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Very warm. The neck is really critical.The Sentient Struggle For Transformation
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The first day in 6 weeks I've been well enough to be out. So I drove to the lake about 10 miles away.
Morning mist rose off the still surface as water rails squealed in the reeds, and a robin came to take crumbs from my hand.
Then - amazing to tell! - four Great White Egrets emerged from the mist on the far shore. Great White Egrets! Four of them!
Bloody brilliant.
Post edited by whispered at 2017-01-21 09:53:29 -
I'm glad to hear that Whispered. I'm seeing buzzards on every trip out in the countryside, must be an extremely good year for them.
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A Sparrowhawk visits the garden from time to time. When he does, it's usually just a sliver of gunmetal grey gliding over the hedge and vanishing. The whole garden is quiet for a minute afterwards, as if he trails a silencing spell behind him. Today, though, he dive-bombed the peanut feeder, went twisting after a chaffinch, missed, and double-backed to perch in the tree. He sat there for a bit, not quite believing he'd missed, I think. Glared at me like it was my fault. Then he left. It was like being visited by something from another world.
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Predatory birds are just so fascinating, aren't they? I was recently told by a neighbor to keep my cats indoors because she's seen a huge golden colored Hawk around! I'm curious to identify what member of the Hawk family it is, as I see mostly the Red-Shouldered in these parts.U R I E L
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Sounds like a magical day, whispered. Nice!The Sentient Struggle For Transformation
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^Yes, WW, just a minute like that an transform a whole day. You should tell us more of your woodlands.
^^@PG I sometimes fancy that its no accident that raptors and other predators look imposing and awe-inspiring. It's an act of mesmerism, designed to persuade us prey animals that we are in the presence of a superior being, and there is no point in trying to resist...
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This is a male Himalayan Monal - its a kind of pheasant. Super nature or what?
Post edited by whispered at 2017-02-25 10:02:29 -
Wow. Is there a mini Lady Gaga in there somewhere?
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Born this way
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That's beautiful, whispered. Such colors! Added it to my collection.The Sentient Struggle For Transformation
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^It's stunning, isn't it? What I still can't get my head around is that apparently, colours like this aren't created by pigments, but by the microscopic structure of the feathers causing complex diffraction patterns in reflected light. I'm reliably informed, for example, that a peacock's tail contains only brown pigments!
Post edited by whispered at 2017-02-26 10:57:50 -
Wow! That is interesting. It sounds like the, whatever it's called, metastructures? metametals?The Sentient Struggle For Transformation
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Oh, I don't know. But there's a wikipaedia page on structural colouration that seems to cover it.
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