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From a visit to the Oxley Creek Common. Oxley Creek Common is home to a remarkable variety of birds. An experienced observer can find as many as 70 species in one hour of observation during the spring â about 10% of all Australiaâs bird species and several times the diversity one could find walking the suburbs. In the past eleven years over 190 species have been recorded on the Common. (Source: University of Queensland)
Superb Fairy-wren
Scientific Name: Malurus cyaneus
Description: Adult male Superb Fairy-wrens are among the most brightly coloured of the species, especially during the breeding season. They have rich blue and black plumage above and on the throat. The belly is grey-white and the bill is black. Females and young birds are mostly brown above with a dull red-orange area around the eye and a brown bill. Females have a pale greenish gloss, absent in young birds, on the otherwise brown tail. The legs are brown in both sexes. Males from further inland and in the south-west of the range have more blue on the back and underparts.
Similar species: Several other species of fairy-wren are found in Australia. The males of each species are quite distinct, but the females and young birds are often difficult to separate. Of the species that overlap in range with the Superb Fairy-wren, the female White-winged Fairy-wren Malurus leucopterus and Red-backed Fairy-wren M. melanocephalus lacks the chestnut colour around the eye, while the female Variegated Fairy-wren M. lamberti has a dull grey-blue wash. Both the Superb and White-winged Fairy-wrens are similar in size. The Variegated Fairy-wren is slightly larger in size and has a longer tail.
Distribution: Superb Fairy-wrens are found south of the Tropic of Capricorn through eastern Australia and Tasmania to the south-eastern corner of South Australia.
Habitat: Seen in most habitat types where suitable dense cover and low shrubs occur. They are common in urban parks and gardens, and can be seen in small social groups. These groups normally consist of one dominant male and several females and young birds.
Feeding: Superb Fairy-wrens feed on insects and other small arthropods. These are caught mostly on the ground, but may also be taken from low bushes. Feeding takes place in small social groups.
Breeding: The nest is a dome-shaped structure of grasses and other fine material. It is usually placed in a low bush and is constructed by the female. The female incubates the eggs alone, but both sexes feed the young. Other members of the group will also help with the feeding of the young.
Male Superb Fairy-wrens have been labelled as 'the least faithful birds in the world'. Females may be courted by up to 13 males in half an hour, and 76% of young are sired by males from outside the social group.
Calls: The Superb Fairy-wren gives a series of high pitched trills, which are given by both sexes. The male often extends these trills into song.
Minimum Size: 13cm
Maximum Size: 14cm
Average size: 14cm
Average weight: 10g
Clutch Size: Three to four.
(Sources: www.birdsinbackyards.net "The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds - Second Edition")
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Sunday and it's time to go back home to Hull. Loved this Leeds weekend, it was sad to leave!
I won't be back for at the very least 3 months, times are tight. Got a weekend in Lincoln to look forward to next up though, at the end of May.
Back at home, but still had my makeup on so got into a dress too for the evening!
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Published in Cornell Lab of Ornithology Handbook of Bird Biology, Third Edition, 2016, p. 42
Emu (The name 'emu' is not an Aboriginal word. It may have been derived from an Arabic word for large bird and later adopted by early Portuguese explorers and applied to cassowaries in eastern Indonesia. The term was then transferred to the Emu by early European explorers to Australia.)
Scientific Name: Dromaius novaehollandiae
Description: The Emu is Australia's tallest native bird, reaching between 1.6 m and 1.9 m when standing erect. Adult Emus are covered with shaggy grey-brown feathers except for the neck and head, which are largely naked and bluish-black. The wings are greatly reduced, but the legs are long and powerful. Each foot has three forward-facing toes and no hind toe. Most people see Emus along roadsides, near fences or other barriers, giving the impression of close association. However, Emus are not really social, except for young birds, which stay with their father.
Similar species: The Emu (30 - 45 kg) is lighter than its closest living relative, the Southern Cassowary Casuarius casuarius, but is taller and less heavy set in appearance. It is also much more widely distributed throughout Australia.
Distribution: The Emu is found only in Australia. It lives throughout most of the continent, ranging from coastal regions to high in the Snowy Mountains. Emus were once found in Tasmania, but were exterminated soon after Europeans arrived. Two dwarf species of emus that lived on Kangaroo Island and King Island also became extinct.
Habitat: The main habitats of the Emu are sclerophyll forest and savanna woodland. These birds are rarely found in rainforest or very arid areas.
Seasonal movements: Emus move within their range according to climatic conditions. If sufficient food and water are present, birds will reside in one area. Where these resources are more variable, Emus move as needed to find suitable conditions. They are known to move hundreds of kilometres, sometimes at rates of 15 km to 25 km per day.
Feeding: Emus eat fruits, seeds, growing shoots of plants, insects, other small animals, and animal droppings.
Breeding: Nesting takes place in winter. The male and female remain together for about five months, which includes courtship, nest building and egg-laying. The nest consists of a platform of grass on the ground, about 10 cm thick and 1 m - 2 m in diameter. The large eggs (130 mm x 90 mm) are laid at intervals of two to four days. These are dark bluish-green when fresh, becoming lighter with exposure to the sun. The shells are thick, with paler green and white layers under the dark outer layer. The female dominates the male during pair formation but once incubation begins, the male becomes aggressive to other Emus, including his mate. The female wanders away and leaves the male to perform all the incubation. Sometimes she will find another mate and breed again. The male incubates the eggs without drinking, feeding, defecating or leaving the nest. During this time, eggs often roll out of the nest and are pulled back in by the male. Newly hatched chicks are cream-coloured with dark brown stripes. They leave the nest when they are able to feed themselves. Young birds stay close together and remain with the male for four months. They finally leave at about six months. During this period, the stripes fade and the downy plumage is replaced by dull brown feathers. Emus are nearly fully grown at one year, and may breed at 20 months. Sometimes eggs that have not hatched remain in the nest after the male and young have left and become sun-bleached. Bleaching takes about three months.
Calls: Booming, drumming and grunting. Booming is created in an inflatable neck sac, and can be heard up to 2 km away.
Minimum Size: 160cm
Maximum Size: 200cm
Average size: 180cm
Average weight: 37 500g
Breeding season: April to June
Clutch Size: 5 to 15
Incubation: 55 days
Nestling Period: 7 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net and and "The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds - Second Edition")
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Always a joyful day!
Hull Pride. I was very lucky to be part of two chosen families this day - my LGBT family and the AFO Choir who were singing to the parade as we went past.
Joy, love, support, inclusion. It was wonderful. We had our lovely friend Claire with us as well as Rebekah, and we met up with Alex in the Hop and Vine for a drink afterwards.
Mind you, Gemma and I were both wiped out by the time we had been for a post-parade dink in the Hop and Vine. We went home straight after that. And wow, did we struggle to stay awake for the rest of the day!
There was an 80s night happening that night at Humber Social but there was no chance we could make that. We did the best we could to stay up but we were in bed by 8.30, ha ha!
Having a drink in the Hop and Vine with Alex before heading home.
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Hull Pride day was absolutely awesome! My god it was a hot one though!
I was so proud of my city on this day - the love and warmth around on Pride days is amazing! Such a sense of community and togetherness!
At the parade itself.
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to everyone who celebrates this special day today!
What a mess Flickr was last night! I had difficulty adding titles to my uploaded images, comments didn't save and, after I had added a description to each of the 20 photos, the descriptions all disappeared. When I opened Flickr this morning, there was still no sign of them. Then, suddenly, they re-appeared.
My photos taken at the National Butterfly Centre, Mission, South Texas, have now come to an end, so you can sigh a huge sigh of relief : ) After that, I have just a few photos taken at another place that we called in at later in the afternoon. Unfortunately, we only had an hour there before closing time, but how glad we were that we found this place. The highlight there was watching 25 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons coming in to roost for the night in the trees, right where we were standing! What a great sight this was, and we were lucky enough to have a good, close view of these gorgeous birds. We also saw some Purple Martins and their circular, hanging nest "gourds".
On Day 6 of our birding holiday in South Texas, 24 March 2019, we left our hotel in Kingsville, South Texas, and started our drive to Mission, where we would be staying at La Quinta Inn & Suites for three nights. On the first stretch of our drive, we were lucky enough to see several bird species, including a Golden-fronted Woodpecker, Hooded Oriole, Red-tailed Hawk, Crested Caracara, Harris's Hawk, Pyrrhuloxia male (looks similar to a Cardinal) and a spectacular Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. I'm not sure if this stretch is called Hawk Alley.
We had a long drive further south towards Mission, with only a couple of drive-by photos taken en route (of a strangely shaped building that turned out to be a deserted seed storage building). Eventually, we reached our next planned stop, the National Butterfly Centre. This was a great place, my favourite part of it being the bird feeding station, where we saw all sorts of species and reasonably close. Despite the name of the place, we only saw a few butterflies while we were there. May have been the weather or, more likely, the fact that I was having so much fun at the bird feeding station. We also got to see Spike, a giant African Spurred Tortoise. All the nature/wildlife parks that we visited in South Texas had beautiful visitor centres and usually bird feeding stations. And there are so many of these parks - so impressive!
nationalbutterflycenter.org/nbc-multi-media/in-the-news/1...
"Ten years ago, the North American Butterfly Association broke ground for what has now become the largest native plant botanical garden in the United States. This 100-acre preserve is home to Spike (who thinks he is a butterfly) and the greatest volume and variety of wild, free-flying butterflies in the nation. In fact, USA Today calls the National Butterfly Center, in Mission, Texas, 'the butterfly capitol of the USA'." From the Butterfly Centre's website.
The Centre is facing huge challenges, as a result of the "Border Wall". The following information is from the Centre's website.
www.nationalbutterflycenter.org/about-nbc/maps-directions...
"No permission was requested to enter the property or begin cutting down trees. The center was not notified of any roadwork, nor given the opportunity to review, negotiate or deny the workplan. Same goes for the core sampling of soils on the property, and the surveying and staking of a “clear zone” that will bulldoze 200,000 square feet of habitat for protected species like the Texas Tortoise and Texas Indigo, not to mention about 400 species of birds. The federal government had decided it will do as it pleases with our property, swiftly and secretly, in spite of our property rights and right to due process under the law."
"What the Border Wall will do here:
1) Eradicate an enormous amount of native habitat, including host plants for butterflies, breeding and feeding areas for wildlife, and lands set aside for conservation of endangered and threatened species-- including avian species that migrate N/S through this area or over-winter, here, in the tip of the Central US Flyway.
2) Create devastating flooding to all property up to 2 miles behind the wall, on the banks of the mighty Rio Grande River, here.
3) Reduce viable range land for wildlife foraging and mating. This will result in greater competition for resources and a smaller gene pool for healthy species reproduction. Genetic "bottlenecks" can exacerbate blight and disease.
IN ADDITION:
4) Not all birds can fly over the wall, nor will all butterfly species. For example, the Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, found on the southern border from Texas to Arizona, only flies about 6 ft in the air. It cannot overcome a 30 ft vertical wall of concrete and steel.
5) Nocturnal and crepuscular wildlife, which rely on sunset and sunrise cues to regulate vital activity, will be negatively affected by night time flood lighting of the "control zone" the DHS CBP will establish along the wall and new secondary drag roads. The expansion of these areas to vehicular traffic will increase wildlife roadkill.
6) Animals trapped north of the wall will face similar competition for resources, cut off from native habitat in the conservation corridor and from water in the Rio Grande River and adjacent resacas. HUMANS, here, will also be cut off from our only source of fresh water, in this irrigated desert.
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The last of the January photos. I've managed to catch up a bit over the last few days for a change - it is always so easy to fall behind and build up a backlog.
One of my current faves, this grey dress is simple but sexy. One of the first dresses to go in my suitcase if I'm going away for a weekend anywhere.
Speaking of which, I have to go and get ready now for a weekend in Birmingham. I hope you all have a great weekend too, whatever you are doing! xx
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Just a few pictures from this evening. Black and white floral summer dress by F&F.
Part of the long south front of Alexandra Palace, with the former BBC TV mast above the east tower.
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First in a series of photos and comments about Cllr Charles Adje and how he carried out some vital tasks on behalf of Haringey Council.
This one comments on events arising from the First Walklate Report.
► Click here for Part 2 ─ Adje's Pally.
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In October 2008 Alexandra Palace was back in the news with publication of the first Walklate Report. Martin Walklate's measured, factual and independent report examined events surrounding the grant of a licence to Firoka (Alexandra Palace) Ltd in May 2007.
With justification, Haringey's local press focused on the role of former Council Leader, Cllr Charles Adje who chaired the Alexandra Palace Board at the time. ( Click to read the reports and editorial in the Hampstead & Highgate Express 25 September 2008. )
Cllr Adje's most interesting reply was printed in the Letters page of the Ham & High on 2 October 2008. That week is not included in the paper's online archive, so here it is.
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(Hampstead & Highgate Express 2 October 2008.)
Charles Adje responds to criticisms over damning Ally Pally report
I read with incredulity your comments on the Walklate Ally Pally report (Call for heads to roll after shocking Ally Pally report, H&H Broadway September 25). To state that the whole deal was done behind closed doors is absurd.
Board members were informed of the financial situation and of contracts being terminated or dwindling. Firoka was becoming impatient and was concerned about this, the unions were concerned about the way their members were being dealt with regarding TUPE negotiations, and staff were also leaving to take up jobs elsewhere due to the continuing uncertainty.
Firoka had the resources to move things forward and the potential to channel business to the Palace.
The Alexandra Palace Trading Company was also being wound up as it was in deficit, and the board ran the risk of trading with an insolvent company (as reported by officers at the time). The two independent non-executive directors had already stood down and liquidators were on standby to wind down the company.
You will be aware that the company has its own accountants and auditors. Council officers were aware of this and I believe provisions had been made to this effect.
In order to ensure the future of the assets and that staff were provided with some certainty for the future and to further lock Firoka in, the Board of Trustees and of the trading company decided to second the staff and grant a licence to Firoka Alexandra Palace Limited for a limited period.
At no time did any board member query this decision or state that they did not understand what was being proposed. The decision to transfer was unanimous. The Leader of the Council and the Chief Executive were fully conversant with the process.
I am certain that the interim licence would not have been granted if board members had been told that the judicial review would go against the Charity Commission or the board. It is, however, regrettable that officers did not seek legal or counsel's opinion to finalise the licence.
Counsel's opinion was sought by officers regarding the judicial review and the chair of the Board of Trustees, the council leader and the chief executive were fully conversant with the opinion.
The Walklate report infers that board members were not competent and casts aspersions on their ability, their hard work and good intentions. The report failed to reflect the fact that apart from one board member who had been on the board for some time, the other members, including myself at the time, were new appointees with no previous involvement with the board.
We needed to complete the transfer process and there was no reserve bidder or plan 'B'. We were faced with a fait accompli. We therefore had to make do with what we inherited.
I should also like to state that I have had no dealings in the affairs of the Palace since I left as Chair. I do not know how Mr Walklate's service came to be commissioned, nor was I consulted in terms of his remit.
The board's aim at all times was to transfer the risks and secure the future of the assets and the staff, although this strategy had its critics.
The Walklate report and your lead comment belittle the £50m investment by Firoka, a project which commenced in 2004 and which I believe to have been the second attempt to transfer the risks and secure the future of the assets.
It should be noted that the transfer did not collapse as a result of the licence issue, as the licence was issued for a limited period. The licence should have been terminated immediately after the outcome of the judicial review as the need for it to continue no longer existed.
It should also be borne in mind that Firoka 'walked' as a result of the inaction on the part of the board to progress matters, (according to their press statement) which you also published, and not as a result of issue of the licence.
We had never denied that there had been longstanding governance problems with the Palace. The board was faced with a dilemma: whether to spend its energy on the issue of governance as inherited (which is a perennial issue) or to focus on the transfer (which would have resolved the governance issue as the trading company would have been liquidated following the transfer).
The report and your comments seem to infer that this all happened in my term as chair, which is not the case.
My aim and that of my Labour colleagues has always been and remains the same, to safeguard the future of the Palace and lift the burden from the Haringey taxpayer.
Finally, it should be noted that I asked for the whole report to be made public rather than parts of it, as I have nothing to hide.
As ever, I will continue to work hard for the benefit and interest of the people of our borough, not just for the few.
Cllr Charles Adje
Labour Member for White Hart Lane Ward
Haringey Council
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I found this an odd letter. To me, at least, it seems to present Cllr Adje as a new chap on the Board who had "inherited" problems he didn't really grasp. Almost as if he had not been the Council Leader during the previous two years. (May 2004 - May 2006). Nor a member of the Council's ruling "cabinet" from 2000-04 with responsibility for Finance.
Unfortunately, the mess presided over by Cllr Adje risked obscuring the hard work of the Board and solid progress made by his successor as Chair, Cllr Matt Cooke.
The LibDem opposition on Haringey Council demanded Cllr Adje's resignation from his (then) role as "cabinet" councillor in charge of "Resources". This may have seemed a bit unfair - given that he'd been off the Ally Pally board for eighteen months. But as they pointed out, Cllr Adje was then responsible for Haringey's Finances, Property, Council Tax, Procurement, IT, Personnel, and Organisational Development.
The First Walklate Report is long and complex. Even so, I hope as many people as possible download it and make their own minds up.
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We decided to do Newcastle for Easter weekend, and what a fantastic weekend we had!
Saturday night we tried out Rusty's Showbar. This used to be The Blonde Barrel but has been taken over by Rusty's and they have regular drag shows on.
We met lots of lovely people and the drag shows were brilliant! What a great night we had! Definitely going back there again.
Slow motion corridor walk in the hotel.
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Sunday night we went to see our lovely and so talented friends Smooth Operator playing in Hedon.
We went for delicious food at the Camerton pub beforehand and even managed dessert before heading to see the gig.
Helen (the singer in Smooth Operator) even borrowed my Orinoco womble to wear while she was singing Wombling Merry Christmas, ha ha!
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