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Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopus Major
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The great spotted woodpecker occurs in all types of woodlands and is catholic in its diet, being capable of extracting seeds from pine cones, insect larvae from inside trees or eggs and chicks of other birds from their nests. It breeds in holes excavated in living or dead trees, unlined apart from wood chips. The typical clutch is four to six glossy white eggs. Both parents incubate the eggs, feed the chicks and keep the nest clean. When the young fledge they are fed by the adults for about ten days, each parent taking responsibility for feeding part of the brood.
The great spotted woodpecker occurs in Eurasia from the British Isles to Japan, and in North Africa from Morocco to Tunisia, and it is absent only from those areas too cold or dry to have suitable woodland habitat. It is found in a wide variety of woodlands, broadleaf, coniferous or mixed, and in modified habitats like parks, gardens and olive groves. It occurs from sea-level to the tree line, up to 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in Europe, 2,200 m (7,200 ft) in Morocco and 2,500 m (8,200 ft) in Central Asia.
The great spotted woodpecker became extinct in the island of Ireland in the seventeenth century, due to deforestation, but the island was naturally recolonised by this species, with the first proven nesting in County Down in 2007. Its expansion in range is continuing, with breeding proven or suspected in at least 10 counties by 2013, with the main concentration in Down and County Wicklow. Genetic evidence shows the birds to be of British, rather than Scandinavian, ancestry, with the populations in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic having separate origins. The great spotted woodpecker was also found to have been nesting in the Isle of Man from 2009.
Population:
UK breeding:
140,000 pairs
Along Windsor, Ontario’s riverfront is this very interesting structure, with a totem pole as its centre piece. Totem poles are monuments created by North American, First Nations of the Pacific Northwest to represent and commemorate ancestry, histories, people, or events. No matter wherever we live, we are all connected, as this structure signifies to me.
As many of you know, my wife Marilyn has had a major stroke that was caused by the autoimmune disease lupus, which she has had since the age of 19. Currently she is undergoing rehab for the stroke at a hospital here in Windsor. To complicate matters, the hospital has recently had a COVID-19 outbreak. Marilyn is one of 14 patients that has gotten this virus. Currently her symptoms are mild, but she does have some congestion in her lungs, Her doctors continue to monitor not only the lupus and stroke, but also the effects of this virus.
My apologies to all my Flickr friends for my lack of activity over the last several weeks. I will be checking in with many of you over the next few days.
Best wishes to all of you and stay safe. Please wear a mask whenever you are in public, this virus is real and deadly.
NS GP38-2 5230 shows it's ancestry beneath the NS paint as it works a local job at Hapeville, Georgia. January 2023
This Hallow's Eve you DON'T want to miss the culprit of it all: Samhain. That's right, this year we have an amazing Pagan event undergoing with amazing creators and a gorgeous region - and i am SO honored to be a part of it with this new casting circle i made.
Book and photo included!
Check my picks for a TP to the main location so you can get this for yourself!
we had wanted
a monkey for the children
so we bought an electric
Chinese monkey, and
plugged its umbilical
cord into the wall
the smoke coming out
of its fur told us
something was wrong
we had electrocuted
the family monkey
RE
[The truth is I received an ancestry kit for Christmas where you spit into a tiny tube and send your saliva off to be analyzed. . .and thinking about where my DNA trail might lead, I thought it prudent to imagine the worst, so with any luck, I might be pleasantly surprised at the results. . . enjoy your weekend Flickr friends. . .]
The second house built by the Reynolds family.
My great, great grandfather James Phillips' second wife was part of the amazing support network of the Reynolds family.
The final home of Horace LaVerne Reynolds, uncle of my great, great grandmother Carrie Annette Phillips.
I suspect this was built by the large Reynolds family.
On the left here we have the beautifully executed “Self-portrait as Sarah Wisse, transported” by Margaret Woodward (1996). The tones and light are Rembrantesque, but the composition is all modern. The convict Sarah Wisse was transported from England in 1795 for stealing food and clothing. One imagines it a crime of desperation. As the great-great-great-granddaughter of Sarah, Margaret Woodward assumes the role and thus links the present with a colourful past. This is wonderful storytelling. www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/artboards/archie-100/wielding-t...
Next to it is a self-portrait with all the traits of graphic art. In 1991/92 the Archibald was compressed into a two year period, and this is the only finalist that Peter Tyndall entered: “detail A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/someone looks at something …” Around the face of the artist sizing something up is a quote from Charles Morgan in 1933: “It was in my mind to say that a portrait should be the image of one spirit received in the mirror of another.” Tyndall painted this using a circular mirror to reflect his face. www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/artboards/archie-100/wielding-t...
A young sapling catches the morning light, deep in the misty woods on Sunday. I liked the protective ring of tall trees that surround this little one, like watchmen
mediterranean @ tel aviv. I always thought it was fascinating that humans are so attracted to water. When there is even a glimpse of warm weather, we flock to beaches like there is some kind of a last minute, post-holiday, going out of business circuit city sale. I suppose we haven't completely abandoned our roots yet..
One abandoned and one in stasis, relics from the days of the C&O continue to weather time in Ronceverte, WV, as the coaling tower collects more foliage and the former passenger station sees the coming and going of maintenance of way workers using it as a work base as eastbound CSX loaded grain train G659-18 splits them down the middle with its lanky 200+ car consist on the afternoon of May 20, 2022.
So, I responded to a TV ad to get my DNA analyzed and learn about my ancestors. This is what I got in return.
The one and only Christian von Koenigsegg with his monstrous creation in Pebble Beach...
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Not her ancestry, though. Picture was taken in the museum of The Lapua Cartridge Factory; people sitting behind her are factory workers from the past.
For about a decade, a train sat on display at the historic Piedmont & Northern Railway depot in Belmont painted for the Milltowne Railway Line. Information on the train was hard to find. Easier to find online is the fact that there was,in fact, never a Milltowne Railway Line in North Carolina. The train had been moved to the site by Steve Pepitone, owner of South Main Cycles which calls the old depot home.
In 2016, Pepitone sold the train to a man in nearby Dallas, North Carolina. According to local news accounts, Pepitone and the city had been discussing ways to save the display because they knew it was becoming an attraction to the area for people who like trains. That was, ion fact, part of the problem. Kids and sometimes adults often climbed on them which became a liability issue for him and the city. A fence would have taken away from the aesthetics.
Consideration was given to turning the train into a restaurant or a shop, but they were not sure it could be brought up to code. Leaving the train on site did not make much sense, even less when upkeep was weighed in. So the train was sold to Hunter McMillan, who owns McMillan Crane Service in Dallas. Owning a set of cranes was definitely a bonus when it came to moving the train
So while the history of the non-existent Milltowne Railway and the train display was rather short and easy to find online, the history of the train itself was not as easy. Most folks calls the locomotive and it's train by the name painted on the cab of the old engine. I found more questions about the lineage of the engine than I did answers. My usual first stop place for locomotive roster information was of no use due to the unique nature of the locomotive. But noted railroad photographer Robert Graham was gracious enough to share me what he knew about the train engine. It turns out that even though the railroad it is painted for is fictional, it does have ties with North Carolina.
It was built in March 1949 as Pacific Great Eastern Railway #553 (b/n 30038)
to Sidney & Loisburg #60
to Devco Railway #60
to Laurinburg & Southern Railroad #107 (in October 1972)
to Fairmont & Western 107
The Laurinburg & Southern is located in North Carolina and operated the Fairmont &Western (also in the Tarheel State) before that railroad was abandoned.
The caboose is former Nickel Plate #436 while the passenger car was former New Haven Railroad
The locomotive and caboose was sold and moved off site in 2016 while the passenger car was scrapped on site in March 2019.
Photograph was takien on September 14, 2011.
This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work.
Sandidges is a small rural community in mountainous western Amherst County, Virginia. There are perhaps 8 structures stretched out over a mile. These are 3 of them—the closest is an old store, the farthest is an old hooded mill, dating from the late 19th century. Somewhere in the vicinity my grandmother was born in 1872.
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I'm not very fond of this, and my stream has been so lame lately:/
I'll try harder, I'm super swamped
Fight at school today. Grrr :o
besides that, pretty lame
-later
Hope your friday is great :D
A detail of the masons handicraft.
Made with only rudimentary tools by the ancient Britons of Aegean ancestry.
created for Magnificient Manipulated Masterpieces:New Challenge 176 ~ THREE IN ONE
Challenge 176 ~ Three in one
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Bat rat snake