Oystercatcher at Fort Desoto

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A juvenile just beginning to show his adult plumage

green woodpecker ~ picus viridis

(uncropped and taken through a window)

When you drive on Highway 50 through southern Nevada, there is just NOTHING there! For hours and hours, there are endless barbed wire fences on both sides, no cattle that I ever saw, no cross roads, no towns ... nothing but the road in front of you with an occasional car or truck zooming along at 75 mph.

I really wanted to pull over and walk around in this landscape for half an hour at least and get a little taste of it, but as strange as it may sound - with all this open space - there was no easy way to pull over. Beside the road the dirt slanted downwards and you wouldn't want to get caught on a precarious rock or in a hole, especially with the occasional big 18-wheeler truck whizzing by. There were dirt roads here and there ... but they seemed to be private ranch roads and I felt like I might get shot for trespassing if I tried to walk my dog there! So I ended up being trapped between two endless lines of barbed wire fence with no option but to keep driving.

Until we finally hit a "rest stop," which really was simply an extra little paved area, nothing more. Blanca finally could get out on leash at least and explore. She quickly found something exciting as there were mysterious holes in the ground everywhere! Something, or someone, lived down there and she was going to dig them out! I let her dig for a while but did not really know what was down there, so eventually broke it off. I still don't know who was down there!

Digging through the archives, this is one of the images from my adventures in the R.L Hearn power plant

It's been a great afternoon in the garden.

A few more images from a special morning surprise; two Pileated Woodpeckers!

pardon my flickr friends for not a very good macro...

i thank you for the visits ,fave and notes!!

God bless everybody.

dirty trench digging in bata minemaster boots

minemaster boots

An elderly Vietnamese woman digging for clams at low tide on a stormy summer's morning on Van Don Island, Quang Ninh Province.

Camberwell New Road, Lambeth

Bucket-wheel excavator in the Hambach surface mine,

digging lignite, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Schaufelradbagger im Tagebau Hambach beim Abbau der Braunkohle. Wenn man bedenkt, daß diese mächtige Braunkohleschicht bis 2050 als CO2 in die Atmosphäre gelangen wird, fängt man doch an zu grübeln ...

I was digging deep, deep in my inventory for the hairpiece. I have no idea if it is still for sale. I bought it in 2010.

Mesh Body - Lara V5.3

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Tville - Body Freckles #1

*YS&YS* Camilla T00 NO Brows - BOM (EVOX+Maitreya)

IKON Promise Eyes - Clarity (M)

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Izzie's - LeL Evo X - Eyebags (light)

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theMARS - Butter Gloss Lip HUD 1 - Lelutka EV HD Lip

- Secrets - Nany Belly Piercing - Silver - Maitreya -

-*'Dirty Princess** The Equestrian Princess Riding Boots (Pair)

CAZIMI: Mesh Nails - Ballerina Short - Maitreya (L & R)

Maitreya Bali Boho Blouse L3 - Amber Lara

Maitreya Leather Skinny Pants * Lara Body * Bronze (Tapered)

RAWR! Purity Earrings FEMALE HUMAN EvoX

Zaara : Raga oyster ring *pearl* (gold)

Poses: Diversion – Step By step (5) to the right. Left: STUN

Finnish forces who where already in Norway dig in for a possible Canadian assault. Canada please leave Norway, we do not want a war between Finland and Canada. If the Canadians attack us we will try to kick you out of Norway.

getting stuck into in!

This is the site for a proposed Harley Davidson dealership. They're moving right along. They may have some sediment control and drainage challenges as it's adjacent to a water tower, a new Mercedes dealership, a new nursing school, some apartments, a migratory path and a natural protected area, but so far they're doing great (insert stress cracks here).

Delfzijl Beach, The Netherlands

Victory Show. 1940's Event.

In Suttons Bay, Michigan. After being pounded by high winds and snow for days, the sun came out this morning and all is well.

Aunt Andrea fixed her hair and took her picture.

Ex QNSL SD40-2 3403 leads Pan Am train POED as it grinds up grade through West Fitchburg, MA to the top of Gardner hill. The trio of EMD's was definitely a sight for sore eyes as such a lashup has become quite rare west of Portland.

A White Ibis looking for lunch.

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My neighbor digging out after a recent snow storm.

Green Ibis

Scientific name: Mesembrinibis cayennensis (Gmelin, 1789)

Portuguese: Coró-coró

muddy HD rigger boots

LC-A, Chrome 100, X-Pro

HD riggers trench digging

A Northern Flicker looking for breakfast.

Winter storm Jonas

I got what you need, you feelin' lonely?

I need you to hold me

I hope you mean everything that you told me

I'll try to come back to you, girl, I'm sorry

If you miss me, just call me

You try to diss me 'cause you salty

Did this on my own, it's all me

I just wish that you would call me

Call me

I just wish that you would call me up

Wish that you would call me

- Call Me, NAV, Metro Boomin

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I think this the female of a pair of burrowing owls. They've been seen together, for several days now, flying between a couple of burrows that seem abandoned. On Sunday, that included a lot of copulation. After one mating, this bird came over and started scratching out a burrow, sat down in it and then flew away.

I think that in this soil, they'll take an abandoned burrow, but she'll improve it to her tastes, down inside. I suspect that this is ritual digging, that's part of a mating routine.

Shoveller. duck

Watching him at Porthleven took me way back to when I was a kid when I'd go digging for lugworms for local fishermen.

Porthleven, Cornwall

We have been spending most of our time digging trenches, and deep one at that.

Taken @Wellington city, New Zealand

The local museum are excavating an area belived to have been the location ​for a castle, dating back to around 13-1400 AD

A new building started in Thanon Si Lom, Bangkok.

The gaffer is the woman this time; but she may not be on the team - maybe an engineer/architect.

I’ve been trying to photograph these guys for six weeks - the security guards open the front doors only to staff and trucks. I had 15 seconds to take my pictures!

Two native bees (probably Lasioglossum sp.) enjoy a Podolepis sp. flower. [Kanangra-Boyd National Park, NSW]