Pied Flycatcher (f) - Ficedula hypoleuca

The European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. One of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers, it hybridizes to a limited extent with the collared flycatcher. It breeds in most of Europe and western Asia.

It is migratory, wintering mainly in tropical Africa.

It usually builds its nests in holes on oak trees. This species practices polygyny, usually bigamy, with the male travelling large distances to acquire a second mate. The male will mate with the secondary female and then return to the primary female in order to help with aspects of child rearing, such as feeding.

The European pied flycatcher is mainly insectivorous, although its diet also includes other arthropods. This species commonly feeds on spiders, ants, bees and similar prey.

The European pied flycatcher predominately practices a mixed mating system of monogamy and polygyny. Their mating system has also been described as successive polygyny. Within the latter system, the males leave their home territory once their primary mates lays their first eggs. Males then create a second territory, presumably in order to attract a secondary female to breed. Even when they succeed at acquiring a second mate, the males typically return to the first female to exclusively provide for her and her offspring.

Males will sometimes care for both mates if the nests of the primary and secondary female are close together. The male may also care for both mates once the offspring of the primary female have fledged. The male bird usually does not exceed two mates, practicing bigamy. Only two cases of trigyny had been observed.

Population:

UK breeding:

17,000-20,000 pairs

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A tiny, long-tailed bird of broadleaf forests and scrublands, the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher makes itself known by its soft but insistent calls and its constant motion. It hops and sidles in dense outer foliage, foraging for insects and spiders. As it moves, this steely blue-gray bird conspicuously flicks its white-edged tail from side to side, scaring up insects and chasing after them. Pairs use spiderweb and lichens to build small, neat nests, which sit on top of branches and look like tree knots.

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Taken in Wales on the way up to Dolwyddelan Castle

early morning, busy spider devouring catch from the night before.

Once builded as a capitel from Mughal Akbar finished in 1571.

But strategically unsuited and often confronted with watershortage the city was left from the Mughal (and his 300 concubines). Nowadays the town is in a very good condition.

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1571 wurde diese Stadt als Hauptstadt unter Großmogul Akbar fertig gestellt. Sie erwies sich als strategisch ungeeignet und litt unter Wassermangel. So wurde sie vom Großmogul (und seinen 300 Konkubinen) verlassen und befindet sich heute noch in einem erstklassigen Zustand.

Rutland Ospreys returning to claim their nest site at Manton Bay. (shot from my archives)

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Trying out vintage line. Anybody else like it?

Also, anyone want to apply to join TPI? Here is the page. Build a trial. It's a fun style :3

So for anyone who hasn't heard yet MELO 2017 is happening at the end of this month! :D

I'm pretty excited because I wasn't able to enter any of the previous Middle Earth Lego Olympics. So I decided I would do a bit of practice and make a really small little build. Might make some more at some point before the contest.

Part of the reason I made this was to try getting better at building, so if any of you want I'm looking for comments about what I could improve and what I did well. (Not just "Nice build" comments).

I'm also curious to know who else is entering MELO this year? :)

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I just like this house set against a blue sky. It's a new build in Burns beach area. Overlooking the sea. Perth, Western Australia

House building time, been building a house the last 8 to 9 weeks

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This is a trend apparently and I figured why not?

But yeesh, I gotta build more! This is more or less a collection of everything I've built for the past year, specifically the things I think are worth showing again. Largely, this is my Forms of Gotham collection, which has rather put me off building brick figures for a while honestly...all that said, the experience of building them and seeing people's reactions towards them at Brickworld Chicago were worth all the tens of hours I spend on them.

And All the Powers of Hell was another highlight, although to be honest it did fall to the back of my mind--despite winning the Vignette award I've been hunting for years. Still, it has a place in my heart and as such is still constructed and boxed away for BW '17. Aside from the figures Batman, Catwoman, and Penguin, its the only thing that remains of my '16 Convention tour builds.

My Alien and Predators builds are something I'm proud of, even though they totally point out how I can change focus on a dime whenever anyone mentions Predators or posts a Xenomorph. To wit, I've been secretly hive building for the past half year; building another queen, gathering eggs, makin' drones, hunting down those elusive black minifigure binoculars, all for the inevitable time when I'll need them. At the moment I'm planning on building Alien something for BW '17, although that might just be the amazing Covenant trailer speaking! So no promises yet!

Before I get into the future, I first want to note the wonderful experiences I had this year with my friends at Eurobricks, both online and especially in person, as we constructed our group collab for Brickworld, Ready Set Escargot!. We put tons of hours into a truly collaborative effort and finally getting the win was icing on the cake. As we look forward to next year's build, I hope that we can continue that awesome tradition! Incidentally, I don't have any pictures of my Snail, but I made the sand blue viking one, if anyone is wondering.

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Onto the future, one of the reasons I've not appeared to be building much (specifically in the later half) of 2016, is because I'm building for 2017! Right now I'm finishing some colorful magazine builds, but I've also locked down my convention layout concept for next year, one that'll use a lot of colors I normally wouldn't touch with a ten foot poll-- yellow, red, and orange. Brick figures will be minimal, at least until 2018, and I'm also planning two separate series of builds of the superhero variety. Either way, I can't wait to get started!

And finally, thank you to everyone for your support!

Photographing landscapes around sunrise and sunset is often filled with anticipation. Wondering whether the light will be "epic" or will you get skunked.

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found some rock stacks at the narrows of the Virgin river at Zion National Park in Utah. although individually beautiful, as this photo hopefully proves, they disturbed the natural landscape. I hope this doesn't encourage people to build these man-made structures in preserved natural settings.

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It's finished. I seem to have forgotten to order the blue 6x6 dish that will go on those studs on the top, but otherwise it's all done bar the stickers. Sorry these photos are crap, but I don't know when I will get to take decent ones.

Brazil

Second build with the cylinder hemisphere part.

For my first convention, it was a blast. As for the build, I procrastinated a bunch on the middle building, but overall the diorama pleases me very much.

It was super rad meeting everyone who is tagged below, and we are planning on doing something next year (hint - hint). I helped Elijah put grass on his build for about an hour :D

I got my hands on some nice items by trading and such, and an abundance of memes were passed around. Sprue, mongolian, the free build section, and others in which we do not utter here.

I hope to see some more of you guys next year!!!!!!!!

My MOC card got cut off.

The picture is atrocious.

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Elijah exposed

Day 16

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Pop tart and her kitties thinking about how they should paint their monsters - hmmmm a little poodle is sneaking a peek too!

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A sneak peek of my latest build. Hope to finish it soon!

10th build in my Iron Builder round against Duncan, using the Technic Rotor Blade part in Red.

I've used the part 14 times.

Das Museum des Zweiten Weltkriegs ( polnisch : Muzeum II Wojny Światowej ) ist eine 2008 in Danzig , Polen , gegründete staatliche Kultureinrichtung und ein Museum , das dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gewidmet ist . Die Ausstellungen wurden 2017 eröffnet.

Im Jahr 2009 gewann die NV Tempora SA den Wettbewerb für die Gestaltung der Ausstellung, die 2015 an die in Warschau ansässige Firma Qumak SA vergeben wurde. Im Jahr 2010 gewann das Architektenteam Kwadrat einen Architekturwettbewerb für den Bau des Museums des Zweiten Weltkriegs und der Bau begann im Jahr 2012.

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The Museum of the Second World War (Polish: Muzeum II Wojny Światowej) is a state cultural institution and museum dedicated to World War II founded in 2008 in Gdańsk, Poland. Its exhibitions opened in 2017.

In 2009, NV Tempora SA won the competition to design the exhibition, which was awarded to Warsaw-based company Qumak SA in 2015. In 2010, the architectural team Kwadrat won an architectural competition to build the Museum of the Second World War, and construction began in 2012.

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