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Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopus Major
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
Malus sylvestris, the European crab apple, also known as the European wild apple or simply the crab apple, is a species of the genus Malus, native to Europe and western Asia. Its scientific name means "forest apple"
The wild apple is a deciduous small to medium-sized tree, but can also grow into a multi-stemmed bush. It can live 80–100 years and grow up to 14 metres (46 feet) tall with trunk diameters of usually 23–45 centimetres (9–17+1⁄2 inches), although diameters exceeding 90 centimetres (35 in) have been recorded. The leaves are roundish-oval and sometimes hairy on the underside. The hermaphrodite flowers appear in May, slightly preceding hawthorn, have white or pinkish petals and are insect-pollinated. The small pome-fruits are around 3 centimetres (1.2 in) in diameter, ripen in autumn and fall to the ground. The bark is light brown and breaks up in flakes. The branches are thorny, especially in response to pruning or browsing.
In the past M. sylvestris was thought to be the most important ancestor of the cultivated apple (M. domestica), which has since been shown to have been primarily derived from the central Asian species M. sieversii. However, DNA analyses confirm that M. sylvestris has contributed significantly to the genome. They found that secondary introgression from other species of the genus Malus has greatly shaped the genome of M. domestica, with M. sylvestris being the largest secondary contributor. They also found that current populations of M. domestica are more closely related to M. sylvestris than to M. sieversii. However, in more pure strains of M. domestica, the M. sieversii ancestry still predominates.
NS GP38-2 5230 shows it's ancestry beneath the NS paint as it works a local job at Hapeville, Georgia. January 2023
People of Japanese ancestry who lived in and around Los Angeles, California, were rounded up at the beginning of World War II and moved to this place near Independence, California. Now a National Historical Site, it sits alongside US Highway 395 about ten miles (16 km) north of Lone Pine, California.
Very little of the original camp still exists except for one residential building and this memorial to the people who died there during their captivity. The site does have a modern visitor center where one can learn about the camp and the people who lived there. It was a dark time in our history and should never be repeated.
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
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[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 Indian pariah dog, also known as the Indian native dog or INDog, South Asian pye dog and Desi Dog, is a landrace of dog native to the Indian subcontinent. They have erect ears, a wedge-shaped head, and a curved tail. It is easily trainable and often used as a guard dog and police dog. This dog is an example of an ancient group of dogs known as pye-dogs. It is possible that the ancestry of this dog dates back 4,500 years.
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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"In the early part of World War II, 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were interned in relocation centers by Executive Order No. 9066 issued February 19, 1942. Manzanar, the first of ten such concentration camps, was bounded by barbed wire and guard towers. It confined ten thousand persons, the majority of them American citizens.
May the injustices and humiliation suffered here as a result of hysteria, racism, and economic exploitation never emerge again."
California Registered Historical Landmark No. 850
- Plaque Placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the Manzanar Committee and the Japanese American Citizens League, April 14, 1973.
Manzanar National Historic Site, California
United States of America
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.
Almost throughout our drive along Mesa Verde National Park's Wetherill Mesa we had seen evidence - often smack in the middle of the road - of horses. We theorized that perhaps people ride horses into/around the park, or possibly there were wild mustangs we'd not known about.
We soon learned that these are in fact feral (that is, escaped domestic horses, not of mustang ancestry) horses that entered park lands through broken fences from Ute Mountain (Indian) Reservation land.
After exploring the Long House ruins, our wandering walk back to the car revealed the "perpetrators of the poop piles," fat and happy in spite of the dryness of the forage and scarcity of water. Probably those are the same conditions they're used to on their home side of the fence.
The ranger told me that their owners are planning a round-up soon, given that the horses are a non-native species capable of doing damage to park natural resources.
T Tornado, West Virginia
“This isn’t Kansas!” We could hear Dorothy say that about this location. Tornado, West Virginia is located about 12 miles due west (as the crow flies) from the State Capital of Charleston. It is an unincorporated residential community of 1,081 residents in the valley of the lower Coal River in western West Virginia. It is reputedly named for a tornadic storm that swept across the broad river bottom there sometime after the Civil War. Despite the name Coal River, coal has never been mined in the valley near Tornado, which is chiefly residential and agricultural.
But this town is also known by other names. It was also called “Upper Falls” being located near the upper falls of the river. It was also called “Big Bend” as it adjoins a significant bend in the river below the falls. It was also called “Andrews Heights” for the land developer R. Carl Andrews, who served as mayor of Charleston from 1947-1950.
The first person of European ancestry believed to have seen the upper falls of the Coal River might have been John Peter Salling, who in 1742 led an expedition through the region during a journey to the Mississippi River. He reported finding coal along the river, which thereafter bore the name “Cole” or “Coal” river.
Much of Salling's route followed Native American trails, including the Paint Creek Trail, which shadowed the Coal from its mouth to a pass at the head of its Clear Fork on Paint Creek Mountain. Used by many native groups over the centuries, the trail was among the most important trans-Allegheny routes between the Atlantic seaboard and the valley of the Ohio and was traversed by Virginian heroine Mary Ingles, who in 1755 was captured by hostile Shawnee and conveyed by way of the trail into the Ohio Country.
Most native residents, who had lived in villages in the wide valley along the river, left the area in 1650 when the Iroquois of New York claimed the area as a hunting ground. The rest of the history involves interaction with the various Indian tribes that inhabited the area. These include the Battle of Point Pleasant on the Ohio River in 1774 at Point Pleasant. After the Treaty of Creenville in 1795, the Shawnee Indians would give up their claim on the lands in that region east of the Ohio River.
Beginning in about 1830, timber harvesting commenced in the valley, and logs were to be floated down the river to Saint Albans during floods. Cannel coal, or “candle coal,” a kind of bituminous coal or oil shale used to produce kerosene, was also discovered on the river in marketable quantities.
The availability of both coal and timber in the watershed necessitated the construction of locks and dams that could support commercial navigability. Wooden-crib locks and dams were constructed in the 1850s, permitting steamboat traffic. However, flooding continuously wreaked havoc on the structures until in 1881 when railroads supplanted the need for river traffic. Locks and dams from the period remain historical highlights on the river.
The Coal River and Western Railway, under the direction of General Cornelius Clarkson Watts, began in 1902 and was completed in 1904. While timber extraction ended in the 1920s, rail line through Tornado, which is now owned by CSX Transportation, still transports bituminous coal to global markets.
Following World War II, many new residents arrived in Tornado, finding employment in the Kanawha Valley’s burgeoning defense and chemical-manufacturing industries. As wealth in the region increased, the river became an attractive destination for leisure and recreation, and many affluent residents of the valley and the greater Charleston area established camps and second homes along the river.