Digital Postcard Series: Baltimore Oriole @ Toronto Zoo

Digital Postcard #0009



Facts About Baltimore Oriole [Icterus galbula]
Apparently, the Major League Baltimore Orioles adopted their name and team colors from Baltimore Oriole species. And about the bird, the Baltimore Orioles build their nests on branches that are far away from trunk of the tree. Even though it is more visible to air predators, it is harder for the predators like squirrels to get into their nests.

Camera Settings
Canon EOS 20D, 400mm, f/6.3 at 1/320s, ISO 400

Geographical Location
Toronto Zoo, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada.

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Electricity In The Lines - The Industrial Sketch

Few years ago around the same time we were hovering around industrial area. It was cold as it is cold today. Even though it was cold, and my fingers were about to get frost bite, I took few snaps of the power lines. I liked the arrangement, even though I am not a big fan of the industrial areas. When you look at the structure closer to you, you can see the three dimensional structure. As it goes farther and farther, the three dimensional structure is starting to fade. It starting to look like a sketch.

I tell you these days it is harder and harder to take nice landscape photos around where I live. Every angle I turn - man made structures, not even the exotic ones. Power lines are everywhere. And now with the hype of the renewable energy, there will be more wind turbines, and possibly more solar panels. It will be harder and harder to grasp and breath the real nature. Will the birds like it? Will the other habitats like it? Probably - the theory of adaptation, a process where living things become better suited to its habitat. However, there will be survival, some will and some will not. I guess with climate change panic, we have to do more what's right. The real question is what is right for our planet?

'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.' ~ by Charles Darwin.

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