Mundane News

[Salty seadog]

close enough for a dinner visit

.....and I do like dinner, I have it every day.
That's very kind, I'll only have Wednesday afternoon and Thursday with them and I'm bringing one back with me. Maybe next time, we've done it most years for the last few as my mate who's riddled with anxiety will not get on a plane or boat. I'm usually there all week but only a day and a half this time.

 

[classic33]

Back from a quick visit to Edinburgh,very nice it was too.So i logs on here and whoait seems i am the one millionth visitor and i might win an Apple product.Knowing my luck it will be a rotten apple,should i push the yes button or not is a poll required.

Can't be, I'm the 1,000,000 visitor, yesterday & today.

Not normally that busy at this time.

 

[Illaveago]

It is a grey wet windy day today . It's ideal weather if you are thinking of making a home movie of Perfect Storm .

 

[Illaveago]

They just said that RBS are going to close a number of branches stating that a lot of them are in "Too close a Proximity" !

Does that mean travelling distance ?

 

[potsy]

I thought I'd got up an hour or two early this morning, went downstairs and had to put the lights on to see... took me a few minutes to work out it was just because of the gloomy weather

Ah well, the sun couldn't last forever

 

[MikeG]

Can't be, I'm the 1,000,000 visitor, yesterday & today.

Not normally that busy at this time.

Let me introduce you to adblock plus.

 

[Illaveago]

I am watching the programme about Peregrine Falcons on I player . I'm particularly interested in watching the programme out of interest and in trying to identify the bird that I saw around here last year and which may have reappeared. I find that documentaries can be far more informative in showing different variations than bird books .
I'm sure that it was a Peregrine but doubt creeps in at times .

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I thought some of you might find this amusing.

Even though it's still 4 months to my 4 week cycling trip in the Pyrénées, I couldn't help doing a bit of Google Maps & StreetView tourism, and I found this photo-sphere taken near the Pic du Midi, an observatory north of, and about 700m higher than, the Col du Tourmalet.
Even though I won't be riding up to the Pic du Midi, as I'll be hiring a road bike, and the road up to the observatory is very rough and unsealed, I still enjoy looking at the views from up there. This photo-sphere, however, has a very unusual feature. If you point the view in the direction of the observatory, i.e. to the north of where the photo-sphere was taken, the person icon in the mini-map in the bottom-left of the page is facing south, and vice-versa!

https://www.google.com.au/maps/@42....-ya351.08334-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352!5m1!1e4

 

[pjd57]

Not cycling today , for the first day in 10+.

Still a bit sore since " an accident" last week, but walking is a lot more painful than cycling.

 

[Speicher]

@Illaveago - There are some falcons near here, one pair I think. They are ginormous, and make a lot of noise.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Workload overload...Grrr

 

[Gravity Aided]

Here's some American Hawks, or Buzzards to you all.

Red tail Hawk

Merlin,used to be known as pigeon hawk here.

Sparrow Hawk, now known as Kestrel here.

Chicken Hawk, or Sharp Shinned Hawk

Quail Hawk, or Cooper's Hawk

Turkey Vulture (Because, on the ground, he looks like a wild Turkey.)
Images from Wikipedia

 

[Gravity Aided]

In my town , ironically, all the Turkey Vultures live at the insurance company.

 

[MikeG]

Nice photos.

But some terminological confusion. A buzzard is one particular raptor, not a class/ category of birds over here. And to add to the confusion, we have both a sparrow hawk and a kestrel, and they are very different birds indeed. As it happens I've seen both this morning.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I should try and get some pictures of my own, once doing more cycling. I find the bicycle is a great vehicle for photographing birds.