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路The real Thunderbird Island ..actually, it's a very distinctive Island, out of interest does anyone recognise it?
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路Several images of mushrooms/fungus I took today in Warren forest north Yorkshire.
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Washington State isn't nearly as good of a place to grow hot peppers as Texas was and this thing took forever to start ripening but it is now finally showing color this week. Hundreds of peppers on this plant and hundreds more flowers.
Washington State isn't nearly as good of a place to grow hot peppers as Texas was and this thing took forever to start ripening but it is now finally showing color this week. Hundreds of peppers on this plant and hundreds more flowers.
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路路LIving proof of NeanderthalsCommon merganser and eagles on the dog walk. (Not so great phone photos.)
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路Mt Hood this evening, before sunset.
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It's always so cool to be able to see Bald eagles and osprey so regularly. Bald eagles were rare- or migratory- in other places I've lived. I do miss the Harris Hawks and large ravens from Tucson, and the Roseate spoonbills from Houston... but I feel like from a nature watching perspective, we've got it pretty good here.
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路路LIving proof of NeanderthalsIt's always so cool to be able to see Bald eagles and osprey so regularly. Bald eagles were rare- or migratory- in other places I've lived. I do miss the Harris Hawks and large ravens from Tucson, and the Roseate spoonbills from Houston... but I feel like from a nature watching perspective, we've got it pretty good here.
Wait till you see an eagle up close standing on a beach. They're huge.
My wife works from home and a couple weeks ago started yelling. She saw a hawk swoop down and snatch a squirrel off the ground and then flew off with it.
The pelicans at Seaside and Gearhart are a treat. You can usually catch them hovering above the waves about 300 yards frim shore and then watch as they suddenly dive in the the ocean. Very entertaining.
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路Wait till you see an eagle up close standing on a beach. They're huge.
My wife works from home and a couple weeks ago started yelling. She saw a hawk swoop down and snatch a squirrel off the ground and then flew off with it.
The pelicans at Seaside and Gearhart are a treat. You can usually catch them hovering above the waves about 300 yards frim shore and then watch as they suddenly dive in the the ocean. Very entertaining.
I believe it! Once upon a time I handled and worked with raptors- mostly small and mid weight. The largest birds that I have worked with were probably a great horned owl and an Arizona black vulture ( that loved to sit in your lap and eat out of your hands, I kid you not- was missing part of a wing).
Here's Grumpy, a Harris Hawk. This is a picture of a picture that is normally sitting on the side of my refrigerator. It took me months to befriend this guy because he had a negative experience with a previous man with gray hair. Rescue birds can be very touchy...!
I never did work with the largest of the Accipiters (the vulture excluded). Wish I'd had that opportunity.
EDIT to add: I've not been to Seaside or Gearhart yet, but have been to the Cape Perpetua area three different times camping and did spend a decent amount of time hiking and walking some of the beaches between there and Newport. I've got so much more of the Washington and Oregon landscape to explore though, it's not even funny!
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路Potholes, carved out by the melting glaciers some 10000 years ago. A popular hiking destination and place to have a swim, in Nissedal Norway.
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WOW! That landscape is wild. Beautiful, makes Norway look tame. Thanks for posting.
WOW! That landscape is wild. Beautiful, makes Norway look tame. Thanks for posting.
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