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Voluntary social isolation one day or two, to work with pictures and more goes well, but a forced one feels much worse. Maybe because we don't know how long the insulation will last.
Take care everyone
BTW Whoopers have arrived now to Sweden, coming in thousends.
Texture: Tota, Jai Johnson.
Un matin de givre... A frosty morning... Una mañana helada...
Le rouge-gorge gonfle son plumage d’air pour créer une couche isolante supplémentaire et éviter les pertes caloriques.
The robin puffs out its plumage with air to create an extra layer of insulation and prevent calorie loss.
El petirrojo hincha su plumaje con aire para crear una capa adicional de aislamiento y evitar la pérdida de calorías.
As I walked around the park I saw a number of Mallard ducks resting on the grass.
I found this information about this process:
Moulting is a process of shedding and regrowing feathers. Adult birds are shedding their worn out feathers from this year's breeding season and growing new, strong, warm feathers to see them through the winter. This year's young are losing their first feathers and moulting into their adult coats.
Feathers wear out during a bird's busy year. Flying, rubbing against neighbouring feathers or trees, general weakening due to exposure to sun, along with parasites, such as feather lice, all cause damage to feathers.
A comparison of feather wear shows that pigmented (dark) feathers wear more slowly than white ones.
Feathers grow from follicles in the skin (like hair) and the growth of a new feather from the bottom of the follicle pushes the old one out. The process is a gradual one and occurs in sequence across an area of skin to ensure that there are no ‘bald’ patches.
This means that a full moult may be spread out over a considerable time period, which is fine if there is a plentiful food supply, and if the bird is not a migrant.
Most birds will moult completely during a year, sometimes split into two or three moult periods, usually before and after breeding.
Moulting is a drain on a bird’s resources. It takes energy to grow new feathers, there may be heat loss when feathers are shed, affecting insulation, and when flight feathers are lost, more energy may be needed for flight.
Unlike most other birds, ducks, geese and swans lose all their flight feathers at once, rendering them flightless for a period.
In ducks, to provide some protection for the brightly-coloured males, the moult starts with their bright body feathers. These are replaced by dowdy brown ones, making them look much like females.
This eclipse plumage is why in mid- to late summer, it seems that all the drakes have gone. Once the flight feathers have regrown, the birds moult again, and by October the full colours have been regained and the various species of ducks are easily recognisable.
Female ducks lose their flight feathers later, after the young become independent.
This is the time of year when they moult.
(source: RSPB website)
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Colour re-edit of a shot from October 2019. Enjoy!
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Another 'previously unpublished' shot taken in October 2017. With sharply increasing energy bills as we head into winter I think we will be needing some extra layers of insulation indoors too. Stay safe my Flickr friends - enjoy!
Norman Hudson holds a roll of this cool plastic mesh designed to back up batt fiberglass insulation. The worker on top of the scaffold is stripping off squares of 40-year-old stucco, while the man on the ground is loading into a truck.
Any colorful building material is a plus in my book, even though it will be covered over.
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Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Enjoy!
This nonbreeding male House Sparrow was seen in winter in Calgary, Alberta, Canada — the season is suggested by muted tones in both the bird’s plumage and the setting. Another sign is that this individual has fluffed out its feathers to give added insulation against the cold temperature.
Gotta lift these rolls of insulation waaaay up high in the rafters of a new hangar at SJC.
San Jose, California.
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Colour re-edit of a shot from April 2017.
This shot marks the point of 7000 photos added to my street photography album 'On the Street'. Quite the milestone though, thanks to the past couple of years, there are just a few re-edits in the mix too. Thank you all for your awesome support. Enjoy!
This white-breasted nuthatch looks a bit chubbier than normal but that's because its feathers are inflated to trap air and add insulation against the frigid cold. The polar vortex continues to pump arctic air from the North Pole right down into the Driftless Region.
Discovered this strange alien artifact in our basement when we were putting up insulation. We did not know what it was for during the many days that we examined it. Then, one day, I held it up to my eye and stared into its deep depths of deepness, and I found my future laid bare before me.
I cannot tell you what it was.
I can only tell you that it involved lots of money, and a breeding habitat for spider monkeys.
Of this, I can say no more.
© Darlene Bushue 2019
Came across this guy and another smaller bull during our first snowfall of the season a couple weeks ago. They were both hunkered down in the trees, trying to avoid the winds. I was amazed at how good their insulation is, as you can see from the snow gathered on his beautiful coat.
Woke up to 10 inches of snow overnight, and it's still coming down. Have a great Thursday!
Wouldn't it be nice to insulate ourselves from the cold by puffing out like this sweet Goldfinch, then when someone walks by, we just suck it all back in :)
Canon 1DXII, F8, 1/1000, ISO 1600
View of damaged high-percentage asbestos millboard insulation in basement of residential structure, formerly used as heat shielding on wooden support member.
Often mistakenly thought of as regular cardboard or "transite" paneling, asbestos millboard is a distinct type of insulation, usually distinguished more notably by its density and friability, as compared to corrugated paper or cement-based materials.
Material characterization aside, this damaged asbestos material will be removed by properly trained and licensed asbestos abatement contractor personnel.
Example of asbestos cement panel used as heat shield insulation within vented, wooden radiator enclosure (top vent absent). The asbestos cement panel is approx. 1/4-inch in thickness and is secured to the wooden enclosure interior with nails.
Week 9: "Wall Crawler"
When Spidey comes to life in my house, he often gets into mischief. I caught him in my attic, trying to pick at the insulation last night...
With the insulation layers in place its time to start thinking about puting a layer or two of paint on the outside to protect from the rain, most prevailent in august here.
female northern cardinal sporting her winter insulation as the temperature climbs to minus 7 degrees
All the insulation material inside the colapsed roof (or who knows where from) dropped to the floor and got wet by the rain water. Then I came around and shot some pictures.
Wires coated in plastic insulation routed to connectors on a plastic "66" punch-down block. 66 blocks are the workhorse cross-connection points used throughout the telephone system.
It's hard to imagine modern electronics and communication without plastics.
~1:1 reproduction ratio (1.5"/38mm edge to edge)
If you're thinking of maybe putting a shed in the garden of your Icelandic holiday home it may be a good idea to allow 3 x the width of your shed for solid wall insulation (does get pretty windy in exposed areas) :)
Revealing some imperfections in the roof insulation. Some enterprising insulation contactors go around neighborhoods taking such photos to share with homeowners and offer their services. People can be shocked to learn how much heat their roof loses compared to neighbors.
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The muskox has two layers of insulation against the extreme cold in their habitat. The layer you don't see is called Qiviut, which is eight times warmer than wool. The outer layer consists of the long guard hairs that hang nearly to the ground. When the animals run, as this bull is, the guard hair flows in elegant waves. Best viewed Large.