By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Home.
On our kayak trips, we paddle past homes worth millions
as well as some that are modest, but offer incomparable views and fresh sea breezes—
Another Home post is here.
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Wind Against Current by Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Authors
Vladimir Brezina (RIP)
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.Johna Till Johnson
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.Recent Comments
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That last one with the bridge, moon and nests is very nice. But it looks like some cold (and exposed) homes for them birds. (I’ll take the million dollar one, please. ;) )
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Given that they dive for fish into frigid water all year round, I think their understanding of cold and exposure is a bit different from yours and mine ;-)
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Wow…I think I would be kind of freaked out kayaking by all those birds. Cool photos though. : )
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Many kayakers kayak precisely in order to see birds like this :-)
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Wow, that’s a lot of bird nests! That home in the first picture is a little small for me. ;-)
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There were considerably bigger ones as well…
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Communal bird living – the kayak’s eye view is amazing!
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Yes, it’s hard to see them otherwise :-)
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Good one V & J, really a good one. Great low-angle first shot up to the million-dollar+ hacienda.
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Actually, a million dollars isn’t what it used to be. It probably wouldn’t buy you a sandwich in that neighborhood. Tens of millions of dollars for that house, probably…
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I like your pics!
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Good!
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Love the birds. Just love them.:-)
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Great! :-)
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awesome bird nest. that’s is home.
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For the birds, anyway ;-)
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What a cool contrast of homes. Hope you are staying warm and the snow isn’t too severe. Thanks for the like on my “home” post today.
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Thanks, Ruth! Snowstorm is over, wasn’t so bad here in NYC…
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Love this post
Cormorants are beautiful birds – fishing birds.
Thanks for sharing
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Yes, cormorants are quite special, and a bit strange. I’ll probably do a post on them some day soon…
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The cormorants! I didn’t know they nested communally.
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It seems they do—could of course be that there are not so many suitable structures.
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Excellent captured for the theme – it looks like a kind of birds collective… ;-)
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Looked like it, sounded like it, and smelled like it :-)
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Just goes to show that home doesn’t always have to be conventional. Love your entry :)
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“Conventional”—are you referring to the first photo or the others? ;-)
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Sorry must have been confusing, was referring to the last three photos :D It seems like the birds made a nest in a very unusual location.
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Not unusual for them, actually, I think… they like those kinds of places, in the middle of the waterway where they won’t be disturbed by anybody (except possibly by kayakers)…
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Interesting and wonderful creatures. :)
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These are fantastic!
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Thank you!
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These are beautiful and well captured for the challenge :)
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Thanks, Evil Nymph! :-)
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Precarious perching, put priceless!
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Oh, I think they are sure-footed enough…
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wawww.. Semua fotonya mantab, setiap foto punya daya tarik sendiri-sendiri.
Sorry if I use my language, I love all of the picture.. :)
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Google Translate works well enough :-) Thank you!!
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:)
you’re welcome
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I love these photos for the theme! Great choices.
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Thank you so much!
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Lovely cormorants and I know you are both at home on the water, lovely MJ
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Thanks, MJ!
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Beautiful!!!! Ans so many cormorans!!!!! (I also love the house!!!!! :) :) )
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We love your enthusiasm!!! :-)
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Though the big question is, who is happier? The people in the big fancy home or the people paddling past in their kayaks?
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Oh, I think we know the answer to that… ;-)
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amazing….. :)
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Thank you! :-)
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That birds are fascinating!! Wonderful pics!!
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Thanks!!
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Oh, to be a bird!
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Some of the other commenters would rather be in the house, though, and I kind of see their point… ;-)
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Love the cormorants! I’ve never seen a nest before.
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They build them in out-of-the-way places so people don’t see them :-)
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absolutely marvellous!!!
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Thank you!!
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I love your photos!
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Thanks!!
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Great pictures! I also didn’t know that cormorants nested communally like this. I’d much rather live in a tree with the birds than with the pompous folks who live in the first house. :D
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Careful! ;-) You may be making an incorrect assumption there… the first house might well be occupied by a bunch of gay guys who are friends with everyone and have fabulous parties every weekend! It was Fire Island, after all (although, it must be admitted, the wrong part of Fire Island)…
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wow s—o– cool. I like both homes a mansion and a tree house in my yard
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That’s the spirit! :-)
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Cormorants are hardy birds and have an layer of fat to protect them when they dive in cold water. They are territorially aggressive and have significantly expanded their range in the past 20 years, driving out less aggressive fishers like American eagles and ospreys from New England shores. It’s all perfectly normal, not man-made and the eagles and ospreys have found other places to nest and fish … but if there’s one bird you don’t need to worry about, the cormorant is probably it. Great pictures!
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Yes, cormorants are very common around here… Thanks!
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