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The Rainbow Bee-eater is found throughout mainland Australia, as well as eastern Indonesia, New Guinea and, rarely, the Solomon Islands. In Australia, it is widespread, except in desert areas, and breeds throughout most of its range, although southern birds move north to over winter. A rainbow bee-eater regurgitates a pellet of indigestible parts of its prey, like insect wings and exoskeletons, to expel them from its body. This is a normal and healthy process, not a sign of sickness. The pellets are often collected by scientists to analyze the bird's diet and monitor local insect populations. Rainbow bee-eater pellet diagnostics were introduced to the NBPSP program in 2022, following its success in detecting Asian honey bees during the National Varroa Mite Eradication Program (NVMEP) in Queensland, which concluded in 2019. This technique is now employed in both Queensland and the Northern Territory to help mitigate the risk of Asian honey bee incursions. During 2023 the QLD Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (QDAF) and the NT Department of Industry Tourism and Trade (NT DITT), respectively collected 30 and 18 rainbow bee-eater pellet samples, at ports as part of the NBPSP and no exotic bees were detected. “Over five years we collected 225,000 bird pellets which contained 1.6 million bee wings, of which 79 were identified as Asian honey bee wings,” Roger said. “Once Asian honey bee wings have been identified, other surveillance methods are used to find the nest. The birds definitely helped us to achieve eradication.”

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Thanks, there were actually 3 different insects on this day as he was feeding chicks in a nest carefully hidden from my view. The insect was almost as big as the bird. With over 160 images, I like the timelapse concept as when played for longer, they seem to merge more easily. Maybe one day I will make a long-play version and reduce the number of images greatly.

Beautiful bird. Nice captures. Thanks for the info re the bird. I've been to Australia twice and seen them frequently, never got a decent shot of one because they never settle I like the freeze frames - would prefer them to be a bit longer. While I like time-lapse productions, I would prefer this one to be a video (just a personal preference) Keep up the good work!!

Posted the IR one in the Slideshows Folder yesterday. Also used it on the Male Superb Fairy Wren with some edits/changes.

Happy Wrensday The Superb Fairy-wren is found in open eucalypt woodland forests of south-eastern Australia. It inhabits dense understorey, and is usually seen in pairs or small groups. Also adapted to urban parks and gardens, and exotic weeds such as lantana. The breeding plumage of the male Superb Fairy-wren is unmistakable – a light blue cap, ear tufts, and cheeks; a black eye-stripe; dark blue-black throat; brown wings and white breast and belly. Beak of the adult male is black and legs are brown to dark brown. The adult female is mostly brown, with white throat, breast and belly. The beak is orange-red, with a similarly coloured eye-stripe; the tail is brown with a faint pale blue-grey tinge. The female has the same plumage year-round. The non-breeding adult male looks similar to the adult female, except that the male has a black beak, and navy-blue tail – the Superb Fairy-wren is the only species of fairy-wren where the non-breeding male has a navy blue tail. All other fairy-wren non-breeding males have much paler tail colouration. The species forages mostly on the ground, more so than other species of fairy-wren; also forages in low canopy areas of shrubs and trees. Eats mainly insects, including grasshoppers, ants, larvae, small seeds and fruits. Hops over ground and in shrubs and pounces on food.

That should be interesting. Thanks, Tom

Here is a link to a quick AV with about 700 images using the Timelapse Style made by tom95521. Although not a time-lapse sequence, it is a series of images taken at our recent Agricultural Show. For something different, I captured them with my IR converted camera.

I am going to try this on a series of images that are not technically a timelapse as such. It is a bull riding event and I want to show the action. On saying that some shots will be similar. Converting images now to start experimenting.

You also need to Untick Sync Music with Slides otherwise the music will stop at the end of each Slide. Jill

Manual Slideshow In Project Options > Audio > Loop the soundtrack. In Project Options > Control > Keyboard > enable “Wait for a key press (Space or Right key) to show the next slide."

Hello. How can I make a slideshow with music playing in the background but scrolling through photos with the spacebar?

Witam .Jak zrobić pokaz ,żeby grała muzyka w tle ale zdjęcia przesuwać spacją? (Administrator: please use Google Translate, DeepL, or ChatGPT to translate your messages to English: "Hello. How can I make a slideshow so that music plays in the background but photos can be moved using the spacebar?")

Topaz is considered by many to be one of the best AI image resizing software but recently switched subscription. If you are looking for alternatives to subscription based image resizing then you might try Upscayl which is free open source software and available for Mac and Windows. Like most AI software it works best on a Windows computer if you have a good graphics card or a Mac silicon computer. https://github.com/upscayl If you install Gimp open source image editor on a Windows or Linux Vulcan compatible GPU then this is one of my favorite free AI upscale options. https://www.gimp.org/ https://github.com/Nenotriple/gimp_upscale?tab=readme-ov-file Example of a popular non-subscription AI software. https://www.aiarty.com/ (Part of Digiarty which also sells VideoProc Converter AI) This is a good free online image scaler if you have just a few photos. https://imgupscaler.ai/ Here are a few samples for comparison. https://share.cleanshot.com/LZc2XWxp https://share.cleanshot.com/K3LtRNf3 Tom

Sorry for the late reply. All the purchase links are located below the YouTube video. I understand you were able to find the link you were looking for and were satisfied with the project. Thank you. Aleina

My list of image comparison software that supports Mac and Windows. For the Mac and Windows there is the free XnView MP image viewer. https://www.xnview.com/en/xnview-mp/ For Windows there is the free FastStone Image Viewer and IrfanView. https://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm https://www.irfanview.com/ If you want to purchase software there is ACDSee Photo Studio which has image comparison option. https://www.acdsee.com/en/photo-editing-software/ Sample Comparisons Irfanview https://share.cleanshot.com/mM1X6Vl3 XnView Windows https://share.cleanshot.com/1BsSw8Dd XnView Mac https://share.cleanshot.com/vxLzy7cF Software that I have been testing recently. AI is now very common for image resizing, subject masking, and noise reduction. Win/Mac Free RapidRAW https://github.com/CyberTimon/RapidRAW Mac Image Restore AI https://www.neuralmoon.ai/image-restore-ai Tom

How do I get this template? My son's birthday party is tomorrow and minions themed and I would love to use this for his photo slideshow.

Happy Thursday Everyone, I've created some cool new metal texture images and uploaded them onto this page on my site: TXR - METAL - (Tile-able) https://soundimage.org/txr-metal-seamless/ As always, they're 100% free to use with attribution, just like my thousands of other images, music tracks and sounds. Speaking of which, I have... BIG NEWS -- FREE HIGHER-QUALITY OGG TRACKS ARE ON THEIR WAY! For those of you who use my music tracks, specifically my looping ones... Wordpress apparently now supports Ogg music files, so I'm in the process of replacing all my looping Mp3 tracks on my site with even higher-quality Ogg versions! Besides sounding more rich and full, the Ogg versions always loop seamlessly in game engines...(Mp3 files sometimes need to be edited...this is due to the Mp3 encoding process which sometimes discards a tiny bit of audio information at the looping point...very annoying.) Anyhow, I'm very excited to be able to make the higher-quality Ogg versions available to my fellow creatives! Standard tracks (and those that don't have to loop seamlessly) will remain in Mp3 format so video creators can use them... (Premiere doesn't seem to support the Ogg format.) For those of you who want to bulk-download all of my Ogg tracks at once, my Ogg Music packs will still be available. It's taking some time, but I'm making very good progress...hopefully I'll have all my looping game music tracks converted soon. Enjoy! 😄

canaro99, Thank you for viewing and rating my work!

Very, very nice work!!

Rosemary A, Thanks for watching and commenting! Autumn is truly beautiful in Russia this year! Plenty of sunshine, warm days, and the tawny, burgundy foliage is a delight to the eye. The grass is still vibrantly green. And in Siberia snow has already fallen and is lying on the ground.

Thank you 2007 for sharing this beautiful show. Autumn is truly beautiful and you captured the season so well. Rosemary

Beautiful views of the Golden Autumn in the European part of Central Russia. Download the project: https://disk.yandex.ru/d/H3Apvu67_c2bVA Enjoy viewing.

Just looked at this - it kind of does the opposite of what I need it changes the slide style but not the transition. What I need to do is do a mass change of the transitions without changing the slide style or the timing of the transition.