Sunrise East of Mather Point
Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
As I post this #photo the sun is just about to peek over the mountain east of Albuquerque. I felt like I needed to commemorate #sunrise this morning, for some reason.
Amboseli National Park is a national park in Kenya that spreads across the Kenya-Tanzania border. It has great views of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest free-standing mountain in the world.
Almost 85 percent of the ice cover on Kilimanjaro disappeared between October 1912 and June 2011. At the current rate, most of the ice on Kilimanjaro will disappear by 2040. 😢
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro” is a short story by Ernest Hemingway.
The European roller is a long-distance migrant, wintering in Africa south of the Sahara in two distinct regions, from Senegal east to Cameroon and from Ethiopia west. It is a bird of warm, dry, open country with scattered trees, preferring lowlands.
The Masai giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchii), also spelled Maasai giraffe, also called Kilimanjaro giraffe, is the largest subspecies of giraffe. It is native to East Africa. The Masai giraffe can be found in central and southern Kenya and in Tanzania. It has distinctive, irregular, jagged, star-like blotches that extend to the hooves. A median forehead lump is usually present in bulls.
The African fish eagle is a large species of eagle found throughout sub-Saharan Africa wherever large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply occur, like lake Nakuru.
The adult is very distinctive in appearance with a mostly brown body with a white head like the bald eagle and large, powerful, black wings. The head, breast, and tail of African fish eagles are snow white, with the exception of the featherless face, which is yellow.
Once a forest... just some 200 millions years ago...
Chunks of petrified wood lay strewn among the bentonite mud hills of the Painted Desert, in the Blue Mesa area of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona; September 2018.
Der Bohrturm steht – nach wochenlangen Verzögerungen und monatelangem Hin und Her startet in #Molln (Bezirk Kirchdorf) am Rande des #Nationalpark's #Kalkalpen die Suche nach #Erdgas. Der reguläre Bohrbetrieb soll am Samstag gegen 6 Uhr starten.
May the artwork take you to a tranquil place and a quiet time, so still that you can hear the trickle of water cascading down the rocks at the Emerald Pools.
More Grant’s zebras are in the wild than any other species or subspecies of zebras. Unlike Grevy and mountain zebras, they are not endangered.
Grant’s zebras eat the coarse grasses that grow on the African plains, and they are resistant to diseases that often kill cattle, so the zebras do well in the African savannas.
However, recent civil wars and political conflicts in the African countries near their habitats has caused regional extinction, and sometimes zebras are killed for their coats, or to eliminate competition with domestic livestock.
As we drove slowly through the large empty spaces of the Maasai Mara National Reserve, I was fortunate enough to perceive a spot of slightly different color in a small group of bushes.
It was difficult to really see what it was, luckily a little bit of photography gear material can help!
This was a fun adventurous day. I kayaked across Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park & then hiked high up into the Tetons looking for Ochotona princeps (pika). Sadly, I didn't find pika, but then I didn't get to the highest point that day either. I should have found pika according to an old book, but climate change is causing cold loving pika to move up their mountain slopes & mountains are only so tall.
Elephant mothers carry their babies for nearly two years before giving birth. Then they ensure their babies get the best food, teach their children the most useful skills and show their children how to lead the herd during hard times.
Elephants learn how to pick the best plants for eating, how to defend against predators and how to navigate steep embankments — all from their mothers.
My late friend Dan leads the way as we hike out from Fort Bottom on our 3rd day of driving the White Rim Trail in Canyonlands.
The magnificent red sandstone formation is Bighorn Mesa. Below its sloping sides you can see the road on the thick ledge of white sandstone that gives the WRT its name. Below, and to the right, out of frame is the Green River.