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9th Dec 2012
After we came back from a long holiday, I was surprised to see a love nest of Pigeon in our balcony. They get puffed up and move in short circles to display love for each other. During our absence they had their peace of time and the result was two eggs (second egg was a day younger) in one of my flower pot. They build relatively flimsy nests from sticks and other debris and used mud from the pot as a base. I saw both the parents caring for the young, which may leave the nest after seven to 28 days. Night time the Mother Pigeon use to hatch and lay them while the male use to do during the day time.
Mother Pigeon is more aggressive and attacks us when we go close. However during her attack she gets filled with air with puffs chest and feathers at the nape of the neck to appear larger and cute.
27th Dec2012
After some 17 days the first egg was hatched and later in the day the second egg also hatched and two yellow babies came out. These birdies are known as Squabs. They have wing like limbs and eyes closed. We provided them with water and millet (Bajra). Later after 4 days of nestling I noticed a peculiar behavior; the young ones will put their beak and hang inside the nostril of their parent bird. Later I checked this behavior on the internet and came to know that Pigeon is a rare bird (Flamingo and penguins are other two birds producing milk) which produces milk and those young ones were sucking through the lining of crop.
A crop (sometimes also called a croup or a craw, or ingluvies) is a thin-walled expanded portion of the alimentary tract used for the storage of food prior to digestion. This anatomical structure is found in a wide variety of animals and birds and is like a pouch.
Both sexes of doves and pigeons produce "crop milk" to feed to their young, secreted by a sloughing of fluid-filled cells from the lining of the crop. Pigeon's milk begins to be produced a couple of days before the eggs are due to hatch. Crop milk bears little resemblance to mammalian milk, being a semi-solid substance somewhat like pale yellow cottage cheese. It is extremely high in protein and fat and contains more of it than cow or human milk. The parents may cease to eat at this point in order to be able to provide the squabs (baby pigeons and doves) with milk uncontaminated by seeds, which the very young squabs would be unable to digest. The baby squabs are fed on pure crop milk for the first week or so of life. After this the parents begin to introduce a proportion of adult food, softened by spending time in the moist conditions of the adult crop, into the mix fed to the squabs, until by the end of the second week they are being fed entirely on softened adult food.
8th Jan 2013
In just one week the baby pigeons start to change color. The underlying skin changes from pinky to grey and dark black. Their eyes were open now and a small humming chirping kind sound (Cooing) started coming from the nest. During the first week the mother used to sit on squabs to keep it warm and protect it.
11th Jan 2013
Their color is completely changed to grey and they look like pigeons J The white lower back of the pure Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon) is its best identification character, the two black bars on its pale grey wings are also distinctive. Still they had brown spikes like feathers on their neck and head.
With the time they became more noisy in the night and dull during day time.
The mother has completely abandoned the babies and only father used to turn up to teach how to eat and other birdie things.
22nd Jan 2013
The squab is now about 3 weeks old and is approaching the age when it should learn to fly. The flapping of wings and falling from the pot was very often and I used to lift them back to the nest. They started attacking me with their wings and beak.
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An almost 4 month old Vizsla puppy with a Hasselblad and Ilford Delta 3200 film. Self developed. She is eagerly learning about the world, and how certain behavior receives treats and praise. Though she doesn't understand why I give her a treat a week later as I view the negatives and say "good girl!"
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This workshop provided us with a hands on experiences for turning students’ cellphones into carriers of subject content.
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Cathedral of Learning in LEGO. This was done for a competition. Read more about it at sixf00t4.com/2012/06/cathedral-of-learning-in-lego-bricks/ it's on display at S.W. Randall in Squirrel Hill for voting from June 18th-Jun 30th! Special thanks to @gambort for technique help!
The Cathedral of Learning in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh, right next to the University. The 535 foot tall structure is the tallest educational building in the Western Hemisphere and the 2nd tallest in the world. It is also the 2nd tallest Gothic structure in the world--designed by Charles Klauder in 1926. Today, it is the main building on the University of Pittsburgh campus, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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I've learned that crocheting can be done in any position (even prone), unlike knitting.
I've learned that acrylic is really squeaky.
I've learned that I need to loosen up like crazy.
its a big learning curve jumping into macro ,hopefully it will fall into place with a bit of reading anyways heres another from today
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It’s amazing how we can grow into our jobs much the same way we grow throughout our lives. Sometimes, either one is not easy. As time clicks forward, I find both to get easier.
Take my job, for example. When I first started delivering furniture a bit over six years ago, I had no idea what I was getting into. My previous truck driving job was tough, mostly because I was new, but it was mostly dock-to-dock, with most (but not all) offering big chunks of real estate to maneuver in. In my present-day rig, things can get hairy, and really crazy, on any given day.
We have a stop on Farmington Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut that serves as a fair reminder to me of what it means to grow. There is a narrow driveway, with a brick building on one side, and a metal fence on the other. Both are enemies of a safety bonus if you should hit one with a tractor-trailer while backing up into a spot where you shouldn’t be. Still, it must be done because everyone who has anything to do with your paycheck needs you to be. I’ve been to this place ten times by my best estimates.
The first time I showed up there, I wanted to cry. “You want the trailer where? Why? How?” I was terrified. In the end, I managed to block four lanes of traffic with honking horns and put my box-of-furniture where it needed to be. I sweated profusely.
The second time I visited I thought, “I can do this. I did it once before, and I know it’s a possible proposition.” It was scary but I knew it could be done, and so it was. It didn’t take as long, and didn’t contain as much sweat.
On my third visit, I showed up, swung across the road with four ways a blazing, and parked the darn thing without thinking twice. A polite grandmother beeped her horn and gave me the thumbs up. There was no sweat involved.
This week, on my tenth time around the block, I rolled my eyes and thought, “Piece of cake.” Then finally, something different happened. As I was backing up, I became captivated by the duplex across the street. After that, I grew an instant attachment to the black metal fence I didn’t want to hit, and the way it meshed with the house across the street. I wondered, out loud, just how many times that building had watched me do this maneuver. Most of all, I wanted to record that moment of time. What else is new?
All this happened while I was safely out of the road. I wanted to be a good employee, so I unloaded twenty-five pieces of furniture before I made my next move. When it was time to go, I inched my combination forward and set the brakes. I opened my door, leaned out against the fence, and took this picture. I left quickly, wondering if it was any good.
A day later, I got to check out my work. I don’t believe it is the best thing I have ever shot. I do enjoy the angle I shot it from. It adds in air of interestingness to the scene.
I like to look at everything I captured in the frame. With old houses, I always like to look closely at the windows, in the off chance that I caught a ghost looking back at me. I did not see any, but I did see that there was a heart in the middle window on the left. (You may have to press “L” on your keyboard to see it clearly.)
Why would it be there, and what does it mean? Maybe the house loves seeing me visit, or likes how I can put a truck into a spot without destroying anything it has to look at all day and night. I’ve even considered that it’s a direct reflection of the love I have for the universe. It treats me well most of the time, how could I not adore it?
A big part of growth is learning. One of the things I’m most proud of learning, is how to look at things differently. My Nikon has helped me to do that. (Learning how to back a truck into close corners without incident has come in handy too.) Seeing things from new angles applies to other aspects outside of photography; I’ve learned a lot about people too. They have told me personal stories through pleasant conversations, and they have taught me things about the city or town I happen to be standing in at the moment. It’s also helped me to think about things from a fresh perspective. That in turn keeps me happy because I like to think. Who knew that learning could be so much fun? It was not enjoyable during my school days. Someone should have told me I was going there to grow, instead of calling it learning. It might have also helped if someone tucked a camera into my backpack.
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