Posts by ChrisW
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Not so sparkly on the Taruheru in the dusk - subtle waves of unusual form and orientation longish wavelength directly back and forth across the river - 5.11pm shortly after the first arrival of the slight (highly attenuated) seismic waves of the mag 6.5 earthquake sourced ~16 km deep under Cook Strait at 5.09pm arrived here.
Others will have felt much more, but no need for the photographic evidence!
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Nora Leggs,
lower the tone
Lower?
I noticed too, but I had only uplifting thoughts *O:-) -
Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Is that just 1 leg I see and 1 I dont?
Indeed yes. But it's not always so -
While spruiking for business out on the pier-head, the little black shag did its best to prevent punters from getting a close look at 'Double Bill' the two-headed gull, before they'd paid up-front.Care was needed to get the angles right or she/they'd appear as twin-tailed as well, and no one would swallow that!
Heh! 'Double Bill' checked herself out as another dissatisfied customer stalked off poorer but wiser.
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Jos,
From my doorstep – I’d seen the usually subtle dribble of gas bubbles in the mid-channel natural gas seep instead with a vigorous flow many times normal – not fully captured here at far left. Meanwhile ‘Ninety’ paddles by dredging the bottom mud on the shallow edge at low-ebb tide.
And black backed gull with furrowed brow lets rip, the full noise. Perhaps that mocking call – “Hah! Look at that old scarecrow standing there on the Whakatane estuary! That’s not how to catch a feed!” Or perhaps letting its mate know it was expected back soon …
When a pair of grey-mallard ducks arrive at speed, air-brakes and landing gear fully extended, to land on the runway marked out by the trail of gas-wavelets and bubbles. Ninety took a breath and a casual glance masked by a walnut branch, and resumed her dredging, confident of a satisfying feed.
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Hard News: Who else forgot to get married?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I think the vast majority of humanity did not stay in Africa. Vastly more humans left Africa and colonised the rest of the planet than stayed.
Short version - only a small number (?hundreds) of H.s.s. modern humans left Africa, these representing one small part of the much greater numbers and diversity of modern humans scattered over the vastness of (sub-Saharan) Africa, and founded the rest of humanity, picking up a small admixture of H.s. neanderthalensis (Europe-MiddleEast-centred) early on in that process. Except in the northern fringe of Africa much later, no return flow.
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Hard News: Who else forgot to get married?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
There are no full-blooded humans left either.
It's a pointless argument and not to defend full-blooded whatevers, but I suspect this is a ~Euro-centric view.
Is there any evidence the vast majority of humanity (H.s.sapiens) and its genome that stayed home in Africa had anything to do with H. s. neanderthalensis? -
This one almost works upside down – Auntie might have been surprised to hear the thundering hooves behind her?
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Gidday Nora, Jos – lovely work. It’s been a quiet day on Capture.
Late afternoon on this quiet day –
‘Auntie’ nosed the line as she crossed,She looked back to confirm ‘Halfring’ and Fullering’ were close behind her, and the line too -
Yes, they’d left the field in tatters.
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But prefers to turn back towards its mate – not for grooming but just caught part way through the turn (these photos all 4-8sec apart)
to resume matching stances
matching stances.
‘Pair-bond’ as a term doesn’t seem to do it justice!
Soap opera not quite right either – more like a pas de deux from a water ballet. -
Continuing match
of synchronised movements
till the new arrival turns to present a mirror match
