#masuria poland

[mybeautifulpoland]

Zyndaki, Poland by Tomasz Miecznik

[life-in-scribbles]

23/08/23 wednesday

Journaling outside.

[diemelusine]

Königsberg Cathedral

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:A.Savin

[sokoe]

ephemerality, 9.07.2023

[foxesandfairlies]

Another stunning day finding our way across lakes and down shallow, crystal clear rivers winding through woodlands.

The river bottom was often made of countless shells, and hundreds of fish darted in and out of the waterweeds.

[zyrokrz]

Mikolajki, Juli 2023

[anglik-w-warszawie]

Krutynia, Mazury.

[minnebilder]

Poland in winter

[lutnistas]

evening on the Kisajno Lake ( Poland )

sailing on Masurian lakes - day 06

[mapsontheweb]

Historical regions of Poland.

Historical regions are usually a tricky thing to establish since they often depend not only on geography, but also on old political borders. That's why sometimes they overlap each other.

Pomorze Zachodnie - West Pomerania

Pomorze Wschodnie - East Pomerania/Pomerelia (Other name - Gdańsk Pomerania)

Prusy Królewskie - Royal Prussia, consisting of Warmia (Ermland), Ziemia Chełmińska (Chełmno land), East Pomerania and Ziemia Malborska (Malbork land)

Prusy - Prussia, consisting of Royal Prussia, Mazury (Masuria), Prusy Górne (Upper Prussia), Prusy Dolne (Lower Prussia), and outside Polish borders Sambia and Litwa Mniejsza (Lesser Lithuania)

Mazowsze - Mazovia

Ruś Czarna - Black Ruthenia, mostly in Belarus

Ruś Czerwona - Red Ruthenia. It includes Wołyń (Volhynia), mostly in Ukraine.

Małopolska - Lesser Poland

Śląsk - Silesia, major subdivisions are Dolny Śląsk (Lower Silesia) and Górny Śląsk (Upper Silesia)

Łużyce Górne - Upper Lusatia, mostly in Germany

Łużyce Dolne - Lower Lusatia, mostly in Germany

Ziemia Lubuska & Nowa Marchia - Lubusz Land and New March/Neumark - By far the weirdest regions, both can be summarized as anything Brandenburgians conquered or purchased from Polish duchies in 13th and 14th century

Wielkopolska - Greater Poland

Kujawy - Kuyavia

[whatsthebird]

What's the Bird?

Location: Warmia-Masuria, Poland

Date: August

We ask that discussion under questions be limited to how you came to your conclusion, not what your conclusion was.

Happy Birding!

Keep the game alive! Submit a bird HERE

Bird - 80 graciously submitted by @ridiculoussquid

[mybeautifulpoland]

Stare Sady, Masuria, Poland by afff.pl

[life-in-scribbles]

30/10/23 monday

"Autumn.  Time to dim the sunlight, cue the moody fog, & watch nature’s most charming story unfold." - Angie Weiland-Crosby.

[shikitski]

poland, masuria (pics by me)

[beardedmrbean]

Rescue workers tackled extreme weather on Monday in Slovenia, Austria and Croatia, with record floods, hundreds of landslides and at least seven deaths.

The storms have forced the evacuation of villages and caused major damage, with emergency crews braced to respond to landslides and potential dam bursts.

Flooding and lightning prove fatal

Most of the deaths recorded so far have been in Slovenia, where the extreme weather was reported to have killed at least six people by Monday.

They included two Dutch men believed to have been struck by lightning and four Slovenians thought to have been caught up in the flooding.

The natural disaster is the worst that Slovenia has seen since it gained independence in 1991. Prime Minister Robert Golob said the estimated damage ran at some €500 million ($548.3 million), and urged the European Union and NATO to provide help.

Experts say the conditions are partly fueled by climate change, which is linked to an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events.

Across the border in Austria, one woman was reported to have died after falling into the flooded Glan River in the southern village of Zollfeld.

The Austrian province of Carinthia had reported 80 major landslides by Sunday afternoon, while the neighboring province of Styria recorded 280 landslides by Sunday morning.

In Croatia, roads, fields, and settlements were flooded, with a state of emergency declared in various parts of the country.

Sandbags were used as makeshift dams to prevent major damage to residential buildings.

The situation was expected to ease in all three countries with authorities saying water levels were expected to drop on Monday. 

Rainstorms wreak havoc further north

There was also stormy weather further north around the Baltic Sea region, resulting in airport delays, suspended ferries, and minor power outages.

Ferries between Poland and Sweden, from the German islands of Hiddensee and Rügen to mainland Germany, and from Norway to Denmark remained in harbor.

Police in the northeastern part of Denmark said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that "the weather is still harsh."

Fire officials in the capital, Copenhagen, urged people to stay away from parks and forests, saying "the combination of rain-soaked ground and storms increases the risk of trees falling."

Norwegian authorities raised the extreme weather warning alert to its highest on Monday because of heavy rain, mudslides and flash floods.

In Latvia, wind gusts of up to 108 kilometers per hour (67 miles per hour) were reported to have knocked over trees.

Meteorologists also reported hail the size of golf balls in the village of Apgulde, southwest of the capital, Riga.

Polish authorities said thousands of homes in the country were affected by power cuts on Monday after storms and heavy rain over the weekend.

Some 7,500 homes had no electricity on Monday in the northeastern region of Podlaskie. In nearby Warmia-Masuria, that figure stood at some 5,000.

[foxesandfairlies]

We spent the night camping at Krutyń where a late evening thunderstorm rolled in, heralding the end of the heatwave. Next morning definitely felt more autumnal. The river was narrow and shallow to begin with, and lots of dead tree trunks and the occasional swan to dodge made for an interesting mornings paddling.

After lunch the landscape changed to a more lowland nature, the river flowing slower and deeper, with many tight meanders in and around extensive reedbeds and marshlands.