Did a bit of Hard Drive Housekeeping tonight and found one of many sunsets taken on the North Coast, this one was from a very windy Bedruthan Steps back in April 2014 and so I thought it was time to release it from the archives and set it Free :)

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female red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus, Icteridae) with fiber for the nest rests on a cattail

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These Wasps have a fascinating social life. A queen is supported by a community of workers. there are specialist work forces, rebellions, leadership contests, undertakers, police, even free-loaders and anti-social thugs. You name it, social wasps have it. This worker wasp is housekeeping by removing sand from the inside of the nest .

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Wakodahatchee Wetlands

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Union Station, Washington DC, USA

Jurong Lake, Singapore. Father is taking out waste from the nest.

I always enjoy the antics of these little beauties. One moment they're preening peacefully and the next minute they're locked in a duel to the death, racing around the garden at breakneck speed. Thanks again for visiting.

Birdhouse and lots of cobwebs at our barn. Never seen anything like this before. The birds are getting lax. :-)

The better half! The female Red-bellied Woodpecker was sharing the feeding duties with the male. This nest was only about 20 feet away from me, as I was walking on a board walk.

A Larinioides patagiatus on our balcony.

I used an extension tube and a reverse ring with my old Nikkor 50mm 1.8D set to f11 to capture this one.

Western Bluebird

Grebes keeping busy doing housekeeping chores ;-)

A house sparrow working on a nest in a cavity in a saguaro cactus in Tucson, Arizona

Mom is doing some housekeeping chores while the young one watches her leave. Their were three little ones in the nest. This one does not seem any too happy to see her leave. Feeding was continuous with both mom and dad taking turns with the duties.

Female oriole is busy doing some housekeeping to help make the perfect nest for her young

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A South Shore Trainman is sweeping the steps of snow so passengers can board at Bendix, South Bend on New Years weekend 1977.

Bempton Cliffs. This seems to be a new nest site, the gannet is clearing small stones from the ledge and awaiting nesting material.

Sony a1 + Zeiss Milvus 85mm f/1.4 ZF.2 lens

lou spent all day cleaning up the PK apartment, it needed it!

Lou before

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Housekeeping !

Also this year I picked up the plan to follow the stork's nest at restaurant "'t Stokske" in Moergestel ( The Netherlands ). My first visit was on March 4, 2022. This picture is taken on the 16th of March ! Visit the album : 2022 Ooievaarsnest 't Stokske Moergestel ( Gemeente Oisterwijk ) Noord-Brabant for this lovely couple !

Bald Eagle does a little clean-up.

Red-headed woodpecker takes out the trash; chick poop mixed with wood chips.

Backlit in direct sunlight, against bright clouds.

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Housekeeping is a seemingly never ending process for more than just people. Blue herons can take many weeks to construct their nests. The male does most of the gathering, handing off the twigs to his partner, who does most of the construction. He frequently seems tentative, waiting to see if the twig he has brought home will please her.

Example "document" indicating the ubiquitous nature of asbestos in our everyday lives demonstrated on this vintage asbestos product tag that touts, "Over four-million satisfied customers...".

The asbestos product attached to this tag is but only one of thousands of distinct asbestos consumer goods manufactured over the course of modern manufacturing history. While the commonly accepted estimate of individual asbestos products promoted by industry experts and governmental organizations is usually expressed as, "...over three-thousand...", some limited research indicates the number of distinct asbestos products seems to be at least over ten-thousand, so far (increasing daily by Asian companies).

It is simple to group particular asbestos materials into generic classifications like "Textile" or "Pipe Insulation" and then attempt to quantify product type applications in such a manner. However, not apparently considered in the general "asbestos products estimate" is an accounting of actual discrete asbestos products developed across an expansive list of companies, each with their own separate proprietary product lines. Companies developed their own variations of products with varying amounts of asbestos and other ingredients, thereby making each product distinct from other similar products.

For example, vintage industrial catalogs from some former asbestos manufacturers all document a large variety asbestos-containing products. From just a single company's catalog alone, such as one from Johns-Manville, it describes a diverse collection of several hundred asbestos products that were offered (that's just one company and only its industrial product line; not to mention its commercial, residential, & general consumer products). Using the industrial product example, there were dozens of varieties of asbestos packings and asbestos gasket materials alone, each with its own product name and formulation.

Now theoretically, multiply the number of companies that sold asbestos materials with the number of distinct asbestos products they made.

For extra credit, multiply the above postulated quantity of distinct asbestos products by the amount of worldwide customers that acquired asbestos products, then multiply by the number of repeat purchases and quantities of materials purchased.

In relation to the widespread presence of asbestos in our daily lives, it doesn't take long to sense the notion of the enormous scale asbestos is involved and that its scope may be far underestimated or downplayed.

Australasian Gannet

Explored March 11, 2017.

A Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) tidy's up its cavity in preparation for the upcoming nesting season. Chickadees are secondary cavity excavators. They lack tools like a sturdy, sharp beak, strong neck muscles, and reinforced skulls to penetrate the bark. Instead, they look existing holes, typically excavated by woodpeckers, and will work on removing the soft inner pulp until they've created a cozy cavity to their liking. Caro and I watched this pair doing just that in this old flowering dogwood snag.

Good Housekeeping, August 1961

View of a pull-out sample containing a whole vintage Gold Bond asbestos siding shingle (with nail-holes). The shingle measures approx. 12" x 24" and demonstrates another "Chroma-Shake" variety of permanized siding, made by National Gypsum Company.