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A Wood Stork coming in for a landing (virtually over my head)
From Florida Audubon
The Wood Stork is one of Florida’s signature wading birds, a long-legged, awkward-looking bird on land that soars like a raptor in the air.
Wood Stork
Like many Florida birds associated with wetlands, the Wood Stork has suffered from the destruction and degradation of our state’s wetlands. Today, the Wood Stork is classed “Threatened” by the State of Florida and the federal government.
It feeds in shallow water, stirring the bottom with its unlikely pink feet and snapping up small prey that are unlucky enough to encounter the bird’s sensitive bill. They nest in early spring, just in time for the traditional season of lowest water when prey items will be concentrated in shrunken wetlands, providing good hunting so the storks can feed their young.
Now, we have altered the natural cycle of high and low water in our wetlands and Wood Storks often can’t find enough food for their young, who eventually succumb to starvation.
How Audubon is Helping
Everglades Restoration: the Everglades is a historical feeding and nesting ground for Wood Storks. By restoring the river of grass, we will ensure there will always be places for storks to feed, nest and raise their young.
Lake Okeechobee Recovery: Wood Storks forage in and nest around this beleagured big lake. Cleaning up the lake will help storks and a suite of other animals, as well as the Everglades itself.
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary: This Audubon Sanctuary in Southwest Florida protects one of the state’s largest Wood Stork rookeries. Audubon actively manages the sanctuary for the storks’ benefit, and we advocate for their feeding grounds downstream.
There is a large rookery at Wakodahatchee Wetlands.
The largest group I've ever seen is at Harris Neck in Georgia - there they ride the thermals together many hundreds at a time. They also have a rookery there.
Great Blue Heron Mating Rituals
From Science.com
Displays
Great blue herons don't mate for life, but they do have elaborate courtship rituals that help pairs form strong bonds. Their mating displays include bill snapping, neck stretching, moaning calls, preening, circular flights, twig shaking, twig exchanging, crest raising and even bill duels. Scuffles over females are common, but never end in death. Once their complex dance is finished, the male and the female heron will have the strong bond necessary to raise their hatchlings together.
For Macro Monday - (starts with a) Vowel.
Our Apricot tree is holding a great crop this year. They are almost ready to pick.
Back soon to catch up. It's a busy day!
Happy Macro Monday!
Too many f*king vowels in this lake, I think I managed to spell it right, I rue the day I post a photo of Eyjafallajøkull.
Sunset above the lake, taken while blotto, near Saint Donat, Quebec, Canada.
pose: CuCa Designs - Ride or Die 05 (ff bento pose set)
(Sometimes we need friends to go through dark times,
we can surrender to fate or fight it back, it's our decision!
Thank you so much dear friends for your great support, you make me strong! 💕)
"Now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control!"
Unknown broken mushroom for the Macro Mondays theme: "Vowel"
Happy Macro Monday!!!
"Being alone is very difficult."
Quote - Yoko Ono
Update:
It is identified as “Mycena galopus (Bonnet)” .
Info (English) found on WiKi:
"Mycena galopus, commonly known as the milking bonnet or the milk-drop mycena, is an inedible species of fungus in the family Mycenaceae of the order Agaricales. It produces small mushrooms that have grayish-brown, bell-shaped, radially-grooved caps up to 2.5 cm (1 in) wide. The gills are whitish to gray, widely spaced, and squarely attached to the stem. The slender stems are up to 8 cm (3 in) long, and pale gray at the top, becoming almost black at the hairy base. The stem will ooze a whitish latex if it is injured or broken.
The variety nigra has a dark gray cap, while the variety candida is white. All varieties of the mushroom occur during summer and autumn on leaf litter in coniferous and deciduous woodland.
Mycena galopus is found in North America and Europe. The saprobic fungus is an important leaf litter decomposer, and able to utilize all the major constituents of plant litter. It is especially adept at attacking cellulose and lignin, the latter of which is the second most abundant renewable organic compound in the biosphere. The mushroom latex contains chemicals called benzoxepines, which are thought to play a role in a wound-activated chemical defense mechanism against yeasts and parasitic fungi."
Info (Dutch) found on WiKi
"Melksteelmycena
De melksteelmycena (Mycena galopus) is een schimmel uit de familie Mycenaceae. De soort komt in Nederland voor.
De melksteelmycena heeft een kegel- tot klokvormige hoed van 1-2 cm breed. De hoed is wit en fijngestreept door de lamellen, die enigszins door de hoed heen zichtbaar zijn. De lamellen zijn wit, staan breed uiteen en zijn aangehecht. De tot 8 cm hoge steel is slank (2-3 mm), glad en licht van kleur. Bij beschadiging scheidt de steel een wit melksap af, wat de soort zijn naam heeft gegeven.
De variëteit Mycena galopus var. nigra heeft een bruinzwarte hoed en steel.
De melksteelmycena komt vanaf juni tot de late herfst algemeen voor op rottend hout en strooisel in loof- en naaldbossen."
Macro Mondays "Vowel"
Life is a Rainbow - One year in colours
Black - 49/52 weeks
Thank you very much for your visits, faves, and kind comments - Chandana
The 1st letter of our 8 Grandchildren's names but Audrey's is an upside-down V 'cause all the A's have been used! There are never enough vowels in these!
Smile on Saturday: Beads or Pearls
For Macro Mondays' #high key theme
... the "puzzle" being trying to find any actual words in amongst this jumble! When setting up, I discovered I didn't have any vowels in amongst these coloured, clear acrylic beads, which rather limited my word choice :-(
So instead, I leave it up to you to see if there are any possible combinations of these letters that have a meaning
Actual location (see map), but I extracted a vowel via photoshop. I sold it off on the secondary market - alot of vowel movement right now.
Village of Edgar, Wisconsin USA
Snowy Egret (thanks Kevin)
Photographed at Merritt Island
From Cornell:
Snowy Egrets wade in shallow water to spear fish and other small aquatic animals. While they may employ a sit-and-wait technique to capture their food, sometimes they are much more animated, running back and forth through the water with their wings spread, chasing their prey.
Back in the Lake District, where the weather is hot and dry, like it has been in this country and much of Europe for many weeks.
Although the south western fells got a drenching from the clouds on the horizon, they missed the eastern half of the region.
The cows seem to be coping ok so far but were a bit lethargic luckily as I had to pass right by them to get through the gate.
How now brown cow is a phrase used in elocution teaching to demonstrate rounded vowel sounds.
"Especially when the October wind
With frosty fingers punishes my hair,
Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire
And cast a shadow crab upon the land,
By the sea's side, hearing the noise of birds,
Hearing the raven cough in winter sticks,
My busy heart who shudders as she talks
Sheds the syllabic blood and drains her words.
Shut, too, in a tower of words, I mark
On the horizon walking like the trees
The wordy shapes of women, and the rows
Of the star-gestured children in the park.
Some let me make you of the vowelled beeches,
Some of the oaken voices, from the roots
Of many a thorny shire tell you notes,
Some let me make you of the water's speeches.
Behind a pot of ferns the wagging clock
Tells me the hour's word, the neural meaning
Flies on the shafted disk, declaims the morning
And tells the windy weather in the cock.
Some let me make you of the meadow's signs;
The signal grass that tells me all I know
Breaks with the wormy winter through the eye.
Some let me tell you of the raven's sins.
Especially when the October wind
(Some let me make you of autumnal spells,
The spider-tongued, and the loud hill of Wales)
With fists of turnips punishes the land,
Some let me make you of the heartless words.
The heart is drained that, spelling in the scurry
Of chemic blood, warned of the coming fury.
By the sea's side hear the dark-vowelled birds."
Dylan Thomas - Especially When The October Wind
Capture and Edit by Orchid Arado
Due Sim:
Tricolored heron
From the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission:
The tricolored heron is a midsized member of the genus Egretta. This species can reach a length between 24-26 inches (61-66 centimeters) with a wingspan of approximately 36 inches (91 centimeters). The tricolored heron is named for its distinct coloration. It has a dark slate-blue colored head and upper body, a purple chest, and white underparts. This species also has a long, slender neck and bill, and is the only dark heron with light underparts.
The diet of the tricolored heron primarily consists of fish.
Tricolored herons breed in colonies between the months of February and August. Females construct nests out of sticks and vegetation collected by the males. Nests are found in trees or shrubs on salt marsh islands or standing water. Females lay between three to five eggs and both parents share incubation duties. Eggs hatch approximately 21-25 days after being laid (LaLonde 2003). The young remain in the nest until they are approximately 35 days old.
As you can see, their feathers are gorgeous as is their flight!
Jewel - Foolish Games
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNoouLa7uxA
"We didn’t need words sometimes. They would get in the way by over explaining and still unable to understand all the sentences that laid splayed out in front of us like a scrabble game with no vowels. Let’s sit in the quiet for awhile and just… Hold each other… Let this pass … We can find the words when they find us …. "
source: sleepinsidemysoul.tumblr.com/post/151044159638#notes
Blog Post / We Love Roleplay: Mesange
sllorinovo.blogspot.com/2017/03/we-love-roleplay-mesange....
Most of the umbellifer plants around here are now skeletons, but I found this one still blooming in a sheltered spot along with a few other wild flowers at the weekend.
Ces trois petits Piments ont été coincés entre de la Papaye et de la Mangue du jardin, rejoints par une balle de ping pong du passé pour rester dans le ton orange préconisé pour la circonstance. #Macro #MacroMondays #OrangeChili #ISpy
Love as a word for a score of zero has been used in the sport of tennis since the late 1800s. Frankly, how love became a word for zero is baffling, but so is the overall scoring system for tennis. The points progress from love to 15, 30, and 40, which are relatively equivalent to 0,1, 2, and 3 in points per game. For example, if the player serving wins the first point of a game, then the score is "15 - love" or "fifteen (to) love" in their favor. Etymologists aren't exactly sure how love came to mean "zero," but, as we said, there are theories.
It has been suggested that the "tennis" sense of love is derived from French l'œuf (the vowel in this French word has no English equivalent, but approximations would be something like "LERFF" or "LUFF"); œuf means "egg." It is said that when the game was imported into France from England, the French used the word l'œuf to mean "zero," due to the resemblance of an egg to the written figure 0. ( Merriam-Webster)
"Love¨ comme mot pour un score de zéro est utilisé dans le sport du tennis depuis la fin des années 1800. Franchement, la façon dont "love"est devenu un mot pour zéro est déroutante, mais le système de notation global du tennis l'est tout autant. Les points progressent de "love" à 15, 30 et 40, qui sont relativement équivalents à 0, 1, 2 et 3 en points par match. Par exemple, si le joueur qui sert remporte le premier point d'un jeu, alors le score est "15 - love" ou "fifteen (to) love" en sa faveur. Les étymologues ne savent pas exactement comment "love"en est venu à signifier "zéro", mais, comme nous l'avons dit, il existe des théories.
Il a été suggéré que le sens de " love" au "tennis" est dérivé du français l'œuf (la voyelle de ce mot français n'a pas d'équivalent anglais, mais des approximations seraient quelque chose comme "LERFF" ou "LUFF"); œuf signifie « œuf ». On dit que lorsque le gibier a été importé en France depuis l'Angleterre, les Français ont utilisé le mot l'œuf pour signifier "zéro", en raison de la ressemblance d'un œuf avec le chiffre écrit 0. (Merriam-Webster)
Vowel for Macro Mondays 10th December 2018.
This is an ammonite fossil in oily water. Happy Macro Mondays everyone : ))))
Pappades, Nilefs, northeast Euboea island, Greece.
In the forest of a mountainous region in the northeast of the island of Euboea, between bright translucent ferns and dark emerald green oak trees, rises the peaceful lemon yellow lake of a wheat field.
This image is included in the gallery "Inside the hellenic forests - Εντός των ελληνικών δασών" curated by Save the Trees.
poses: Black Cats Poses - Zero Gravity (fatpack) including the helmet with color hud
For Macro Mondays#Vowel
and for Crazy Tuesday#Things with wings.
This is one small detail of my Christmas decorations.
Have a great week and thank you
for visiting, HMM!
… with my little eye, something beginning with ‘u’. This is my mum’s scarf pin. I’m always thankful to have the opportunity to take pictures of my parents’ belongings. Lensbaby Velvet 56 doing what it does well (with extension tubes)