Månskenslycka

Här är min lilla "familj" och inte kan de blir större(Tack Petra, det skall stå fler) om det inte blir som i filmen " Junior " med Arnold Schwarzenegger (1994).

Inspiration och Kreativitet - tema familj.

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The Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Passer montanus, is a passerine bird in the sparrow family with a rich chestnut crown and nape, and a black patch on each pure white cheek. The sexes are similarly plumaged, and young birds are a duller version of the adult. This sparrow breeds over most of temperate Eurasia and Southeast Asia, where it is known as the Tree Sparrow, and it has been introduced elsewhere including the United States, where it is known as the Eurasian Tree Sparrow or German Sparrow to differentiate it from the native unrelated American Tree Sparrow.

Pairs may breed in isolation or in loose colonies and will readily use nest boxes. In a Spanish study, boxes made from a mixture of wood and concrete (woodcrete) had a much higher occupancy rate than wooden boxes (76.5% versus 33.5%), and birds nesting in woodcrete sites had earlier clutches, a shorter incubation period and more breeding attempts per season. Clutch size and chick condition did not differ between nest box types, but reproductive success was higher in woodcrete, perhaps because the synthetic nests were 1.5 °C warmer than their wooden counterparts.

The immune response of Tree Sparrows is less robust than that of the House Sparrow and has been proposed as a factor in the greater invasive potential of the latter.The House Sparrows and Tree Sparrow are the most frequent victims of roadkill on the roads of Central, Eastern and Southern Europe.[68] The maximum recorded age is 13.1 years but three years is a typical lifespan.

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Kanada gäss

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Kanadagås Branta canadensis
Den första inplanteringen av kanadagås i norra Europa skedde i Storbritannien till James II, kungen av Englands samling av vattenfåglar i St. James Park i London under 1600-talet.
I Sverige inplanterades kanadagås, som bytesdjur, på initiativ av Bengt Berg (Inte släkt med mig!) omkring 1930 i Blekinge. Därifrån har den spridits sig till stora delar av Sverige, Norge, Finland och Danmark och sedan 1960-talet har den nordeuropeiska populationen haft en i det närmaste lavinartad expansion. Exempelvis häckade det första kanadagåsparet i Estland 1996.

Till skillnad från sina släktingar i Nordamerika har den nordeuropeiska populationen inte utvecklat någon specifik flyttrutt utan drar sig söderut på vad som verkar ett mer slumpartat vis. Många övervintrar i trakterna kring Danmark, Nederländerna, Polen. Vissa drar sig ner till Spanien och Italien och man har haft övervintrande kanadagås på Azorerna. På nordliga platser, där vattnet på konstgjord väg hålls öppet vintertid, är det vanligt att kanadagåsen övervintrar.
Många nordeuropeiska kanadagäss är halvtama och håller till i parker och dammar nära människor.
Kanadagåsen har också introducerats till Nya Zeeland och till några delar av Kina.

Kanadagåsen anses i många av de områden där den är introducerad vara ett skadedjur. Bland annat för att den äter upp växter och lämnar stora mängder spillning efter sig. Den anses också ha en negativ inverkan på populationer av andra gäss.

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By the early 20th century, over-hunting and loss of habitat in the late 1800s and early 1900s had resulted in a serious decline in the numbers of this bird in its native range. The Giant Canada Goose subspecies was believed to be extinct in the 1950s until, in 1962, a small flock was discovered wintering in Rochester, Minnesota, by Harold Hanson of the Illinois Natural History Survey. With improved game laws and habitat recreation and preservation programs, their populations have recovered in most of their range, although some local populations, especially of the subspecies occidentalis, may still be declining.

In recent years, Canada Geese populations in some areas have grown substantially, so much so that many consider them pests (for their droppings, the bacteria in their droppings, noise and confrontational behavior). This problem is partially due to the removal of natural predators and an abundance of safe, man-made bodies of water (such as on golf courses, public parks and beaches, and in planned communities).

Canada Geese have reached northern Europe naturally, as has been proved by ringing recoveries - My photo is taklen a week ago in the south of Sweden close to the town Helsingborg.



Since 1999, The United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services agency has been engaged in lethal culls of Canada Geese primarily in urban or densely populated areas. The agency responds to municipalities or private land owners, such as golf courses, who find the geese obtrusive or object to their waste.[8] Addling goose eggs and destroying nests are promoted as humane population control methods.

A collision with a flock of migratory Canada Geese resulted in US Airways Flight 1549 suffering a total power loss after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport, New York City, New York on 15 January 2009. The pilot brought the plane to an emergency 'splash'-landing in the Hudson River causing only minor injuries to the 155 passengers and crew.

Geese have a tendency to defend against humans when they feel themselves or their goslings to be threatened. First the geese will stand erect, spread their wings and produce a hissing sound. Next, the geese will charge. They may then bite or attack with their wings.

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Större hackspett. The Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major

It is an inhabitant of woodlands and parks, depending for food and nesting sites upon old trees. Its actions are jerky, and it hops rather than climbs, leaping forward with one foot just in advance of the other. When a space is crossed the flight is easy and undulating.
The food mainly consists of insects and grubs but also seeds, fruit, scraps, eggs, chicks and small rodents. The woodpecker usually alights on the trunk, working upwards, from side to side, but sometimes will perch in passerine style, when it sits well upright. During the ascent it taps the bark, breaking off fragments, but often extracts its prey from crevices with the tip of its sticky tongue. Beechmast, acorns, nuts and berries are eaten when animal food is scarce.

The creamy-white eggs, five to seven in number, are laid in the second half of May. The young cluster at the mouth of the hole and keep a continuous chatter when the parents are feeding them, but when alarmed slip back into the hole. The nest hole is rarely used again, but not infrequently other holes are bored in the same tree.

Födan består av skalbaggar, myror, bladlöss och andra insekter, samt bär som till exempel blåbär och lingon. Den större hackspetten uppsöker gärna fågelborden under vintern.

Den lever främst i löv- och blandskog, ibland även barrskog, från Skåne till Lappland. Längst i norr är den mindre vanlig eller sällsynt.
Och jag fick den på bild igår vid ett fågelbord och jag bor i Halland.

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Bergfink, The Brambling, Fringilla montifringilla

Bramblings mostly eat seeds, but unlike most finches, their young are fed largely on insects.
It builds its nest in a tree fork, and decorates the exterior with moss or lichen to make it less conspicuous. It lays 4-9 eggs.
This species is almost entirely migratory. In Europe, it forms large flocks in the winter, sometimes with thousands or even millions of birds in a single flock. Such large gatherings occur especially if beech mast is abundant. Bramblings do not require beech mast in the winter, but winter flocks of Bramblings will move until they find it. This may be an adaptation to avoid competition with the Chaffinch

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Bergfinken liknar bofinken och skiljer sig från den främst genom sin vita bakrygg. Hannen har (på sommaren) huvudet, bakhalsen och främre delen av ryggen svarta, strupen, bröstet och skulderfjädrarna rostgula; de övriga undre kroppsdelarna vitaktiga. Honan har huvudet och nacken ovan askgrå, strupen och bröstet rostgula med grå anstrykning. De övriga undre kroppsdelarna är ljusgrå. Båda könen blir ungefär 16 cm långa och väger ungefär 25 gram.
Dess sång är ganska monoton och för människan inte så njutbar som bofinkens. Man kan jänföra sången med grönfinkens enstaviga "bräkande", men med mer kraft och schwung i det. Ornitologen Erik Rosenberg såg det som en liten cirkelsåg i verksamhet.
Under vår-och höststräcket kan man se stora flockar med bergfinkar som rör sig på ett märkligt rullande sätt över stubbåkrar och fält. Rosenberg kallade det här för "bergfinkstraktorn", beroende på att sista ledet då och då flyger upp och tar täten.

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With help from Wikipedia!

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The Blue Tit, Cyanistes caeruleus, is a 10.5 to 12 cm (4.2 to 4.8 inches,) long passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout temperate and subarctic Europe and western Asia in deciduous or mixed woodlands. It is a resident bird, i.e., most birds do not migrate

Blue and Great Tits form mixed winter flocks, and the former are perhaps the better gymnasts in the slender twigs. A Blue Tit will often ascend a trunk in short jerky hops, imitating a Treecreeper. As a rule the bird roosts in ivy or evergreens, but in hard weather will shelter in a hole. Blue tits are very agile and can hang from almost anywhere.
The Blue Tit has an average life expectancy of 1.5 years.

Diet
The Blue Tit is a valuable destroyer of pests, though it has not an entirely clean sheet as a beneficial species. It is fond of young buds of various trees, and may pull them to bits in the hope of finding insects. No species, however, destroys more coccids and aphids, the worst foes of many plants. It takes leaf miner grubs and green tortrix moths (Tortricidae). Seeds are eaten, as with all this family.

Learning
An interesting example of culturally transmitted learning in birds was the phenomenon dating from the 1960s of Blue Tits teaching one another how to open traditional British Milk bottles with foil tops, to get at the cream underneath. This behaviour has declined recently because of the trend toward buying low-fat (skimmed) milk, and the replacement of doorstep delivery by supermarket purchases of milk.

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Ps. Do you know what this is?

Frozen apple for dinner

Use your commonsense
let them be like
transparent wings,
Let them take you wherever
you want to fly.

Maybe to get a frozen apple?
One singel impression Wings

A friend of mine almost as a pet, that will comeback and comeback and have some of the frozen apple.
Pet Pride

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Birds on a row

PhotoHunt nr 188 - Bird (s)
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