Glee's feathers are coming along nicely. 🐦
To get a decent photo of quail chick Glee, now 7 days old, I had to grab her then hold the squirmer in one hand while snapping shots with the other.
I love the ‘not amused’ look in the last photo.
Photos: yellow quail chick starting to show white feathers. 🐦
Hard to believe it’s taken this long for women to be acknowledged like this:
shearer Emily Welch won the first Golden Shears event for women yesterday … at the 59th championships … The 39-year-old… holds the women’s world record of 648 lambs in nine hours.
Ironic really, when you’re at a dead stop in the now usual congestion. 90 minutes to reach Otaki. Normally a 15 minute drive. The sign says: Horowhenua are you moving here.
I was about to hammer in stakes to support frost cloth when I spotted this large Paper Wasp nest only a few centimetres away. Fly spray dealt to them quite quickly.
This is my friend Willow whose people are dealing with a family emergency today. After a morning on her own, I’m allowed to take her for a walk then home with me. After her favourite dog treat though. 😎 🐶
What a splendid morning at the beach!
I think someone mentioned the other day that there aren't enough cat photos round here? Aphra. 😀 🐈
This is a good start: Auckland Council will be lobbying the government to stop the sale of private fireworks.
Last year Fire and Emergency received more than 100 firework-related calls on Guy Fawkes day, the highest number since 2012.
Now other Councils should join in.
Is it possible to have too many photos of a baby quail? Here's baby Glee at 3 days. 🐦
I’d forgotten how big a pile 15 cubic metres of mulch makes. Most went down by the gate, a (too) small portion arrived at the top of the drive, by the house. Now I have a lot of work ahead of me.
Pleased to see baby Quail, Glee, up and about this morning, strolling through the chick food. This is Day Three.
Last night wasn’t so cold and I moved the run to fresh grass and with a deep pile of fresh straw in their house. 🐦
Quail chick Glee, 2 days old, is thriving. 🐦
Brrrr: that's a chilly summer morning: 3.4C.
Little Glee is an excellent quail chick. She’s 1 day old and looking strong and healthy. Her wonderful mother, Felicia, is looking after her carefully. Glee is yellow now so will grow up to be white.
One stripy chick hatched but died without getting fully free of the egg. 😒 🐦
Periodic Videos comes up trumps again: Diamonds Uncut
The Professor looks at uncut diamonds of all shapes and sizes.
10 minute video showing diamonds being sorted by hand in Moscow. Also fluorescence caused by nitrogen, shapes, and more.
Quail mystery solved. Two eggs from 06 February have hatched. The two from 05 February are still there, and someone had laid a new egg! I doubt the two from the 5th will hatch now.
Little quail chick Glee is up and about and pecking for food. Three of the original 4 eggs remain. So where did this wee dead chick come from? Was Glee a twin? Could twins even be different colours?
I was investigating what looked like a hard boiled quail egg beside mother Felicia when she moved. Welcome to the world baby quail Glee! 🐦
Ahhh, starting the day with my favourite morning tea, China Snowbuds
quality white tea buds from the Fujian province in China. The taste is dry and sweet, a treat for the tea connoisseur and lovers of white tea.