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My trail camera set up. The flower bed was just the right spot to film the local fox as he came into the garden. I used one of our E2 Ground spikes to position the camera and get the right eye level height.
In Burma young boys become monks to get an education. This was taken in the oldest teak monastery in Burma. The monks were studying in the own time after formal lessons the little boy on the left was not a monk. He was waiting for them to finish so they could play football before lunch.
Valentine Love Icon Set available for download at Pretty Office Icon Set Part 2
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Set de Tres Libretas Pequeñas, con hojas cuadriculadas, de composición y blancas en la Papelería de CasaIdeas
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This is of all three of the Ford Focus RS Mk2s and the brand new Ford Focus RS 500 (with the controversial matt black film made by 3M).
The new RS500 is strictly limited to five hundred models being released across 20 European markets. Each of the much sought after cars will have a plaque on the centre console engraved with its unique number 001-500. This one is Number 88.
The 2.5 Litre, 5 cylinder engine delivers 15 per cent more power than the standard RS model. The 345bhp engine results in the car accelerating 0-60 in 5.6 seconds compared to 5.9 seconds in the current unmodified Mark 2 RS. The top speed of the vehicle stays the same as the rest of the RS range at 163 mph.
This one's for sale at £39,000...
Kiera's car is the Blue one...
Curicaca-Comum - (Theristicus caudatus) Buff-necked ibis - Bandurria Común, Tutachi.
Photographed at "Setor Policial Sul - SPO", in Brasília, Brazil.
You can see a little video, clicking in this following addresses:
br.youtube.com/watch?v=We07AauIxYQ
br.youtube.com/watch?v=E_BByDVvwxc
Curicaca-Comum - (Theristicus caudatus) Buff-necked ibis - Bandurria Común, Tutachi. Fotografados no Setor Policial Sul - SPO, em Brasília, Brasil.
Você pode ver um pequeno vídeo, clicando nos endereços a seguir:
br.youtube.com/watch?v=We07AauIxYQ
br.youtube.com/watch?v=E_BByDVvwxc
Curicacas-comum no Parque da Cidade, em Brasília, em Brasília, Brasil
A text, in english, from IBISRING www.ibisring.com/index.php?view=article&id=3
Buff-necked ibis (Theristicus caudatus).
74 cm. Looking like a heron, it is a brightly colored bird with a long and bent beak. The head and neck are ochre; the front, crown and nape are chestnut brown. Bare parts around the eye, black collar and throat. The stomach is black or off-white and the wings are grey with primary and secondary blacks. Black beak with point, red horn and feet.
About 10 years ago we saw in zoo's some buff colored ibises. Usually a single bird in a mixed collection. Only a few had a pair of them. As there were few breeding results, no one had a bird to sell. Everybody was waiting to get an extra bird.
We noticed the differences in names on the cages. Although everybody had the same birds the Latin and common names were not the same. As ibisring did not exist than, we could not ask them. There was no other alternative than to look up things ourselves. We found that there were two almost look-alike species, both from South America Some older books did not even recognize the two as a separate species, but the new works who base themselves on DNA show the difference. It showed that all the birds in Europe we had seen and photographed were blackfaced ibises, Theresticus melanopis. Some had them under a wrong name. Later we found out that South American export firms always send the birds as Caudatus. Some zoo's followed the import papers; others did their homework and found the right name.
We could not get birds here, so we decided to import some, witch was easy to do in those days. As all birds here were melanopis we decided to get the real caudatus. A South American firm had them and soon the birds arrived. They were melanopis, just like all the others that ever arrived. The export firm did not even know the difference. We found than that the birds did not occur in the same parts of the continent. Theristicus Caudatus are the birds that live in the center and east side of the continent. Theristicus Melanopis lives on the west side, down to the south point. It was not easy to get a dealer interested in sending us the birds we wanted. They did not believe someone was interested in a bird that was so common to them. Or they did not know how to get them, or were afraid of the paperwork and expedition. After a long search someone send us pictures of available birds. He kept them four years for us but could not get an export license for Europe. Finally he sold them somewhere else. Eight years later they finally arrived. We asked several import firms for the birds and one of them succeeded. Now they found the way and there is some demand, several imports have been made.
In the long run the first pair, the melanopis we had, was a blessing in disguise. They are unrelated to the European population and their offspring is very useful for building a stronger population.
Now that we have both species in captivity, it is much easier to detail them. The birds are at ease and very close, so we were able to make following photos. They almost speak for themselves, but we will add some comments.
The species Theristicus Caudatus (buffnecked) and Theristicus melanopis (blackfaced) are easily recognizable on following points:
BREAST:
Blackfaced ibis:
Breast buff colored with a grey stripe on the shoulders, making a V mark on the breast
Black belly.
Buffnecked ibis:
Breast black up to the shoulders, neck buff.
Belly black.
WING:
Blackfaced ibis:
Wing silver grey
Buffnecked ibis:
Grey wing has a white edge.
HEAD:
Blackfaced ibis:
Birds have a lobe under their chin, different in size along the season.
Buffnecked ibis:
No lobes
SEX:
Blackfaced ibis:
Hardly any difference between male and female.
Buffnecked ibis:
Clear difference between male and female, size and length of the beak.
We would like to ask everybody not to mix these species, do not even keep them in the same aviary. Their have been mistakes in the past, you never can make them right again. This article leaves no doubt about what is what. All birds are kept separated so far, let's keep it this way please.
En Español:
HABITAT:
zonas pantanosas y orillas de lagos y lagunas. También en campos arados y sembrados.
DESCRIPCIÓN:
Largo: 73 cms.
Cabeza y cuello amarillento ocráceo con corona y nuca más oscuras. Pecho blanquesino separado del cuello por una linea gris. Lados del pecho y abdómen negros. Dorso pardo grisáceo. Cubiertas alares menores y medianas blancas con bordes grises oscuros; las mayores blanco grisáceas. Primarias negras. Ojos, lorums y garganda desnuda de color negro. Pico largo curvado hacia abajo, negro la mitad basal y córneo el resto. Iris y patas rojas a rosadas.
Um texto, em português, do site BRASIL 500 PÁSSAROS, no endereço www.eln.gov.br/Pass500/BIRDS/1birds/p24.htm, onde pode-se ouvir, claramente o seu canto.
Comprimento: 69 cm. Presente em grande parte do Brasil onde haja vegetação aberta e lagoas, campos em solos pantanosos ou periodicamente alagados, como na Ilha de Marajó (Pará) e no Pantanal. Encontrada também no Panamá e, localmente, em todos os países da América do Sul até a Terra do Fogo, na Argentina, inclusive na região dos Andes. Vive geralmente em bandos pequenos ou solitária, procurando alimento em campos de gramíneas ou em alagados. Tem alimentação variada, composta de insetos e larvas, aranhas, centopéias, pequenos lagartos, cobras e ratos. Alimenta-se durante o dia e também ao pôr-do-sol. Reproduz-se em colônias, construindo seus ninhos no alto das árvores (mais freqüente) ou no chão, próximo à água. Põe 2 ou 3 ovos esverdeados com pontos marrons. Seu nome popular é onomatopéico, semelhante ao som do seu canto, composto de gritos fortes. Conhecida também como despertador (Pantanal), curicaca-comum, curicaca-branca e curicaca-de-pescoço-branco.
My custom doll named Cassis wears my new handmade outfit inspired by Grimm Tales and traditional Tyrolean folk costume.
She was a Lounging Lovely Blythe with partial reroot plug by plug with a mix of "Kiss of Death" and "Evil Enchantress" nylon hair. Here, eyechips Pupa PF109 with painted foil.
The Tyrolean waiscoat is in linen entirely hand embroidered with tiny eyelets.
On the set of Twilight in Kalama, WA. All images copyright Amy Howe - images may not be used or reposted without permission.
(More details later, as time permits)
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As I've noted in other sets of photos here on Flickr, I've been lucky enough to visit Rome dozens of times since I first celebrated a solitary birthday there back in 1972. Since then, I've often come alone (usually on business trips to lecture about various aspects of software development), and I've sometimes managed to bring various children and/or my wife. This time, like many other trips, I was alone.
On most of my trips, I make a point of visiting Piazza del Popolo at least once -- because there are always interesting scenes to photograph, with a combination of tourists, students, lovers, and amateur musicians. This time, there was a Michael Jackson impersonator -- who, at least from a distance, seemed to mimic MJ's fluid moves pretty well. And there was an electric guitarist, but it turned out that he could only play instrumentals -- and he tended to play the same songs, over and over again.
I photographed people in Piazza del Popolo on the first and last days of my visit; but I also spent a couple hours in Piazza Santa Margarita in Trastevere, where there was a wedding underway. And I strolled a block or two from my hotel to Piazza Cavour, where the entire piazza had been off-limits for years because of reconstruction work. But the reconstruction is over, the piazza is open, and I was lucky enough to be there during the "golden hour" before sunset, where I got some interesting photos of the local people enjoying a balmy early-summer evening.
On Sunday morning, I decided to visit the enormous "flea market" at Porta Portensa, where I did my best to get a few interesting shots of the shoppers, tourists, and long rows of merchant stalls filled with various forms of cheap, tacky merchandise. It was quite an experience...
As I have on past occasions, I took thousands of photos during my week-long visit, from which I select a few dozen to upload to Flickr. Hopefully they'll give you a sense of what it's like here in the Eternal City ...