Peacock feathers (photos added)

ChrisR · Post by **ChrisR** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:32 am

Are these the wing display feathers, or breast feathers?
I found myself in a stuffy museum with boring paintings, and a stuffed peacock, which was far more interesting. The breast feathers have a strange rope-like structure.
I took out my phone to be told "No photographs". Protestations that it was just a dead bird stuffed with dead horse, didn't get me anywhere.

Beatsy · Post by **Beatsy** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:44 am

ChrisR wrote:Are these the wing display feathers, or breast feathers

Oh please, please, please let the answer be display feathers! That's what I just ordered. Never occurred to me that they would be any other sort...

curt0909 · Post by **curt0909** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 12:08 pm

Thanks everyone.

Rik, sorry for the trouble and thanks for the correction. I don't post often and had forgotten the protocol. I checked preview to see that the photos displayed and assumed I had it right. I've removed the img tags. I put spaces after and before the [/url] and [url=, but in preview it added more text to the image. I noticed that the flickr link is still on the side of the images, including the two images you had corrected.

ChrisR & Beatsy they are listed as 'tail feathers' on the ebay listing.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/122116234254?_t ... EBIDX%3AIT

ChrisR · Post by **ChrisR** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:54 pm

The breast feathers I was looking at were all (different shades of ) blues!.

Beatsy · Post by **Beatsy** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:59 pm

curt0909 wrote:ChrisR & Beatsy they are listed as 'tail feathers' on the ebay listing

Yayyyy!

WalterD · Post by **WalterD** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 10:24 pm

Excellent set, thanks for sharing!

myriophyllum · Post by **myriophyllum** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 1:31 pm

Hi,

wow, more great photos!

Cold is no big problem here, there are several birds the next 20 km around. My chickens would indeed be surprised...

Best wishes
Jens

curt0909 wrote:Thanks Jens, Lou and zzffnn.

Jens, I'd have some too if they tolerated the cold better. I'm not sure how well they'd get along with our chickens.

Here are some new photos. -...

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 3:13 pm

curt0909 wrote:I put spaces after and before the [/url] and
Hhmm... Do you see added text on the first two images, the ones that I edited? I'm thinking that perhaps you ended up putting extra space inside the tag pairs instead of just between a closing and the next opening [url= . That will definitely cause problems. The edit that I made, and that I intended to describe, was this:
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new&#58;   .../3703/33222266500_f96d7bae9f_b.jpg&#91;/img&#93;&#91;/url&#93; &#91;url=https&#58;//flic.kr/p/SBJNoh&#93;Peacock...
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It is a small difference, but that one extra space allows the browser to do a line break if suggested by monitor resolution. Without the space, the word "Peacock" is guaranteed to appear immediately to the right of the image, not moved to the next line.

--Rik

pwnell · Post by **pwnell** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 9:35 am

These are good!