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CP 7307 leads another GP38-2 and a GP20C-ECO past the Blandford siding and westwards towards London on CP T69. The sun was just about to go below the treeline for good, so this train came at the perfect time.
Safer on the rocks that in the water with those killer whales roaming around. Posing for the camera.
Located : Satsu station, Sanin main line, Hyogo pref.
West Japan Railway Company
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BNSF 527 leads four axle local power on the Parachute Local approaching De Beque on its its return to Grand Junction, Colorado.
4 October 2023.
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Yesterday morning our local Swifts were flying over the garden so I went out with my camera for some target practice. This wasn't my best photo of the session, but a Swift feeding is something I've been trying to photograph for ages. They fly around catching flying insects which they store in their crop to take back to the nest. They can catch up to a thousand insects before returning to feed the chicks. David Lack who studied Swifts nesting in a tower at Oxford University counted 312 different species of insect and spider in these bug balls, and found that typically they contain 3-500 insects. Because winged insect food is so variable and unpredictable the youngsters can go into a kind of torpor, dropping their body temperature and arresting their development, then resuming to normal development when the insects start to reappear. They probably hunt at about 25 mph but even at this speed they can differentiate between insects. One swift was found to have caught several stingless drone honeybees but neatly avoided all of the stinging females. It is thought that each Swift may catch 10,000 insects in a day, which makes it surprising that this is the first time I have managed to photograph one feeding.
A pair of UP SD40Ns and a GP60 roll through the Westminster plant in Saint Paul. Recent foliage removal had opened up a bunch of angles around here.
Source: Scan of an original photograph.
Set: BUR01.
Date: 5th February 1989.
Photographer: © 1989 Mr J. Burnett
Repository: From the collection of Mr Burnett.
Used here by very kind permission.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
What's not to love about donkeys?
On this particular day it had been a rather fruitless wildflower hunt early in the season along Caliente-Bodfish rd. And then I came upon what seems like a pair of proud parents, showing off their youngster roadside and made the day!
Have a great Labor Day Weekend!
Is what the sign in the window of this defunct business in Elma says. The hamlet's hotel has been out of business and for sale for at least 5 years.
May2024. Silo near Gillett, Arkansas USA. Foma100@200.FujicaST801.Fujinon100mm-M42screwmount.YellowFilter.HC110(e).AGOFilmProcessor.CameraScan:FujifilmXH1
I’m aiming to take a photo a day. I’ve missed the odd day or two (this work thing keeps getting in the way...) Here’s a photo taken around the corner from where I live, Emley Moor TV mast on the skyline.
Built in 1971, the Emley Moor mast is the tallest free-standing building in the whole of the UK.
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