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....from a late afternoon walk through Oxley Creek Common - the wrens are like flies at the moment - there's a lot. Oxley Creek Common is home to a remarkable variety of birds. An experienced observer can find as many as 70 species in one hour of observation during the spring about 10% of all Australia's bird species and several times the diversity one could find walking the suburbs. In the past eleven years over 190 species have been recorded on the Common. (Source: University of Queensland)
Superb Fairy-wren
Scientific Name: Malurus cyaneus
Description: Adult male Superb Fairy-wrens are among the most brightly coloured of the species, especially during the breeding season. They have rich blue and black plumage above and on the throat. The belly is grey-white and the bill is black. Females and young birds are mostly brown above with a dull red-orange area around the eye and a brown bill. Females have a pale greenish gloss, absent in young birds, on the otherwise brown tail. The legs are brown in both sexes. Males from further inland and in the south-west of the range have more blue on the back and underparts.
Similar species: Several other species of fairy-wren are found in Australia. The males of each species are quite distinct, but the females and young birds are often difficult to separate. Of the species that overlap in range with the Superb Fairy-wren, the female White-winged Fairy-wren Malurus leucopterus and Red-backed Fairy-wren M. melanocephalus lacks the chestnut colour around the eye, while the female Variegated Fairy-wren M. lamberti has a dull grey-blue wash. Both the Superb and White-winged Fairy-wrens are similar in size. The Variegated Fairy-wren is slightly larger in size and has a longer tail.
Distribution: Superb Fairy-wrens are found south of the Tropic of Capricorn through eastern Australia and Tasmania to the south-eastern corner of South Australia.
Habitat: Seen in most habitat types where suitable dense cover and low shrubs occur. They are common in urban parks and gardens, and can be seen in small social groups. These groups normally consist of one dominant male and several females and young birds.
Feeding: Superb Fairy-wrens feed on insects and other small arthropods. These are caught mostly on the ground, but may also be taken from low bushes. Feeding takes place in small social groups.
Breeding: The nest is a dome-shaped structure of grasses and other fine material. It is usually placed in a low bush and is constructed by the female. The female incubates the eggs alone, but both sexes feed the young. Other members of the group will also help with the feeding of the young.
Male Superb Fairy-wrens have been labelled as 'the least faithful birds in the world'. Females may be courted by up to 13 males in half an hour, and 76% of young are sired by males from outside the social group.
Calls: The Superb Fairy-wren gives a series of high pitched trills, which are given by both sexes. The male often extends these trills into song.
Minimum Size: 13cm
Maximum Size: 14cm
Average size: 14cm
Average weight: 10g
Clutch Size: Three to four.
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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For Thursday lock down I replied to a comment that was questioning the ethics of photographing my daily walks (exercise). I was in fact replying to a comment replying to my reply to the first comment.
I then decided to delete all the said comments because I was just going to behave like a dog with a bone. I do get aggrieved by people questioning my ethics when they align me with people going to the coast or beauty spot during this period.
Sure, ask if it's a good idea posting images that might encourage others to go out and do the same! that I would understand and was something I did take into account when I posted said outside location photos.
anyway I won't do it again, just as I won't stop going for the daily exercise the government said I am allowed to do.
Other than that I planted the tomato plants out along with some carrots that will probably get attacked by carrot fly. I mixed in some chives as this is supposed to help keep the carrot fly away from my small crop. The beans will probably go out tomorrow if I can find my canes.
Yeah I wore this all day today even doing the gardening and my three mile walk.
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As you know, I love Overwatch.
Now I'm having trouble deciding on who to make.
Help me choose which one to make!
Also comment ideas on base parts.
:)
Athena-
She's Winston's AI, but I love the idea of her character. There's leaks of her online but I found fanart. I kinda love her look.
Doomfist-
If you were following the Horizon ARG, then you'll know that Hammond was referenced. This is art of Hammond as Doomfist, which I absolutely love.
Credit to the artists:
www.artstation.com/artwork/YZQyw
daftmind.deviantart.com/art/Athena-Overwatch-665293594
Ps:
I'm hoping for a hero reveal during AnimeExpo this week.
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We wanted to hike someplace with waterfalls very badly this weekend. We've had so much rain, that I knew all the local waterfalls would be running nicely. On Friday it was cloudy, but way too windy for photos. Sunday was a total washout - it poured all day long. But on Saturday, we had a brief period of time in the morning that the winds were calm and the skies were cloudy with only light drizzle. We decided to make a quick run up to the park to hike Dark Hollow Falls. The trail is a very brief 1.4 miles, so even if it starts pouring, you can be back to your car in ten minutes.
Saturday was the first time in a few years that I walked down the Dark Hollow Falls trail proper. We visit the falls frequently, but usually access it via the Rose River Trail or the Fisher's Gap Fire Road. I tend to avoid the actual Dark Hollow trail because it's too crowded and overused. But on this particular morning, we only saw about ten other people. On pleasant days, you might pass 50+ people on the hike. (that's a lot of hikers to see on a trail barely over a mile in length!)
Anyhow... the water was running really well. By late summer, the falls are usually slowed to a trickle. I don't really think Dark Hollow Falls are the most photogenic of falls, even in the best of conditions. But, we still had a fun walk and enjoyed breakfast at Skyland Lodge afterward.
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...from a visit to Buckley's Hole, Bribie Island. (Buckley's Hole Conservation Park is situated in the south-west corner of Bribie Island, the northern-most sand island in Moreton Bay, some 50 kilometres north of Brisbane. The park covers an area of 87.7 hectares and contains a freshwater lagoon, woodland, open forest and beach. It is this diversity of habitat that has led to such a large number of bird species being recorded in this small area, the present total standing at 270.)
Laughing Kookaburra nesting in a burrow excavated in an arboreal (tree-dwelling) termite mound.
Scientific Name: Dacelo novaeguineae
Description: The Laughing Kookaburra is instantly recognisable in both plumage and voice. It is generally off-white below, faintly barred with dark brown, and brown on the back and wings. The tail is more rufous, broadly barred with black. There is a conspicuous dark brown eye-stripe through the face. It is one of the larger members of the kingfisher family.
Similar species: Identification may only be confused where the Laughing Kookaburra's range overlaps that of the Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, in eastern Queensland. The call of the Blue-winged Kookaburra is coarser than that of the Laughing Kookaburra, and ends somewhat abruptly. The Blue-winged Kookaburra lacks the brown eye-stripe, has a blue tail and a large amount of blue in the wing, and has a pale eye.
Distribution: Laughing Kookaburras are found throughout eastern Australia. They have been introduced to Tasmania, the extreme south-west of Western Australia, and New Zealand. Replaced by the Blue-winged Kookaburra in central northern and north-western Australia, with some overlap in Queensland, although this species is more coastal.
Habitat: The Laughing Kookaburra inhabits most areas where there are suitable trees.
Feeding: Laughing Kookaburras feed mostly on insects, worms and crustaceans, although small snakes, mammals, frogs and birds may also be eaten. Prey is seized by pouncing from a suitable perch. Small prey is eaten whole, but larger prey is killed by bashing it against the ground or tree branch.
Breeding: Laughing Kookaburras are believed to pair for life. The nest is a bare chamber in a naturally occurring tree hollow or in a burrow excavated in an arboreal (tree-dwelling) termite mound. Both sexes share the incubation duties and both care for the young. Other Laughing Kookaburras, usually offspring of the previous one to two years, act as 'helpers' during the breeding season. Every bird in the group shares all parenting duties.
Calls: The chuckling voice that gives this species its name is a common and familiar sound throughout the bird's range. The loud 'koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-kaa-kaa-kaa' is often sung in a chorus with other individuals. The Laughing Kookaburra also has a shorter 'koooa The Laughing Kookaburra is not really laughing when it makes its familiar call. The cackle of the Laughing Kookaburra is actually a territorial call to warn other birds to stay away.
Minimum Size: 40cm
Maximum Size: 45cm
Average size: 42cm
Average weight: 340g
Breeding season: August to January
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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I am going to be off Flickr today because I am going to a zoo.
I hope that you enjoy the Zinna my friends!
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COMMENT: Of Bots and Bad Pandas
After trying to log in to Flickr numerous times without success earlier today, I gave up. Too many Bad Pandas. No point posting photos if half the people can't get on to see them. I don't know why this platform is the only one we know that goes down so regularly. Looking at the Help Forum this is a worldwide problem. But that happens to be the least of our problems on Flickr.
There is something more important existentially that goes on every single day on everyone's page that far too many people are turning a blind eye to. I'm talking about bot use. For those who still live in a prelapsarian social media world, bots are either (1) pieces of internet code written specifically to trawl the pages of Flickr faving and in some cases commenting (generically) in order to garner reciprocal visits - you can buy them, or (2) humans behaving in a bot-like manner, simply faving and following as many people as possible in the hope of achieving the same goals - inflated views, faves and followers. Frankly I'm sick of it.
So much so that I will block any person I see that exhibits this bot-like tendency. My list of blocks is hundreds long. Of course this has seen a falloff in my own view numbers. We don't seriously think that all those views of our old photos are real do we? If say you post 3 photos a day and each of them gets 500 views in 24 hours and your total view count for the day is 5,000. I would argue a good percentage of all those extra 3,500 views are in fact unblocked bots.
Opponents of bots on social media platforms (and Flickr is by no means the worst here) estimate that up to 50 percent of all traffic on these sites is bot-driven. Now bots are easy to understand when the corruption of monetarization comes into play. That is not the case on Flickr. But ego is. And it seems to me that ego will drive some people to do very bad things to attract attention to themselves.
Have you ever wondered why that awful out of focus picture of the Grand Canyon has attracted 65,000 views and 1,500 faves? Well very likely this person is using a massive bot. And many people fave unthinkingly. Go to the Activities Feed and press the fave star and you don't even need to visit a person's page. You can fave thousands in an hour or two doing that. But what a hollow feeling. And what does it do for the photography community?
Explore is another area rife with gaming strategies. How many times do you see the usual suspects turn up on a person's page with "Congrats on Explore"? That's the only time they'll visit your page by the way (that's if you're lucky enough to ever get Explored because it seems only magic accounts do every 16-19 days). These are a group of people who fave (or by proxy their bot does) every one of the 500 Explored photos each day, in the belief it will garner them more "followers" (how I hate that word - CONTACTS is so much better). So if you have been in the habit of doing that there is an excellent chance I will have blocked you.
Of course the most dangerous bots of all are the ones pretending to comment. People think they are real, but AI is very clever now. And one in particular has been at the centre of attention during this week. Banned by Flickr after being clearly outed by a "bot catcher". He gets banned, and then the whistleblower gets banned too for exposing the biggest bot commenter on Flickr. All this ended up with the whistleblower rightly being restored, but also the return of the bot user. Some of you will have followed proceedings very closely.
Frankly I've advocated for a long time for view counts to be discontinued. Thousands of views do not make a good photograph. Social media has been bad for photography in that regard. It's made photographers complacent, and even worse, made them conform to particular styles or genres that "succeed" - as if that matters. Photography is an individual art and everyone is unique.
Always remember that not another soul saw Vivian Maier's photographs before she died. And I dare say you rarely see photographs on Flickr even half as good as the ones she spent a lifetime taking.
So if you feel like I do about the integrity of Flickr and bot use, please join us at this group:
....don't like bot-comments/faves? Join us, post your photos there.
Please post it to the Anti-Bots and Anti-Fake group.
* A final point. Mr Ed was a talking horse and not a bot user.
All comments regarding this picture, subject, composition, etc are welcome and appreciated. TIA.
To see more pictures of Woodpeckers, please visit my Woodpecker album at www.flickr.com/photos/black_cat_photography/albums/721577...
To learn more about these magnificent birds please visit www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pileated_Woodpecker
Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Cheers.
Shot after this pipit bathed in the dust for a good 5 minutes. See:
www.flickr.com/photos/67627528@N04/22027217739/
www.flickr.com/photos/67627528@N04/22213918825
....from a walk through Oxley Creek Common. Oxley Creek Common is home to a remarkable variety of birds. An experienced observer can find as many as 70 species in one hour of observation during the spring about 10% of all Australia's bird species and several times the diversity one could find walking the suburbs. In the past eleven years over 190 species have been recorded on the Common. (Source: University of Queensland)
Australasian Pipit
Scientific Name: Anthus novaeseelandiae
Description: The Australasian Pipit is a well-camoflaged brown ground-dwelling bird. It has darker brown streaks above, and has pale creamy white stripes on the eyebrows and below the cheeks. The underparts are creamy white, spotted and streaked dark on the breast. The wings and tail are dark brown, with the outermost tail feathers white. The eye is brown and the bill and feet are pale pink-grey. Seen on the ground in open country, this species often wags its tail up and down while foraging. It was previously called Richard's Pipit.
Similar species: The Australasian Pipit resembles the introduced Skylark, Alauda arvensis, and is adapted to a similar ecological niche, with both species being well-camoflaged birds that forage on the ground. The Australasian Pipit lacks the Skylark's small crest and has more creamy white underparts and eyebrows.
Distribution: The Australasian Pipit is found across Australia. It is also found in New Guinea, New Zealand, as well as being widespread across Africa and Asia.
Habitat: Australasian Pipits are found in open country, in a range of habitat types from wet heaths to dry shrublands and open woodland clearings.
Seasonal movements: Some altitudinal migration in winter, and Tasmanian birds move to the mainland.
Feeding: Australasian Pipits feed on the ground on insects and their larvae, as well as seeds. They forage in a jerky, darting motion, stopping to perch on low stones or shrubs, wagging their tails up and down.
Breeding: Australasian Pipits form breeding pairs after an elaborate courtship ritual, with males making swooping dives from a height, accompanied by a sweet trilling song. The nest is a depression in the ground, sometimes sheltered by a grass tussock, stone or piece of wood, and lined with grasses and hairs. The female incubates the eggs and feeds the young.
Minimum Size: 16cm
Maximum Size: 18cm
Average size: 17cm
Average weight: 26g
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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Had this image as private to use in comments but it kept disappearing in the comments so i made it public, hoping that stops.
This is just the wider angle view of taken less than a minute from a previous post but the mist was changing so fast it looked a bit different.
No comments necessary on this one, please use previous post
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Huge brickforge order. fuck yeah!
Left to Right
Green Lantern: got a badass trans green sword thats perfect for a green lantern construct.
Captain Marvel: got him some yellow vambraces. not 100% sure how i feel about them...
Dr Fate: My Magnum Opus. i fucking love all the combos on him. the helmet loots great, an it works awesome with the armor.
Green Arrow: back to the sleeveless look. i thought they didnt go with with the dark green arms and light green didn't look good either, so he's back to bare arms
Aquaman: look at that sexy fucking trident. just look at it.
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abbiamo visite 3 nipoti da Dallas e due dalla Francia,saro' un po' assente
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One of many hotel room photos just before going out to Pink Punters on November 12th 2016.
This is proof that I can actually dress classy and smart !!!!!
This is me with my lovely new friends Vanessa and Cherry. How damn good do we look here !
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