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Zebra Finch
Scientific Name: Taeniopygia guttata
Description: Zebra Finches are mainly grey, with characteristic black 'tear drop' eye stripes and 'zebra like' black and white barring on the rump and upper tail. The throat and upper breast are pale grey, with fine black barring, and there is a broad black band on upper chest. The sides of the belly are chestnut with many white spots. The remainder of the belly and the undertail are white. The male is distinguished from the female by its chestnut cheek patches, a character that gave the species the alternative name of Chestnut-eared Finch. Both sexes have red eyes and bill. The legs and feet are orange yellow. Young are similar in plumage to the female, except that the clear black and white markings of the head are absent. The eyes are grey-brown and the bill is black.
Distribution: Zebra Finches are the most common and widespread of Australia's grassfinches, found across the Australian mainland, with the exception of Cape York Peninsula and some coastal areas. They are also found in Timor and the Lesser Sunda Islands.
Habitat: Zebra Finches are most commonly found in the drier areas of Australia, living year round in social flocks of up to 100 or more birds. They can be found in a variety of habitats, mainly dry wooded grasslands, bordering watercourses.
Feeding: Zebra Finches feed in large flocks on fallen or ripening grass seeds. Insects may be taken at any time of the year, but are particularly favoured when feeding young. Feeding takes place on the ground, and, unlike some other grassfinches, birds never pull seed heads down with their feet.
Breeding: Zebra Finches pair for life. The female alone selects the nest site, but both birds care for the eggs and young. The male gathers almost all the nesting material, with which the female constructs the loose dome-shaped nest. Birds have also been reported to nest in hollows in the ground, although this behaviour is uncommon. With a time-span of 70 to 80 days from hatching to becoming sexually active, the Zebra Finch is one of the fastest maturing bird species recorded.
Minimum Size: 10cm
Maximum Size: 12cm
Average size: 12cm
Average weight: 12g
Breeding season: October to April, varies depending on rainfall.
Incubation: 14 days
Nestling Period: 21 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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Just a few pictures from Thursday night in Lincoln. We loved it so much a couple of months ago that we just had to come back again.
Quick selfie in the hotel.
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Another experimenatal combination. I got this top cheap off eBay (as I often do!) and I really like it! Tried it this time with a mini skirt, and it worked ok, but I think I would prefer wearing it with jeans.
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I bought a small disco ball and a couple of LED torches for my living room - wow, the effect is amazing, it totally transforms the room!
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I love this dress - light and floaty and summery.
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August is our birthday month. Mine on the 12th and Gemma's on the 15th, so we went to Pink Punters in Milton Keynes to celebrate. We had a wonderful weekend!
In the swanky cocktail lounge at Pink Punters with Vicky and Susan.
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As always, the December LFF weekend was crazy busy! Not just the LFF lot. Leeds was really busy that night - all gearing up for Christmas! So instead of doing our usual hopping between bars, we only went to the Cosmopolitan bar and then to the Bridge, where we spent the rest of the evening.
There are some really lovely group shots from both places, it was a fantastic evening!
Here in the Cosmo with my lovely friend Jenny.
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I love the neckline on this dress.
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once upon a time, there was a pauper called sevgi who was making burgers at home for her family and quickly grew bored of it so decided to shoot a few pics while waiting for them to cook (or grill rather). she decided, she is going to use the light in whatever part of her house has light and it happened to be the room opposite hers. the light only had a lifetime of about 10 minutes left there though so this had to be quick. she took a few shots, changed the position of the camera and took a few more. then she raced down the stairs to rescue the burgers! she then sat in her room and decided to change some of the tones in the image to show off the lighting more and so she did. then, the pauper decided to put them on this donkey called the "internet" and send it around the village to show her "internet" buddies.
the moral of the story is, the pauper cant afford capital letters.
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Catching up. Supposed to be at day 250 or something, so checking the archives if there are some I want to add.
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Normal service resumed! Gemma came up for a weekend and we went out both nights.
Friday night was a visit to Cognac French restaurant and then on to Prince's avenue where we went to 80 Days them Pave and finished the night off in Accomplice.
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A slightly melancholy weekend, this one. Leeds Pride is always the pinnacle of my year but of course with the pandemic this year it has been cancelled. However, Jen still had her hotel booked for the weekend, so I decided to drive across there and spend the afternoon in Leeds.
We actually had a really good time despite the cancelled celebrations. And we even ended up in a 'sports bar' playing pool - not very girly at all, ha ha! But great fun, and we'll be doing that again. We're both reasonably good at pool.
Temporarily not socially distancing - it was difficult to get video footage when we were keeping a distance.
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Lighting was beautiful today!!! I love hazy days for that fact... Anyway, I wanted to focus on brown colors today + purplish hues. I think it worked alright! :) What do you think?
It rained so my back deck was nice and dark brown instead of light brown. So that was nice.
I baked cookies last night and took them to school today to make friends and bribe my Precal teacher. However, people were didn't want my cookies and my teacher's stomach didn't feel good... -_- But I ended up handing out most of them and people really liked them. So that's my cookie story. I'm sure your life is better for reading this. In fact, I'm surprised if you did read this whole long story.
Thanks I suppose :)
What's your favorite kind of cookie? And if you could bake anything, what would you bake?
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A bit of a smorgasbord of photos to finish the April collection off.
First up, me in a bathrobe. I'm quite comfortable these days with how I look most of the time. Nowadays, however I am presenting, I really only see me in the mirror any more, which is a wonderful mental place to be.