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Early Spring as small shallow wetland open large numbers of dabbling duck and geese species can be seen in the open shallow wetlands. Huron Wetland Management District in east Central South Dakota. Photo: Sandra Uecker\USFWS
He was beautiful but he came a bit too close for me to get all of him in the shot. He was scooping up little bits of food right under the surface.
Male American Wigeon (Anas Americana)
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You can't usually see the filtering elements on a duck's bill but you can on this wild Shoveler (Anas clypeata), a male just moulting out of eclipse plumage. Shovelers have an enormous bill, expanded at the tip into a spoon shape. They filter feed in a similar manner to Blue Whales by taking a gulp of water then using their tongue like a syphon to push the water out of the sides. All along the bill edge (top and bottom) are comb-like structures called lamellae that filter out the edible bits from the gulp of water (just like Blue Whales). Most dabbling ducks have between 50 and 70 lamellae on their upper and lower mandibles whereas Shovelers have around 180 on their upper and 220 on their lower mandible, so about four times more than other dabbling ducks (eg Mallard, Pintail, Teal). These lamellae are also noticeably longer in Shovelers. Despite this, the lamellae are not normally visible but unusually they can be clearly seen here (but you may need to view large). It looks to me like there would be more than 180 on the upper mandible but I'll go with what the books tell me. They eat both animal and vegetable matter, but probably eat more water plants than animal matter. The animals they eat includes small water-snails, shrimps, water boatmen, water beetles and even tadpoles occasionally.
The name "Shovelere" was first noted in c1460 but was applied to the Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) which was becoming increasingly rare in Britain. In 1674 John Ray applied the name to this duck and the name has stuck ever since.
One of the most rare ducks in the world, the Pateke is doing well at Zealandia and this male was guarding a nest where the female was covering five eggs.
Family: Anatidae (Dabbling ducks)
Status: endangered endemic
Brown teal is one of three closely related species of teal in New Zealand. The other two being the flightless subantarctic Auckland teal and Campbell Island teal.
Once common throughout New Zealand, habitat destruction, especially swamp drainage and predation, have resulted in brown teal becoming one of our most nationally endangered species of waterfowl. Approximately 1300 birds were surviving nationwide in 1999making it one of the rarest ducks in the world!
Most birds are to be found on Great Barrier Island. There are a few brown teal on Kapiti, Mana, and Tiritiri Matangi Islands, the eastern side of Northland and a new population has recently been established in the Coromandel area. Brown teal are regularly present at the Waikanae Estuary, probably part of the Kapiti Island population.
In the South Island, a few birds survive in Fiordland.
Recognition: About half the size of the common mallard duck, brown teal stand 48cm tall and weigh just over half a kilo as an adult. The male is slightly larger than the female. Brown teal have a warm brown plumage, with dark-brown mottling on the breast. Breeding males have a glossy green head, a narrow white collar, broad green and narrow white bands on the wings and a white flank patch. A distinctive feature of all brown teal is their blue-black bill and the narrow white ring around the eye. Their eyes are brown. Males give a soft whistle, and the female a low quack and growl.
Brown teal are often referred to as bush ducks, since they prefer stream and bushland habitats. They are reluctant flyers and are shallow divers, dabbling just below the surface for food. Their favourite food is invertebrates and they mainly feed in the evening or at night.
Breeding: Most brown teal breed from June to October but are able to breed at almost any time of the year.
They begin breeding at about 2 years of age and can lay clutches of up to 8 eggs. • Brown teal build a bowl-shaped nest near water, under the cover of dense tussocks or ferns, constructed with grasses lined with down. The female incubates the eggs about 30 days while the drake guards the nest - they are strongly territorial during breeding. Chicks fledge at an age of about 2 months. Brown teal pairs generally have stable relationships. The oldest known teal in the wild lived over 6 years.
Brown teal at Karori Sanctuary. 18 brown teal were initially released in 2000 and 2001. Breeding started from late 2002 and good productivity has resulted in increased competition for preferred wetland habitats and, because these habitats are limited in the Sanctuary, losses have occurred as a result.
Supplementary feeding of maize has been largely discontinued since early 2006 to reduce productivity and competition for territories.
Genetic analysis of the population in 2006-2007 should clarify whether or not there has been a loss of genetic diversity and whether additional birds need to be released into the population in future.
Active monitoring over the breeding season has ceased due to the fact that the population is self-sustaining.
Brown teal are readily seen on the lower and upper lakes. Being forest dwellers as well as water dwellers, some are being regularly seen at the kaka feeders below the upper dam at dusk and also at the southern end of the Faultline Track. The brown teal’s omnivorous diet, restricted annual range and mainly terrestrial lifestyle give it a unique ecological niche among waterfowl, somewhat akin to a wetland rodent, and it serves as a classic example of the influence of selective forces that operated on birds in pre-human New Zealand.
Mallards are “dabbling ducks”—they feed in the water by tipping forward and grazing on underwater plants, and almost never dive.
Although the Chestnut Teal occurs at wetlands hundreds of kilometres inland, the species’ strongholds are usually near the coast. It is one of the few species of Australian ducks that can tolerate habitats with highly saline water. They regularly occur in estuaries, inlets, exposed mudflats, coastal lagoons, saltmarsh and evaporation ponds at saltworks. Nevertheless, they also occur at freshwater wetlands. They usually feed at the margins of wetlands, among aquatic vegetation in the shallows or upending in deeper water, or dabbling on recently covered mudflats or sand.
Mallard Duck
The Mallard or Wild Duck is a Dabbling Duck which breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, the Falkland Islands and South Africa. This duck belongs to the subfamily Anatinae of the waterfowl family Anatidae.
The male birds (drakes) have a glossy green head and are grey on wings and belly, while the females have mainly brown-speckled plumage. Mallards live in wetlands, eat water plants and small animals, and are gregarious. This species is the ancestor of most breeds of domestic ducks.
One of the most rare ducks in the world! Photographed at Zealandia, Karori Sanctuary, Wellington, New Zealand.
Family: Anatidae (Dabbling ducks)
Status: endangered endemic
Brown teal is one of three closely related species of teal in New Zealand. The other two being the flightless subantarctic Auckland teal and Campbell Island teal.
Once common throughout New Zealand, habitat destruction, especially swamp drainage and predation, have resulted in brown teal becoming one of our most nationally endangered species of waterfowl. Approximately 1300 birds were surviving nationwide in 1999making it one of the rarest ducks in the world!
Most birds are to be found on Great Barrier Island. There are a few brown teal on Kapiti, Mana, and Tiritiri Matangi Islands, the eastern side of Northland and a new population has recently been established in the Coromandel area. Brown teal are regularly present at the Waikanae Estuary, probably part of the Kapiti Island population.
In the South Island, a few birds survive in Fiordland.
Recognition: About half the size of the common mallard duck, brown teal stand 48cm tall and weigh just over half a kilo as an adult. The male is slightly larger than the female. Brown teal have a warm brown plumage, with dark-brown mottling on the breast. Breeding males have a glossy green head, a narrow white collar, broad green and narrow white bands on the wings and a white flank patch. A distinctive feature of all brown teal is their blue-black bill and the narrow white ring around the eye. Their eyes are brown. Males give a soft whistle, and the female a low quack and growl.
Brown teal are often referred to as bush ducks, since they prefer stream and bushland habitats. They are reluctant flyers and are shallow divers, dabbling just below the surface for food. Their favourite food is invertebrates and they mainly feed in the evening or at night.
Breeding: Most brown teal breed from June to October but are able to breed at almost any time of the year.
They begin breeding at about 2 years of age and can lay clutches of up to 8 eggs. • Brown teal build a bowl-shaped nest near water, under the cover of dense tussocks or ferns, constructed with grasses lined with down. The female incubates the eggs about 30 days while the drake guards the nest - they are strongly territorial during breeding. Chicks fledge at an age of about 2 months. Brown teal pairs generally have stable relationships. The oldest known teal in the wild lived over 6 years.
Brown teal at Karori Sanctuary. 18 brown teal were initially released in 2000 and 2001. Breeding started from late 2002 and good productivity has resulted in increased competition for preferred wetland habitats and, because these habitats are limited in the Sanctuary, losses have occurred as a result.
Supplementary feeding of maize has been largely discontinued since early 2006 to reduce productivity and competition for territories.
Genetic analysis of the population in 2006-2007 should clarify whether or not there has been a loss of genetic diversity and whether additional birds need to be released into the population in future.
Active monitoring over the breeding season was ceased in 200x due to the fact that the population is self-sustaining.
Brown teal are readily seen on the lower and upper lakes. Being forest dwellers as well as water dwellers, some are being regularly seen at the kaka feeders below the upper dam at dusk and also at the southern end of the Faultline Track. The brown teal’s omnivorous diet, restricted annual range and mainly terrestrial lifestyle give it a unique ecological niche among waterfowl, somewhat akin to a wetland rodent, and it serves as a classic example of the influence of selective forces that operated on birds in pre-human New Zealand.
After dabbling at Kaiser's with the GoPro, I checked the wind and it was still in the 20-25mph range. I packed up my gear and started driving, looking for somewhere to fly from during the golden hour before sunset, I drove about 2 blocks from my house when I saw the sign for a mini park. All you see is a steep dirt wall with a small trail going up the center, I'd never been up there but thought I would check it out.
As I'm walking up the dirt wall I almost fall down a few times because the wind is so strong, maybe this was a bad idea..
I reach the top of this mound and it's a secluded green oasis! Beautiful! There's a large Xmas Tree light installation that could snare my kite/string but otherwise this park is looking really good.
I'm so happy to have the Trooper kite with me now, this session would have never happened with my Rokkaku or modified Levitation Delta.
*Taken from a camera suspended from a kite line.
At UT I dabbled in metal casting and fabrication. For my final I had this idea for a one-man grill. It is kind of lonely but with a sense of humor, something close to independence. The Steak Grill is made of steel and based on measurements from what was a delicious steak. It was some of the most fun I have had working on a school project and I have wanted to get back into a metal shop like that ever since.
The best part is it works. I guess you could only do one side of a T-bone but a couple dogs and a burger is perfect. The Steak Grill has had a few homes over the years and was trapped in a busted car trunk for a while.
Now that the grill is preserved in pictures I would like to try to get the rust off, or at least keep it from getting worse. Even if it was clean I am not sure how to keep it that way and still be able to eat off of it.
The Steak Grill won me an “A” and I have the pictures so maybe it is time for it to retire to rust somewhere permanent with the base buried like it sprouted out of the ground.
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At UT I dabbled in metal casting and fabrication. For my final I had this idea for a one-man grill. It is kind of lonely but with a sense of humor, something close to independence. The Steak Grill is made of steel and based on measurements from what was a delicious steak. It was some of the most fun I have had working on a school project and I have wanted to get back into a metal shop like that ever since.
The best part is it works. I guess you could only do one side of a T-bone but a couple dogs and a burger is perfect. The Steak Grill has had a few homes over the years and was trapped in a busted car trunk for a while.
Now that the grill is preserved in pictures I would like to try to get the rust off, or at least keep it from getting worse. Even if it was clean I am not sure how to keep it that way and still be able to eat off of it.
The Steak Grill won me an “A” and I have the pictures so maybe it is time for it to retire to rust somewhere permanent with the base buried like it sprouted out of the ground.
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After dabbling at Kaiser's with the GoPro, I checked the wind and it was still in the 20-25mph range. I packed up my gear and started driving, looking for somewhere to fly from during the golden hour before sunset, I drove about 2 blocks from my house when I saw the sign for a mini park. All you see is a steep dirt wall with a small trail going up the center, I'd never been up there but thought I would check it out.
As I'm walking up the dirt wall I almost fall down a few times because the wind is so strong, maybe this was a bad idea..
I reach the top of this mound and it's a secluded green oasis! Beautiful! There's a large Xmas Tree light installation that could snare my kite/string but otherwise this park is looking really good.
I'm so happy to have the Trooper kite with me now, this session would have never happened with my Rokkaku or modified Levitation Delta.
*Taken from a camera suspended from a kite line.
Abbey Road, Great Massingham, Norfolk, UK. Originally called Rose & Crown until when it was closed in 2001 and then re-opened in 2006 as the Dabbling Duck.
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Heather has gone from dabbling in cylocross and crits to being a Canadian Masters National CX Champion, Ironman finisher, Adventure race survivor, and downhill stud.
Read about Heather's adventures here
Race Category: Retired...just kidding, I race cross, mtb and road...and downhill (once!)
Residenze: Mountain View, CA
Résumé: ummm, I won a bottle of wine at the Wente Crit!
Bikes I ride: Look KG381, Kelly Knobby X (Cross), Spot Singlespeed, K2 Razorback FS, Specialized M4 hardtail ... and an old Specialized cruiser with a basket
How I support my Bike Habit: Making life easier for small businesses
Best Time on the Bike: Carefree long rides zipping through forests on fun-fun-fun singletrack with friends
Worst Time on the Bike: Crashing teeth-first into a street in Toronto and breaking 2 fine pearly whites
My Motto: May passion be your guide
Favorite Post-Ride Food: Coke Slurpee & Fries & Tuna Melt & (this list could be endless)
Favorite Web Site: www.brucekirkby.com because my brother is a stud and inspires me to think of ditching the life of a cubicle-dweller
Grab Bag: Sabine Dukes is my hero, Velo Bella rocks, and riding a bike is my prescription for the pursuit of happiness. Who knew that avoiding baboon-butt-looking-cycling-shorts could create a women’s cycling revolution?
I'm a dabbler, and have done more sculpting, painting, mixed media, etc. than photography in my life, but not lately. A little over a year ago, I painted this picture to go over the sink in my loft which had no windows on one side, this old window having been snatched up at Urban Ore, on one of my scavenger missions. The painting itself is a view from memory (bad memory, the actual shape is kinda different) of Mt. Shasta from a couple of acres I own, where I would put a window, IF I had an abode on the land. It's pretty rough there, no driveway, no water, so everything gets hauled in when I stay there. It's primitive and beautiful and quiet there, a great escape. But I digress.
When I painted this, I was on a roll, and was planning to continue painting and sculpting as well as joining the San Francisco Women Artists Association. (Shut up inner critic. I AM TOO allowed to call myself an artist.) I was waiting for the association's new fiscal year to sign up, and basically promised myself I'd do it as soon as some discretionary income appeared. Never happened. That was right before the bottom fell out, and I couldn't go on kidding myself that my business was never going to recover from the dotcom bust, 911 and changes in the picture framing industry. (Pretty funny, I owned a custom framing shop, but I bought this window to use as a frame, because using an actual window was so perfect for what I was doing.
One of the reasons I moved just a year ago to the little house I'm in now, was to use the one car garage and sheltered patio as artmaking spaces, and because there's a 2nd bedroom in which I wanted to invite another artist (I said 'shut up') to live so we could play around, and make a mess, get all juicy together, bouncing off each other's energy, being each other's muses. But the garage has been full of crap (a lot of which is disorganized art supplies) and no work space until a couple of weeks ago. Then my amazing daughter Rachel visited so that she could help me, and we spent the day reorganizing the space. Her idea. What a kid. It still needs a lot of work out there, but it is wayyyyy better than it was. (No pic of it yet, but soon, very soon, maybe even one of me working out there. )
In my roommate ads, I was specifically looking for that painter, sculptor, tinkerer, woodworker, welder, quilter, whatever - and a couple of months ago, enter stage left - Qathi, with camera in hand. It only took a couple of weeks for me to bounce off of that, and get my own camera, a couple weeks more to sign on to flickr, and well, that's basically all she wrote. flickr and 365 have become my new life addictions.
But now Q is moving on, going back home to Seattle later this month. It's time for me to find another partner in crime, and I HATE this process, trying to evaluate if someone is compatible enough to share my home, my sanctuary, in a matter of minutes/hours. I lucked out with Q. Although we are quite different, we get along pretty well, and she has definitely been my muse, my coach, and my confidant. Yup, it's going to be pretty different around here when she goes, and I'm just hoping I can bring another positive soul into my life, one who wants to play some, and be serious some, share the day to day responsibilities of life, a very small, chosen family of sorts. Any and all voodoo, (I guess otherwise known as prayers and wellwishes), to help me make this happen are welcome. Very welcome.
Now where did I put that application to the SFWAA?
The Numa Numa English parody video I made was selected by up and coming Internet star web site Dabble as The Video Of The Day! I'm having a Kodak moment. The photo shown is the animated character Emo from the gorgeous and stunning Creative Commons animation project "Elephants Dream. You must see this video to believe it, it's better than Pixar!. Visit the site, buy the DVD, and most importantly download the free high definition version of the movie!
One of the world'smost rare ducks, this bird what photographed in the wetlands at Zealandia, Wellington, New Zealand.
Family: Anatidae (Dabbling ducks)
Status: endangered endemic
Brown teal is one of three closely related species of teal in New Zealand. The other two being the flightless subantarctic Auckland teal and Campbell Island teal.
Once common throughout New Zealand, habitat destruction, especially swamp drainage and predation, have resulted in brown teal becoming one of our most nationally endangered species of waterfowl. Approximately 1300 birds were surviving nationwide in 1999making it one of the rarest ducks in the world!
Most birds are to be found on Great Barrier Island. There are a few brown teal on Kapiti, Mana, and Tiritiri Matangi Islands, the eastern side of Northland and a new population has recently been established in the Coromandel area. Brown teal are regularly present at the Waikanae Estuary, probably part of the Kapiti Island population.
In the South Island, a few birds survive in Fiordland.
Recognition: About half the size of the common mallard duck, brown teal stand 48cm tall and weigh just over half a kilo as an adult. The male is slightly larger than the female. Brown teal have a warm brown plumage, with dark-brown mottling on the breast. Breeding males have a glossy green head, a narrow white collar, broad green and narrow white bands on the wings and a white flank patch. A distinctive feature of all brown teal is their blue-black bill and the narrow white ring around the eye. Their eyes are brown. Males give a soft whistle, and the female a low quack and growl.
Brown teal are often referred to as bush ducks, since they prefer stream and bushland habitats. They are reluctant flyers and are shallow divers, dabbling just below the surface for food. Their favourite food is invertebrates and they mainly feed in the evening or at night.
Breeding: Most brown teal breed from June to October but are able to breed at almost any time of the year.
They begin breeding at about 2 years of age and can lay clutches of up to 8 eggs. • Brown teal build a bowl-shaped nest near water, under the cover of dense tussocks or ferns, constructed with grasses lined with down. The female incubates the eggs about 30 days while the drake guards the nest - they are strongly territorial during breeding. Chicks fledge at an age of about 2 months. Brown teal pairs generally have stable relationships. The oldest known teal in the wild lived over 6 years.
Brown teal at Karori Sanctuary. 18 brown teal were initially released in 2000 and 2001. Breeding started from late 2002 and good productivity has resulted in increased competition for preferred wetland habitats and, because these habitats are limited in the Sanctuary, losses have occurred as a result.
Supplementary feeding of maize has been largely discontinued since early 2006 to reduce productivity and competition for territories.
Genetic analysis of the population in 2006-2007 should clarify whether or not there has been a loss of genetic diversity and whether additional birds need to be released into the population in future.
Active monitoring over the breeding season was ceased in 200x due to the fact that the population is self-sustaining.
Brown teal are readily seen on the lower and upper lakes. Being forest dwellers as well as water dwellers, some are being regularly seen at the kaka feeders below the upper dam at dusk and also at the southern end of the Faultline Track. The brown teal’s omnivorous diet, restricted annual range and mainly terrestrial lifestyle give it a unique ecological niche among waterfowl, somewhat akin to a wetland rodent, and it serves as a classic example of the influence of selective forces that operated on birds in pre-human New Zealand.
Female Northern Shoveler, Anas clypeata with broken bill. "Northern shovelers feed by dabbling for plant food, often by swinging their bill from side to side and using the bill to strain food from the water. They use their highly specialized bill (from which their name is derived) to forage for aquatic invertebrates – a carnivorous diet. Their wide-flat bill is equipped with well-developed lamellae – small, comb-like structures on the edge of the bill that act like sieves (much like baleen in a whale), allowing the birds to skim crustaceans and plankton from the water's surface.-- Wikipedia
Muskegon County, Michigan, USA.
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Dabbling in mono.. all shots are straight out of the camera..alley next to the cinema in Westover Road, Bournemouth 18.11.2014
Early Spring as small shallow wetland open large numbers of dabbling duck and geese species can be seen in the open shallow wetlands. Huron Wetland Management District in east Central South Dakota. Photo: Sandra Uecker\USFWS
Mallard Duck
The Mallard or Wild Duck is a Dabbling Duck which breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, the Falkland Islands and South Africa. This duck belongs to the subfamily Anatinae of the waterfowl family Anatidae.
The male birds (drakes) have a glossy green head and are grey on wings and belly, while the females have mainly brown-speckled plumage. Mallards live in wetlands, eat water plants and small animals, and are gregarious. This species is the ancestor of most breeds of domestic ducks.
At UT I dabbled in metal casting and fabrication. For my final I had this idea for a one-man grill. It is kind of lonely but with a sense of humor, something close to independence. The Steak Grill is made of steel and based on measurements from what was a delicious steak. It was some of the most fun I have had working on a school project and I have wanted to get back into a metal shop like that ever since.
The best part is it works. I guess you could only do one side of a T-bone but a couple dogs and a burger is perfect. The Steak Grill has had a few homes over the years and was trapped in a busted car trunk for a while.
Now that the grill is preserved in pictures I would like to try to get the rust off, or at least keep it from getting worse. Even if it was clean I am not sure how to keep it that way and still be able to eat off of it.
The Steak Grill won me an “A” and I have the pictures so maybe it is time for it to retire to rust somewhere permanent with the base buried like it sprouted out of the ground.
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The mallard or wild duck is a dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, the Falkland Islands and South Africa. This duck belongs to the subfamily Anatinae of the waterfowl family Anatidae.
The male birds (drakes) have a glossy green head and are grey on wings and belly, while the females (hens or ducks) have mainly brown-speckled plumage. Both sexes have an area of white-bordered black speculum feathers which commonly also include iridescent blue feathers especially among males. Mallards live in wetlands, eat water plants and small animals, and are social animals preferring to congregate in groups or flocks of varying sizes. This species is the main ancestor of most breeds of domesticated ducks.
The mallard was one of the many bird species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 18th-century work Systema Naturae, and still bears its original binomial name. The scientific name is from Latin Anas, "duck" and Ancient Greek platyrhynchus , "broad-billed" ( from platus, "broad" and rhunkhos, "bill").
Mallard originally referred to any wild drake and it is sometimes still used this way. It was derived from the Old French malart or mallart for "wild drake", although its true derivation is unclear. It may be related to (or at least influenced by) an Old High German masculine proper name Madelhart, clues lying in the alternate English forms "maudelard" or "mawdelard". Masle (male) has also been proposed as an influence.
Mallards frequently interbreed with their closest relatives in the genus Anas, such as the American black duck, and also with species more distantly related, such as the northern pintail, leading to various hybrids that may be fully fertile. This is quite unusual among such different species, and apparently is because the mallard evolved very rapidly and recently, during the Late Pleistocene. The distinct lineages of this radiation are usually kept separate due to non-overlapping ranges and behavioural cues, but are still not fully genetically incompatible. Mallards and their domesticated conspecifics are also fully interfertile.
This image was made at the rodelheim park in frankfurt am main, Germany.
I was watching this Damselfly, happily flying through the stinging nettles, when it flew straight into the spider’s web. Within a fraction of a second the spider was out and injecting the lethal dose!
I went back to the car and got my camera, max 5 mins, when I returned the Damselfly looked like it had been dead for days, looking more like the wreck of the Hindenburg.
…..always take your camera!
At UT I dabbled in metal casting and fabrication. For my final I had this idea for a one-man grill. It is kind of lonely but with a sense of humor, something close to independence. The Steak Grill is made of steel and based on measurements from what was a delicious steak. It was some of the most fun I have had working on a school project and I have wanted to get back into a metal shop like that ever since.
The best part is it works. I guess you could only do one side of a T-bone but a couple dogs and a burger is perfect. The Steak Grill has had a few homes over the years and was trapped in a busted car trunk for a while.
Now that the grill is preserved in pictures I would like to try to get the rust off, or at least keep it from getting worse. Even if it was clean I am not sure how to keep it that way and still be able to eat off of it.
The Steak Grill won me an “A” and I have the pictures so maybe it is time for it to retire to rust somewhere permanent with the base buried like it sprouted out of the ground.
For more photos and videos by Mark Lewis visit mlewisphotovideo.com
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Today, being a very cold Sunday, we decided to stay in bed, wrapped in comfy blankets and play a game of scrabble. Mommie, being a girl and therefore not able to spell any words beside shoes, preferred to watch and supply us players with yummy tea and cookies.
It wasn’t an optimal game, we lost Little Pip quite early on as he discovered that he was only able to spell Pip once and therefore decided that his work was done. Soon after my Uncle dared to challenge me on the word Zorg. The challenge was of course overruled by the game master (me) and after trying to sneak in the word Epig my uncle had to sit out a couple of rounds and was soon hopelessly trailing behind.
After counting together all points I have to admit that maybe we didn’t understand the game quite correctly. We probably need some lessons from the members of the Land of the Bed as they seem to be quite the experts at the game :-)
At UT I dabbled in metal casting and fabrication. For my final I had this idea for a one-man grill. It is kind of lonely but with a sense of humor, something close to independence. The Steak Grill is made of steel and based on measurements from what was a delicious steak. It was some of the most fun I have had working on a school project and I have wanted to get back into a metal shop like that ever since.
The best part is it works. I guess you could only do one side of a T-bone but a couple dogs and a burger is perfect. The Steak Grill has had a few homes over the years and was trapped in a busted car trunk for a while.
Now that the grill is preserved in pictures I would like to try to get the rust off, or at least keep it from getting worse. Even if it was clean I am not sure how to keep it that way and still be able to eat off of it.
The Steak Grill won me an “A” and I have the pictures so maybe it is time for it to retire to rust somewhere permanent with the base buried like it sprouted out of the ground.
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Buffleheads (divers) are one of the Goldeneyes - they're a little over 12" long and usually weigh about 13 oz. Bufflehead refers to their bulbous head shape. They arrive at Lost Lagoon in the late Fall and migrate when spring comes, to habitats in northern / tundra areas. They're monogamous and like to nest in trees! (Would just love to see little ones!)
Wigeons (dabblers) are about 17-23 in. long and weigh 1.5 to 2.5 lbs. Like the Bufflehead, they appear at the lagoon in the Fall and leave again in Spring. Usually where there's one Wigeon, there's a flock - they're very social - and have a whistling call that they don't hesitate to exercise non-stop.
This dabbling duck is widespread in North America, feeding on plants in freshwater and coastal ponds. This male was photographed at Harold and Wilson Conservation Park, Nassau, Bahamas, and was another new species for me.
At UT I dabbled in metal casting and fabrication. For my final I had this idea for a one-man grill. It is kind of lonely but with a sense of humor, something close to independence. The Steak Grill is made of steel and based on measurements from what was a delicious steak. It was some of the most fun I have had working on a school project and I have wanted to get back into a metal shop like that ever since.
The best part is it works. I guess you could only do one side of a T-bone but a couple dogs and a burger is perfect. The Steak Grill has had a few homes over the years and was trapped in a busted car trunk for a while.
Now that the grill is preserved in pictures I would like to try to get the rust off, or at least keep it from getting worse. Even if it was clean I am not sure how to keep it that way and still be able to eat off of it.
The Steak Grill won me an “A” and I have the pictures so maybe it is time for it to retire to rust somewhere permanent with the base buried like it sprouted out of the ground.
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