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Gob
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From Wikipedia - "A wedgie occurs when a person's underwear or other garments are wedged between the buttocks. While a wedgie can be created naturally, the term is usually associated with a prank or as a form of bullying. When a person is on the receiving end of a wedgie, his or her underwear is forcibly pulled up by a second person."

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(Just for Joe ;) )

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Here is a photographic image of a little eagle (Hieraaetus morphnoides), which I had cause to capture while on my early morning perambulation with my trusty companion dogs, just this morning. I think it quite admirable. However, due to a mistaken taxonomy, I named this thread after the wedgetail eagle (Aquila audax,) which is colloquially known hereabouts as a "wedgie." Oh how I did chuckle to find my error!
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The Hen
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Those are lovely shots.

:)
Bah!

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What time do you walk in the morning? Do you have to drive a distance to the area where you access all this lovely nature, or is it right from your front door? Just curious.
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Mornings I get out for a walk starting between 6.30 am and 8.30 am depending on my shifts. The place that these shots were taken, Mt Painter, is behind our house, two minutes walk and I'm there. There are 5 other nature parks, each with 3-5 major walks on them, within 10 minutes drive, so I vary my walks between these.

Here's some shots of Mt Painter.

Looking at painter from the Pinnacle nature reserve.
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View from the top.
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...just don't call him a naturalist!

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How wonderful to have such beautiful places so close to home!

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It's one of the, if not THE, big major plus of Canberra, all of the advantages of a major city, but you are never more than five minutes from a nature reserve or ten from getting out into the open country.
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Gob wrote:THE, big major plus of Canberra... you are never more than five minutes... from getting out...
LMAO - Couldn't resist a little selective editing...

*ducks and runs*

:lol:
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?

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You arse! :D
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Black Shouldered Kite, taken on this morning's dog perambulate.
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and from today's stroll, a dragonfly...

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I love that dragonfly.
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I got lucky again this morning, despite it being rather inclement a black shouldered kite posed for me for five mins. Not sure if it's the same bird, I think not, this looks like a female, the other (image above) looks male. (Though I may be totally and utterly wrong on this.)

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Yup, studying nature first hand, shouldn't be considered the work of a naturalist.

But nice nature pics. Too bad it's not science.

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What are you wittering about Lo?

And why?
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Withering? ...really? I'm agreeing with Gob: that watching nature and learning from it outside of a classroom is stupid and not naturalism, right?

Should I not agree with him, is that not allowed either, in this no-rules environment?

Okay, I'll henceforth believe you can learn from nature. Done.

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A naturalist is someone who has studied the natural sciences (botany, zoology, biology, ecology, etc.). If all it took to be considered a naturalist was wandering around outside pointing and saying "Tree pretty", then we'd all be naturalists.
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