Bath time

Posted on January 25, 2014 by KG

DSCN1915 Lorikeets having a ball in 4oc, under a spray we set up for them this afternoon. Gecko pic, click for full size.

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36 Responses to Bath time

  1. Ronbo says:
    January 25, 2014 at 23:16

    What a beautiful bird :!:

  2. KG says:
    January 26, 2014 at 10:49

    And natural clowns too, Ronbo. We waste hours watching them. :lol:

    • Oswald Bastable says:
      January 26, 2014 at 14:37

      Engaging little buggers. I used to have a tame one that perched on my shoulder, talked and drank rum & coke…

      • KG says:
        January 26, 2014 at 14:59

        :mrgreen: And who taught him that, I wonder?
        I reckon they’d have to be in the top 3 parrots to have as a pet.

  3. KG says:
    January 26, 2014 at 11:01

    ‘A severe thunderstorm warning was issued for Queensland last night warning residents of destructive winds and heavy rain – and for good reason. Parts of the state saw their heaviest rain in over 12 months and winds gusting in excess of 100 km/h.

    The radar was afire last night as severe thunderstorms developed within a broad low pressure trough across the vast expanses of southern QLD. Over 110,000 lightning strikes were recorded across the state overnight (in an 800km radius of Richmond) with these storms also bringing some much needed rain to inland parts.’ http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif

  4. Robertv says:
    January 26, 2014 at 11:01

    http://stevengoddard.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/screenhunter_364-jan-25-17-21.gif

    Talking about Global BS Warminghttp://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_mail.gif

    “I’m a professional infrared astronomer who spent his life trying to observe space through the atmosphere’s back-radiation that the environmental activists claim is caused by CO2 and guess what? In all the bands that are responsible for back radiation in the brightness temperatures (color temperatures) related to earth’s surface temperature (between 9 microns and 13 microns for temps of 220K to 320 K) there is no absorption of radiation by CO2 at all. In all the bands between 9 and 9.5 there is mild absorption by H2O, from 9.5 to 10 microns (300 K) the atmosphere is perfectly clear except around 9.6 is a big ozone band that the warmists never mention for some reason. From 10 to 13 microns there is more absorption by H2O. Starting at 13 we get CO2 absorption but that wavelength corresponds to temperatures below even that of the south pole. Nowhere from 9 to 13 microns do we see appreciable absorption bands of CO2. This means the greenhouse effect is way over 95% caused by water vapor and probably less than 3% from CO2. I would say even ozone is more important due to the 9.6 band, but it’s so high in the atmosphere that it probably serves more to radiate heat into space than for back-radiation to the surface. The whole theory of a CO2 greenhouse effect is wrong yet the ignorant masses in academia have gone to great lengths trying to prove it with one lie and false study after another, mainly because the people pushing the global warming hoax are funded by the government who needs to report what it does to the IPCC to further their “cause”. I’m retired so I don’t need to keep my mouth shut anymore. Kept my mouth shut for 40 years, now I will tell you, not one single IR astronomer gives a rats arse about CO2. Just to let you know how stupid the global warming activists are, I’ve been to the south pole 3 times and even there, where the water vapor is under 0.2 mm precipitable, it’s still the H2O that is the main concern in our field and nobody even talks about CO2 because CO2 doesn’t absorb or radiate in the portion of the spectrum corresponding with earth’s surface temps of 220 to 320 K. Not at all. Therefore, for Earth as a black body radiator IT’S THE WATER VAPOR STUPID and not the CO2.”

    http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/ir-expert-speaks-out-after-40-years-of-silence-its-the-water-vapor-stupid-and-not-the-co2/

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  5. Darin says:
    January 26, 2014 at 11:33

    Cool birds,wish we had some here,all I have are some obnoxious Starlings and some idiot Bluejays. :grin:

    • KG says:
      January 26, 2014 at 11:41

      You mean, just where you are, Darin, or the area in general?

      • Darin says:
        January 26, 2014 at 11:56

        The area in general.We used to get Cardinals,Kings and Geese through every fall and spring,but it looks like thier migratory paths have shifted west.This time of year the yard used to fill up with Cardinals,haven’t seen any in over two years. :sad:

        We do have Bald Eagles back in the area after a long absence though,which is cool.

  7. Oswald Bastable says:
    January 26, 2014 at 16:49

    Lefties picking up the tab is as likely as a Frenchman who lives next to a brothel moving house!

  8. Robertv says:
    January 27, 2014 at 03:58

    In Barcelona they look like this.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk_Parakeet
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