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Unconfirmed Polydesmus angustus

  

Polydesmidae species are all fairly similar in appearance, and like a lot of invertebrates, it takes looking at the reproductive organs to actually be able to reliably identify the species.

 

Polydesmus angustus are seen to display an off white set of legs, so I am hoping that my identification is correct.

 

Spring cleaning in the garden, allowed us to uncover some real treasures.

Somebody take the pain away

It's like an ulcer bleeding in my brain

So send me to the pharmacy so I can lose my memory

   

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Although I don't smoke in RL any more, I can have a cigarette in SL any time. It was a strange day today, with my mind clouded in smoke a little like this picture.

 

Song

ver the past 3 years I have been meaning to visit this unique location in spring for its annual bloom of bluebells.

 

High winds and dotted skies made the entire shoot a gambling game, on the way to another spot I saw the clouds break momentarily and got one shot before the light disappeared. Goes to show having your equipment ready to go at all times pays off.

Grey-hooded warbler

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The grey-hooded warbler is a species of leaf warbler. It is most famous for the way it warbles. It was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan

Pakistan 2016

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Restless Flycatcher

Scientific Name: Myiagra inquieta

Description: The Restless Flycatcher has a glossy blue-black head, with a small crest, and is white below, from the chin to the undertail, with a blue-black bill surrounded by bristles. The back, wings and tail are darker grey and there may be a slight orange brown tint on the breast. Young birds are duller grey black above, with the throat and breast washed orange-brown. The slightly smaller northern Australian sub-species,nana, known as the Paperbark Flycatcher, has a smaller bill and has the glossy blue-black colouring extending further down the back. The Restless Flycatcher is an extremely mobile and active bird and is able to hover while feeding, uttering a grinding call that gives it yet another common name: Scissors Grinder.

Similar species: The Restless Flycatcher is often found in the same habitats as the similarly sized and patterned Willie Wagtail. However, this species has a white eyebrow, and its black colouring extends down the throat and onto the upper breast; it also has a more rounded, fanned tail which it characteristically 'wags' and it lacks the Restless Flycatcher's head crest.

Distribution: The Restless Flycatcher is found throughout northern and eastern mainland Australia, as well as in south-western Australia. It is also found in Papua New Guinea. The southern subspecies, inquieta, is found in south-western Australia and from eastern South Australia to Julia Creek and Mount Isa, Queensland. The northern subspecies,nana, is found from the Kimberley region, Western Australia, to Cooktown and Townsville, Queensland. The two subspecies do not seem to mix where their ranges meet in central eastern Queensland.

Habitat: The Restless Flycatcher is found in open forests and woodlands and is frequently seen in farmland.

Seasonal movements: South-eastern populations move north during winter.

Feeding: The Restless Flycatcher feeds on insects, as well as other invertebrates such as spiders and centipedes and usually feeds alone or in pairs. It is able to hover, hanging almost vertically in the air with its head and spread tail pointing downwards as it picks insects off the leaves. It rarely comes to the ground, preferring to 'hawk' for insects from perches in the mid-level of the canopy.

Breeding: The Restless Flycatcher builds a small cup-shaped nest of bark and grass bound with spider web, camoflaged with pieces of lichen and bark, and placed in a exposed position on a tree branch, often near or over water. Males and females both help to build the nest, incubate the eggs and feed the young. Up to three broods may be raised in one season and the young disperse quickly after fledging.

Calls: Continuous whirring or rasping hisses when hovering.

Minimum Size: 16cm

Maximum Size: 21cm

Average size: 19cm

Average weight: 20g

Breeding season: July to January in south; August to March in north

Clutch Size: 3 to 4

Incubation: 14 days

Nestling Period: 14 days

(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)

 

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Nightshade, DC Sexta Mod

The fishing boat, Restless, in the breachway at the Port of Galilee in Narragansett, RI.

Nothing to do but scuff down

the graveyard road behind the playground,

past the name-stones lined up in rows

beneath their guardian pines,

on out into the long, low waves of plains

that dissolved time. We'd angle off

from fence and telephone line, through

ribbon-grass that closed behind as though

we'd never been, and drift toward the bluff

above the river-bend where the junked pickup

moored with its load of locust-skeletons.

Stretched across the blistered hood, we let

our dresses catch the wind while clouds above

dimmed their pink to purple, then shadow-blue—

So slow, we listened to our own bones grow.

 

By: Debra Nystrom

Minolta X-700

Minolta MC Rokkor-X 50mm f1.7

Kodak Ultramax 800

 

Un-edited as always.

188 is a bus route that takes quite some time, taking around 90-100 depending on the traffic around Russel Square-Waterloo. Its cross link with X68 has now been withdrawn and this bus now does the SL6.

Nothing to do but scuff down

the graveyard road behind the playground,

past the name-stones lined up in rows

beneath their guardian pines,

on out into the long, low waves of plains

that dissolved time. We'd angle off

from fence and telephone line, through

ribbon-grass that closed behind as though

we'd never been, and drift toward the bluff

above the river-bend where the junked pickup

moored with its load of locust-skeletons.

Stretched across the blistered hood, we let

our dresses catch the wind while clouds above

dimmed their pink to purple, then shadow-blue—

So slow, we listened to our own bones grow.

 

By: Debra Nystrom

Unable to sleep, this comes out...

Tried a lot of different colourways, was feeling this one the most, simple and sturdy..

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Tracks:

Babylon Fever, Dillinger,

Musical Science, Dub Specialist,

Hyperballad, Bjork,

Please set me at ease, Madlib.

 

Good night...

For {in the picture}

April's theme: "shake it out"

"What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you? "

(By Kahlil Gibran in "The Voice of the Poet")

 

At the end of a Sunday afternoon this man was washing in the Ganges at Shitla Ghat in Varanasi (Benaras).

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It wasn't easy getting a composition I was happy with on these rocks but I wanted that water rushing through and pouring over the rock tables. eventually I settled on this, though I'd be happier a little more to my right but no way that was happening. Not without a good and proper soaking anyway.

This is known as the "Restless Temple" because the individual columns sway in the wind

(Counter-balanced by the steel balls on the chains below).

Outside Sissu, Manali-Leh Highway, Himachal Pradesh, Indian Himalayas

7 x 9

collage & acrylics on paper

 

How I've been feeling lately.

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