erial view on the beautiful Seiser Alm during sunset. What a magnificent place this is!
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Sunrise in the Peak District National Park, looking from Higger Tor.
My first image for 2019.
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The neighborhood owls have been more active over the past several weeks, hooting in the pre-dawn hours, and roosting during the day in cottonwood trees near the nest where they will presumably soon lay their eggs. The night-time hooting in the winter is often done to defend nesting territories. The female, shown here, will be committed to keeping the eggs warm during the 30-40 day period, although the male (who was just a couple of trees away) may also share with incubating the eggs.
Great Horned Owls occur throughout much of North America in a wide variety of habitats. Their numbers are high, although the Cornell Lab of Ornithology points out that a substantial decline (~33%) has occurred since the 1960's, paralleling declines in many other bird species over the same period. For a frightening view of the dramatic decline in insect species in the past half-century see the recent story in the New York Times magazine.
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Red sky in the morning, Sailor take warning... Beautiful sunrise Tuesday morning which we are paying for now in the form of rain mixing with snow. Provo Peak (3,374 m AMSL), Squaw Peak and Y Mountain in the foreground. Wasatch Range, Utah County, Utah.
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