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Wire brush upside down. This photo taken for Macro Mondays theme "Wire". Photo taken indoors. The brush is on a windowsill, with the light coming from the left. The background is some purple glitter card.
Northern saw whet owl watches intently for it's next meal. Every year many of these diminutive owls undertake a treacherous migration south from their breeding grounds in the boreal forest to areas with less snow cover and more rodents. They must run a gauntlet of predators that await. Many are killed by vehicles and collisions with building windows, guy wires, windmills etc. For the newly fledged it's their first time away from the protection of their heavily forested homeland. Unfortunately for them bird banders have blocked their ancestral paths with mist nets. The helpless owls become hopelessly ensnared and are left dangling for hours under the threat of being killed by barred owls that are attracted to the incessant loud speaker calling the saw whet in to the trap. It's a dinner bell for predators. Next they are extracted from the net by volunteers and dropped into a filthy cloth bag and hung on a coatrack until the banders get around to handling them. They are then stuffed headfirst into an empty orange juice can, weighed and examined under bright lights by banders forcing their wings to spread. A metal band is then clamped around a leg with pliers. Then they are tossed unceremoniously out the window, shocked and disoriented. Many fall prey to barred and other larger raptors or simply languish in the bushes too afraid to move on. Every morning turkey vultures gather to clean up dead birds. For some reason this horrible practice is condoned by the Canadian Wildlife Service on land designated a Nation Wildlife Sanctuary. The blatant hypocrisy is dumbfounding. Only a insignificant number of banded birds are recovered, many likely die of stress from the rough treatment. As an avid wildlife photographer I hear constant compplaints from the birding community about "unethical" behavior such as getting too close, feeding, and playing bird calls, yet the bird banders are deified as saviors of bird populations. One woman told me there wouldn't be birds if it weren't for banders! There isn't a justifiable reason for this cruelty as Saw whet aren't a species of concern to wildlife managers. The Ontario Government has topped up the onslaught by permitting huge numbers of windmills to be erected directly in the path of migratory birds. This done under the guise of The Green Energy Banner. The banner has blood stains all over it. As for the bird banders, they are scared the general public will become aware of this abuse of wildlife and loose their jobs. The chief bird bander of Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory punched me in the head and grabbed at my equipment when he saw my camera set up to photograph saw whet owls. What's he trying to hide?
Wire brushes usually have a fairly short life as they are used/abused for rough cleaning of brick wrk or rust removal. This brush is quite new, hence it still has most of it's wire 'bristles'.
This one looks quite nice, the point of view is the one from a steel support cable of a phone pole, this was a blind shot since i couldn't see the screen, the pole holds several phone lines... i would be glad that sky wasn't so plain...
more wire wool fun in an abandoned factory close to home, picked up a fire extinquisher which we had at the ready just incase the building decided to set on fire...
This fabulous creature just happened to sit patiently almost posing for me on this wire at Bartonpark just east of Boylestone, in Derbyshire
Did you ever see a building with more wires around it!? It's a former church, now divided up into apartments in Clarendon, right across the street from Clarendon Falls.
I decided to set myself a task of try to take a picture with the least wires in the frame. See result below.
This is literally a wired fence in two senses. iron wire and threads. Its time to mend fences.
Made with Sony A99 and Helios 44-2 58mm f/2.0