General Interest

[NancyM]

unp, did you notice there is now a "youtube" button to make it easy to add videos from YouTube?

I see that you have added one from another site, using the flash buttons.... I have not been able to make this work (yet) with videos from Flickr

[unp]

At Youtube, the 'embed' string for some videos can read - "Embedding disabled by request". Such videos won't embed irrespective of whether the [youtube] or [flash] button is used.

At Vimeo, the 'embed' button is present in some videos and absent in others.

Flickr's help says:

"There’s a new button in the toolbar above a video on its main page called “embed”... You can choose a size and whether or not to include the owner’s name and the title of the video as an introduction to the video itself. Based on your choices, a little snippet of code will be generated for you that you can cut and paste, and insert into another web page, or blog post.
"You should also know that all the same sharing permissions exist for video that exist for photos."

In several random videos I watched at Flickr the 'embed' button was nowhere to be seen. Either the embedding function is reserved for members only or has been disabled for all those videos (might be a default setting).

Also, a situation is possible as described in a review of another video hosting site - "But: Video didn't embed properly in other pages" - but this doesn't seem to be the case.

[NancyM]

In several random videos I watched at Flickr the 'embed' button was nowhere to be seen. Either the embedding function is reserved for members only or has been disabled for all those videos (might be a default setting).

thanks, unp. I was trying to insert one of my own videos ... the embed button was there, but when I plugged the data in here, I got a box that said "video no longer available."

If you have time, perhaps you could give it a try?

Tried again with another of my videos on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25868727@N ... 201422264/




maybe I am not picking up the correct data? I used the bit after "data =" from this string:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="639" height="366" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"> <param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=6a7d69872c&photo_id=3428449613"></param> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewar ... 7"></param> <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=6a7d69872c&photo_id=3428449613" height="366" width="639"></embed></object>

[unp]

I've inserted this portion of the string:
http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"> <param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=6a7d69872c&photo_id=3428449613
but can't explain why or how it works.

[NancyM]

UNP!

[unp]

Bociany

[alice44]

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sigh ...

an article and a video, focusing on a hummingbird with an amazing tail, the old fashioned way
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmen ... d-47081202

[alice44]

http://www.jpgmag.com/photos/231605

Just a rather cute picture of urban birds.

[macdoum]

Someone sent me this link (I don't know the date)

http://www.sjwildlifecare.org/deer_get_ ... n_life.htm

There are loads of stories there...

[Jo UK]

LK Main Page has an article about whooper and TUNDRA swans.
http://www.looduskalender.ee/en/node/

I have not met tundra swans before. To be honest, I can't see the difference between the two, on the photo!
Can anyone else enlighten me, please?

Umm - Bewick's swan?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra_Swan

[Liis]

LK Main Page has an article about whooper and TUNDRA swans.
http://www.looduskalender.ee/en/node/

I have not met tundra swans before. To be honest, I can't see the difference between the two, on the photo!
Can anyone else enlighten me, please?

Umm - Bewick's swan?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra_Swan

You have met Bewick's swan?
To be honest, too, I usually cheat and use the Knutas Multilingual Birdsearch Engine for bird names, and don't do any more checking. So Väikeluik, the Estonian name for it, was tundra swan.
Estonian Ornithological Society has Harilik väikeluik (Common ...) as Bewick's swan, Väikeluik (...) as Tundra swan, and Ameerika väikeluik (American ...) as Whistling swan
Ummm, indeed, especially after reading the Wikipedia article.
The ones to the left in the photo might just be a bit smaller?

[Jo UK]

Yes, I thought they are smaller, too, when I looked again!

[Liis]

Seems that the black stork camera discussion might well move here - ants in the black stork cam, nettles and mushrooms on the nest ... Ecology & biodiversity
Thanks, Urmas, for update!
But, dear gardener, some of us were actually looking forward to follow the adventures of the nest nettle next season ...

[alice44]

In the pictures I found the Tundra Swan has much less yellow on its beak. I do not usually even think about it because we get flocks of Tundra Swans about new years (except maybe in a very mild winter -- so that is the only kind I see)
Tundra
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Tund ... ifehistory

Whooper
http://www.arkive.org/whooper-swan/cygnus-cygnus/

I got out my bird book and did some reading. We do (Western Oregon) occasionally, very rarely -- maybe -- have Trumpeter Swans --- mainly we have Tundra Swans.

The North American Tundra Swans have very little yellow on the beak -- Eurasian Tundra Swans have more yellow, but at maximum about 1/2 as much yellow as a Whooper Swan. The yellow on the bill of a Whooper should come to a point at the bottom while the lowest point of yellow on Tundra Swan's is more likely to be rounded and closer to the eye. -- Unless I saw two birds side by side up close I would be most unsure
Whooper Swans are not something I will need to worry about until I come for a visit so I can relax.

When I see swans they are little spots in the middle of some farmer's field. I am lucky to see a bill let alone details on the bill.

Via Arkive so likely a Eurasian Tundra Swan
http://www.arkive.org/bewicks-swan/cygn ... -bewickii/
I think if you compare the two Arkive Swan images you can see the difference in the shape of the yellow. (I still think I would have trouble in the field.)

[alice44]

The mushroom in the BS nest really looks like "food"

[Jo UK]

Animal pictures of the week.
Image 30 is interesting, but do your best to avoid image 31. ( )

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthp ... -2009.html

[HelenD]

Animal pictures of the week.
Image 30 is interesting, but do your best to avoid image 31. ( )

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthp ... -2009.html

Yes, I don't know what was more disturbing - the creature in image 31 or the moustache!!

[Jo UK]

Another newspaper piece.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... tures.html


There is a wonderful typo under the picture - apparently the plural form of albatross is "albatrossesseses" - I'm not sure hot to stop spelling it!
The information gained by attaching still cams to four birds is great.

[macdoum]

Animal pictures of the week.
Image 30 is interesting, but do your best to avoid image 31. ( )

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthp ... -2009.html

Great images,Jo. Love the polar bear-pal for Knut.
S'thing about "close your eyes and think of the King".

[alice44]

Those bears aren't English!