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Fun in the garden this morning. Several black carpenter bees zooming around, but then there was this golden thing. I'd never seen one before - big and loud! "Seek" app was able to ID it as the Valley Carpenter Bee, so I read a bit more. All the black ones are females; this one is a male. Who knew?!
D1944 (47501)"Craftsman" & D1935 (47805) "Roger Hosking MA 1925- 2013 working 1Z10 06:33 Rugby to Kingswear (Dartmouth
Statesman) passing Besford 28/08/20
Black Oystercatcher ( Haematopus unipolar ) Interbreeds at times with Pied Oystercatchers so birds are variable
However they usually group into separate species at roost and are commonly seen in pairs at other times.
I have upward of 500 park near my home of mixed types and the segregation is humorous and highly vocal even through the night...
Comical, characters that bring life to an estuary.....
In 1984, Southern Pacific painted SD40R #7347 into an Olympic inspired paint scheme to commemorate the Summer Olympics that were held in Los Angeles that year. The numberboards on this engine had one side displaying 1932, the last year that the Olympics were held in Los Angeles and 1984 for the current year that the Olympics were in LA.
On a smoggy day in February of 1985, the 7347 is stopped at the East end of Canyon siding on Cajon Pass while an Eastbound Santa Fe train heads around Sullivan's Curve with a Burlington Northern SD40-2 in the consist.
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