Tag: Caspian Gulls

Cormorants and Calendars

A brief post showcasing some cormorants from earlier today and announcing my intention to produce a calendar.

INTRODUCTION

This post combines showing some new pictures with being the official announcement that I shall be repeating last year’s experiment of producing calendars as Christmas presents.

CORMORANTS

I decided once I had completed my online NAS branch officer’s training this morning that I would go for a walk, and I was delighted to see the structure I call ‘Cormorant Platform’ was very busy…

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The first of the cormorant images – this one shows precisely why I call it ‘Cormorant Platform – notwithstanding the three Caspian gulls also on there, it is the cormorants (five on this occasion) who stand out.

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Just before leaving the river I got this picture of a cormorant in flight.
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A couple of moorhens to finish with…

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CALENDARS

The calendars will be large, month to page, each month decorated with a picture. Learning from last year I will be aiming to have no borders, and certainly no patterned borders, just pictures taking up the whole available space. This is very much a work in progress, but here are the pictures I have so far picked out as being good enough (feel free to add your own suggestions of pictures you particularly enjoyed when I first posted them in the comments sections, although remember that I am limited to 13 pictures (front cover plus 12 months):

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This picture showing the two Inlandsbanan trains together is earmarked for the front cover
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I will use one of these two ducking pictures

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Likewise, I will use one these two butterfly pictures.

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This photo, from the Stockholm Archipelago, will be July’s

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This picture was actually taken in January.
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This picture might get the nod for August
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This is nailed on for April, since it was in that month that the Positive Autism Awareness Conference was held at this establishment.
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This is provisionally September’s picture.