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After waiting quite a while to get into Oakwood, CP T28 returns back east past the in process restoration of the former Michigan Central Depot and prepares to enter the WIndsor Tunnel with a decent size train lead by one of the fresh beaver SD60s.
A couple of interesting observations about least terns from this encounter:
1. The "nest" is just a shallow scrape in the sand. The eggs are laid in the scrape and are subject to predation by various critters, and loss due to wind driven high tides depending on where the eggs are laid. Here at Anastasia State Park, the colony was located within a roped off area making it less likely that foot traffic would disturb or destroy the nests.
2. For whatever reason, the entire colony of adults would suddenly fly off. They would fly back momentarily and settle back onto their eggs. The trick was to catch a tern as it landed and then stay focused on it until it reached its nest. This time the strategy worked!
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With a few barns being pulled out of storage recently, and with the prospect of the Canadian border opening back up in a few weeks, my chance for some more barn photos are coming soon. In the meantime, this oldie from a few years ago before PTC ruined them in the States, this L505 with the appropriate clean leader leans into a sharp curve west of Durand as they hustle along.
Back from another trip to Jakarta. Love that place and the people there. Looking forward to catching up with you and hope you have been well.
I had to get back on track and get some processing done for myself for a change so hammering out 11 brackets OOB style did the trick for me. Now I need to get out shooting!
I will be catching up on everyone's streams and blogs as well
This looks much better large on the blog
Thanks for looking!
Se si ingrandisce si vedono bene ile palline di polline
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Male red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio) perched on a wooden fencepost.
Samiec gąsiorka (Lanius collurio) siedzący na drewnianym słupku ogrodzeniowym.
Icterus chrysater
(Yellow-backed Oriole / Turpial Montañero)
The Yellow-backed Oriole is well-named, as it is one of the very few species of orioles with a yellow back. Indeed, this oriole shows only two colors, yellow and black: the wings are entirely black, the feathers lacking the white or yellow feather margins that are shown by most other species of oriole.
The Yellow-backed Oriole has an oddly discontinuous distribution: it occurs from southern Mexico south to northeastern Nicaragua, and again from Panama south to northern Colombia and Venezuela, but is absent from Costa Rica and from most of Nicaragua. This oriole has a very broad elevational range, ranging up to 2500 m in Central America and almost to 2700 m in Colombia.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
Taken in La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
.......Strikes back!! It shines all over me!! On my face !! I close my eyes....It fills my heart with warm feelings of Love and Hope!! God, please, help me live the rest of my Life's life with dignity and Beauty!!
( Walking again alone along my "secret path " in the Château frozen and snowed wonderland , one recent January late morning...)
( ***Click on the picture to BE there with me!!)
Taken out the truck window on a trip to Glasgow Ky.
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As I review the photos from our Utah trip, I keep going back to the Bryce Canyon National Park. This was a photo from our first day there, April 21, 2023. My eyes kept getting drawn to those areas beyond the Silent City, or Bryce Amphitheater. The object here was what I thought might be a dry water reservoir and/or some part of the Aquarias Plateau.
Now I'm back from my short trips to Bavaria and then to my bro, who lives in the Breisgau...
Will catch up next!
This late sunset at about 8:30 p.m. bounced onto the eastern clouds surprised me and brought me joy.
No increased saturation. Only had time to take the D810 and 105mm f/2.8 prime outside to capture that light on the trees.
Many thanks for looking! Please, no advice. There are many who take skilled landscape shots. I am not one of them ;)
... at the damage from Storm Arwen.
The storm that ripped through Aberdeenshire in November/December 2021 is still ever-present here; the slow work of tackling fallen and damaged trees is still ongoing. So many long familiar stands of trees have been decimated ... the sadness lingers on!
The shot here was taken a year ago, in February 2022, when the repair work on the Kirk was getting underway. A huge old tree was blown down and took a lot of the front wall and fencing with it. The massive root ball was not easy to move! Further back in the shot you can see the ruins of the old Kirk, they survived the storm.
And as I upload this morning, the first named storm of our winter, Storm Otto, is raging outside. It woke us at 6 a.m. so I am uploading this early in case we have the expected power cuts. With so many miles of overland pylons it is wise to prepare for cuts .. and after Arwen we have invested heavily in all manner of ways to make it easier to endure days with no power or mobile connectivity!
A link to our final rescue after almost a week of sub-zero in 2021 in the first comment field.
HFF!
My Fence Friday photos set: Here
iPhone shots: Here
Local places of interest: Here
The end of my walk, in the village of Studham, at the southern tip of Bedfordshire, nestling in a hollow south of Dunstable Downs surrounded by an extensive plateau. It was a warm day and the outside temperature gauge in the car read 25 degrees.
I had a nic lunch in 'The Red Lion' pub, sitting outside before the drive home.
As normality descends on our household ( children return to school today) so I thought I’d go back to ‘normal’ on Flickr!
Hope you all have a good day and thanks for stopping
The pink-backed pelican (Pelecanus rufescens) is a bird of the pelican family. It is a resident breeder in the swamps and shallow lakes of Africa, southern Arabia, and southern India; it has also apparently extirpated in Madagascar.
A Chesnut-backed Chickadee! The Chickadee landed on our dwarf pine tree waiting for a turn at our Suet feeder. We usually only see the CBCH during the Winter months.
I'm finally trying to get back into the swing of things. Life here in the States has gone a little off the rails, and work has become much more demanding. Finding time to get out with the drone has been like searching for a needle in a haystack.
I was recently in St. Pete, Florida, on the Gulf Coast, and stopped at the Pinellas Bayway South Bridge to capture a few drone shots. It was one of those brutally hot Florida afternoons, and I was on my way to a business meeting, dressed in a suit.
I'm sure the locals were wondering why there was a guy in a business suit standing outside his Jeep, staring into the sky while flying a drone in the middle of the day. 😂
Sometimes you just have to take advantage of the opportunities when they present themselves. I hope you enjoy the photos, and I'm looking forward to catching up with everyone's amazing work again! ✌️😎
A quick pic of my new little piece of heaven. I finally found a corner lot and made good use of it! This is the Trompe Loeil house from Collaborate last month. This is a raw shot in FS from SL, I just played with Windlight and water settings.