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Coming past the Old Waverley Hotel, Lothian Country Buses Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse Urban RIG 6948 is on Driver Training duties through Edinburgh.
It was interesting to watch these learner Scuba divers in the shallows of the clear blue waters off the Portsea Pier. The beach behind is the opposite side of the pier, closer to the eastern part of the curve that leads to the Heads. Portsea has a large number of wealthy inhabitants and a lovely Portsea Hotel that overlooks the pier and the yachts moored nearby.
It may be a crazy thing to teach your girlfriend to drive your ATV, especially without helmets! Oquirrh Mountains, Salt Lake County, Utah. For the Smile on Saturday group. Topic: Crazy Couples.
We enjoyed watching this young fellow learning to control this gondola. Lots of laughs from his companions and us.
After our Dolomites hike last September, we spent four nights in Venice, staying in the Cannaregio area. Exploring the streets of Cannaregio on our first day in Venice. A guessimate of the location.
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Eurasian Blackbird. --> Today this little one left the nest for the first time! :-)))
/seen @my Garden
Olympus E-M1
OLYMPUS 50-200mm Lens
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With frost still clinging to the sleepers Calder Valley class 110 units DR977614 and DR 977613, now in departmental service as Sandite vehicles, rumble by Shipley Bingley Junction.
Carrying on the theme of ex-works class 931 departmental vehicles, this is Route Learning vehicle 931001 (formerly class 416 unit 6232) at Clapham Junction on 15th September 1993. Bearing a fresh coat of Network South East livery it was being used on the route to and from Kensington Olympia. For the record, that's 56059, possibly heading light to Stewart's Lane depot. The unit had four windows at one end and three at the other. This unit was withdrawn from service in 2002 and scrapped at Immingham in February 2004.
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See this website for futher details: departmentals.com/departmental/977856
Two 'learner' trams on the former tracks along the river Amstel. The straat is called' Amstel' as well. © Henk Graalman foto PvMunster 1979
Class 222104 Working 5M17 0842 London St Pancras To Leicester Then Leicester To Cricklewood Sidings Seen Here Passing Kettering Station on Thursday 19th January 2023
47614 pauses at the signal on the DML working 0Z51 10.48 Crewe H.S. - Cardiff Canton Sidings Locomotive Services Limited Route Learner.
'Early learner'. A Juvenile Great Black Backed Gull pictured here with Starling prey in its beak. I photographed and watched this young gull catch the Starling and batter the life out of it on the rocks before making a meal of it. Natural predator behaviour…Titchwell Marsh, Norfolk, UK.
Great Black Backed Gull Notes:-
Many gulls have a bright red spot near the tip of their otherwise yellow beaks. Behind that red spot lies a considerable tale ...
In the mid-20th Century, Dutch scientist Niko Tinbergen studied nesting Herring Gulls. He noticed that newly hatched gull chicks were fed by their parents only after they pecked at the adults' bills. Tinbergen devised experiments that varied the shape and coloration of the adult's bill. It became clear that the red spot on the adult gull's bill was a crucial visual cue in a chick's demands to be fed, and thus its survival.
Tinbergen also made the case that the chick's attraction to the red spot on the bill was instinctive. This conclusion came at a time when there was furious debate among experts about whether such behavior was learned or innate. Tinbergen's gull research helped lay the groundwork for the science of animal behavior, and in 1973 earned him a Nobel Prize. And it all started with that little red spot. Bob Sundstrom Notes.
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Great Black Backed Gull Notes.
Key facts.
Scientific name: Larus marinus
Status: Resident breeding species and passage migrant
Breeding birds: 17,000 pairs
Wintering birds: 77,000
Conservation status: Amber
Length: 68 – 69 cm
Wingspan: 150 – 170 cm
Weight: 1.4 – 2.3 kg
Description
Great black-backed gulls are the largest species of gulls in the world. In breeding plumage adults have black backs and wings and large white spots on the tips of their primaries.
Great black-backed gulls have large yellow bills with a red spot on the lower mandible. Their eyes are yellow with a red eye-ring and their legs and feet are flesh coloured.
In winter they look similar except on the head and neck which is streaked with grey-brown. The yellow bill and red spot are duller. Both sexes look similar except the male is much larger. Juveniles have mottled brown and white plumage and a black bill.
Nesting
Great black-backed gulls nest on ridges and on roofs. The nest is bulky and made from grass, moss and algae lined with feathers, vegetation, rope and plastic.
Great black-backed gulls lay 1-3 olive-green or brown eggs. Both parents incubate the eggs for 27 days. Chicks are covered in grey down when they hatch and are fed by both male and female. The leave the nest 2-3 weeks after hatching and can fly 7-8 weeks later.
Feeding
Great black-backed gulls have a varied diet and will eat fish, crustaceans, insects, other small birds and eggs and carrion. They will also occasionally eat small mammals such as rats, mice and rabbits.
The great black-backed gull is the largest gull in the world and due to their size, they have few predators, but may occasionally make a tasty snack for white-tailed eagles, sharks and killer whales at sea. Birdspot Notes.
What you will see here is a newly born Orang Utan Baby.
It was difficult to catch the baby with the mother.
She hides her young one very impressive all the time! :-)))
Pls excuse me: this pic isn´t at a 100% sharpness level... ;-))
/seen @Zoo Rostock, Germany
6.8.2020.
Blue liveried Class 37 No 37612 works away from Retford with the 09.20 Doncaster West Yard - Doncaster West Yard (via Worksop, Retford and Hatfield & Stainforth).
I'm assuming this was a route learner, but could be wrong.
It's me that's the slow learner -- not the fly.
Did everyone else know that you could rest the rim of the macro lens on the surface where the insect is? It helps to steady the shot, and seems to focus ok.
Rather smart -- On Black
This juvenile Black Skimmer joined in to the attack. This is full frame and uncropped. I did cut the wing tips off, but it's so hard to get them when they are flying right out you.
Stone Harbor, NJ
Not a bad way to learn to fly is it?
The RAF Hawk T.1 is a training aircraft used to progress pilots onto fast-jet flying in the Tornado GR4 and Typhoon FGR4.
Stagecoach Manchester's former Western Buses Alexander Y Type bodied Leopard training bus, TV23 sits under the arches at Bennett Street yard in the summer of 2003. It later gained national fleetnumber 25785.
Fords of Althorne Volvo Olympian Alexander R156 VPU runs Empty after working the 0014 service to St Cedds Primary at Bradwell on Sea.
Had a driving lesson this morning. I got overtaken by a milk float. A MILK FLOAT.
I get all panicky when there are cars around me (which is often).. its as though I can hear their engines whispering "what are you doing, noob? grrrr!" and so I get flustered and stall :(
I don't think i'll ever get the hang of this..
47727 "Rebecca" heads through Luddenden Foot on the 13:06 Preston to Wakefield route learner - 01/12/14.
Balfour Beatty-liveried Class 20s 20189 and 20142 pass through Twyford station with a route learning run when they were planned to have a part in the Great Western Main Line electrification scheme.
Shell Game
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Shot for Iron Photographer 143
1 - the color orange
2 - something with a handle
3 - vignetting
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Strobist info: Single SB-600 sporting a StoFen Omni-Bounce triggered by Yongnu 502, the whole mess placed to the left & slightly behind & above the subject(s), 1/64 power. Manual exposure: f/2.8 1/200 -2/3 EV.