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Bouvreuil pivoine (- Pyrrhula pyrrhula - Northern Bullfinch)
j'ai vraiment eu de la chance, je regardais derrière la fenêtre comme tous les jours, les visiteurs de la mangeoire et Oh..!, ma surprise, le Bouvreuil pivoine en premier dans mon figuier puis tranquillement dans la mangeoire.
Il y resta ~ 2 minutes et reparti comme il était venu, je pense que c'est un habité car la mangeoire ne lui paraissait pas étrangère, par contre ce qui est étrange, je ne l'ai plus revu depuis et cela faisait 4 ans qu'il n'était plus venu, et n'est toujours pas revenu à ce jour..!
Bouvreuil pivoine Eurasian Bullfinch
(Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
Six months after being boarded by pirates off Nigeria, FWN Rapide arrives on the Tyne after a more uneventful voyage from Ventspils (Latvia).
The de Havilland Dragon Rapide is a classic British twin-engine biplane used for short-haul passenger flights and utility transport. It gained popularity in the 1930s and was also used in various roles during World War II. Known for its reliability and comfort, it remains a cherished vintage aircraft.
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Very nice car in a beautiful colour with a 599 HGTE behind it, went for a wide angle look, do you like it?
Mouette Pygmée (Little Gull)
Parc Naturel des Aiguamolls, Castelló d'Empúries,
Girona / Costa Brava, Espagne
Catamaran à grande vitesse vodafone assurant la traversée entre Héraklion et Santorin (environ 120 km) en 2 heures.
Ici au port d'Athinios à Santorin.
D'après photographie argentique.
Drawing the name from a Creek and Shawnee settlement located near Springfield, Ohio, Lagonda would be the brain-child of former opera singer and Scottish-American Wilbur Gunn. Becoming a British national just before the beginning of the 20th century, Gunn would start out building motorcycles, that at the turn of the century were competitive and race winners. Later adding 3 wheelers and then cars, Lagonda competed with Bentley and Rolls for the upscale British patronage. In 1933 they inserted the sturdy and race reliable Meadows 4 1/2 liter 6 cylinder engine (also found in the formidable Invicta seen previously in my photostream, and in the Vickers Tank) to produce the M45 In a melodramatic crisis worthy of Hollywood, Lagonda actually won outright the 1935 LeMans in the M45 WHILE they were filing for bankruptcy!
A consortium led by Alan Good barely out bid Rolls (those greedy folk), and Good promptly wooed WO Bentley away from Rolls, as he was bored, and Rolls had made the Bentley too tame for the race bred WO. Bentley, now chief engineer, tinkered with the lowered chassis and especially the venerable Meadows engine, tuning and strengthening it making it fast enough that the company claimed it was the fastest non-racing car in the world, and the car magazines confirmed top speed of 108 MPH. The lowered profile helped cornering, and if you look up images, the late 30s Lagonda look like lowered Bentleys........no surprise there. The Rapide was the ultimate pre-war Lagonda, and the rarest as only 25 were built.
Extremely desirable and valuable, this blue chassis shows not all WO Bentley cars are BRG (British Racing Green).