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Chuckle... Just common sense!
Yeah, that was one of the top contenders, but I could not find a photo with plumage as dark as your photo.
It does look fun, in a lazy sort of way. Actually, that’s my idea of fishing in general.
Nice point about it being a kinder, gentler way to kill fish. They end up suffocating, but that was going to happen anyway. No sense impaling them first.
I’m sure you meant to say great great egret photo.
4 years agoWould be fun to try!
Looks less fair for the fish .. but also more humane.
I used handlebar mounted mirrors for decades, but busted so many of them that about 15 years ago I switched to helmet mounted... You might say I never looked back? But they have drawbacks as well, usually being knocked out of adjustment. Broke the mounts and repaired them a number of times as well.
Conclusion I reached is if you can see behind you well, you will likely break your mirror occasionally, regardless of what kind it is. But riding on streets/highways, they are necessary.
You and these ‘common’ species. Common wall lizard; common sandpiper; common yellow butterfly; common yellow flower. I think that’s just your go to answer when you aren’t sure. I’ll bet it’s really a marsh sandpiper, which is much more interesting. It is a marshy habitat here, after all.
4 years agoOuch! Sorry about your knee.
I'm sure the decision to stay over an extra day in Comacchio will help it recover.
It's amazing what our brains & bodies accomplish every day .. calculating safe load-bearing angles and balance and etc. .. all while we're humming insurance company jingles.
And then all it takes for an injury is one design change that doesn't fit the brain's assumptions. (Bathrooms aren't supposed to be two steps down!)
Great egret photo! 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_egret
Yes, I did discover that later. I wish at the time I had also known this was Marco Pantani’s home town. There’s a memorial to him and a museum that I’d liked to stop in at if we’d known in advance.
4 years agoBeautiful! Amazing how a little bending waterway can transform a cityscape.
This scene would be much more boring if the homes just had a strip of grass in between.
Great shot! These sandpiper type birds always give me problems, but after lots and lots of image comparisons, I think it might be a common sandpiper.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/3978-Actitis-hypoleucos
That looks like it, alright. It sounds like such a clunky name though. I see they’re starting to call them SUPs.
4 years agoYeah. You knew. Here I was acting all smug. Should have know better, eh Scott:)
4 years agoThe Giro is still on. There are still many stages left. If you were a day earlier in Italy, you would have caught a stage.
4 years ago
My great great grandma might...
4 years agoDid you notice the lonely grey heron in the upper right corner?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_heron