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I was looking through the archives - which I often do - and found this photo from a trip to Bornholm back in 2007.
I tweaked it a bit in Lightroom, to get it to a look I liked.
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchos
Mallard
Status: Resident, winter migrant from Iceland, Fennoscandia, Russia, Poland, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium & France. Additional captive-bred birds are released each year for hunting.
Conservation Concern: Green-listed in Ireland. The European population is regarded as Secure by BirdLife International.
Identification: Among the largest of our ducks (with the exception of Shelduck). Males with striking green head, yellow bill, white ring around the necj, grey underparts, blue speculum, black rump. Females brown in colour, but with blue speculum, dark stripe across the eye and whitish tail sides.
Similar Species: Males are unmistakable. Females and juveniles resemble other female and immature dabbling ducks.
Call: Male with nasal 'rheab', repeated when alert on water, and short whistle during courtship. Loud quacking of females.
Diet: Diet highly variable, and plant material, particularly seeds predominate. A range of animal material is also taken, including molluscs and crustaceans. Other food taken includes grain and stubble, and they have been shown to feed on a variety of food items presented by humans.
Breeding: Nest sites vary, mostly in ground where hidden in vegetation.
Wintering: Mallard are the most widespread species, although not quite as numerous as Wigeon or Teal. They occur in almost all available wetland habitats in Ireland.
Where to See: Common throughout Ireland. Loughs Neagh & Beg in County Antrim, Wexford Harbour & Slobs in County Wexford, Lough Foyle in County Derry, Strangford Lough in County Down and Lough Swilly in County Donegal are among the top wintering sites (1,000-5,500 birds).
Monitored by: Irish Wetland Bird Survey.
The Majorelle Garden in Marrakesh, Morocco, designed by Jacques Majorelle in the 1920s. It was owned by Yves Saint-Laurent from 1980, and his ashes scattered there in 2008.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge over the Firth of Forth, opened on 4 March 1890. In it's day, it had the longest single cantilever bridge span in the world. It is still used regularly today to carry passengers by train across the Firth of Forth.
In July 2015 it was announced as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Also a rare Victorian Penfold post box, introduced in 1879. It was during this period that red became the standard colour for post boxes, formerly being green.
Two girls. Catamarca. 1926.
Name of Expedition: 2nd Captain Marshall Field Paleontological Expedition
Participants: Elmer S. Riggs (Leader and Photographer),Robert C. Thorne (Collector), Rudolf Stahlecker (Collector), Felipe Mendez
Expedition Start Date: April 1926
Expedition End Date: November 1926
Purpose or Aims: Geology Fossil Collecting
Location: South America, Argentina, Catamarca
Original material: album print
Digital Identifier: CSGEO69440
Don Pedro Reservoir on the Tuolumne River. The highway and bridge in the background is CA-49, the famous Mother Lode (or Golden Chain) Highway. The closer one is the Jacksonville Bridge, named for the town inundated by the reservoir.
Two of Pentacles is today's Group Creative Experiment card.
This card is not like me. I struggle with the balancing act of life, with adapting and going with the flow. I get thrown by changes to my routine and have hard time taking time to play or kicking back...
but I DO write on myself with markers. So here: two new pentacle eyes. To help lend a different view, perspective (learn a few new skills?)
(background texture via pink sherbet)
Two things - I am wearing clothes, it is one of those strapless terry cloth Juicy numbers from a few years ago.
Two I bought cream (finally!) to do something about those wrinkles near my eyes.
Not that anyone cares.
Designed by Matthew Wyatt , this statue of the Duke of Wellington mounted on Copenhagen originally sat on top of London’s Marble Arch. Removed in 1883 when the Arch was repositioned, The then Prince of Wales suggested it be taken to Aldershot ‘where it will be highly valued by the Army. The motorcycle is my Honda NT700V. Round Hill, Aldershot, Hampshire.
2015/11/13