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Sun Life Bldg. with Place Ville-Marie in the background:
The stages of construction of Sun Life were as follows:
1913–1918: 7-story southern part of base;
1923–1926: extension of base eastward and northward;
1929–1931: 16-story set-back tower.
Today, the "Sun Life" is Montreal's 17th tallest building and stands in the middle of the central business district centred on Dorchester Square, dwarfed by neighbouring Place Ville-Marie and the nearby CIBC building.
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Place Ville Marie (formerly Royal Bank Tower from its anchor tenant), is a 188 m (617 ft), 47-storey, cruciform office tower. Built in the International style in 1962 as headquarters for the Royal Bank of Canada, 1 PVM is arguably the city's most distinctive building. The complex is a nexus for Montreal's Underground City, the world's largest, with indoor access to over 1,600 businesses, several subway stations, a suburban transportation terminal, and tunnels extending throughout downtown. A counter-clockwise rotating beacon on the rooftop lights up at night, illuminating the surrounding sky with up to four white horizontal beams that can be seen as far as 50 km away.
At the time of construction, the main tower was known as the tallest skyscraper in the Commonwealth, and was the third tallest skyscraper on earth outside the United States.
(07-07-2018: 200)
I'm in a dragonfly mood this morning so here's one of our biggest clubtails from this season. Blackwater's are rare in N. Georgia but fortunately I've got a population along Little River which has also produced other rare clubtails like Laura's and Splendid. Interesting historical tidbit about Little River: it was considered the northern-most limit for growing cotton before the Civil War. After the war new varieties were developed that expanded the growing area northward. If you drive through Middle and South Georgia in October/November you will see fields of cotton ready to be harvested.
>> obelisking male Blackwater clubtail @ the wetlands this summer
The impressive Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator) is rather appropriately named, for its bulky stature places it firmly in top spot as the largest British Dragonfly. Its naming seems doubly appropriate when witnessing the imperial nature with which this feisty insect goes about its business. It really is big, with the largest individuals topping out at over 8cm, a figure that gives it a legitimate claim for the title of 'UK's largest insect.' The wingspan is even longer, though its lightweight frame denies it top prize in the weight category, bested by some terrestrial insects. Not only are they big, they're fast and have magnificent stamina. This may see them reaching speeds of over 20mph, flying higher and further than the majority of other species and patrolling their territories almost endlessly. The Emperor belongs to a family of medium-large dragonflies, Aeshnidae, loosely known as the 'Hawkers', who all hunt and pursue prey in flight. Both sexes are particularly distinctive, displaying an apple-green thorax and long black line running the length of the abdomen, which is blue in the male, green in the female.
Though the mighty Emperor is large, it would have been dwarfed by some of its ancient ancestors, who prowled the oxygen-rich Carboniferous skies 300 million years ago. By the end of the Permian, around 250 million years back, some of today's familiar taxonomic dragonfly families were already beginning to be formed. This extraordinary lineage marks the dragonflies (Anisoptera) as perhaps the most remarkable winged wonders on the planet. Their evolution has enabled sensational feats of aerial agility, huge flight muscles within the thorax directly connected to their beating wings. As the thorax is quite simply a powerhouse of locomotion, the interior of the exoskeleton is heavily strengthened to withstand the huge forces generated. It's a rather wonderful morphological feature as each wing is carefully controlled by a separate muscle. This results in exquisite flight control, an ability to twist the wings on both upstroke and downstroke providing immediate lift and flawless control. The power generated creates vortexes of 'unsteady airflow' which sound disastrous, but may in fact pave the way for the development of future aircraft. Their mastery of the air has already inspired advances in drone technology and space exploration.
The male Emperor has a supremely territorial nature. He won't just chase away intruders, he'll viciously clash with other Dragonflies in bouts of aerial supremacy. The rasping sounds of their chitinous wings colliding may travel a surprising distance and now is a marvellous time to start observing these titanic battles, typically over larger well-vegetated waterbodies. When not on 'fighter patrol' the Emperor will be chasing down a variety of insects, using its well-positioned legs to catch and hold them up to its mandibles whilst it feasts. It'll rarely alight, though a taste for large butterflies and even other dragonflies means it may have little choice but to stop and eat on occasion. Though an adult Emperor may live for a couple of months or more, it'll spend around ten times longer living underwater as an aggressive predatory larvae. These are as voracious as the adults and will gorge on anything smaller than themselves, including tadpoles and small fish, caught using well-developed eyesight, powerful jaws and an incredible form of underwater 'jet propulsion.' As they spend such a significant time living aquatically, the ongoing conservation of our waterways is key to their continued success. The creation of new wetland habitat, cleaning-up of rivers and warming climate have all contributed to the northward march of the Emperor as it continues to colonise new areas.
Migrating Cormorants fly above stormy seas...
I live next to Lake Michigan and though it can get very rough and resemble the water above, this was a composite image. The Cormorants were captured by me a couple days ago as they were passing northward by the thousands. The waves were added from my favorite online editor, picmonkey.com...
While Lake Michigan is considered the most dangerous of the five Great Lakes due to the most loss of life through the years, the highest waves ever recorded were on Lake Superior on October 24, 2017, and they were 29 feet high!
Still, Lake Michigan is often very rough and 23 foot high waves were recorded in September of 2011.
The Lake is incredibly beautiful, but it can be terribly dangerous and must be respected.
at a small island close to the shore of the Pacific Ocean in central Chile
the next post, also shown in the first comment box, contains a closer view of this endangered pelican species
The Humboldt Penguin is a medium-size penguin that lives along the coasts of Peru and Chile. There it makes use of the cold, nutrient-rich Humboldt Current flowing northward from Antarctica
IUCN Red List Status: Vulnerable
Spheniscus humboldti
Humboldtpinguïn
Manchot de Humboldt
Humboldtpinguin
Pingüino de Humboldt
Pinguino di Humboldt
Pinguim-de-humboldt
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A quartet of EMD standard cabs roll northward on the former Delaware & Hudson between Binghamton and Oneonta with train 253. Canadian Pacific gave EMD fans a good show in 2011-12 with a brief reprieve from filthy G-E widenoses.
Hearts to all, old friends (some more than a decade) and new - Happy Valentine's Day!
p.s. stay safe in this severe winter storm that's running a swath across the country from Texas to Alabama and northward - looks like it's barely going to miss us
Sand cranes head for the fields after a night on the Platte River near Kearney, Nebr. Hundreds of thousand sand cranes migrate to the Platte River valley to fuel up before resuming their northward migration.
Snow geese come in for feeding to a field at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area.
Middle Creek is the major rest stop for snow geese during their annual northward migration. In February or early March, depending on weather, tens of thousands -- and, regularly, over a hundred thousand --snow geese arrive at a relatively small lake surrounded by corn fields (the fields are maintained just for the geese, so no farmers are harmed by the invasion). As you can imagine, at such density of birds, it is sheer chaos.
Just a few weeks ago, Palm Warblers such as this one were plentiful in my area as they traveled northward during Spring migration. Now they are nowhere to be seen. Since I never got around to posting a shot of one earlier, I decided to make up for that today.
Sand cranes land on the Platte River near Kearney, Nebr. Hundreds of thousand sand cranes migrate to the Platte River valley to fuel up before resuming their northward migration.
L100 continues its northward journey further up the line at Hooversville. The rear of the train can be seen heading over the grade crossing in the distance.
A large and strong-flying butterfly and common in gardens. This familiar and distinctive insect may be found anywhere in Britain and Ireland and in all habitat types.
Starting each spring and continuing through the summer there are northward migrations, which are variable in extent and timing, from North Africa and continental Europe. The immigrant females lay eggs and consequently there is an emergence of fresh butterflies, from about July onwards. They continue flying into October or November and are typically seen nectaring on garden buddleias or flowering Ivy and on rotting fruit.
There is an indication that numbers have increased in recent years and that overwintering has occurred in the far south of England.
In 2018 I scratched plans to do the home front in Fall foliage when it was apparent the colors would be trash. I ended up having a pretty awesome trip to the Midwest, which included this serendipitous score of a clean Canadian National cowl on the point of train 341. The northward train has just passed underneath the former DW&P Rainy Sub as it races up the Missabe Sub in Munger, Minnesota. Thanks to all the birdies that helped out!
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve commands a glacier-crowned, maritime wilderness that stretches northward from Alaska’s inside passage to the Alsek River, encircling a magnificent saltwater bay. To the south and east, the landscape fragments into the timbered islands and winding fjords, while to the west, the Park’s pristine outer coast opens to the Gulf of Alaska, and the Pacific Ocean beyond. A mountain-guarded, maritime sanctuary, Glacier Bay National Park ecures the coastal flank of the largest internationally protected area on earth.
Here is a photo of Ruby Beach in the Olympic National Park, taken in June, 2018. This was taken from the lower part of the stairway leading down to the beach, looking northward up the beach. To access the beach itself, one has to climb over those washed-up logs that sit at the base of the stairway.
Parts of Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava's Quadracci Pavilion in the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM)—running northward from Windhover Hall—are parallel, tow-arched promenades: on the east (facing Lake Michigan), is the Baumgartner Galleria; on the west (facing downtown Milwaukee), is the Schroeder Galleria. This photo, taken May 11, 2023, looks northward through the Donna and Donald Baumgartner Galleria.
A member of the widespread jay group, and about the size of the jackdaw, it inhabits mixed woodland, particularly with oaks, and is a habitual acorn hoarder. In recent years, the bird has begun to migrate into urban areas, possibly as a result of continued erosion of its woodland habitat. Before humans began planting the trees commercially on a wide scale, Eurasian jays were the main source of movement and propagation for the European oak (Q. robur), each bird having the ability to spread more than a thousand acorns each year. Eurasian jays will also bury the acorns of other oak species, and have been cited by the National Trust as a major propagator of the largest population of Holm oak (Q. ilex) in Northern Europe, situated in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight.[5] Jays have been recorded carrying single acorns as far as 20 km, and are credited with the rapid northward spread of oaks following the last ice age.[6]
Southern Alps, New Zealand.
The Southern Alps (Māori: Kā Tiritiri o te Moana) are a mountain range extending along much of the length of New Zealand's South Island, reaching its greatest elevations near the island's western side.
The range runs 500 km north to south. The tallest peak is Aoraki / Mount Cook, the highest point in New Zealand at 3,724 metres (12,218 ft) and there are sixteen other points that exceed 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) in height. The mountains are cut through with glacial valleys and lakes.
The Southern Alps lie along a geological plate boundary, part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, with the Pacific Plate to the southeast pushing westward and colliding with the northward-moving Indo-Australian Plate to the northwest.
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I found this Roseate skimmer on Aug. 13 perched high in cattails at the wetlands and looking awfully lonesome out there. This is a Florida/South Georgia species that has been expanding its range northward. Pal Stacy spotted one a few summers ago and e'd me in the mountains that she was trying to relocate it. She never saw that one again - nor did I when we got home - but one or two have shown up every summer since then. I don't think I've ever seen an immature male before. Extremely rare this far North!
>> Roseate skimmer, immature male will turn pink/purple soon, this week - North Georgia
Nonbreeding adult
These medium-sized gulls breed in Mexico's Gulf of California and then migrate northward to spend late summer and fall along the Pacific Coast.
From the Cornell Lab:
"The Black-bellied Whistling-Duck is a boisterous duck with a brilliant pink bill and an unusual, long-legged silhouette. In places like Texas and Louisiana, watch for noisy flocks of these gaudy ducks dropping into fields to forage on seeds, or loafing on golf course ponds. Listen for them, too—these ducks really do have a whistle for their call. Common south of the U.S., Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks occur in several southern states and are expanding northward."
This fine-looking specimen was spotted at the South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center, Texas.
Tomball, Texas
Cardinals, in the family Cardinalidae, are passerine birds found in North and South America. They are also known as cardinal-grosbeaks and cardinal-buntings.
One of our most popular birds, the Cardinal is the official state bird of no fewer than seven eastern states. Abundant in the Southeast, it has been extending its range northward for decades, and it now brightens winter days with its color and its whistled song as far north as southeastern Canada. Feeders stocked with sunflower seeds may have aided its northward spread. West of the Great Plains, the Cardinal is mostly absent, but it is locally common in the desert Southwest.
Million Sandhill Cranes migrate on the Platte River Valley in order to ‘fuel up’ before resuming their northward migration.
The sandhill crane is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird refers to their habitat such as the Platte River, on the edge of Nebraska's Sandhills on the American Great Plains. Sandhill cranes are known to frequent the edges of bodies of water. Wikipedia
Mass: 7.1 – 11 lbs Encyclopedia of Life
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Sand cranes head for the fields after a night on the Platte River near Kearney, Nebr. Hundreds of thousand sand cranes migrate to the Platte River valley to fuel up before resuming their northward migration.
On the morning of May 20, 2021, Farmrail ran a mixed freight up towards the BNSF interchange at Enid. Less than an hour after departing Clinton, the train is seen pulling into Custer City, Oklahoma before accessing the spur on the right to spot the elevator in town. Later, it will continue its journey northward on fromer Frisco rails towards Enid.
Tomball, Texas
Cardinals, in the family Cardinalidae, are passerine birds found in North and South America. They are also known as cardinal-grosbeaks and cardinal-buntings.
One of our most popular birds, the Cardinal is the official state bird of no fewer than seven eastern states. Abundant in the Southeast, it has been extending its range northward for decades, and it now brightens winter days with its color and its whistled song as far north as southeastern Canada. Feeders stocked with sunflower seeds may have aided its northward spread. West of the Great Plains, the Cardinal is mostly absent, but it is locally common in the desert Southwest.
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Northern cardinal on the tree in my front yard at the feeder. Image heavily cropped to show the fine detail.
The Northern Cardinal is widespread and abundant, having expanded its range over the last century or more. Current numbers are probably stable. Family – Cardinals, Grosbeaks, and Buntings.
Woodland edges, thickets, suburban gardens, towns, desert washes. Found in a wide variety of brushy or semi-open habitats in the East, from forest clearings and swamps to city parks, almost wherever there are some dense bushes for nesting. In the Southwest, more local; occurs in tall brush, streamside thickets, groves of mesquites in desert.
Abundant in the Southeast, it has been extending its range northward for decades, and it now brightens winter days with its color and its whistled song as far north as southeastern Canada. Feeders stocked with sunflower seeds may have aided its northward spread. West of the Great Plains, the Cardinal is mostly absent, but it is locally common in the desert Southwest.
Forages mostly while hopping on ground or in low bushes, sometimes higher in trees. Readily comes to bird feeders, where it favors sunflower seeds.
Mostly seeds, insects, berries. Diet is quite varied. Feeds on many insects, including beetles, true bugs, grasshoppers, caterpillars, ants, flies, and many others, also spiders, centipedes, and snails. Most of the diet is vegetable matter, including seeds of weeds and grasses, waste grain, leaf buds, flowers, and many berries and wild fruits. Young are fed mostly insects. – Wikipedia
Eurema salome (Salome Yellow / Salomé Amarilla)
The Salome Yellow (Eurema salome) is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found from Peru northward through tropical America. It is an extremely rare migrant to the lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas. The habitat consists of forest openings and edges and roadcuts.
This is a very small butterfly.
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Photo taken in La Ceja, Antioquia, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
This was a day where I decided to go downtown and just wander about without not much of any real plan as to where. I chose Sunday as first on weekdays there are an estimated 1.6 million people who commute into Manhattan every day during weekdays and about over 90% of the trucks that are there during the week are gone making for much lower traffic volume, ambient noise, cleaner air and making the streets a lot safer to cross and most of the rowdy party animals types are home sleeping off hangovers and their weekend money is usually spent .making Sunday a optimal day of the week to visit. As far as this shot is concerned a good photographer when they are walking about are always composing photos as they look around and when they see a good shot, they stop and pull out their camera and take it from there.
Panorama photo taken in Miasa, Oomachi municipality. Mountain slopes facing the Sea of Japan have plenty of snowfall in winter. As you move northward from Azumino Valley, landscape changes dramatically from brown to white in a short time. Miasa is in the transition zone of climate.
Running northward to Mt. Storm with a coal train for the plant we find the Western Maryland's Bayard turn out of Elkins. Here rolling at the north end of Thomas, West Virginia leaving town on May 21, 1976.
Just a few miles below Johnstown, L100 continues its northward journey past milepost 41 in Stoneycreek Township. With the crew running short on time, they will end their day at Johnstown instead of making the return trip to Rockwood.
The Bass Rock, just off the coast of North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland, has the world's largest colony of northern gannets. In peak season, more than 150,000 northern gannets make their home to breed on the rock.
Europe has 32 colonies from the coast of Brittany in France northward to Norway.
There's a short video showing how they feed, here:
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Caper White Butterfly
Scientific name: Belenois java
Size Range: 5.5 cm
Introduction
The Caper White butterfly lives mainly west of the Great Dividing Range, where it feeds on caper shrubs, but is sometimes blown towards Sydney while on its northward migration in about November.
Identification
Adult Caper White Butterflies are mostly white with black margins to their upper wings and yellow-orange, black and white underwings. The caterpillars are dark brown to olive green with white and yellow dots.
Habitat
Caper White Butterflies live in urban areas, forests and woodlands.
Distribution
Caper White Butterfly caterpillars are associated with caper plants that grow in the northern parts of inland New South Wales and in Queensland.
In spring many Caper White Butterflies migrate to where caper shrubs and creepers are more common. They usually fly inland, west of the Great Dividing Range, but a westerly wind may blow them off course and they may then be seen by people living along the coast. They maintain a rapid flight about 2 m - 3 m above the ground during the day, resting on shrubs and trees at night.
Migrations in New South Wales have been observed moving in a southerly direction during November and December. However, in the Australia Capital Territory, north-easterly flights have been observed, and both northerly and southerly flights have be reported near Sydney.
Numbers in migrations can be very large. In some cases, the adult butterflies can clog car radiators, causing overheating.
An interesting feature of this species is that it regularly migrates to areas where there are no food plants for its caterpillars. It is not understood why this behaviour has evolved.
Feeding and diet
The caterpillars of the Caper White Butterfly eat only plants belonging to the caper family (Capparis spp). These include native capers and warrior bushes. In fact, the caterpillars often occur in such large numbers on their food plants that they completely strip them of edible leaves. However the plants normally recover from this seemingly destructive behaviour.
Predators
Predators feed on Caper Whites at various stages of their life cycle. Many invertebrates feed on the eggs and emerging larvae, wasps and flies eat the caterpillars, and birds eat the emerging butterflies.
(Source: australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/caper-white-butte...)
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A pair of Norfolk Southern GP38-2s lead local H2W northward on the Buffalo Line. In the 2000s I spent a lot of time chasing locals H2W and H3W on the former Pennsylvania Railroad secondary mainline north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The PRR position light signals are gone, so too are the high-hoods, but standard cab SD40-2s are common on local H53 between Enola and Northumberland these days so it isn't all crap yet!
A dark April Fools Day 2020 in Greensboro, North Carolina. A stormy start to the month of April. Not all that unusual given the volatile weather that accompanies the opening weeks of springtime when winter is begrudgingly loosening its grip and warmer weather is marching northward.
Northern Mockingbird.{ Mimus polyglottos]. This is another wayward bird over wintering here in St John's- NL- Canada
The only mockingbird in Canada, is a rare, permanent resident across Canada and is slowly extending its range northward. Northern mockingbirds inhabit dense thickets and woodland edges, maintaining territories year round, defending food sources in winter.
Wath Road runs northward from the centre of Pateley Bridge, a charming market town in North Yorkshire’s Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The road follows the River Nidd upstream toward Wath village, making it a popular walking and cycling route for locals and visitors alike. It’s known for its peaceful setting, and proximity to nature.
Happy Fence Friday
Oldevatnet Lake, Norway
This lake in the Oldedalen Valley is fed by glacier melt; many waterfalls and streams careen down the sides of the surrounding mountains into the lake; in fact, the waterfall/stream in the previous image is flowing into the lake next to the boy fishing in the foreground. The lake is drained by the short Oldeelva River which flows rapidly northward into the southern end of Nordfjorden at the village of Olden which is part of the commune of Stryn.
Miles and miles of empty beach stretch northward from San Gregorio along the San Mateo County Coastline. I've always loved this special spot along the coast. It contains many fond memories from my younger years. I look at this picture and feel immediate relief from all the calamity that surrounds us these days. I think we all need places like this--natural places that rejuvenate our souls.
I'll be off line for a while as I'm having surgery on my right shoulder this Friday. Peace to all.
San Gregorio CA
My favorite hunting grounds are now a great arid sandy mass. Major construction of a pressure line between Venlo and Velden has made the Meuse Corridor out of bounds except for the Meuse Dike from which Olymp took the inset photo looking northward. All is dirt and sand and dryness, especially given the hot weather.
Well, you know me: not easily diverted. I walked and climbed anyway blind to no-go signs. Not really much to admire except for a single clump of not yet dessicated Tansy. And then a wonderfully shaggy Small Heath Butterfly finding some liquid while I drew on my water flask.
Those construction works will go on to February 2021!
In the Clayton Valley neighborhood of Concord, California.
These birds expanded their range northward into Northern California as people planted ornamental palms in their yards. The birds like to build their nests in palm trees.
180 degree panorama of Kita Alps or Northern Japan Alps and Azumino valley taken from Ikeda. Farmland in the photo becomes rice paddy in spring. Mountains near the Sea of Japan have heavy snowfall.
A small flock of Brant geese interrupted their northward migration to feed in the surf off Victoria's Clover Point.
Elk River Railroad GP10 No.1 trundles northward through the thick brush outside of Frametown, WV. 50 storage gondolas have been pulled out from the end of the railroad for eventual sorting, repairing and shipment to various customers in the southern US. In the foreground is a long disused switch from better days.
Every year from mid/late February to mid April, one million Sandhill Cranes migrate on the Platte River Valley in order to ‘fuel up’ before resuming their northward migration.
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