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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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Northward view from a hotel precinct in Gorkha Bazar, which is the same place as the photo of Gorkha Beer uploaded previously.
Peaks from left to right: Ngadi Chuli (7,871m), Manaslu (8,156m), Himal Chuli (West 7,540m, North 7,371m, East 7,893m).
Manaslu with two-pronged summit is barely visible behind Ngadi Chuli.
Our migratory birds are returning and departing, many of the winter species have begun their journey northward our summer species have started to arrive. The Orange-crowned Warbler is one of the 1st migratory species to arrive along with the Rufous Hummingbird, always an exciting time of year for bird lovers.
This view looks northward toward Lake Huron's Saginaw Bay from Tobico Beach, near Bay City, Michigan, USA, on a winter day in February. The weathered log has been in the same place on the sandy beach for the last several years.
Sunset over Capitol Reef National Park as seen from Sunset Point looking northward, April 27, 2023. The twisted and braided Waterpocket Fold here is a geological wonder. This was the last night of our trip. So long, Capitol Reef, we'll see you next year!
Last Fence Friday, we looked along the fence northward in mono (see Comments). This week we look southward in colour at sunrise.
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A pair of sandhills cruising into the marsh areas for safety and food as they migrate northward. I played with the entire reflection to tell my story!
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Went looking for photos I had tagged with the keyword 'fence' and found this shot from back in October. I had been walking along the path which parallels the irrigation canal which itself parallels the Rio Grande. I had walked northward from the old Alameda bridge.
Parts of Albuquerque sure look nice.
Happy ~~fence friday~~!
Delaware-Lackawanna C425 2457 leads a quartet of ALCOs northward on a pleasant late Fall morning in Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley. The twin double-track through-truss bridges are reminders of past glory, when this was the Delaware and Hudson mainline and anthracite coal/bridge traffic kept the railroad busy and prosperous. Fracking sand traffic represents the bulk of the traffic on the Carbondale Line these days, with Linde operating a substantial facility in the former yard facility between Carbondale and Simpson.
Every ten years or so, when conditions are just right, millions of Painted Ladies work their way northward from Mexico and the southern US to invade western Canada. On arrival in June, they mate, lay their eggs on thistle foliage and by mid-July they are just a memory. Five or six weeks later, however, nice fresh Painted Ladies like this one begin appearing again in large numbers.
Some people are not aware that the Appalachian system extends northward into Canada ... and specifically into the province of Newfoundland. These mountains that you see here, the Annieopsquotch Mountains, together with the Long Range Mountains also on the island, are part of that Canadian Appalachia.
As I've mentioned before, Annieopsquotch is a Mi'kmaq word which means 'terrible rocks'. And the rock that you will mostly find here are gabbro and diabase.
Even though Newfoundland was heavily glaciated during the last ice age and this range was been worn down and rounded by the action of that ice sheet, the peaks are still pretty imposing and not easy to navigate. Except in winter. Then it becomes a playground of sorts for me and my Argo. :-) Those retreating glaciers dropped a lot of boulders, too ... erratics they are called ... of all shapes and sizes. They can be seen in various places on the island and you can certainly see a lot of them on the top of these mountains.
It's a rugged but beautiful and peaceful place. Enjoy the view!
I suppose it is time the Goldfinches are getting ready to start migrating northward, a lot of them, at least at my place in Nacogdoches, Texas, are turning a lot more golden in color. Not all of them, but I'm seeing it in a lot of them.
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]
Galata , Istanbul, Turkey
A view of Galata (modern Karaköy) with the Galata Tower (1348) at the apex of the medieval Genoese citadel walls, which were largely demolished in the 19th century to enable northward urban growth.
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Eighteen thousand horsepower, provided by five SD40-2’s and a C30-7, have been assigned by the Burlington Northern to get this manifest over the road. The train is seen here cruising northward through Larkspur, Colorado.
Not quite to the top lookout I considered this view from a lower point made a more appealing composition.
We were lucky to have near perfect cloud cover on our walk up and back before continuing on our trip northward.
PEAMP - Goianápolis, GO, Brazil.
This bird is a partially migratory species, breeding mostly in Brazil and neighboring areas of Bolivia and Paraguay. In the austral winter, it moves northward, reaching as far as Peru, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
Though not always easy to pin down due to its shifting range, it is a striking member of the kingbird family and a rewarding sight in open habitats across South America.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Suborder: Tyranni
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Tyrannus Lacépède, 1799
Species: T. albogularis Burmeister, 1856
Binomial name: Tyrannus albogularis
After setting up the outbound cars from the Procter & Gamble mill for the Lehigh Railway, the Reading & Northern crew waits in the clear as the Lehigh starts their pull northward. R&N has the rights to switch the mill while the LRWY just makes interchange here. This was once part of the former Lehigh Valley RR main line between New York City and Buffalo.
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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Signature shot secured...one of the signature shots of the Lake State chase is this set of searchlights south of Holly. The northward signals here warn of the approaching diamond crossing with the CN. White flags flying was a great touch.
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From the terraces of Rockefeller Center : northward with Central Park and the building at 432 Park Avenue
Sounding great a CSX unit lime train rolls northward through Plymouth, Michigan behind a C&O U30B and Chessie B30-7. The train about to make the turn toward Grand Rapids and later on to Ludington for Dow chemical - March 6, 1983.
Lots of Halloween pennants at the nearby dam yesterday putting on a nice show. This one loved to obelisk in the heat. Storms all over North Georgia last night and they missed us entirely. I also saw a reddish-pink dragon at the dam but it wouldn't perch - it has to be a Roseate skimmer. They are expanding their range northward through Georgia - I've never seen one at this lake though they showed up at the wetlands about 3 years ago and we've seen one or two every year since then..
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Despite some reported local declines, still very common in parts of southeast, and has expanded range northward during the 20th century. In recent decades has nested at many new localities farther north and inland.
FamilyHerons, Egrets, Bitterns
Habitat is Marshes, swamps, streams, shores. Mainly in waters of coastal lowlands. In breeding season usually near salt water, on shallow, sheltered estuaries and bays, tidal marshes, mangrove swamps. Also locally inland around freshwater marshes, lakes, rivers. Nests in colonies in trees, mangroves, or scrub near water.
Forages in shallow water by standing still and waiting for prey to approach, or by walking very slowly; sometimes more active, stirring bottom sediments with one foot, or dashing in pursuit of schools of fish. Solitary in foraging, driving away others from small "feeding territory."
Source Audubon Field Guide
SD Saturday: Four of them northward across the Big Sioux River at Fairview, South Dakota, the power is in Iowa.
WSOR train L467 creeps northward at a whoping 10mph between Waunakee and Dane with WSOR's 40th anniversary unit doing the honors. In my opinion, this has been the best scheme for WSOR and would look great on the SD60Ms as its more creative than the standard stripe. Feb 2, 2023
A Soo Line local with a single SD40-2 for power rolls northward out of Gladstone, Michigan. The section car setout and shed is another element that has disappeared from the fabric of modern railroading.
Abundant in the Southeast, the Northern Cardinal 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.
I was happy to find this one during the short northward migration window through these parts.
In The Breeding Atlas of Birds of Alberta, White-rumped Sandpipers are described as rare migrants seen singly or in a pair associating with Least Sandpipers and Semipalmated Sandpipers.
They nest in the tundra and the near islands of the Canadian Arctic. Rare sightings have been reported in Alaska.
The white rump patch can be seen clearly in flight.
Murray Marsh. Sturgeon County, Alberta.
And I still climbing to northward and upward, alone, excited by the beauty around me everywhere and was not only the view but also the sound. I could hear the murmur from the creeks meandering the rocky mountains, the sonorous silence of air moving freely through the branches of trees crammed with light green leaves, young leaves, spring leaves.
As always, I had a clear destination, I wanted to reach the summits and photograph them closely, but as always, something distracted me along the way, something caught my attention. Perhaps it was a tree with white flowers, or some old stone houses obscured by time, or perhaps was my mind that sometimes wanders haphazardly with memories that I do not know why, invade me. And I never get to where I had imagined it was my destiny.
It had rained, but not too much. The little sun was no longer reaching to the valley and the clouds, that had dropped their load, were breaking into pieces illuminated by the fading sun.
I seized the moment at which a few rays of sun passed through these clouds and showed me a dark blue sky, to make some photos. Few, because it was time to return to not worry anyone and had to descend to lower heights than the 2500 meters in which I was.
And I retraced my steps undoing the route that had taken me so long to reach, forcing myself not to look away from the road as the wonderful show that the splendid nature offered me, had demanded me a time that I no longer had.
Maybe next time.
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Y seguía subiendo hacia el norte y hacia arriba, solo, emocionado por la belleza que me rodeaba por todas partes y no era solo la vista, sino también el sonido. Podía escuchar el murmullo de los riachuelos serpenteando las rocosas montañas, el sonoro silencio del aire moviéndose libremente por entre las ramas de los árboles abarrotados de hojas verde claro, hojas jóvenes, hojas de primavera.
Como siempre, llevaba un destino claro, quería llegar a las cumbres y fotografiarlas de cerca, pero como siempre, algo me distrajo en el camino, algo llamo mi atención. Quizá fue un árbol de flores blancas, o unas casas antiguas de piedra oscurecida por el tiempo, o quizá mi pensamiento que, a veces, vaga sin orden ni concierto con recuerdos que no sé porque, me invaden. Y nunca llego a donde había imaginado que era mi destino.
Había llovido, pero poco. El poco sol que quedaba, ya no llegaba al fondo del valle y las nubes que ya habían soltado su carga, se iban rompiendo en pedazos iluminados por el sol mortecino.
Aproveché el instante en el que unos pocos rayos de sol atravesaban estas nubes y me mostraban un cielo azul oscuro para hacer algunas fotos. Pocas, pues ya era hora de regresar para no preocupar a nadie y había que descender a cotas más bajas que los 2500 metros en los que me encontraba.
Y volví sobre mis pasos deshaciendo la ruta que tanto tiempo me había costado alcanzar, obligándome a no apartar la vista de la ruta ya que el maravilloso espectáculo que la naturaleza esplendorosa me ofrecía, me habría exigido un tiempo que ya no me quedaba.
Otra vez será.
The Las Vegas Strip—framed by the Cosmopolitan and Planet Hollywood—stretches northward into the Nevada morning.
The northward view towards Totes Gebirge (the Dead Mountain range) from the Traweng summit (1981 m), or just a couple meters below, closer to the ridge it to get a better panoramic view. It does not appeal with special warmth and hospitality. The karst nature of the rocks, doesn’t retain water, hence little grows on that side. Quite a different view from the Tauplitzalm valley on the other side.
The Algoma Central canyon train rolls northward in great early morning light behind a pair of GP38-2's south of Searchmont, Ontario - August 6, 1989.
In my garden. La Ceja, Antioquia, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Salome Yellow on Yellow Dahlia
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.
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Looking northward as the rainstorm approached. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2. Monochrome conversion done with Nik Silver Efex Pro 2
For a week we had an unusual visitor at Fort De Soto Park -- a Black-legged Kittiwake!
Unfortunately, this Friday he got hooked by a fisherman and sent to a rehab. They plan on releasing him after he recovers to finish his northward adventure, and I wish him the best of luck on his journey!
The Hancock train station, located in Hancock, NH, served the town from 1878 to 1934, on a rail that went from Elmwood/Hancock Junction to Keene. It accommodated the local farmers, and most of all, summer visitors and tourists seeking a bucolic environment far detached from the hectic city. The rail was abandoned after it was extensively damaged by flooding. The depot was preserved, moved a bit northward, and then restored to it's present condition.
From time to time photographers capture digital artifacts in their images like the one seen in the middle door of this photograph. Many ghost hunters love these and, considering it is an old building, we left it in to have some fun. Whether its just pollen, dust or the particle of a ghostly apparition doesn't matter. For some it’s simply an image of history. For others, perhaps one that causes them to think, imagine and wonder.
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The setting sun reflecting on a high-rise apartment building in Brooklyn gazing northward on the East River just south of the Williamsburg Bridge which I visible to the far left in this image with the Manhattan Bridge going across the river. Before the Manhattan Bridge had a name while it was under construction was known as suspension bridge #3 to the planners. #3? Yes, well the Brooklyn Bridge completed in 1883 whose platform crosses the top right edge of this image would have been #1 though it was never given that title and aforementioned Williamsburg Bridge which opened in 1903 would have been #2 and thus is was suspension bridge #3. The Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge also opened in 1903, also spanning the East River but it is a cantilever bridge, not a suspension bridge.
The crew of a northbound Michigan Northern freight with a pair of filthy former C&NW RS3's has stopped north of Cadillac, Michigan to check on the cause of an emergency brake application. The high sun and backlighting of this run made the decision easy to carry on northward without the train, leaving my crisp clean extra flags for the next person - June 1978
Red Knot (Calidris canutus)
New Jersey
The plumage colors seem highly variable for this species during their migration northward. Only a few birds seem to have this deep beautiful coloring on both chest and wings. Getting one isolated always seems a challange.
Like most birds, Red Knots have a preen gland at the base of the tail that secretes a waxy oil. When preening, they cover their feathers in these protective waxes by bringing the bill to the gland, then rubbing the bill across and under the feathers. As the breeding season approaches, the chemical composition of this wax changes to a form that mammal predators can't easily detect.
This common year-round resident of the deciduous and mixed forests of eastern North America is also found in older urban and suburban areas with mature trees and vegetation. The Tufted Titmouse's gray-crested head, rust-colored flanks, black forehead and large eyes make it easily identifiable, even for casual birders. It is a frequent visitor to bird feeders during fall and winter where individuals prefer sunflower seeds and suet, and often cache many of those seeds throughout their territories. This is an active bird, moving along branches, and often searching under them, for arthropods. It is also a vocal species, frequently uttering contact calls and chick-a-dee calls and, in spring and summer, singing its ‘peter-peter-peter' songs.
Tufted Titmice and chickadees are ‘nuclear' species, often joined in winter flocks by a variety of ‘satellite' species. As a ‘nuclear' species, titmice influence the paths that flocks follow, are aggressive mobbers of potential predators, and often take the lead during mobbing events. The calls that titmice utter when mobbing provide information about the presence of predators for heterospecifics as well as conspecifics
During the past 70 years, the range of this species has expanded northward into New England and southern Canada, with climatic warming likely the most important factor, but bird feeders also a factor. The northern distribution of titmice is likely limited by average minimum temperature rather than food availability.
I found this one in Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida.
After shoving off the Diamond Branch to CJ, DL SC7 continues shoving northward as it catches a small window of sun by the Olive Street crossing.
The abundance of sand here is not so much from that carried by Theodolite Creek, for most is derived from the longshore flow of sand northward along the surf coast of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland.
The dominant southeasterly approach of the waves generated by storms in the Tasman Sea and Southern Ocean generate a flow of sand in the surf zone, northwards along the coast. The sand is derived from the many rivers (Hunter, Manning, Hastings, Macleay, Bellinger, Clarence, Richmond, Tweed, Nerang, Coomera, Logan, Brisbane) that discharge their sediments along the coast. All the while sand accumulates on the southern side of headlands, sweeps around the heads especially following local storm weather, and continues to flow to Cooloola and K'gari (Fraser Island). While some of the sand that supplies the surf beaches dries and is blown into foredunes, the majority of the sand eventually reaches Sandy Cape at the northern extremity of K'gari. Here some descends off the edge of the continental shelf, whilst some is worked into Hervey Bay and across the bay to the differently aligned main coast around Burrum Heads, Woodgate and north to Elliott Heads. Additional sand reaches this area (pictured) having come through Great Sandy Strait, augmented by sand from the Mary River, and then worked by tides and variable waves across Hervey Bay to this coast. The result is an abundance of sand which is then worked and reworked by the incoming and ebbing tides into bars, banks, beaches and fingers.
This estuary and its beaches is a get-away-from-it-all kind of retreat. This is Burrum Coast National Park. One can totally relax at this creek side, shaded by a woodland of swamp paperbarks, blue gums, pink bloodwoods and weeping cabbage palms. Sheltered from prevailing south-easterly winds, it is a delightful place to picnic, birdwatch, kayak, fish, crab and swim. Wading birds and migratory shorebirds spend time at this creek mouth each year.
P.S. A double zoom allows you to see two 4WD Vehicles and two boats being launched into the estuary (far left) and two people walking on the far side of the spit.
During the winter, the edge of our city's Lake Michigan lakeshore often changes dramatically due to the ice formations that build up and it often extends quite far out from shore.
I'm standing here on the top of a large ice formation and looking back to the shore and northward at North Point Overlook.
This is the shoreline of my city, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Looking straight northward on the very right of the image and where the pink horizon is, lie the cities of Manitowoc and Green Bay.