Picture-A-Week 2022 - Week 12

[pierces]

Pictures taken between Monday, March 21 and Sunday, March 27.

 

C'mon, folks...equinox photos! (The seasonal thing...not the ship.)

 

 

Rules: See above

That's it. This isn't a contest.

All photos taken this week are welcome (not just cruising).

Prizes will not be awarded. Discovering the joy of photography is the prize.

The idea is to get folks out using their cameras for more than vacations and toddler birthdays.

Post one. Post many. Up to you.

Have fun with your camera and share your fun with others!

[ski ww]

Yesterday was my last day skiing. Beautiful clear day, sunny, today and the rest of the week is calling for rain/snow mix and Sun the hill closes.

 

[Docker123]

 

under cover of Sunday lunch, we were buzzed by this New Zealand Harvard spy plane (T6 Texan to the USA people). But we were able to deploy maritime forces to chase them off.

 

Added to this, we unleashed a tiger snake as everything here can kill you, and there are no land snakes in New Zealand.

 

 

 

[pierces]

While walking through the Riviera Village retail row in Redondo Beach, I spotted an optimistic (and misspelled) declaration adorning the barricade that protects the outside dining that took over the parking areas during the height of the pandemic panic. The LA area was one of the last to lift its indoor dining ban that ruined hundreds of small restaurants without the option to implement outside dining and though the need has gone, the restaurants that could aren’t in any hurry to give up the free extra seating areas and the city hasn't pushed to end the practice. That’s the bright side. Half the people we see are still wearing the mostly useless masks and empty storefronts are everywhere you look. Is everything gonna be allright? Maybe someday. 

 

Maybe Someday...

 

 

 

 

Dave

[zackiedawg]

The wetlands lately have been a land of nesting and breeding, winter visitors and new babies - very active (and very noisy with all the baby birds screaming).  Saturday, 3/26 at the wetlands was another of those types of days!:

 

Red-winged blackbird chicks in their nest, freshly hatched within the week, waiting for mom to bring some food:

 

Some may remember I've posted this funny looking fella a few times before.  The strange, elusive, and hard to spot Chuck-Will's-Widow, who turned up again after having not seen it the last few weeks:

 

The tiny but pretty little orchard orbweaver spider:

 

The Chuck-Will's-Widow opened its eyes for a change, to have a stretch and a look around - they sleep all day, waiting for nighttime to go  hunting for bugs, so it's rare to get to see them with eyes open and head out and up:

 

A glossy ibis, with the sun hitting the brown feathers and lighting up the iridescent colors hidden within:

 

The male least bittern, hovering over the water where it can spring out its neck and catch fish - like the one he caught here:

 

The very elusive sora, small member of the rail family, walking through a small open patch in the sun:

 

The least bittern isn't the only small heron family member with a hidden, spring-loaded neck that likes to perch on branches over the water to sneak up on fish...the green heron has the same design and behavior - and also scores a fish:

 

The big great blue heron soaring by overhead in clear skies:

 

The lovely male blue-winged teal, sitting quietly in the water with his reflection below:

 

An osprey flying quite close overhead, as he checks out the waters below, waiting for a fish to go dive-bombing down for: