Postcards
I received more requests for dragon postcards than I had postcards! Never fear, I have ordered another pack and will be able to fulfill all of them. I’m sending them out slowly in batches as I have a chance to write them.
Crossposting question
Is anyone else finding that, if they edit an entry that’s been cross-posted from DW to LJ, it re-posts to LJ instead of modifying the previous entry? I’m getting grumpy about it, as I usually have to edit entries 3-4 times after initially posting because I’ve forgotten a tag or spot a grammatical error.
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kaberett, did you see the cover of this week’s Nature? It is gorgeous. From the Nature web site:
I have a paper copy of the issue if you would like me to post it to you.
Birds
As mentioned in my post about the long-tailed tits (DW/LJ), I received a new lens for my dSLR for Christmas and have been keeping vigilant watch on the bird feeders so I can rush out with it when the light is good (not a common occurrence in January). I’ve been posting selected shots to![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
common_nature, but wanted to put a record of them on my personal journal for safekeeping as well.
Mob of sparrows: an image that conveys why I have to refill the seed feeder twice a day in winter!
I’ve caught the jay reasonably close to the house once. I hold out a slim hope I may see it whilst I'm actually in the garden (and when it's not so overcast), but they're quite shy.
Goldfinch sitting on a nyger/thistle seed feeder. Inspired by the success of the toroid fat ball feeder, we bought another feeder, for nyger seed, to try to tempt the redwings and goldfinches from the field over the canal into our garden. There were no takers for several days. Just as we were starting to despair, we spotted a flock of goldfinches descending on it. This is the best shot we've gotten so far, but I'm hopeful we'll be able to capture them in action over the coming weeks (and the nuthatch we spotted, too).
A house sparrow in flight, about to take a peanut from a bird feeder.
Two blue tits in an aerial battle for prime position on a peanut feeder. Highlights are blown on this and the subsequent two photos, but I love the poses.
Blue tit hanging off the bottom of the peanut feeder and giving the camera side-eye.
More blue tit side-eye from the peanut feeder.
Rather heroic blue tit pose on the fat ball feeder.]
Cat and boy
Telstar and Keiki napping together on a spare room bed. Telstar has decided he definitely prefers infants to toddlers. Especially toddlers who chase him around gleefully shouting, “No, Teldos!”
I received more requests for dragon postcards than I had postcards! Never fear, I have ordered another pack and will be able to fulfill all of them. I’m sending them out slowly in batches as I have a chance to write them.
Crossposting question
Is anyone else finding that, if they edit an entry that’s been cross-posted from DW to LJ, it re-posts to LJ instead of modifying the previous entry? I’m getting grumpy about it, as I usually have to edit entries 3-4 times after initially posting because I’ve forgotten a tag or spot a grammatical error.
Beautiful sky rock
kaberett, did you see the cover of this week’s Nature? It is gorgeous. From the Nature web site:The Esquel pallasite — arguably the most beautiful meteorite ever discovered — consists of centimetre-scale gem-quality crystals of the silicate mineral olivine embedded in a metallic matrix of iron-nickel alloy. The pallasites are thought to originate from a ~200 km radius parent body that separated into a liquid metal core surrounded by a rocky silicate mantle shortly after the birth of the Solar System. High-resolution magnetic imaging of the iron–nickel matrix of two pallasites (Esquel and Imilac) by James Bryson et al. reveals a time-series record of magnetic activity on the pallasite parent body, encoded within nanoscale intergrowths of iron-rich and nickel-rich phases. This record captures the dying moments of the magnetic field generated as the liquid core solidified, providing evidence for a long-lasting magnetic dynamo driven by compositional convection. (Esquel image from Natural History Museum, London.)
I have a paper copy of the issue if you would like me to post it to you.
Birds
As mentioned in my post about the long-tailed tits (DW/LJ), I received a new lens for my dSLR for Christmas and have been keeping vigilant watch on the bird feeders so I can rush out with it when the light is good (not a common occurrence in January). I’ve been posting selected shots to
common_nature, but wanted to put a record of them on my personal journal for safekeeping as well.Mob of sparrows: an image that conveys why I have to refill the seed feeder twice a day in winter!
I’ve caught the jay reasonably close to the house once. I hold out a slim hope I may see it whilst I'm actually in the garden (and when it's not so overcast), but they're quite shy.
Goldfinch sitting on a nyger/thistle seed feeder. Inspired by the success of the toroid fat ball feeder, we bought another feeder, for nyger seed, to try to tempt the redwings and goldfinches from the field over the canal into our garden. There were no takers for several days. Just as we were starting to despair, we spotted a flock of goldfinches descending on it. This is the best shot we've gotten so far, but I'm hopeful we'll be able to capture them in action over the coming weeks (and the nuthatch we spotted, too).
A house sparrow in flight, about to take a peanut from a bird feeder.
Two blue tits in an aerial battle for prime position on a peanut feeder. Highlights are blown on this and the subsequent two photos, but I love the poses.
Blue tit hanging off the bottom of the peanut feeder and giving the camera side-eye.
More blue tit side-eye from the peanut feeder.
Rather heroic blue tit pose on the fat ball feeder.]
Cat and boy
Telstar and Keiki napping together on a spare room bed. Telstar has decided he definitely prefers infants to toddlers. Especially toddlers who chase him around gleefully shouting, “No, Teldos!”
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I get jays regularly and, now I think about it, they're almost always no closer than half way up the garden.
Noticed I've got grass sprouting from my feeder this morning, probably a sign it needs cleaning out and quite possibly resiting, especially if we're about to have snow.
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Yes, jays are pretty elusive. This one rightfully so as both our cat and the neighbour's cat haunt the garden.
Have you had many bird visitors during this cold spell? We've been mobbed!
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I've had that issue with crossposts a couple of times, but not every time. It seems to me to happen more often if I edit a post immediately after first posting it - maybe before the crosspost has happened or registered properly at both ends.
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Funnily enough the crosspost/repost bug didn't hit me with this entry. I waited a bit before editing it, though, so maybe that's the trick?
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We don't get very many birds in our garden - mostly due to the feline patrol but there are some small sparrows who like to sit in the bamboo and laugh at the cats below.
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:D This post made me very happy. Thank you for it! (And omg, I am so happy people like the dragon art enough to request postcards of it, eeeeeee :D)
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And YAYAYAYAY about your happy news, too!
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N'awww sleepy boy <333 He seems so big o.O I know (from little bros) that those onesie things can be deceiving but still!
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He's now 10 lbs 7 oz (4.73 kg), so he's considerably bigger than he was when I posted that photo of him in the mixing bowl. He wouldn't fit in there now!
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It's kind of reassuring to know that sparrows look pretty much the same across the world. I've been enjoying your bird photos.
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Also, either you have remarkably cooperative birds, or you've discarded hundreds of photos. They say becoming a decent photographer is learning what to throw away (nearly everything).
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This is 100% correct. For each of these photos I have at least a hundred that were either instantly deleted or discarded after I downloaded them from the memory card.
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That meteorite is gorgeous. I'm assuming (without googling) that pallasite is a term derived from Pallas, as in Athene, which idea I like very much.
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I've googled it, and although that's a nice idea, it was apparently named after the scientist who classified the meteorite type.
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Oh well. It still fits.
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(2) BRID
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