‘T was a generally uninspiring day overall. Walking into town to get a few provisions for us and another 3kgs of sunflower kernels for the Hungry Horaces was a decidedly slippery and drippery affair as I past under overhanging trees. ![]() What fun trying to guess what might happen next. Yesterday it snowed most of the day and today the snow was thawing noticeably. blurry) shot of a male Chaffinch grabbing a sunflower seed whilst on the wing, too. ![]() Just for fun, on the right is an arty (i.e. A couple of shots showing their distinctive white flash at the back of the head and neck are on the left. Threats aside, I did manage to fill my commission and snapped a Coal Tit or two before they made good their escape. He really looked quite splendid with his bright yellow waistcoat. The little darling was even obligingly facing the camera. While I was mostly missing my intended quarry, a Great Tit landed on one feeder and dutifully adopted its classic threat posture. Undeterred I set up and began clicking away. I was after Coal Tits to fulfil a commission (from Rosemary □ ) but they are fast little perishers and quick reactions are necessary – quicker than mine usually are, it seems. Since our weather continues to be particularly uninspiring I once again stayed home and trained both our cameras on two different feeders to see what I could snap. ![]() We are quite used to seeing them bullying Blue Tits and Coal Tits, most other birds on our feeders actually, even in the summer. Great Tits can be aggressive, too, and have an interesting threat posture, wings and tail flared, which doesn’t seem to be weather dependent. I was particularly pleased this week when the BBC’s Snow Watch programme confirmed my observations and singled out Blackbirds as becoming a little protective of food sources in these harsh conditions. Since then, the red berries and Redwings have gone but the Blackbirds started taking up station around the peanut and sunflower seed feeders (standing on the squirrel baffles beneath them) and seemed to be trying to hog those instead. * Tiny internal code changes: simplified tag, a small efficiency tweak in the mediaScale() method, and a minor change to the keyboard navigation script.A few weeks ago when we had red berries in our garden and Redwings were in town after them, I noticed that our local Blackbirds appeared to be getting aggressive trying to chase the Redwings away. * Settings tabs reorganized to place related items together. * The link to Google Maps on a geotagged image now opens in a new browser tab. In prior versions it showed fewer thumbnails on the first and last three slide pages of the album. * The thumbstrip now shows seven thumbnails at all times. * If a thumbstrip is shown on the slide pages, there is now a small marker to indicate the current image, and that thumbnail is no longer an active link, since the visitor is already on that page. So, if you choose a larger font size for the album, all album text is shown in a proportionally larger size. * There is now a single font size for the album - all text items are shown as a proportion (in CSS "rem" units) of that setting. It opens the hi-res or original image in a new browser tab or window. Now, if you choose "Link to hi-res via scaled images" or "Link to originals via scaled images," a download icon is present on each slide page. In prior versions, clicking on the slide image opened the original or hi-res image. * Because of the option to provide on-image navigation, the means of accessing original or hi-res images had to be changed. Clicking on the right of the slide image advances to the next image, clicking on the left moves to the previous image. * Comments displayed under a slide image or video are now limited to the width of the image or video, and line-wrap to stay within that limit. ![]() * Album descriptions and folder comments displayed on a index page are limited to the width of the thumbnail table. The hover text on the icon is taken from the entry for "Link to homepage / Text." * Options to choose what is displayed at the top of the album index pages, folder index pages, and slide pages - e.g., the album title, the album description, the folder name/title, the image title, and so on. * If a "Link to homepage / Address (URL)" is entered in the jAlbum settings, the link is now displayed as a "home" icon on each page (with all the other navigation icons), rather than as a text anchor at the bottom of the page. * Spacing of navigation icons increased to accommodate small touch devices. It honors your image bounds until the viewport becomes too narrow for the image or video, at which point it shrinks, maintaining the aspect ratio. It honors your choices of rows and columns until the viewport becomes too narrow for them, at which point it will re-wrap the rows. * The thumbnail table on the index page is now responsive.
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