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Pick a Word – March 2024

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Thursdays Special: Pick a Word

Some fun words this month so I will have to see what I can find for these words.

FLOATING

ROSY

OVERLOOKING

PRECOCIAL

SEEDY

That was fun thanks Paula

It’s a my post (post post)

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FOWC: Displaced
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Misunderstanding

This post such a great spot. Insects don’t stand a chance.

Hey Steve, just came by to let you know that Merv reckons that it’s his post. and you better rack off.

Whoa the Merv, what’s your point? I think there may be a misunderstanding.
This post ain’t big enough for the both of us Steve.
I probably would have taken you more seriously if you didn’t use a Henry Bogart voice Merv.

Yeah, that’s right, rack off knob nose. Consider your self displaced.

No, you rack off pfftt

Yeah! Well let’s see whose post this is Merv!
OK! Let’s see what you’ve got Steve!

How about a bit of this.

Go on. Get going. This is my post now. Go find your own!

You haven’t seen the last of me Steve

Ya reckon Merv?

I’ll be back

Blimey Merv, what’s with the terrible impersonations. I’ve had enough.

My numbers up #8

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Judy’s The Numbers Game #9: 130

Judy’s rules are –

“To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find under that number and include a link to Judy’s Numbers Game blog of the day.”

Looking up in the Sagrada Familia. I like the coincidence that last week where there were a number of posts that included photos of the Sagrada.

Another way to my place from my daughters. If you could go straight ahead and to the left a bit, my place is over there.

A wonderful old place on the banks of The Clarence River

I always expect a flower or two will appear in the numbers. This Rose didn’t disappoint.

Along with flowers, there is a chance a bee might come along.

I am sure standing like that would be uncomfortable but the Noisy Friarbird seems content, well as content as a Friarbird can muster.

I wanted to include a B&W photo and this is the better one from the stack. Taken from a train in Europe, perhaps Swiss Alps in the background.

I am glad there was a Moon in this bunch to choose.

Now for the cute and nature part of the post.

Only one photo of a sleepy Koala for you

A photo from a while ago of Pretty Face Wallabies (real name Whiptail Wallabies) being chill with the chooks out foraging

I am so glad this little fellow appeared in the 130 numbers. A bit of creative beach fun. A Pandanus seed, the “eyes” are natural, with a red seaweed hair. We left him in a Paperbark tree on the walkway to the beach, hoping others were entertained as much as we were putting our creation together.

Nice song, pity about the face

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Bird of the Week Invitation – XXVIII

Today is all about the Noisy Friarbird, Philemon corniculatus. Noisy Friarbirds, at around 34cm, are a member of the Honeyeater family just don’t have the same looks as some of the other honeyeaters. They are around 34cm

They are a bird with a distinctive look that makes them seem perpetually grumpy

They live along the East Coast of Australia in the “Dry forests and eucalypt woodlands, as well as coastal scrub, heathlands and around wetlands and wet forests.” Their diet is not just nectar but fruit, insects and other invertebrates and sometimes eggs or baby birds.

They are a migratory bird. They arrived at my place about three weeks ago and immediately took over the front garden relegating the other birds to the back gardens or run the gauntlet of the ever watchful Noisy Friarbirds.

They are a bird that has long term partners. “The female builds the large, deep cup-shaped nest from bark and grass, bound with spider webs, slinging it in a tree-fork. She alone incubates the eggs, but both parents feed the young, for up to three weeks after fledging.”

As only a mother could love

Brave little Noisy Friarbirds will defend their territory from anyone, including the resident Square-tailed Kite

Noisy Friarbirds have a most amazing call.

For a change, here is my video of a Noisy Friarbird trying to get a nonplussed Blue-faced Honeyeater out of the Honey Gem Grevillea. The video is under 2 minutes. You can hear its usual yelling at others and the squabble sounds. The Noisy Friarbird left its “I am so very miffed” call, which is the strangest but so lovely to hear, to the very end of the battle. It is so good to hear when there are two singing in unison.

I am sorry for such a long post but they are fascinating birds

SOURCE: https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/noisy-friarbird/

Laughter is the best medicine

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Ragtag Daily Prompt Thursday: Medicinal

Most unexpected

The Sheriff in a small town walks out of the Sheriffs Office and sees a cowboy coming down the street with nothing on but his cowboy hat and his boots, so he arrests him for indecent exposure.

As he is locking him up, he asks, “Why in the world are you dressed like this?”

The cowboy says “Well it’s like this Sheriff, I was in the bar down the road having a few drinks with this real pretty woman. After a while asks me to go to her motel room with her…so I did.

We go inside and she pulls off her top and asks me to pull off my shirt…so I did.

Then she takes off her skirt and asks me to take off my pants…so I did

Then she pulls down her knickers and asks me to take off my undies…so I did.

Then she gets on the bed, looks at me kind of sexy, and says, “Now go to town, cowboy”

“So here I am.”

Thursdays Special: Pick a Word – March 2022

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Lost in Translation’s Pick a Word – March 2022

Paula’s words for March may be a little difficult to convert to photos so a bit of thinking will be required.

ASPEROUS – The rough bark of an Ironbark tree

CRUSTACEOUS – Soldier Crabs scuttling along the beach at low tide

EFFUSIVE – A Noisy Friarbird singing his heart out in the morning

MOUNTED – One of my quests is to photograph birds riding cows or horses. Willie Wagtail enjoying the backward view

TRIAD – Three Grey-crowned Babblers walking along the forest floor flicking over leaves and sticks looking for insects, all the while chattering away to each other

OK that was a bit of a search to find photos as close to Paula’s words as I could