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Inside this tin covered engine-shed is a broken grain-elevator lift engine. So they backed this old tractor up to the shed and connected its output shaft to the belt-drive inside.
Want some grain? Fire-up the tractor.
Dankin, Saskatchewan.
The male of a pair of blackbirds nesting in a bay tree in my garden. This is situated right outside my patio doors which is handy, I can hear the little ones all the time. The only problem is my cat, she caught him in the week & brought him inside where I managed to grab him quickly before any harm was done. I popped him back where he is in the picture & he scutttled back into the tree.
Survival of the fittest plays out in the eagle nest near my home. These egg-eaglet-full size transitions can be amazing to watch. I learned the other day that this is the fastest growing species in the bird world. This is an oldie and remains one of the memorable photos from the ongoing story of the nesting pair.
This is an image of a Great Blue Heron who I felt was very proud of his find on this particular trip. they work so hard to find the nesting material and sometimes it turns out to be a little wee stick while other times it is a real prize.
Here is the male of a local nesting pair of bald eagles. The female had finished eating on the food he returned and then settled down into the nest to the right. He continued to eat in the eat-and-check pattern common to so many species. I got him here on a check with the sun hitting him like a spotlight. This is as good as he will look in this nesting season. Once the hatch occurs, he gets very busy and actually will look gaunt by May.
Yellow wagtail gathering food for the young.
Seen in the nature-sanctuary Steinhuder Meer - Niedersachsen - Germany.
Schafstelze beim Futter sammeln für die Jungen.
Gesehen im Naturschutzgebiet am Steinhuder Meer - Niedersachsen.
BEANIE: Betrayal x Barriers "Rakim" Beanie AwfulP
SHIRT: -ODIREN- Adams T-Shirt
PANTS: E.K - West - Carpenter's Utility Jeans
RINGS & BRACELETS: **RE** Power Bracelets & Rings /NEW@TMD
TATTOOS: Garden Of Ku - "Eagle Storm" By GOK
That bit of fuel to your fire, stoke your desire
Just let me know that you’re mine
If you follow my images you know I’ve been spending a lot of time with the Burrowing Owls. Owls in general are a favorite subject, Burrowing Owls in particular. They have personality and watching their chicks gain confidence as they put on their feathers and venture from the nest burrow is a blast. This one is the male, who had taken up one of his hunting positions on a tree. I was doing my best to keep my lens on him, as long as my arms allowed, and luckily caught this dive down in my direction. He was headed to the ground to pick up the remains of an earlier meal he had taken there. To me, he looks very fierce in this position and I would not want to be the object of his desires. He’s been a good provider, bringing many frogs, a couple of birds and assorted insects. Frogs, by the way, are enjoyed by the owls marinated and dried out with just the right topping of sand. Hmmm good! (Athene cunicularia) (Sony a1, 200-600 lens @ 415, 1/5000 second, f/6.3, ISO 1250)
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GPS Latitude: 21 deg 31' 30.00" N
GPS Longitude: 39 deg 10' 1.03" E
GPSAltitude Ref: Above Sea Level
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American Robins, both parents, were busy gathering wiggling earthworms to feed their fledglings hiding in the understory brush.
N960HL, a Cessna 208B Super Cargomaster, lifting off runway 09 at George F.L. Charles Airport (formerly Vigie Airport) at Castries, Saint Lucia. Operated for DHL Express by Air St. Kitts and Nevis (now Kingfisher Air Services), it was bound for Marigot, Dominica.
Die für die Rurtalbahn Cargo fahrende 193 945 wirbt für Hutchison Ports Europe Intermodal. Dies ist ein intermodaler Netzwerkbetreiber, der Logistikdienstleistern und Verladern Bahn- und Binnenschifffahrtsdienste anbietet, die ein ausgedehntes Netzwerk von Binnenterminals mit den Tiefsee Terminals in Rotterdam und anderen Häfen verbinden. Am 06. April 2025 bespannte die Lok den hauptsächlich mit Aufliegern der Spedition Routier beladene DGS 40664 von Curtici in Rumänien nach Gekkengreef in Holland. Bei Kerschhofen in der Oberpfalz konnte ich den besagten Zug fotografieren.
The 193 945 operating for Rurtalbahn Cargo advertises for Hutchison Ports Europe Intermodal. This is an intermodal network operator that offers rail and inland waterway services to logistics service providers and shippers, connecting an extensive network of inland terminals with the deep sea terminals in Rotterdam and other ports. On 6 April 2025, the locomotive hauled DGS 40664 from Curtici in Romania to Gekkengreef in the Netherlands, mainly loaded with trailers from the Routier freight company. I was able to photograph the train in question near Kerschhofen in the Upper Palatinate.
6G94 Crewe - Bescot arrives at Bescot, passing over the River Tame. A test run for the weekend tour I am told, they gave them over 1000 tons for the second leg of the trip, now that's a test! Thanks to gen providers.
Bescot - Toton departmental just gets a little light at Lea Marston. The location never disappoints, the mist rising off the river at sunset was a bit of a first for me, it had been misty all day and this rose just before the sun went down, I guess the air got colder very quickly and helped the unusual conditions. An aeroplane departing from Birmingham is in the sky. Thanks to gen providers.
This hard-working male Cross Fox caught vole after vole. He did something I've never seen before, he would bury the voles very shallow in the snow with his nose and later gather several and take them to the den.
While few people realize it, the ARR does own trackage outside the Last Frontier. Not much though!
The ARR owns the barge slip on Harbor Island in Seattle that they use as their interchange point to the UP and BNSF and the greater North American rail network. The ownership is actually 50/50 with Seaspan Corp (a Washington Group company) although Seaspan has never used the slip. Over time ARR’s ownership stake gradually rises since they presently pay for all maintenance and upkeep on the structure. ARR’s trackage ends adjacent the nose of the unit (hence the ARR logo on the sign) meaning the railroad owns about one car length on solid ground.
UP Seattle based yard crew YSE51R is seen here beginning the process of stripping the weekly barge that has arrived from the 49th State. Three barges owned and operated by Alaska Railbelt Marine (a member of the Lynden family of companies) are constantly cycling between Seattle and Whittier, AK carrying railcars on 8 tracks and containers stacked three high in the racks above. They are truly marvels of modern logistics!
Since the ARR owns no yard trackage in Seattle and has no locomotives of its own with which to switch the barge, the UP provides this service since it is the railroad that owns the connecting rails on Harbor Island. At the time this yard assignment was normally just a two man RCL crew, but on barge days an engineer was called and the barge is worked by a conventional three man crew.
In this view the UP crew has reached in with their handle (in order to keep the locomotive off the slip itself) consisting of a covered hopper and three old cabooses to begin pulling cars off the southbound ARMS voyage 1023 (the 23rd sailing of 2010). This particular barge is the Fairbanks Provider built by Gunderson in 2001 it is 420 ft long and 100 ft wide with 3190 linear feet of track on the deck and a dead weight of 15,300 tons.
Harbor Island
Seattle, Washington
Monday June 21, 2010
This is the male of a pair of local barn owls (Tyto alba). I've not seen them for a month and with the appalling weather and the constant presence of jackdaws at the roost I was afraid they had not survived. Great to see him hunt successfully, return straight to the nest with the catch and go back out immediately.
A tribute to the men and women who provide foods in our plate. They are the unsung heroes of our society.