My people are going to need a master wayfinder. They already have one.
Heh. So, the knot they’re tying looks kind of like a bowline, but not quite, and I’d never seen a bowline tied that way. But all the other nautical content was so spot-on I figured it had to be legit. And 30 seconds later I’d googled up confirmation:
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My people are going to need a master wayfinder. They already have one.
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In the beginning, there was only ocean. Until the Mother Island emerged: Te Fiti. Her heart held the greatest power ever known. It could create life itself and Te Fiti shared it with the world.
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non-transferable is a total lizzie bennet diaries reunion and i love it
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Autumn comes to an end and the season of hardship for many species begins. Winter has its very own charme, everything is quiet and slow. Most animals are hidden or left for warmer places. Only a few birds and mammals are about facing the harsh conditions and creating very special photo opportunities.
This here is a Eurasian Coot, a very common bird to be found in most lakes around Europe.#winter #birding #ornithology #snow (hier: Göttinger Kiessee)
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Georges
Buysse (Belgian, 1864 – 1916)
Winter view on the banks of the Lys (Vue hivernale aux bords de la Lys), N/D
Oil on canvas, 35,5 x 50 cm
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Get to know me meme – [5/7] animated movies: Tangled (2010)
“I’ve been looking out of a window for eighteen years, dreaming about what I might feel like when those lights rise in the sky. What if it’s not everything I dreamed it would be?”
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Match #376
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Landscapes of Scotland
Patrick Monatsberger is a Travel & Outdoor photographer from Nuremberg Germany ready to travel the world and capture beautiful moments with his camera.
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I have no idea what this is referring to, so I guess the answer would have to be no. At least I haven’t done so on purpose.
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radiohead – the numbers
It holds us like a phantom
It touches like a breeze
It shines its understanding
See the moon smiling
Open on all channels
Ready to receive
And we’re not at the mercy
Of your chimeras and spells
Your chimeras and spells
We are of the earth
To her we do return
The future is inside us
It’s not somewhere else
It’s not somewhere else
It’s not somewhere else
One day at a time
We call upon the people
People have this power
The numbers don’t decide
Your system is a lie
The river running dry
The wings of a butterfly
And you may pour us away like soup
Like we’re pretty broken flowers
We’ll take back what is ours
We’ll take back what is ours
One day at a time
Written by Colin Greenfield, Jonathan Greenwood, Edward John O’ Brien, Philip Selway, Thomas Yorke • Copyright © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc
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From Canadian Wildlife Federation Photo of the Day; November 28, 2016:
Sunset over Georgian Bay in Killbear Provincial Park, Ontario
Photographer: Megan Lorenz
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I’m gonna toss this question to @woodthrush @cuckoo-ca-choo @awkwardtypo or another proper birder. I am personally a terrible birder, but I’ll offer my answer in any case:
Your life list is what you want it to be. There are some “rules” set out by various birding organizations, but nobody can tell you how to document what you have and haven’t seen! Your life list doesn’t have to be a rigorous and meticulous data sheet, but it also can be if you want it to! You can start it over at any time, or you can keep consecutive year lists in addition to a life list.
The only one rule I subscribe to is this: the life list documents all species you have seen since beginning the act of listing. So, even though I grew up seeing scarlet ibis and roseate spoonbills weekly during my Texas childhood, these species aren’t on my life list because I haven’t seen them since I began birding in 2013.
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Okay, first things first: for your first set of binoculars, my personal opinion is that it’s worth saving up until you have around $200 to spend. Your optical quality is going to go up exponentially until you hit around the $300 mark, and after that your mileage may vary.
Okay, so that was step one: waiting until you have some money squirreled away. Now, time to actually pick your bins! For birding, you want the following:
1. Roof prism optics: this is a modern lens prism construction that allows manufacturers to get more light from the world to your eyes while taking up less space. This is great for birding because you get better optics in a smaller package. Virtually all modern binoculars are roof prism.
2. Magnification: everyone has their own opinion here. I use 8x magnification, because I like to keep the “big picture” visible. However, this means that far away birds are hard to look at! For a beginner, go for the lower end of magnification. Lower magnification is easier to use, because the wobble of your head/hands is less amplified and it’s easier to find your subject in the first place. No use getting those high-powered bins if you can’t even see the bird through ‘em.
3. Optical lens. When you buy binoculars, they’re sold as “NumberxNumber”– for example, 8×42 or 10×52. The first number is the magnification, which we talked about above. The second is the diameter of the optical lens, which is directly affecting how much light gets through to your eye, OR how good the image is. The short answer for picking your optical lens size? Get a nice and beefy one. 42mm is great.
Premium binoculars are dumb. If you’re spending over $1000 on binoculars, they’re a status symbol instead of a tool. And if you’re anything like me, you treat your tools like tools– they get dirty, they get banged around, etc.
When you’re birding, you’re in the woods, the desert, the mountains, the ocean. My binoculars have been through Tanzanian dust storms, a barrage of seabird poo, Amazonian downpours– you get the gist. So I prefer durability to near-imperceptible increases in optical quality.
I personally use a discontinued 8×42 model called the Atlas Intrepid ($309). They’ve been through a lot over 4 years, that’s for sure. But for what it’s worth, I still have people pick them up and marvel at the optical quality! So, being biased, I recommend a similar model to these.
My next purchase will probably be Vortex or Maven, and I’ll probably be moving up a 10x model– but that’s because I do a lot of color band resighting and every bit of magnification helps! You can’t go wrong with a solid set of 8×42 bins, and they’ll get you up close to the wildlife around you. Hope this helps!
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