User talk:Thermos

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Welcome!

Hello, Thermos, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Please make sure you follow the Nomination procedure while nominating a feature pic candidate, thanks for your contributions. --vineeth 11:30, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for nominating your picture! I have changed the nomination so it is now in the required format. If you have any questions about the nomination procedures, please feel free to ask me. Raven4x4x 11:57, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you both, Vineeth and Raven for your welcome and thank you Raven for fixing my nomination. To be honest, although a long time reader of Wikipedia, as a contributor I am a total newbie and still learning the ropes. The nomination procedure was a bit overwhelming, but I hope that in due time I learn... --Thermos 12:27, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gulls (and geese!)

Hi Thermos - Image:GullWasteFlight.jpg is a juvenile (recently fledged) Larus ridibundus (Black-headed Gull); note the narrow, well-defined black band at the tip of the tail and long narrow white "windows" on the outer primary feathers. Image:Agullonstone.jpg is, as you thought, Larus canus (Common Gull), also a newly-fledged juvenile. Took a look at your other pics on the way over to your talk page - Image:LarusRidibundusFlight-01.jpg has an odd wing position, because it has started the post-breeding moult and has shed the innermost primary feathers, leaving the gap half-way along the wing. Also Image:BrantaCanadensisLawn.jpg is Branta leucopsis (Barnacle Goose), not B. canadensis. Very nice pics, by the way! - MPF 08:26, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bird idents

Hi Thermos - yes, it is Accipiter nisus, in the second two photos together with Corvus cornix. Lots of goose passage here too today, saw about 3000 Anser brachyrhynchus, 2000 Branta bernicla and 8 Branta leucopsis. But much more exciting, an out-of-range Coracias garrulus (too distant for photos, unfortunately). - MPF 18:14, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Parthenon

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Parthenon from south.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 05:44, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

POTD

Hi Thermos,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Parthenon from south.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 11, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-03-11. howcheng {chat} 01:31, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for heads up. Nice to know. --Thermos (talk) 04:59, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wonderful photos

To Thermos this photographer's barnstar is awarded for the great images that you have added to Wikipedia. Today's featured photo, "Image:Parthenon from south.jpg", was especially beautiful. --Raj Krishnamurthy (talk) 18:34, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you wery much... This was a nice surprise to see after my internet connection was down over a week. --Thermos (talk) 05:07, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PicoidesMinorBack.jpg

Heloo

Pls species this tree.--Beentree (talk) 22:18, 23 May 2008 (UTC)