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An architectural gem in the Lake County community of Howey-in-the-Hills attests to Ernest Hemingway’s oft-quoted remark “The rich are different.” To wander through the 20 room mansion built in 1925 by the community’s founder, William J. Howey, and stroll over the 15 acres surrounding, brings a nostalgic feeling of how “Once upon a time".
Although not as cute to me as an Austin Healey Sprite, the TR3 doesn't have a very cute quality to it.
The back reads:
HOWEY'S
RESTAURANT AND RUSTIC TAVERN
5120 Broadway, Corner Winona
– Air Conditioned –
• A famous landmark since 1904 where an intimate party of two or two hundred will enjoy the romantic and delightful old world atmosphere.
• Where steaks, roast prime rib and lobster tails reign supreme and the "Snackateria" is uniquely different at noon.
Music by "Muzak"
Mailed June 12th, 1950, the message reads:
Dear Folks,
My Dad took us here for dinner on Sun. Had a nice time. We are feeling fine and the baby's fine too.
Love, Ann + Art
Unbelieveably, this building still stands, and looks quite similar. The wrap-around "Restaurant" sign is still there too. The bad news?... it's now the "South East Asia Center", some sort of community place. Ah well... it least it still -looks- like it's there.
I think this is the first time I've seen "Muzak" used as a selling point.
Bwlch Bungalow, Howey, Llandrindod Wells.
The eaves (roof overhang) is encased using fascia boards (vertical) and soffits (horizontal). The guttering is fixed onto the fascia board. Encasing the eaves is recommended in some countries where there is a high risk of forest fires in order to reduce risk of the roof catching fire from sparks. It can also reduce the movement of cold air into the roof space and birds/mice nesting in the eaves.
Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway. "Captain Howey" arrives at New Romney station with a service for Hythe - 31.8.15.
4-6-2 Pacific locomotive, one of two ordered in 1924 by Count Louis Zborowski, Captain Howey's original partner, and designed by Henry Greenly.
Greenly based them on Nigel Gresley's famous A1 class locomotives of the London & North Eastern Railway, of which the Flying Scotsman is a surviving example. Green Goddess and tender cost £1,250 to build.
Names
English: Eurasian Hobby, Hobby
Scientific: Falco subbuteo
German: Baumfalke
Spanish: Alcotán europeo
French: Faucon hobereau
Taxonomy and Subspecies
Currently 2 subspecies recognized. F. s. streichi occurs in southern and eastern China and maybe also in northern Indochina and eastern Myanmar. F. s. subbuteo occurs over the rest of the species's range including Europe [GRIN 2010].
The closest relative in Europe are the Eleonora's Falcon and the Red-footed Falcon. Other close relatives are the Sooty Falcon F. concolor, Australian Hobby F. longipennis, African Hobby F. cuvierii, Orange-breasted Falcon F. deiroleucus, and the Amur Falcon F. amurensis.
Size
Length: 29-36 cm
Wingspan: 74-84 cm
Weight: 175-285 g
Maximum Age
15 years in the wild. [Mebs & Schmidt 2006]
Habitat
Prefers lowlands over mountainous areas [Mebs & Schmidt 2006].
Hobbies hunt in open areas. Nests are in small group of trees, in forests and also on power poles. It is important that there are enough nests from other species like crows available as the Hobby - like all falcons - does not build a nest of it's own. Enough food (birds, large insects) is also important.
Hobbies are often found near water.
Distribution
Found over most of Europa. Not found in Iceland, Ireland and northern Scandinavia and Russia. From Europa eastwards to the Pacific Ocean and northern Japan.
Migration
The Eurasian Hobby is a complete migrant who leaves Europe mostly in August and September but some as late as October. They spend the winter in Africa south of the Sahara and return to Europe in April and May.
For a long time, not much was known about the exact migration routes and movements during the time in Africa. Of 5,700 birds ringed, only two were recovered in Africa south of the Sahara [MEYBURG, B.-U., C. MEYBURG, P.HOWEY & K.D.FIUCZYNSKI 2011].
With the latest satellite transmitter being as light as 5 grams, it was possible to use them to track small raptors like Hobbies. In August 2008, a female Hobby was fitted with such a transmitter for the first time.
The female left it's German breeding territory (near Berlin) by the end of August. It flew via Italy and across the Mediterranean Sea into North Africa. The falcon needed 49 days to reach it's main wintering area in southern Angola. After more than two months of staying in southern Angola, it made short trip to central Zimbabwe but returned to southern Angola. The distance migrated from Germany to Zimbabwe was more than 10,000 km. It arrived back in Germany in May 2009.
On average the Hobby migrated 174km per day but with a peak of up to 580 km a day when flying over the West African rain forests. Apparently this is not suitable habitat for the hobby.
For more information about this female and it's movements, see [MEYBURG, B.-U., C. MEYBURG, P.HOWEY & K.D.FIUCZYNSKI 2011].
Those information are not only very interesting but also of great value for conservation. Only when we know as much details as possible about the Hobby can we best protect this amazing little falcon. Further studies will for sure bring even more details about it's movements and survival rates during migration and in it's wintering area.
Breeding and Reproduction
Female Hobbies normally able to breed with 1 or 2 years, sometimes with 3 years. Males do not breed before two years old [Mebs & Schmidt 2006].
2 - 4 four eggs are laid by the female with 3 eggs being the most common clutch size [Chapman 1999]. Incubation is between 28 and 31 days and the young stay in the nest for 28 - 34 days.
The male Hobby delivers food to the fledged falcons until shortly before they leave for migration [Mebs & Schmidt 2006].
Food and hunting
The most important prey are birds and insects. During the breeding season, birds are clearly dominant as prey. Common prey species include birds like Skylark, Starlings, House and Tree Sparrows and other small songbirds. Hobbies are capable of catching very fast birds like Swallows, Martins and even Swifts. In a study in the Po Valley in Italy, 53% (!!) of all birds caught were Common Swifts [Mebs & Schmidt 2006]. The percantage of the most caught birds varies with region and availability.
Insects become important after the young have fledged [Mebs & Schmidt 2006]. During the winter in Africa, Hobbies mainly feed in insects, especially one alate termites [Mebs & Schmidt 2006, GRIN 2009].
Bats are also caught sometimes.
Hobbies are very fast and agile fliers and catch birds in flight. Not every attempt is successful, especially when Hobbies try to catch fast flying birds like swallows.
Insects are normally eaten in flight.
Population
[BirdLife International 2004] gives a European population of 71,000 - 120,000 pairs. Largest population in Russia with 30,000 - 60,000 pairs. Other countries with large populations are France (6,500 - 9,600), Belarus (2,500 - 2,700), Romania (3,200 - 4,000), UK (2,200), Ukraine (2,000 - 3,000) and Turkey with 4,000 - 8,000 pairs.
Germany has about 2,900 pairs [Mebs & Schmidt 2006].
Threats
Several threats are affecting the Eurasian Hobby. Illegal hunting during migration, for example, on Malta is still ongoing.
Habitat destruction, especially because of intensification in agriculture, has reduced prey animals like songbirds and large insects. Birds like swallows and larks are declining in many European countries due to intensified agricultural practices.
In some places a decline in crow numbers can reduce the available nests for the Hobby.
Increasing populations of the Goshawk may also have a negative effect on some Hobby populations, for example in the Netherlands, [Mebs & Schmidt 2006, GRIN 2009].
Binding twine from agricultural use, which is sometimes built into nests by crows, can kill young and even adult Hobbies when they entangle themselves in the twine [Mebs & Schmidt 2006].
The shooting into crow nests from below to kill the crows can also kill Hobbies, as it is often not possible to see what bird is breeding in the nest (nests from crows are used by several raptor species and other birds like Long-eared Owls). This practice is illegal in most countries but still occurs.
Conservation
Agricultural practices should keep the needs of wildlife in mind. Less pesticides and a more extensive farming will benefit many bird species, including the Hobby.
The illegal hunting on migration must be stopped. Crows should be fully protected and hunting and killing of crows should be illegal across Europe.
Binding twine should not be left in the field. Education of farmers is important here.
Artificial nests can help Hobbies, especially when there is a lack of nests from crows and other birds. Nests on power poles seem to be safer from Goshawks [Mebs & Schmidt 2006].
Status IUCN/BirdLife
Least Concern (LC)
Status Global Raptor Information Network
Lower risk
Surely one of the sexiest Ferrari's ever made, the 275 GTB creates a sense of speed sitting still. With modern prices exceeding 1.5 million, getting your hands on one of the nearly thousand produced from 1965 to 1967 is a very expensive but worthy challenge.
16 MAY 2014: The Rhodes College Women's golf team scored a +58 to win their first ever National Championship during the Division III Women’s Golf Championship held at the Mission Inn in Howey-In-The-Hills, FL. Georgiana Salant of Williams College shot a +9 to win the individual national title. Matt Marriott/NCAA Photos
Picture from "Mimi volume one, a picture story book for young boys and girls" by Dr. Howey
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An architectural gem in the Lake County community of Howey-in-the-Hills attests to Ernest Hemingway’s oft-quoted remark “The rich are different.” To wander through the 20 room mansion built in 1925 by the community’s founder, William J. Howey, and stroll over the 15 acres surrounding, brings a nostalgic feeling of how “Once upon a time--.”
William J. Howey purchased 60,000 acres in Lake County in 1916, founding the town that was to bear his name four years later. Following his previous formula for success practice in Polk County, he planted citrus on the majority of his newly acquired acreage.
16 MAY 2014: The Rhodes College Women's golf team scored a +58 to win their first ever National Championship during the Division III Women’s Golf Championship held at the Mission Inn in Howey-In-The-Hills, FL. Georgiana Salant of Williams College shot a +9 to win the individual national title. Matt Marriott/NCAA Photos
This was a installation around the state capitol in Albany, NY
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Stringing bottles in protest
Katrina Howey of Saratoga Springs joins other activists in surrounding the Capitol with 2,400 plastic bottles to urge the expansion of the state's bottle deposit law. The bottles represent the number of non-carbonated beverage containers that New Yorkers discard every 30 seconds.(Will Waldron / Times Union)
18 MAY 2012: Eric Quinn of Oglethorpe University sinks a long putt during the Division III Men's Golf Championship held at the Mission Inn Resort & Club in Howey-in-the-Hills, FL. Oglethorpe won the team national title with a +19 score. Matt Marriott/NCAA Photos
Sugarloaf Mountain Ride - June 13, 2009. Orange and Lake County, Florida. Route: Apopka, Astatula, Howey Height, Ferdale, Montverde, Waits Junction, Oakland, Winter Garden, Apopka - STempature gauge reading... 94!
Shot on an Olympus E-410 at St Ives, Cornwall, UK.
Cropped and retouched in Photoshop.
© Katie Howey 2010
Captain Howey sits in platform 1 having run light engine from New Romney. Southern Maid is in platform 3 ready to depart
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