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Location: Colonia Güell, Santa Coloma de Cervello; Barcelona.
One of my neighbor's chickens. We take care of the when she's away.
She is trying to sell her house. I will miss her personally, and she has been an excellent neighbor. We are all nervous about who might move in. Unfortunately there is a precedence for not-so-great neighbors on my street. I'll miss her chickens, too. As much as I love them, I am not ready to have my own.
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Cliff Swallows have taken over areas of Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge's boardwalk.
Equally delightful as messy...
Common in the Ozarks region, this venomous pit viper is a water moccasin, usually found around rivers and ponds, and though we have a small stream that crosses our farm, much of the year it dries up so we don't see these snakes, fortunately.
and as promised...my neighbor lives there. This is what I see out of my bedroom window. And me and my son make fairytale about this everyday. Gotta love this view :)
Edit: Again I am lucky, been less than half an hour on my site and I have sold 22 pieces!! This is incredible :D
Title says it all for this bald eagle and his pesky neighbors there in the tree. They were very interested in this eagle's meal. By this time the eagle was done eating ... and just taking in the morning light ... ignoring those neighbors ;)
While countless fans flock to CN's former Missabe Road mainline to chase the ore trains behind their vintage power, their nextdoor neighbor is largely eschewed. But BNSF continues to be a major player in the ion ore business with exclusive access to two of the six currently producing taconite pellet plants in the Iron Range region. Serving the Keetac and Hibtacc plants of US Steel and Cleveland Cliffs in Keewatin and Hibbing respectively these facilities are west of the DMIR along legacy Great Northern Railway routes. While some ore moves via long all 'all rail' routings much of it flows to Superior and the massive ex GB Allouez ore yard and docks. The primary route for these trains among the heaviest in North America is via BNSF's Allouez, Lakes, and Casco Subdivisions. The latter basically parallels the former DMIR northward some places literally in sight of their competitor.
Despite this proximity you see comparatively very few photos of BNSF operations along the Casco. I suppose this makes sense given that trains are much less frequent and they run with mundane modern wide cabs and similarly modern ore hoppers. However there is an exception to that rule and we got intel that on this day the biweekly (I think) road local was to be heading south from Kelly Lake Yard with a lead unit still in Burlington Northern green.
After confirming with a friend at BNSF that a crew was indeed ordered and we took the leap of faith and drove 90 minutes north. Upon arrival we sure enough found the train built in the yard with three units and the advertised BN leader but all shut down and narry a soul around. But we gave it a bit and soon enough a taxi arrived, the units were fired up and the crew called for permission out of the yard. This is all welded rail, CTC, and 50 mph territory and with no opposition they got lights the length of the line 49 miles south to Brookston. After getting one shot of them pulling we drove 40 miles south (50 by car) for our second shot and made it with only minutes to spare.
BNSF's MKLLSUP (manifest Kelly Lake to Superior) is hammering at track speed southbound approaching the Hwy 8 at MP 63.2 on the Casco Sub. This trackage dates from 1901 when James J. Hill's Eastern Railway of Minnesota built north in pursuit of iron. In 1905 the railroad was leased to the Great Northern and two years later was outright purchased and has remained in the family ever since. Cascade Green SD40-2 BNSF 1943 (blt. Feb. 1979 as BN 7145) is trailed by rebuilt GP38-2 2240 (orginally blt. Sep. 1970 as straight GP38 ATSF 3551) and sibling SD40-2 1663 (blt. Mar. 1978 as BN 8012) with a long train of ore cars and general freight. This spot is almost exactly 2 1/2 miles due west of the famous Culver Curve on the Missabe that has probably been photographed more in day than this spot has been in a year!
The one thing I remember about this is how thrilled the crew seemed. Over on the CN it was mostly scowls and half hearted disdainfully flaccid waves but this guy had a giant smile and a huge enthusiastic wave the three times he saw us. Maybe BN guys are happier or maybe he just never sees railfans and was glad to finally get some love and recognition, but whatever the reason it sure was memorable and joyful!
Culver Township
St. Louis County, Minnesota
Thursday May 11, 2023
This favorite old place isn't very far from the other old place I posted recently. Usually when I shoot one, I capture a shot of the Neighbors place.
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In the last several years the birds in the yard have increased many fold. There are so many these days that I wonder if there is some saturation limit. I hope there is not. Golden-crowned kinglet, backyard Olympia.
Some notes:
On October 16, I photographed (not too well) a ruby-crowned kinglet in the yard. It's been at least a few years since I've seen one of them here, and I've still never managed a photo worth posting.
On October 23, I saw eight golden-crowned kinglets on the fountain at once. They were part of a flock of ten or twelve. I think that's a record for the yard. I also saw a male townsend warbler.
Unfortunately, the waxwings that were so regular so regular last month have been absent all of October.
On the other hand, bushtits have dropped in every day for the last week or more.
Mural by Chris Wright aka @chris_makes_art, seen at 440 Flat Shoals Avenue SE in Atlanta, Georgia.
Photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
Edit by Teee.
Picked up the 2X converter to try out on some moon captures in the future, some far to reach animals when traveling, and for the convergence of Jupiter and Saturn.
With a clear cold and windy night tried out the converter on my 300mm making it 600mm. The two planets now are on opposite ends of the full frame ... but within two weeks they should be a lot closer ... about 1/5th the moon diameter apparent as seen in the sky.
Tried some various shutter speeds and ISO combinations to see what worked well.
The capture here is a combination of two captures, one centered on Jupiter and the other on Saturn. Then I brought the two together in Photoshop. They should be a lot closer than this come 12/21/20. Hoping for some clear nights as they get closer.
Will practice some other settings and live view focusing as that time approaches to see if even crisper images of the planets can be taken with the 300/2X combination.
If you view large, you can see the rings on Saturn, and also you can see 4 of the larger moons around Jupiter.