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Showing posts with label Birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birds. Show all posts
Rainbow Lorikeet
I look through the window this morning and the first thing I see is a rainbow lorikeet. The parakeet of suburban Sydney it appears.
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| My own pic |
Busy Days
The last few weeks have been pretty busy. My daughter-in-law's younger sister was married on the 14th and it was good to be there. The wedding was held at King Alfred's School, where my first son's wedding reception was held ten years back. Lovely day. Nice to have family around for that and for some days before. The following Saturday (21st) we headed down to Crawley where our friends the Saywells were having a house warming cum birthday party for their boys. Nice to meet Jeremy and Alyssa Walker and many others new and old. We were able to pop in and see our friend Georgina too before she heads back to New Zealand. I'm glad we did. These are not easy days. before that Eleri and Owain had gone to Essex to view birds of prey and I had been at a men's meeting followed by tract giving in Golders Green. I then took the train to meet Eleri and lost my wallet en route somehow.
This week is a week of prayer and so I was up early on Monday for the first of these. The next was on Tuesday morning and then we gave our midweek meeting over to prayer and will meet again, God willing. We have had seven or eight at each meeting and most have prayed aloud. My wife's brother-in-law was with us last night and that was nice.
Day off Week 34 2019
Unusually last week I had my day off on a Saturday - not ideal in some ways. I had one duty to perform and then something else came up too but these took up a very small part of the day. One of my sons and his wife have been visiting for a few days. We loved having them here and on Saturday we spent the lovely hot day in Richmond Park with them. It took us about an hour to get there but once there we settled in some shade and had a lovely picnic. We enjoyed both the parakeets, which are all over London, and the deer, which are the park speciality. It is amazing how close you can get to both. We also had some nice games of badminton and were treated to a nice ice cream before leaving. The journey back seemed to be much quicker.
10 Types of penguin
There are as many as 26 different types of penguin, Here are ten
1. Emperor
2. King
3. Chinstrap
4. Macaroni
5. (Northern, Southern and Eastern) Rockhopper
6. Gentoo
7. Jackass
8. Galapagos
9. Magellanic
10. Humboldt
10 Four Letter Bird Names
1. Swan
2. Dove
3. Gull
4. Lark
5. Wren
6. Duck
7. Teal
8. Myna
9. Rook
10. Crow
10 Bird references in Beatles Songs
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| https://www.beatlesbible.com/1967/02/24/recording-lovely-rita/ |
1. And your bird can sing
2. Blackbird
3. Blue Jay Way
4. Free as a Bird
5. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
6. Flying
7. Dear Prudence (The wind is low the birds will sing that you are part of everything)
8. Till there was you (There were birds in the sky but I never saw them winging)
9. I am the Walrus (Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna)
10. Money (The best things in life are free but you can keep them for the birds and bees)
10 Extant Flightless Birds
1. Ostrich
2. Emu
3. Cassowary
4. Rhea
5. Kiwi
6. Great Auk*
7. Penguin
8. Kakapo
9. Steamer Duck
10. Flightless Cormorant
I had not realised the Great Auk is extinct. Perhaps I could replace it with the improbably named inaccessibe island rail (see here). The first five are sometimes grouped as ratites.
10 British Dicky Birds and their nicknames
1. Robin Redbreast
2. Jenny Wren
3. Tom Tit
4. Jackdaw
5. Kittiwake
6. Maggie pied Magpie (originally just a Pie, Mag is permanently attached)
7. Philip Sparrow
8. Mavis Song Thrush
9. Ralph Raven
10. Jacob Starling
Five interesting facts
1. The Sun makes up 99% of the solar system mass See here
2. The Sun is large enough that approximately 1.3 million Earths could fit inside (squashed in)
3. In most species of bird, it is the male who sings not the female See here
4. The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers See here
5. Sound travels much faster through steel than it does air (sound travels at 5100 m/s through steel, 1480 m/s through water and 330 m/s through air) See here
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