Spent some time today trying to reduce the ringing on top of this PWM switching of a 200W load. Nice to be using that oscilloscope again.

#Ringing #Tektronix #79 #SystemsThatMatter

While on a wander around #SlievenacloyNatureReserve this morning I got a few shot of this lovely male #Redpoll.
After processing the images at home I noticed he was wearing some jewellery!
I doubt it’s enough to report but interesting nonetheless.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlife #bird #birds #birdphotography #passerine #ring #ringing #birdringing #Slievenacloy #belfast #lisburn #northernireland @RSPB @_bto

The Alabama Landline That Keeps Ringing

https://oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/the-alabama-landline-that-keeps-ringing

#HackerNews #Alabama #Landline #Keeps #Ringing #Story #Technology #Nostalgia #Communication

The oldest Oystercatchers have been discovered in the Wash in East England! 2 birds were found within 1 month of each other earlier this year; the first had been ringed in 1983 as a chick, while the second was ringed in 1982 as an adult - so it's at least 46 years old (!) and potentially even older. Amazing!

https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/news/oldest-oystercatcher-discovered

#ShoreBirds #Birds #Ornithology #Banding #Ringing

I got an #analog #rotary #dialphone #Vorzimmerapparat 38" by "VEB #Fernmeldetechnik Nordhausen", used in a two-#extension-boss-secretary-#pbx, and #modded it to work on public #phone lines (#POTS), while giving the existing user interface elements meaningful uses:

* Faintly glowing LED while on hook and flashing while #ringing
* Buttons: Earth, flash, mute microphone

#Video of the ringing #telephone (with sound) is here: https://faircloud.eu/nextcloud/index.php/s/jDgS9XgBXAY7gjq

#retronetworking #Wählscheibe #Telefon

It's not often you get to use, or hear, the phrase:

They have to ring the doorbell for the Bourbon

#bourbon #doorbell #ringing #yeah

Finally, Blue N:334, a lesser black-backed gull ringed as an adult in 2020 at Ecomare, an animal rescue facility in Ílhavo, Portugal, this is the first sighting since.

#gulls #Banding #ringing #Seabirds

https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/projects/Europe/ecomare-saving-and-protecting-marine-life-in-portugals-ria-de-aveiro-lagoon

Final ring information recieved: Two Herring Gulls with yellow rings N1:W and X8:W both were ringed in 2014 and seen multiple times since, but only ever either at Walney or in the local area, quite a contrast to the Lesser Black-backs who enjoy trips to Spain and North Africa!
#gulls #Seabirds #ringing #banding

...He's not seen again until March 2018, this time at Camel Estuary in Cornwall, and then the following Autumn, in October 2019, he 's at Matosinhos, near Porto in Portugal.

Finally, nearly 18 years after he was ringed here as a chick, we spot him back at South Walney! What a life!

#Gull #Ringing #Seabirds

Black WB3N on the other hand - he was ringed at South Walney on the same day in July 2006. He was then seen the next summer at Stoke Orchard Landfill in Gloucestershire, lastly on 31 May 2007.

Winter 2007 he was seen at Tan Tan Plage in Morocco, and then by Spring 2008 he was back at a Gloucester Landfill. He wasn't seen in 2009, but in winter 2010 (now an adult) was sighted at Lariño, in North West Spain....

#Gull #Seabirds #Ringing

#Norway to #Devon

https://www.birdguides.com/news/norwegian-ringed-yellow-browed-warbler-wintering-in-devon/

#BirdsOfMastodon #wildlife #nature #migration #ringing

if #ringing in the new years means #tinnitus, and you're into #birdwatching, I just learned about a new app called https://hearbirdsagain.org/ which divides the high frequency bird calls to shift the sound down in frequency where hearing response (still) exists.

#Birds #Birbs #birding

Dear Friends from #Heaven, Hell and other #imaginary #dimensions! ​:2671-blobsupersaiyan:​

#Happy #Yule, Gruel and Baby Jesus day! I was out very #early to make sure our local #Magi, Vicars and Christmas #trees and others were out, watching out for Santa Claws and his #magic.

Apart from a couple of #foxes #feasting on #curry from the local #mosques, very little activity. The two nearest Churches were closed to Jesus, #Rudolph and Tiny Tim. Now I can hear the church #bells #ringing for #mourning hypocrisy and #goodwill to Allah/Jehovah/Tetragrammaton etc. Pull the other one its got bells on it.

As a Hypercritter myself, I am burning #sandalwood, looking forward to a #demi-vegan lunch of #Chicken, #Stuffing, #Vegan #veg and Xmas #pudding.

I have watched the news from the Holy Land (#Nepal) and the Dalai Lama is not sending in his #Garudas and #Lamas to placate the #Abrahamic regions ...

I wish you all well on this day of Suicide and #Cheer (whichever you #prefer). #Live, Long and #Prosper 🎉 ❤️ ⭐

Transcript out now! Read about a full life of ringing - ringing a peal on every continent, coaching a youth team to win the National Youth contest, master of the SRCY and of the Bedfordshire Association, Linda Garton has many stories to tell in ‘How to Lead - An Interview with the Inspiring Linda Garton’

Read here: https://funwithbells.com/transcript-linda-garton/
Listen here: https://funwithbells.com/linda-garton/

#FunWithBells #Podcast #NewEpisode #BellRinging #Bells #Ringing #Bedfordshire #Leadership

A past master of the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths, Linda Garton is currently President of the Bedfordshire Association, introducing much-needed change to an organisation that has seen little change since it was founded in 1882 - hear from Linda, about this and more, in our latest podcast episode at https://funwithbells.com/linda-garton/

#FunWithBells #Podcast #NewEpisode #BellRinging #Bells #Ringing #Bedfordshire #Leadership

At least two of the Curlew at Bowling Green Marsh had been ringed (or banded). One from the Netherlands, one from the Exe.

#birdsofmastodon #birds #nature #wildlide #conservation #ringing #banding #devon #exe #exeter

I escaped the house to get outside earlier today; a brief visit to #Exmouth #Devon for a look at the River Exe.

I was watching some #Oystercatcher and I saw that one had rings. I reported the sighting and the Devon & Cornwall Wader Ringing Group ( https://www.dcwrg.org.uk ) were good enough to reply with the bird’s history (see the screenshot) below.
#Birds #Birding #BirdsofMastodon #wildlife #nature #waders #ringing #banding

#ShoreBird #Migration is in full flow here in The #Straits too ! And our guests were among the refuelling masses !

We also found a colour ringed #Dunlin - YELLOW 3WJ ringed (BY09640) as a juvenile on 19th August 2023 at Ynyslas National Nature Reserve near Aberystwyth, Wales, U.K. and is the first sighting since it’s #ringing !

#FlywayBirding