Archive for heron
Warwick campus
Posted in pictures, Travel, University life with tags England, heron, mathematics, Statistics, summer, University of Warwick on September 3, 2014 by xi'an
London herons (just for one day)
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags England, heron, London, morning run, parks, Regent Park on June 25, 2013 by xi'an
camera miracles: once, not thrice!
Posted in Books, Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags Amazon, camera, Canon, heron, Nikon, Parc de Sceaux, Roma on June 3, 2013 by xi'anAs if a thumb was not enough, I lost the “new” Canon Ixus 115 H5 I bought in replacement of the (mediocre) Nikon Coolpix I lost on Ben Nevis (the title refer to the miracle mentioned in a post in February 2013, when I almost lost my (Nikon Coolpix L26) camera to the cloaca maxima, in Roma). This happened in the park on Sunday morning when I took it in my raincoat pocket to capture the serene heron standing guard at the end of the grand canal… The camera somehow fell from my pocket without me realising it (of course), presumably falling on soft ground and I only discovered it had happened five or six minutes later, when I stood next to the heron. I retraced my steps back but, even at 7:30 a Sunday morning, there was enough traffic for a runner to find it before me. (Maybe he had no gift ready for mother day!) It was not such a great camera and on its trip to Chamonix last X’mas with my daughter it had decided to host a small fungus that lived right on the lens, making zooming close to impossible. (The same thing had happened with the Nikon Coolpix the year before after falling in the snow during my X’mas ski trip.) Just a wee (bit ?) annoying… (Latest picture from the Canon Ixus to come on Sunday!)
space invaders
Posted in pictures, Running with tags heron, parakeet, Parc de Sceaux on September 13, 2011 by xi'an
This morning, when running in the park, I saw a gang of parakeets attacking a grey heron in flight… It is only the arrival of a second heron that made the parakeets go away. (If you wonder in which part of the World I run these days, it is near Paris. But four or five parakeets have been released in the local park two years ago and they now grow and multiply despite the harsh winters. They are very raucous and aggressive with other birds, witness this attack on the heron. I hope a harsher and longer winter could wipe them out, but the counter-example of Heidelberg where dozens of those birds are found on the campus gives me little hope…)
A good run
Posted in pictures, Running with tags 3k, carp, heron, Parc de Sceaux on July 24, 2010 by xi'an
This morning, I had a good training session in the park, after a two day break: after a relaxed first 3k loop around the “Grand Bassin” in 12’18”, I managed the second loop in 11’12”, a time I had not done in a long while, with the extra reward of glimpsing a huge carp jumping out of the water just by my feet, and a couple of grey herons lazily flying around…
