My sassy new steller's jay and nasturtiums by Kel Tait!
This bold bird is frequently found scavenging in campgrounds and picnic areas in the North American West.
Cyanocitta stelleri: A North American corvid bird, common in the Northwest’s coniferous mountain and coastal forests.
Stellar Jay
Steller's Jay
Stellar’s Jay
For several years a Steller’s Jay nest has held chicks. The adults built the nest above a light fixture on the outside of our house in Anchor Bay. The nesting female was so quiet, you hardly …
Description The Conqueror-class guided missile cruiser is a class of large cruisers designed as multi-mission stealth ships. The class features a number of automated systems and as a result is less expensive to operate than comparable warships. The wave-piercing tumblehome hull form reduces the radar cross-section (RCS) by returning much less energy than a conventional flare hull form. Originally 32 ships were planned to replace the entire fleet of aging Renown-class missile cruisers, however due to costs overrunning the estimates, the quantity was reduced to 6 in favor of instead retrofitting the current Renown-class Displacement: 17,500 t Length: Waterline: 206.3m Overall: 216.6m Beam: 27.2m Draft: 6.7m Installed Power: 2 × gas turbines 70.8 MW (95,000 hp) 2 × turbine generators 7.6 MW (10,200 hp) Propulsion: 3 × Azimuth thruster kort nozzles driven by electric motors 117 MW (157,500 shp) Speed: In excess of 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph) Range: In excess of 7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h) Compliment: ~140 Armaments: 168 × VLS cells 36 × Harpoon anti-ship missiles 1 × 155 mm (6.1'')/62 caliber Advanced Naval Gun 5 × 35mm CIWS 1 × 20mm CIWS 8 × 18'' torpedo tubes Based on the American Zumwalt-class, with the forward pangola superstructure based on the Russian Lider-class and the rear structure on the British Type 45. Since it has such a diverse background, I may find difficulty making more distinct modern ships for the other nations. oh well
cypress mountain, west vancouver, bc.
Stellar jay
Stellar's Jay
Stellars Jay
Stellar Jays live in the pine forests in Southern California's mountains. Oregon Dark Eyed Juncos are local birds and are related to sparrows. Burrowing Owls are "a species of special concern," in Southern California, where much of their natural habitat has been destroyed by development. Petitions are being submitted to the state to change their…
Steller Jay in Washington
"Quasimodo" is one bad-ass Jay. He's louder, nastier and pushier than the others - clearly the survival tactic of a deformed bird. In December, he arrived with a much longer lower beak. He was in rough shape with skewed feathers, stressed from fighting to survive with a beak that prevented him from eating properly. Happily, the protruding lower part somehow broke off. Although his beak function is still wrong, he's able to eat more normally. We help by laying out loads of cracked peanuts for him. It's unclear whether disease or genetic accident are factors, but pollution appears to be the culprit. An increasing number of deformed hawks, Jays, chickadees and eagles are being seen - 30 different species of Alaska birds have been found with huge curved beaks up to 3X usual size. Often the beak is so long that the bird can't feed or preen effectively and dies. The first deformed beaks appeared in chickadees near Anchorage in the 1990s, the latest are crows in s/w Alaska. alaska.usgs.gov/science/biology/landbirds/beak_deformity/... Alaska Science Center blames these deformities on organochloride pollutants; compounds such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dioxins known to damage bird DNA — persistent pollutants from waste incinerators. Although production of PCBs has been banned since the 1970s, their effects are still felt, and many are still used in Asia. This is very bad news, as vast amounts of unchecked Asian pollutants drift north and around the globe ... another Silent Spring of sorts ? (www.nrdc.org/health/pesticides/hcarson.asp) fFacebook | Twitter | Getty Images site
A common North American corvid bird of the Northwest’s coniferous forests.
