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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/6/2018 8:01:45 PM

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Thank you BBfanboy for sharing. That was awesome!

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/6/2018 8:15:10 PM

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I don't remember where I heard this expression before, but those birds are just achingly beautiful.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/7/2018 10:10:22 PM

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Since we are back to talking about weird bird behaviour ....

https://globalnews.ca/video/4129409/bald-eagle-mistakenly-lands-on-seattle-mariner-james-paxton-before-twins-home-opener/

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/8/2018 2:16:24 AM

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Since we are back to talking about weird bird behaviour ....

https://globalnews.ca/video/4129409/bald-eagle-mistakenly-lands-on-seattle-mariner-james-paxton-before-twins-home-opener/

It should have been an albatross (Rime of the Ancient Mariner).

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/9/2018 8:33:58 PM

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/9/2018 11:25:39 PM

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Camouflage.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/9/2018 11:45:34 PM

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Camouflage.

Or maybe lunch ...

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/14/2018 3:39:44 PM

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AH So...

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/14/2018 3:55:25 PM

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The only thing we have to fear is... fear itself... and having to wear your sister's hand-me-downs.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/14/2018 8:03:58 PM

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The only thing we have to fear is... fear itself... and having to wear your sister's hand-me-downs.

You had to do that MakeeLearn? Is that you in the picture?

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/14/2018 8:47:36 PM

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The only thing we have to fear is... fear itself... and having to wear your sister's hand-me-downs.

You had to do that MakeeLearn? Is that you in the picture?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt at age 2, 1884.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/14/2018 9:12:11 PM

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That was quite common back then, but they weren't necessarily hand-me-downs. That's just the way boys were dressed.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/14/2018 9:27:52 PM

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It is grus grus season again. Here are some 13,000 of them are taking a break before moving further north. It is a spectacular sight, or so I am told.

I've only seen few of them at the same time.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/14/2018 9:28:32 PM

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And one in flight.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/14/2018 11:07:19 PM

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And one in flight.

Um - that is a crane, not a goose. They migrate a bit later (they don't tolerate the cold like geese do) and need open water with water critters out of hibernation to eat. And of course their numbers are much fewer - never saw a flock of more than a dozen.

I am currently looking at four geese on the ice of the Assiniboine River, trying to stake out their territories. The first geese were seen about three weeks back when the temperature was around -20�C! A little snow has melted here and there so the geese can get at the dead grass - they seem to pluck at it but I think they are hoping for a green sprout already! (the ground is frozen).

BTW, we have a marshland preserve called Oak Hammock Marsh just north of here where over 100,000 waterfowl and songbirds can be seen during the spring and fall migrations. I took my English uncle and aunt there once and they were flabbergasted!

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/14/2018 11:26:10 PM

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I never said goose. Both are pictures of the common crane also known as the Eurasian crane. Or Grus grus.

The first picture is from Hornborgarsj�n where a huge amount of common cranes stop for a rest and feeding. They sleep in the lake and in the morning they move a bit away from the lake to eat.

At the moment there are close to 9000 cranes there. 8th of April, this year, they counted some 24,500 cranes at the lake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Hornborga
http://extra.lansstyrelsen.se/hornborga/En/Pages/default.aspx

Here is a picture showing part of the table with the counted cranes. As you can see the cranes are a bit later this year.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/14/2018 11:26:49 PM

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BTW, we have a marshland preserve called Oak Hammock Marsh just north of here where over 100,000 waterfowl and songbirds can be seen during the spring and fall migrations. I took my English uncle and aunt there once and they were flabbergasted!

I would love to visit Oak Hammock Marsh.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/15/2018 1:01:49 AM

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BTW, we have a marshland preserve called Oak Hammock Marsh just north of here where over 100,000 waterfowl and songbirds can be seen during the spring and fall migrations. I took my English uncle and aunt there once and they were flabbergasted!

I would love to visit Oak Hammock Marsh.

My goof an the grus grus! Should have put on my glasses to look at the first picture!

Here is a link to OHM

http://www.oakhammockmarsh.ca/

Not much to see on the live cam yet. What appears to be water out in the marsh is still ice.
When they set aside the marsh as a wildfowl reserve they had to pay farmers to plant "lure crops" in the area around the marsh so that they would not get constant lawsuits from the farmers about the birds raiding their crops! When the live cam points out toward the parking lot and road, it is showing one of the lure crop areas.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/15/2018 12:27:48 PM

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That was quite common back then, but they weren't necessarily hand-me-downs. That's just the way boys were dressed.

Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you understand it better, but the frog dies in the process. Mark Twain .

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/15/2018 12:29:26 PM

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And one in flight.

NICE Breasts.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/15/2018 12:38:21 PM

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Conrad Heyer (1749�1856) was an American farmer and veteran of the Revolutionary War who is notable for possibly being the earliest-born person known to have been photographed.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/15/2018 5:33:03 PM

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Conrad Heyer (1749�1856) was an American farmer and veteran of the Revolutionary War who is notable for possibly being the earliest-born person known to have been photographed.

He looks very uncomfortable in that outfit - maybe had to borrow it.
He also looks like a guy you don't wont to mess with!

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/15/2018 5:45:55 PM

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Conrad Heyer (1749�1856) was an American farmer and veteran of the Revolutionary War who is notable for possibly being the earliest-born person known to have been photographed.
1749-1856 = about 107 years old!?? Did you notice when the picture was taken?

He looks very uncomfortable in that outfit - maybe had to borrow it.
He also looks like a guy you don't wont to mess with!
Heck yah! "Sonny, I've brought down nations."

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/15/2018 5:54:06 PM

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I ponder on two things. First, was he a slave owner? Secondly, does anyone really believe his claimed age at the time of the photo?

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/15/2018 6:18:08 PM

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"He was photographed in 1852 at the age of 103. Heyer, says the New Market Press."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/conrad-heyer-a-revolutionary-war-veteran-was-the-earliest-born-american-to-ever-be-photographed-180947660/

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/15/2018 6:22:54 PM

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"As indicated in the obituary, by the 1850s Heyer�s advanced age and Revolutionary War service had brought him some popularity. He was mentioned in a Bangor newspaper in 1851:

The first child born of the German settlers who founded Waldoboro�, is still living in that town (says Mr. Eaton, in the History of Warren.) His name is Conrad Heyer, born in 1749, now 102 years of age, and in the enjoyment of pretty good health."

There is some debate as to whether he was in the Delaware River crossing.
https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/02/conrad-heyer-did-not-cross-the-delaware/

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/15/2018 6:26:50 PM

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Indeed. And I doubt that claim. It is interesting that the other people who claimed to have been even older apparently are disbelieved but not him. I wonder why that is. I also find it interesting that the dispute is that other men claim to have been born before him. I suspect that there were others photographed at the same time and that they in fact may have been older.

In short. I do not believe that he was 103 years old at the time of the photography.

Cut from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Heyer#Photography
In 1852, at the age of 103, Heyer posed for a daguerreotype portrait. He thereby became the earliest-born person of whom a photograph is known to exist. The claim is not without dispute, as the following men were also photographed: a shoemaker named John Adams, who claimed to be born in 1745; a Revolutionary war veteran named Baltus Stone, with a claim of 1744; and a slave named Caesar, with a claim of 1738

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/15/2018 6:38:01 PM

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The earliest photo of a UNKNOWN person...

"This is one of the, if not the, oldest known photograph of a human being in existence. It depends on how one defines photograph, but this was taken by Louis Jacques-Mande Daguerre in 1838.
(The fellow the daguerreotype was named after.) This is a photo of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris. This is a busy street and there was tons of traffic, but since the exposure was so long, about 15-20 minutes, none of the moving figures can be seen. The only people visible are a guy getting his boots polished and the bootblack.
Who was this nameless gentleman or the bootblack? No one knows. I�m sure they never imagined that they had been immortalized, albeit anonymously, by a clever scientist testing his newly discovered method of preserving moments in time."