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These Red Avadavats (also known as Strawberry finches) are in their peak breeding season. The males look superb - bright red with white spots on the body and are hard to miss. These are resident finches found throughout the year, but are in their breeding plumage from around june/july till December. Around 10 cms long, they can be seen around bushes and scrubs flying around. I don't think they started nesting yet, but thats due shortly after the rains end.
They nest in small dry bushes dotting the countryside and once the bush is selected, they start collecting nesting materials for the build. We came across a dozen of them on a visit to a grassland and all of them are in prime breeding plumage including the females. They haven't paired yet from what I can see and once that is done, I suppose the nest building begins.
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Oil on masonite
51 x 78 cms
Elaine Green is a Tasmanian artist who was the only one to directly reference the social landscape of 2020. There are 30 little landscapes here in this work entitled "April". Each one represents a scene she painted from every one of the 30 days of lock down we endured in Tasmania (thank goodness for her sake she didn't live in Victoria).
This is not the primary reason why I liked this work. I think it stands up as a great piece of work in its own right. Each little landscape a gem. [Enlarge it and see.] It was highly commended by the judges.
Here is what she says about her work:
"The thirty scenes depicted in this work reflect the thirty days in April 2020 of lockdown in Stanley Tasmania. The world had changed, helicopters flew over-head and roadblocks were erected to prevent us travelling far. No tourists came for the Easter break, the shops were all shut, the chairlift sat silent and the penguins were not visited. But the wind still blew, the rain still fell, the sun rose and set, the tide came in and out and the magnificence that is Stanley comforted my soul."
The Gentoo penguin is a medium-sized species of penguin that is found on the rocky islands of the sub-Antarctic Ocean. Gentoo penguins are distinguished by the white "bonnet-like" marking across the top of their heads, and are most closely related to the Adelie and Chinstrap penguins.
Gentoo Penguins nest in early June. Their nests consist of a pile of stones that are roughly 20 cms (8 inches) high and 25 cms (10 inches) in diameter. The female will lay 2 eggs and the incubation is shared by both parents, alternating daily.
After 34 - 36 days the eggs will hatch and the chicks will remain in the nest for 30 days before they form creches. After 80 - 100 days the chicks will molt into sub-adult plumage and venture out into the sea.
It is unusual for both chicks to survive, the one that hatches first is usually stronger. However, if food is in abundance sometimes they will both survive. If Gentoo Penguins lose their first clutch of eggs they are able to lay a second clutch in the same season.
Leased CFCL Australia units CM3308/CM3304, operated by Bowmans Rail, drop down through the curves at Huddlestone with the Cristal Mining containerised mineral sands train from Kanadah to Port Adelaide on 27 October 2016.
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It took longer than I wanted, but I finally have them all. Now it's time to do a proper photo with them all!
CMS Innovation Water Injection Dredger
Year of built ~ 1998
Rebuilt ~ 2013
Upgraded ~ 2016
Port of Registry ~ Cardiff
Seen working in Bristol docks
Taken with a Nikon D7000
Friday, 25 December 2020: Christmas Day. The temperature is -4C (windchill -6C) just after noon. Sunrise is at 8:39 am, and sunset is at 4:34 pm. A few days ago, our world turned to white - again, but this time with more snow than I have seen for a long time. Apparently, 20-40 cms of snow fell in Calgary. Definitely a White Christmas for us here. Stay safe, everyone!
Ten days ago, on 15 December 2020, it was the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count for the High River area, south of Calgary. The Nanton Count used to be my favourite, but it no longer exists. Now, the High River Count is my favourite one, so I was really disappointed to not take part in it this time.
This year, I will not be taking part in any of the Counts, partly because I feel that with participant numbers being limited, the people with the very best birding skills should be the ones who go. I would feel very selfish if I took up a place. Also, being unable to carpool, there is no way I would be able to drive in the dark, with lousy night vision, at the beginning and end of the day. These wonderful day outings will be missed SO much and, of course, I will miss out on all the precious photo opportunities that I would be able to happily use. Instead, though, I can always go for a few drives out of the city on my own, depending on the weather.
Which is exactly what I did ten days ago. My car was on the road by 9:30 am and I covered part of the Count route, plus various other roads. No visits to any of the farms, though. In fact, I ended up driving much further than I had intended.
The clouds in one direction were simply mesmerising and lasted for several hours. When I first arrived at my 'starting point', I thought there must be a fire somewhere in the distance, sending two billowing clouds upwards between the horizon and the 'ceiling' of the Chinook Arch. Very slowly, the two patches of cloud changed their shape and eventually turned into just ordinary little clouds that would never catch the eye. I have never seen anything like it before, with two pillars of Lenticular clouds that were stacked on top of each other. At the end of the show, the pillar on the right had thinned at the bottom and widened hugely at the top, forming what looked like an Anvil cloud. The bright light around each pillar was dazzling. Luckily, I found an old, very distant barn/shed to include in a photo, and a row of metal silos to include in other captures.
Some of my photos are not as sharp as I would have liked, partly because I zoomed in so much and also because they were taken from inside my vehicle in order to avoid getting in and out constantly. That was supposed to put less strain on my painful knee and my shoulder rotator cuff pain. Still happy to have some photo memories of such an almost magical experience.
Feeling relaxed and content as I started my drive home, I was delighted to see an unexpected bird in the distance, perched high up on a power pole. It was a beautiful Prairie Falcon, who just sat there while I took photos through the windshield.
In the end, I just gave in and climbed out of my car to take a few extra shots. I hadn't realized how windy it was until I got out and stood against my vehicle. The bird was still sitting there when I left. As far as other birds were concerned, all I saw were two Black-billed Magpies and three small flocks of tiny birds. Suspect the first two flocks were probably House Sparrows. Not sure what the third flock was.
An enjoyable day, out in big sky countryside, hardly a soul to be seen anywhere (other than friend, Jim, who was doing the same as I was doing after he had finished his Count area). Some familiar barns/sheds and a fascinating old homestead that I had first discovered on 25 January 2020, completed the day.
Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge. A "Sir Cam" abstraction of the ceiling of the Common Room (see previous photo:-) Photo by permission.
Vessel Details:- Damen ASD 2009 Tug.
Vessel Name:- CMS BOXER.
Previous Name:-
IMO: - 9787211.
MMSI: - 232024856.
Call Sign:- MGGV5.
Classification:- Lloyds Register.
Length:- 20m
Beam:- 9m
Draught:- 3.8m
Builder:- Built in 2019 by Damen Shipyard Group Gorinchem, Netherlands.
Power Plant:- 2 x Caterpillar 3512C TA Diesels Engines.
Propulsion:- 2 x Schottel SRP 550 FP fully Azimuthing Propulsion Units.
Registration:- Greenock, UK
Gross Tonnage:- 149t.
Copyright 2020 Harry Garland, All rights reserved.
One of my wife’s favorite Cabernet Sauvignon (76%) blends from one of our a local wineries. We’re on our second glasses; seems like a beginning of a fun-filled Friday evening.
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Voigtländer Nokton Classic VM 35mm f/1.4 MC II + Fujifilm X-E3.
Materials: Adobe Photoshop, Stock Images
Processes: I started this project by painting over a stock image of a forest I found online exactly how it was, with variation in realism. This in itself took me several days, but once this was done I came to the issue of what I wanted to do next, as my original idea was no longer sitting well with me. After some thinking and looking around online for artworks done similarly to my own for inspiration I decided to take a complete turn and scrap a main piece of my original idea, opting for something on a less realistic scale, aka the Japanese monsters. They were done relatively in the same way I did forest itself, with the mixer brush, and I believe they added a level of fun and creativity that I was looking for in my original idea that is just didn't quite grasp. I later did more revisions to finish the piece off, such as changing the placement of the main monster, added a noise filter to give it texture, then changed the hue to give everything a redder undertone.
Ideas: I wanted to manipulate and illustrate over an image and give it a more fantastical look while still maintaining the original picture beneath.
Clyde Marine's CMS WARRIOR was built in Holland by DAMEN and is a type ASD Tug 2310. Classed as MCA Workboat Category 2
Bureau Veritas.
She has a bollard pull ahead of 52.3 tons and 51.5
tons astern.