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Graugänse kurz vor der Landung!
(Naturpark Bergstrasse-Odenwald)
Grey geese just before landing!
Sony ILCE-7M4
100 - 400 mm f4,5 - 5,6 bei 400 mm und f5,6
ISO 1000, 1/800 sek, Spotmessung, Freihand
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Every winter it is the same, I don't know how often I passed my bee hive asking myself how my ladie's may doing, when everything is buried under snow and the temperatures are droping to minus 20 degrees at night. I can't do anything but hoping. So I’m even more happy, when the temperatures are increasing and the known business is starting again. Another winter survived. Here, You see one of the girls filling supplies on our willow tree.
Es ist jeden Winter das gleiche. Ich weiss nicht wie oft ich an meinem Bienenstock vorbei gehe und mich frage, wie es den Lady’s so geht, wenn alles unter Schnee begraben ist und in der Nacht die Temperaturen auf minus 20 Grad fallen. Ich kann nichts tun, außer zu hoffen. Um so größer ist die Freude dann, wenn sich bei wärmeren Temperaturen die gewohnte Betriebsamkeit wieder einstellt. Wieder ein Winter geschafft. Hier ist eine der Mädels auf unserer Weide unterwegs, Vorräte wieder auffüllen.
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A jackdaw sitting at the top of a pollarded willow tree at Slimbridge Wetlands Centre on Friday lunchtime.
A White Squirrel with stains on his mouth ,nose and paws from chewing off the hull of a black walnut.
Exeter, Ontario
Canada
After a week long of sun and higher temperatures, a lot of the snow and ice had melted along St, Christopher's Beach. Now there is open water to the shoreline.
Goderich,Ontario
Canada
From our little egg tree. Every day a bee with an orange furry bum visits the catkins.
Taken with my phone, it turned out better than the one with the proper camera. Being at home I was able to be in charge of the background which is a piece of wrapping paper.
The pond in Witcombe Valley, with frozen grasses and vegetation, taken an hour or so before the two previous images posted on Flickr, illustrating how rapidly conditions changed.
In early September the verdant growth around the pond almost hides the water from view. The soft pink of the hemp agrimony flowers harmonises well with the misty atmosphere around the pond in Witcombe Valley, giving a dream-like impression.
At the time I turned around and seeing some people walking into that light with the willow tree in the center, I liked what I saw. :-))
For a long time I have meant to rework this playful image of mine. Well here you are, the grumpy willow tree with an attitude.
Happy Tree-mendous Tuesday!
"Hey, isn't that a male Greater Canon nosed happy snapper over there?"
"No, he's over there, look! I heard about them from the spoonbills down south in Millicent. Looks like they are more widespread than they thought!. Gosh, they'll soon be everywhere!"
One of many low flying pelicans that loved to skim along the surface of the Murray River in Mannum, South Australia.
Spring is a lovely time of year at Chicago Botanic Garden, which has oodles of flowering trees as well as many Willows lining the trails and lakesides. That's a footbridge in bokeh.
When I saw that willow tree, during an evening walk, I was captured right away. It lost, in the true sense of the word, the ground under it’s feet. The foundation, it’s existence was build on was lost, and it was falling. The old willow tree survived that stroke, what easily could have been it’s end. It did rescue itself and stable holding the crown above the water without the help of anybody.
It is easy to give up but there are enormous efforts needed to find back to life after such a stroke, but it is possible. When we meet people like that, seeing that they are leaning over, its not the time to feel sorry for what they have lost. Its the time to deeply admire them for what they could keep and regain themselfes.
Als ich bei einem abendlichen Spaziergang diese Weide gesehen habe, war ich sofort begeister. Es hat ihr im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes den Boden unter den Füßen weggezogen. Das Fundament, auf dem ihre Existenz aufgebaut war, war blötzlich nicht mehr da und sie viel. Die Weide hat diesen Schicksalsschlag überstanden, der auch ihr Ende hätte sein können. Sie hat sich selbst gerettet und hält die Krone, ohne fremde Hilfe, stabil über Wasser.
Es ist leicht aufzugeben doch es ist ein enormer Aufwand erforderlich, von einem solchen Schlag zurück ins Leben zu finden doch es ist möglich. Wenn wir solchen Menschen begegnen, und sehen, dass sie schief stehen, ist es nicht an uns Sie für das zu bedauern, was sie verloren haben sondern sie aus tiefstem Herzen zu bewundern für das, was sie sich bewahrt und zurück erkämpft haben.
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It was a daily treat to see this little family of white breasted woodswallows flitting around the willow trees on the edge of the Murray River in Mannum. I couldn't quite manage them in flight, but they were very obliging with many quiet poses like this one.
This was a rare treat for me as I had only seen these once before in all my years of birding.
I spotted and photographed this bird in a local willow tree today down by our village lake and I have temporarily named this little guy Hawkeye, but I am unsure exactly what it is. The colouring is mostly accurate, but on the wing area, there was an out of focus leaf or twig much closer to the camera that has given it an apparent yellowish tint on the shoulder. It was very tricky to catch an uninterrupted view through all the twigs and branches. I have managed to narrow it down to either a Brown Goshawk, or maybe a Collared Sparrowhawk. I'm leaning towards the Collared Sparrowhawk for now. Apparently the plumage and colouring on these two birds is remarkably similar, but one is much bigger than the other. This seemed fairly small to my eye, For my fellow Aussie birders, it was maybe a similar size to a rosella - perhaps even slightly smaller. Very hard to tell. Any help with ID much appreciated! Either way, this is one for me to tick off my list of unseen birds as I haven't spotted either of them before.
(Now confirmed as a Collared Sparrowhawk - many thanks to all those who chipped in!)
The Yu Garden in Shanghai is very old. It dates back to the 1500's. Parts of the garden were destroyed during the Opium Wars in the late 1800's but the garden has always been rebuild and lovingly maintained. I visited this garden twice while i was in the city.
Certain elements are always found in a Chinese garden. Water and stones are essential. The Chinese scour the countryside to find just the right rocks and study where to place them The rocks generally are selected because they resemble a creature or another element of nature. Lovely buildings called halls are scattered through the garden. Carved openings in the walls look out onto the garden.