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General Category => Say Hello => Topic started by: Lainey on November 21, 2017, 04:02:24 PM
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I've been playing this game for a few years now and never posted. Just thought it was about time I said hello to all my fellow Chihuahua players out there! :)
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Hi Lainey. Welcome to the forum.
David
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And a big hello & welcome from Les 303 , but Lainey you don't get off that easy , you have to at least tell us which part of the world you are in.
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Hi Lainey. Welcome aboard.
Good to hear from you.
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Les in answer to your question I live in the southwest of Western Australia. On a rural property on the outskirts of a small town called Kirup. I share my home with my partner, a dog and hundreds of kangaroos which emerge from the surrounding bush every evening.
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Welcome to the forum, Lainey. Would I be correct in thinking that you're graced with my favourite Australian bird where you live, namely the splendid fairywren?
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Lainey , that sounds like a lovely lifestyle & an idyllic place to be living , so different to my current situation where I am living in an apartment complex in the heart of Brisbane city , just be sure that you look after all those kangaroos or else you will incur the wrath of Pat.
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Welcome to the forum Lainey - another lucky person who lives in the bush
Carol
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Welcome, Lainey.
It sounds as if you have a soft spot for kangaroos, so I guess you're not a farmer.
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Welcome.
We in the suburbs of Melbourne have to make do with kangaroos that get kicked out of the mob and head to Burke Rd. billabong reserve (8kms from CBD)...
(http://brbreserve.org/roo.jpg)
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Sorry to be so crude, yelnats, but my first impression was that the 'roo had hopped into the woods for a pee and was glancing round to see if anyone was watching!
Welcome from me, Lainey. For some time now you've been on my list of players to try and keep up with.
Nice to have some details to go with the name.
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Spot on Mike! :laugh:
A welcome from me too Lainey
Penny
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Thank you to all of you for your "welcome" wishes. A beautiful morning here with a family of emus currently strutting across the paddock.
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Pictures please Lainey & you haven't answered Pat's question.
I suspect that if Pat believes in reincarnation then she would be desperately wishing to come back as a fairy - wren.
Did you know?
Male Superb Fairy-wrens have been labelled as 'the least faithful birds in the world'. Females may be courted by up to 13 males in half an hour, and 76% of young are sired by males from outside the social group.
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A beautiful morning here with a family of emus currently strutting across the paddock.
We only saw two emus when we were in Oz, and that was only due to a sharp-eyed person spotting them in the distance. You couldn't even determine what they were without binoculars, they were that far away.
However we did see cassowaries in Queensland. There's a place called Cassowary House which they frequent and it was on our itinerary for the express purpose of seeing them. The tour leader had gone to visit the owner to arrange phone contact if the birds appeared, and meanwhile the rest of us were on a country lane a short distance away. Two or three of the men had gone a short way down a side road off the lane for a bush break when suddenly there was a disturbance where they were. Out of the road ran three young cassowaries, about a foot and a half tall, followed by the men whose bush break had been disturbed. I was about to berate them for chasing the birds when it became apparent that they were in fact fleeing in panic from the large male cassowary who emerged immediately behind them. Running away from a cassowary is about the worst thing you can do but the big male calmed down once he realized his offspring were safe.
Although many people believe the cassowary to be the most dangerous bird in Oz, our leader told us that that honour in fact belongs to the Australian magpie, which will freely attack people during the breeding season.
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Les, I was lucky enough to get decent shots of four species of fairywren.
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I can cope with a fairywren - in fact they are quite sweet - but please, no more cassowaries!! >:D
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;D
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@ Pat
I can confirm the magpie problem, and they particularly detest cyclists.
So I can only cycle from March to August (outside the mating/hatching/fledgling season), and I am reduced to walking for exercise from September to February, armed with a stick to wave around above my head to deter sharp-beaked swoopers. It can be very alarming, and very dangerous if you are on a bike, since if attacked it's hard to resist the automatic reaction to duck and swerve, possibly into the path of a passing car. You would hate it, Linda.
Sorry we hijacked your thread, Lainey.
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I have no problem with this thread being hijacked by bird lovers. My partner and I also love to watch our feathered friends. This morning I had juvenile magpies singing on our deck. No problems with attacks here. The emus (if you chase them on a motorbike or suchlike) can give you a nasty surprise from their nether regions - serves you right I say!
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Wonderful pics Pat :) They really are the most beautiful birds.
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Lovely photo's Pat , particularly the one of the splendid fairywren which is , well , just splendid.
I must say that I am not convinced by the quote from Linda " I can cope with a fairywren - in fact they are quite sweet" , I mean " sweet " can be interpreted in a couple of ways.
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Magpies! Can't walk out on to the front verandah in the afternoon without them demanding food...
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Now you come to mention it, I can imagine a fairywren would taste quite sweet, Les and I do try to eat as many birds as possible in the hope of helping to keep their numbers down! >:D
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Burp !!!
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On the subject of food, I was feeding chips to currawongs (a crow-like bird) on the balcony at O'Reilly's. There were several of them; most would swoop and catch a chip in mid-air but one was brave enough to come and snatch them from my fingers. The commotion alerted this beauty who flew in looking for a meal, although it wasn't chips he was was after. All of the currawongs escaped; I guess if the goshawk had managed to catch one of them he'd have had potato with his meat. >:D
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Hi Pat
I'm so glad you had a great time in Australia and loved our bird life! You might be interested in this:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2017/nov/20/australian-bird-of-the-year-2017-vote-for-your-favourite
It's currently on the Guardian website - you get to vote for your favourite Australian bird for 2017. So hard to choose a favourite from the 50 they have on there :-\
cheers
Linda
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Hello guiltypleasure ,
You are yet another one of those very good players that I always try keeping in touch with on the on the scoreboard , don't ask me why , but for some reason I always imagined that you were a male so how nice to discover that you are in fact female ( unless of course you just happen to have an unusual Christian name ).
I am sure that Pat will provide her own response to your post but I am guessing that there would be no dilemma for her as her favourite will always be the fairywren.
Cheers Les303
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Thanks for that link, Linda. As Les correctly predicted, my vote went to the splendid fairywren. I saw, and indeed got decent photos of, nearly all the birds on the list so had I not had special affection for the little fairywren, casting my vote would have been a bit more difficult.
Once you vote you can see the votes received for all the birds and I was very surprised to see that the white ibis is ahead of the pack by thousands of votes. I was equally surprised that this beauty isn't on the list, maybe because unless you visit O'Reilly's it's not easy to see. Les, you must have seen them when you were there. Indeed if you offered food to them you'd have had them eating out of your hand.
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Hi Pat
I was really surprised about the ibis as well. I didn't even think it was native to Australia but there you go. I put it down to the readership of the Guardian being mainly inner city dwellers (as is the ibis), non-mainstream, and a bit contrary. Nice to see Magpies come in second place.
Les, there are probably better players to be following lately - I seem to have gone off the boil a bit. Thanks for your sense of humour, although perhaps that is distracting me from my game! I particularly enjoyed the recent offering that came with a 'warning'.... ;)
cheers
Linda
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That Splendid Fairywren really does live up to its name! I can think of a few people here in the UK, who would be literally exploding with joy if something like that turned up at their bird tables!
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Meanwhile, as the resident invertebrate zoologist here, I just have to share this with you all.
Apparently, there are beetles, native to Australia and Papua New Guinea, that are known as, wait for it, Smurf Weevils.
I had the fun of wading through this scientific paper (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0188044) on these beasties recently. If you don't understand the technical details of the relationships and how they've been reclassified, don't worry about that, just take a peek at the image featuring some species of Smurf Weevil, which in some cases have seriously eclectic colour schemes ... :)
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Cal , did forget to add an attachment or link ?
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Reminds me of an interesting exercise we did as part of the Diploma of Conservation & Land Management in which we had several pages of black & white drawings of beetles from 5? islands. We had to group them and give reasons. Some had different antennae, markings, size and we weren't given male/female characteristics. It was after the exam and much better than playing cards while we were waiting for results.
There was no right or wrong but the reasons for the groupings showed the range of possibilities.
I regularly complain about changes to botanical names but understand how DNA analysis has changed many original classifications.
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Les, just type smurf weevil into Google. One of them looks as if it drew on the splendid fairywren for inspiration for its colouration!
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Cal , did forget to add an attachment or link ?
Weird, I included the link to the paper in my post ... ???
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Very pretty indeed.
I still wouldn't want to see any of them creeping out of my box of Alpen, though.
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Linda ,
Oh no !!! , you have exposed my distraction strategy.
Pat ,
I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to O'reilly's which was quite a few years ago.
As I am not such an avid bird enthusiast as yourself , I had no idea about exactly what species of birds ( there were just so many , it was actually quite overwhelming ) that were sitting on my head or shoulders & competing to eat food from my hand.
What I do remember from that excursion is how my partner at the time had " control " of our one & only camera as it was continually strapped around her neck.
Though to be fair , I was allowed to use the camera when we were attending other venues such as surf carnivals or fishing charters which she was not particularly interested in.
On the drive home on Sunday afternoon , we talked about how much we had enjoyed our week at the coast , particularly our day at O'reillys & agreed that she would take the camera to the chemist to have the film developed on Monday during her lunch break from work. (why is Les suddenly breaking out in a sweat )
It was a huge mystery as to what happened to it but as we unpacked everything , there was no camera to be found.
Apparently , due to some form of female logic , that was automatically, entirely my fault which of course I strongly denied.
As the weeks went by & she desperately contacted O'reilly's & every other venue that we had visited in a vain hope to find this lost camera , My conscience got the better of me & i had to confess that I had managed to lose it overboard on one of my fishing trips.
I think that it took about 3 months of total pampering before I was actually forgiven.
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Cal , did forget to add an attachment or link ?
Weird, I included the link to the paper in my post ... ???
Sorry Cal , I didn't notice the change in font for the link , my eyesight is not what it used to be.
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Not to worry, I suspect when type 2 diabetes catches up with me in a serious manner, I'll start suffering from similar woes ...
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Meanwhile, as the resident invertebrate zoologist here, I just have to share this with you all.
Apparently, there are beetles, native to Australia and Papua New Guinea, that are known as, wait for it, Smurf Weevils.
I had the fun of wading through this scientific paper (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0188044) on these beasties recently. If you don't understand the technical details of the relationships and how they've been reclassified, don't worry about that, just take a peek at the image featuring some species of Smurf Weevil, which in some cases have seriously eclectic colour schemes ... :)
I just had to Google "smurf beetles," partly because I wondered which came first, the beetles' name or the tv critters. I think the explanation is included in this list of https://featuredcreature.com/7-unbeweevably-cool-weevils-that-will-make-you-say-wow/ (ftp://https://featuredcreature.com/7-unbeweevably-cool-weevils-that-will-make-you-say-wow/) - and they are fun to look at.
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Your link is broken. You accidentally prefixed it with "ftp:", which is the protocol for file transfers via Telnet.
The working link can be followed by clicking here (https://featuredcreature.com/7-unbeweevably-cool-weevils-that-will-make-you-say-wow/).
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I cannot imagine any circumstance where I would find myself looking at pictures of Smurf Weevils other than by playing chi & participating in the forum so thanks for that , birdy , as I agree that they were fun to look at.
And thankyou Cal , for correcting the link.
How do provide the link by " clicking here '' rather than having to post the full http address ?
And Elaine , do you realise that your first ever post has generated almost 550 views & still counting.
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Your link is broken. You accidentally prefixed it with "ftp:", which is the protocol for file transfers via Telnet.
The working link can be followed by clicking here (https://featuredcreature.com/7-unbeweevably-cool-weevils-that-will-make-you-say-wow/).
Whoops! Not sure how I did that! Thanks for the correct link.
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Here's how you embed a link.
This:
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page]Go to Wikipedia[/url]
produces this result:
Go to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Les - I do think things have gone off on quite a tangent!! :)
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' I've been playing this game for a few years now and never posted. Just thought it was about time I said hello to all my fellow Chihuahua players out there! "
Lainey , your first venture into the forum with your very nice " hello " post has indeed been hijacked & morphed into several other subjects.
This is not uncommon in the forum.
Quite often , a post such as a word suggestion will be put up , but by the time that our administrator gets around to answering the original query , he usually has to start by saying " getting back to the original question " & that is because another forumite will pick up on some aspect of the original query & go off on some other tangent which then opens it up to even more variations .
Bottom line is that the originator of the post gets the credit for the number of views which in your case is approaching 700. ( Alan , would that be some sort of record for a first time poster ? )
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Les in answer to your question I live in the southwest of Western Australia. On a rural property on the outskirts of a small town called Kirup. I share my home with my partner, a dog and hundreds of kangaroos which emerge from the surrounding bush every evening.
It was just the starting because of no use the little are mostly called kirup
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Hi lanaroady. Not quite sure what your post meant, but welcome to the forum.
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Yes, welcome to the forum lanaroady, and that was an interesting hyperlink to the redadair site that you added to the quote from Lainey. We all need a testerone boost from time to time.
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Well spotted, Jack. I've edited landlady's post to remove that link, which had presumably been inserted as advertising. (For those who missed it, the site sells online pharmaceuticals, including testosterone.)
I'm afraid lanaroady has joined the forum with ulterior motives.
UPDATE: "landlady"? Blame it on autocorrect.
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It was just the starting because of no use the little are mostly called kirup
I'm still trying to work out what the message could possibly mean.
Even Google Translator on speed couldn't have come up with this.
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Mike, I suspect we were meant to be confused by the message and so prompted to click on the now deleted hyperlink to see if it would help explain the text.
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I hope I can contribute to this forum too....
Nice to see you all....
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A belated welcome to the forum, 3polxin. I am sure you can make valuable contributions to the forum.
To my shame, I know very little about Indonesia and Java in general and Banten in particular. I suspect though I am not alone in this. Perhaps you could tell us a little bit about it.
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Meanwhile, returning to Lainey and her bird table visitors ... :)
When my brother was alive, and living in the Brisbane area, he used to have all sorts of exotica turning up in his garden in the morning ... Galahs, Rosellas, the occasional flock of wild Budgies, he used to have a veritable feathered rainbow turning up to feast upon the bird table offerings!
However, he told me that while the plumage of many of these birds is glorious to behold, the racket they make is, ahem, an acquired taste. Rosellas can be racuous to the point of inducing deafness if they gather for any length of time, and Galahs, of course, have a legendary reputation for noisy squawking. I found out the hard way about Rosellas, when someone living about half a mile or so from my home decided to keep a flock of these in a large back garden aviary. The birds in question were Eastern Rosellas - achingly beautiful rainbow coloured plumage, but boy, could those things pump out the decibels!