These charges look very specific...


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-charges-oath-keepers-founder-10-others-s*******s-conspiracy-j***6-r**t

Love the Mother Goose House! The attached image of another amazing creation just came up on my FB page, and I thought you all might find it interesting. Translated from the Russian:

"The former director of one of the Petersburg mineral water factories, Vasily Kozin, arranged the Lukomorye near St. Petersburg, making a fairy tale come true. In the summer of 2007, Oncon, a piece of land that was once occupied by a garbage dump, and decided to transform it, thus escaping the depression that had happened.

Creativity helped the entrepreneur: inspired by the work of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin himself, he erected a mini-town in which the famous Baba Yaga settled well - made of wood.

Yaga's hut, by the way, revolves around its axis thanks to the old slewing support from the Ivanovets crane."

Beautiful diving shot of a RWBB!

That is a female, isn't it?

https://feederwatch.org/fr/birdspotter-2019/female-red-winged-blackbird-singing-her-little-birdie-heart-out/?species=red-winged-blackbird


Marshall

Every Thanksgiving we have family come in from TN, and part of the tradition is to take a yearly family photo, same people in the same spot in the yard. The day before they arrive I set up the camera and take some test shots.

This year I found that old age has caught up with me, and I was not able to get myself into the shot within the 10 second window. lol!

I've got a remote shutter release someplace, but rather than try to find it decided to try the interval timer on my 5DIV. Set it to twenty shots with a two second interval. Did that twice.

That turned out to be a good idea, as after I explained to the family what was happening everybody got into it with funny poses, etc, at two seconds apart. And after culling out the obvious duds was left with a set that the family members could choose from for prints.

The entire set was put up on Flickr for the family to see:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/78687170@N00/51710541096/in/album-72157720238111330/


Marshall

Yes, after 80 years efforts were being made to reinforce the failing head, but it did fall off in March of 2021. The community is rallying around a GoFundMe campaign to restore it. Haven't seen any reports yet on the project progress.

https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/community-rallies-behind-mother-goose-inn-after-landmark-head-falls-off


Marshall

A bit radical, and the original resolution probably wouldn't support it, but here is a crop I see:

I was wondering about your initial ID but since we have very few Ravens here in KY and an abundance of Crows I wasn't at all confident enough to call it out.

That prominent tuft of hair on top of its bill was an ID indicator of a Raven at one of the bird links I was looking at.

Anyway, it's a beautiful portrait! I've got a crow project going on now, and can get a murder of four to seven to come in to our driveway food buffet almost every morning. Nothing as good yet as your first portrait, though.


Marshall

Also known as the "flying cigar" from their their silhouette in flight!

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Chimney_Swift/id


Marshall

Please don't kill these beautiful birds!

We have a crabapple tree in our yard with the trunk covered in sapsucker holes. It has been thirty years and it is still going strong.

Here is a pro-bird link that you might find interesting, and it also talks about mitigating measures such as a previous poster mentioned, like wrapping with burlap, etc.

https://www.pinevalleytreeservices.ca/will-sapsuckers-kill-my-trees/


Marshall

Late to the party, as usual, but I dug out my old Lunasix 3 meter, and here is a pic of the battery position.

Great old-time meter, BTW!

And here's a Japanese haiku:

Hope all your Ginkgo trees are male and not females that bear fruit. lol!

It is actually a really amazing structure: timber-framed:

https://www.bdcnetwork.com/life-size-noahs-ark-uses-31-million-board-feet-timber