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A Northern Harrier seen at Deep River Landing on the CT River. Its "prey" appears to be a frozen pile of whole fish. I suspect someone may have tossed out this treat (about 50 feet from shore) to lure in big birds. I thought I saw some binoculars in at least one car in the parking lot. It worked out for me!
See more shots of this bird in my photostream.
The Northern Harrier is distinctive from a long distance away: a slim, long-tailed hawk gliding low over a marsh or grassland, holding its wings in a V-shape and sporting a white patch at the base of its tail. Up close it has an owlish face that helps it hear mice and voles beneath the vegetation. Each gray-and-white male may mate with several females, which are larger and brown. These unusual raptors have a broad distribution across North America and Eurasia.
Cool Facts
- Northern Harriers are the most owl-like of hawks (though they’re not related to owls). They rely on hearing as well as vision to capture prey. The disk-shaped face looks and functions much like an owl’s, with stiff facial feathers helping to direct sound to the ears.
- Juvenile males have pale greenish-yellow eyes, while juvenile females have dark chocolate brown eyes. The eye color of both sexes changes gradually to lemon yellow by the time they reach adulthood.
- Male Northern Harriers can have as many as five mates at once, though most have only one or two. The male provides most of the food for his mates and their offspring, while the females incubate the eggs and brood the chicks.
- Northern Harriers hunt mostly small mammals and small birds, but they are capable of taking bigger prey like rabbits and ducks. They sometimes subdue larger animals by drowning them.
- Northern Harrier fossils dating from 11,000 to 40,000 years ago have been unearthed in northern Mexico.
- The oldest Northern Harrier on record was 15 years, 4 months old when it was captured and released in 2001 by a bird bander in Quebec.
part of my experiments with lights, colors and post processing. Shot on 27june2010 on Arrey Road, Mumbai
# MWS # ArreyRoad
Now that I'm home all day I'm trying to set up a weekly cleaning schedule for myself. Mondays will be bathrooms.
Cheeky cat looking for a good home in Cape Town. Go to TEARS (www.tears.org.za) to adopt me!
Paw Pixels Pet Photography in Cape Town: www.pawpixels.com
Taken by Marleen Lammers
This was an amazing shot, the blimp was right overhead when I took this photo! I love it how Pixar always goes all out with promoting their movies.
Seeing Form:
I took this photo by using a lamp to light up the guitar set up against a desk. I focused on making the metal parts look reflective and chose to shoot it in black and white to bring up the slick and metallic form of the guitar.
Song:
Crowd Chant-Joe Satriani
A lot of years ago i did an internship in the laboratory of the Bison gleu factory. Then it popped up in my mind to integrate the B I S O N letters into their buffalo-bull logo. I used it to decorate my report.
Their website.
Close-up on the head of a giraffe in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
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The First Great Western High Speed Train working the 16.27 from Worcester Shrub Hill to London Paddington, led by power car 43130, accelerates south past the Moreton-in-Marsh down distant signal MM1 on Sunday, May 6, 2012.
The May 8, 2014 launch of the Drink Up campaign at the Fairmount Water Works, dedicated to promoting drinking water for Philadelphia children. Philadelphia Water partnered with The Food Trust, Partnership for a Healthy America, with guests from HYPE, the 76ers, Mural Arts of Philadelphia, and Wat-aah to encourage Philadelphia students to drink up!
The HYPE squad (Healthy You, Positive Engergy) performs an amazing dance routine--taking water breaks throughout.
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I was home alone today. Not a good thing. I can't take care of myself, there are too many decisions to make. I'm 19, I should be able to do this, right?
I ended up going to the library today. Read some magazines and headed over to a bookstore. Bought a book about praying and one about depression. Bought some more books, just because the covers looked nice. I couldn't even get myself to cook a proper meal. Ah well. Monday I'm going to start trying again.
I been out again yesterday in the afternoon. It's been very pretty out. And I had some luck as you will see in the following photographs.
November 2011
Enjoy
Voila ma petite fée.
Le make up a était fais par la belle talentueuse et merveilleuse Limë. Je la trouve sublime et vraiment unique. je remercie vraiment Limë d'avoir accepter ce projet.
j'espère qu'elle vous plaira en tout cas moi j'en suis folle :p