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Cardinalis. 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.
Sebring, Florida
Sanderling - Calidris Alba
The sanderling (Calidris alba) is a small wading bird. The name derives from Old English sand-yrðling and sand-ploughman.The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific alba is Latin for white.
It is a circumpolar Arctic breeder, and is a long-distance migrant, wintering south to South America, South Europe, Africa, and Australia. It is highly gregarious in winter, sometimes forming large flocks on coastal mudflats or sandy beaches.
The sanderling breeds in the High Arctic areas of North America, Europe and Asia. In North America, it breeds in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Nunavut, Greenland (and to a lesser extent Alaska). In Eurasia, it breeds in Spitsbergen and areas of northern Russia from the Taymyr Peninsula to the New Siberian Islands. In the northern winter, it has a nearly cosmopolitan distribution across the world's marine coasts. It is a complete migrant, travelling between 3,000 to 10,000 km (1,900 to 6,200 mi) from its breeding grounds to its wintering sites. Birds that travel further also arrive later and leave sooner. Most adults leave the breeding grounds in July and early August, whereas juvenile birds leave in late August and early September. The northward migration begins in March at the southern end of their winter distribution.
If its size is misjudged, a sanderling in breeding plumage can be mistaken for some varieties of stint, or a sanderling in winter plumage can be mistaken for a dunlin or red knot. It can be told from other small wading birds, given good views, by its lack of a hind toe. Its behavior is also distinctive.
We are going back six years ago on a damp day, much like this "Turkey Day", but the leaves held to the trees a bit longer and refused to hit the ground until mid November. Here we see the Middletown & New Jersey's Campbell Hall job departing northward from Campbell Hall bound for Walden. The paint scheme provided by parent East Penn(ESPN) fits right into the colorful rural scene.
After wintering in central and south America, this male Baltimore Oriole has successfully migrated back north to breeding his grounds. Here he is, posing from a cherry blossom tree. High Park, Toronto, Ontario.
A Public Service, Commanche Power Plant coal empty runs north to Denver while a Houston Load (UFIX)
waits in "the sag" on the Southward Track.
Leaving Wilson and passing the APP marker signal warning northward trains of the upcoming diamond crossing with the CSX - once Atlantic Coast Line - double track main line.
Spring has returned to Wisconsin again, and along with it an abundance of waterfowl making the northward migration. This pair of Blue Winged Teal didn't seem to mind a quick photo before moving along cautiously.
Two spans of the Princes Bridge, looking northward into Melbourne's City Centre. This is the site of the original crossing of the Yarra River, with the present bridge having been built in 1888, 44 years after the first one.
The rest of the herd have moved northward where grass seems more plentiful. The lower region is still warm enough to be clear of snow while a short distance up is the snow belt where they can cool off and play in the snow.
A resident through most of its range, some populations extend Northward in Spring. Festival Park. Cape Coral.
Shenandoah Junction in the fog in the very early morning hours. This is looking northward along 1st Street at the new signals.
With Havre de Grace in the rear-view mirror, and Perryville just ahead, Amtrak Acela train 2158 crosses the Susquehanna River northward.
Fire on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon escapes the National Park boundaries. A prescribed burn, a man-made fire set to clean up the desert brush, is caught by wind and expands northward. Within the Canyon the smoke trapped there gives the white rock an aqua color.
Departed Pacific City, OR for Newport, OR. Stitched panorama of northward view, now ~30 miles south of morning at Cape Kiwanda.
A reposition move of 12 GE's from Dallas to BNSF's power-short hub of Laurel, Montana rolls through Palmer Lake on its northward journey.
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Today was the first time this year that I saw and photographed the Sanderling Sandpipers on their migration northward.
A flock of six or seven were feeding on the Lake Michigan beach. So nice to see them again!
After the magma chamber under the Yellowstone area collapsed 640,000 years ago in its previous great eruption, it formed a large caldera that was later partially filled by subsequent lava flows. Part of this caldera is the 350 km2 basin of Yellowstone Lake. The original lake was 61 m higher than the present-day lake, extending northward across Hayden Valley to the base of Mount Washburn.
Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief pierces through the fog at East Chapelle the day after Thanksgiving. Warmer temperatures the day after a snowstorm created some very dense fog from Glorieta northward, causing issues for holiday travel...unless you were on the train!
IN ENGLISH BELOW
Vista de les muralles orientals de Carcassona, amb la impressionant Torre del Tresau i la Porta de Narbona, principal entrada a la ciutat. Davant de tot, la torre de Berard.
La ciutat medieval de Carcassona és sense cap mena de dubte un dels més impressionants nuclis medievals d'Europa, tot i que part d'aquesta espectacularitat és una reconstrucció amb certa fantasia de finals del s. XIX. Amb tot, la gran majoria de les fortificacions son originals d'entre els segles IV i XIV. El conjunt és part del Patrimoni Mundial de la UNESCO.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciutat_fortificada_de_Carcassona
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The main entrance into the medieval cité, with the huge Narbone gate to the left, and the Treasure tower to the right. In the foreground the smaller Berard tower.
The fortified Occitan medieval city and castle of Carcassonne, now in southern France, it's one of the most spectacular locations in all Europe. In a hill above the Aude river, it is protected by two walls and inside it lays the castle. Part of it's charm was "created" in the reconstruction of the XIX Century, but anyway most of the fortifications are real, dating from late-roman and medieval times. It's part of UNESCO World Heritage, and several movies have been filmed there, like Les Visiteurs or Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
www.crdp-montpellier.fr/produits/citedecarcassonne/plan.htm#
Grand Trunk Western 4-8-4 #6322 highballs northward through the Indiana countryside with a rail fan excursion using one of the last out of service GTW steam locomotives on November 13, 1960. As beautiful as she is, the 6322 would meet a cold dark death of a hot cutting torch less than a year later in September 1961.
Original color slide by, Mr. Unknown Photographer
Wisconsin Central F45 6651 rolls the T049 northward through Mundelein on an overcast morning in 1998. This was everyday railroading at the time and was an exciting era to railfan.
Cape Tryon is located on the north (Gulf of St. Lawrence) coast of central Prince Edward Island. The site is on northward facing sea cliffs (comprised of Permian sandstone) that are about 35 m high, with open sea below.
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RISI rolls over the Allegheny River near Salamanca,NY. Soon they will stop at the Depot to be recrewed and head northward to Buffalo,NY.
View northward toward Yellow Rock, Utah. Yellow Rock is popular for its intricate patterns of colorful yellow and red stains on Navajo sandstone.
1. A LOOK AT THE LIFE OF A FLOWER (from THE FLOWER by William Carlos Williams)
A petal, colorless and without form
the oblong towers lie
beyond the low hill and northward the great
bridge stanchions,
The beautiful Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum) is one of our northernmost warblers. Most summer far north in Canada, and then winter not in South America, but in the southeastern U.S. They are also among the earliest of migrants. This one was seen flitting through the Buffalo area on its northward journey shortly after the even earlier-migrating pine warblers came through. This eastern palm warbler--identifiable by his yellow chest and underbelly (western palm warblers are predominantly white in these areas)--is a world-renowned dancer. He specializes in twerking...though he is far more classy than all that and so calls it "tail bobbing." We're onto you, palm warbler...you're twerking.
A southbound BN loaded coal train on the double track north of Walsenburg. A Santa Fe SD40-2 leads four BN 3,000 hp General Electrics. The southward track was owned and maintained by the BN while the northward main was D&RGW. The coal is destined for Southwestern Public Service plant at Mill, Texas, near Amarillo.
The view northward on the banks of the Hudson River from Englewood New Jersey at dusk at low tide. Usually people are pointing their photographic devices southward to the George Washington Bridge the urban metropolis of Manhattan, but this day I looked north for a very different view. Hard to fathom for some that a little more than 100 years ago, these parks on the New Jersey side of the Hudson were actually used to swim in the river, vestiges of the bath houses are on the grounds of this particular park that point back to that era. Electricity was still a thing of the well off, those living in the New Jersey suburbs on hot summer days bathed at the river to cool off, unbeknownst that the dumping of waste from the industrial revolution was already contaminating these waters. Furthermore, open dumping of sewage had the levels of E coli very high in these waters, but at that time they weren’t being checked, but eventually would and the state would shut down all river bathing in the vicinity of New York City as the pollutants and sewage would make bathers sick. The river has come a long way since in the late 1960’s concerted efforts by the states, the EPA and many environmental groups worked to clean these tainted waterways, the Billion Oyster Project and the return of dolphins and yes even whales to these waters are some of the signs that Hudson River’s misfortune could be turned around. iPhone 13 Pro 5.70 mm #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #omsystem @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany #usaprimeshot #tamractales @kehcamera @mpbcom @visit_nj @newjerseyisntboring @newjerseyisbeautiful #iphone13pro #appleiphone13pro #newjerseyisntboring #newjerseyisbeautiful
The NELPG's K1 62005 was in fine form as it dashed through Ryton with the 5Z20 07:48 Grosmont to Carlisle working. The engine was making it's way north to the West Highland Line in anticipation of the restart of Jacobite services in the spring.
19th April 2021.
Northward view from the bike trail going from Rt 44 to the Talcott Reservoir area.
It's not the most scenic area, but the long grass and path in late summer make for an interesting walk and you are still able to appreciate nature and the outdoors in this neck of the woods.
BNSF’s Lost local finds itself in Dutton, MT in the early daylight hours of August 8, 2024. The work online this morning included setting off and picking up a car here at Dutton before proceeding northward again.
A very hard contre jour frame from Cape Tourville looking northward to Cape Lodi and Paddy's Head on Tasmania's east coast.
Have posted a couple of others from here before but decided to embrace the smoke in the air present on the day.
Cape Tourville is within the Freycinet National Park and was named in honour of the impressively titled, Admiral Ann Hilarion de Contentin, Comte de Tourville (1642-1701) in 1802 by French explorer, navigator, hydrographer and cartographer, Captain Nicholas Baudin.
A frame from a restored junker Takumar 135/3.5 preset.
Fuji X-T1, Takumar 135/3.5, 1/25000th sec at f/8, ISO 200.
Looking northward along the northwestern corner of the Dingle Peninsula (County Kerry, in Munster Province, southwestern Ireland), from a viewpoint in Graigue Townland that is just below Clogher Head, on a clear afternoon in mid-May 2024.
This view is over Clogher Strand -- the curved sandy beach -- and the townlands of Ballyoughteragh (South and North) towards Smerwick Townland and the pointed peaks of the Three Sisters.
(For comparison, a similar view from September 2013.)
The Dingle Peninsula is the northernmost of the five peninsulas of southwestern Ireland that stick out like fingers into the Atlantic Ocean. Its name in Irish is Corca Dhuibhne, sometimes Anglicised as Corkaguiny. The western Dingle is part of the Gaeltacht, one of the areas of the Republic of Ireland where Irish is officially designated as the primary spoken language.
To the north is Sybil Head, the promontory at the upper left, southwest of the Three Sisters, which are in the right background. Together, these headland formations mark the northwestern edge of the Dingle. Towards the east, they slope down into the bay of Smerwick Harbour (which would be off to the right of this view).
Irish names: Clogher Strand, also known as Trabaneclogher, is Trá Chloichir in Irish; the Three Sisters is An Triúr Deirféar; and Sybil Head is Ceann Sibéal. Graigue is An Ghráig. Ballyoughteragh South and Ballyoughteragh North are An Baile Uachtarach Thiar and An Baile Uachtarach Thoir, respectively, while Smerwick is Ard na Caithne. The name "Smerwick" has Norse roots, a reminder of the Viking raids and Norse settlements in early medieval Ireland. (As "wick" or "vic" means "harbour," the name "Smerwick Harbour" is a bit of a tautology.)
(Irish and English place names from the Ordnance Survey Ireland Discovery Series map no. 70; Placenames Database of Ireland (reference numbers 22597, 1394134, 101104, 22589, 22590, 22598, 1394963, and 1165708, all last consulted 16 June 2024); and Wikipedia, last consulted 14 June 2024.)
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This one stood out from the other Canada Geese because of its size. It was not a whole lot bigger than the Mallards, and much smaller than the other geese. The bill is also shorter in relation to head size. Thanks to friend and waterfowl biologist Gerry Byersbergen (TurkImages) for the identification. This is a first for me.
According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology:
The newly recognized Cackling Goose is a smaller version of the Canada Goose. Formerly considered the smallest subspecies of one variable species, recent work on genetic differences found the four smallest forms to be very different. These four races are now recognized as a full species: the Cackling Goose. It breeds farther northward and westward than does the Canada Goose.
Grandin Pond. St. Albert, Alberta.
"Individual Canada Geese from most populations make annual northward migrations after breeding. Nonbreeding geese, or those that lost nests early in the breeding season, may move anywhere from several kilometers to more than 1500 km northward. There they take advantage of vegetation in an earlier state of growth to fuel their molt. Even members of "resident" populations, which do not migrate southward in winter, will move north in late summer to molt. At least 11 subspecies of Canada Goose have been recognized, although only a couple are distinctive. In general, the geese get smaller as you move northward, and darker as you go westward. The four smallest forms are now considered a different species: the Cackling Goose." Cornell Lab of Ornithology Photograhed in the wild, Rideau River, Ontario, Canada.
This is a southern & more coastal species that's been moving northward but is still rare up here. Strangely, I have found the most in the Georgia mountains near North Carolina. But a few showed up at the lake near my house a couple of years ago -. perhaps on their way northward. I found this reliable population a few years ago at H. G. Lathem reservoir - two days ago we saw a half dozen males perching and one yellow & black emerging in the reeds. This skittish pennant is one of the most difficult dragons to photograph - usually perching on grasses over water - as far as they can get from shore, and blowing in the wind! These guys weren't just blowing - they were continually bouncing in the winds coming off the reservoir.
Have a fun Friday!
Ex Fastline 56301 screams it's way northward near Acton Bridge with 6M89 09.01 Middleton Towers - Ravenhead Sg on Saturday 9 April 2025. Pole shot.