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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2016 1:33:24 AM

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And we're stuck with your avatar. It's the best there is, though.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2016 2:01:19 AM

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The best non-mosquito themed one would be my caveat there.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2016 2:20:52 AM

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There is actually a very geeky answer for that. The age and sophistication of a language is often measured by how many words the language has for colors. Black and white are the first words to evolve. Words for the color orange tend to come along fairly late in the evolution. The term didn't exist in English until 1512. The name of the color did come from the French word for the fruit. Before common usage in English, the color was described as yellow-red, though sometimes "saffron" was used for the color. Other terms for orange were red deer, red hair, and robin redbreast.

Probably way more than anyone wanted to know...
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2016 3:05:06 AM

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The answer is always boobies...

Indeed.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2016 9:09:05 AM

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2016 1:31:38 PM

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There is actually a very geeky answer for that. The age and sophistication of a language is often measured by how many words the language has for colors. Black and white are the first words to evolve. Words for the color orange tend to come along fairly late in the evolution. The term didn't exist in English until 1512. The name of the color did come from the French word for the fruit. Before common usage in English, the color was described as yellow-red, though sometimes "saffron" was used for the color. Other terms for orange were red deer, red hair, and robin redbreast.

Probably way more than anyone wanted to know...
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Bill, you never, ever cease to amaze me

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2016 1:32:25 PM

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2016 2:37:39 PM

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The diameter of that pipe is 1.25 inches. I calculate from that that this bird is 15 inches long which would mean it is most likely a he, not a her. According to the Wiki an adult female should be between 17 and 20 inches. Mea culpa (my bad).

What type of camera are you using?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2016 2:38:27 PM

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Live stream....

Cornell Lab Bird Cams Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Sk6-LIvDc

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2016 3:02:47 PM

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Live stream....

"World's biggest Aquarium" located within the Ocean Expo Park in Okinawa, Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIcoAgJw6_w

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2016 3:25:50 PM

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The diameter of that pipe is 1.25 inches. I calculate from that that this bird is 15 inches long which would mean it is most likely a he, not a her. According to the Wiki an adult female should be between 17 and 20 inches. Mea culpa (my bad).

What type of camera are you using?

Nikon L340. I can take some amazing shots and the zoom is ridiculous and it's cheap, I think I paid $120 for it and saw deals as low as $99. I used to have an SLR and lenses worth about $1500 that I lost in a burglary. This can do so much more. I still miss the old setup though. I haven't learned how to take good pics in all conditions and haven't gotten the macro mode to work for me yet. Haven't tried much yet. The one problem I don't like is it doesn't have a manual focus. You have to work with the auto focus and on some objects it just doesn't work well, like animals and birds sometimes. You have to focus on something about the same distance away, hold the trigger halfway down, frame your target and snap. For instance, I had a Monarch caterpillar I was trying to snap up close in macro mode and I couldn't figure it out and focus. So I backed up 30 feet and used the zoom and got this. Not too bad.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2016 3:27:14 PM

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Live stream....

Cornell Lab Bird Cams Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Sk6-LIvDc

I participate in their FeederWatch program.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2016 3:35:14 PM

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Live stream....

Cornell Lab Bird Cams Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Sk6-LIvDc

I participate in their FeederWatch program.

Thats great. Ive thought of contacting a university to allow them to use my property as a live stream/field research
Do you film or keep numbers and sightings?

I live in what could be considered a state park. Lots of bird activity....even Eagles. Lots of song birds. Otters ,etc...

The only camera I have is a little digital quick shot and my cell phone. Id love to get something professional. I could film a documentary on just the insects.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2016 3:51:36 PM

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I don't film for them, though I sometimes post pics and video I take on one of their blogs. Between November twelfth and April 7th is the count period. Two consecutive days a week (Sun and Mon for me) I count. You record the largest number of each species you see at one time, in otherwords you take no chance on counting the same bird twice. I also keep tabs on sex if it's easily determined. Cardinals, Grosbeaks, House Finches and sparrows etc are easy. What's hard is identifying a female grosbeak from a sparrow. Here is a male Grosbeak: (not well focused)

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2016 3:52:30 PM

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Here is a female Rose Breasted Grosbeak:

She looks a lot like a female House Finch or Purple Finch, but quite a bit larger.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2016 4:00:19 PM

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I'll email you some video I took with that camera of a White Crowned Sparrow. Oops, I can't. Too many KB for the forum.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2016 11:48:54 PM

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I'll email you some video I took with that camera of a White Crowned Sparrow. Oops, I can't. Too many KB for the forum.

Try the email again.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/19/2016 12:04:52 AM

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Live stream....

"World's biggest Aquarium" located within the Ocean Expo Park in Okinawa, Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIcoAgJw6_w

That is impressive. Would have been great if that had been there when I was at Torii Station 83-85.
Great diving off the beach at that base, in Kadena Bay. We used to pay the fishermen what they'd make in a day
to take us out for dives in their boats. Also dove in Kin Bay for an orienteering class and a guy caught
a huge great white shark the following day.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/19/2016 2:11:13 AM

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Indeed.
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ponder on, folks!

Ummm...that's not my avatar.

I'm afraid you have missed the finer details and I'm very surprised at that!

Oh, and folks, Keep Calm and Ponder On!!!

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/19/2016 5:41:24 AM

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/19/2016 1:23:47 PM

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Gadget the first atomic bomb

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/19/2016 1:24:22 PM

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Control room of the German submarine UB-110 in 1918

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/19/2016 1:26:54 PM

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More knobs and wheels to turn....

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/19/2016 1:28:06 PM

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An illegal picture from atop the Giza pyramids in Egypt

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/19/2016 1:29:21 PM

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USAAF B-25 sinks Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze off the coast of Xiamen China 6 April 1945

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/19/2016 2:49:55 PM

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Obscure fact #4: m10bob is trying to weave a pair of socks out of forum threads.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/19/2016 3:07:44 PM

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So I'm trying to read the paper this a.m. and The Blue Max is on. How am I supposed to get the paper read let alone finish the crossword puzzle?

Anyways, fall colors. How they come together is determined by how much rain or lack thereof, how cold or warm. Getting a whole forest to pop at the same time is a rare event in MO. Near the middle of this pic in my neighbor's back yard is a sweet gum tree, with the yellow/orange leaves. I hate that tree. It drops these IEDs all over the place which are intended to break your ankles. On the right is a very large oak and the leaves are falling. It has a twin out of the frame to the right. In the background across the alley you can see another oak. The picture doesn't do it justice, it is a behemoth. When they get that big and that old they are very stingy about giving up their leaves. That tree is so big I think you could build the Victory out of her.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/19/2016 3:08:53 PM

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More knobs and wheels to turn....

Is that my Sophia?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/19/2016 3:18:42 PM

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Here's some of those IEDs I was talking about, in case you're not familiar with them.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/19/2016 3:37:00 PM

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The botanical name of sweetgum is liquidambar styraciflua. It is a hardwood, but the would has a high moisture content, is "diffuse porous," and is not dense. That's why you never hear of sweetgum being used for baseball bats or fence posts or railroad ties or two-by-fours or fine furniture. Historically it was used for pallets and cheap crating and that's about it. Sweetgum is abundant in my area of northwest Georgia. Here, though, the leaves never turn gold. They are always purple or maroon mixed with a little bit of yellow.

Did you know that the change in leaf coloration in the autumn months is driven mostly by the length of the dark hours rather than temperature? Amount of rainfall is the other significant factor. (But in spring it's the opposite - temperature is the driving factor in budding and leaf-out.)

Those sweetgum "balls" are indeed IEDs for those walking barefoot!

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