Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, Luis Thanks for looking Cheers Jayanand On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote: > Wonderful pics Jayanand, > > Feeding and Courtship are really amazing > > Cheers > Lluis > > El 31/01/2014, a las 13:12, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > escribi?: > >> The second stop in the Falklands was to visit a Rockhopper Penguin >> breeding colony in an area of Tussock Grass. These are small, >> aggressive and loud penguins with spectacular eyebrows, who nest at >> the top of cliffs and make the journey down and up again daily to >> feed, and get their name from their propensity to hop or jump over >> rocks on the way. They belong to a part of the group known as Crested >> Penguins. The conventional scientific wisdom on why many species of >> penguins tend to colonize the highest points of cliffs, despite the >> obvious expenditure of large amounts of energy on feeding, is that >> these are the spots where the ice melts the earliest, so giving an >> earlier start to the breeding season, effective lengthening it, so >> more time can be spent on the chicks before they fledge. >> >> View from the colony: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Panoramas/antarcticpanos_001/Antarctica_20140109_1489.jpg.html >> >> Trudging Up the Cliff: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140109_1795.jpg.html >> >> Courtship: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140109_1682.jpg.html >> >> Ecstatic Display: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140109_1685.jpg.html >> >> Cacophony: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140109_1640.jpg.html >> >> Feeding: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140109_1558.jpg.html >> >> Please see LARGE >> >> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome >> >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information