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Marsh Tit - Poecile palustris
Globally, the marsh tit is classified as Least Concern, although there is evidence of a decline in numbers (in the UK, numbers have dropped by more than 50% since the 1970s, for example). It can be found throughout temperate Europe and northern Asia and, despite its name, it occurs in a range of habitats including dry woodland. The marsh tit is omnivorous; its food includes caterpillars, spiders and seeds. It nests in tree holes, choosing existing hollows to enlarge, rather than excavating its own. A clutch of 5–9 eggs is laid.
Marsh and willow tits are difficult to identify on appearance alone; the races occurring in the UK and are especially hard to separate. When caught for ringing, the pale 'cutting edge' of the marsh tit's bill is a reliable criterion; otherwise, the best way to tell apart the two species is by voice. Plumage characteristics include the lack of a pale wing panel (formed by pale edges to the secondary feathers in the willow tit), the marsh tit's glossier black cap and smaller black 'bib', although none of these is 'completely reliable'; for example, juvenile marsh tits can show a pale wing panel. The marsh tit has a noticeably smaller and shorter head than the willow tit and overall the markings are crisp and neat, with the head in proportion to the rest of the bird (willow tit gives the impression of being 'bull-necked').
A measure of the difficulty in identification is given by the fact that, in the UK, the willow tit was not identified as distinct from marsh tit until 1897. Two German ornithologists, Ernst Hartert and Otto Kleinschmidt, were studying marsh tit skins at the British Museum and found two wrongly-labelled willow tits amongst them (two willow tit specimens were then collected at Coalfall Wood in Finchley, north London, and that species was added to the British list in 1900).
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Part of my out of proportion series, with an uber thick chest. I also love the shoulder armour.
#FlickrFriday #proportion
Tribute to Platon. The inspiration for this photograph comes from Platon's amazing portrait of President Bill Clinton.
Thanks to my friend Neil, a truly gifted artist.
Die ICE 1 Triebzüge finden nach ihrem zweiten Re-Design ihr Ausgedinge bei weniger frequentierten Verbindungen mit geringem Hochgeschwindigkeitsanteil. Ein klassisches Beispiel für einen solchen Einsatz ist der ICE 1652 von Dresden nach Frankfurt am Main HBF. Am 01. September 2024 kam hier der auf den Namen Lichtenfels getaufte 401 008 zum Einsatz. Bei Hermannspiegel konnte ich den zum Aufnahmezeitpunkt im 34. Einsatzjahr stehenden ICE aufnehmen.
Following their second redesign, the ICE 1 multiple units are now being used on less frequented connections with a low proportion of high-speed travelling. A classic example of such an operation is the ICE 1652 from Dresden to Frankfurt am Main main station. On 1 September 2024, 401 008, christened Lichtenfels, was used here. At Hermannspiegel, I was able to take a photo of the ICE, which was in its 34th year of service at the time.
Blackcap - Sylvia Atrcapilla (M)
The Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) usually known simply as the blackcap, is a common and widespread typical warbler. It has mainly olive-grey upperparts and pale grey underparts, and differences between the five subspecies are small. Both sexes have a neat coloured cap to the head, black in the male and reddish-brown in the female. The male's typical song is a rich musical warbling, often ending in a loud high-pitched crescendo, but a simpler song is given in some isolated areas, such as valleys in the Alps. The blackcap's closest relative is the garden warbler, which looks quite different but has a similar song.
The blackcap feeds mainly on insects during the breeding season, then switches to fruit in late summer, the change being triggered by an internal biological rhythm. When migrants arrive on their territories they initially take berries, pollen and nectar if there are insufficient insects available, then soon switch to their preferred diet. They mainly pick prey off foliage and twigs, but may occasionally hover, flycatch or feed on the ground. Blackcaps eat a wide range of invertebrate prey, although aphids are particularly important early in the season, and flies, beetles and caterpillars are also taken in large numbers. Small snails are swallowed whole, since the shell is a source of calcium for the bird's eggs. Chicks are mainly fed soft-bodied insects, fruit only being provided if invertebrates are scarce.
In July, the diet switches increasingly to fruit. The protein needed for egg-laying and for the chicks to grow is replaced by fruit sugar which helps the birds to fatten for migration. Aphids are still taken while they are available, since they often contain sugars from the plant sap on which they feed. Blackcaps eat a wide range of small fruit, and squeeze out any seeds on a branch before consuming the pulp. This technique makes them an important propagator of mistletoe. The mistle thrush, which also favours that plant, is less beneficial since it tends to crush the seeds. Although any suitable fruit may be eaten, some have seasonal or local importance; elder makes up a large proportion of the diet of northern birds preparing for migration, and energy-rich olives and lentisc are favoured by blackcaps wintering in the Mediterranean.
The German birds wintering in British gardens rely on provided food, and the major items are bread and fat, each making up around 20% of the diet; one bird survived the whole winter eating only Christmas cake. Fruit is also eaten, notably cotoneaster (41% of the fruit consumed), ivy and honeysuckle, and apple if available. Some birds have learned to take peanuts from feeders. Blackcaps defend good winter food sources in the wild, and at garden feeding stations they repel competitors as large as starlings and blackbirds. Birds occasionally become tame enough to feed from the hand.
Aristotle, in his History of Animals, considered that the garden warbler eventually metamorphosed into a blackcap. The blackcap's song has led to it being described as the "mock nightingale" or "country nightingale", and John Clare, in "The March Nightingale" describes the listener as believing that the rarer species has arrived prematurely. "He stops his own and thinks the nightingale/Hath of her monthly reckoning counted wrong". The song is also the topic of Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli's "La Capinera" [The Blackcap].
Giovanni Verga's 1871 novel Storia di una capinera, according to its author, was inspired by a story of a blackcap trapped and caged by children. The bird, silent and pining for its lost freedom, eventually dies. In the book, a nun evacuated from her convent by cholera falls in love with a family friend, only to have to return to her confinement when the disease wanes. The novel was adapted as films of the same name in 1917, 1943 and 1993. The last version was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and its English-language version was retitled as Sparrow. In Saint François d'Assise, an opera by Messiaen, the orchestration is based on bird song. St Francis himself is represented by the blackcap.
Folk names for the blackcap often refer to its most obvious plumage feature (black-headed peggy, King Harry black cap and coal hoodie) or to its song, as in the "nightingale" names above. Other old names are based on its choice of nesting material (Jack Straw, hay bird, hay chat and hay Jack). There is a tradition of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm bases being named for birds. A former base near Stretton in Cheshire was called HMS Blackcap.
Population:
UK breeding:
1,200,000 territories
UK wintering:
3,000 bird
Virtually every little village in Northamptonshire has its own medieval stone-built church, and I often wonder what proportion of our national wealth went into the building of churches in that period. Often nothing is left of the original village that must have surrounded the church when it was built, and we can often only guess at its size or how many people must have lived there.
This is the Grade II-listed parish church of St James at Thurning, a tiny village a few miles from Oundle. Its earliest parts date from the 12th century though much of the building (other than the little spire) is 14th century and later. At the 2011 census fewer than 100 people lived in the parish. When I first drove into the village my immediate thought, having seen the spirelet, was that the church must date from the 19th century. In fact the tiny spire (which I think looks rather out of place) dates from 1880 when much of the church including the west wall was also rebuilt.
There is a detailed history of Thurning and the church at www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol3/pp109-113. If anyone is interested in history this is worth reading.
These secretive little frogs spend a large proportion of their lifetime in bromeliads, where they breed. They often reside in bromeliads high off the ground, and are therefore much more frequently heard than seen. After hearing the unmistakable calls of the frog nearby, we were lucky to find this individual sitting in a bromeliad about 3-4 metres off the ground on a steep slope.
This frog is endemic to Cusuco National Park.
Location: Cusuco National Park, Sierra del Merendón, Honduras, Central America
The Río de la Plata (Spanish for Silver River) is the name given to the 290 km long and up to 220 km wide mouth of the major South American rivers Paraná and Uruguay into the Atlantic Ocean. The water of the Río de la Plata is cloudy due to the high proportion of clayey silt.
One factor in what i call "true minifig scaling" is not to just keep the minifig height in mind, but also the fact that the original minifigs low hip joints might create the impressions of tires being "too large" for a vehicle. I also forget that fact myself sometimes, since i often place minifigs next to my vehicles. However, if you keep using the realistically proportioned "human fig" as a template next to your MOC, selecting the right tires/rims for your vehicles wont be any trouble.
Die Brücke scheint zu klein zu sein für das große Schiff, das durch die Büsche fährt. Es ist aber alles in Ordnung, ein großes Cargo Schiff fährt auf dem Nord-Ostsee-Kanal und passierte die 42 m hohe Levensauer Hochbrücke.
The bridge appears to be too small for the large ship that sails through the bushes. But everything is fine, a large cargo ship is sailing on the Kiel Canal and passed the 42 m high bridge
Graceful, well-proportioned bodies and sharp features bring out the elegance of the female figure. The gestures of the subjects of the paintings express more than their looks.
Bundi is one of the few places in India, which can lay its claim to an authentic School of Painting. "The Bundi School" is an important school of the Rajasthani style of Indian miniature painting that lasted from the 17th to the end of the 19th century in this princely state (see picture 1 for more information).
Focus stack (15 images) Shot with single off-camera strobe (Godox AD200Pro/XPro II L trigger), bare bulb, mounterd to overhead boom, bounced off 32 inch white imbrella.
Shot for Flickr Friday - proportion
This nocturnal bird of prey hunts mainly rodents, usually by dropping from a perch to seize its prey, which it swallows whole; in more urban areas its diet includes a higher proportion of birds. Vision and hearing adaptations and silent flight aid its night hunting.
46/365 -Around the house - Day 46
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The image of this bill is narrower than actual proportion.
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Proportion, Flickr Friday theme. Cookie, Bluebell and the little people . Monster lessons with the help of Dad.
Unspoilt and unmodernised, this small and unpretentious pub has a fame vastly out of proportion to its size. Established in 1823, it is one of Dublin's oldest pubs.
Male gives single mellow “buuo”, inflected downwards, repeated at longish intervals of 12–20...
Insects (especially beetles and grasshoppers); diet also includes moderate proportion of vertebrates, such as rodents, small birds..
Feb–Apr/May; some evidence that breeding season may be longer; in Thailand Jan–Apr; in Ussuriland, young leave nest in July..
A snowy Egret hanging out on a pier - just taking it all in. I couldn't help notice at how big his feet look. Don't they look all out of proportion to his body?
The Cat is on the tshirt I’m wearing. Selfie provided by Tman. Neon sign, animated eyes and Alice tea party via Unsplash.
A high proportion of my Bison photos are of the impressive, enormous, dominant bulls - the iconic ones are simply irresistible. But occasionally I remember to tell a broader story, and there's no denying that the cows and calves are compelling in their own way.
This lovely female was part of a herd that I stopped for last November. They were on the road in front of me, and on both sides... close... I got out of my car for better shooting angles, but stayed very close to it and partly hidden, so they didn't see my full human profile.
Isn't she pretty? I even like the frozen slush and caught grasses on her chin and beard. This is uncropped. I made a quick decision to include her muzzle rather than the horns, which would have been out of focus anyway. Nice soft light, some of it bouncing off the snow and enhancing the details of her furry face.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2022 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
"The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size." ~Gertrude S. Wister
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A lagoon is a body of saline water that is partially separated from the adjacent sea and which keeps a proportion of saltwater at low tide. As well as providing an important habitat for seabirds, waterfowl and marshland birds, lagoons also contain unique invertebrates and specialist plants which make this type of habitat important to the UK’s overall biodiversity.
37 acres of littoral land and saline lagoons was purchased by the Society in 1991, with assistance from English Nature (now Natural England), after almost four years of fundraising and negotiations with the land owner. This area lies immediately south of a 33 acre area, which includes Easington Lagoon, which is owned by the Environment Agency and leased to the Society. A further 22 acres of land to the direct south of the Lagoons was purchased in 2000. This package of land is know as Beacon Lagoons, though has also variously been known as Beacon Ponds, Kilnsea Lagoons and Easington Lagoons. It was initially purchased primarily because of the Society’s interest in the little tern colony situated there.
The BLNR contains a variety of coastal habitats including sand dunes, shingle, salt marsh, saline lagoons and pools. The site is situated on the Holderness coast, 2km north of the Spurn peninsula and south-west of the village of Easington. It holds SSSI designation and is a potential SPA and a proposed Ramsar site because it comprises a variety of important features including:
· Its saline lagoons, which are a UK priority Annex 1 habitat under the EC ‘Habitats Directive’
· Its importance for its colony of over 1% of the British breeding population of little terns on its shingle beach and as a feeding and roosting site for important numbers of migratory birds
· Lagoons are included as a priority feature under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan
· Plants and animals which are either mainly or entirely restricted to a lagoonal habitat. These species include flora and fauna protected under schedules 5 and 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981).
The SHCS is responsible for the management of the BLNR, with the Spurn Bird Observatory involved in the organisation of the Little Tern Protection Scheme. A Tern warden (kindly funded by BP Exploration) is employed during the breeding season to help protect the birds against predation and from the accidental intrusion of beach users.
The water in the lagoons is strongly saline but not tidal, though storm surges may occasionally temporarily connect the lagoons with the sea. These breaches introduce marine organisms that may survive in the lagoons for several years. There is also an area of non-tidal salt marsh and some low dunes.
The main threat to the flora and fauna of the lagoons is the erosion of the beach by the North Sea and by the rise in sea levels. This ultimately threatens the site with ‘coastal squeeze’ whereby the lagoons will become tidal, eventually eliminating them altogether. It is expected the southern addition will eventually acquire a similar aspect to the present lagoons, which will prolong the life of the habitat and its associated flora and fauna.
Some vulnerable plant species such as Divided Sedge (Carex divisa) and Saltwort (Salsola Kali) occur here, along with Spiral Tasselweed (Ruppia cirrhosa) which is close to qualifying as a threatened species in the near future, and Sea Wormwood (Seriphidium maritimum) which is an Internationally important species.
Invertebrates characteristic of such lagoons as these are found here. Species include the mollusc Ventrosia ventrosa, the crustaceans Palaemonetes varians and Idotea chelipes, and the bryozoans Conopeum seurati. These are just a small example of the many different species in the lagoons.
During my travels today, I came across a remarkably large chickadee and its birdhouse!
The proportion of this little bird and its home to its surroundings was truly striking. Standing at 5’6”, I notice that the sapling beside the birdhouse is taller than I am, highlighting the impressive scale of the scene. It was a delightful reminder of how art can surprise us!
Excerpt from historicplaces.ca:
Brant Avenue Heritage Conservation District
39-291 Brant Avenue
Description of Historic Place
The Brant Avenue Heritage Conservation District includes buildings on Brant Avenue between St. Paul Avenue and the Lorne Bridge in the City of Brantford. Although this district includes the Armoury, Brant Ave. Church and the Brantford Collegiate Institute, the majority of the 132 properties are residential, built between 1870 and 1889.
The district was designated by the City of Brantford for its heritage value under Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act in 1988 (By-law 239-88).
Heritage Value
The south entrance to the Brant Avenue Heritage Conservation District is marked by the Cenotaph (the Brant County War Memorial) and Tom Thumb Park. This popular area saw rapid residential growth due to its proximity to local employment opportunities, shopping and easy access to the commercial and industrial core in the Colbourne Street area.
Brant Avenue is presently part of Highway 2, a busy two-way main artery, which began serving Brantford in circa 1823 with the opening of the Hamilton to London section of road. Since its construction the street has functioned as a vibrant entry point to the city.
The increase in economic development in Brantford from 1870-1889 resulting from the opening of large farm related companies such as Harris Kirby Mower (1871) and the Cockshutt Plow Company (1878), resulted in a boom in residential construction. It was during this time that most of the larger homes along Brant Avenue were built. Residing in these large impressive homes were the “movers and shakers” of Brantford, which included Henry Brethour, Director of the local Fire Company and a business man; Hanson Harris, co-founder of Massey Harris; William Buck of Buck Stove Works; and Clayton Slater, owner of Wincey Mills. Each played a key role in creating growth in the City of Brantford. By 1890, the Brant Avenue neighbourhood was considered fully developed.
Noteworthy properties include the W.H Brethour House, David Plewes House and the Brant Avenue Church which were designed by local architect John Turner.
Turner also designed St. Andrew's United Church, Brant Community Church, and the Brant County Court House, all located around Victoria Park Square in downtown Brantford.
Brant Avenue is a combination of both large and modest structures creating an exceptional streetscape. The buildings feature traditional architectural styles including Neo-Classical, Italianate, Gothic, and Queen Anne, creating a cornucopia of detail and an interesting skyline. Predominant elements on the buildings include: brick or stone quoins, window and door openings, balconies, bargeboards, cornice mouldings, striking belt courses, interesting entrance porches, iron crestings and various window and door labels.
Many of the buildings have been constructed as duplicates, mirror images, or complimentary pairs adding an uniqueness to the District as a whole. They feature segmented or round headed windows. A number of the buildings had porches added during the Edwardian Period (1903 -11). These additions possess a level of detail, scale and proportion compatible with the original building design.
Character-Defining Elements
Character defining elements that contribute to the heritage value of the Brant Avenue Heritage Conservation District include its:
- proximity to the commercial and industrial core of Brantford
- south entrance marked by the Cenotaph and Tom Thumb Park
- combination of large and modest structures
- construction of buildings as duplicates, pairs or mirror images
- features embedded in the traditional architectural styles such as Neo-Classical, Italianate, Gothic, and Queen Anne
- elements which enhance the buildings' scale including: brick or stone quoins,
window and door openings, balconies, bargeboard, cornice moulding, belt
courses, entrance porches, cresting, and window and door labels
- traditional architectural details including: cornices, trim, mouldings, window
and door labels, arches, quoins, balustrades, cresting, and chimneys
The façade of the Basilica of San Pietro di Castello features two pilasters on each side of the door, supporting a tympanum. The pediment above the door mirrors this shape. Venice, Italy.
“Who said beauty can’t be based on proportion if it is a perfect structure?”
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Close-up candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Another Hen Party on the prowl with an inflatable groom-to-be. How could I resist capturing this? Some great reactions too. Enjoy full screen by pressing 'L' or clicking on the image.
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One of my favourite ducks. I especially enjoy watching their gleeful interactions with each other. They have large heads in proportion to their body accented with a white patch on their cheeks. For the most part the Buffleheads I see are very shy, and they maintain quite a distance, from people. While they were feeding, I managed to get quite close to several males (5 feet) and sort of close to several females (25 feet) yesterday. There always seems to be one male sentry between the females and people, and as a diving duck they'll spend more than half their time under water while feeding. Weekdays appear to be less intimidating to them, with a lot fewer people around at the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary Delta BC Canada
St Mary and St Lawrence, Great Waltham, Essex
A pretty village and a large church, although odd of proportion, for it is wide-aisled yet without clerestories under a low roof. The core of church and tower is Norman, although the north aisle is of the 1870s by that man Frederic Chancellor again. At some point the west side of the tower has been buttressed with red brick, which is very attractive, and the top of the tower was prettified right at the end of the 19th Century.
You step into a space which, as you may imagine, is square in feel, largely because of the wide aisles and low roof, but also the elegance of the arcades. The most memorable feature is the famous memorial of 1611 to Sir Anthony and Lady Anne Everard of Langleys, Great Waltham.
She had died in 1609, he would die in 1614, although not before marrying again. They lie within an extraordinary gilded arch backlit by heraldic glass, both turned awkwardly onto their right elbows, stiff as dolls. Below them lie three dead babies, one of them named as Richard but the other two only as 'anonymus'. It is a remarkable memorial caught at a fascinating moment in time, at once looking back to the recently-passed Elizabethan era and towards the turbulent puritan times to come.
There are other memorials to Everards and also to the Tufnells into whose hands Langleys passed in the early 18th Century. Many of the Tufnell memorials are in glass by the O'Connors in the 1850s, as well as some rather alarming Ion Pace glass from later in the century.