Bob Farley/f8Photo
The cardinal chicks fledged Wednesday afternoon. One minute they were perched on the nest the next they were in the trees and bushes. The young birds, if the survive the next few days, will be flying but still relying on their parents for food. Cardinals usually raise two sets of the chicks each year.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Bob Farley, Cardinal chicks, cardinals, fledgling, Roebuck Springs
Eyebeam 2008 at the 25th annual ONB Magic City Art Connection. acnatta/Flickr
We’re pretty sure that you’ve checked out all that we’ve written about this year’s Magic City Art Connection in Linn Park through Sunday.
But we figured you’d want to check out this scene courtesy of the Imagination Festival’s Eyebeam area, sponsored by Giattina Aycock.
Maybe we’ll see you out there today…
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Tagged 2008, AL, Alabama, architecture, Birmingham, children, Eyebeam, Magic City Art Connection, photo
Bob Farley/f8Photo
A female cardinal feeds her chicks in a nest built in an unused gas lamp in the backyard of a Roebuck Springs house on Birmingham’s east side. The chicks hatched about three days ago, a normal incubation period is 12 to 13 days, and if all goes well they will fledge the nest in the next week. The standard time from hatching to fledging is about 9 days or so.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, birds, Birmingham, cardinal, fledge, photos, Random Shots, Roebuck Springs
Bob Farley/f8Photo
Artist Laura Lockhart will show her work for a fifth year at this weekend’s Magic City Art Connection. Her art is inspired by her travels – she uses the photos she takes on her trips abroad and combines the prints with painting. These works are created on masonite and involve an intricate process layering photographs, wax and acrylic. In some cases, sand, grass or seaweed is also used to create unusual textures.
She was inspired to create her series of travel imagery by a quote from Mark Twain:
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
Check out Charles’ In Love With post about the Connection over on Timetable.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, artist, Birmingham, Laura Lockhart, Magic City Art Connection, photographs, Random Shots
Bob Farley/f8Photo
Birmingham News photographer Tamika Moore just got back from the 65th annual Pictures of the Year International (POYi) awards where she accepted a first place award for her photography column In Focus. Click here to see examples of her work.
Moore is seen here photographing this week’s Earth Day parade in downtown Birmingham. POYi began as a photographic contest in the spring of 1944 in Columbia, Missouri, when the Missouri School of Journalism sponsored its “First Annual Fifty-Print Exhibition” contest. Its stated purpose was, “to pay tribute to those press photographers and newspapers which, despite tremendous war-time difficulties, are doing a splendid job; to provide an opportunity for photographers of the nation to meet in open competition; and to compile and preserve… a collection of the best in current, home-front press pictures.”
The contest has tens of thousands of entries each year and has expanded to dozens of categories, including magazine photography.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham News, photograph, Pictures of the Year International, POYi, Random Shots, Tamika Moore
Arnold Rutkis accompanies Birmingham City Councilors Miriam Witherspoon and Valerie Abbott through the Seven Springs Ecoscape shortly after the end of its ribbon cutting ceremony. André Natta/Flickr
We figured we’d save this story for today as a way to warm up. The Seven Springs Ecoscape was officially dedicated yesterday during a mid-afternoon ceremony that included attendance by Birmingham City Councilors Miriam Witherspoon (it is located in her district) and Valerie Abbott.
Posted in 35211, environmental, Random Shots
Tagged 35211, AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Ecoscape, information, photo, Seven Springs, Southern Environmental Center
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Workers remove old cobblestones along Powell Avenue in preparations for the construction of the Railroad Reservation Park. The park is scheduled to take about a year to complete. The stones will be stored and used in the park. The park is one of three that will be focused on during Thursday afternoon’s annual meeting of the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham being held at B&A Warehouse (directly across the street from the bulldozer activity downtown). There will also be an announcement about the foundation’s latest initiative.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, cobblestones, Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, excavation, image, photo, Railroad Reservation Park, removal, work
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