In terms of conservation, threats to red kites have been via direct poisoning and indirect poisoning from pesticides resulting in almost extinction in the 1900's.. Woodland clearance and other changes in agricultural practices created a reduction in food resources. Other threats included electrocution, hunting and trapping and egg-collection. This persecution resulted in a rapidly declining population with extinction happening in Ireland. In 2006, the first Red Kite was seen in London after 150 years and they are now protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. Whilst numbers have increased, they remain on the amber list.

Green for go

Minolta 7Sii

Kodak Plus-X Pan

Rodinal 1+50 13m @ 20C

A long loaded coal train waits for signal clearance at Mile Post 25.50 of the Union Pacific Railroad Geneva Subdivision in Wheaton.

Nikon D5i00, Tamron 18-270, ISO 320, f/6.0, 140mm, 1/500s

The light was still low when two Mottled Ducks made a landing near me in still morning water. My friend and guide, Ron Bielefeld, taught me a bit about Mottled Ducks, one of his study subjects as a wildlife biologist. Mottled in Florida often mate with Mallards and produce hybrids. The more they mate, the more a Mottled looks like a Mallard. However, the trend reverses when they hybrid then mates with a Mottled. Interesting how this works. Females have orange speckled bills and males a brighter yellow with one black spot near the base. For you photographers out there, a good tell that they are talking to the control tower for takeoff clearance is when they bob their heads up and down a bit. (Anas fulvigula)

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The floor has a grey/blueish tone, but it helped a lot to take the pic during the blue hour.

The signal is part of a bike path that runs next to the Mohawk river in Schenectady, NY

Another view: www.flickr.com/photos/aleadam/24889988450/

At the Palo Alto airport, back when you could still get up close.

NS 7518 on the point of train LAZLCR 29 cools its heels at CP Main alongside the LA River while waiting for clearance into LATC. The colorful reflection off the rear well cars comes from the numerous signals on both sides of the river including those of Metro’s light rail system.

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Highest position:

#89 on Sunday, July 12, 2009

A small clearing that really stood out against the rest of the forest.

From Broadway Street in downtown Los Angeles, California.

This elevated viewpoint at 6433' is accessible by a high-clearance vehicle and offers dramatic views of Death Valley.

A forgotten settlement in Glen Garry. It's one of the poorer settlements that began 'emptying' at the time of the Highland Clearances when sheep were progressively turned out into the landscape, people leaving for distant shores as their crofts became unviable

Height restriction bar for an underground carpark, indicating the maximum vehicle height that can safely enter.

Day 4 of 7 of the black and white food photo challenge. I found this huge mortar and pestle on clearance at Costco earlier this year. I have to admit I haven't used it much but am ready to start spicing things up. Anyone have one? What do you use it for mostly?

MISSION HARBOUR AUTHORITY - 33428 Harbour Ave Mission BC

The iconic Mission Heritage Railway Bridge c. 1909, is a Canadian Pacific Railway bridge, spanning the fast paced Fraser River between Mission and Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

Autumn Sundown

Mission Railway Bridge:

Replacing an earlier bridge built in 1891, which was the first and only bridge crossing of the Fraser below Siska in the Fraser Canyon until the construction of the New Westminster rail bridge in 1904, it was constructed in 1909 by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). The Mission Railway Bridge is supported by 13 concrete piers and is approximately 533 metres in length. Before completion of the Mission highway bridge, highway traffic to and from Matsqui and Abbotsford with Mission used the bridge as a one-way alternating route, with traffic lights at either end to control direction. Rail traffic often held up car crossings, causing long and often very lengthy waits, which were a part of daily life in the Central Valley until the new bridge was completed.

Beneath the bridge's north abutment is an important river-level gauge monitored during the annual Fraser freshet. The bridge is also the location of the end of the Fraser's tidal bore - downstream from the bridge the river is increasingly influenced by tidal influences from the Georgia Strait.

Swing span

The Mission Railway Bridge has a swing span which has a vertical clearance of 4.9 metres above the water when closed. The swing span is fitted atop a circular concrete pier, the 10th from the north bank of the river. The 10th pier is protected from shipping traffic by two 46 metre wood piers extending upstream and downstream respectively perpendicular to the bridge which are tapered at both ends. The navigation channel past the bridge is 30 metres in width. At night a fixed white light is displayed on piers 9 and 11 as well as at the up-river and down-river ends of the protection pier.

The majority of marine traffic consists of log tows and gravel barges, which are permitted to use the navigation channel beneath the fixed span between piers 5 and 6. The swing span is used for wood chip barges and other vessels which cannot navigate beneath the span between piers 5 and 6.

CPR maintains a bridge tender 24 hours per day at an office on the north bank of the bridge. Vessels requesting passage through the swing span contact the bridge tender on marine VHF radio, whereby the tender walks the bridge to a control booth situated on the swing span. Wikipedia

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The Gimsøystraumen Bridge is made of concrete and 839 metres (2,753 ft) long, the main span is 148 metres (486 ft), and the maximum clearance to the sea is 30 metres (98 ft). The bridge has 9 spans. Gimsøystraumen Bridge was opened in 1980. It is one of many bridges that connect the islands of Lofoten to each other as part of the European route E10 highway (also known as Lofast). (Wikipedia)

“Singapore airport goes fully passport-free with biometric clearance”

This is one step closer to the Beast system.

Matthew 3:12 “His winnowing-shovel is in His hand, and He will make a thorough clearance of His threshing-floor, gathering His wheat into the storehouse, but burning up the chaff in unquenchable fire.”

CP SD60 6232 and GP22C-ECO 2222 slowly drag an extra 286 through the urban canyon at Seeboth Street, Milwaukee, still the home of a nice set of Milwaukee Road searchlights- for now.

A sea of grass runs down in the forest.

I feel myself dying in you, overtaken by expanding

spaces, which feed on me just like hungry butterflies.

I close my eyes and I’m laid out in your memory, barely alive,

with my mouth wide open and the river of oblivion rising.

And you, patiently, with needle-nosed pliers, pul out

my teeth, my eyelashes, you strip

the clover from my voice, the shade from my desire,

you open up windows of space in my name

and blue holes in my chest

through which the summers rush out in mourning.

Transparent, sharpened, interwoven with air

I float in a drowse, and still

I say your name and wake you, anguished.

But you force yourself to forget me,

and I’m barely a bubble

reflecting you, which you’ll burst

with the blink of an eye.

poem by Julio Cortazar

art by Alice Alicja Cieliczka

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The Highland Clearances was the forced displacement of a significant number of people in the Scottish Highlands during the 18th and 19th centuries, as a result of an agricultural revolution that resulted in enclosures, largely carried out by hereditary aristocratic landowners. A Highland Clearance has been defined as “an enforced simultaneous eviction of all families living in a given area such as an entire glen”.

The clearances are particularly notorious as a result of the brutality of many evictions at short notice (year-by-year tenants had almost no protection under Scots law), and the abruptness of the change from the traditional clan system in which reciprocal obligations between the population and their leaders were well-recognized. The cumulative effect of the Clearances devastated the cultural landscape of Scotland in a way that did not happen in other areas of Britain; the effect of the Clearances was to destroy much of the Gaelic culture.

The Clearances resulted in significant emigration of Highlanders to the sea coast, the Scottish Lowlands and further afield to North America and Australasia, where today are found considerably more descendants of Highlanders than in Scotland itself.

The Clearances were a complex series of events occurring over a period of more than a hundred years

Just as we got to the top of Haystacks there was a brief clearance looking back towards a cloud topped High Crag

Wings open, undercarriage down, tail up, this Rufus Hummingbird makes haste to land

Last items!

Clearance to land..

Landing Gear engaged 😀

Another from the archive

My first attempt in 2010

Ps I have made the fat ring !

Toledo Edison's Acme Generating Station, Toledo, Ohio. September, 1968,

The railway had an unusual "side trolley" arrangement (wire offset completely to one side) to provide clearance for loading hopper cars. Most of the locomotives also had the "extension cord" on a reel on the hood as seen here. This was used for movements into the interchange yard which had no overhead wire.

The last portion of the facility was demolished in 2013. The electric locomotives have been preserved by several museums / individuals.

Original slide in my collection, photographer unknown.

Extensive tree clearance work just west of Crofton has opened up this new vista. I don't think its looked like this since at least the mid 60s, possibly earlier

59206 John F Yeoman climbs away from Crofton curve towards Wolfhall and Savernake with 7Z60, the 11:15 Brentford - Merehead empties

If you want to use this angle better hurry. All the ground level greenery is young nettle growth. Give it a month or 2 and this area is going to be inaccessible

Taken with the aid of a pole

Many of the past collections are going from 10L to 100L... It is a steal!! Hurry!

Credits

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This is a support to a lamp on a lamp post, along the East Bank Esplanade along the Willamette in downtown Portland. Funny place to choose to perch. A young House Sparrow, I believe.

66597 sits at Nunnery Jn awaiting the next load of spoil to be reversed down from Woodburn Jn. The old bracket arm on the left has been exposed following extensive vegetation clearance.

Following fellow PN train 4MP7 on line clearance, PN Intermodal service 3MP5 from South Dynon to Kewdale approaches the township of Mallala behind NR69/NR27 on Wednesday the 28th of June 2023.

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From here I could see some scattered stones from what would have been dwelling places in days gone by. We know some were cleared from the parts in the time of The Clearances. Now there is an emptiness and a quietness.

11 ft 2 in clearance on decommissioned railroad bridge.

I found this clematis in the clearance section a few years ago and feared that it would never survive--it did and has more blossoms than my other clematis!!