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UP 6378 shows off its SP speed lettering with train MAGLI-21 (Angleton, TX-Livonia, LA) in tow, heading into Houston on the BNSF Mykawa Sub.
Pearland, TX 4/21/2020
Pic of me out photographing trains on the Pittsburgh line.
My wife spent this summer sewing patches onto a jean jacket and I think the results are pretty nice. I have to track down a few more patches to get it looking perfect.
This part of the river has a fairly wide canyon and plenty of sun gets in. Other patches up and downstream had considerable ice.
River Road, Jefferson County, CO.
A fast moving patch of light caught my eye, I had to stop and take a shot with the hedge as a lead in, somewhere in deepest Cumbria.
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An emerging Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) on a wet morning. Unfortunately most of the Fly Agarics in this patch were looking worse for wear, having been munched by slugs. Then I spotted this newly emerged one, which hadn't yet been munched by many slugs yet.
The European goldfinch or simply the goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) is a small passerine bird in the finch family that is native to Europe, North Africa and western and central Asia. It has been introduced to other areas, including Australia, New Zealand and Uruguay.
The breeding male has a red face with black markings around the eyes, and a black-and-white head. The back and flanks are buff or chestnut brown. The black wings have a broad yellow bar. The tail is black and the rump is white. Males and females are very similar, but females have a slightly smaller red area on the face.
The goldfinch is often depicted in Italian Renaissance paintings of the Madonna and Child.
The average European goldfinch is 12–13 cm (4.7–5.1 in) long with a wingspan of 21–25 cm (8.3–9.8 in) and a weight of 14 to 19 g (0.49 to 0.67 oz). The sexes are broadly similar, with a red face, black and white head, warm brown upper parts, white underparts with buff flanks and breast patches, and black and yellow wings.
On closer inspection, male European goldfinches can often be distinguished by a larger, darker red mask that extends just behind the eye. The shoulder feathers are black, whereas they are brown on the female. In females, the red face does not extend past the eye. The ivory-colored bill is long and pointed, and the tail is forked. Goldfinches in breeding condition have a white bill, with a greyish or blackish mark at the tip for the rest of the year. Juveniles have a plain head and a greyer back but are unmistakable due to the yellow wing stripe. Birds in central Asia (the caniceps group) have a plain grey head behind the red face, lacking the black and white head pattern of European and western Asian birds. Adults moult after the breeding season, with some individuals beginning in July and others not completing their moult until November. After moult birds appear less colorful, until the tips of the newly grown feathers wear away.
The song is a pleasant silvery twittering. The call is a melodic tickeLIT, and the song is a pleasant tinkling medley of trills and twitters, but always including the tri-syllabic call phrase or a teLLIT-teLLIT-teLLIT.
The European goldfinch is native to Europe, North Africa, and western and central Asia. It is found in open, partially wooded lowlands and is a resident in the milder west of its range, but migrates from colder regions. It will also make local movements, even in the west, to escape bad weather. It has been introduced to many areas of the world. It was introduced to Bermuda, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Chile, the Falkland Islands, Uruguay, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand[19] in the 19th century, and their populations quickly increased and their range expanded greatly. In Australia, they now occur from Brisbane to the Eyre Peninsula, and are also spread throughout New Zealand. In the United States, they have become established in the western Great Lakes region.
For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_goldfinch
NS 6769, ex-CR 5512 SD60M still in blue Conrail Quality paint, leads a Norfolk Southern intermodal eastbound through Piscataway, NJ on the Lehigh Line. At the time of this photo the Lehigh was still single tracked between CP Potter and CP Bound Brook.
An old woolshed just off the road in the Mangles Valley near Murchison still standing and with electrical power suggesting it's not quite ready for the description of "picturesque decay".
Seen near Murchison, Tasman District in New Zealand's picturesque South Island.
Olympus E-M5.
Another shot Kyle got on Wednesday... the photo by itself was striking and needed very little editing for uploading but I did add a texture to it to add to its character.
Patches, Lilly Pad, and Whitey are available for adoption, hopefully all together, at The Cat Connection in Brighton, Massachusetts. They're one-year-old sisters, and are all sweet and playful.
Thanks for the help with the ID of this butterfly. It was hanging out with the Common Buckeyes and Painted Ladies and is about the same size. I'm in Johnson Co., Kansas, U.S.A.
Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax)
One from the archives as I haven't seen them around my patch much lately, and then very high up and at a distance.
After 20 years of collecting patches (and taking photos) in spectacular places all over North America, from White Horse to Miami, the total has reached 120.
They're on display in our RV.
This was kind of a sad collection of pumpkins ready for picking at the Cornbelly's Pumpkin Patch in Spanish Fork.
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Daily Dog Challenge 2114. "Little Wonders"
"Time falls away..."
When the boys get into sniff mode, time certainly seems to fall away.
And they grow deaf.
Funny how that happens.
What little lawn there is out back resides in rather luxurious clumps.
The boys like to stroll outside to graze upon them in the cool of the evening.
Stop on by Zachary and Henry's blog: bzdogs.com - The Secret Life of the Suburban Dog
The storm clouds push out over the Atlantic making way for a Glorious Sunrise the next morning. Thanks for the Look and have a great day.