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Little Tern - Sterna Albifrons
This delightful chattering seabird is the UK's smallest tern. It is short-tailed and has a fast flight. Its bill is a distinctive yellow with a black tip. It is noisy at its breeding colony where courtship starts with an aerial display involving the male calling and carrying a fish to attract a mate, which chases him up high before he descends, gliding with wings in a 'V'.
Its vulnerable nesting sites and its decline in Europe make it an Amber List species. It is also listed as a Schedule 1 species in The Wildlife and Countryside Act.
This bird breeds on the coasts and inland waterways of temperate and tropical Europe and Asia. It is strongly migratory, wintering in the subtropical and tropical oceans as far south as South Africa and Australia.
There are three subspecies, the nominate albifrons occurring in Europe to North Africa and western Asia; guineae of western and central Africa; and sinensis of East Asia and the north and east coasts of Australia.[4]
The little tern breeds in colonies on gravel or shingle coasts and islands. It lays two to four eggs on the ground. Like all white terns, it is defensive of its nest and young and will attack intruders.
Like most other white terns, the little tern feeds by plunge-diving for fish, usually from saline environments. The offering of fish by the male to the female is part of the courtship display.
At the beginning of the 19th century the little tern was a common bird of European shores, rivers and wetlands, but in the 20th century populations of coastal areas decreased because of habitat loss, pollution and human disturbance.
The loss of inland populations has been even more severe, since due to dams, river regulation and sediment extraction it has lost most of its former habitats. The Little Tern population has declined or become extinct in many European countries, and former breeding places on large rivers like the Danube, Elbe and Rhine ceased. Nowadays, only few river systems in Europe possess suitable habitats; the Loire/Allier in France, the Vistula/Odra in Poland, the Po/Ticino in Italy, the Daugava in Latvia, the Nemunas in Lithuania, the Sava in Croatia and the Drava in Hungary and Croatia. The status of the little tern on the rivers Tagus and lower Danube is uncertain.
Bestwood Colliery in all its dystopian glory.
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Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum) coming out of an Agapanthus floret
Bourdon des champs sortant d'une fleurette d'Agapanthe.
From one large paint brush to another, this is how to work.
Wait is he really painting that? Wow that must have taken a long time to accomplish.
Happy Macro Mondays
This Red Breasted Sap-Sucker loves to work this particular tree. He is there regularly and has left his mark all over the tree.
Ville de Rouen.
La rue du Gros-Horloge, anciennement rue Courvoiserie, est une voie de Rouen, en France. Elle tire son nom du Gros-Horloge, l'un des monuments emblématiques de la ville.
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L’extraction consiste à expulser de la chaudière les sels minéraux de l’eau précipités en boues par le T.I.A. La vanne d’extraction est située au point le plus bas de la chaudière et les boues s’y stockent par gravité.
Macro Mondays theme: “Stone”
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And no, I'm not referring to my forthcoming trip to the dentist (well hopefully not). Instead a carpet of valerian and a brightly coloured class 20 cab provide the colour.
Veteran class 20's 20118 and 20901 are seen edging out of the sidings at the former Kellingley Colliery site. The rake of wagons had been stored for some time so care was needed to ensure that nothing had seized. The 6Z20 stock move would convey the wagons from Kellingley Colliery - Chaddesden Sidings. Quite what they will be required for next I don't know.
Gas flare :- At oil and gas extraction sites, gas flares are similarly used for a variety of startup, maintenance, testing, safety, and emergency purposes. In a practice known as production flaring, they may also be used to dispose of large amounts of unwanted associated petroleum gas, possibly throughout the life of an oil well ( from WIKI )
Osprey at work pulling its catch out of the water with just one set of talons. Looks like it's showing off but likely just couldn't get a grip with the others.
rise and grind coffee shop
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The walk up to the ruins of Rhosydd from Cwmorthin take you along the old miners track past Llyn Cwmorthin. All along the track old slate fencing lines the route, a unique feature of these old mining areas.
Here you see the old Rhosydd Chapel ruin alongside a distinctive Pine tree, which I thought made a nice focal point. Beyond the Chapel you see the view back down the valley to the Cwmorthin Terrace Mine workings. This mining area was known as "The Slaughterhouse" by miners due to the atrocious and dangerous working conditions that resulted in many lives lost to the extraction of slate!
Clearly not a level playing field as Green Heron pretty much always wins. With menhaden on Horsepen Bayou.
The wayward Caddy is pulled toward a grade crossing by LSRM's boom truck while 193 stands by to provide assistance.