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No they're Minerals! Jesus Marie!
IAIS 153 and 152 fly down the former Rock Island mainline in Mineral Illinois with a short SIBU turn on their way back home to Silvis. Definitely didn't start the day thinking I would be shooting SD38s. But with some helpful heads up and being relatively close, I was lucky enough to have a chance to catch these brutes. Big thanks to all those who helped me along the way. Unfortunately, as quickly as they appeared, this pair found it's way back into storage only a couple of days later.
This was the first time I've explored this part of Illinois and the Iowa Interstate. One thing I wasn't expecting while out here was a canal! West of Bureau Jct to Colona, the former Rock Island main closely follows the Hennepin Canal (officially known as the Mississippi and Illinois Canal).
The idea for a canal was first conceived in 1834 as a way to create a quick water route between Chicago and the Mississippi River. This involved digging a 105 mile long trench between Hennepin on the Illinois River, and Colona on the Rock River. However, getting support and funding for construction was a hard fought battle. Thus, the canal wasn't completed until 1907; quite late in the canal era which had been surpassed by railroads as the primary mode of transport decades earlier. Additionally, due to the small lock size, the canal was thought to be obsolete even before it was finished.
Despite that, the canal operated until 1951 when the Army Corps of Engineers suspended all lock operations. Today, the canal is a recreational waterway and the tow path is popular for hiking, biking, and on this day in particular, snowmobiling.
First time I have seen Burrowing Owls this year, hope they stay around, these were along way away on a dark day, if they hang around I will get better photo's of them, just happy to see this pair.
I have posted a photo of some fruit entitled "From Nature" a very short time ago. This photo is of the same kind of fruit after it went dry.
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The Guira Cuckoo is seen quite frequently in the Pantal , Brazil,. This one had been flying around when he finally decided to rest awhile among the yellow flowers giving me an opportunity for a few images. They are a beautiful bird and quite active. Often they are seen huddled together when it is cold and you can see this in a previous post.
Wishing all a great and blessed evening !!
They are very common and easygoing; nothing very spectacular, but I like it when they hang around me. Good company :)
Sandbank 8
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FNQ
They say home is where the heart is. For most people, it consists of four walls and a welcome mat. But for me, it's the ocean or the river.
They are saying snow is due this weekend , but on past record of previous years I will believe it when I see it ! My bit of Cornish String is not telling me anything - about anything at the moment .
A Planet Rock DJ this morning was on about how weather forecasts these days are always so dramatic and sound like the whole country is going to be deluged with whatever when only somewhere like the Outer Hebrides is affected !
All that aside , it seems the Yarn Bombers have been busy again decorating the pillar box , these days it seems there is always some sort of themed tea cosy on top here !!
We were very surprised to see at least 10 new-born lambs in October, on the Breitenstein above Eberbach (Neckartal). They were frolicking about on the meadows, looking healthy and happy. This mother, however, rather looks like she is wondering: 'Why me??!'
In the haunted forest, the trees they talk
The birds they cry, the ghosts they walk
Lovers are held close in the mist
Hearts beat fast, lips are kissed
Mystery swirls through the trees
Blown by fates ever changing breeze
Animals hide, as ghosts they walk
In the haunted forest, where the trees they talk
They have been flowering for a long time. I dead head them to promote more flowers.
Evolution Day today
As they grow grasshoppers shed their exoskeleton. Each time they molt, there is a new, bigger exoskeleton underneath.
Grasshoppers shed five or six times in their life. This is what's left behind.
They came almost out of nowhere. A quiet and dark morning, the usual winter birds at the feeders. Then a soft fluttering overhead, and a flash of color as a dozen or more cedar waxwings swarm a backyard tree.
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Oh dear, I did it, it doesn't get any easier, choosing them, a bit like saying which is your preferred child!
Like Paul writes so well, I also best press the button now.
Here are those that made it.
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They're not really trying to catch water. No, it's whitebait season here, and there are always at least a couple of people patiently standing by their nets trying to catch as many tiny little fish as they can. I'm not a fan of the fish, but love the silhouettes the whitebaiters make.
Taken at Himatangi Beach, Manawatu, New Zealand.
Red-Headed Woodpecker.
These woodpeckers are fond of open agricultural country with groves of dead and dying trees, particularly orchards. They often fly-catch, swooping low across a highway or along the shoulder of a road after flying insects. They store nuts and acorns, hiding them in holes and crevices. Red-Headed woodpeckers frequently are driven off by aggressive European Starlings, which occupy their nest holes, and by the removal of dead trees.
Their habitat consists of open-county, farms, rural roads, open park-like woodland, and golf-courses.
They breed from Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec south to Florida and the Gulf Coast. Scarce in the northeastern states. They winter in the southern part of their breeding range.
[National Audubon Society Field Guide to Birds Eastern Region, page 569]
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
The German Chancellery (German: Bundeskanzleramt, more faithfully translated as Federal Chancellery) is an agency serving the executive office of the Chancellor of Germany, the head of the federal government, currently Angela Merkel.
Opened in the spring of 2001, the current Chancellery building was designed by Charlotte Frank and Axel Schultes and was built by a joint venture of Royal BAM Group's subsidiary Wayss & Freytag and the Spanish Acciona. Occupying 12,000 square meters (129,166 square feet), it is also the largest government headquarters building in the world. By comparison, the new Chancellery building is ten times the size of the White House.
Because of its distinctive but controversial architecture, journalists, tourist guides and some locals refer to the buildings as Bundeswaschmaschine (federal laundry machine, because of the round-shaped windows and its cubic form).
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Bundeskanzleramt - Das gleichermaßen spektakuläre wie umstrittene monumentale Bauensemble, entworfen von den Berliner Architekten Axel Schultes und Charlotte Frank, konnte nach dem ersten Spatenstich am 4. Februar 1997 nach knapp vierjähriger Bauzeit am 2. Mai 2001 vom damaligen Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder bezogen werden, wodurch der Regierungsumzug nach Berlin abgeschlossen wurde. Das bebaute Grundstück ist mit Hubschrauberlandeplatz und Kanzlerpark rund 73.000 m² groß. Mit einer Höhe von 36 Metern übertrifft das Gebäude die Berliner Traufhöhe von 22 Metern und ist das größte Regierungshauptquartier der Welt. Es ist rund achtmal so groß wie das Weiße Haus in Washington, zu dem allerdings noch weitere Gebäude gehören.
Vorwiegend von Touristenführern und Journalisten, aber auch im Berliner Volksmund wird das Bundeskanzleramt als Waschmaschine, und seltener als Bundeswaschmaschine oder Kanzlerwaschmaschine bezeichnet.
they make guarding turns in high points to watch for enemies and alert others?
Sabías que...
hacen turnos de vigilancia en puntos elevados para avistar a sus enemigos y alertar a los demás?
Sabíes que...
les suricates fan torns de vigilànça en punts elevats per albirar els enemics i alertar als altres?
Ήξερες ότι...
οι σουρικάτες κάνουν βάρδιες σκοπιάς σε υπερυψωμένα σημεία για περιφρούρηση των εχθρών για να ειδοποιήσουν τους άλλους;
Meerkat - Suricata
Zoo de Barcelona