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Yellowhammer - Emberiza Citrinella
The yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) is a passerine bird in the bunting family that is native to Eurasia and has been introduced to New Zealand and Australia. Most European birds remain in the breeding range year-round, but the eastern subspecies is partially migratory, with much of the population wintering further south. The male yellowhammer has a bright yellow head, streaked brown back, chestnut rump and yellow underparts. Other plumages are duller versions of the same pattern. The yellowhammer is common in open areas with some shrubs or trees, and forms small flocks in winter. Its song has a rhythm like "A little bit of bread and no cheese". The song is very similar to that of its closest relative, the pine bunting, with which it interbreeds.
Yellowhammer males learn their songs from their fathers, and over the course of time regional dialects have developed, with minor differences to the conclusion of the basic song; all are mutually recognised by birds from different areas. Each male has an individual repertoire of song variants within its regional dialect; females tend to mate with males that share their dialect, and prefer those with the largest repertoires.
The pine bunting and yellowhammer are so closely related that each responds to the other's song. The male yellowhammer's song is more attractive to females, and is one reason for the dominance of that species where the ranges overlap.
Yellowhammers of the British and Irish race, E. c. caliginosa were introduced to New Zealand by local acclimatisation societies in 1862, and soon spread over the main islands. They sometimes visit New Zealand's subantarctic islands, although rarely staying to breed, and have reached Australia's Lord Howe Island on a number of occasions. At the beginning of the 20th century, this bunting was seen as a serious agricultural pest in its adopted country.
Populations of yellowhammer have also been introduced to the Falkland Islands, and South Africa.
The yellowhammer is a bird of dry open country, preferably with a range of vegetation types and some trees from which to sing. It is absent from urban areas, forests and wetlands. Probably originally found at forest edges and large clearing, it has benefited from traditional agriculture, which created extensive open areas with hedges and clumps of trees.
Populations have declined in recent decades in western Europe, including the British Isles, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria and Italy. The yellowhammer is a red-list (severely declining) species in Ireland and the UK In eastern Europe, numbers appear to be stable, although the trend in Russia is unknown. Changes to agricultural practices are thought to be responsible for reduced breeding densities. The introduced population in New Zealand has been very successful, with breeding densities much higher than in the UK.
2012 A Decade Later:
Digging through the archives takes us back to a decade ago today - March 20, 2012. NS 8098 leads its first revenue train after being released from the Juniata Paint Shop across the farm fields of Western Pennsylvania.
The Taxman. He expresses his psychosis by taxing everything he sees. And what he doesn't see too, why not? He tramples contracts that took decades to be signed, tramples imaginary enemies. He taxes the present, the past and the future. They say he taxed his own mother for giving birth to him. But there is something he will never be able to tax: Love. Because no matter how hard Mr. Taxman tries, we will always find an original way to love. And the good news is that love can heal you, Mr. Taxman. But first you will cry a lot for thrown having so many opportunities in the trash. For having been a thorn in the way of humanity. For having been a pain in the ass.
Sting - If it's Love - youtu.be/nFLfKN32oho?si=TxS-gIqyZk9DuGZ1
Some people say that this full moon is the last full moon of the decade. However, there are those that argue that it occurred last December 2019. (See my post in the comments) At any rate, it's also known as the Cold Moon or the Long Night Moon. I caught it on Monday night just before it was actually full surrounded by puffs of pink clouds at sunset.
Sand Creek, Idaho
A species that's seen a significant decline over the past few decades of some 30 percent. It has a beautiful song that it tends to sing in the evening, hence the name Vesper - The Evening Star.
Following an absence of almost 10 years, Aurizon (or when they last ran as QR National), have returned to the Southern Highlands and the NSW Riverina with a bulk grain train, operating to and from Port Kembla.
Here 6002, ACD6046 and 6001 approach Calwalla, with late running empty Aurizon grain 9357 from Port Kembla to West Wyalong to load.
Saturday 11th February 2023
Southern Pacific’s Roper - Provo turn, aka the UT04L, pulls 68 cars at the west end of the siding at Riverton, Utah the morning of Dec. 17, 1994. This road crossing was an eternal pain for the railroad and motorists, especially when trains would meet. The nightmare ended when a grade separation project was completed two decades ago.
Digging through the archives takes us back to a decade ago today, January 15, 2012. CMYX 22 brings up the rear of empties outside of Mapletown, Pennsylvania. This isolated railroad stretches 17 miles from the preparation plant near Kirby, PA to the Alicia Dock barge loading facility on the Monongahela River.
For decades the harbour has been an area of workers, industry and trade. But after the Mannesmann company had discontinued its tube production in Düsseldorf, parts of the central harbour lost their reason for being (another harbour is in Düsseldorf-Reisholz). As a result the eastern part of the harbour started to be redeveloped.
Nearly a decade before the Potomac Eagle began services over the line, the fledgling South Branch Valley Railroad was operating with a small fleet of well-used Alcos. Here S1 switcher number 1 brings an empty ballast hopper north in the area between Romney and the “trough”, a confined valley that is now a tourist attraction thanks to the excursion trains.
2012 A Decade Later:
Digging through the archives takes us back to a decade ago last week - April 7, 2012. W&LE 104 leads a short train to the AVR interchange at Bruceton. The train is seen here at West Belt Junction where the West End Branch connected to the ex-P&WV mainline. The approximately 2 mile long branch once traversed the valley below to the P&LE (now CSX) interchange in Pittsburgh. The branch line was formally abandoned in 2011 and all tonnage is sent East to Connellsville.
Incavolato col decennio 2020 che prima ci ha portato la Pandemia, poi la guerra in Ucraina e infine anche quella nella striscia di Gaza, in questi giorni mi son messo a cercare la Chiave del Tempo..... basta 2020, 2021, 2022 e 2023, seguitemi che vi porto a dieci anni prima, esattamente fra gennaio e aprile 2012 e sapete dove? nel Mar dei Caraibi, guidando il più bel 5 alberi del mondo: la splendida "Royal Clipper"
La foto che vedete l'ho scattata dal balcone della mia camera d'albergo "Accra" a Bridgetown, nella fiabesca isola di Barbados che mi ospitò per 2 giorni prima del mio imbarco a bordo nave e poi per altri 5 giorni dopo lo sbarco
Pissed off with the decade of 2020 which first gave us the Pandemic, then the war in Ukraine and after that also the war in the Gaza Strip, I started looking for the Time Key ..... no more 2020, 2021, 2022 or 2023, follow me into the more luckely 2012, exactly between January and April, I will show you the fabulous Caribbean Sea, where I'm driving the most beautiful vessel of the world, the charming "Royal Clipper"
I took this photo from the balcony of my room at the Accra hotel in Bridgetown, on the fairytale island of Barbados which hosted me for 2 days before boarding the ship and then for another 5 days after signing off
Decades ago when I was a teenager, I went to a Remembrance Day ceremony honouring veterans and the dead from the World Wars. As people were bowing their heads at the playing of the last post this man was moved to tears.
HANDS a companion image to this one can be found at:
www.flickr.com/photos/192084172@N07/51327697180/in/datepo...
2010-2019 resulted in some great adventures and photographs. I am going to steal some formatting from Brian Plant and share a few from the archives that have not been previously posted.
Often times most of the "fails" end up sitting on the harddrive forever but this seemed like a fun one to share. We were pretty excited to hear the ECO set call the dispatcher and request some railroad back to Conway. We were not so excited to see lite power come around the corner. At least it provides a nice unobstructed view of the now removed signal bridge?
HEHEHEHEH - always good to see where we started and where we are now. 10 years ago, and this isn't what I looked like when I started here in SL that's even a bigger difference.
An upright, decades old tree testifies to successfully surviving years of storms, dryness or too much rain. When our two children were young we challenged them to learn how to stand alone, apart from the pressures of their peers. Little did we know that like all of us, their greatest battles were yet in the distant years to come and then they would have to pass this lesson on to their children.
Under decades of overgrown vegetation, the landowner finally decided to clear around this old home.
It's only one hundred feet off the road that I travel several times per week, but I never knew it was there. Hiding in plain sight.
Decades back, we landed on the moon and came back.
This time, NASA is going to go there again ... but stays. :)
Say 2024?
2012 A Decade Later:
Digging through the archives takes us back to a decade ago last week - April 7, 2012. The pride of the W&LE fleet leads 5 corporate painted locomotives and train 213 through Southview on a spring afternoon.
Six decades after the East Broad Top ended revenue freight operations, a large portion of its rolling stock roster remains at their yard in Mount Union, PA. Most of this equipment has not moved since the shutdown. As a result, trees have grown around and, in some cases, through the strings of coal hoppers lining the yard tracks.
What a welcome sight, as it has been decades since I last saw WM SD40 7471 in Michigan. It's back again leading the kids to Santa along the Great Lakes Central toward Ashley with the SRI train leaving Owosso passing the Robbins Furniture Building at the M-21 crossing - November 20, 2022.
Here's a more than decade old one from a past life and the caption I wrote oat the time when originally shared on RP.net.
It was a splendid cold Sunday with bluebird skies and crisp white snow abounding. An empty intermodal (bare table) train was called for a date with the Northland Services barge at the Alaska Railroad's southernmost terminal in Seward. So, a quick call to my friend Frank Keller and we decided to go for it. What a chase...114 miles from Anchorage to the end of the line with not a cloud in sight. Two clean SD70MAXs led the train, which albeit was not very photogenic consisting of one tank car and 60 flats (most of which were empty) for a total of 2660 tons and 4852 ft. Here the 110S symboled train is seen just out of Anchorage at MP 113 passing Westchester Lagoon which is hot mopped by the city and is a popular place to ice skate and linger by the burn barrels (I put literally hundreds of miles on my skates here ovee the years!) Rising beyond 33 miles across Cook Inlet is the iconic Sleeping Lady, 4396 ft. Mount Susitna.
Anchorage, Alaska
Sunday March 11, 2012
It's that time of the year again. Hiawatha #336 arrives Chicago behind the class Amtrak B32-8WH which is subbing for a Charger that shit out a few days prior. The searchlight installations at the east end of Morgan Street were installed in the early 1980s.
Real estate development has exploded in the West Loop over the past decade. The Fulton Labs on the right were completed last year, and 345 N. Morgan on the left was completed a few months ago (still under construction when this picture was taken). The latter was built by Sterling Bay which is also overseeing the redevelopment of the former ADM flour mill. What you see here is only a fraction of what's to come to the West Loop in the next few years.
Experimenting with black and white photos.
We had some rain today, the sky was overcast with low light when I captured this flower.
Uploaded for the theme "Black and White" in The Flickr Lounge .
Critique is welcomed.
Thank you all very much for your visits, favs and comments.
A decade later, Penn Central was history and the blue and white of Conrail had taken over the Pittsburgh Line. A westbound piggyback train with an obscene amount of power rolls under SF's westbound signal bridge in late 1984.
CR 3397. Gallitzin, PA.
November 1984. Photographer unknown.
Adam Klimchock collection.
Another decade has come and gone as quickly as it began. As we enter a new year as photographers we appreciate where we've been and what we've witnessed, and thanks to photographs we can look back like yesterday to see what's gone, giving purpose to what at times can be called a silly hobby. Not all things last forever but the photos and memories remain. Garwood, West Virginia, late September 2015.
Decades ago this was a block of about three shops, including a dairy (wellington.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/1927).
This antique bench migrated from a friend's family lakeside house when she was forced to sell it several years ago. Her grandfather built the house, then built on again when the family grew larger.
Decades later, with so few of the family members still in the area, my friend sadly sold the large plot, well situated at that time between a golf course and a large all-sports lake.
I have many happy memories of that lakeside place as I grew up with my friend, but this bench was just a casual bystander in those days. After spending a few years in the outer reaches of my garden, the boards are in need of replacing, which easily bolt onto its frame.
My friend now lives in an apartment several states south of me, but if she should ever wish to have a garden bench, I'll make sure this one is properly fitted out with new boards and fresh paint as it will always be hers...
Photo by: A. Shamandour
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
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Mount Rainier is the highest mountain of the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, and the highest mountain in the state of Washington. It is a large active stratovolcano located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of Seattle. It is the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United States and the Cascade Volcanic Arc, with a summit elevation of 14,411 ft (4,392 m). Mt. Rainier is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world, and it is on the Decade Volcano list. Because of its large amount of glacial ice, Mt. Rainier could potentially produce massive lahars that could threaten the entire Puyallup River valley.
Mount Rainier was first known by the Native Americans as Talol, or Tacoma or Tahoma, from the Lushootseed word [təqʷúʔbəʔ] ("mother of waters") spoken by the Puyallup. Another interpretation is that "Tacoma" means "larger than Mount Baker". This comes from the Skagit "Ta", larger, plus "Koma (Kulshan)", Mount Baker. Other names originally used include Tahoma, Tacobeh, and Pooskaus. The current name was given by George Vancouver, who named it in honor of his friend, Rear Admiral Peter Rainier. The map of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806 refers to it as "Mt. Regniere".
Although "Rainier" had been considered the official name of the mountain, Theodore Winthrop, in his posthumously published 1862 travel book The Canoe and the Saddle, referred to the mountain as "Tacoma" and for a time, both names were used interchangeably, although "Mt. Tacoma" was preferred in the city of Tacoma.
In 1890, the United States Board on Geographic Names declared that the mountain would be known as "Rainier". Following this in 1897, the Pacific Forest Reserve became the Mount Rainier Forest Reserve, and the national park was established three years later. Despite this, there was still a movement to change the mountain's name to "Tacoma" and Congress was still considering a resolution to change the name as late as 1924.
In the excitement leading up to Super Bowl XLVIII, John Hickenlooper, Governor of Colorado, named 53 mountains after the 53 members of the Denver Broncos. In response, the Washington State Senate passed a resolution on Friday, January 31, 2014, temporarily renaming the mountain Mount Seattle Seahawks. The resolution expired on midnight Monday, February 3, 2014.
1980's
what's cooler than shades?
nothing that's right!
idk i think if i time traveled back to the 80's
someone would be wearing glasses like these
have a nice day
mhm
on the Kennet and Avon canal at Bathampton, Somerset.
The folks a board were wineing and dining.
The Kennet and Avon Canal is a waterway in southern England with an overall length of 87 miles (140 km),[1] made up of two lengths of navigable river linked by a canal. The name is commonly used to refer to the entire length of the navigation rather than solely to the central canal section. From Bristol to Bath the waterway follows the natural course of the River Avon before the canal links it to the River Kennet at Newbury, and from there to Reading on the River Thames. In all, the waterway incorporates 105 locks.
The two river stretches were made navigable in the early 18th century, and the 57-mile (92 km) canal section was constructed between 1794 and 1810. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the canal gradually fell into disuse after the opening of the Great Western Railway. In the latter half of the 20th century the canal was restored in stages, largely by volunteers. After decades of dereliction and much restoration work, it was fully reopened in 1990. The Kennet and Avon Canal has been developed as a popular heritage tourism destination for boating, canoeing, fishing, walking and cycling, and is also important for wildlife conservation.
Front View
1911 Baker Electric Special Extension Coupe, Model V
In the first decades of the 20th century, electric vehicles seemed poised for primacy. Early internal-combustion engines were rudimentary, dangerous, and difficult to operate, requiring all sorts of pump priming and starter torqueing. Those tasks were uncouth for the wealthy gentlemen who were the automobile’s first customers and downright risky for the era’s women, clothed in voluminous, billowing Edwardian dresses and patriarchal notions of competence. Electric cars, on the other hand, were extremely simple to use. So long as the heavy batteries were maintained and charged, all one had to do was click the on switch, twist the go lever, and roll.
Having founded the American Ball Bearing Company in 1895, Midwestern engineer Walter C. Baker understood the basics of carriage production. This background gave him faith that he could make the leap into car building. Teaming up with his father-in-law and brother-in-law, he started the Baker Motor Vehicle Company in Cleveland in 1899. Seeing the aforementioned advantages inherent in electric vehicles, Baker decided to place his faith in this powertrain.
“Number one, it’s comfortable, and it’s not terribly difficult to drive,” said Stew Somerville, a volunteer mechanic at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome museum in upstate New York, which holds a 1911 Baker in its eclectic collection. “But part of the attraction of the electric automobile was the fact that it did not emit gasoline fumes, you didn’t have to crank-start the engine, there was no big wheel to wrestle with. It was a very smooth-handling automobile. You didn’t even have a loud, offensive horn. There’s a dainty little bell to warn of its coming.” Period ads were frequently, although not exclusively, pitched directly at women.
Baker’s first car to market was a two-seater, the Imperial Runabout. Priced at a competitive $850, it was first shown in New York at the city’s (and nation’s) first auto show. It attracted a number of notable buyers, including Thomas Edison, who purchased one as his very first car. (Edison designed the long-lived nickel-iron batteries used in some Baker vehicles.) By 1906, Baker was, briefly, the world’s top producer of electric vehicles.
But like many of his cohort in the emergent automotive industry, Baker wasn’t just in it for the business. He was in it for the speed. As his company was enjoying success in the consumer market, he was pursuing his dream by developing a series of advanced, record-setting racing cars. His first, the Torpedo, was built in 1902, at great personal expense to Baker. With its 11 batteries, 14-hp mid-mounted motor, outrageously low-slung 48-inch height, streamlined and lightweight white-pine and oilcloth body, and bizarre webbed canvas seat restraints, it seemed poised to set a world land speed record.
Sadly, in that year’s Automobile Club of America speed trials on Staten Island, the car was involved in a disastrous crash. After crossing the 1-kilometer (0.6 mile) mark in just over 30 seconds, Baker and his co-driver lost control and crashed into a group of spectators. One person died at the scene, and another died later from injuries. The drivers were both arrested and charged with manslaughter but were freed when it was determined that the crowd had pushed past protective barriers and onto the course. (Baker’s innovative safety harness likely protected the car’s occupants from serious injury.)
Further attempts with two smaller, single-seater race cars he named Torpedo Kid were also employed in pursuit of the land speed record but were subsequently abandoned following another, nonlethal spectator crash in 1903. Baker has often been noted as the first person to cross the 100-mph barrier, although his records weren’t official due to these wrecks.
Given this peril, Baker decided to forgo his quest for top speed. As gasoline-powered vehicles increased in popularity and gained infrastructural support, he shifted his attention instead to diminishing the electric car’s liabilities, particularly their limited range. He worked diligently on new battery designs, shaft drives, and other componentry. In 1910, Baker’s new chief engineer, Emil Gruenfeldt, set a record for distance driven on a single charge, taking a Baker Victoria for a 201-mile trip at an average speed of 12 mph. Not exactly Ludicrous speed, but an impressive feat nonetheless.
Baker’s successes gave the company prominence among the elite, and the company capitalized on this publicly. In advertisements around 1909, the brand boldly boasted about the King of Siam owning a Baker. The company made a similar splash in American politics when President William H. Taft’s administration purchased a 1909 model as one of the White House’s first automobiles. (A steam-powered White and two gasoline-powered Pierce-Arrows were also included, Taft hedging his bets on how the battle of the powertrains was going to play out.) Taft later added a 1912 Baker Victoria that went on to be driven by five First Ladies. The Baker brand maintains some celebrity allure today, with car-collecting comedian Jay Leno holding a 1909 model in his expansive collection.
As a means of offsetting some of the powertrain’s inherent shortcomings, Baker made investments in battery-charging infrastructure. The brand announced plans to open stations at every major intersection in Cleveland and to grow the network from there, although this effort became cost prohibitive and never came to fruition. Expansion into the production of electric trucks, police patrol wagons, and even trucks and bomb handlers for the U.S. Army during World War I was not enough to fend off the rising dominance of the internal-combustion engine, especially after the proliferation of the electric starter, first available on the 1912 Cadillac, significantly increased safety and convenience. By 1915, the Baker company was defunct.
By Brett Berk, Car and Driver
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As we say goodbye to 2019 and one decade, I want to wish all a happy, healthy and prosperous new decade. The many possibilities are beautiful, wonderful and exciting. Looking forward to seeing your wonderful photos and artistry.
I also see that it is time for my husband and I to get back to OR!!!
Oregon Sunset
Canon Beach, OR