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St Andrew’s is one of Norfolk’s many round tower churches. The county contains three quarters of those still standing in Britain
The tower - of the usual local flint and mortar construction and thought to be 11th Century Saxon - is an enigma because it is quite separate from the rest of the building.
A clearly visible filled in arch on the tower's east side suggests that a nave was once attached there but the reasons for that church’s subsequent demise are unknown. Was it actually finished? If not why? Was the current church contemporary - Elsewhere in Norfolk two churches are so close that they touch.
*There is also a Great Snoring which is actually the smaller village. ‘Snoring' derives’ from someone named Snear rather than any stentorian prowess of the locals..
St Andrew’s is one of Norfolk’s many round tower churches. The county contains three quarters of those still standing in Britain
The tower - of the usual local flint and mortar construction and thought to be 11th Century Saxon - is an enigma because it is quite separate from the rest of the building.
A clearly visible filled in arch on the tower's east side suggests that a nave was once attached there but the reasons for that church’s subsequent demise are unknown. Was it actually finished? If not why? Was the current church contemporary - Elsewhere in Norfolk two churches are so close that they touch.
*There is also a Great Snoring which is actually the smaller village. ‘Snoring' derives’ from someone named Snear rather than any stentorian prowess of the locals..
Looks like this Male Ruby-Throated Hummingbird was snoring.
Happy New Week ❤
Canon 1DXII, F8, 1/1250, ISO 640
Kiki truly doesn’t care if it’s more or less a year ...
she snores 23 wishes for all paws on earth ♥♥
Love Food Peace & a Roof to be warm,
+++ 19 wishes that i don’t understand ;-)))))))))))))
yours,
Kiki
After taking tons of pictures of my niece & nephew, there mommy said it was almost time to go to bed. So they immediately pretended to go to sleep.
I love how both sets of lips are pointing to the sky. They were fake snoring. hee hee hee!!
The Challenge Factory - Funny Kids - Category Winner
I’ve wanted to take a snap of this castle for absolutely yonks! The challenge was I’ve always had a conflict of interest. Every time I drove past it, my car would be full of scuba equipment and dive buddies. The only thing on our tight agenda was get to the delightful town of Swanage before last orders, get a few beers inside us, get up early, get on a boat, get wet, get tanks refilled, get to the pub. And repeat.
When an opportunity presented itself in the form of a family mini-break in nearby Poole, I left the wife and brat snoring in bed while I headed off to catch a sunrise. In the dark, I found a footpath through a field that I thought would lead to a good vantage point. As I set up my camera and waited for the sun to come up, I couldn’t help notice the ominous sounds of movement and heavy breathing behind me. What I had missed when entering the field was the danger sign explaining that while there was a public footpath, there may also be territorially assertive cattle in residence. Luckily for me, on this morn the cows were very chilled and more interested greeting sunup with a chorus of dawn farts. Photo-job completed, I headed back for an amazing Full English (I wholeheartedly recommend the Jessimine B&B, which may now be called Coast 77).
had a course to attend in Holt today so took the camera hoping for a bit of birding when finished but with all the rain just got a couple of churches on the way home
St Andrew is remarkable for having a tower that is detached from the rest of the church. The two sit together on a mound above the road. The south side of the graveyard has been largely cleared of headstones,
Day 3 of Liquor Week! Sunday morning, by the fire, quiet house and a snoring dog...this one, I'll actually drink.
We saw this eagle perched in a tree, so we took a break from trying to find bears to photograph it. As we focused in, we noticed it was asleep! Not very bold or elegant looking here, haha.
Happy Whimsical Wednesday! Who thought a bald eagle could look whimsical?
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Snoring Junctions.
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óhóflegar hugsanir umbreyta skjölum hugmyndaríkar risa dauðleg hlutföll persónutengd tilvitnanir í granít sanda hættuleg leið veik merking,
довільні таємниці сентиментальні теми злочинні плоди неспокійні радикальні дивні проституції ігроки шахраї жебраки жебраки моря,
estetyczna dziwna sytuacja duże tematy kwiaty podziemne zabytki całowanie sklepienia przekłuwanie namiętności alegoryczny świat podziemny nietrwały wrogowie,
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Steve.D.Hammond.
'Ghost Owl'.
A beautiful Male Barn Owl, tyto alba, or 'Ghost Owl' to give it one of its older names. Banking in its hunting flight path, It can be seen here how it got its 'Ghost' name...a white flash is all its prey would see before being dispatched with those deadly talons which can be studied in this hunting image, taken on an early March evening in West Yorkshire.
Hunting:
Barn Owls prefer a mixed farming habitat with spinneys, ditches, rough pastures and well-managed field margins. Grassland makes good hunting ground, along with hay meadows. They are often found around farm buildings, barns and the edge of villages. A breeding pair of barn owls needs around 1.5 ha of rough grass!
Food:
Short-tailed field voles are the preferred prey species, making up to 60% of their diet. Barn owls will also hunt for mice, shrews, small rats and birds..
Nesting:
Barn Owls will breed from April to August, and a second brood may be reared when food sources are high. A breeding pair will use the same nest site year after year if undisturbed. The female lays four to seven white eggs in an unlined hole of a tree or barn. They will nest in good owl boxes that are a sufficient size, in a good habitat location and draught-free.
Song/Call:
“Shreeee” - A shrill, hoarse shriek, often repeated. The begging call of young is more wheezy.
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Barn Owl Notes and Information:
What did they call the Barn Owl before barns were first built?
Ghost Owl, Hobgoblin Owl, Demon Owl, Death Owl, Hissing Owl, Church Owl? to mention a few! …Barn Owls were around long before the first farmers built barns to keep their animals or crops dry! They lived in rock crevices and hollow trees, and sometimes still do. But about 5,500 years ago, as soon as people began to build haystacks and animal shelters, Barn Owls moved in.
Its latin name—Tyto alba—simply means 'White Owl. ... Perhaps because of their white, ghost-like, appearance or their preference to hunt in open areas that can include cemeteries, barn owls have been associated with bad omens and even death!
The Barn Owl is a species of open country, favouring lowland habitats such as farmland and young plantation woodland. Populations have recovered somewhat from an earlier period of decline and have benefited from the erection of nest boxes and appropriate habitat management. Barn Owl is listed on Schedule One of the Wildlife & Countryside Act and so receives additional protection during the breeding season; a Schedule One licence is required to visit the nest of this species.
Calls and identification Calls:
The Barn Owl is not a particularly vocal species, the drawn out screech of the male only likely to be heard during the early stages of the breeding season.
Barn Owl chicks make a hissing call, sometimes referred to as ‘snoring’, when in the nest. This is used as a begging call and may be heard early in the evening when the chicks are waiting for one of their parents to make a feeding visit. The extent to which a chick calls provides an indication to its siblings of the individual’s willingness to compete for the next food item to be delivered.
Some individuals can look particularly ‘washed out’, while others are darker and have more strongly patterned plumage. Female Barn Owls are typically darker in their colouration than males and, additionally, have marked speckling on their flanks and underwing, which is rare in males. The dark-breasted race guttata, which occurs on the continent, may sometimes appear in Britain; such individuals are much darker in their appearance than our resident birds. In flight, adult Barn Owls may be confused with Short-eared Owl, a species alongside which they may hunt, though the latter species has more strongly patterned plumage and piercing yellow eyes.
Ecology and Conservation...
Ecology:
Distributed widely across Britain and Ireland, the Barn Owl is limited by winter weather conditions and so is absent from upland areas and the most northerly regions. The species is most familiar as an owl of lowland farmland – both pastoral and arable – with peak densities occurring in East Anglia, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Within Ireland the core breeding range is now centred on the south-west of the country. Favoured habitats contain areas of rough grassland and woodland edge, within which populations of Field Vole (the favoured prey) are sufficiently abundant. These habitats include the early successional stages of commercial plantation forest. In some areas, such as the arable landscapes of the Fens, secondary prey species like Wood Mouse become more important in the diet. The availability of small mammal prey shapes breeding behaviour; breeding may be delayed or not take place at all in those years when small mammal populations are at a low.
The Barn Owl is a cavity nester, favouring large cavities within mature hedgerow trees or the ledges found in old agricultural buildings. The species has adapted well to nest boxes, and it is likely that a significant proportion of the breeding population – probably well in excess of 25% - now uses them for breeding. Incubation begins with the first egg and, since consecutive eggs are laid at intervals of c.2 days, the resulting brood of chicks can vary in age by as much as two weeks. This strategy increases the chances of at least some chicks surviving if prey availability is low during the chick rearing period; the oldest and largest chicks will receive food first, at the expense of the last to hatch.
Key facts
Clutch Size: 4 – 6 eggs
Incubation: 32 days
Fledging: 53 – 61 days
First Clutches Laid: April – May
Number of Broods: 1 – 2
Age at First Breeding: 1 year
Typical Lifespan: 4 years
Maximum Age from Ringing: 15 years 3 months 21 days (set in 2016)
Conservation:
The Barn Owl was certainly a far more common species at the beginning of the 20th century than it is today, but numbers have recovered from a low point evident during the 1970s and 1980s and may now exceed 10,000 breeding pairs. The last national survey, carried out between 1994 and 1997, but the population at c.4,000 breeding pairs. Though previously Amber listed through its loss of UK range, the species was moved to the UK Green list in 2015.
The efforts of volunteers have helped the species, with the erection of nest boxes replacing nesting opportunities that had been lost to the removal of hedgerow trees and the conversion of old farm buildings. Road mortality remains an important cause of death for young birds, particularly during the period of natal dispersal when they move away from where they were raised to establish a breeding territory of their own. Agricultural chemicals, including pesticide seed dressings and rodenticides, may have had an impact on Barn Owl populations, making ongoing monitoring an important priority. Work to provide suitable hunting habitat, and to tackle other potential causes of mortality, has also benefited the species BTO notes.
sleeping babies no matter who........snore quietly, with such wondrous melody..........................
Do you have a person in your life of whom wakes you with the sounds of snoring in the morning? If four walls wasn't enough..... I'd like to imagine the fog inside someone causing them to snore as it creeps through their body...
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St Andrew, Little Snoring, Norfolk
The parish is suburban Fakenham really, but the little church is one of north Norfolk's most memorable sights, out on the road to Walsingham. The round tower is separate from the body of the church, although it is clear there was once a building attached to it. Inside, it can't hope to live up to the exterior, but it has a pleasing atmosphere suited to the setting.
A little girl that wakes up in the middle of the night, a kicking baby in my belly and a snoring fiancé are depriving me of my sleep!
Charles (my cat) is fast asleep and snorring (not purring) - that's the horizontal lines (160Hz-220Hz).
More intriguing is the (faint) vertical line at 120 Hz which so far I have only registered when there is a resonance noise at 1200 Hz. Could be a coincidence though - I will have to do many more measurements before any kind of conclusion can be drawn.
Very few people hear low frequencies - ie below 125Hz. Only 2.5% of the population hears them. I am one of the "lucky ones" - I hear tones of as low as 44 Hz. and sense them even lower.
So, while for me 100Hz is not at all a low tone, and it is much higher than the low tones I hear, for 97.5% of the people 100 Hz is so low that they do not even hear it.
I am only now beginning to realise how different "my world" is from that of the majority of people. I hear all kinds of things most others do no hear.
You don't know what you're missing! :-)