach, DE, USA; 7/5/2017.)
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“mood: cumulonimbus .” [IG Remix. (Mohegan Lake, New York, USA; 6/30/2017.)
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My heart breaks for the unknown 100,000. Tears and fears.
And apologies!
Inspired to upload by email from virtual friends. Thank you.
Maple leaves outdoors in dew. And little to no wind. Can you see the tiny web in the lower third of the leaf? The webs were everywhere!
Size 2 inches/ 5.08 cm horizontally.
...that we did not plant. Delicate looking tree (larch!) partially hidden by other sturdier trees.
Comments unnecessary, unless you cannot restrain yourself ;))
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"I like the undulating shapes highlighted by part of the sun and part of the shade; as if the clouds and the Sun are divided in 'opinions': to whom which slope belongs..."
HFF
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Native Red Cedars and maples trees arrive from a tree farm/nursery. Birds welcomed them once planted and unwrapped. I thought it might take wildlife awhile to accept the new trees. I was wrong. Even a coyote ran among them this evening.
So fun. But so cold as a non-working participant watching a crew of six work ;-) Still, better to be outdoors on a day when the US Senate ran amuck. Clean mud outdoors.
And shakes his feathers.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology notes:
"Glossy-black males have scarlet-and-yellow shoulder patches they can puff up or hide depending on how confident they feel. Females are a subdued, streaky brown, almost like a large, dark sparrow."
~www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-winged_Blackbird
Inquisitive juvenile raptor peers into our home.
That’s not a fence, that’s the side of a dog-washing stand my husband built for our Labradors in Alaska.
Photo by my husband using the Nikkor prime 300mm f/2.8.
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“eclipse light, over southampton.” [IG Remix.] (Southampton, NY, USA; 8/21/17.)
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Rain and southerly wind flattened tall grass to make an easy way for birds to land—on a thin piece of long grass. A small hare tried it, but floundered.
I wish it were still raining. One sweet day. We have heat and unusual mugginess. That's climate change, perhaps.
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In January 2022 I asked a Flickr support hero to remove my account from the Explore algorithm. Peace.
Three days before the wedding I proclaim, demand, ok plead to have a chore free day so I could take a hike. Rachel says take me, but it has to be an easy one. OK. Sheep lake 3.5 mile out and back.... We arrive and the pristine and glorious green pool surrounded by mountains and a forest of fir and I say ok, we can go back OR we could climb over that ridge and I'll show you something really spectacular.... It's so tall she has to bend her head back, gives a wry smile as she knew Dad just set her up, but we went. Took the PCT into Sourdough gap and turned left into Mount Rainier National Park (small sign, no ticket booth) :)
The view from here is upper Chrystal Lake, the peak of the same name across the way and you guessed it, Mount Rainier. I hadn't taken the camera out of the bag, I'd been here and on a better day until this. I didn't climb the out of place rocky hill because a couple was enjoying lunch up there, so here's the one and only shot. :) she got blisters on her feet but said the view was worth it. :)
I'll put a couple pics in comments in case you are wondering what the heck I'm talking about. The second one includes the ridge we went over.
No highlights were blown.
Celebrating the first day that feels like spring, even though I prefer winter. Sun with no wind this morning.
A fallen tree in the glacier-fed Annette Lake. There are more trees in Canada than any country except Russia : 318 billion or 40% of its land mass (source: treehugger.com) This is despite the wild fires, which raged through vast swathes of Canada last year and the year before.
Last July nearby Jasper was particularly badly affected losing 358 of its 1,113 structures. The fires were so powerful they were able to cross the river. Mercifully the town was evacuated with only the loss of one life, a fire fighter. There are still enormous tracts of charred trees, but the area remains staggeringly beautiful and life goes on.
In sadness. And memento mori.
Apologies!
Thank you to those who contacted me. You encouraged me to upload one of my shots. I appreciate your thoughtfulness.
Closing comments now. Thank you all. I’m pretending that we’re moving to New Zealand or nearby Canada if they’d have us, at least in my mind. Must vote here in November.
JFK stated in 1963, America “was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
'Miss lovely' ... a Tree-Hugger 😊
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...or stay? That Orange fascist and his rich, rich beyond rich accomplice make me cringe. Should I stay here or at Flickr or go?
But go where? Did we wait too long?
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'...I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.'
~Mark Twain
About as shot from RAW, except for small crop. Manual everything.
This is the Mama Bear to the Cub I posted yesterday. She was up in the tree with her cubs after a Boar chased them up. Here she is climbing down to check if it is safe for the Cubs. The Boar had moved on so the family were able to come down & safely forage on grass.
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City Park, a 1,300-acre (5.3 km2) public park in New Orleans, Louisiana, is the 87th largest and 20th-most-visited urban public park in the United States. City Park is approximately 50% larger than Central Park in New York City, the municipal park recognized by Americans nationwide as the archetypal urban greenspace. Although it is an urban park whose land is owned by the City of New Orleans, it is administered by the City Park Improvement Association, an arm of state government, not by the New Orleans Parks and Parkways Department. City Park is unusual in that it is a largely self-supporting public park, with most of its annual budget derived from self-generated revenue through user fees and donations. In the wake of the enormous damage inflicted upon the park due to Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism began to partially subsidize the park's operations.
City Park holds the world's largest collection of mature live oak trees, some older than 600 years in age. The park was founded in 1854, making it the 48th oldest park in the country, and established as the "City Park" in 1891.
The name live oak comes from the fact that evergreen oaks remain green and "live" throughout winter, when other oaks are dormant and leafless. The name is used mainly in North America, where evergreen oaks are widespread in warmer areas along the Atlantic coast from southeast Virginia to Florida, west along the Gulf Coast to Louisiana and Mexico, and across the southwest to California.
Driving through the back roads of Vancouver Island's west coast, one cannot help but wonder at the overwhelming variety of frondescence in the rain forest. Standing at the side of the road to try and capture it in camera, I find myself drawn ever deeper to see and listen for what lies beyond my senses.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum/Division: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Family: Libellulidae
Genus: Tyriobapta
Species: Tyriobapta torrida
Common Names: Treehugger
Status: Common