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Brown Treecreeper
Scientific Name: Climacteris picumnus
Description: The Brown Treecreeper is the largest of Australia's treecreepers. It is mostly pale brown in plumage. Birds of northern Queensland are darker brown. The head, throat and upper breast are pale greyish-brown, while the lower breast and belly are strongly streaked with black and buff. In flight, a buff stripe can be seen in the wing. The sexes are similar, except females have rufous edges to the feathers of the upper breast, while in the male these edges are black. Young Brown Treecreepers resemble the adults, but are duller, have less obvious stripes on the underparts and the lower belly is a pale rufous colour.
Similar species: Other treecreeper species that overlap in range with the Brown Treecreeper include the White-browed Treecreeper, Climacteris affinis, and the White-throated Treecreeper, Cormobates leucophaeus. The White-browed Treecreeper is darker grey-brown with a more distinct white stripe above the eye (edged with red-brown in the female). The eyebrow of the Brown Treecreeper is less distinct and is more buff. The smaller White-throated Treecreeper has much darker upperparts, a contrasting white throat and little or no marks above the eye.
Where does it live?
Habitat: Found in the drier open forests and woodlands, the Brown Treecreeper stays in the same area all year round.
Feeding: The Brown Treecreeper climbs up the trunks and branches of trees in search of food. It probes into cavities and under loose bark with its long downward curving bill. In this way it searches for insects and their larvae. The most favoured insects are ants. Some feeding also takes place on the ground on fallen logs. Sometimes, birds can be seen diving on ground-dwelling prey from a perch in a tree. Feeding normally takes place in pairs or small groups.
Breeding: The nest is a collection of grasses, feathers and other soft material, placed in a suitable tree hollow or similar site. Both sexes build the nest, but the female alone incubates the eggs. Pairs often have two broods during each breeding season. Occasionally, other birds ("helpers") assist the breeding pair with building of nest and feeding the young chicks. Brown Treecreepers are highly sociable birds, living and breeding communally. Each year, the previous year's offspring will remain to help the breeding male feed the female and rear new chicks. Interestingly, it is usually only males which remain to perform this duty.
Calls: The Brown Treecreeper has a loud 'spink' call, which is given either singly or in a series, and normally betrays its presence before the bird is seen.
Minimum Size: 16cm
Maximum Size: 18cm
Average size: 17cm
Average weight: 33g
Breeding season: June to January
Clutch Size: 2 to 3 eggs
Incubation: 17 days
Nestling Period: 26 days
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The shot is taken today, 15 Km from my house on the way to Noghondar Village.
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There are perhaps 1000's of photos that i would like to post from the wedding. It was all just incredibley fun, and the photos turned out geogous.
In the end, i took almost 30GB of photos (that's raw files), but we had like 5 seperate photoshoots, and there were two couples.
Since it's a wedding, i though i would write a description of stuff that i was at. It was a three couple wedding, there were two brothers marrying two sisters, and there was one cousin that married a girl from another colony near winnipeg. The two brothers are my cousins as well as the two sisters, because a generation my dad and mom from their same families also married together.
Here on our colony we woke up at 7:00 so we could have breakfest and get ready. The bus to maplegrove was sceduled to leave at 8:00 so we would get there in time to go to the wedding ceremony. On this bus there were only the youth that was 15+ and not babtised. The babtised people had left the day before to attend a special supper.
We arrived around 10 after 9. And because we know Almost everybody in maple grove colony so well we all went our own way. Most of us anyways. I didnt really have to go to anyboyd, i was with a good friend that had came from a colony in Alberta. And we stuck together alot.
Our small group of boys went to the kindergarden, not to attend, but to wake up the boys that had slept there, because there was no room in the houses anymore.
As it was coming closer to 9:30 we were repedetly informed that we wouldnt have to attend the ceremony, there was room for not too many people, and because boys dont want to sit for that long, they told us that we wouldnt have to go. So we went for a walk. (at that time the group i was with consisted of about 15 boys) We just walked around the colony, and finally ended up in the house of a good friend and cousin, we stayed there till they came from the ceremony. (we could hear the ceremony from at home, via a speaker system they had set up for older people who couldnet go to it but wanted to hear it)
Here is a blog post by Camille that tells everything about a hutterite wedding ceremony
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There is a season for (Hutterite) weddings!
Today, the kids and I attended our first Hutterite wedding ceremony. It was very interesting, to say the least!
As 'Englischers' we had to sit in the back row. The men and women sit on different sides of the room. The left side (facing forward) was for the men, the right side was designated for the women. However, Jacob was not required to sit on the 'Men's Side' of the room.
In the front of the room were two ministers. One from the colony of the groom, where the wedding was held, and the other, I believe, from the bride's colony. There were also three 'Witness Brothers' - again, I believe that is what I was told they are called. They are the fellows that handle any type of disciplinary action within the church body. They are not to discuss the wrong-doings of any of the members that require action with anyone - even their wives. Usually they are from the groom's colony, but this particular colony only has two, so the third one was a 'stand-in' from another local colony.
The service began with two hymns that were sung by 'line singing'. The 'song leader' reads a line, and then the congregation sings it back to him. I remembered reading once about this type of singing that was done in the south, especially in the churces of the slaves.
Then there was a prayer in German. Next, the minister from the bride's colony stood up to give the sermon. He talked for a bit (again in German), and then everyone stood up - so we followed the cue! I was later told that they always stand for the reading of the Word. Every wedding ceremony uses the same sermon and the same Scripture. The Scripture read was from Ephesians 5 starting in verse 22.
After the reading, we again took our seats and he began the sermon. This part of the service was entirely in German. I had learned in the past that all of the sermons that are given are from books that are written in High German that contain letters from the founders of the Hutterite denomination when they were held in prison. These letters are expositions on certain portions of Scripture used to encourage 'the saints' when the leaders were in prison. They have been read through the ages - never changing - never varying.
During the exposition of the Scripture - other Scriptures are used (but not identified) to let the Scripture read prove itself.
From my understanding, the sermon begins with Adam and Eve and God's instituting marriage. The sermon then moves to various examples of Scripture of good and bad marriages. I heard Abraham and Isaac mentioned. Sarah was mentioned. Samson and Solomon were also mentioned as 'bad examples' - marrying someone because they are 'pleasing to the eye' (later Samson was blinded) - or marrying someone outside of your own religion - because they can turn you away from God. (As an aside, in order for any one to marry in the church they must have taken a kneeling vow to the Hutterian Brethren.) The minister then moved on to the responsibilites of the man and woman within the marriage - ultimately pointing out that marriage is a symbol on earth of Christ and the church. He taught that man is exhorted to lead in a loving way, remembering to treat his wife as the weaker vessel. There were some pretty strong admonitions to the man - in that the man that does not lead in a godly way is worse than an infidel. As for the woman, she was exhorted to submit to her husband in all things and to make his leadership a joy and not a burden.
After this, the minister from the groom's colony began his portion of the service. He gave his portion in English. From what I heard, his portion was a rough translation of the first portion.
Once this was done, the bride and groom were called forward. The groom exited his pew and went to stand before the minister, and the bride exited from her pew and stood one step behind the groom just behind his right shoulder. The minister then began the vows. Basically, he asked the groom if he willingly took this sister to be his wife, and would he lead her in a godly way. All questions, from both the bride and groom, were answered with a 'Yah'. He also warned the groom to not allow his wife to come between him and the church. He then asked that if for some reason she chose to break her vows to the church and leave, would he remain faithful to the church and let her go. The minister asked the bride the same type of questions. Would she willingly take this brother to be her husband, and would she submit to him in all things. At this point they clasped hands - he then said a prayer to them (in German) and proclaimed them husband and wife. After this, they took their seats (each on their respective sides of the church). We then had to get on our knees for another prayer. Once the prayer was finished, we took our seats and sang another song in the 'line singing' format. Almost every other line was 'Praise the Lord' in this song.
Once the final song was sung, the service was over, and everyone filed out. The men went out first - and then the women.
It was very interesting to say the least!!! I have notes that I took - but I do not have them handy, so I will be making some updates once I get them down to the computer!!! A couple of the references that he used were from Timothy, Titus, and Ephesians 4 - that much I do remember.
In case you are wondering - there was no 'you may now kiss the bride'. There was no instumentation of any kind. Everyone was dressed in dark colors. The men wore black pants with black suit jackets. Most had on white shirts. The women wore dark dresses with short 'dress' coats over them (that were black). All of the head coverings were black. The only exception was the bride's dress. It is the same style they wear every day, however, hers was a darker royal blue.
If you have any questions - ask away!!! I'll do my best to answer them! I do hope I gave justice to this wonderful (interesting and different!) ceremony!
Thanks, Camille for writing this all out, now i don't have to.
See her Blog here
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Shortly after the ceremony i was asked if i would like to be a waiter at dinner, i agreed and asked my firend Ryan that he should try it as well and get a little experience doing it. We baisically waited at a home, talking with everybody, waiting till the someone announced over the PA that we should come and prepare to serve the tables with food.
My table, along with my brother and someone else from Maple grove was the bride's table, which was along the front. they told us that we had priority over everybody. We could get food first, and we introduced food before any other table got it. I really loved the business of it all, there was so much going on and i really liked that.
After seving all the food, and drink, taking the food away and cleaning up the dishes, the 20 or so Waiters plus the 15 or so cooks sat down and had a rushed meal. We wanted to finish with the ohers, because many of them were our friends, and we wanted to squeeze in as much socializing as we was humanely possible.
After dinner was finished, i had plans of going for a walk with a few friends. But i hadn't thought of the family wedding photos i was to take. So as i passed the home of the bride i was told that i should get ready. So i let my friends go for a walk by themselves and i had to go shoot people. I was not really dissapointed because i loved photography as well as walking with frinends, but just a little less at that time.
Anyways i stood there for a time till the family was gathered and we went a distance fromt he colony to were there was a perfect place for pictures and i waited for everybody to arrive.
And OMG, did people ever arrive. Aside from the big family, and the 10 other people with cameras, and random spectators, there were about 50 people watching. And then it started. I set my camera to full manual and got ready. There were two couples, brothers marrying sisters and so the families were essentially the same ones. That made it much simpler. We shot the main family portrait with everybody from the family in it, includind the ones that married into the family. And then the individual families. And then the fun part. Every friend they had, or relitive wanted a picture of themselves with first one couple, then the other, then both together. I just stood there, with my camera in manual mode, and shot RAW photos like a robot. 5 photos, quuick inspection, "next"
Eventually we finished with photos and i scrambled to find my friends so i could sit with them at the wedding. I was with them for maybe 5 minutes when the the two couples wanted a photo with the third couple, and no body else. And that took maybe 3 minutes. And i was back with my friends. As i sat there It came to mind that we had been told to come practice the candle drill after family portraits, and i had forgotten and decided, heck, i know it well enough from all the practice we had at home.
The wedding
Around 2:00 we all went to the shop for the wedding. It was held in the shop because the kitchen (where weddings are usually held) was too small to accommadate that many people. So the shop was made spotless, and decorations were hung, and round tables set. The tables were set with some centerpieces and some food.
After all people were seated the couples arrived with friends and family, they sat at the head tables. All people sat ahead of them, and the stage for singing was in the opposit corner of them.
Obviously a shop is not an ideal place for a wedding, with florecent lighting and no particular interior design that makes it look lavish. But considering that, it was not uncomfortable to celebrate in there.
The stage for singing was about 2 feet high, and had a microphone set up so even the small voices could be heard.
We began the 5-6 hour wedding/supper with the congregation singing some german and english songs from books or memeory. And following that there came the colony choirs, duets and small family choirs.
There are a few proformances that stood out to me:
The one that i enjoyed them most was a song "Another soldier down" sung by two boys aged approximatley 6 and 11. I generally associate boys of that age to having childing voices that are not too good at following a tune, and that dont sound all that good. But i was blown away by their proformance. With a few exceptions, they hit every note with such clarity and accuracy that i was stunned. And so was everybody else. For at the end, everybody errupted in applause. (this meant something, because there was no other song that got applause, that is because we were told at the start that applause was not needed).
The other proformance that stood out to me is the shadow play. The girls and boys of Maple Grove colony had written and proformed a play wherein the actors impersonated key moments of the couples relationship. Like they acted the scene of how one guy wanted to propose, how another made room for his wife in their already small house, and how they faught over the phone line(because they were brothers calling sisers).
That play was about half an hour long, and for me, it was quite entertaining. Because i knew most of the scenes through the hutterite grape vine or from friends of the couples, having them acted out was soo cool.
The last proformance that stood out, not to me, but to the spectators was the candle drill that our choir proformed. They told us that they got the shivers, because the song was so well sung and the candles in a dark shop made everything so much better.
At the end we had supper, because it was around supper time. We had the usual chicken soup with 'gehstel" as we call them. Along with fruit salad and a good hearty sandwich.
The wedding supper was over after a prayer, and soon everybody dispersed. The folks at that colony invited everybody to come watch a immense machine at their shop. one that makes tubing from flat iron. So for 10 minutes or so we were there.
Soon after that the youth playes sports. It was announced over the PA that we should come play some baseball. And after everyone arrived, they realized another sport had to be started so soccer was played as well.
I joined in the baseball game, because i didnt want to get worked up like soccor requires. I wanted a relaxing end to the evening. And darn, i got that, the pitcher threw nothing but balls, and they became strikes only when the batter had bad judgement. :P
After all the games there was a short time to socialize some more with the many people from so many different colonies. But that's where we had to say our good bye's and leave for home in a bus with all the other youth from our colony.
I enjoyed this wedding too much. I made a couple of new friends and got to know them quite well. I think my mouth had talked too much by the end of the day. Well, i like talking, so i did just that. I mean, the point of socializing is to express oneself, so i did that. And whatever i couldnt let out there, i talked about one the way home and the next morning and here on flickr.
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shy of 7 hours time lapse of pictures taken while watching the Perseids meteor shower and Jupiter parading the sky. [meteorites barely noticed in timelapse due to # of ftp]
after my eyes got used to the dark, I started to get the faint green glow in the air which I hadn't noticed until then, never witnessed an aurora either so it got me quite excited.
the play of light spill from the town nearby and the glow from the night sky into the clouds at the beginning of time lapse made me reverse it also, this is a time machine after all.
i enhanced the saturation as a visual treat to my eyes.
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Description: Being in Malaysia, a break during the monsoon season is something not to be missed after days of rain. The image was taken during one of this days during my lunch break at the "Dataran Putrajaya" which the Putrajaya Mosque and the flags of the states in Malaysia as the main subject.
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Melaleuca quinquenervia, commonly known as broad-leaved paperbark, the paper bark tea tree or niaouli, is a small- to medium-sized tree of the allspice family, Myrtaceae. The plant is native to New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea and coastal eastern Australia, from Botany Bay in New South Wales northwards, into Queensland and the Northern Territory. It has become naturalised in the Everglades in Florida, where it is considered a serious weed by the USDA. The broad-leaved paperbark grows as a spreading tree up to 20 m high, with the trunk covered by a white, beige and grey thick papery bark. The grey-green leaves are ovate and the cream or white bottlebrush-like flowers appear from late spring to autumn. (Source: Wikipedia)
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My Flickr friend Lars commented that he didn't know I could do interior pictures when I posted the previous picture. I am still not sure I can, but this gorgeous house really made me want to try.
All photos are taken handheld and without flash, so if they are blury is that the reason.
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Gemeine Wegwarte (Art) -- CICHORIUM INTYBUS -- Family : Korbblüte (ASTERACEAL)
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A few shots all taken last week in and around The Great Fen, Cambridgeshire
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Cockatiel
Scientific Name: Nymphicus hollandicus
Description: The Cockatiel is an unusual member of the cockatoo family. It is small in size, and has a slender body and long pointed tail, which is more characteristic of the smaller parrots. Its plumage is mostly grey, paler below, with a white wing patch, orange cheeks and a distinctive pointed crest. The male can be identified by its bright yellow forehead, face and crest. Young Cockatiels resemble the adult female, although the young males usually have a brighter yellow face. The Cockatiel is not found naturally in any other country, but is a popular cage bird, second only to the Budgerigar, Melopsittacus undulates. The Cockatiel does not have the screeching voice of many other parrots and may learn to 'speak'.
Distribution: The Cockatiel is widespread throughout mainland Australia, but is uncommon in Tasmania, with only a few sightings being reported to date.
Habitat: The Cockatiel is seen in pairs or small flocks, in most types of open country, usually near water. It is common throughout its range, especially in the north and the more arid inland areas.
Seasonal movements: Throughout its range, the Cockatiel is strongly nomadic, moving around in response to the availability of food and water.
Feeding: Cockatiels feed on a variety of grass seeds, nuts, berries and grain. They may feed either on the ground or in trees, and always in small to large numbers. Cockatiels roost in trees near water and travel from these areas in large flocks to feeding grounds.
Breeding: Cockatiels may breed at any time, in response to suitable periods of rain, especially in the more arid regions. Both sexes share the incubation of the eggs, which are laid in a hollow, high up in trees. Suitable trees are either in or close to water. Cockatiels enter the nest hollow tail first.
Calls: Although mostly silent, the Cockatiel gives a long and distinctive "queel-queel" in flight. It does not have the screeching voice of many other parrots and may learn to 'speak'.
Minimum Size: 30cm
Maximum Size: 33cm
Average size: 32cm
Average weight: 90g
Breeding season: Normally July to December in south of range
Clutch Size: 2 to 9, usually 5
Incubation: 19 days
Nestling Period: 30 days
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i got this sequence of the queenfisher after she came up with a stick,,,,lol and as you can see she didnt like it and was not happy...lol
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to learn more about Indigo Buntings please check out www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Indigo_Bunting/