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Princes Street is one of the major thoroughfares in central Edinburgh, Scotland, and the main shopping street in the capital. It is the southernmost street of Edinburgh's New Town, stretching around 1 mile (1.6 km) from Lothian Road in the west, to Leith Street in the east. The street is mostly closed to private cars, with public transport given priority. The street has virtually no buildings on the south side, allowing panoramic views of the Old Town, Edinburgh Castle, and the valley between.
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished shot from March 2019. Enjoy!
Found some time, after taking down the Holiday Lights and Christmas Decorations, to scoot over to a local wildlife sanctuary; the trip paid off ;-)
Cooper’s Hawk:
Among the bird world’s most skillful fliers, Cooper’s Hawks are common woodland hawks that tear through cluttered tree canopies in high-speed pursuit of other birds.
Dashing through vegetation to catch birds is a dangerous lifestyle. In a study of more than 300 Cooper’s Hawk skeletons, 23 percent showed old, healed-over fractures in the bones of the chest, especially of the furcula, or wishbone.
A Cooper's Hawk captures a bird with its feet and kills it by repeated squeezing. Falcons tend to kill their prey by biting it, but Cooper’s Hawks hold their catch away from the body until it dies. They’ve even been known to drown their prey, holding a bird underwater until it stopped moving.
Once thought averse to towns and cities, Cooper’s Hawks are now fairly common urban and suburban birds. Some studies show their numbers are actually higher in towns than in their natural habitat, forests. Cities provide plenty of Rock Pigeon and Mourning Dove prey.
(Nikon Z8, 600/6.3, 1/640 @ f/6.3 ISO 90, edited to taste)
This lizard was basking in the sunshine, Arne RSPB reserve Dorset. It's a male in its breeding colours.
According to Wildlife Trust website:
The sand lizard is extremely rare due to the loss of its sandy heath and dune habitats. Reintroduction programmes have helped establish new populations.
Restricted to a few isolated areas in Dorset (my home county), Hampshire, Surrey and Merseyside. Reintroduced into other areas in the South East, South West and Wales.
Statistics
Length: 20cm
Weight: 15g
Average lifespan: up to 20 years
Conservation status
Protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981. Priority Species under the UK Post-2010 Biodiversity Framework. Listed as a European Protected Species under Annex IV of the European Habitats Directive.
When to see
April to October
The CHCPTL got first dibs for working Midway on this morning and they are stretched out all the way down to the Commercial Lead at St. Anthony. The Portland Z is waiting back at Van Buren while the South Seattle Z is pulled up here at EBCS Midway anticipating a tailend setout. East Hump kept main 1 open for other moves, and following a CPKC train was TCW's St. Paul Turn.
Well, I have finally reached 1000 uploads after being on flickr for exactly 9 years. I know that I am not the most prolific contributor, but I do like to try and show only my best work on my stream. I have also had a couple of breaks over the last 9 years as life has sometimes taken priority over what for me is a pastime rather than a livelihood. Of course, I only show a tiny fraction of the amount of images that I take and I use this stream to share my landscapes and a few nature images. I do photograph other subjects and I have recently got the bug for scanning and reviving very old slides and negs - but that would be for another stream/profile.
This image was one that I made last week up Higger Tor in the Dark Peak. I waited approximately one hour for the strong wind to blow thick dark cloud further north. The wait was worth it because the sun then shone through the clouds in dramatic fashion.
Three day lillies in the garden this morning! They bloom and fade in a flash, so ...work will just have to wait.
To draw the monkey's attention, I snap fingers, gesture, whistle...., but the distraction proves too great to ignore.
Monkey forest - Ubud - Bali - Indonesia
So we went to the beautiful National Trust site Attingham Park. Clearly the priority was to check out the refreshments first! ;)
I was targeting the duck lady, who had just devoted herself extensively to plumage care, when the autofocus of my camera (faster than me) paid more attention to this pretty kingfisher...
What a smart camera ;-)))
One of my most prized possessions: a roll of dutch priorty mail stickers. It allows me to send postcards all over the world.
I highly recommend postcrossing.com
No flowers: 8/20
Doug Harrop Photography • April 6, 1977
A quartet of high power EMD and GE locomotives pull a short train of perishable traffic through Cable on California's Tehachapi Pass.
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The new AOs in the Bento Era
Imagine Fire Hydrants had No Water , Reservoirs were not storing any water , all because of misuse of Forestry
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Metra 148 pushes an inbound commute past the UP PALG3, waiting to gain access to the Geneva Sub and head down to Rochelle.
More Blue Jay watching ...
Blue Jay / Cyanocitta cristata
ORDER: Passeriformes
FAMILY: Corvidae
Colorado Springs, CO.
Pennsburg’s finest have traffic on Pennsylvania Route 663 stopped so the Anthracite Railway’s locomotive, a Delaware & Hudson RS3, can run around its excursion train.
Sandhill Cranes (Antigone canadensis)
San Luis Valley / Sangre de Cristo Range
Monte Vista NWR, Monte Vista, CO
ORDER: Gruiformes
FAMILY: Gruidae