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Angie looks over at her brother not buying his cute begging act. Both were jonesing for my oatmeal cookie.
BRUNO: "I was invited by Fuzzy so that I could play with cars with him and friend Bogart. How good that there are a few cars around, so it would not be noticed if I take one..."
SMART Island and sandbar is named after the SMART Telco company that established a cell site on the island at Port Barton Bay, Palawan, Philippines.
On the beach in Costa Maya for those who don't parlez vous Spanish! One of the several items on my bucket list is catching a bolt while on the beach. It may just happen someday soon.
Digging into the archives while I wait for the storms to come. Looking South I see some possibilities headed this way, the lightning tracker app says otherwise. We'll see who's smarter soon enough!
My 26 year old Green Wing Macaw. Huey is definitely not a name I would have chosen for her.
We got her when she was about a year old and she was already named. Then we had a DNA test done to find out her sex and it turned out she was female.
But she already knew her name so we just left it at that.
I am not an advocate for having these animals as pets or for people breeding them. In my opinion, they should remain in their natural habitats.
But Phil fell in love with her where she had lived for the first year of her life which was a local Grange Co-op here and he eventually talked me into us buying her and she became a part of our family.
She has it really good here with a very large outdoor aviary where she spends the majority of her time. She is pretty entertained seeing all kinds of wild birds and animals from her favorite vantage point in her aviary. Then I have various perches for her in different places so she can be with me and whomever else is around. But she seems to like her aviary the best.
Anyway, it would not be easy having a large parrot like this without the set up I have here for her and I would never advise anyone to have one of these birds as a pet. She will long outlive me and my oldest daughter will take over for her after I am gone.
She will likely outlive my oldest daughter, too, so my daughter knows that she will need to make arrangements for someone else to take her after my daughter is gone.
They are very smart and very social animals. Huey fortunately has always had a very good life here and has never fallen into some of the neurotic behaviors that some captive birds take on, like feather plucking, screaming or biting. She is always treated respectfully, given affection, fed well and treated like part of the family.
So many birds like this end up in rescue situations because their owners lose interest in them or get old and die or just can't care for them anymore. Or some just decide they no longer want the bird. I feel sad for those birds. They don't ask for that.
Most people don't really realize how long these birds live or how important a social environment is for them.
Anyway, long story. Sorry. you're a good contact if you read all the way to the end here :-)
I just came across this photo I took of her on one of her outdoor perches and decided to share with you.
One of my favourite photos of my son Ryan. Taken at the party after his christening. The image looks good in colour but the details really 'pop' in black and white.
A pair of SD40-2's with freshly repainted CP 5957 and CP 6055 work their way south down the Hamilton sub where they will drop off some rail. The light rain was falling but a crack of sun poked through lighting up the fresh paint job.
Singapore Zoo
She has figured out how to extract a drink of water from a hole in the rock, using the ends of a coconut leaf....
UPDATE: I honestly did not expect this photo to be added to Flickr’s “Explore” page (No. 395 out of 500 on January 15, 2022). What a pleasant surprise! Thank you for checking out my photos. 😁
I truly do not know if this is a Tremella fungus or not. I found a bunch of mushroom spores growing under one of our outside Christmas decorations. Google image search thinks this is a type of Tremella fungus but I think it is growing next to a Parasol or Shaggy Parasol mushroom through the mulch we have in our front yard.
Can these two species grow next to one another?
This is a 1:1 macro shot at an ƒ/6.3 with a Lume Cube helping to lighten up the edges a bit.