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Winter Wren (Troglodyte mignon)
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Explored, March 15, #494. Small in stature and incomparably energetic in voice, the Winter Wren inhabits moist forests and other habitats across much of North America. It is the only wren to be found outside the Americas, occurring also in Europe, Asia, and north Africa, with 35 or more recognized subspecies. Description Very small, dark bird. Short tail, usually cocked upward. Uniform dark brown plumage overall. Thin, pointed bill. Size: 8-12 cm (3-5 in) Wingspan: 12-16 cm (5-6 in) Weight: 8-12 g (0.28-0.42 ounces) Cool Facts Per unit weight, the Winter Wren delivers its song with 10 times more power than a crowing rooster. Winter Wrens in western North America have more complex songs than eastern Winter Wrens. The western songs have about 36 notes per second on average, while the eastern songs have 16 notes per second. Wrens probably originated in the New World, and the Winter Wren is the only one of the 78 species that is found outside the Americas. According to one hypothesis, the Winter Wren may have colonized the Old World by crossing over the Bering Straits during an interglacial period. Winter Wrens sometimes roost communally in cold weather. In one case, 31 individuals were found together in a nest box in western Washington. The Winter Wren sometimes builds several nests in a single breeding season. Nests are used for roosting or for repeated breeding attempts. from: www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Winter_Wren... Here's a link to hear their song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo0QVThca3U (Thanks bridgy2008 for the idea!).
Never Mind the Bullocks...
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Morgan and I had one of the sweetest bike dates ever today. Seriously, it was out of hand. After work I took the bus to MoTay's house, where we began our two-wheeled adventures. We then zipped our way through the Downtown East Side until we reached Canada Place and the sea wall, in time to see two very large cruise ships preparing to disembark. After zipping along the seawall and discovering some sweet new trails in Stanley Park near the Lion's Gate Bridge, we found the trail we'd been looking for beneath the bridge that I'd spied on Sunday and got to shredding. First shot (this one), we got exactly what we came there for and did one more just to make sure. straight outta the camera and one of my favorite photos that I've ever taken. So pumped on this one. After high-fiving over our awesomeness, we went up to Prospector's Point for some World Famous Ice Cream. While enjoying our delicious ice cream, and watching two huge cruise ships and one cargo ship coast out of the inlet under the bridge, a raccoon walked out right in front of us! Awesome! Then we cruised down another sweet trail we'd never been down before through the windfall area, before hitting the seawall at Third Beach again. Then we enjoyed the sun and sea all the way back around to Yaletown, where we enjoyed some delicious beer and saw some illegally short shorts before rolling down Granville back to the seabus. Seriously - one of the best days ever!
I pose for seeds
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Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) One of the most abundant birds in North America, the Red-winged Blackbird is found in wetlands and agricultural areas across the continent. The black male can hide the brilliant red shoulders or show them off in a dazzling display. The striped female looks strikingly different than the male and could almost be mistaken for a large dark sparrow. The Red-winged Blackbird is a highly polygynous species, with one male having up to 15 different females making nests in his territory. In some populations 90% of territorial males have more than one female. But, from one quarter to up to half of the young in his nests do not belong to the territorial male. Instead they have been sired by neighboring males. The male Red-winged Blackbird fiercely defends his territory during the breeding season. He may spend more than a quarter of all the daylight hours in territory defense. He vigorously keeps all other males out of the territory and defends the nests from predators. He will attack much larger animals, including horses and people. www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Red-winged_... (I know, one dive bombed me last spring. Scared the living daylights out of me!).
Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)
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www.deltawaterfowl.org/research/bios/pintail.php This elegant duck with its trim form and swift flight, has been dubbed ‘the greyhound of the air’. Pintails are one of the first migrants in the fall and one of the first ducks to arrive on the breeding grounds in the spring. Pintails are a medium sized dabbling duck. They are distinguished from other dabbling ducks by their slim profile, elegant neck and pointed tail. In North America, the core nesting habitat for pintails is found in Alaska, the prairie pothole region and the northern great plains. Pintails winter along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts from south-east Alaska and south-east Massachusetts south and from interior southern USA down to Central America, central Yucatan Peninsula, north-west Costa Rica as well as in Bermuda and Cuba. Pintails are not endangered, but their population is well below long-term averages, as well as the desired level set by the North American Waterfowl Management Plan. Though the 1990’s were wet and a banner year for other duck species, pintails did not respond as expected to the water. Waterfowl biologists continue to work to understand what factors are causing the depression in pintail populations.
Stone Arch Bridge, Stanley Park, Vancouver
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Stone Arch Footbridge near the entrance to Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Additional Bridge Photos and a Bridge Blog at www.Bridgepix.com. Stanley Park is a 404.9 hectare (1,000 acre) urban park bordering downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest city-owned park in Canada and the third largest in North America. The park attracts an estimated eight million visitors every year, including locals and tourists, who come for its recreational facilities and its natural attributes. An 8.8 kilometre (5.5 mile) seawall path circles the park, which is used by 2.5 million pedestrians, cyclists, and inline skaters every year. Much of the park remains forested with an estimated half million trees that can be as tall as 76 metres (250 feet) and hundreds of years old. There are approximately 200 km (125 miles) of trails and roads in the park, which are patrolled by the Vancouver Police Department's mounted squad. The Project for Public Spaces has ranked Stanley Park as the sixteenth best park in the world and sixth best in North America. (Wikipedia)
Harry Jerome statue . Vancouver BC
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BETTER VIEW texture by Many memorial statues have been erected in Stanley Park in Vancouver, Canada but this Harry Jerome statue overlooks the magnificent complexes of the downtown core The statue of Harry Winston Jerome is a memorial of his great life as a Canadian track and field runner who broke many world records and competed in the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal in the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games and the 1967 Pan American Ganbvmes. Harry Jerome suffered a severe injury at the Perth Commonwealth Games in 1962 and retired from the athletic world in 1969. He then went on to help... create Canada's new Ministry of Sport and held a number of senior positions but soon resigned due to government decisions. Harry Jerome was truly a great Canadian hero and this statue in Stanley Park, Vancouver is a well deserved honor in his memory. To this day there are sports events held in his honor and buildings bearing his name. Stanley Park, looking toward downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America.
Anna's Hummingbird
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The clouds finally parted and the sun came out today (well, technically yesterday since it is after midnight), enough to entice me to get out and go for a walk with my camera. I was hanging out at a favourite place in the park where people feed the birds and you can always see something. There were all the normal suspects: chickadees, towhees, junkos and sparrows. I was quite absorbed in trying to get some good shots, when for some reason I looked over my shoulder and there was this wee hummingbird. I believe he was watching all the other birds filling their beaks with seeds. I managed to bang off two quick shots before, in a flash of brilliant fuscia, he flew away. Some info on this beauty: The Anna's Hummingbird is the largest species of hummingbird observed in Canada. Anna's is one of only three species that are permanent residents of the US or Canada (Allen's and Costa's are the others). Unlike most other hummers, Anna's has a (minimal) song. Member of the Activists for birds and wildlife
Vancouver - 1° giorno
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Il volo da Francoforte in perfetto orario ci porta a Vancouver. La prima tappa del nostro viaggio. L'inizio di un'avventura che ci porterà a scoprire la natura dell'Alaska e di Vancouver Island. Al primo impatto Vancouver sembra meno vivace di altre città canadesi come Montreal o Toronto. La prima sensazione è di pace, serenità, specialmente nella parte del waterfront dove la vita scorre tra jogging, pesca, letture e nel vedere gli idrovolanti (il mezzo di trasporto più diffuso da queste parti) andare e venire dal porto. Molti dicono che questa sia una delle città con la migliore qualità della vita. Ho avuto questa impressione anche io. Ho visto le persone praticare tanti sport all'aria aperta grazie alle infinite possibilità che la città regala: dal kayak, alla corsa, alla bicicletta, alla vela, e tutto quello che si può fare in un posto dove al mattino puoi sciare e al pomeriggio puoi andare in barca grazie alla sua disposizione geografica.
P3262 and 3267 BCT G40HF New Flyer March 1996
Made by Stephen Rees
Back in the pre-Translink days of BC Transit. This is the official press launch of the 25 New Flyer G40HF buses in their new Clean Air livery at Stanley Park. They were very late - by this time new bus orders were all low floor and these were supposed to have been the last lift equipped buses in the fleet. (That policy didn't last long either.) BC Gas (as then was) helped finance this fleet by covering the premium in the capital cost through a higher gas price. Like other CNG buses in the fleet they were plagued by reliability problems. They also had the gas tanks under the floor, which I found a little alarming, but was common practice at the time. Amazingly one of these buses features in the current (2010) Province of BC ad about reducing greenhouse gas - I suppose because they had stock footage, and the words are nicely legible. And, of course, this livery was never applied to the zero emissions trolleybuses.
A squirrel named Douglas
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The Douglas Squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasii, is a pine squirrel found in the Pacific coastal states and provinces of North America. It is a small, lively, bush-tailed tree squirrel, enchanting to watch. Adults are about 33 cm in length (including its tail, which is about 13 cm long), and weigh between 150 and 300 grams. Douglas Squirrels mostly eat seeds of coniferous trees such as Douglas Fir, Sitka Spruce and Shore Pine, though they do also eat acorns, berries, mushrooms, the eggs of birds such as Yellow Warblers, and some fruit. Unlike many other types of tree squirrel, they lack cheek pouches in which to hold food. They are scatter hoarders, burying pine cones (which they cut from the trees while green) during the autumn. Unfortunately, these cute little squirrels have to compete with the much larger Eastern Grey squirrel, that is not indigenous to the west, but is a thriving imported species.
"Brushed Pink" - Create With Light Photography ©
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61 second exposure at 2nd beach, Vancouver. The wind was blowing from the Northwest, so I took advantage of the conditions to exaggerate the cloud movement from right to left with a long exposure. I used my trusty 6 stop B+W ND filter to stop the light down sufficiently. Please can you leave actual feedback, and not just copy and paste awards, as it means a lot more to me. Thank you so much. Please visit my website: Create With Light Photography Follow me on Twitter: CreateWithLight Thank you so much to everybody who took the time to leave comments, they are most appreciated and valued.
Golden-crowned Sparrow in profile
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Another of the many birds found in Stanley Park, the Golden-crowned sparrow is a large sparrow common along the Pacific Coast of North America in winter (from southern BC to California). In the summer it heads north and it's breeding grounds stretch from BC into the Yukon and Alaska. Golden-crowned Sparrows nest on the ground or, less commonly, in low trees or shrubs where there is still snow-cover. Ground nests are well hidden under overhanging vegetation or shrubs. For more info check out: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Golden-crowned_Sparrow/lifehi... Member of the Activists for birds and wildlife
Mixed Metaphors
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I thought this was a Mallard-American Wigeon hybrid. I have now been informed that, rather it is an intersex mallard (thanks C G Gustavsson). Intersexes in nature are rare but not exceptional and quite a few similar ducks can be found among internet images, though many are difficult to identify as such. Many intersex Mallards bear a striking resemblance to some Mallard hybrids, especially Mallard x Black Duck hybrids, but can often be told apart by the combination of female-type bill and extensively male-like plumage. Hybrids in contrast, if they show male-like plumage, can also be expected to show a male-like bill. Wow, who knew? Explored, April 15, 2009. #131. Thanks, leasaunt and Jim for telling me!
"Fade To Pink" - Create With Light Photography ©
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I've been on a bit of a cityscape mission lately. The wind and light conditions have been just right of late, so I thought I might as well put them to good use. Please can you leave actual feedback, and not just copy and paste awards, as it means a lot more to me. Thank you so much. 106 second exposure of Coal Harbour, Vancouver at dusk. The streaky clouds are due to the Easterly winds and the long exposure, combined with the reflecting city lights to give the pink glow. Please visit my website: Create With Light Photography Follow me on Twitter: CreateWithLight
"Opening Up" - Create With Light Photography ©
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105 second exposure of the shoreline around Stanley Park looking towards English Bay. I used my B+W ND110 filter for this image to stop the light down before sunset. It's a bit moodier than my images usually are, but it reflected how I was feeling that evening :-) Press L or click on the image to view large. Please can you leave actual feedback, and not just copy and paste awards, as it means a lot more to me. Thank you so much. Please visit my website: Create With Light Photography Follow me on Twitter: CreateWithLight
"Halo" - Create With Light Photography ©
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30 second exposure of Coal Harbour, Vancouver. The ominous clouds parted over Coal Harbour around sunset to create this halo effect. I used my trusty 6 stop B+W ND filter to stop the light down sufficiently to smooth the water. Please can you leave actual feedback, and not just copy and paste awards, as it means a lot more to me. Thank you so much. Please visit my website: Create With Light Photography Follow me on Twitter: CreateWithLight Thank you so much to everybody who took the time to leave comments, they are most appreciated and valued.
Golden-crowned Kinglet
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As I was walking in the park yesterday I heard a song I didn't recognize. www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/Infocenter/i7480id.html You can hear it by following this link and choosing Song from the menu on the left side of the page. After much staring in the bushes I say this little fellow. I quick search tell me he is a Golden-crowned Kinglet. The Golden-crowned Kinglet is a tiny, continuously active bird, most frequently found in coniferous woods. Despite being barely larger than a hummingbird, the kinglet winters northward to Canada and Alaska. Explored, March 22, 2009. #320.
Ruby-crowned Kinglet, the first
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One of North America's smallest birds (9 to 11 centimeters (3.5 to 4.3 in) long) the Ruby-crowned Kinglet can be recognized by its constant wing-flicking. The male shows its red crown only infrequently. The kinglet is migratory, and its range extends from northwest Canada and Alaska south to Mexico. Its breeding habitat is spruce-fir forests in the northern, mountainous, United States and Canada. Here's their call: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruby-crowned_Kinglet/sounds Member of the Activists for birds and wildlife
Sunset . Stanley Park . Vancouver
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BIGGER VIEW I am home after a wonderful week in Vancouver . we went snowshoeing and ate in super restaurants and visited old friends ( we used to live in Vancouver ) and the weather was stunning after the first day of rain . . hope all my flickr friends are well . thanks for the lovely comments when i was away . Happy New Year consistently voted as one of the best cities to live in . worldwide see this link to see why .. Vancouver city HD time lapse video
The Secret of Lost Lagoon
Made by Lee Sie
So many of you know that I am not a photo purist of any kind. I love photoshop as much as I love taking pictures. I have received lots of e-mails with questions as to the reality of my works even a few death threats for deceiving my viewers (OK maybe one but the person was serious.) Well look no further for answers because I have been exposed by a certain Photography Magazine! This image was used for the May Workshop in Popular Photography. Yes I've sold out to the big guys. Check it out at your local news stand! p.s. They really made it look alot easier than it was but heck I even learned a few shortcuts!
