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BNSF 9738 and 9246 pull the C-NRMALM out of St. Paul for the 75 mile trip to Alma. This was a nocturnal run across the Wayzata Sub but fortunately there was not a crew ready until 0800, so I still had a chance to get a couple shots and amazingly the clouds cleared off just as he got lights out of St. Paul.
Salzburg, Austria, in early summer 2023, taken from the rooftop bar of Hotel Stein. Panorama of 3 pictures.
Inside the Atkinson shop. An almost bewildering array of excellent tea and coffee, as well as some essential gear for the home barista.
Roasting is done on the premises.
Also, it's a B Corp company with high ethical standards.
There had been 8 or 10 grosbeaks in the mountain ash, happily munching away. Then, something spooked them, and this was the moment of explosive departure.
…… A good show again this year at Attingham Park (N/Trust), also known as Kingcup but their proper name is Caltha Palustris - they can be found in around marshy area’s where they thrive. Taken on my phone in Apple RAW and edited in Lightroom. This shot was taken just after my previous post (1st comment box). Alan:-) ……..
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Under a splendid sunset a southbound Great Lakes Central grain train exits Durand, Michigan heading for Ann Arbor. With long stored, recently resurrected TSBY painted 394 leading the way at sunset following a rainstorm on May 1, 2025.
While the IC black is a nice tribute to some locomotive heritage, POVA's proper scheme is pretty attractive, affording this uncoupled view at Albeni Falls, ID. September 2021.
the song which inspired this image:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IttkDYE33aU
Eric Prydz VS Pink Floyd - 'Proper Education' (Official Video)
Outfit:
DOUX - Peach Hairstyle
GENUS Project - Genus Head - Baby Face W002 -
[Glam Affair] Josie Layer [Genus]
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Mossu - Youth.Choker - Pink
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Scene:
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[PR] Floating Runes - Gold
MVT - Bullet jornal and love pills
TENTACIO - magic creativity
TENTACIO - magic gamer
TENTACIO - tie pink
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One of the really nice things about our trip to Norway, proper snow! not the smattering we get that brings everything to a halt in the UK, but proper deep snow.
I wonder what it saw when it was looking at me. Maybe it couldn't believe its eyes for some reason.
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Cooking through Boylston a pair of good looking SD40-2's lead the Grand Rapids turn in the fast fading light.
Stone Jug, Clophill, Bedfordshire, 31 Jul 2020
The excuse was the dog's birthday ...
But don't need an excuse to go to the Stone Jug.
First proper outing since May and I'm back in my favourite woodland. Have found three compositions for Autumn time and fog which was lacking sadly today. However the sun rays did show at times through the overcast skies and the first colours of Autumn are already there.
Decided to upload as I liked the combination. Only two more uploads of kylo in the future; 1. His re-designed face, 2. A proper helmet/hood. Credit for face decal goes to Phoenix Custom Bricks
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The Kings in town, at least i think he was. The Royal Train passed through Teignmouth heading south at approx 0500. The train took refuge on the South Devon Railway until approx 1000hrs when it pulled into Totnes where the King alighted. This is where i enter into the world of speculation and i speculate that he went to Dartmouth Naval College for a passing out parade.
He then returned at about 1400.
The train eventually left at 1435 as 1Z53 heading north but where is unknown at this moment in time.
Here are 67005 67006 as 1Z53 Totnes to ? along the River Teign approaching Teignmouth.
Getting out of Woodstock, Ontario in a hurry is Via #75 for Windsor with an MLW A-B-A set lead by beat up paint FPA4 6768 way back on June 27, 1979 slightly over 39 years ago. Yikes that sounds horrible, but I remember this like it was yesterday scrambling up the embankment just in time on a crappy overcast day.
On a stormy afternoon, CN 909, still painted in its original orange Bessemer scheme, leads empties through Munger. On our trip to the Iron Range, shooting this was a top priority, and I'm super glad we were successful in getting this in the rotation.
Puerto de la Cruz / Tenerife / Canary Islands / Spain
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Following their display at 'AirBourne 2023', Team Raven with their six Vans RV8s provide a formation taxi after arriving at Shoreham Airport
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... I am providing this candid capture taken in Bar Harbor, Maine as a Public Service Message showing the proper stance that must be utilized when taking a selfie. Stable stance and posture is a must ;)
Part of a set "Proper Off" comprising characters observed on North Quay, Weymouth Harbour.
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Canine greetings down at the doggy beach near/at Kits Point in Vancouver. And a tip 'o' the hat to my fave cartoonist Gary Larson for the title inspiration ;-)
(I confess, my original title was actually going to be, "Must We Really??? EVERY time?!" read/said in a very 'proper' British accent).
The first proper outing with the new camera, and already I can't wait to sling it in my rucksack and get some more landscape work with it!
It's always nice to see a railroad taking pride in their facility and putting up some nice signage, and the KCS locomotive shop at Deramus Yard has to be one of the best examples. Not a whole lot of power sitting around this Friday, as a solo Gevo suns under an image of one of its siblings.
Another portrait from my first proper encounter with a wild otter last week. I watched it for some time, hunting and eating, seemingly playing and exploring, and occasionally peeking out at me curiously. I always prefer pictures with eye contact because of the energy created from the look. Lighting was a bit tricky that day due to strong contrast, but I liked it in this setting.
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CN 578 (Daily Senneterre - Val d'Or Turn) is seen pulling out of the yard with the pride of the fleet as a leader.
No Sunday in Jacksonville would be complete, without the friendly wave of Engineer Dave Shelley. Here he departs Jacksonville, Fl with FEC train 101-31 on July 31, 2016 at Sunbeam Road.
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Also known as the peewit in imitation of its display calls, its proper name describes its wavering flight. Its black and white appearance and round-winged shape in flight make it distinctive, even without its splendid crest. This familiar farmland bird has suffered significant declines recently and is now an Red List species.
Overview
Latin name
Vanellus vanellus
Family
Plovers and lapwings (Charadriidae)
Where to see them
Lapwings are found on farmland throughout the UK particularly in lowland areas of northern England, the Borders and eastern Scotland. In the breeding season prefer spring sown cereals, root crops, permanent unimproved pasture, meadows and fallow fields. They can also be found on wetlands with short vegetation. In winter they flock on pasture and ploughed fields. The highest known winter concentrations of lapwings are found at the Somerset Levels, Humber and Ribble estuaries, Breydon Water/Berney Marshes, the Wash, and Morecambe Bay.
When to see them
All year round. Leaves upland areas after the breeding season and moves to lowland fields for the winter. Large numbers of N European birds arrive in autumn for the winter.
What they eat
Worms and insects
Population
UK Breeding:- 140,000 pairs
UK Wintering:- 650,000 birds
Breeding
The winter flocks begin to break up in February, when the birds will start to return to their breeding grounds.
The lapwing has a spectacular songflight. The male wobbles, zigzags, rolls and dives while calling to advertise his presence to rival males and potential mates. The birds tend to nest in loose groups. Individual territories are small about 0.4-0.8 ha and are only held until the chicks hatch.
In the breeding season, lapwings need a mosaic of habitats, because they need different conditions for nesting and for chick rearing.
The nest is a scrape in the ground, lined with a variable amount of plant material. The birds need a good all round view from the nest to spot predators, and nest either on bare ground or in short vegetation. They often choose rough or broken ground to aid concealment of the nest. Spring sown crops and rough grazing are ideal.
They lay clutches of four cryptically coloured eggs from late March to early June, and chicks hatch 3-4 weeks later. They are covered in down when they hatch, and are able to walk about and feed within hours.
Soon after hatching, the parents will lead them to suitable feeding areas, where the supply of surface invertebrates is good and the vegetation low. They particularly need to have nearby grassland, especially if it contains flood pools and damp patches.
The transfer between the nesting and chick-rearing habitats can be hazardous, and chick survival often depends on how far they have to travel. The families stay in the chick-rearing habitat until the young are ready to fly at 5-6 weeks old. Lapwings only rear one brood a year, but may lay up to four replacement clutches if the eggs are lost.
Legal status
The lapwing is fully protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981; it an offence to kill, injure or take an adult lapwing, or to take, damage or destroy an active nest or its contents.
The only exception is legitimate farming practices that cannot be reasonably delayed, although farming methods can often be modified to reduce the impact on the lapwings.
Population trends
Lapwing numbers have decreased in Britain since the middle of the 19th century. The early declines were caused by large scale collection of eggs for food. Introduction of the Lapwing Act in 1926 prohibited this, and was followed by a considerable recovery in bird numbers.
Since the 1940s lapwing declines have been driven by large-scale changes to farming. Large areas of grassland were converted to arable, marginal land was drained and improved, and chemicals were introduced for fertilisers and pest control with increasing reliance on them. By 1960 the lapwing population had stabilised at a lower level.
Another sharp and sustained decline started in the mid-1980s, with range contractions in south-west England and in parts of Wales. This followed further intensification and specialisation - abandonment of rotations, switch from spring to autumn sown crops, increased drainage, increased use of agrochemicals. Such changes have resulted in much of the arable land becoming unsuitable for nesting by April because the crop grows too high. Tillage, drainage and pesticides have also caused a reduction in food availability.
As pasture land is improved, the resulting increased risk of trampling by livestock, earlier cutting for silage and lower food availability have affected lapwings adversely. Phasing out of rotational farming and shift of arable to the east of England and pastureland to the west of England has removed the habitat mosaic that is essential for successful chick rearing.
Mosaic where grass and spring tillage fields are close together has declined significantly in recent years, and the loss of this prime habitat has resulted in a decline in lapwing numbers.
Nest failures on arable land come from egg losses during cultivation and from predation, and poor chick survival due to crop growth. Crop growth can also shorten the laying season.
The declines in lapwing population have been greatest in southern England and Wales, where the farming changes have been greatest and farmland is the only suitable habitat for the lapwing. Between 1987 and 1998 lapwing numbers dropped by 49% in England and Wales. Since 1960 the numbers dropped by 80%.
The birds have fared better in Scotland, where the crucial changes to farming were introduced later than in England and Wales. However, even there the numbers have dropped by 29% since 1987.
Lapwings have to fledge at least 0.6 young per pair each year to maintain the population. They usually can achieve this in rough grazing and unimproved pastures, but often not on arable land or improved grassland. Since the birds cannot produce enough chicks to offset the natural mortality of adults, population declines.
It is possible to halt and reverse the decline in lapwing numbers with sympathetic farming methods, which include creation of a mosaic of spring sown crops and grassland, managing grazing pressure and maintaining damp areas on unimproved grassland. Agri-environment schemes in each part of the UK provide grants to help land-owners manage their land to help lapwings.
Survival
Egg survival and hatching success varies depending on the habitat, and appears to have declined in some habitats over the past decade.
Main causes of nest failure are predation, agricultural activity and desertion. While the birds often re-lay, changes in cropping practices often result in the habitat being unsuitable for replacement clutches because the vegetation has grown too tall, thus shortening the potential breeding season.
Only about 25-40% of chicks survive to fledging. Most of the chick mortality occurs in the first few days after hatching, when chicks are most vulnerable to cold or wet weather, and when they may be undertaking hazardous journeys from nesting to feeding areas. The further chicks have to go, the lower their survival.
Once the birds have reached adulthood, they can expect to live a further 4-5 years. The oldest known individual was about 20 years. Lapwings normally breed one year after fledging.
This year the Providence and Worcester Railroad continued to provide their passenger train and crew for the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council's extremely popular Polar Express trains with trains running and 3:30 and 6:30 PM Fri-Sun for a total of 42 sold out trips in 2024.
The train consist is deadheading south from Worcester to begin the final weekend of performances with B39-8E 3910 (GE blt. Dec. 1987 as LMX 8534) amidst a winter wonderland scene of the first significant snow of the year. They crossing in Blackstone River near MP 17.9 on the historic original Providence and Worcester mainline just north of the Rhode Island state line. This is the 10th of 14 crossings of the Blackstone along the 43 mile line when traveling south from Worcester to Providence.
As I've told you before in previous posts the P&W is my hometown road and it is inextricably linked to the river it follows both historically and physically. The Blackstone River courses 48 miles from its headwaters near Worcester (at the confluence of the Middle River and Mill Brook) to where it flows into the Seekonk River at the headwaters of Narragansett Bay. The river drains a watershed of 640 square miles and more importantly drops 450 feet in the 48 miles. It is that drop, that made this river a pivotal point in American History.
From ririvers.org: A series of steep drops along the length of the Blackstone River provided ideal conditions for the development of water powered industry. Samuel Slater arrived in America in 1790, with managerial experience and technical knowledge of textile manufacturing in England. With the assistance of local merchants and artisans, he helped establish the first successful water-powered textile mill in America. Slater Mill was established on the Blackstone River, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. This achievement is credited with spawning the birth of America's industrial revolution. Development of the Slater textile mill catalyzed the development of water-driven technology throughout the length of the Blackstone River. By 1914 water-powered mills occupied all of the readily available dam sites in the Valley.
As the birthplace of industrial America, the need for transportation quickly arose in the valley, and between 1825 and 1828 the Blackstone Canal was constructed. The canal lasted only 20 years having been rendered obsolete by the opening of the Providence and Worcester Railroad in 1847. The railroad has proven to be a more durable method of transportation and 175 years after its opening here it is still serving the purpose for which it was built.
Blackstone, Massachusetts
Friday December 20, 2024