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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 10, 2021 18:21:28 GMT
It's amazing how both fish and birds behave exactly alike in large numbers. Now at least mossie has a photographic goal for his next outing.
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Post by lugg on Feb 10, 2021 18:24:56 GMT
They are really quite beautiful They are just so beautiful - I never appreciated that until I recognised that I don't see them now.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 10, 2021 19:24:31 GMT
Bixa, the film The Dig has made quite an impression on the reviewers but I doubt I will see it. I did some work at Mrs Tranmers house back in the dark ages when I had to work. Thanks for referencing back to the thread I made of my visit to Sutton Hoo, which incidentally is only a short way from the end of the massive emergency strip which was the runway at Woodbridge airfield and which many American airmen served on during the Cold War. It had been built on Sutton Heath. Mossie, the acting in The Dig is quite good, but I absolutely thrilled to the wonderful long shots of the terrain throughout the film. Super interesting note about the Woodbridge airfield. I loved looking at your three posts about the area & its history (link in reply #20). Also love how the movie has brought so much attention to the dig & surrounding history, but you showed it to us years ago.
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Post by questa on Feb 10, 2021 23:46:58 GMT
He missed out on general recognition in life so this is for the hero
"Basil John Wait Brown (22 January 1888 – 12 March 1977) was an English self-taught archaeologist and astronomer who in 1939 discovered and excavated a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in "one of the most important archaeological discoveries of all time".[1][2]Wikipedia
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Post by tod2 on Feb 11, 2021 8:47:26 GMT
This is the British starling which I have yet to see here in South Africa.
To demonstrate the difference here are the two starlings we see everyday. A frequent visitor to my garden and also can be found trying to nest in city buildings where there may be a gap under the roof. You can hear them before you see them. They are not at all like the British starlings.
And the most frequent pest to visitors in Kruger Park but also my garden of late: The Glossy starling. In sunlight this little bird is magnificent.
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Post by bjd on Feb 11, 2021 12:19:51 GMT
We have the spotty starlings like in your British link. Your birds are definitely prettier than ours.
Your red-winged one reminds me of red-winged blackbirds which live in North America. Also the name of the Detroit hockey team., although their jerseys are red and white.
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