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Sabiá do Campo em Belo Horizomte-MG-Basil.(Photo:18-NOV-2009)
Pássaro Cativo
Não quero o teu alpiste!
Gosto mais do alimento que procuro na mata livre
em que a voar me viste.
Tenho água fresca num recanto escuro.
Da selva em que nasci; da mata entre os verdores,
tenho frutos e flores, sem precisar de ti!
Não quero a tua esplêndida gaiola!
Pois nenhuma riqueza me consola de haver perdido aquilo que perdi…
Prefiro o ninho humilde, construído de folhas secas, plácido, e escondido.
Entre os galhos das árvores amigas…
Solta-me ao vento e ao sol!
Com que direito à escravidão me obrigas?
Quero saudar as pompas do arrebol!
Quero, ao cair da tarde, entoar minhas tristíssimas cantigas!
Por que me prendes? Solta-me, covarde!
Deus me deu por gaiola a imensidade!
Não me roubes a minha liberdade…
QUERO VOAR! VOAR!”
Olavo Bilac
A Black Browed Albatross keeping an egg warm on Saunders Island (Falkland Islands)
Shot details:
Software : Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta
Camera Model : Canon EOS 40D
Shooting Mode : Aperture-Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed ) : 1/6400
Av( Aperture Value ) : 2.8
Metering Mode : Center-Weighted Average Metering
Exposure Compensation : -1/3
ISO Speed : 200
Lens : EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Focal Length : 200.0 mm
White Balance Mode : Auto
AF Mode : One-Shot AF
Drive Mode : Low-speed continuous shooting
60091 with the empties and a cloud of dust near Ryder Brow station in Gorton,Manchester.
I found the location on google maps and had waited 7 months to visit... not sure if it was worth the wait....the curve did not look so tight on Google maps.
6P60 15:22 Hope St Peakstone P.Sdgs to Peak Forest Cemex Sdgs
13/07/2013
Test roll of some expired UC100.
Hit the bingo of failures: Lost a frame to uncocked shutter, some (bad) underexposures, some motion blur, some missed focus, a couple TLR framing mishaps, some bowing film during scans.
Well, they can't all be winners?
I took a walk on the property this morning, saw a platypus, lots of turtles, the green possum and baby, the pet goose, and these little red-browed finches, which are nesting in the young pine trees. I didn't see any chicks, but heard them chirping while being fed.
great start to the day...... :-)
Piculus aurulentus
Itotoró Lodge, Varginha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Male. This woodpecker is endemic to the Atlantic Rainforest.
Other name: Yellow-browed Woodpecker
3379
April through the July is peak orchid season, and when the spikes are in flower, there is precious little time for other obsessions, like churches.
I had been on the chalk downs, looking for some rare orchid or another, and I saw the sign post leading the way to Smeeth.
As is the way, the road was not straight or straightforward, and some crossroads had no posts which to follow. But I did arrive, find a place to park and enter.
As I edit the shots I will update the description more, but what I see now is the collection of arches, hegioscopes and holes linking the north chapel and chancel.
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SMEETH
LIES the next parish to Mersham eastward, being antiently written, and now usually called Smede, a name signifying an open smooth plain, and king Offa in 791, gave the pasture for fifty hogs binnam Smede, i. e. within Smede, to the church of Canterbury. It is but a small parish, being not more than a mile across each way; it lies mostly on the hill, where the country has but a rough and lonely appearance, there being but little traffic through it.
The village of Smeeth is situated, with the church close to it, on the brow of the hill, having a fine view from it over the valley southward; and there is another hamlet of houses called Ridgeway, at no great distance from it; towards Mersham-lees, there is a long narrow common, called Smeeth, alias Hatch heath. Near the foot of the hill southward is Scottshall, which stands some way down the hill. It is a very large mansion; the front of it eastward is modern, of brick; but the north front, built in the reign of king Henry VIII. is very grand, and has a fine effect. It is situated very pleasantly, having a good prospect from it; the grounds are well watered, by springs which rise between it and the church, on the side of the hill. About a mile westward from it, in the bottom, is Evegate; at a small distance from which is a farm called Stocks, which was for many generations the property of the Losties, originally of Westwell, where they resided in Henry the VIIIth.'s reign, and continued there till they removed hither, at least as early as King Charles the IId.'s reign, bearing for their arms, Sable, a chevron engrailed, between three trefoils slipt, argent. After which they continued owners of this estate till the Rev. John Loftie, of Canterbury, sold it lately to Mr. John Dunk, who lives in it. The head of the river Stour, which rises at Postling, flows along the southern side of this parish, where there is a mill on it, called Evegate-mill, and so on to Mersham towards Ashford. Archbishop Stratford procured the grant of a market and fair at Smeeth, in the 11th year of king Edward III. The market has never been used, but the fairs are still held on May 12, and Sept, 29, for toys and pedlary ware. The former of them was held likewise for the sale of live stock within remembrance. There are two boroughs in it.
The manor of Aldingtonclaims paramount over this parish, subordinate to which is THE MANOR OF EVEGATE, as it is now usually called, but in antient records written Thevegate, which lies at the bottom of the hill, about half a mile southward of the church. At the time of taking the general survey of Domesday, anno 1080, this manor was accounted to lie within the hundred of Longbridge, and was then part of the possessions of Hugh de Montfort, under the general title of whose lands it is entered in it as follows:
In Langebrige hundred, Hugo himself holds in demesne one yoke and an half in Tanegate. Gods. held it of king Edward. There is now one villein, with one carucate, and there are eight acres of meadow. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth twenty shillings, and afterwards ten shillings, now twenty shillings.
On the voluntary exile of Robert de Montfort, grandson of Hugo above-mentioned, in Henry I.'s reign, this manor, among the rest of his estates, came into the hands of the crown; after which it appears to have come into the possession of the family of Passele, or Pashley, as they were afterwards called, their arms, being A lion rampant, crowned, are carved on the roof of the cloysters at Canterbury; (fn. 1) one of whom, Edw. de Passele, held it in the 20th year of Edward III. by knight's service of the archbishop, as of his manor of Aldington. His descendant John Pashley, esq. died possessed of this manor in the 31st year of Henry VI. leaving a sole daughter and heir Elizabeth, who entitled her husband Reginald Pimpe, esq. of Nettlested, to it, and he likewise lest an only daughter and heir Anne, married to Sir John Scott, of Scotts hall, who in her right became possessed of it, and died about the middle of the reign of king Henry VIII. and in his descendants this manor continued down to Francis Talbot Scott, esq. whose trustees, about the year 1784, conveyed it, with Scotts hall and his other estates in this and the neighbouring parishes, to Sir John Honywood, bart. of Evington, the present possessor of it.
THE MANOR OF HALL, in this parish, with the mansion of it, from its having been for so many descents the inheritance and residence of the eminent and knightly family of Scott, has for a great length of time obtained the name of Scotts-hall. Indeed there are no earlier owners of it mentioned in any of our antient records. The original name of this family, whose possessions afterwards extended widely over this county, appears by papers in the possession of the family to have been Baliol. (fn. 2) William Baliol, younger brother of Alexander de Baliol, and brother of John Baliol, king of Scotland, frequently wrote his name William de Baliol le Scot; and it is further probable, after the contest between king Edward I. and his brother John, for the sovereignty of that kingdom, which ended in the latter's overthrow, that William Baliol above mentioned, to avoid the future anger of that prince, so highly incensed against his family, altered his name, and retained that of Scot only. And Philipott adds, that the antient arms of Baliol college, in Oxford, founded by John Baliol his grandfather, was a catherine wheel, now part of the paternal coat of this family, which is three such wheels; and although the present arms of that college are now wholly different, yet there seems some foundation for this assertion; for on the most antient part of the college now remaining, are two shields carved in stone, having a catherine wheel in each; and I am informed, the mark of the college on their plate and furniture, which has been of long time used, is likewise a catherine wheel.
The family of Scot, now spelt Scott, was originally seated in the adjoining parish of Braborne, the church of which has continued the place of their burials to the present time, their arms then being Argent, three catherine wheels, sable, within a bordure engrailed, gules. The first of them that we have any account of, as seated there, was Sir William Scott, knight marshal of England, who died in 1350, and was there buried, and they seem to have continued there till Henry VI.'s reign, when Sir Wm. Scott, removing to Scottshall, kept his shrievalty at it in the 7th year of king Henry VI. anno 1429; and his descendants, knights, for the next six successive generations, and men of eminent character, employed in stations of high trust and honor by the respective princes in whose reigns they lived, many of them sheriffs, and knights in parliament for this county, continued afterwards to reside at this seat with great reputation; of these, Sir William Scott, K. B. was warden of the five ports, and lieutenant of Dover castle in the reigns of king Henry VII. and VIII. He new built the mansion of Scotts-hall, the north front of which now remains, and has the appearance of much grandeur, according to the stile of building of that time. Sir Reginald, or Raynold Scott, captain of the castle of Calais in the 31st year of king Henry VIII. procured his lands to be disgavelledby the act then passed. Of his sons, Charles was of Eggarton, under which a full account has been given of him, and Raynold was author of the Discovery of Witchcraft. (fn. 3)
Sir Thomas Scott, the eldest son, in the memorable year of the Spanish armada, anno 1588, was appointed commander in chief of the Kentish forces, to oppose that formidable invasion. The day after he had received the council's letters, so much was he beloved by the country, that he was enabled to collect and send to Dover four thousand armed men. He was much noted for his great and liberal housekeeping, which he continued for thirty-eight years at Scottshall, feeding in his house not less than one hundred persons, besides other extraordinary resort of people, notwithstanding which, he increased his lands, buildings, and furniture. From his wife management of Romney Marsh he might be called the preserver of it, and from his contrivance at Dover pier, the founder of that haven. No man's death could be more lamented, or memory more beloved, insomuch that the inhabitants of the neighbouring town of Ashford solicited to pay the charges of his funeral, if they might have his remains deposited in their church. He died in 1594, and was buried with his ancestors in Braborne church, having had by his first wife seventeen children, of whom Thomas succeeded him at Scotts-hall, but died s. p. Sir John Scott, of Nettlested, the second son, died s. p. of whom a full account may be seen under Nettlested. Edward, the third son, became heir to his brother Thomas at Scotts-hall, and Robert the youngest son, was of Mersham, whose issue by his first wife settled at Liminge, where a full account may be scen of them. From Edward Scott, of Scott's hall, descended Geo. Scott, esq. likewise of Scotts-hall, who was twice married; by his first he had Edward, his successor here; by his second he had seven sons and seven daughters; of whom William is now of Canterbury, esq. unmarried, born in 1713; Arthur was a commissioner of the navy, and married Mary, daughter of Charles Compton, esq. and died s. p. and Cholmley was a colonel in the army. Of the daughters, Cecilia died unmarried at Canterbury in 1785, and Caroline married Thomas Best, esq. of Chilston, but died s. p. The eldest son Edward Scott, esq. succeeded him here, and resided at Scotts-hall, where he died in 1765, having married Margaret, daughter of John Sutherland, esq. by whom he had twelve children, of whom Francis Talbot Scott, esq. the eldest, was of London, barrister-at-law, and died in 1789, having married his first-cousin Cecilia, daughter of his halfuncle George Scott, esq. and widow of Brice Fletcher, esq. of Bombay, in the East-Indies, by whom he had two sons, George and Francis-Peach; Edward Scott, esq. one of the equerries to the prince of Wales; Thomas, late vicar of Lenham and rector of Denton; William, an officer in the navy; and Tuston Charles; Cecilia; Katherine; Caroline, married in 1784, to George Best, esq. now of Chilston, younger son of James Best, esq. of Chatham, and Charlotte. (fn. 4) At length, after this mansion had continued for so great a length of time in this family, it descended down to Edward Scott, esq. (the eldest son of George as before-mentioned) who was the last of this family who resided at it. He died here possessed of it in 1765, and succeeded in the inheritance of this manor and seat by his eldest son Francis Talbot Scott, esq. whose trustees, about the year 1784, conveyed it, with the rest of his estates in this parish and neighbourhood, to Sir John Honywood, bart. the present possessor of them.
Charities.
WILLIAM FORDRED, by will in 1550, gave to this parish, among others, a proportion of the rents of 25 acres of land, in St. Mary's parish, in Romney Marsn; which portion to this parish is of the annual produce of 4l. 12s. 4¾d. to be distributed annually to the poor, and is vested in certain trustees. This land is let for 35l. per annum, and is divided among the parishes of Smeeth, Aldington, Limne, Horton, Sellindge, Stanford, and Braborne.
RICHARD HART, by deed in 1619, gave to the poor of this parish for ever, five acres of land at Newchurch, in Romney Marsh, now of the annual produce of 7l. which is vested in trustees.
TIMOTHY BEDINGFIELD, by will in 1691, gave towards the education and maintenance of poor children of this parish, Lyminge, and Dimchurch, and to pay 10s. yearly to two poor women of each of these parishes, a house and land lying in the parisnes of St. Mary, Romney Marsh, Lyminge, and Woodchurch, now of the annual produce of 54l. 10s. which is vested in trustees.
The poor constantly relieved are about twenty-five, casually fifty-five.
SMEETH is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diecese of Canterbury, and deanry of Limne.
¶The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is a small building, consisting of two isles and two chancels, having a low steeple shingled at the west end. The north chancel belongs to Scotts-hall. In the north wall is a tomb, with an antient ornamented arch over it, and in the window above these arms, Sable, a lion rampant, double tailed, or. Against the north wall is a monument, having two figures in a standing posture, and an inscription for Priscilla Scott, daughter of Sir Thomas Honywood, and wife of Robert Scott, esq. of Mersham, obt. 1648, and for Mary Scott, daughter of John Moyle, esq. of Buckwell, wife of Robert Scott, esq. obt. 1652, being formerly the wife of Richard Godfrey, esq. of Wye, by whom she had twenty-two children, being the first who made Mary Honywood, of Charing, a great-grandmother in the fifth generation, who lived to see 366 of her issue living. In the south isle is a memorial for Thomas Loftie, obt. 1678. Over the great arch at the east end of this isle, exceedingly high, are two monuments for the family of Loftie. The above arch is a very fine one, of Saxon architecture, with zig-zag ornaments round it. In the north isle is a memorial for Margaret, wife of Richard Gokin, of Canterbury, obt. 1719. In the church-yard is a tomb over John and Elizabeth Dunk. He died in 1779.
This church is exempted from the jurisdiction of the archdeacon. It has always been esteemed a chapel to the church of Aldington, the rector of which parish is presented to the church of Aldington with the chapel of Smeeth annexed. It is included in the valuation of Aldingtion in the king's books. In 1640 here were communicants one hundred and eighty.
www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol8/pp2-9
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TR 03 NE SMEETH CHURCH ROAD (east side) 4/109 Church of St. Mary 27.11.57 GV I Parish church. C11 and extended C13, restored with rebuilt west tower and vestry 1881 Ragstone with plain tiled roof; timbered porch. Chancel with north chapel and south vestry, nave with north aisle, west tower and south porch. Single stage tower, the lower stage at least genuine C11, with C19 details (shafted and zig-zag moulded doorway, coupled belfry orates and parapet on corbel table). Nave with restored 2 light square headed window with ogee tracery and C19 3 light Decorated style window, north aisle with 3 uneven sized 2 light Y- tracery windows, and cusped lancet to west. Chancel with east wall largely rebuilt, with C19 triple lancet East window, the head of C11 round headed window over, and C15 south window, with short projecting C19 south vestry. North chapel with C19 3 light East window, with plaque below recording Peter Holloway, d.1644, servant to Sir Edward Scott. Simple north door and cusped 2 light window in quatrefoil. South porch weather boarded, with cusped bargeboard and double wicket gate, the interior with crown post roof on cambered tie beams and south doorway with shafts with scalloped capitals, roll mould and incised circle and nailhead mouldings, with scratch dials and fine plank and stud door, with bifurcated straps and hinges and C-straps, all of same antiquity. Interior: tall narrow door to west tower, with fragment of chevron moulding in restored surround. Identical south door. Three bay north arcade c.1200, with simple chamfered arches on abaci with nook shafts. Roof of 3 tall octagonal crown posts and chancel arch with roll moulded and chevron moulded orders on moulded abaci supported by voluted nook shafts. North aisle with blocked rood passage and simple chamfered arch to north chapel and roof of 4 octagonal crown posts. Chancel with plain arch to north chapel with fragment of carved decoration, C19 roll moulded door to south vestry, plastered ceiling. Wide squint to north aisle. The head of the C11 round headed East window composition is visible North chapel with hacked off rood stair and doorways, square headed north door and roof of 2 crown posts on chamfered tie beams. Fittings: chancel with some encaustic tiling, C20 wainscotting and C19 altar rail. The nave with C17 strapwork panelling, the pattern for that on the sanctuary. Octagonal font on squat round pier; C15. Poppy head bench and in north chapel, with panelled bench. Pulpit, with surrounding panelling, dated 1615, but inserted c.1890 and said to be from the demolished Scotts Hall. Pulpit on columnar stem, with bolection moulded base with ribband decoration and fluted and reeded panels, with anthemion frieze to arcaded upper panels with strapwork, modillion and egg and tongue cornices. Back panels with reeded arcading with guilloche pilasters. Tester, cross-beamed with fluted valance, knop pendants and jewel- shaped soffit decoration. Glass: C16 continental roundel in chapel east window; the Passeley Arms in north chapel, and C14 head. Monuments: C15 cusped tomb recess in north chapel, with depressed arch on colonettes, with pierced quatrefoil frieze and embattled top. Priscilla and Mary Scott, d.1648 and 1652, erected 1654. Wall monument in black and white marble, with scrolled pediment on pilaster, with inscription plaques in enriched brackets with draped skulls. The Central arcaded panel with 2 frontal figures leaning disconsolately on central prayer desk. Loftie memorial, over the chancel arch, to Paul Loftie, d.1703 and family; plaque of grey marble, a simple aedicule with Arms over and enriched apron with cherub's head below. On nave west wall are 2 C17 wooden plaques, again taken from Scott's Hall, both with double scalloped arches, with pendants and Arms over. The left hand panel with date 1461, - the Bedingfield Arms and initials E.B., the right hand panel with date 1429, the Scott Arms and initial W.S. Former chapel of Aldington, St. Martin. (See B.O.E. Kent II, 464-5; see also Church Guide).
Listing NGR: TR0722539614
The white-browed wagtail or large pied wagtail (Motacilla maderaspatensis) is a medium-sized bird and is the largest member of the wagtail family. They are conspicuously patterned with black above and white below, a prominent white brow, shoulder stripe and outer tail feathers. They are common in small water bodies and have adapted to urban environments where they often nest on roof tops. The specific name is derived from the Indian city of Madras (now Chennai).
The white-browed wagtail is the largest species of wagtail at 21 cm length. It is a slender bird, with the characteristic long, constantly wagging tail of its genus. It has black upperparts, head and breast, with a white supercilium and large white wingbar. Unlike white wagtails it never has white on the forehead. The rest of the underparts are white. The female has the black less intense than in the male. Juveniles are like the females brown-grey where the adult is black.
The white-browed wagtail is a resident breeder in India and is endemic to the Indian subcontinent. It is found south of the Himalayas, east of the Indus system and to the west of Bangladesh. It is rare in the higher altitude regions but has been seen in Ladakh on the edge of the Tibetan plateau. In most of India it is found below 1000 m but in southern India it goes up into the hills up to 2200 m. It is very rare in the Indus valley area. It is absent from the Sind region of Pakistan. It is found in open freshwater wetland habitats. It is one of the few Motacilla wagtails that has adapted well to urban habitats and is often found perched on overhead water storages in residential buildings.
It is a rare winter visitor to Sri Lanka and have possibly extended their range in recent times.
Cyclarhis gujanensis
Vireón cejirrufo
Tarcoles, Puntarenas
Historia Natural
Reproducción
Su nido es una taza semiesférica, adherida por el borde a una horqueta terminal, con frecuencia de un tejido tan fino que los huevos se ven a través del fondo. Uno de estos nidos estaba construído con líquenes grises bien ramificados y un poco de musgo verde, unidos con abundante telaraña y con un forro de materiales burdos, del grosor del alambre. Se localiza a una altura de 2 a 10 m. Ponen de 2 a 3 huevos de color blanco rosáceo con manchas café brillantes. Se reproduce de marzo a julio.
Alimentación
Forrajea en la parte externa del follaje a todas las alturas, desde la parte alta de las copas de los árboles hasta los matorrales. Se mueve lentamente, y termina los períodos de revisión del follaje con brincos pesados y rápidos para atrapar a sus presas: frecuentemente se aleja bastante o cuelga con las patas hacia arriba. Se alimenta de insectos y arañas; a menudo sostiene las orugas y capullos debajo de la pata mientras los descuartiza.
Comportamiento
Forman parejas durante todo el año, aunque a menudo forrajea solo.
Habitat y Distribución
Habitat
Prefiere los bordes de los bosques, los bosques fragmentados, sitios parcialmente despejados, potreros con árboles, setos vivos, huertos y áreas de crecimiento secundario. Frecuenta los bosques de galería perennifolios y los manglares.
Distribución
Es una especie común en las Cordilleras de Tilarán, Volcánica Central y de Talamanca y en la región de Dota; también en el Valle Central hacia el este hasta las cercanías de Turrialba y la cuenca del Reventazón. Se localiza sobre todo entre los 700 y los 2450 m.. Se encuentra localmente en la región de Río Frío y en el noroeste seco. Es más numerosa en la Península de Nicoya, y hacia el sur hasta Parrita en los manglares.
Distribución fuera de Costa Rica
Se encuentra desde el noreste de México hasta la parte central de Argentina y el sur de Brasil.
Distribución de Area de conservación
Amistad CaribeAmistad PacificoArenalGuanacastePacifico CentralHuetar NorteOsaCordillera Volcanica CentralTempisqueTortuguero
Descripción
Descripción científica
Mide 14 cm. y pesa 31 grs. Es grueso, cabezón, con el pico bastante fuerte. El iris es anaranjado pálido, conspícuo. En los adultos la coronilla es café opaco, bordeada con cejas anchas de color rufo canela que se unen en la frente. La barbilla, mejillas, lados y la parte de atrás del cuello son grises. El resto de la región superior es verde oliva; por debajo es principalmente amarillo, y se desvanece progresivamente a blanco en el abdomen y las coberteras infracaudales. El pico es gris plateado claro. Las patas son color carne. Los individuos inmaduros son como los adultos, pero con el blanco del abdomen más extenso, con frecuencia con un tinte oliva en el pecho. Los especímenes juveniles presentan la coronilla grisácea. Las cejas son más cortas y mucho más pálidas. Las coberteras alares cuentan con flecos ocráceos angostos. Por debajo es principalmente blanco opaco, y progresivamente pasa a amarillo pálido en el costado y los flancos. El iris es café opaco.
Información taxonómica
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Clase: Aves
Orden: Passeriformes
Familia: Vireonidae
Género: Cyclarhis
Several people browsing and exploring the Bethlehem Neighboors for Peace booth. We were busy on Saturday with lots of people andyarthur.org/photos/clearwater/browingthe.html