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ISO: 320
Film type: 120
Film name: Kentmere Pan 400
Developer: Kodak D-76
Process: 20°C.
Developer dilution: Stock
Developing time: 8'45"
Camera: Pentax 645n
Lens: SMC Pentax-FA 645 1:2.8 45mm
Filter(s) used: no
Aperture: 2.8
Exposure time: 1/60
Focal length: 45
Scanner manufacturer: Epson Perfection V550 Photo.
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Key information
Noisy and gregarious, these cheerful exploiters of man's rubbish and wastefulness have managed to colonise most of the world. The ultimate avian opportunist perhaps. Monitoring suggests a severe decline in the UK house sparrow population, recently estimated as dropping by 71 per cent between 1977 and 2008 with substantial declines in both rural and urban populations. While the decline in England continues, Breeding Bird Survey data indicate recent population increases in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
What they eat:
Seeds and scraps.
Measurements:
Length:14-15cm
Wingspan:21-25.5cm
Weight:24-38g
Population:
UK breeding:5,300,000 pairs
Where and when to see them
House sparrows can be found from the centre of cities to the farmland of the countryside, they feed and breed near to people. It is a species vanishing from the centre of many cities, but is not uncommon in most towns and villages. It is absent from parts of the Scottish Highlands and is thinly distributed in most upland areas.
Breeding
House sparrows usually nest in loose colonies and since they don't defend a proper territory, nests can be as little as 20-30 cm apart.
How house sparrows nest
Nests are often placed in holes and crevices within buildings and they will readily use nestboxes. Free-standing nests are also frequently built, in creepers against walls and in thick hedges or conifers.
Pairs often remain faithful to their nest site and to each other for life, although a lost mate of either sex is normally replaced within days. A hole is filled with dry grass or straw with a nesting chamber lined with feathers, hairs, string and paper. Feathers may be plucked from a live pigeon!
The main nesting season is from April to August, although nesting has been recorded in all months. Most birds lay two or three clutches, but in a good year fourth attempts are not uncommon.
About house sparrow chicks
The female lays two to five eggs at daily intervals and often starts to incubate part way through egg-laying. Both sexes incubate, and the chicks hatch after 11-14 days. The parents share nesting duties equally. Chicks are brooded for 6-8 days, but can control their own body temperature only when 10 or 11 days old.
The youngsters are fed on a variety of invertebrates, including aphids, caterpillars, beetles and grasshoppers. Seeds and vegetable matter are also given, particularly during periods when invertebrates are scarce (e.g. cold weather) and become more important after the chicks leave the nest.
The young fledge 14-16 days after hatching. They are unable to feed themselves for about a week after leaving the nest and are cared for by their parents for around a fortnight. Post-fledging care is frequently left to the male as the hen prepares for the next brood. She can begin laying her next clutch of eggs within days of the previous brood leaving the nest.
Newly independent young often gather in large flocks, anywhere there is an abundance of seed, invertebrates and other suitable foods. These may be areas of wasteland or around garden feeding sites. Later, rural flocks may move on to grainfields to feed on the ripening grain, often joined by adult birds, once they have finished nesting. Flocks tend to break up through the autumn and birds return to their nesting colony sites.
Population trends
The house sparrow is common through most of its world range, and can tolerate a wide variety of climates.
The recent decline of house sparrows
UK house sparrow populations have fluctuated greatly over the centuries, with a gradual decline during the last 100 years.
Causes for the rapid recent declines, particularly in urban and suburban environments, remain largely undetermined, although research is underway that aims to establish the cause(s), and develop conservation solutions.
Declines in rural house sparrow populations are thought to be linked to changes in agricultural practices, particularly the loss of winter stubbles and improved hygiene measures around grain stores.
House sparrow numbers were not monitored adequately before the mid-1970s. Since then, numbers in rural England have nearly halved while numbers in towns and cities have declined by 60 per cent. Because of these large population declines, the house sparrow is now red-listed as a species of high conservation concern.
Relations with humans and other animals
People have a love-hate relationship with the house sparrow. However, control attempts have failed to limit the sparrows numbers and range.
Their relationship with humans
People have a love-hate relationship with the house sparrow. For many they are the most familiar of wild animals, bringing life to city centres and other man-made places, bereft of wildlife.
The house sparrows partiality to grain crops and the damage and destruction this caused resulted in attempts to control their numbers. From the mid-18th century most parishes had sparrow clubs with the sole objective to destroy as many sparrows as possible. Bounties were paid for sparrows until the late 19th century, when it was accepted that the control measures did not work. Similar failures were recorded in a number of other European countries.
Ironically, as people in Europe were paid to kill sparrows as pests, others deliberately introduced them to places as far apart as Australia and New York. Initially they were welcomed, although later appreciation turned to serious concern for the impact on crops. By then sparrows had become well established and control attempts have failed to limit the sparrows numbers and range.
How sparrows behave with other animals
Sparrows are aggressive tend to dominate feeders in gardens and prevent other birds from getting to the food. They harass other birds and steal their food and take over their nests, particularly house martins. The eviction and interference often results in a reduction in breeding success and can cause desertion of even large martin colonies.
Sparrows frequently tear to pieces the nests of martins and swallows and eject any eggs or chicks therein. The owners are unable to stop them.
Sparrows are very resilient and for their size have remarkably few serious predators. Main predators are domestic cats, owls (especially tawny) and sparrowhawks, but none are capable of affecting the size of the sparrow population, with the possible exception of localised effects by cats.
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Blue Poppy
Thanks to ~Dezz~, whose wonderful and step-by-step tutorial on single-image HDR's was the source of my information on how to do this.
Thanks Desirae !!
1k-5646 hdr
Information, credits and a closer picture of the jewelry are on the blog post - rissasecondlife.blogspot.com/2019/11/desert-beauty.html
General Information
Aircraft Type: Boeing 737-8AS
Airline: Corendon Airlines
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Registration: TC-TJY
Cn: 34991/3780
Name: n/a
Location & Date
Location: Brussels Airport (BRU EBBR)
Date: 2022 08 08
Comments
Landing RWY 01. Flight XC1913 AYT-BRU. Wearing special Antalyaspor livery.
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.:: More information in my blog Ashraf Rathmullah. The link is in information and all my links ::..
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Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
Dammi il sole splendido e silenzioso con tutti i suoi raggi pieni di luce.
(Walt Whitman)
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Outfit:
Casual Jeans M3
Casual Shirt M8_Tucked
Beard:
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at TMD from the sept 5 maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/TMD/124/100/23
Car:
.::Indulge::. 356 Roadster JD edition BOX (wear me)
[...] "Information stellt zwar immer Verbindungen her, doch einige Arten von Information – von wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen bis zu politischen Reden – können versuchen, diese Verbindung durch eine korrekte Darstellung von bestimmten Aspekten der Wirklichkeit zu knüpfen. Das verlangt allerdings einen besonderen Einsatz, den Information selbst nicht leistet. Deshalb irrt das naive Informationsverständnis, wenn es annimmt, dass leistungsfähigere Informationstechnologie automatisch zu einem wahrhaftigeren Verständnis der Welt führt. Wenn keine weiteren Maßnahmen ergriffen werden, um das Gleichgewicht zugunsten der Wahrheit zu verschieben, dann sorgt eine Zunahme und Beschleunigung der Information nur dafür, dass die relativ seltenen und kostspieligen wahrhaftigen Darstellungen unter der anschwellenden Flut minderwertiger Information verschwinden." [...]
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[...] "While information always creates connections, some types of information—from scientific publications to political speeches—can attempt to establish this connection through an accurate representation of certain aspects of reality. However, this requires a special effort that information itself does not make. Therefore, the naive understanding of information is mistaken when it assumes that more powerful information technology automatically leads to a more truthful understanding of the world. If no additional measures are taken to shift the balance in favor of truth, an increase and acceleration of information will only ensure that the relatively rare and costly truthful representations disappear under the swelling flood of inferior information." [...]
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(Harari, "Nexus")
General Information
Aircraft Type: Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
Airline: All Nippon Airways - ANA
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Registration: JA873A
Cn: 34530/345
Name: R2-D2 ANA JET
Location & Date
Location: Brussels Airport (BRU EBBR)
Date: 2015 12 09
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Landing RWY 25L. Flight NH231 NRT-BRU. Wearing special Star Wars livery.
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'Pink Lake, named after the Pink family who settled the land in 1826, is Gatineau Park’s most unique lake because it is meromictic, meaning that, unlike a normal lake, its upper and lower water levels never mix. This is because it has a small surface and bowl-like shape and is surrounded by steep cliffs that protect it from the wind. There is no oxygen in the deepest seven metres of the lake. With no oxygen at the bottom of Pink Lake, there is only one organism that lives in its depths — an anaerobic prehistoric organism.'
Additional information:
- Lens: Leica Vario-Elmar 1:3.5-6.4 / 18-46 mm Asph.
- OoC-JPEG
- Film mode: Standard (sharpness = medium high)
- Colour space: AdobeRGB
- Exposure mode: A
- Exposure metering: Spot
- Focus: Manual
- Handheld
"Too much information
Well I said you're good for nothing
Come on to the back
I said your needles count for something
Guess I'd better sell you now
Guess I'd be around"...
Kasabian: youtu.be/ITloX-G_2P8
Information & Credits are on the blog post - rissasecondlife.blogspot.com/2019/01/winter-fishing-shack...
For your research or library questions, stop by the information desk and talk to a knowledgeable staff member.
Technical Information:
Telescope: AIRY APO 130T
Mount: Paramount MyT
Camera : QHY9
Filter: Optolong H-a 7nm, OIII 6.5nm, SII 6.5nm
Frames: H-a: 32x900s -- OIII: 32x900s -- SII:32x900s
Total Integration: 24 Hours
Software: SGP – TheSkyX – PHD2 – DSS -PixInsight – CS6
Location: Noventa di Piave (Venice) 4 meter above sea level – ITALY
Environment Temperature: About 1°C
Relative Humidity: 89%
Date: 02.01.20 - 04.01.20 - 11.01.20 - 12.01.20
Very happy of the new Optolong filters; they have been improved a lot and you can reach very good results!
NOTE: The image was acquired from a very polluted sky (Red Zone - where I live).
I like the idea of Okarito using their old boat house and pier for their information center. Improvements on the interior needs work, but one would expect that the contents are sparse due to the center being open 24 hours. One would also guess that this might leave the center vulnerable to theft.
Information and credits are on the blog post - rissasecondlife.blogspot.com/2020/01/once-upon-time.html
Hello amazing people !!
I'm back from the store (look at yesterday’s picture for more information) !! Yes, I'm ok until my next grocery shopping next week !!
Today we celebrate a blue day at Color my World Daily and the theme at Looking close on Friday is : ring.
And if you say ring, I say “nail”! As you may already know (from a previous picture) I love nail rings! I discovered that type of ring few years ago and since I have no nails (and I don’t want to invest in fake nails because I’m so clumsy it will be a loss of money anyways…) it is a perfect solution for a more “lady like look”.
So here you have my favorite nail rings! And who is the best if you want to assess your jewelry value during a pandemic? Mr. Elvis The Accountant of course!
Elvis loves jewelry!! He collects all kind of jewelry, but women’s jewelry is his favorite. Being a collector for many years, he developed a worldwide expertise in women’s jewelry! He can spot a fake rock at a mile! Many rich and famous people called Elvis to confirm the authenticity and value of their beloved jewelry pieces! We will not drop names, but I overheard him speaking on the phone to a certain Barack, Melania, Donald and Justin Trudeau! Yes, yes that is a true story!!
So, as you all know by now (I’m pretty sure, unless you are living on another planet) there is a corona virus pandemic going on. It is very unsafe to touch people hands or just to show people your own hand at a close range (so all fist fights will have to wait until after !!). But since I wanted to know what is my jewelry worth (and who knows? I may be able to pay some extra rolls of toilet paper for my whole family !!!)… I called an expert…Elvis The Accountant. In order to keep Elvis safe, I had to use my wooden hands, which are perfectly safe since I wash them in hot water with soap for at least 20 seconds every time, I or another member of my family, sneezes on them!
So, Elvis felt safe, but he insisted on wearing his protective shoes… Which is ok with me! He looked at my rings for a very, very long time… He observed every tiny detail and looked at every tiny scratch and discoloration… and then, after 5 minutes, he did it again all over! I could almost see dollars signs in his eyes…. I was already making plans as to where I will store the extra toilet paper … Let’s see: the garage is already full, playroom: full up to the ceiling, my bathrooms: very, very full… The only place left: my husband’s socks drawer. That is it: the extra toilet paper will go in to my husband drawer… who needs sock’s anyway ? we are in Canada, he only needs a pair of boots he can wear bare foot ! Also, he has one socks of each pair left… he complains about it constantly… He won’t miss his lonely socks for sure! Ok, he can wear mine, pink socks are very fashionable for men!!
But, sadly my friends, Elvis The Accountant shook his head, in a sign of desperation… He looked at me, took a deep breath and he basically told my all my nail rings were fake! What???? How is it possible???!! It was all a scam: I paid 10$ for 10 rings!! They were so shinny and beautiful!! I was sure I had true diamonds…
And the moral of this story: it is not because it shines like a diamond that it is a diamond... or something like that! And I need my coffee with some Bailys please lol
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts / positive vibes!! It is truly appreciated! I sincerely hope everyone is all right and you all have everything you need to survive this with a smile! Have a great day and see you soon!!
Booted Eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus) captured at Altit, Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan with Nikon D500 and 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR.
For detailed information about Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan visit www.birdsofgilgit.com
National Shrine of Nuestra Señora Virgen de la Regla Interior, Opon, Lapu-lapu City, Cebu, Philippines
Copyright © All rights reserved Peter Vahlersvik! Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media in any way without my explicit written permission
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Plane information
Airline: China Airlines
Type: Airbus A340-313X
First Flight Date: 09/10/2001
Serial Number: 433
Test Registration: F-WWJS
Engines: CFMI CFM56-5C4
Technical Information:
Telescope: AIRY APO 130T
Mount: Paramount MyT
Camera : QHY9
Filter: Optolong H-a 7nm, OIII 6.5nm, SII 6.5nm
Frames: H-a: 32x900s -- OIII: 32x900s -- SII:32x900s
Total Integration: 24 Hours
Software: SGP – TheSkyX – PHD2 – DSS -PixInsight – CS6
Location: Noventa di Piave (Venice) 4 meter above sea level – ITALY
Environment Temperature: About 2°C
Relative Humidity: 88%
Date: 29.12.19 - 30.12.19 - 31.12.19 - 01.01.20
NOTE: The image was acquired from a very polluted sky ( Red Zone - where I live ).
===AIRCRAFT INFORMATION===
Registration: V8-ALI
Aircraft: Boeing 747-430
Aircraft Manufacturer: Boeing Company
Serial No./ MSN: 26426
Aircraft Delivery Date: 17/04/1992
Livery: Normal
Aircraft Status: Stored
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Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah piloting his very own Boeing 747 out of Manila after attending the 27th APEC Summit
Lots of unknowns with this one, no information on the slide at all. At first I thought the train was topping over Palmer Lake on the Northward Track approximately MP 688 at this date (MP 50.5 today) on ATSF trackage. But if you look ahead of the train there is a pair of color light signals and ahead of the signals possibly a concrete phone booth. There should be a ATSF searchlight signal just ahead of the train. Also the Southward Track above that gorgeous C&S gondola (if that is a track) has the pole line on the opposite side. So not sure where this is. Suggestions welcome. Anyway, it is a wonderful going away shot that was probably just a grab shot by the unknown photographer. Wish he would have labeled his work.