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Published by Hamlyn in 1972, 2nd impression (1st publishd 1969). Story by Marie d'Aulnoy, adapted by Jan Vladislav... Illustrated by Mirko Hanak.
Picked up in a local charity shop last week, sadly no dust wrapper, but some very nice vintage illustrations.
“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher”
Chinese Proverb
As the circumstances in our life changes, it becomes imperative to change and re-mold ourselves into our new shape. It is sometimes not easy but life often leaves us with no choice but to adapt.
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Crabs with beach trash homes by Shawn Miller.
This is a good example of Adaptive behavior.
A Blueberry hermit crab (Coenobita purpureus )
Using a plastic cap as a protective home.
Location: Northern, Okinawa
* All Coenobita species in Okinawa are recognized as a Living Natural Monument.
TEDX OIST talk on this subject by Shawn Miller www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6FWCyVQcNA
*Found twelve Crabs with plastic shelters this night!
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Roger Bullivant piling rig being used to drive precast concrete piles. Interesting machine looks to be based on a JCB excavator , With the cab removed and controlled remotely.
Jugendstil town Ålesund, Møre og Romsdal county. Norway.
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The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) is a bird of prey species belonging to the kestrel group of the falcon family Falconidae. It is also known as the European kestrel, Eurasian kestrel, or Old World kestrel. In the United Kingdom, where no other kestrel species commonly occurs, it is generally just called "kestrel".[2]
This species occurs over a large range. It is widespread in Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as occasionally reaching the east coast of North America.[3] It has colonized a few oceanic islands, but vagrant individuals are generally rare; in the whole of Micronesia for example, the species was only recorded twice each on Guam and Saipan in the Marianas.[4][5][6]
Description
Common kestrels measure 32–39 cm (12+1⁄2–15+1⁄2 in) from head to tail, with a wingspan of 65–82 cm (25+1⁄2–32+1⁄2 in). Females are noticeably larger, with the adult male weighing 136–252 g (4+3⁄4–8+7⁄8 oz), around 155 g (5+1⁄2 oz) on average; the adult female weighs 154–314 g (5+3⁄8–11+1⁄8 oz), around 184 g (6+1⁄2 oz) on average. They are thus small compared with other birds of prey, but larger than most songbirds. Like the other Falco species, they have long wings as well as a distinctive long tail.[4]
Their plumage is mainly light chestnut brown with blackish spots on the upperside and buff with narrow blackish streaks on the underside; the remiges are also blackish. Unlike most raptors, they display sexual colour dimorphism with the male having fewer black spots and streaks, as well as a blue-grey cap and tail. The tail is brown with black bars in females, and has a black tip with a narrow white rim in both sexes. All common kestrels have a prominent black malar stripe like their closest relatives.[4]
The cere, feet, and a narrow ring around the eye are bright yellow; the toenails, bill and iris are dark. Juveniles look like adult females, but the underside streaks are wider; the yellow of their bare parts is paler. Hatchlings are covered in white down feathers, changing to a buff-grey second down coat before they grow their first true plumage.[4]
Adult male F. t. tinnunculus landing
Adult male F. t. tinnunculus landing
Young male F. t. tinnunculus during ringing
Young male F. t. tinnunculus during ringing
Female F. t. tinnunculus
Female F. t. tinnunculus
F. t. tinnunculus at lake Neusiedl
F. t. tinnunculus at lake Neusiedl
F. t. tinnunculus Male in the wild
F. t. tinnunculus
Male in the wild
F. t. tinnunculus Female in the wild
F. t. tinnunculus
Female in the wild
Perched near the nest of a common blackbird (Turdus merula), with a male blackbird attempting to distract it
Perched near the nest of a common blackbird (Turdus merula), with a male blackbird attempting to distract it
Hovering tail feathers closed
Hovering
tail feathers closed
Hovering tail feathers spread
Hovering
tail feathers spread
Hovering
Hovering
Skull
Skull
Behaviour and ecology
In the cool-temperate parts of its range, the common kestrel migrates south in winter; otherwise it is sedentary, though juveniles may wander around in search for a good place to settle down as they become mature. It is a diurnal animal of the lowlands and prefers open habitat such as fields, heaths, shrubland and marshland. It does not require woodland to be present as long as there are alternative perching and nesting sites like rocks or buildings. It will thrive in treeless steppe where there are abundant herbaceous plants and shrubs to support a population of prey animals. The common kestrel readily adapts to human settlement, as long as sufficient swathes of vegetation are available, and may even be found in wetlands, moorlands and arid savanna. It is found from the sea to the lower mountain ranges, reaching elevations up to 4,500 m (14,800 ft) ASL in the hottest tropical parts of its range but only to about 1,750 m (5,740 ft) in the subtropical climate of the Himalayan foothills.[4][7]
Globally, this species is not considered threatened by the IUCN.[1] Its stocks were affected by the indiscriminate use of organochlorines and other pesticides in the mid-20th century, but being something of an r-strategist able to multiply quickly under good conditions it was less affected than other birds of prey. The global population has been fluctuating considerably over the years but remains generally stable; it is roughly estimated at 1–2 million pairs or so, about 20% of which are found in Europe. There has been a recent decline in parts of Western Europe such as Ireland. Subspecies dacotiae is quite rare, numbering less than 1000 adult birds in 1990, when the ancient western Canarian subspecies canariensis numbered about ten times as many birds.[4]
Food and feeding
When hunting, the common kestrel characteristically hovers about 10–20 m (35–65 ft) above the ground, searching for prey, either by flying into the wind or by soaring using ridge lift. Like most birds of prey, common kestrels have keen eyesight enabling them to spot small prey from a distance. Once prey is sighted, the bird makes a short, steep dive toward the target, unlike the peregrine which relies on longer, higher dives to reach full speed when targeting prey. Kestrels can often be found hunting along the sides of roads and motorways, where the road verges support large numbers of prey. This species is able to see near ultraviolet light, allowing the birds to detect the urine trails around rodent burrows as they shine in an ultraviolet colour in the sunlight.[8] Another favourite (but less conspicuous) hunting technique is to perch a bit above the ground cover, surveying the area. When the bird spots prey animals moving by, it will pounce on them. They also prowl a patch of hunting ground in a ground-hugging flight, ambushing prey as they happen across it.[4]
European pine vole (Microtus subterraneus), a typical common kestrel prey since prehistoric times
Common kestrels eat almost exclusively mouse-sized mammals. Voles, shrews and true mice supply up to three-quarters or more of the biomass most individuals ingest. On oceanic islands (where mammals are often scarce), small birds (mainly passerines) may make up the bulk of its diet.[6] Elsewhere, birds are only an important food during a few weeks each summer when inexperienced fledglings abound. Other suitably sized vertebrates like bats, swifts,[9] frogs[citation needed] and lizards are eaten only on rare occasions. However, kestrels are more likely to prey on lizards in southern latitudes. In northern latitudes, the kestrel is found more often to deliver lizards to their nestlings during midday and also with increasing ambient temperature.[10] Seasonally, arthropods may be a main prey item. Generally, invertebrates like camel spiders and even earthworms, but mainly sizeable insects such as beetles, orthopterans and winged termites will be eaten.[4]
F. tinnunculus requires the equivalent of 4–8 voles a day, depending on energy expenditure (time of the year, amount of hovering, etc.). They have been known to catch several voles in succession and cache some for later consumption. An individual nestling consumes on average 4.2 g/h, equivalent to 67.8 g/d (3–4 voles per day).[11]
Reproduction
Young kestrels, not yet able to fly, waiting for food
The common kestrel starts breeding in spring (or the start of the dry season in the tropics), i.e. April or May in temperate Eurasia and some time between August and December in the tropics and southern Africa. It is a cavity nester, preferring holes in cliffs, trees or buildings; in built-up areas, common kestrels will often nest on buildings, and will reuse the old nests of corvids. The diminutive subspecies dacotiae, the sarnicolo of the eastern Canary Islands is peculiar for nesting occasionally in the dried fronds below the top of palm trees, apparently coexisting with small songbirds which also make their home there.[12] In general, common kestrels will usually tolerate conspecifics nesting nearby, and sometimes a few dozen pairs may be found nesting in a loose colony.[4]
Male F. t. tinnunculus bringing food to nest
The clutch is normally 3–7 eggs; more eggs may be laid in total but some will be removed during the laying time. This lasts about 2 days per egg laid. The eggs are abundantly patterned with brown spots, from a wash that tinges the entire surface buffish white to large almost-black blotches. Incubation lasts from 4 weeks to one month, both male and female will take shifts incubating the eggs. After the eggs have hatched, the parents share brooding and hunting duties. Only the female feeds the chicks, by tearing apart prey into manageable chunks. The young fledge after 4–5 weeks. The family stays close together for a few weeks, during which time the young learn how to fend for themselves and hunt prey. The young become sexually mature the next breeding season.[4] Female kestrel chicks with blacker plumage have been found to have bolder personalities, indicating that even in juvenile birds plumage coloration can act as a status signal.[13]
Data from Britain shows nesting pairs bringing up about 2–3 chicks on average, though this includes a considerable rate of total brood failures; actually, few pairs that do manage to fledge offspring raise less than 3 or 4. Compared to their siblings, first-hatched chicks have greater survival and recruitment probability, thought to be due to the first-hatched chicks obtaining a higher body condition when in the nest.[14] Population cycles of prey, particularly voles, have a considerable influence on breeding success. Most common kestrels die before they reach 2 years of age; mortality up until the first birthday may be as high as 70%. At least females generally breed at one year of age;[15] possibly, some males take a year longer to maturity as they do in related species. The biological lifespan to death from senescence can be 16 years or more, however; one was recorded to have lived almost 24 years.[15]
Egg of common kestrel
Egg of common kestrel
Falco tinnunculus alexandri - MHNT
Falco tinnunculus alexandri - MHNT
Hatchling of common kestrel (note white down)
Hatchling of common kestrel (note white down)
Fledglings in nest cavity
Fledglings in nest cavity
Immature after fledging
Immature after fledging
Common kestrel nest
Common kestrel nest
Evolution and systematics
This species is part of a clade that contains the kestrel species with black malar stripes, a feature which apparently was not present in the most ancestral kestrels. They seem to have radiated in the Gelasian (Late Pliocene,[16] roughly 2.5–2 mya, probably starting in tropical East Africa, as indicated by mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data analysis and considerations of biogeography. The common kestrel's closest living relative is apparently the nankeen or Australian kestrel (F. cenchroides), which probably derived from ancestral common kestrels settling in Australia and adapting to local conditions less than one million years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene.[17]
The rock kestrel (F. rupicolus), previously considered a subspecies, is now treated as a distinct species.
The lesser kestrel (F. naumanni), which much resembles a small common kestrel with no black on the upperside except wing and tail tips, is probably not very closely related to the present species, and the American kestrel (F. sparverius) is apparently not a true kestrel at all.[17] Both species have much grey in their wings in males, which does not occur in the common kestrel or its close living relatives but does in almost all other falcons.
Subspecies
Female wintering in Kinnerasani Wildlife Sanctuary (Andhra Pradesh, India)
F. t. canariensis on Gran Canaria
F. t. rupicolaeformis from Hurghada, Egypt
A number of subspecies of the common kestrel are known, though some are hardly distinct and may be invalid. Most of them differ little, and mainly in accordance with Bergmann's and Gloger's rules. Tropical African forms have less grey in the male plumage.[4]
Falco tinnunculus tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758
Temperate areas of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia north of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya mountain ranges to the NW Sea of Okhotsk region. Northern Asian populations migrate south in winter, apparently not crossing the Himalayas but diverting to the west.
F. t. rufescens Swainson, 1837
Sahel east to Ethiopia, southwards around Congo basin to S Tanzania and NE Angola.
F. t. interstinctus McClelland, 1840
Has dark heavily marked birds and has a foxed red phase but not reliably identified in the field. Breeds East Asia from Tibet to Korea and Japan, south into Indochina. Winters to the south of its breeding range, from northeastern India to the Philippines (where it is localized, e.g. from Mindanao only two records exist).[18][19]
F. t. rupicolaeformis (C. L. Brehm, 1855)
Arabian Peninsula except in the desert and across the Red Sea into Africa.
F. t. neglectus Schlegel, 1873
Northern Cape Verde Islands.
F. t. canariensis (Koenig, 1890)
Madeira and western Canary Islands. The more ancient Canaries subspecies.
F. t. dacotiae Hartert, 1913 – Local name: cernícalo
Eastern Canary Islands: Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Chinijo Archipelago. A more recently evolved subspecies than canariensis.
F. t. objurgatus (Baker, 1929)
Western, Nilgiris and Eastern Ghats of India; Sri Lanka. Heavily marked, has rufous thighs with dark grey head in males.[19][20]
F. t. archerii (Hartert & Neumann, 1932)
Somalia, coastal Kenya, and Socotra
F. t. alexandri Bourne, 1955
Southwestern Cape Verde Islands.
Falco tinnunculus alexandri - MHNT
The common kestrels of Europe living during cold periods of the Quaternary glaciation differed slightly in size from the current population; they are sometimes referred to as the paleosubspecies F. t. atavus (see also Bergmann's rule). The remains of these birds, which presumably were the direct ancestors of the living F. t. tinnunculus (and perhaps other subspecies), are found throughout the then-unglaciated parts of Europe, from the Late Pliocene (ELMA Villanyian/ICS Piacenzian, MN16) about 3 million years ago to the Middle Pleistocene Saalian glaciation which ended about 130,000 years ago, when they finally gave way to birds indistinguishable from those living today. Some of the voles the Ice Age common kestrels ate—such as European pine voles (Microtus subterraneus)—were indistinguishable from those alive today. Other prey species of that time evolved more rapidly (like M. malei, the presumed ancestor of today's tundra vole M. oeconomus), while yet again others seem to have gone entirely extinct without leaving any living descendants—for example Pliomys lenki, which apparently fell victim to the Weichselian glaciation about 100,000 years ago.[21][22]
In culture
Wooden common kestrel sculpture
The kestrel is sometimes seen, like other birds of prey, as a symbol of the power and vitality of nature. In "Into Battle" (1915), the war poet Julian Grenfell invokes the superhuman characteristics of the kestrel among several birds, when hoping for prowess in battle:
The kestrel hovering by day,
And the little owl that call at night,
Bid him be swift and keen as they,
As keen of ear, as swift of sight.
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) writes on the kestrel in his poem "The Windhover", exalting in their mastery of flight and their majesty in the sky.
I caught this morning morning's minion, king-
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
A kestrel is also one of the main characters in The Animals of Farthing Wood.
Barry Hines’ novel A Kestrel for a Knave - together with the 1969 film based on it, Ken Loach's Kes - is about a working-class boy in England who befriends a kestrel.
The Pathan name for the kestrel, Bād Khurak, means "wind hover" and in Punjab it is called Larzānak or "little hoverer". It was once used as a decoy to capture other birds of prey in Persia and Arabia. It was also used to train greyhounds meant for hunting gazelles in parts of Arabia. Young greyhounds would be set after jerboa-rats which would also be distracted and forced to make twists and turns by the dives of a kestrel.[23]
Etymology
The name "kestrel" is derived from the French crécerelle which is diminutive for crécelle, which also referred to a bell used by lepers. The word is earlier spelt 'c/kastrel', and is evidenced from the 15th century.[24] The kestrel was once used to drive and keep away pigeons.[25] Archaic names for the kestrel include windhover and windfucker, due to its habit of beating the wind (hovering in air).[24]
The Late Latin falco derives from falx, falcis, a sickle, referencing the claws of the bird.[26] The species name tinnunculus is Latin for "kestrel" from "tinnulus", "shrill".
A view of how my MOC fits in with others of the modular street. I designed it based on an American industrial aesthetic, so I figured it fit best with the Detective's Office and Brick Bank.
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Originaires d'Asie, les cerfs se sont admirablement adaptés aux grandes variations de température depuis des milliers d'années. Chez le cerf élaphe comme chez son cousin le wapiti, le mâle porte avec majesté de grands bois ramifiés, tandis que la biche en est dépourvue.
L'époque des amours est arrivée, les jeunes cerfs sans harde vont partir à l'aventure, oubliant toute prudence pour conquérir leurs femelles.
Les vieux mâles veillent jalousement sur leur harde qu'ils ont réintégrées, essayant en plus d'attirer les femelles de la harde voisine. Ces hardes peuvent atteindre 30 têtes à cette époque. Ils ont fort à faire jour et nuit : surveiller les femelles, s'accoupler avec celles qui sont prêtes, décourager les jeunes mâles qui essayent de leur voler celles qui s'éloignent. Ces mâles sans harde peuvent devenir très pressants et le combat ne va pas pouvoir être évité.
Des manoeuvres d'intimidation peuvent suffire, les vieux mâles ont de l'expérience. Sinon le bruit des bois s'entrechoquant résonne dans la forêt. Ce n'est pas un combat à mort mais certaines fois l'un des combattants peut être mortellement blessé. Il arrive aussi que les deux cerfs restent coincés, leur bois emmêlés, ils meurent alors tous les deux d'épuisement.
Il n'est pas rare de voir à cette époque des cerfs avec des touffes d'herbe accrochées aux bois. La surexcitation les fait labourer l'herbe à grand coup d'andouillers.
Le brame du cerf aurait un effet physiologique sur les biches, accélérant leur ovulation. Une biche est en chaleur entre 24 et 48 heures. Elle éloigne alors son jeune faon et ne se dérobe plus aux avances du cerf, qui la saillit une ou plusieurs fois. Après la monte, qui dure quelques secondes, le mâle se cabre pour se dégager (il « fait la chandelle »).
La période de fécondité de la biche est très courte, moins d'une journée. Le cerf par contre a une faculté d'accouplement de presque un mois.
C'est une période très éprouvante physiquement pour les cerfs, ils ne mangent presque rien et n'ont pas de répit : combat, accouplement, surveillance ... Ils peuvent perdre jusqu'à 20 kg. Les jeunes mâles ont toute leur chance à la fin du rut quand les vieux à bout de force ne peuvent plus surveiller leur harde.
Après la période du brame, les cerfs seuls s'écartent du territoire et redeviennent peu visibles.
Source : cerfs.free.fr
After standing vacant for years, the Cornelius Hotel building in downtown Portland is getting a new lease on life. It will be combined with the building next door and enter service again in 2018 as the Woodlark Hotel.
Wikipedia says:
The Cornelius Hotel is a former hotel building in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by John V. Bennes's firm, and constructed in 1907–08.
The seven-story building is categorized as being 20th-century Baroque Revival architecture, and contains 66 hotel rooms.
Until 1920, it was operated by Charles W. Cornelius (1856–1923), who named the hotel for his family and his brother, Colonel Thomas R. Cornelius. Their father founded the town of Cornelius west of Portland after emigrating to Oregon with Joseph Meek.
The building has a "dramatic coffered ceiling in the lobby" and a French sheet metal mansard roof with cornice and entablature, and exterior masonry and terra-cotta. It included a ground-floor wood storefront that was once a "Ladies Reception Hall"[6] and an "opulent" basement cafe. "Ornate wood paneling and trim" was included throughout the building.
By at least the 1950s, the hotel had transitioned from being a conventional hotel to an apartment hotel.
The Cornelius housed the Club Continental, a gay bathhouse, in the 1960s and 1970s, while still being used mostly as a residential hotel.
It was still serving as the latter in the 1980s, but a fire in 1985 left the top three floors uninhabitable, and only residents of the second, third, and fourth floors were permitted to return to the building after the fire.
By at least 1992, the building's residential use had ceased completely, and it became vacant on all but the ground floor.
In 2002, TMT Development, developer Tom Moyer's real estate company, purchased the property for $2.4 million with plans to renovate the building. The renovated business-class hotel was to be reopened by June 2009 with the name "Alder Park Hotel", following a period where it was home to trespassers for many years after the 1980s
The 2008 financial crisis, however, halted work on the project, as well as Moyer's Park Avenue West Tower.
In 2013, TMT applied to the city to tear down the structure, but those plans were canceled when the building was sold again in 2014, to Arthur Mutal LLC.
In January 2015, it was announced that the building is to be joined to the adjacent Woodlark Building, renovated and returned to use as a hotel. The Woodlark Building, which will be converted from its current use as an office building, is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The planned renovation and conversion is expected to cost $30 million, funded by NBP Capital, Provenance Hotels and Arthur Mutal.[11] The hotel created from the combined buildings is to be named The Woodlark and is slated to have 151 rooms and two restaurants or bars. Construction began in September 2016, and the new hotel is projected to open by the end of 2017.
Source: wikipedia
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To find out what's planned for the new hotel, click here:
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This irrepressibly cute camera shoots in a square perspective on 126 film. Sporting a Zeiss Sonnar F3.5 40mm lens (manufactured under license).
Manipulated photography employing layered filters from both the Superphoto app and default edit settings on my cameraphone.
(Calotes versicolor) or Changeable Lizzard is an agamid lizard found widely distributed in Asia. It is an insectivore and the male gets a bright red throat in the breeding season.The Changeable Lizard is relatively common and found in a wide range of habitats. They appear to adapt well to humans and are thus not endangered. They are commonly found among the undergrowth in open habitats including highly urban areas. Changeable Lizards eat mainly insects and small vertebrates, including rodents and other lizards. Although they have teeth, these are designed for gripping prey and not tearing it up. So prey is swallowed whole, after it is stunned by shaking it abou
The lens was very easy to adapt. All that is needed is a 28-52mm step-up ring, and a 52-42mm step down ring, plus a 12-17mm focus helicoid. Note that the 52-42mm step down ring has a 42mm x0.75mm pitch, which is not the same as the M42 standard which is 42mm x1mm. It works, but not perfect.
Olympus G-Zuiko 50mm, 1.4 manual focus lens on Canon SL1 via adapter, using Fotodiox Pro extension tubes.
Sometimes you've got to look closer. This pile of wood sits near an outdoor fire pit. I just happened to be sitting on the patio near it when I noticed all the textures and fading colors.
Shot using a Konica Hexanon AR 40mm/1.8 @f2.8
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... after her restoration at the Port Museum, Hamburg
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My piece at the @wildstyleshopberlin battle today. I was able to see first hand some of the most prolific painters I've seen so far. Glad to have participated :) #graffiti #graffitiberlin #berlin #streetart #wildstyleshop #battle #bird #vogel
State Senator Ted Kennedy, Jr., an amputee and former member of the U.S. Disabled Ski Team, joined beginner skiers from across Connecticut for a day of fun and free lessons in adaptive skiing for people with disabilities. The event was hosted by LOF Adaptive Skiers at the Mount Southington Ski Area. (January 31, 2017)
Adapted from the interpretive sign:
The Delphic theater hosted the musical and dramatic contests of the Pythian Games and other religious festivals. The original form of the edifice is unknown; most probably spectators sat on wooden seats or on the ground. The first stone theater was constructed in the 4th c BCE. The present renovation dates to the 1st c CE.