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Butterfly and dragonfly paradise (Landscapes) 2022-07-12 Ronneby, Blekinge, Sweden Thomas Larsen, Janne Svanteson, Elin Elmstedt. A trip to look for Tortoisesshells and other good stuff. See elsewhere what came out of it. |
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Sandskredssøen (Landscapes) 2022-08-20 Grib Skov, Denmark Acid forest lake ideal for specialized dragonflies, Sort Hedelibel [Black Darter], Højmose-Mosaikguldsmed [Bog Hawker] and Siv-Mosaikguldsmed [Moorland Hawker]. |
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Laguna Zapotlán (Landscapes) 2020-02-12 Laguna Zapotlán (Ciudad Guzmán), Jalisco, Mexico One of my favorite places to go birding in MY Mexico. And this afternoon it suddenly exploded with the sky opening up to worlds that lie way beyond what we humans can ever aspire to. Only dreaming... |
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Arne Hansen (People) 2022-10-19 Kalvebod Fælled, Amager, Denmark Danish birder and friend from Copenhagen. Too intelligent and sensitive for this world. But he's found a balanced way of living, grateful for the opportunities life has brought him. Good life! |
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Tour de France 2022 (Jonas Vingegaard) (Tour de France 2022 (Jonas Vingegaard)) 2022-07-27 Copenhagen, Denmark National fejring af den jyske miniputs monumentale bedrift i årets Tour de France! Vundet som en suveræn holdindsats med Jonas som en begavet og stærk kaptajn. Vel uden mange fortilfælde, viste han både sportsligt og menneskeligt format igennem hele løbet. Han var for stærk for løbets favorit, Tadej Pogacar (UAE), som tog nederlaget, også, som en mand og værdig taber. Smilende og med overskud til at lave sjov undervejs. Men mon ikke at han inderst inde er hårdere ramt, end han giver udtryk for. Perspektivet ud i fremtiden, sådan som Jonas kørte, giver i hvert fald ikke anledning til de store forhåbninger. Det virker simpelt hen som om, at Jonas er født til at køre stærkt i bjerge. Og når han også kan køre hurtige enkeltstarter, begynder det jo at ligne, at vi skal have en kavalkadevinder igen, som vi sidst har set det med den nu vanærede Lance Armstrong. Det er en episk og historisk bedrift som vi har været vidne til. Og selv om Jonas måske kunne have klaret at vinde, selv med et svagere mandskab bag sig, så er der ingen tvivl om, at mandskabet, som var udvalgt til at repræsentere Jumbo-Visma i dette års tour, var uden sidestykke. Og ikke mindst på grund af den formidable og uforlignelige Wout Van Aert. Holdet satte sig på 6 etape-sejre, hvoraf Van Aert tog de tre. Og han kørte Jonas i position højt på de højeste bjerge, og sørgede samtidig for at sikre sig point-trøjen! Jonas kørte suverænt og stærkest igennem touren, men Van Aert gjorde det på en så heroisk måde, som ikke kan undgå at skabe grobund for fremtidige heltekvad. Cykelsporten lever af disse fortællinger og bedrifter. Den enkelte mands stålsatte vilje mod konkurrenterne og geografiens ubønhørlige natur. Det er dog ikke hvert år, at det lykkes at få et sådant drama ud af anstrengelserne, som vi har set i år. Ofte er der gået taktik i beslutningerne, og alle triller ind, som de er blevet bedt om. Kedeligt. Det vi var vidner til i år var anderledes. Jumbo-Visma viste formatet, da de planlagde et frontalangreb på Pogacar, som var i gult, og kørte aggressivt cykelløb, som fik følelserne på højkant. Det er sådan, det skal være. Udfordrerens trang til at tilkæmpe sig retten til at herske, bør ikke undertrykkes. Lev det ud. Vi hepper på jer, mens I lider jeres vej til evig ære eller fortabelse. Så storslået er verden. Magnus Cort, som ikke dukkede op på balkonen i dag, gjorde det flot i starten, da han sikrede sig bjergtrøjen på de smukke danske etaper, og senere da han skød sig foran de øvrige i udbruddet på 10. etape med mål i Megève. Mads Pedersen tog sagerne i egen hånd på 13. etape, og kørte stærkt dagen igennem fra et tidligt udbrud, som bragte ham en heroisk sejr i slutspurten i Saint Étienne. De gjorde det alle flot, og konklusionen må blive, at det blev Danmarks tour i år! Tillykke! PS: Alliker kan også noget..! Jumbo-Visma: Primoz Roglic (Slovenien) - UDGÅET Tiesj Benoot (Belgien) Steven Kruijswijk (Holland) - UDGÅET Sepp Kuss (USA) Christophe Laporte (Frankrig) ETAPEVINDER Wout van Aert (Belgien) GRØNNE POINTTRØJE ETAPEVINDER Nathan Van Hooydonck (Belgien) - UDGÅET Jonas Vingegaard (Danmark) GULE TRØJE og PRIKKEDE BJERGTRØJE Danske deltagere i årets tour: Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) VINDER Jakob Fuglsang (Israel - Premier Tech) UDGÅET Andreas Kron (Lotto Soudal) Christopher Juul-Jensen (BikeExchange-Jayco) Mikkel Bjerg (UAE) Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) ETAPEVINDER Michael Mørkøv (Quick-Step) UDGÅET Mikkel Honoré (Quick-Step) Magnus Cort Nielsen (EF - Education Easypost) ETAPEVINDER UDGÅET Kasper Asgreen (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) UDGÅET |
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Fandens Hul (Landscapes) 2022-06-18 Teglstrup Hegn, Sjælland, Denmark An extraordinary place. An overgrown forest lake or bog with floating vegetation around the water opening. Acid water makes it an interesting habitat for several plants and especially dragonflies. This is the only place in Denmark to find the declining Sedgling, a small damselfly. |
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The sky on fire (Landscapes) 2019-12-24 Nevado de Colima, Jalisco, Mexico An intense fire-like glove filled the sky this afternoon. As a mirror reflecting the real fires that often lid up the sky in the dry season. Forest fires. Mostly sparked with intention by scrupulous farmers wanting to have a bigger piece of the pie than what a balanced nature can handle. |
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Det Kongelige Teater (Landscapes) 2021-11-19 Kgs. Nytorv, Copenhagen, Denmark The original and oldest stage of the Royal Danish Theater, 1872-74. |
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Roger Foxall (People) 2019-11-25 Ciénegas del Lerma, México (Mex), Mexico Doing what we birders like the most... |
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Volcán Popocatépetl (Landscapes) 2019-11-28 Morelos (Mor), Mexico The famous volcano southeast of Mexico City. Still alive with the fresh ashes covering the top. |
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Raptor Rehab station (Landscapes) 2019-11-28 Parque Ecológico Macuiltépetl, Xalapa, Veracruz (Ver), Mexico Always depressing to see proud animals tied up like this, even though they are supposed to be helped here. But sadly some of them, there were about 10-15 raptors, had lost the ability to survive on their own. White Hawk on the left and Laughing Falcon on the right. |
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Bearded Wood-partridge feeding spot (Landscapes) 2019-11-29 Parque Ecológico Macuiltépetl, Xalapa, Veracruz (Ver), Mexico Just a place where the partridge is supposed to show up, behind the raptor rehab station. |
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Camp Rancho El Capulín (Landscapes) 2019-11-29 Volcán Cofre de Perote, Veracruz (Ver), Mexico Just a place where the Strickland's Woodpecker has been seen before... |
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Nils Bouillard on a Big Bat Year (Landscapes) 2019-06-27 Cueva Tampumacchay, Los Ortices, Colima, Mexico Nils Bouillard and local guy from Los Ortices. A difficult cave to find, 10 km south of Colima City, why we asked for help to get there. The caves, because there were two different entrances, apparently connected underground but we didn't go deep enough to explore this. |
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Cave entrance, Altitle (Landscapes) 2019-06-28 Cueva Altitle near La Huerta, Jalisco, Mexico Another modest-looking cave entrance, but inside the system continued for a length of 3 kilometers, and perhaps for the same reason this is one of the richest caves in Jalisco in terms of bat numbers. A study in 2017 estimated that some 80000 animals, of 8 different species, were using the cave. |
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Dynamite holes (Landscapes) 2019-06-28 Cueva Altitle near La Huerta, Jalisco, Mexico The cave is located near an active marble quarry. |
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View from the Altitle cave (Landscapes) 2019-06-28 Cueva Altitle near La Huerta, Jalisco, Mexico After the wet season has started the landscapes slowly transform, but still some way to go before it is all green. |
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Nils Bouillard (People) 2019-06-28 Cueva Altitle near La Huerta, Jalisco, Mexico At the overgrown pond near the cave. Northern Jacana and Bare-throated Tiger-Heron were here. |
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Nils Bouillard (People) 2019-06-28 Cueva Altitle near La Huerta, Jalisco, Mexico Nils at the entrance to the smallest of the caves we visited. |
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The volcano on fire. (Landscapes) 2019-02-22 Volcán Nevado de Colima, Jalisco (Jal), Mexico Heart-breaking to experience when vast areas of pristine nature goes up in smoke. And even more so, when you know that if often, as in this case, should never have happened. Read more here. |
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Preparing for more avocados (Landscapes) 2019-05-22 Volcán Nevado de Colima, Jalisco (Jal), Mexico Land that has earlier been brutally cleared from all natural vegetation and now awaiting to be used for more avocado production. And when it gets that far, be sure to know that your fruit has not been treated organically at all. Some 6-7 times of spraying before the fruit is ripe. |
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Forest fires in Jalisco (Landscapes) 2019-05-10 Cd. Guzmán, Jalisco, Mexico The landscape is very dry now, and spontaneous or intended fires are emerging in many places, as here on the volcano Nevado de Colima and adjacent hills. Most are away from human activities, and are probably left to die out by natural causes. The smoke effect, however, is substantial and schools and the university in Cd. Guzm |
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The Moon (Landscapes) 2019-03-20 Cd. Guzmán, Jalisco, Mexico The Super Worm Moon. Equinox and perigee at the same time. Equinox means that day and night are the same length. Spring has arrived! Perigee means the shortest distance between the earth and the moon in the year cycle. Worm refers to the soil activity of these creatures as the thaw sets in. |
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Inconvenient leftover (Landscapes) 2018-07-25 Salinas de Cuyutlán - V. Carranza, Colima, Mexico Everything in life can be looked at from two sides, and it is not the plastic in it self that is the problem here. It's when the human being is not able to think and consider his thoughts beyond his own interest that the problems occur. |
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The Goddess Tzapotlatena (People) 2018-07-08 Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, Mexico The Goddess Tzapotlatena. As a symbol of the immensely big role the corn plant has always played to the indigenous and present people of this region, she represents the power that make the plant grow and by providing food to the people, to make societies grow and prosper. She is also the Goddess of curation and birth. According to the legends she invented a solution based on resin from pine trees, which was used to treated various diseases. Obviously she caught my eyes first of all because of her beautifully protruding breasts. And practically being the first human construction you see when you arrive in Ciudad Guzmán |
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Plateau north of Tequila (Landscapes) 2017-10-07 Plateau north of Tequila, Jalisco (Jal), Mexico A few photos of the asphalt and not-asphalt road north of El Salvador. The last two show the famously missing bridge. 3 shows the entrance to El Salvador. 4-6 shows the river of return, and number 6 is of course showing expressed divine blessing of my dear Blue Escape...(5 Chickens 2017-10-13). The video showing my last destination on this day of exploring the vicinity of Guadalajara. target="_blank" href="http://maps.google.com/?q=21.175127+-103.770418" >Map |
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Agave landscape (Landscapes) 2017-10-07 Amatitán, Jalisco, Mexico The landscape north of Amatitlán. The extinct volcano in the background is the Tequila volcano named after the small village, Tequila, lying at its foot. And which has given name to the famous drink, exactly being produced in this part of the world. The Tequila heartland. |
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The dam at Amatitán (Landscapes) 2017-10-07 Grande Río Santiago at Presa Santa Rosa, Jalisco, Mexico One of the many dams along the river. |
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Chacala landscape, El Tuito (Landscapes) 2017-09-17 Close to Chacala, Cabo Corrientes, Mexico The whole area west of the El Tuito highway from Puerto Vallarta southward is one big locality consisting of green hills - thorn forest, low jungle vegetation. Much is still intact due to the difficult terrain, but there are also many open parties where micro farming, especially cattle, has taken over. However, birding wise there is undoubtedly much to discover still in this precious region. |
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Chimo (Landscapes) 2017-09-17 Chimo, Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco, Mexico Very far out along the coast of Bah |
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Cabo Corrientes Lighthouse (Landscapes) 2017-09-12 The Lighthouse, Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco, Mexico A visit, or a small expedition, to the lighthouse at the corner between the ocean and the bay. It has been out of service for several years, and there is nothing left of value. A local fisherman, Corrales, told me that THEY had been here long ago stealing what was worth stealing. Apparently also the camera because I didn't see any..! But it's a fascinating place, and you can read more about the visit under my 5 Chickens from 2017-09-13. From the last photos I hope it is perceivable that it was very HOT. |
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Volcán de Tequila (Landscapes) 2015-09-10 Volcán de Tequila, Jalisco (Jal), Mexico View from the very old crater edge. |
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Presa la Vega (Landscapes) 2013-12-15 Presa la Vega, west of Guadalajara, Mexico This pictures shows the east shore along which we were driving the first times we visited the place. With so much water still in December, it's likely that there is only access few months of the year. |
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Lori Conrad (People) 2013-11-29 Calakmul, Cam, Mexico Lori Conrad seeking her inner truth in alignment with the Gods of the Snake Kingdom on top of Calakmuls highest peak. Yucat |
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Mark Conrad (People) 2013-11-26 Cozumel harbor, Roo, Mexico Mark Conrad a happy tour member from California. Yucat |
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Cozumel harbor (Landscapes) 2013-11-26 Cozumel harbor, Quintana Roo (roo), Mexico A waiting-in-harbor photo with Lori walking in the shadow. Yucat |
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Cozumel harbor (People) 2013-11-26 Cozumel harbor, Roo, Mexico Mark dreaming about a trip on the fantastic Micky Mouse cruise ship...Yucat |
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Calakmul ruins (Landscapes) 2013-11-29 Calakmul, Cam, Mexico Mark climbing pyramid 2. 45 meters tall. Absolutely the most interesting ruin complex in all of Mexico with the undisturbed jungle forest as long as the eye can reach. Yucat |
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Mark and Lori at the bat cave (People) 2013-11-28 Bat cave, Calakmul, Cam, Mexico Mark and Lori waiting for the bats to come out. The entrance to the cave was at the bottom of a 50 meters deep dry cenote. When they came out, they started flying around inside the cenote, but later when they should be counted in their thousands, they started to move out and up and flew around silently between the trees and us.It is estimated that more than 2 million bats live in the cave, perhaps up till 6-7 millions. 9 different species have been identified until now. The cave stretches at least some 700 meters under ground, and contains permanent water basins where fish and other animals live. Fascinating. Yucat |
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Sierra Quila (Landscapes) 2013-07-11 Sierra Quila, Jal, Mexico The southern slope in area with several water falls. Ascend from Tecolotl |
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The Lyre tree (Landscapes) 2013-07-11 Sierra Quila, Jal, Mexico A remarkable tree with the right epithet. Unfortunately it burned down a few years later in a forest fire, why these photo now represent history gone by. |
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Cowboy (People) 2013-06-02 Presa La Vega west of Gdl, Jal, Mexico Capturing horses on the east bank. Real Mexican cowboy at work. |
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Cerro del muerto (Landscapes) 2012-11-13 Cerro del muerto, Ags, Mexico Classical landmark for Aguascalientes. Mountain of the dead. The silhouette should be obvious. |
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Melanie (People) 2012-05-29 Pabellón de Arteaga, Ags, Mexico Melanie, American, works with the US Peace Corp in cooperation with CONAFOR on a project with the purpose to increase the interest and awareness about the nature among the local people of Pabell |
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Parque Ecológio La Campana (Landscapes) 2012-05-22 Parque Ecológico La Campana, Colima, Col, Mexico 1 - A characterless scrubland but home to many birds, especially during the winter months. 2 - Water tank. 3 - Someone is using the area to feed his cows and horses. A practice that will continue after the park becomes official? 4 - The water flows well from the tank. 5 - It doesn't look much but this green patch and the surroundings below the water tank has proven very good for buntings and sparrows. 6 - Below the water tank. 7 - Dry seed pod from the Guamuchil tree which is very common in the area and very popular among the birds. 8 - The nature type is dry thorn forest! 9 - A young Parota, Elephant-ear, Here with two broken branches which is a problem. The local people are collecting firewood in the area with the result that many smaller tree have already been cut down. It is therefore important to adquire the area soon before more damage is done. 10 - La Campana is the name of the ruins lying at the edge of the area, and as you can percibe there are ruins inside the area that have still not been excavated. What will be the future of these ruins when the area will become a natural park? 11 - Beautiful tree! 12 - Here in May before the rain sets in the vegetation is very dry 13 - Cattle fence as you see them in Mexico. Here with a very narrow opening making it a problem for large people to join the party. 14 - A flame colored jewel among dry spring ruins. Name? |
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Estero Palo Verde (Landscapes) 2012-05-19 Estero Palo Verde - Tortugario, Cuyutlán, Colima (col), Mexico The fishermen often work like this wading through the shallow water of the lagoon, even though there are crocodiles. The American Crocodile can reach a length of about 5-6 meters, and even though individuals that big are rare they do exist, I expect? I have to ask what goes on in their heads. Hopefully before a croc finds out the fleshy way... |
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Dummy title due to error (People) 2012-05-19 Estero Palo Verde - Tortugario, Cuyutlán, Col, Mexico The many Mexican visitors apparently arrive from all over Mexico. That's a standard question from Von to all the them, and the answers indicate that at least among the mexicans the place is well-known. |
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Dummy title due to error (People) 2012-05-19 Estero Palo Verde - Tortugario, Cuyutlán, Col, Mexico Visitors arrive all through the year, though most of them visit during the cooler winter period. Until now I have only seen Mexican visitors. Actually a bit rare since Manzanillo still attracts foreign tourists. But perhaps mostly sports fishers and other watersport enthusiast. |
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Through the mangrove (Landscapes) 2012-05-19 Estero Palo Verde - Tortugario, Cuyutlán, Colima (col), Mexico Mangrove scenario. The boardwalk through the mangrove leading to the observation spot. At this place the white mangrove is more common than the red which has the classic mangrove roots. The white looks more like normal trees with one solid trunk, and that is because it normally lives at a higher elevation than the other types of mangrove, and therefore do not need to protect itself from salt water and tidal flooding. |
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Termites nest (Landscapes) 2012-05-19 Estero Palo Verde - Tortugario, Cuyutlán, Colima (col), Mexico Termite nest. Common in general, but especially here in the mangrove. At other places some of the nest are taken over by parakeets, but normally they just are. |