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It may be diminutive, but the perky-tailed wren has a powerful song and the ancient title of king among bird. The wren is our wren. It was on our farthing copper coin. In May 2017, it figured on the first-class stamp in a Royal Mail ‘Songbirds’ series and it came fourth behind the robin, kingfisher and barn owl in the 2016 public vote to choose a national bird. It’s one of our commonest birds and widely distributed, with breeding pairs estimated at 7–8.5 million, depending on which ornithological data you raid. The wren is definitely a very British bird.
However, we don’t have exclusive rights. Ours is the Eurasian wren, a member of one of 19 genera covering 45 species that embrace much of the globe. Wrens are found across every landmass and on virtually every island. Even the Falklands have their own version, Cobb’s wren. With winter food scarce, wrens may forage under the snow for their natural diet of insects and spiders, their small size allowing them into areas that other birds can’t penetrate, an ability that applies throughout the year as they can reach cavities denied to larger beaks.
They can be aided in harsh weather with mealworms, finely broken breadcrumbs, oatmeal and grated cheese, but supplements should be scattered near low cover, as wrens don’t readily attend bird tables. However, they are pragmatists and, in the spring, may vary their diet by visiting shallow water to pick up tadpoles and smallfry. The female becomes particularly vocal if her newly fledged brood is on site, which may explain why wrens tend to be thought of as female, hence Jenny Wren. Some cultures, however, prefer a masculine character to support the regal notion and, in Germany, the bird is known as Zaun-könig or hedge king.
The loud song from such a small throat is possible because birds have an organ called a syrinx with a resonating chamber and membranes that utilise virtually all the air in the lungs and can produce two notes at the same time.
Yet another tradition warned that to harm a wren was to invite bad luck – a broken leg, your livestock injured – so, despite those tales of trickery and treachery, the tiny bird had some powerful friends after all. The king of the birds would expect no less.
This month the Snap Happy team had three challenges to choose from or do all.
This is my second contribution, bread crumbs on the table a sight regularly seen on dining tables.
Panorama from the first sunset with the HDDA*11-18AW2.8 lens at Bass Point boat ramp and gravel loader.
Tricky edit with the cloud motion vs the water movement twisting the stitch a fair whack.
As I edit images I add the apps used in the name so I can follow the breadcrumb trail later, the name for this image ended up at:
_KP08133-Pano-799_aff-800-801_nik_Nik_aff_DxO
The _KP08133 is the filename
Pano added by Lightroom
800-801 are added from Lightroom on it's way out to Topaz Denoise
nik_Nik_aff - trips in and out from DxO to Affinity Photo dealing with the Warping issues and some dodging/burning
DxO final step back into DxO before it's a Jpeg.
Twelve frames stitched in Lightroom and a bit of two and fro'ing between DxO, Topaz Denoise and Affinity photo.
Apart from all that really pleased with the final image - and the lens - it stitched very clean telling me the math from the quality of the glass must be pretty good.
Tonight's dinner
Add a little olive oil to a large skillet, add chopped pepper tops, chopped onions, chopped mushrooms, sausage meat (broken up into smallish pieces), tomato sauce and simmer until the meat is browned and the vegetables are soft. Cooks for about 15 minutes.
To the above skillet now add garlic powder, salt and pepper, seasoned breadcrumbs, shredded Mozzarella, grated cheese, and diced garlic to the mix.
Stuff the peppers and cook on a hot barbecue in a tinfoil pan for about 45-50 minutes. I start with a little olive oil in the pan, but towards the end of the cooking time (last 15 minutes) I add about 1/3 cup water and place tinfoil over top of pan.
This is another specimen tree that I discovered at the Nagarjuna Kadampa Meditation Centre at Thornby Hall after I'd taken another path through the woodland walk.
The bark is soft and padded and I think it must be a kind of Giant Redwood.
My title is influenced by my nephew Dylan who as a child referred to me as Uncle Odd and asked such questions as 'What does God look like?' and 'Why is water wet?'
A gentle soul with a bag of breadcrumbs. As seen, feeding his feathered friends.
In this scene, a group of kids had just passed by, spooked the birds and they proceeded to take flight.
The man tried unsuccessfully to hail the birds to return, looking disappointed, he finally gave up and continued on his way.
The domestic pigeon (Columba livia "domestica" or Columba livia forma domestica) is a domesticated bird derived from the rock dove Columba livia. Although often termed a "subspecies", the domesticated pigeon does not constitute an accepted zoological subspecies of the rock dove, but a collection of over 350 breeds. The rock dove is among the world's first birds to be domesticated; Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets mention the domestication of pigeons more than 5,000 years ago, as do Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Wikipedia
Fraser River
British Columbia
Thanks for your view
Happy Clicks,
Christie (happiest) by the River
Seen in the forest :)
The parasol mushroom (Macrolepiota procera) is a basidiomycete fungus with a large, prominent fruiting body resembling a parasol. It is a fairly common species on well-drained soils. It is found solitary or in groups and fairy rings in pastures and occasionally in woodland. Globally, it is widespread in temperate regions. It is a very sought-after and popular fungus in Europe, due in part to its large size, seasonal frequency and versatility in the kitchen. In the UK, it may be found from July through to November. These mushrooms are popularly sauteed in melted butter. In central and eastern European countries this mushroom is usually prepared similarly to a cutlet. It is usually run through egg and breadcrumbs and then fried in a pan with some oil or butter. Served with white bread, it makes a delicious meal during summer and early fall.
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Dorodna kania wypatrzona w lesie :)
Czubajka kania (Macrolepiota procera) – gatunek grzybów należący do rodziny pieczarkowatych. Występuje w Ameryce Północnej, Europie, Korei, Japonii i na Nowej Zelandii. W Polsce jest dość pospolity na obszarze całego kraju.,Rośnie na brzegach lasów liściastych i iglastych, na polanach leśnych i zrębach, na łąkach, w parkach, na poboczach szos, na cmentarzach. Unika siedlisk kwaśnych i wilgotnych, rośnie najczęściej na glebach gliniastych i zasobnych w wapń. Owocniki wytwarza od lata do późnej jesieni. Grzyb jadalny, uważany za bardzo smaczny. Jadalne są kapelusze. Dzięki silnemu aromatowi często jest używany jako grzyb przyprawowy. Najczęściej kanie przyrządza się poprzez panierowanie w formie kotleta. Można też jeść smażone kapelusze z chlebem.
"Common Sparklefred" - as my wife named it... A young common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) begging for breadcrumbs in the Tuileries near the Louvre (Paris).
Some thoughtful person left crumbs for the birds....or perhaps it was so they could find their way home? Happy Fence Friday!
Acadia National Park along the Jordan Pond Trail. One side of the pond is nice and easy trail, but as you circle there are a few areas of rock scramble where you wonder if you somehow missed the trail. Beyond the rocks is a narrow elevated walkway to protect the delicate plant life. Dark tangled roots help create a somewhat eerie atmosphere, like you’ve wandered in to a fairy tail and forgot your breadcrumbs (rather like 2020).
Paddy and Elk .. assuming the 'nested collie' look :) I think they were a little worried that I might leave them to it!
"Hey bub, .. did we eat all the breadcrumbs on the way in??"
"Hmm .. yes, .. so don't let him out of your sight!"
youtu.be/glQAg-sSykA?feature=shared
.. and the sun surpassed me on the way down, he took my hand and we raised like a daydream out from the darkest night.
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You are right. Now we are the best dream to dream, my love. S‘agapo Kostaki mou.
True love will never fade
I wonder if there's no forever
No walking hand in hand
Down a yellow brick road
To never never land
These days I get to where I'm going
Make it there eventually
Follow the trail of breadcrumbs
To where I'm meant to be
To where I'm meant to be
I don't know what brought you to me
That was up to you
There's so many come to see me
Who want their own tattoo
I fixed a needle in a holder
Laid my hand upon your spine
And there upon your shoulder
I drew the picture as your sign
When I think about us
I see the picture that we made
The picture to remind us
True love will never fade
True love will never fade
True love will never fade
True love will never fade
I worked the rowdies and day trippers
Now and then I think of you
Any which way we're all shufflin'
Forward in the queue
They like to move my operation
They like to get me off the pier
And I dream I'm on a steamer
Pullin' outta here
When I think about us
I see a picture that we made
The picture to remind us
True love will never fade
Lycoperdon perlatum is considered to be a good edible mushroom when young, when the gleba is still homogeneous and white.[22] They have been referred to as "poor man's sweetbread" due to their texture and flavor. The fruit bodies can be eaten after slicing and frying in batter or egg and breadcrumbs,... Wikipedia
I followed the breadcrumb trail of weekend sales to get yet another pair of jeans, and found myself in the presence of the greatest onesie ever created instead. Damn near forgot to pick up the jeans.
This is also my first picture taken with Aperture. For me personally? The jury is still out. I find I have less control over the lighting which for me is a Really Big Thing. I know its probably a case of practise and hunting up tutes but for now I think I may be content to watch all the epic everyone else is creating.
Monster Onesie by STOP, Eyeholic gauges by Fewness, Ada dreads by Camo, Katherine makeup by Zibska.
Raw and unedited from SL
Beauty in the mundane — Just some bread crumbs one of my children left on the table. I thought it was so fascinating that one of the crumbs appeared to be shaped like a heart.
I really wasn't sure that I was going to try for a photo this week, my brain did a complete blank at the topic.
However I rallied this morning ... a bit and managed a photo of some breadcrumbs.
Not overly exciting, but I gave it a whirl.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :O)
Valentino came alone, today, to rest on our shed roof. The temperature was slightly cooler but he stayed in a partially shaded spot, looking for lizards around, after savouring some of my egg & breadcrumbs leftover :).
… liefen mit den Bären Malachi, Bruno, Petsy, Paddy, Scout, Peter und Oleg zurück zum Knusperhaus der Hexe.
Dort wartete eine Überraschung auf sie. Die Waldvöglein pickten die bunten Zuckerperlen vom Dach, die sich zugleich in Edelsteine verwandelten!
Dazu zwitscherten dazu dankbar: "Perlen und Edelstein für die Brotbröselein!"
Während Bretel die Edelsteine in ihrer Schürze auffing, Länsel seinen Wanderbeutel für die Heimreise schulterte, machten sich auch die Bären bereit. Sie traten die Heimreise auf ihren fahrbaren Untersätzen an und konnten so mit Länsel und Bretel gut Schritt halten.
(Fortsetzung folgt…)
Vielen Dank Jesse für Deine Fotos von Malachi, Paddy und Scout !!
Vielen Dank Katharina für Deine Fotos von Bruno und Petsy !!
Vielen Dank Marian für Deine Fotos von Peter und Oleg !!
Vielen Dank Christa für Dein Foto von den Autos !!
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... ran with the bears Malachi, Bruno, Petsy, Paddy, Scout, Peter and Oleg back to the witch's crunchy house.
A surprise was waiting for them there. The little forest birds pecked the colourful sugar pearls from the roof, which turned into precious stones at the same time!
They chirped gratefully: "Pearls and precious stones for the breadcrumbs!"
While Bretel caught the gems in her apron and Länsel shouldered his walking bag for the journey home, the bears also got ready. They started their way home on their vehicles and were able to keep up with Länsel and Bretel.
(To be continued…)
Thank you Jesse for your photos of Malachi, Paddy and Scout !!
Thank you Katharina for your photos of Bruno and Petsy !!
Thank you Marian for your photos of Peter and Oleg !!
Thank you Christa for your photo of the cars !!
... One Huge Giant Leap for Me from the Earth to the Moon;)
Happy Sliders Sunday!
Had some fun with this capture taken in the Lunar Badlands there at noon there in the Sea of Tranquility.
If you are taking a trip to the Moon, here are some tips I can provide:
1. Use the Sun Shield ... and cover the Eye Piece too. Sun is pretty bright there without any atmosphere and can ruin your shot. BTW ... no atmosphere, no need to remember the CPL filter, so you travel lighter too.
2. No worries about windy mornings or evenings with your long exposures.
3. No need for bear bell or bear spray ... but some Andorian perfume cannot hurt, you never know when one may be hiking there too.
4. Bring water ... LOTS of water.
5. Need to weigh down that tripod and camera though. While no wind, does not take much for it to want to float off with less gravity. A real pain chasing it down I tell you once you lose your grip on them.
6. Need not worry when hiking and using breadcrumbs to mark your path ... no animals there to eat them.
7. If you will be shooting down in some craters and in the 'shade' ... bring lots of batteries, the COLD there will drain them fast.
8. It can get dusty there, and the bulb blower will not work without any air, so need to bring some really clean cans of compressed air with you.
9. Bring your own coffee ... NASA's really sucks there on the Moon.
10. While you need to bring water, no food is needed as there is plenty to eat there with all the Cheese :)
11. Travel early in the morning or late in the evening when heading there ... those midday fliers in orbit can be a real pain in the 'you know what'!
12. Setting the white balance there can be pretty easy ... so one less thing to worry about.
13. Bring some bags for trash, it is carry in and carry out there in the craters!
14. Remember to reset your GPS as well ... I forgot to do this and when I was looking for getting my bearings it indicated I was in Mianus, Ohio, and not looking towards Uranus.
Hope these tips help!
Pilot's Cottages.
One of the cottages is now a museum.
It shows what it would of looked like when the
Pilot's were in residence there.
The small Cannon outside was used to summon the Lifeboat crew [ way before mobile phones and bleepers ]
Unfortunately after Covid the Museum has never reopened.
Llanddwyn Island (Ynys Llanddwyn) is a magical place. Located at the far end of a pleasant beach near Newborough Warren, this narrow finger of land is an ideal picnic site during fine weather, but also an exhilarating place when the winter winds blow. Its rolling dunes, large rock outcrops and mixture of historic buildings makes it an ideal place for an afternoon of exploration.
Llanddwyn is not quite an island. It remains attached to the mainland at all but the highest tides. It provides excellent views of Snowdonia and the Lleyn Peninsula and is part of the Newborough Warren National Nature Reserve. You can find Llanddwyn Island with this map or see an aerial view on Google Maps.
St. Dwynwen
Nothing wins hearts like cheerfulness - St. Dwynwen
The name Llanddwyn means "The church of St. Dwynwen". She is the Welsh patron saint of lovers, making her the Welsh equivalent of St. Valentine. Her feast day, 25 January, is often celebrated by the Welsh with cards and flowers, just as is 14 February for St. Valentine.
Ruins of Llanddwyn Chapel
Ruins of Llanddwyn Chapel
Dwynwen lived during the 5th century AD and was one of 24 daughters of St. Brychan, a Welsh prince of Brycheiniog (Brecon). She fell in love with a young man named Maelon, but rejected his advances. This, depending on which story you read, was either because she wished to remain chaste and become a nun or because her father wished her to marry another. She prayed to be released from the unhappy love and dreamed that she was given a potion to do this. However, the potion turned Maelon to ice. She then prayed that she be granted three wishes: 1) that Maelon be revived, 2) that all true lovers find happiness, and 3) that she should never again wish to be married. She then retreated to the solitude of Llanddwyn Island to follow the life of a hermit.
Dwynwen became known as the patron saint of lovers and pilgrimages were made to her holy well on the island. It was said that the faithfulness of a lover could be divined through the movements of some eels that lived in the well. This was done by the woman first scattering breadcrumbs on the surface, then laying her handkerchief on the surface. If the eel disturbed it then her lover would be faithful.
Visitors would leave offerings at her shrine, and so popular was this place of pilgrimage that it became the richest in the area during Tudor times. This funded a substantial chapel that was built in the 16th century on the site of Dwynwen's original chapel. The ruins of this can still be seen today.
Maritime History
Llanddwyn Island is situated near the southern entrance to the Menai Strait. As a result it became important as shipping of slate from the ports of Bangor, Caernarfon and Felinhelli increased. A beacon, called Tŵr Bach, was built at the tip of the island to provide guidance to ships heading for the Strait. Another more effective lighthouse, Tŵr Mawr, which was modelled on the windmills of Anglesey, was built nearby in 1845. The older lighthouse has now returned to service after a modern light was placed on top.
During this time cottages were built near the towers to house pilots who guided ships into the Strait. Two of these cottages have been restored, with one housing an exhibition about the local wildlife. From 1840 a lifeboat was also stationed there. It was manned by the pilots as well as volunteers from Newborough; the cannon that was used to summon the lifeboat crew can still be seen near the cottages. During its time up to the closure in 1903 the lifeboat from here saved 101 lives in 35 separate incidents.
Natural History
Llanddwyn Island is part of the Newborough Warren National Nature Reserve. The dunes, mudflats and saltmarshes of the reserve support a wide range of plants and invertebrates. The flowers found on the Island include herb-robert (Geranium robertianum), bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), thrift (Armeria maritima), bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) and yellow horned poppies (Glaucium flavum).
The cliffs around the island support a wide variety of nesting seabirds, including cormorants, shags and oystercatchers. Ynys yr Adar (Bird Rock), a small islet off the tip of Llanddwyn, throngs during the spring with one percent of the total British breeding population of cormorants. Waders such as turnstones and sandpipers are found along the coast and terns can be seen fishing in the bay. The mammal population is supplemented by a flock of the unusual Soay sheep that graze near the chapel.
As you approach the island you pass between several large rocks in the sand. These are pillow lavas, part of the Precambrian Gwna Group. These mounds of rock were formed by undersea volcanic eruptions; as the hot molten rock met the cold seawater a ballon-like skin was formed, which then filled with more lava, forming the characteristic pillow shape. These extend down much of the length of Llanddwyn Island, giving it its interesting rolling topography, and are also found in many other places around Anglesey.
More rockpooling specimens. The sponges in shade grow orange, the ones exposed to light grow green. I love rockpooling I do!
Jells Park. Breadcrumbs....I didn't say anything. There are signs everywhere....It wouldn't have done any good, just spoiled his moment. Quiet, gentle and perhaps a little lonely, he clearly loved his connection with those birds, "they know my car when I arrive". I saw him as I walked back to the smaller lower car park, about 15 Miners and even more Cockatoos, though they were keeping more distance.
centred resting on lettuce and celery is tofu coated in breadcrumbs, yeast flakes, mixed herbs and thyme, alongside wholegrain rice, pickled egg, pickled beetroot, vegetables and a serving of plum butter
tofu was dipped in a whisked egg, and coated with breadcrumbs, yeast flakes, mixed herbs and thyme then cooked in olive oil and turmeric
in a separate pan vegetables were cooked in olive oil and turmeric
plum butter www.daringgourmet.com/plum-butter-pflaumenmus/
i was first introduced to plum butter by jchants after seeing a photo of her homemade plum butter flic.kr/p/2jyCqjH with thanks :)
pickled beetroot flic.kr/p/2qtBHV8
pickled egg flic.kr/p/2jWKVUH
the sliced egg in the above photo had been pickled whole in the vinegar used to pickle beetroot, hence the red colour :)
homemade pickling www.sarsons.co.uk/recipes/categories/pickling/
just one thing with michael mosley
food special with professor tim spector
7 days 30 different plant based foods
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ngjx
ps i'm not recommending any of these cookery adventures. they suit my personal taste. photographing to encourage myself to eat more healthily ...
i've created a new group www.flickr.com/groups/cooking_is_my_hobby/ to gather ideas and encourage myself to continue with healthy eating by learning from others if you're interested in cooking, sometimes or a lot, or enjoy the cooking of others, you're always welcome ...