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In Australia, the Common Blackbird is often viewed as a pest, but the early pioneers were determined to ensure that Blackbirds were successfully introduced into their adopted land. Blackbirds were released dozens of times throughout south-eastern Australia, mostly in the 1860s. Though most Blackbirds are sedentary in Australia, their range has expanded and they are capable of making long-distance movements, with some regularly crossing the Bass Strait; a few have even reached subantarctic islands!

Identification: The male is the ‘black’ bird, with deep orange to yellow bill, a narrow yellow eye-ring and dark legs. The female is a brown bird, with some streaks or mottling, and has a dark bill and legs. Immature birds are similar to the female with lighter underparts. Their average size is 27cm and their average weight is 89 grams.

Songs and Calls: A repeated ‘tchook’ call and a melodious, warbling song. Bird call recorded by: Fred Van Gessel

Location: The Common Blackbird, was originally confined to Melbourne and Adelaide. It has gradually expanded its range throughout south-eastern Australia, both on the coast and inland, as far north as southern Queensland, and including Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands.

Habitat: The Common Blackbird is most often found in urban areas and surrounding localities but has successfully moved into bushland habitats. It is often seen in orchards, vineyards and gardens, as well as along roadsides and in parks.

Behaviour: The Common Blackbird can be a pest in orchards, parks and gardens, being rather destructive of ground vegetation, particularly backyard vegetable patches.

Feeding: The Common Blackbird eats insects, earthworms, snails, spiders and a range of seeds and fruit. It mainly forages on the ground, probing and scratching at leaf litter, lawns and soil.

Breeding: The Common Blackbird builds a cup-shaped nest of dried grass, bound with mud, and lined with fine grasses. It is usually placed in a tree, shrub or low bush, but they will also use tree hollows. Their clutch size is 3 to 5 eggs (usually 4 eggs) with an incubation period of 14 days and a nestling period of 14 days. Breeding season is from September to January.

(Source: birdlife.org.au/bird-profiles/common-blackbird/)

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Silvereye

Zosterops lateralis

Identification: The Silvereye is a small bird with a conspicuous ring of white feathers around the eye and belongs to a group of birds known as white-eyes. The Silvereye shows interesting plumage variations across its range. The grey back and olive-green head and wings are found in birds through the east, while western birds have a uniformly olive-green back. Breeding birds of the east coast have yellow throats, pale buff flanks (side of the belly) and white on the undertail. Tasmanian birds have grey throats, chestnut flanks and yellow on the undertail. To complicate this, the birds in the east have regular migrations within Australia and may replace each other in their different areas for parts of the year. Birds in Western Australia have yellowish olive, rather than grey, backs

Location: Silvereyes are more common in the south-east of Australia, but their range extends from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, through the south and south-west to about Shark Bay, Western Australia. They are also found in Tasmania.

Habitat: Urban, Woodland, Forest. Silvereyes may occur in almost any wooded habitat, especially commercial orchards and urban parks and gardens.

Habitat: The Silvereye can travel great distances during migration, with Silvereyes from the most southerly regions of Tasmania travelling all the way up to Southern Queensland. Birds are seen alone, in pairs or in small flocks during the breeding season, but form large flocks in the winter months.

Feeding: Silvereyes feed on insect prey and large amounts of fruit and nectar, making them occasional pests of commercial orchards. Birds are seen alone, in pairs or in small flocks during the breeding season, but form large flocks in the winter months.

Breeding: Silvereye pairs actively defend a small territory. The nest is a small, neatly woven cup of grasses, hair, and other fine vegetation, bound with spider web. It is placed in a horizontal tree fork up to 5m above the ground. The nest is constructed by both sexes, who both also incubate the bluish-green eggs. If conditions are suitable two to three clutches will be raised in a season.

Songs and Calls: The contact call, a thin “psip”, is given persistently.

(Source: birdlife.org.au/bird-profiles/silvereye/}

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Boyero negro, Solitary Cacique (Cacicus solitarius) by Lucas de Ciria

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Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur CABA, provincia de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA.

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The Alice River in central Queensland, Australia rises on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range. It has been very dry so the river is a series of waterholes - it needs a good flush. You can see the water marks on the trees from previous flows. The river flows in a south-westerly direction towards Isisford and its confluence with the Barcoo River to later form Cooper Creek. Barcaldine is located on Lagoon Creek, which flows into the Alice River.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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mr jones relaxing on the couch.

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Villandry by Jean-Marc ORTEGA

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Comment, malgré la sécheresse qui se manifeste même dans la vallée de la Loire, garder vivant un jardin , à l'image de celui de Villandry, le plus prestigieux de tous ?

La grande majorité de l'eau d'arrosage provient de l'eau de pluie, récupérée par les toits du château et par le ruissellement de quelques rus. Le tout converge vers les douves, d'où une pompe alimente la pièce d'eau centrale des jardins. Par un jeu de cascades d'ornement, retour à la case douves, et ainsi de suite. C'est dans cette eau que les jardiniers de Villandry puisent la majeure partie de ce dont les plantes ont besoin.

How, despite the drought that is evident even in the Loire Valley, can we keep a garden alive, like that of Villandry, the most prestigious of all?

The vast majority of irrigation water comes from rainwater, collected by the roofs of the castle and by runoff from a few streams. Everything converges towards the moat, from where a pump supplies the central water feature of the gardens. Through a game of ornamental cascades, return to the moat square, and so on. It is from this water that the gardeners of Villandry draw most of what the plants need.

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What a Swizz!!! Giving a Display like THAT, and Stuck in a Car Park!!! - Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia?) in Seed - Car Park Beaumont Rise Islington London N.19 by Brian Turner

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World Cup Soldeu 2012 - GEANT by Jordi Troguet Ribes

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Venezia, Libreria Acqua Alta by Armando Moreschi Check out my albums

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Acqua Alta Library

If you are a books lover then in Venice there is a place taylored for you, the Libreria Acqua Alta. It is one of the most original library in the world where all the books are piled up in shelves, bath tubs and gondolas! It is a literary universe at your fingertips where you can range to every genres, discovering something magic hidden under thousands of ancient or new books coming from all over the world. The books are for sale but also used as furniture, just like the staircase made by old encyclopaedias that overlooks the canal! The books are news or used, the first room it’ s about themes as art, culture and Venice history, the second one is full of bestsellers and comics. There are 4 cats that scamper and sleep between the printed paper. Don’t miss the opportunity to admire this wonder during your Venetian stay! It is really close to campo Santa Maria Formosa, behind San Marco. It is open every day from 9am to 8pm.

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Hummingbird Female. by Bob Rumer.

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My Garden Pa.

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Zurich`s lake drone panorama by Ricardo Gomez A

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The Scratching Post - Dartmoor by Jerry Fryer

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Thanks to Flickr I was made aware of this place this year.

Since then I've seen it in books too - so I'm sorry to say it's a bit of an iconic or cliched shot which I always prefer to avoid but they keep calling to me unfortunately :(

Even though I spent many holidays in Plymouth for the first 16 years of my life & most of my summers in Devon for the last 15 years, this week was the first time I'd ever been to this spot - great how Flickr lets us see so many places through everyone else's eyes (& lenses) & inspires us to get out there & explore.

When I first saw pictures of this, the perspective made me think the post was about 18 inches high - the kind of thing you sometimes get in a garden to mark the grave of a small family pet like a hamster, guinea pig or gerbil - but it's actually very big.

Commonly known as the Windy Post this chunk of granite is around 7 feet tall but despite the misleading name the reason it is leaning is not down to the wild Dartmoor winds.

You see, Dartmoor ponies are quite poorly equipped to deal with itchiness.

Unlike human hands and fingers which are extremely sophisticated both in terms of placement and application of pressure - ponies hooves are far too unwieldy & crude for localised scratching - and of course they can't reach all over the pony's body.

The only other major tool in the pony's scratching armoury is a vigorously whipping tail action, but even this together with hooves leaves large areas unscratchable.

For this reason Dartmoor ponies have been known to rub themselves against this post to relieve any urgently itchy areas - being intelligent animals they usually rub downhill allowing gravity to apply pressure and do most of the work as they rub gently backwards and forwards.

Over the last several hundred years this has caused the post to lean downwards :)

I just managed to get here about an hour before sunset and couldn't believe my luck that there were some great clouds & crepuscular Rays appearing to highlight the post!

Shortly after this the rain came down very heavily & the sunset was very poor but was grateful for this light & reflections.

- must dash my wife has just caught me on Flickr again which means another spanking is imminent :(

In perfect order by Priscor_RIP

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The great gig in the sky by Peter Thoeny - Quality HDR Photography

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Last September we spent 2 1/2 days at a camp with rocketeers in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. I got up 45 minutes before sunrise to witness the spectacle. I am a total night owl, so it was not that easy to get up so early. It definitely was worth it! The camp was still asleep when I took this sunrise photo.

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Leaning Shed of Castambul by jonathan Burbury

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A great old shed in the Adelaide Hill, Has a lovely creek flowing just behind it. Next big storm it should end up falling all the way into the creek!

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The Light by Iphigenia Dervisi

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Holy Pilgrimage Church of Saint Gregorios the Theologian in Nea Karvali.

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Ιερός προσκυνηματικός ναός Αγίου Γρηγορίου του Θεολόγου, Νέα Καρβάλη.

the common crow by Chris Burns

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Common Crow Butterfly

Scientific Name: Euploea core

Identification: The Common Crow Butterfly is a large black butterfly with white spots on the fore wings and a band of elongated spots on the hind wings. The outer wing margins have small white spots. The males have a pair of hidden orange-yellow brushes at the tip of the abdomen, which they can extend into bright coloured patch as part of the mating ritual or to deter predators. These brushes emit a musky odour. The caterpillars are striped. Pupa have metallic silvery sheen.

Other Names: Oleander Butterfly

Size: wingspan 70mm, Caterpillar about 50mm

Habitat: The Common Crow is found in open forest and woodland. Often seen in parks and gardens

Food: Common Crow Butterfly caterpillars feed on a wide range of native plants. They are often found in gardens feeding on Ficus (figs), Hoya, Mandevilla, Nerium oleander, Trachelospermum (star jasmines). The larvae eat the leaf and soft stem parts.

Range: Throughout tropical Australia and eastern Queensland. Adults sometimes disperse further down eastern Australia as far as Victoria, but there are no permanent breeding populations further south than northern New South Wales.

(Source: www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Common-Crow-Butterfly/Euploea/co...)

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Steam on the street ! / Vapeur aux Carreaux ! by Léa Jacquet

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Comment ça "aux Carreaux" avec une majuscule et un pluriel ?

Eh oui parce que la plaque de rue visible dans l'image indique la ruelle portant le doux nom de rue des Carreaux, alors qu'un conducteur de camionnette s'apprêtant à partir fume à la fenêtre, carreau baissé...

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