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My Dear friends…

This I have to tell you..

Twenty eight days ago, when I woke up in the morning with a pain on my right arm and also a pain in my back. I had this all trough breakfast. So, I called my friend Abe and I asked him if he would drive me to Emergency Room to make sure that I was OK. They told me that I imminent danger that I was blocked in several arteries and could cost my life. The Doctors told me that I was like a time bomb. So all the the Cardiologist the only way to save my it was a bypass in an open heart surgery.

So, my decision was to stay in the Hospital and go for it!! Today, twenty eight days later, was discharged fro Rehab Therapy’

I will be publishing my blog only once in a while if I can.

I want to thank you, my friends for being so good to me. G-d Bless you!

Chilean Flamingo

The Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis) is a species of large flamingo at a height of 110–130 cm (43–51 in) closely related to the American flamingo and the greater flamingo, with which it was sometimes considered conspecific. The species is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN. It breeds in South America from Ecuador and Peru to Chile and Argentina and east to Brazil; it has been introduced into Germany. Like all flamingos, it lays a single chalky-white egg on a mud mound. These flamingos are mainly restricted to salt lagoons and soda lakes but these areas are vulnerable to habitat loss and water pollution. The plumage is pinker than the slightly larger greater flamingo, but less so than the Caribbean flamingo. It can be differentiated from these species by its grayish legs with pink joints (tibiotarsal articulation), and also by the larger amount of black on the bill (more than half). Young chicks may have no sign of pink coloring whatsoever, but instead remain gray or peach.

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HJ Ruiz – December 17th, 2023

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Red-headed Woodpecker

The Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) is a mid-sized woodpecker found in temperate North America. Its breeding habitat is open country across southern Canada and the east-central United States. It is rated as least concern on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List of Endangered species, having been down-listed from near threatened in 2018. Adults are distinctly tricolored, with a black back and tail, a white belly and rump, and a red head and neck. The wings are black with white secondary remiges. Adult males and females are identical in plumage. Juveniles have similar markings, but their heads are grey. Red-headed woodpeckers are entirely crimson above their shoulders. These are mid-sized woodpeckers. Both sexes measure from 19 to 25 cm (7.5 to 9.8 in) in length, with a wingspan of 42.5 cm (16.7 in).They weigh from 56 to 97 g (2.0 to 3.4 oz), with an average of 76 g (2.7 oz) Each wing measures 12.7–15 cm (5.0–5.9 in); the tail measures 6.6–8.5 cm (2.6–3.3 in), the bill measures 2.1–3 cm (0.83–1.18 in) and the tarsus measures 1.9–2.5 cm (0.75–0.98 in). The maximum longevity in the wild is 9.9 years. This species gives a tchur-tchur call or a drum on its territory.