A male Hooded Merganser with its black and white puffed up head crest floats along a river still partially covered in ice.
I got my camera back from the repair shop & was finally able to get out yesterday & enjoy some warmer weather. This handsome Hooded Merganser was the first bird to greet me. #birds
Titika Rotkjaer
Song Sparrow
A good night song...
A sparrows with rusty reddish streaks, and some gray on the face and back perches on a bare branch.
A sparrows with rusty reddish streaks, and some gray on the face and back perches on a branch with some bundles of green leaves.
I actually got photos of one of the Fox Sparrows over the weekend! First good shots of the red variety. πͺΆ
βLayoffs later became the enforcement mechanism β reduce a team from 10 to one, and that remaining person has no choice but to adopt A.I. tools to attempt to absorb the work of the nine others. This increases A.I. use, and suddenly the rationale creates conditions that make it self-reinforcing.β
Lapwing - older posting - Share your lapwing photos in the comments
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πͺΆπ¦ #birds #wildlife #ukwildlife #nature #photography #ThePhotoHour #vickyoutenphoto #lapwing
βοΈA massive strike on Novorossiysk port on the night of March 1-2 using at least 200 drones damaged five Russian warships, Dosye Shpiona reported. Minesweeper Valentin Pikul sustained the heaviest damage, with vessels Yeysk and Kasimov also hit. Three servicemen were killed and 16 wounded. #Ukraine
Oxtongue Lake
A.J. Casson
1971
A view from the Visitors Centre observation deck in Algonquin Park. The birds are Pine Grosbeaks.
Picture by Jesse Villemaire. #Ontario #Canada
Good morning
Village in Snow
Sir Frederick Banting
c. 1930
Todayβs Canadian artwork is βWinter in the Villageβ by A J Casson, 1938.
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Dustin Hoffman carrying a painting from his NYC townhome after it had got blown up by his neighbors who were making bombs. Unlucky for them they blew themselves up. Lucky for us he wasn't home.
Dustin Hoffman carrying a painting from his NYC townhome after it had got blown up by his neighbors who were making... bombs. Unlucky for them they blew themselves up. Lucky for us he wasn't home.
A large gnarled twisted tree.
βIn the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man.β β Ralph Waldo Emerson
sorry canβt, busy making coq au vin for the two wolves inside me
I believe in a future where my children no longer wake to the sound of sirens.
I believe in justice.
Ukraine will stand.
Because it stands for life.
And life is always stronger.
Ichthyosaur snout and Roman farm found in bypass dig. π§ͺ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
For anyone who needs cheering up... here's Britain's smallest bird having a bath today in a woodland puddle. πππ¦β€οΈ
#birds πͺΆ
Jeremy Miranda (b. 1980) - Greenhouse at Night
Epstein's sex empire was a KGB-directed honeytrap.
youtu.be/kAJUX1gyPOY
One of these men thought death was
better than to face justified exposure,
and the punishment their crimes deserve.
ATLANTA β The Republican-controlled Georgia Senate voted along party lines Monday to urge Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to turn over the stateβs unredacted voter list, which includes 8 million votersβ personal information, to the Trump administration.
www.augustachronicle.com/story/news/s...
I went to the Dnipro River today.
Still frozen.
I just want to remind you that russians chose the coldest night to launch the most severe attack on Ukraineβs energy infrastructure.
The Way Back (2025) - Keita Morimoto #contemporary_realism #urban_landscape
Dying at the fact we went surfing at night with the moonlight being the only light source, and still werenβt the only people out. See how many surfers you can find (everyone is roughly on the same horizontal line as the top of the red buoy).
HezkΓ½ den od pΕehrady! #mmfoto
Zelenskyy:
Itβs absolutely impossible for me to meet with Putin in Moscow.It would be the same as meeting Putin in Kyiv
I publicly invite him,if he dares,of course.But if someone doesnβt want to meet yet cannot afford to say so directly for some reason,then such invitations to Moscow appear
