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A trip down to a common in Surrey to photograph a returning Cuckoo.
There were several Woodlarks scurrying around in the grass feeding. This one came close enough to photograph.
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After scurrying around, gathering nuts, and hiding them in the back of the log, this little chipmunk decided to play a game of peek-a-boo with me!
NS 1068, the Erie Heritage unit, leads a somewhat late 210 toward Simpson yard. The paint job blends in with the surroundings..
The beach at Jökulsárlón
I scurry upon this wilted trail,
The dreaded rat race.
A year has snuck by, yet still I fail;
Internalized disgrace.
Of course I pine for a colder place,
Where winds moan and wail.
To look into the eye on freedom’s face,
And trim her weathered sail.
Nice to see one in the wild scurrying down a tree, probably one of our our most charismatic and beautiful native animals. Shame they are on the fringes with the non native grey squirrel more common.
D345 & 40012 'Aureol' scurry through Chorley with the 5Z39 Butterley M.R.C to Castleton Hopwood GF on July 20 2023. With no services due to strike action, this was running nearly 30 minutes early. It also meant that there was no chance of being bowled by a Northern service!
Lovely wee ladybirds have been scurrying around the top of this fence post on Portencross Road for days now, and they were there again on Saturday around sunset. Here they are, telling one of their larvae that it's time for baby ladybirds to go to bed.
Photo © George Crawford.
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dunnock ~ prunella modularis (aka hedge sparrow)
RSPB Amber status list.
This is a sight we don't see very often. Dunnocks are mostly ground feeders and can usually be found scurrying in and out of bushes and hedges.
Immediately after scurrying south of Chapman - and narrowly beating M652 here to the nearest crossing to get ahead - I ran down towards Thelma, home of the intermediate signal bridge known as Bobbs, KY. As its a signal that takes a bit of backtracking to get to, every little counts when it comes to beating the train there.
I did beat it there with little trouble, thankfully, and was greeted with the sight of the old, rusting signal bridge. Alongside the cantilevers at the ends of the siding, these bridges - as rare as they are - are some of the most captivating sights when it comes to signals. A very industrial look and feel to them, one that isn't present on a lot of modern constructions. Definitely takes you back a bit. Love these old designs.
CSX9006 glides through the curve at Bobbs, passing under the vintage signal bridge that still holds C&O R2s. From here, it would be a bit of a race to my next - and last - spot of the day at Dawkins.
Clouds upon a paved planet...
A futuristic and dystopian birds eye view of planet earth as cities swallow nature whole and the only jungle left is the concrete one. Negative and scare mongering viewpoint? Maybe. Maybe not.
Actually the image is just windblown clumps of snow on paving slabs.
A single track runs throught the Miley Tunnel, Preston. Rumour has it that it is haunted by the Grey Lady, the ghost of a woman who was pulled under the wheels of a train at nearby Deepdale Station. The last passenger train steamed through here in 1930, although the goods trains carried on for another 60 years.
Scurried downhill and traipsed through thick mud at the Blacktail Ponds overlook in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, USA to capture this layer of low cloud cover moving in front of the Tetons. I have another slightly different composition that I'll be posting later, where the Tetons are a bit more obscured... not sure which I like better. I also have shots from the more iconic locations (Snake River Overlook, Moulton Barn on Mormon Row, Shwabachers Landing, etc.) that I will post soon. But I liked this less commonly seen view of the Tetons. Single RAW exposure. Singh-Ray 2 stop soft GND to hold the sky back. B+W C-PL to enhance the reflections. Slight level adjustments in Photoshop CS4.
[ Most Interesting | Set: Grand Teton National Park | View On Black ]
Nothing says Autumn like the scurry of the squirrels gathering nuts, The coat of the squirrel blends in with the autumn leafs and bark as he lays on the branches of the oak trees. The squirrels coat has the autumn orange colors and the bark colors both.
After scurrying around in the brush under the trees, it finally popped up to pose for a moment on a branch, unobstructed.
Spotted this little chipmunk scurrying by, he stopped just long enough for me to take a
couple of shots! He would have posed more for me if I'd only remembered to bring some
food with me to share!
This young deer came and stood on the path i was walking for a moment, then hopped into the woods.
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge
Union Pacific MP15AC Y1433 was scurrying through the plant at Tower A-2 at Western Avenue in Chicago during a brief lull in Metra and Amtrak moves.
Built for the Southern Pacific in 1975, the plucky little EMD was being used to shuffle Metra equipment for the UP side.
There's never any rust on these rails as the constant stream of traffic requires a manned tower, which provided the perch. Thanks to the usual folks at Metra for providing the access.
From a walk this morning - had to hurry home as I had not realised the bitter nature of the wind that was here and had not gone out suitably attired!
A Red Squirrel scurrying up a nearby tree caught her eye! I know this one is quite similar to the previous one I posted of her, just can't decide if I like her looking away or looking towards me. :)
This owlet was alerting to the scurry of a mouse or vole at dusk. At between 6.7-8.3 inches long, the Northern Saw-whet Owl is a smaller species that mainly preys on small rodents. However this pint-size predator also has to avoid becoming prey to larger raptors too. What a treat to get to see two of these owlets in the wild! Though wide-spread in the United States, they are seldom seen as they are nocturnal and often roost in dense conifers during the day. Schofield, WI 6/27/22
South Shore 803 scurries along the Indiana Tollway at Parrish, East Chicago in it's final weeks of operation. A very cold January, 1981.
155349 scurries towards Broomfleet crossing with 2R68 Hull to Sheffield. The new barriers and crossing lights are all wrapped up and the crossing radar pod and reflectors are all in place for when the re-signalling project comes to fruition in early December.
Following on from my recent upload “Mind The Gap” just as we were about to saddle up and move on to the next location on Dartmoor, Horace came scurrying out of the woods and informed me that he had found some interesting rocks further up the River Dart.
Up the three of us go and this scene greeted us. It was tricky setting up with one leg of my three legged friend in the fast flowing river, so I tethered myself to Hoof, and a few shots were bagged.
Off to the next location, Hoof suggested we stop at The Tavistock Inn just up the hill from here. He thought it would be rude just to ride on by without saying hello, as this is where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, who stayed at the Inn while he wrote 'Hound Of The Baskervilles', and of course as you know Hoof was heavily involved in the film version.
However, a couple of hundred yards from the pub there was a lot of traffic backed up. Bear in mind a lot of the roads in this area are very narrow so we waited and waited.
I decided to dismount as did Horace and we went to see what was causing the tailback, this bit you cannot make up (if ever) there were six of the biggest meanest looking moorland bullocks just sat across the road chewing their cud, I just had to laugh, though other people did not see it so funny, the age we live in !
People who are familiar with Hoofs background will know that he is ex Blues and Royals and was mainly involved in intelligence gathering but he has had some training in negotiation skills plus he speaks fluent cow, so he came forward and started to talk to this group of hooligans, well even with his softly softly catch ye cow skills this organised gang of highly trained bullocks were going nowhere, a real stand off situation had developed.
Now there was traffic backing up towards Dartmeet in one direction and Ashburton the other.
With that Horace came rushing out of the Tavistock Inn, I thought hell Horace don’t you even think about having a tear up with this lot, but the next sequence of events were incredible. Horace found himself a comfortable piece of granite to sit on and started reading these challenging beasties a story (Hoof had taught Horace to read and be multi lingual)
Well Horace had not been there more than a few minutes and these bullocks took off like a Top Gun Pilot on a mission.
Horace was greeted with a huge round of applause from all the angry motorists.
So in the pub I said to Horace what did you read to them my boy, oh he said I found a copy of Mary Berry’s cookbook in the pub and I read them some story of how to make a beef casserole, plus I showed them a jar of mustard, they knew I meant business.
I will leave you with this thought, why do cows wear bells,
Because their horns don’t work.
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A scurry of (stone) squirrels on a bed of pine straw, seen in front of...
The Museum School
Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
10 February 2021.
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Scurrying along the beach at Embo whilst I was watching the Rock Pipits. Stopped and sat perfectly on this pebble.
This member of PHS Warriors approaches the finish to Stage 7 of the Scurry Events - Scurry2Bridges. A 100mile team relay event along the Fife coastal path from Dundee to Edinburgh.