101 1/6 Scale Adventures
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AN ENDEARING and unmistakable seabird. At many colonies like the Farne Islands, captured above, observers can get a close and excellent view of Puffins. The Puffin is also a true sea bird, and only comes ashore during the breeding season. A tribute to all those I missed on Skomer !!
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THANK YOU for your continued support and comments, and I very much enjoy doing the same on your Flickr site.
Keep safe and well in the knowledge that Jesus is with you,
and wants you into his life if you have not already made that move. God Bless.....................Tomx
CLOSE ENCOUNTER, am not sure who was most surprised, me or the Grey Partridge, this was my only glimpse before it was gone in tall grasses. Seen at Elmley Marshes a working farm where they put Nature first, on the Isle of Sheppey Kent.
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Enjoy the long weekend, Stay safe, God bless you
....................................Tomx
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Ask Jesus into your life today, something you will never regret.
STALKS creeps and runs on the floating surface vegetation of lakes and pools. Frequently squabbles, rising wings in a threat posture to a potential aggressor. Flight is low and for short distances on rounded wings with legs hanging or held straight out behind. Very vocal at all times. We saw far fewer of these this visit, and this image sorry to say does not show its very large feet.
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THANK YOU for your visit and friendship, keep warm safe, and well, God bless.........................Tomx
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BRITAIN IS THE MOST NATURE-DEPLETED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
Quote Sir David Attenborough
"Am ashamed of our record Tom.
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OBSERVED these in November last, and was so thrilled as they are in a very steep decline, a small partie of them, feeding in an open grassed field. They are so very wary because it is heavily persecuted in many parts of the region, and they prefer to run from danger rather than fly. .
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Keep a smile on your face and love in your heart for everyone!
"Jesus loves you, yes you !"...................................Tomx.
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LOVE NEVER FAILS
Even in the darkest moments, love gives hope.
Love compels us to fight against Coronavirus
Love compels us to stand together in Prayer
Love compels us to give and act as one
As we pray in our individual homes around the world, we are united as one family. In this moment of hope and peace, thank God for all he has done and is doing..............Amen.
SMELL AND SOUND, of a large PUFFIN colony combine so that a visit to one is an unforgettable birding experience!!! An endearing and unmistakable seabird, am leaving Skomer now, hope you enjoyed them as much as me, have dragged them out a bit, as so little about in Kent at the moment.
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THANK YOU for your support and kind comments, it is very appreciated. Keep a smile on your face, and love in your heart, God bless .....................Tomx.
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YOU HAVE TO ADMIT, GODs BEAUTY IS SIMPLY AMAZING !
AS A CHILD, can remember walking in the local arable farmland with Mum, and seeing many hundreds of these distinctive waders, mainly on the corn stubble, and their can be few sights and sounds more evocative of the country than performing lapwings. And now farmers plough over the stubble and reseed soon after cutting, To see any reasonable number of them, I have a hour drive to Elmley Marshes, a working farm, where nature is put first.
Please note that Elmley is currently closed, because of Covet19
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Please stay safe, God bless..................................Tomx
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WITH MUCH OF THE WORLD SHUT DOWN, and people told to stay in their homes, this is a good time for us to think- to consider where we are spiritually, to consider what God wants and expects us to do, to make choices we may have put off far too long.
DISTINCTIVE wader with a spiky crest, a bird of open habbitats. And during the breeding season it is found on undistured grazed grassland, moors . Seen a Elmley Marshes, Sheppey Kent.
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THANK YOU for your visit, and kind comments, please do not fave and run. Will return the visit as soon as possible.
Enjoy the weekend, but stay safe, and may God bless you richly !...............................................Tomx.
RECALLING GAMBIAN images from my 2013 trip, so wish I was there now. Hope you enjoy my Big footed capture, seeing them Stalk, creep, and runs on floating surface vegetation of lakes and pools, occasionally forages on open farmland.
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Hope you are all coping better than me, in this lockdown,?
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AN ENDEARING and unmistakable seabird, and after spending three amazing days with them on the Island of Skomer, have so many images and unforgettable experiences with my brother and fellow island residents, will treasure them to my dying day.
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THANK YOU for your visit, its good to be back with Flickr again, and do aim to catch up your images and all my friends.
God bless you.................Tomx
Reading a big book
[The subject is 30cm tall. The book is the large Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary. External and internal camera flashes were used]
C'est un oiseau exotique d'une taille de 30cm qui vit au sud-est de l' Australie, en Nouvelle Zélande et en Tasmanie. Je n'en avais jamais vu et je connaissais pas cet oiseau. J'ai cherché mes renseignements sur le Net.
Comment ce magnifique oiseau s'est-il retrouvé là ? Il est bagué. Je suppose qu'il s'est échappé d'une cage ou d'une volière, car on peut en acheter pour 70 Euros en animalerie !!!
Ou alors, on l'a abandonné... j'espère qu'il survivra à l'hiver.
Je l'ai vu arriver sur la branche, et il n'était pas farouche. Il a mangé des mûres sèches...Il se nourrit de graines, fleurs, fruits et parfois d'insectes.Il peut vivre à proximité des cours d'eau.
Il est resté un long moment, j'ai pu admirer ses magnifiques couleurs.
C'est un mâle, la femelle est moins colorée.
La tête est blanche et rouge écarlate la poitrine est aussi rouge écarlate.
La partie supérieure du ventre est d'une belle teinte jaune qui vire au vert pâle sur le bas de l'abdomen. Les couvertures sous-caudales sont rougeâtres. Les plumes du manteau du dos et des scapulaires sont noires avec une large bordure jaune, ce qui donne à ces régions un aspect fortement écaillé.
Les moyennes couvertures sont noires. Les petites couvertures, l'extérieur des couvertures secondaires et les rémiges sont bleues. Le croupion est vert clair. Les rectrices centrales sont vert-bouteille alors que les rectrices externes sont sont bleues avec des extrémités blanches. Les iris sont bruns, les pattes grises.
Un arc-en-ciel à lui tout seul ce bel oiseau !
J'ai été hyper heureuse de le voir, quel cadeau !
Mais il ne vit pas en France à l'état sauvage...
DISTINCTIVE wader, looks black and white at a distance, but in certain angles, you can see a green an purple sheen, Found at Elmley Marshes, a working farm, where they put nature first, often amoung grazing cattle, where they feed, breed and nest on the ground. Numbers have declined alarmingly as a result in farming pratices . Always a joy to see, and few sights and sounds more evocative of the countryside than a lapwing performing a noisy display flight over its territory in the spring.
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THANK YOU, for your visit and kind comments, hpoe you are enjoying the Spring Bank Holiday Weekend, despite it turning quite cold in the U.K again. Stay well and safe, God Bless......
..................................Tomx.
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"Ask Jesus into your life today"!
Sunshine, 30cm of powder snow and Timmi destroying the trail by running behind and in front of us. It was a great day of cross-country-skiing at the mountainside of mountain "Ochsenkopf" in Fichtelberg, Germany.
SANDWICH BRED, One of only a very few that have been successfully raised at the scrape Sandwich bay ,Kent, as most full fowl to foxes ect, so its good to see! The crest will get longer in adulthood and the male will get a orange vent.
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THANK YOU for your visit and comments, they are always very appreciated, will return the visit very soon, if not already done so........Stay safe and God bless you......... . Tomx
Enjoying the sound of the trumpet
[The subject is 30cm tall. External and internal camera flashes were used]
WELL-MARKED gamebird. The species is generally wary because it is heavily persecuted in many parts of the region. Grey Partridges are Native to the region, out of breeding season are often seen in small parties that prefer to run from danger rather than fly. Favors open grassland which is in short supply in Kent, a rare find for me!
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THANKS FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP, any comments are always appreciated, and find encouraging, stay safe and well, enjoy your weekend, God bless................................................Tom.
FEW SIGHTS AND SOUNDS are more evocative of the countryside than a lapwing performing a noisy display flight over its territory. Thankfully this can still be witnessed in many parts of the region, and Elmley Marshes at Sheppey, Kent is one of them. A breeding program is used every year, as numbers have declined alarmingly as a result in changes in farming practices. If you come away without a lapwing image,you must have forgotten your camera!
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THANK YOU for your continued support, love your kind comments, it is encouraging!
Stay safe, God bless.......Tomx.
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FOR GOD loved the world so much that he gave his only son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life!. Ask him into you life!
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THE PUFFIN is a true sea bird and it only comes ashore during the breeding season. It breeds in colonies and nests in underground burrows on grassy sloping cliffs here at Skokhlom. The puffin is an endearing and unmistakable seabird, loved by me and so many others, so you will have to put up with many more images of them.
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THANK YOU for your visit, friendship, and kind comments, they mean so much and are never taken for granted..
Keep safe and well, enjoy the Lord's day, and come on England !! God bless..................Tomx
Yes, 20-30cm, depending where you live.
PS I took these photos from our home here at almost sea level
Lower Lonsdale, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
We woke up to another 30cm of snow this morning. Bailey Puggins is in her glory! First thing she always does is bury her face in the snow, she loves it. I'm so tired of shoveling! Oh, the joys of being a Canadian! LOL
ZOOM IN ON ITS FOOT.
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RATHER SHY, flight low and short, stalks, creeps, and runs on floating surface vegetation of lakes and pools. The above is a Juvenile, who came fairly close to the hide in Abocko Forest Gambia. A joy to see as appearances are only occasionally seen.
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THANK YOU, for your visit and friendship, love reading your comments, and look forward to doing the same on your latest posting.
Keep safe and well my friends, God bless .........................Tomx
This is my neighbor, CJ. Impressive, isn't he? He weighs almost twice what I do, so as you can see, I have to be careful when we play. He's a gentle giant, but doesn't know his own strength sometimes. We found him and his dad up on the Trail and spent a few minutes dogging around before we said goodbye and headed off into the snow.
Lots of it last night, and it will be snowing off and on for most of the day, with some areas of Ontario receiving up to about 30cm.
The thirty-year daily average for Ottawa is 175, but we've had about 265 already this year, and that's without counting today.
In 2008 322 fell into this city, but Dad remembers 1971 when Ottawa was buried in 357cm. That's 140 inches of snow!
Well, that's the weather report. Happy trails!
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Prescott-Russell Trail, Ottawa, Ontario
561 Clancy 10yrs 16wks
Clancy's Yearbook 11: www.flickr.com/photos/130722340@N04/albums/72177720303800967
My Christmas Pine Tree 12 years on from 2010.
[ It was approximately 12" / 30cm when bought ] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Set at the end of a splendid avenue of trees the Great Pagoda is being restored to its original 18th century splendour.
The vista is lined with North American pin swamp oaks, sweet gum and Turkish hazel (Corylus colurna). One cedar of Lebanon tree stands in front of the Pagoda,
The Pagoda was designed by Sir William Chambers and completed in 1762 as a gift for Princess Augusta, the founder of the botanic gardens at Kew. It is a ten-storey octagon tower, standing at almost 50m and each level is 30cm narrower than the one below.
Taken from the Palm House end of the Pagoda Vista.
Esta noche de esta planta del tamaño de un pomelo...abrieron tres flores de 30cm de largo por 14 de diámetro. Las puse adentro porque el viento las estaba maltratando un poco.
Dejo fragmento de la letra de la canción de Alberto Cortez que me gusta a rabiar
"Pablo gorrión, Pablo poeta y marinero,
Pablo arlequín, Pablo pintor, Pablo torero,
Pablo y ""el cant dels ocells"", Pablo maestro,
Pablos de todos, Pablos de nadie... Pablos nuestros.
Eran tres, eran tres, eran tres...
Tres senderos, tres huellas, tres caminos,
tres Quijotes venciendo a los molinos
con un cello, un poema y un pincel."
www.bing.com/videos/search?q=+Video+de+Alberto+cortez+los...
30cm diameter. 'Crops' of these monsters are growing from the wood chips around the avocado trees in a newly planted orchard.
Strawberries
A Schneider-Kreuznach lens for Praktica cameras with electric iris transmission.
Minimum focusing distance is 30cm.
Saxifraga paniculata (Saxifragaceae) 173 24
This polymorphic species forms a cushion of rosettes made up of 0.5-6 cm long more or less glaucous, lime-encrusted leaves incurving to varying degrees in different forms. Flowering stems 4-30cm high form a panicle of numerous white or pale cream flowers, petals 4-6mm long, plain or with varying degrees of red spotting. The species has a very extensive range throughout southern and central Europe extending also into the arctic region including Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroes and Norway.