Wednesday 3 February 2010

Office visitors...

Whilst sitting in my office in Aberdeen I used to get regular knocks on the door and people popping in whilst I was trying oh so hard to think intelligent thoughts. Mostly, they just wanted to know how to do something in R - now they just e-mail me... (You know who you are!) But I still get the odd office visitor:
Yesterday's seemed a much happier colour when returned to a bush...




I also have lots of these Yellow-vented Bulbuls on the window during the day (awful picture, I know - though the Mosquito net, but it was pulling bits of the plant to make a nest nearby.)


And in the evenings you can often see these guys keeping the bugs down...
 
That's before we start thinking of the things I actually see from the window: there's a Silvery-cheeked Hornbill out there right now... 
 
But not one of them has ever asked me for R Code! All in all a much better class of visitor I think...

2 comments:

  1. What colours do they go if you put them on tartan?

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  2. We have endless snow and seemingly around a thousand noisy sparrows outside the window. Quite a few rabbits too. R has taken to providing carrots, which will impress our neighbouring farmers no end. It has been a tough winter for wildlife so far and I suspect this will produce a drop in population sizes for quite a few species.

    The chameleon on your arm looks rather annoyed Dr. C, I hope you weren't teasing him with Bayesian statistics.

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