Kilted Life - A Celebration !
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Taken at HuMaNoiD
Thanks to Gizza for the glorious dress
And more thanks to SkeletalMess, Branda Starr and Lenabem-Anna for their textures
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The stripes, the colour, it has a real look of Tartan - the single tree gives us something to like in the top half of the image
Tartan Back is an old Scottish folk name for Brambling and I thought that this view, in this plumage is probably the most tartan-like. Brambling seems like an odd name as it is not associated with brambles. The name has been around for more than 500 years and is almost certainly a corruption of Brandling, meaning brindled, which is a better description of the bird's plumage during winter than tartan. It's scientific name Fringilla montifringilla translates as Finch/Mountain Finch, which again is not especially apt as I have seen them breeding abundantly on the lowland forested bogs of Finland. We don't really know how many Bramblings overwinter in Britain but we do know that numbers fluctuate widely from year to year depending on breeding success. When they arrive in Britain they rapidly move to Beechwoods as they are highly dependent on beech mast. In good Brambling years huge flocks can build up where there are lots of beech masts, but ringing has shown there is little site faithfulness between years. Which explains why some years I see lots of Bramblings locally, but other winters (like this one) I see very few. This is a male, by the way, identified by his black head, face and back. After their autumn moult the black feathers have pale tips but these usually wear off by spring leaving them looking dapper and black.
I recently realized that I had 3 similar piece of tartan-style apparel -- cap, mask and shirt. I had Sue take the phone photo that you see in the Comment section.
When Danica dropped by for Mother's Day, I saw that she was wearing a similar shirt, so I gave her my caop for a quick photo.
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Craft swap with gypsylou at Craftster.org. I made her some clothes for her Taeyangs, and a little fimo Lomo camera for fun.
The famous tessellated glass roof that spans the British Museum's Great Court. There's also a non-schmocussed version from a year ago.
Dedicated with thanks to my Belgian friend who also posted a most beautiful tartan shot recently.
There's more from my trip to the British Museum here if you're interested.
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