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Perfect Weed
This flower is categorised as "weed" in the government weed control brochure (actually it's the first hit in Google from here).
They don't think they're weed by themselves. They are just beautiful.
Speckled warbler, female.
These pretty birds are in decline. They are fastidious about living in large dense clumps of sticks and foliage. On Callum Brae, a century of using the land for farming has seen the native shrubby bushes disappear. In parts blackberries have taken over, and still provide shelter for these ground nesting birds. However, too diligent weed control is seeing the blackberries also disappear, depriving these little birds of their habitat.
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave"...
Callum Brae, February, 2015.
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Eys (NL) 14-06-1989
NS 2530
69141 Maastricht - Simpelveld
In de jaren tachtig was de NS 2530 de vaste trekkracht voor de sproeitrein, hier onderweg op de lijn van Schin op Geul naar Simpelveld. Tegenwoordig is dat de museumlijn van de ZLSM.
In the 1980s, the NS 2530 was the permanent pulling force for the weed control train, en route here on the line from Schin op Geul to Simpelveld. Today this is the museum line of the ZLSM.
In den achziger Jahren war die NS 2530 die ständige Zugkraft für den Unkrautbekämpfungszug, der hier auf der Strecke von Schin op Geul nach Simpelveld unterwegs war. Heute ist diese Strecke die Museumsbahn der ZLSM.
Dans les années '80, le NS 2530 était la force de traction permanente du train de désherbage, en route ici sur la ligne de Schin op Geul à Simpelveld. C'est aujourd'hui la ligne muséale de la ZLSM.
En la década de 1980, el NS 2530 era la fuerza de tracción permanente del tren de deshierbe, en ruta aquí en la línea de Schin op Geul a Simpelveld. Hoy es la línea de museo de la ZLSM.
Negli anni '80, la NS 2530 era la forza trainante permanente del treno diserbo, in viaggio qui sulla linea da Schin op Geul a Simpelveld. Oggi è la linea museale dello ZLSM.
Na década de 1980, o NS 2530 era a força de tração permanente do comboio da remoção de ervas daninhas, a caminho aqui na linha de Schin op Geul para Simpelveld. Hoje é a linha de museus da ZLSM.
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There is a noticeable decline in apple snails in the lakes and marsh areas in central Florida and apple snails are one of the main foods of Limpkin, needless to say there is also a decline in their numbers as well. From my personal observations fish and wildlife management is part of the cause because they spray invasive non native plants with weed control sprays to unclog the waters they are invading. Natural resource management has a double edged sword at times.
For weed control, special train runs on the network of DB Netz. 2015, on of this trains left Wackersdorf to Furth im Wald.
Macro Mondays theme: Wrapping
Gonk ribbon and weed control fabric contain this awkward gift. I spent as much money on the wrapping materials as the gift. (Still don't have my new laptop working properly, but I managed to pull the old one back together to finish this shot.)
HMM
Common Fumitory. Only just surviving on the edge of the farmers field of Barley. Its managed to dodge two sprayings of weed control chemicals so far.
So I ask, where is Elvis (red-shouldered hawk)? There is a new Templeton (cotton rat) in the yard.
In this image, Templeton is beneath Robbie's feeding station in the picnic area. As he picked around at little things looking for fallen treats, Robbie (gray squirrel) was zipping across the Eastside fence line towards the feeding station. All the while, Howard and Marion and the other feathered visitors were making their way to the yard for the bird show. You can always hear when the show is about to begin.
Robbie reached the point on the fence where he likes to disembark and scurry to the feeding station. With a leap from the fence, he landed on the park grill then came to a complete and unexpected halt. He backed up a bit, lifted his head, and started looking at Templeton. Cautiously he lowered his head to get a closer look at Templeton and backed up once more. Then Robbie started looking back and forth between me and Templeton as if to say who is he and what is he doing here. All I could do was laugh at the spectacle.
A short while later with little or no notice of Robbie, Templeton scampered out of the area to one of the flowerbeds and began eating weeds. Go, Templeton, eat all of those you want. Robbie continued to the feeding station and began eating his treats.
Meanwhile, the birds' show had begun. Howard and Marion both having decided that Robbie's station is their favorite were moving ever closer to the area. Poor Robbie, his snack time was interrupted again as the cardinals began flying low over his head on a frequent basis and asking him to move along. Robbie did just that. Retracing his path Robbie scurried out of sight to the backyard neighbors; Leaving Howard and Marion to enjoy the treats.
Later that day, Templeton boldly ran across my foot. Apparently I was in the way as we were each going about our business. I was glad to have closed-toed shoes. Normally, I have on flip-flops when I am in the yard but when I do more intense yard work it's always closed-toed shoes.
Although I do appreciate the assistance with weed control in the yard, again I have to ask where is Elvis? Templeton is not excluded from the menu like the bluebirds are 😜.
Have a sensational Sunday and happy snapping.
Hedgehog tracks on weed control fabric. They are coming from the bog garden, leading to the feeding station.
BNSF 289 leads H-GFDNTW9-23A into Big Lake on a pleasant January afternoon.
Might need some weed control and a change of billboards at some point.
I know, this spot gets a bit overused, but hey, it's really convenient.
H-GFDNTW9-23A
BNSF 289 - SD75M
BNSF 295 - SD75M
BNSF 2681 - GP39-3
69001 “Mayflower” and 66744 “Crossrail” top and tail 3Q99, GBRf’s 0942 Carlisle Upperby C.E.Sdgs - Carlisle Upperby C.E.Sdgs at Nethertown on 4 June 2023.
The train is actually the northbound working with the tail lamp digitally removed to simulate the southbound working that had passed the same point three hours earlier.
Doesn't the Federal Farm bill help out all these poor farmers?
No. It used to, but ever since its inception just after the Depression, the Federal Farm Bill has slowly been altered by agribusiness lobbyists. It is now largely corporate welfare...It is this, rather than any improved efficiency or productiveness, that has allowed corporations to take over farming in the United States, leaving fewer than a third of our farms still run by families.
But those family-owned farms are the ones more likely to use sustainable techniques, protect the surrounding environment, maintain green spaces, use crop rotations and management for pest and weed controls, and apply fewer chemicals. In other words, they're doing exactly what 80 percent of U.S. consumers say we would prefer to support, while our tax dollars do the opposite.
― Barbara Kingsolver
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The tragedy of our time is that cultural philosophies and market realities are squeezing life's vitality out of most farms. And that is why the average farmer is now 60 years old. Serfdom just doesn't attract the best and brightest.
― Joel Salatin
69001 “Mayflower” and 66744 “Crossrail” top and tail 3Q99, GBRf’s 1213 Carlisle Upperby C.E.Sdgs - Carlisle Upperby C.E.Sdgs. 69001 leads the set as it approaches Salthouse, Millom on 5 June 2023.
The Scafell range of the Lake District’s Southern Fells are on the left of the picture with it’s Eastern and Far Eastern Fells on the right. The Furness (or Coniston) fells rise directly beyond the train.
Richie B and I had to do a last minute panic location change due to building cloud. I got my pole sorted in a rush but needn't have bothered as the train took ages to get here. Another fortunate cloud break!
A distracting grey cabinet has been removed from the image.
3Q99, GBRf’s 0903 Carlisle Upperby C.E.Sidings to Carlisle Upperby C.E.Sidings weed control train winds its way along the Cumbrian Coast at Cunning Point, Lowca on 24 July 2023, top and tailed by 69005 “Eastleigh” & 69006 “Pathfinder Railtours”.
The view across the Irish sea is unusually clear for late morning in July. The Isle of Man is often visible occupying its prominent position in the Irish Sea. If you zoom in on the right hand side of the horizon more land mass is visible which I assumed was probably Northern Ireland. Thanks to Eliot Anderson for pointing out that it's all the Isle of Man and the gap is Ramsey Bay
DD450 da Mota-Engil Railway (UIC 99 94 9495 001 0) efectua o comboio de deservagem química nº30402 entre Alcântara - Terra e Caldas da Rainha, à passagem pelo Telhal
The weed control campaign is running at full steam since late April on the Hungarian railway network.
On the third of May, the sprayer unit visited railway line 142. As usual, the traction is being provided by MÁV Rail Tours (ex. MÁV Nosztalgia) for these trains, but unlike earlier years this time only the MDa unit is deployed on them.
In this image the train is seen arriving to Hernád stop.
3Q00, GBRf’s 0942 Carlisle Upperby Sidings - Carlisle Upperby Sidings (via Millom) Bayer weed control train returns north at Nethertown on 8 May 2022 top and tailed by Beacon Rail liveried 66797 and B.R. green 66779.
DD450 da Mota-Engil Railway (UIC 99 94 9495 001 0) efectua o comboio de deservagem química nº30402 entre Alcântara - Terra e Caldas da Rainha, à passagem por Jerumelo na Linha do Oeste
I have a theory about BNSF weed control. I know they used to contract with a hi-rail to spray weeds, but now they have a special train that goes around and sprays. This has resulted in some seriously rough looking areas on this line and others around the area. Hell, the Neb City Sub looks abandoned around 27th in Lincoln.
Lake Mulwala after being drained for maintenance and weed clearing. taken from the Mulwala side. Hard to believe we waterski and swim over the trees!
(1/3) Out along the Corowa Rd.
(2/3) The main traffic bridge between Mulwala and Yarrawonga.
(3/3) Looking over to Yarrawonga pool and the "dry-docked" Paradise Queen tourist boat.
Mulwala, New South Wales, Australia
Hunslet - Barclay class 20's Nos. 20905 + 20902 are climbing towards Kirkby in Ashfield on a frosty 18th April 1990 with a very clean weed control train.
No sign of it spraying, so it might have been a transit move.
3Q00, GBRf’s 0942 Carlisle Upperby Sidings - Carlisle Upperby Sidings (via Millom) Bayer weed control train top and tailed by 66779 “EVENING STAR” and 66787 has just entered the Lowca single line section of the Cumbrian coast at Parton North Junction on 8 May 2022.
Soon, the weed control train will pay its yearly visit to Line 142, removing these vivid trackside wild-flower patches.
In this image, M41 2128 is leaving Ócsa station with its stopping passenger towards Budapest as the storm clouds are gathering in the background.
69001 “Mayflower” and 66744 “Crossrail” top and tail 3Q99, GBRf’s 1213 Carlisle Upperby C.E.Sdgs - Carlisle Upperby C.E.Sdgs. 69001 leads the set as it approaches Salthouse, Millom on 5 June 2023.
The Scafell range of the Lake District’s Southern Fells are on the left of the picture with it’s Eastern and Far Eastern Fells on the right. The Furness (or Coniston) fells directly beyond the train.
A distracting grey cabinet has been removed from the image.
It's not spring yet, but you wouldn't know it from the looks of the lower foothills. The hillsides are turning green and the oaks are starting to show their spring coats. It won't be long before the ranchers start grazing their cattle here. It's a double win scenario--feed for the cattle and weed control for fire prevention measures. Everything working in harmony--just as it should be. Meanwhile I'm going to enjoy the way it looks now, until the blazing summer sun turns the hillsides to gold.
Happy Fence Friday everyone.
Yuba County CA
The Wood Sorrel is a very tiny plant which has even smaller flowers, they are quite pretty and the leaves are heart shaped in a purplish colour, the plant spreads by growing underground runners and they enjoy shade in the garden. They are a good plant to have in boarders or planters as they help to control weeds as well as a lovely show of yellow flowers. The Wood Sorrel is sometimes mistaken for Shamrock which looks a little similar.
Five months after the last pic, and just before I started at the university in Tulsa, a trip with a friend to "Tower 55" yielded a southbound Katy freight behind a GP7, FP7, and F7. The lead unit is approaching the interlocking tower as it clumps over the rails that carried MoPac (actually T&P) trains towards Lancaster Yard - now Davidson Yard. The Santa Fe's route to Houston is between me and the train. It looks like the engineering people are busy with some project...weed control, maybe?
Yes, it looks like the track could use some actual rock ballast and a bit of weed control, but the caboose was another product of the Barriger improvements and trailed the 102 cars by the signal that was part of Katy's traditional timetable and train order operation protected by ABS. Katy was one of the very last users of this time-honored system of dispatching trains. Official maximum speed on the mainline was 55mph and it seems that their trains were usually steppin' right along in the country.
No chase of the A&A would be complete without a shot from the pond north of Java Center. Thanks to Uncle Wak and John W for their weed control efforts, it really opened up the shot.
She loves me, she loves me not!
Considered regionally noxious under the BC Weed Control Act, oxeye daisy is of major concern in the Cariboo, Okanagan, Peace River, Thompson, and Omineca. It occurs at low- to mid-elevations in grasslands and dry to moist forests, and is present in the Kootenays, Lower Mainland, and Vancouver Island.
NS diesellocomotief 2530 is met de onkruidbestreidingstrein onderweg tussen Hilversum en Utrecht. De 2530 is afwijkend van de ander locomotieven van de serie 2400/2500 en was speciaal voor de onkruidbestreidingstrein gebouwd.
1 mei 1989, Hollandse Rading.
NS diesel locomotive 2530 is on its way with the weed control train between Hilversum and Utrecht. The 2530 is different from the other locomotives of the class 2400/2500 and was specially built for the weed control train.
May 1, 1989, Hollandse Rading.
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Bitterweed is a native Texas plant and a major headache for ranchers that raise sheep. While bitterweed doesn't harm cattle or goats if eaten,it will affect the nervous system of sheep and will kill them. Short of pulling the weeds by hand,some ranchers use an expensive chemical "wash" to controll and eleminate the weed. Rocksprings,Texas. 6.10.2016.
CP 6067 gets pulled off of the weed control train to make a few switch moves in the Thief River Falls yard spotting some bad order cars near the roundhouse. Nice to see a multi-mark CP Rail motor in town.
The Durbanville canola fields are flowering again!
Canola is a rotational crop, meaning that it shouldn't be planted year after year in the same field. This is due to a number of factors - better pest, disease and weed control, declining soil fertility and reduced available moisture.
This also means that when you find a great composition in a canola field one year, you'll probably have to wait a few years before you can revisit that field again to improve on your composition. I always get quite excited towards the middle of July, wondering which fields on which Durbanville farms have been planted with canola, and hoping that I'll be able to find a great composition there.
This particular canola field offers a fairly nice view of Table Mountain... I will definitely be exploring it a bit more in the next month or two.
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Montserrat, Barcelona (Spain).
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The Corn Poppy, Field Poppy, Flanders Poppy, or Red Poppy is the wild poppy of agricultural cultivation—Papaver rhoeas. It is a variable annual plant. The four petals are vivid red, most commonly with a black spot at their base. In the northern hemisphere it generally flowers in late spring, but if the weather is warm enough other flowers frequently appear at the beginning of autumn. It has a variety of common names.
It is known to have been associated with agriculture in the Old World since early times. It has most of the characteristics of a successful weed of agriculture. These include an annual lifecycle that fits into that of most cereals, a tolerance of simple weed control methods, the ability to flower and seed itself before the crop is harvested. Like many such weeds, it also shows the tendency to become a crop in its own right; its seed is a moderately useful commodity, and its flower is edible.
Its origin is not known for certain. As with many such plants, the area of origin is often ascribed by Americans to Europe, and by northern Europeans to southern Europe. The European Garden Flora suggests that it is ‘Eurasia and North Africa’; in other words, the lands where agriculture has been practised since the earliest times.
The leaves are mildly poisonous to grazing animals. The seed is harmless and is used sometimes as a condiment. The commonly grown decorative Shirley Poppy is derived from forms of this plant. The commonly used parts of the corn poppy are the seeds (in baking), the fresh green parts as vegetable, and the red petals by making syrups and alcoholic/non-alcoholic drinks. Red poppy syrup is a traditional beverage of Mediterranean regions like Bozcaada.
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CASTELLANO
Papaver rhoeas, la amapola silvestre, especie del género Papaver, es una planta de ciclo anual que alcanza más de 5 dm de altura. De tallos erectos y poco ramificados con finos pelillos.
Las hojas, que nacen alternas a lo largo del tallo, sin peciolo, son pinadas y muy dentadas en los márgenes con una única nervadura central.
Las flores de color escarlata intenso, acampanadas y casi esféricas, poseen 4 finos pétalos y 2 sépalos vellosos. Los estambres, de color negro, forman un racimo anillado alrededor del gineceo, lo que le da el aspecto de botón negro. El fruto es una cápsula verde pálido de forma cónica con una especie de tapa en la parte superior (opérculo), conteniendo numerosas semillas que escapan a través de las grietas del opérculo. Florecen de principio a final de la primavera.
La amapola se ha asociado a la agricultura desde muy antiguo. Su ciclo de vida se adapta a la mayoría de los cultivos de cereales, floreciendo y granando antes de la recolección de las cosechas. Aunque se la considera una mala yerba es fácil de combatir con los habituales métodos de control de plagas.
Las hojas son levemente venenosas para los animales herbívoros. Sin embargo, las semillas son inofensivas y a menudo se utilizan como condimento y en bollería, las partes verdes frescas se consumen como verdura y los pétalos se usan para elaborar siropes y bebidas no alcohólicas. La savia, pétalos y cápsulas contienen rhoeadina, un alcaloide de efectos ligeramente sedantes, a diferencia de la variedad Papaver somniferum.
Wildflower
Wetenschappelijk: Oenanthe fistulosa
Scientific name: Oenanthe fistulosa
Tubular Water-dropwort ) is a medium-sized perennial (up to 80cm tall) with clusters of white flowers held in umbels at the end of long stalks from late June to September. It has hollow stems and leaf stalks. It occurs in ponds but also in a very wide range of other wetland habitats including wet meadows.
Tubular Water-dropwort has declined since 1950s in the UK because of drainage, eutrophication, weed control and conversion from pasture to arable land. It is still relatively widespread in southern England and in places on the coast of Wales. Tubular Water-dropwort is classed as Vulnerable in the UK and it is a Priority Species for conservation in both
Wales and England.
Één dag voordat de 2530 voor het laatst met de onkruidbestrijdingstrein reed, kon ik deze markante loc op 16 october 1989 in het station van Groningen fotograferen.
De loc zelf werd in 1991 buiten dienst gesteld en kreeg de rose kleur. In 2005 werd de kleur weer bruin, in 2019 weer rose...
Am 16. Oktober 1989 überraschte mich in Bahnhof Groningen die Lok 2530 mit einem Unkrautbekämpfungszug. Was ich damals nicht wusste war, dass die Fahrt am Folgetag die letzte Fahrt mit dem Zug sein wurde.
Die markante Lok ist ein Einzelstück und hat als einzige Lok der Serie 2400/2500 eine abweichende Kabine (damit die Lokführer eine bessere Aussicht hatten). Unten ist ein Vergleich mit einer normalen 2400 Lok zu sehen.. Die Lok bekam in 1991 die Farbe rosa. In 2005 war sie braun, in 2019 wieder rosa..
Engine 2530 was a unique engine as it was the only class 2400/2500 engine that had a different cab. As the last engine of the series, it was decided to offer the engine driver a better view and the engine was build accordingly.
On October 16th 1989 I happened to see this engine in Groningen station with a weed control train.
Back then, I didn't know that the next day would be the last day this weed control train would be used.
The engine has been given a pink livrei in 1991 (which can be seen below in the picture where the engine stands next to a normal class 2400/2500 engine).
FLOR: 8-12 mm (corol.la)
ENGLISH
Veronica chamaedrys, the germander speedwell, bird's-eye speedwell, or cat's eyes, is a herbaceous perennial species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae.
Veronica chamaedrys can grow to 50 cm (20 in) tall, but is frequently shorter, with stems that are hairy only along two opposite sides. The leaves are in opposite pairs, triangular and crenate, sessile or with short petioles. The flowers are deep blue with a zygomorphic (bilaterally-symmetrical) four-lobed corolla, 8–12 mm (0.3–0.5 in) wide. The capsules are wider than they are long.
The blossoms of this plant wilt very quickly upon picking, which has given it the ironic name "Männertreu", or "men's faithfulness" in German.
Veronica chamaedrys is a common, hardy turf so-called weed when it invades turf and lawns. It creeps along the ground, spreading by sending down roots at the stem nodes. It is propagated both by seed and stem fragments. Leaves may defoliate in the summer and winter but the stems will grow again next season. Unlike at least five other common speedwell species, such as corn speedwell (Veronica arvensis), the leaves are opposite both on the upper and lower parts of the plant See the Veronica for special weed control considerations.
Streaming huge prop vortices and keeping her 'Down in the weeds', specially marked Pakistan Air Force Lockheed L-100 Hercules
(L-382B) 64144 retracts her gear as she makes a spirited exit from Fairford after RIAT 2016.
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3Z19, Network Rail’s 0848 Carlisle Yard – Carlisle Yard weed-spraying train picks its way along the Cumbrian coast between Parton and Harrington, below Lowca Sea Brows on 2 June 2020.
At this time - during the covid-19 pandemic - the MPV could not be operated with a driver and operator on board due to government guidance on social distancing etc. The solution was to ”top and tail” the unit with locomotives, in this case DB Cargo’s 66118 and 66094.
No, I don't mean like that, don't worry random dutch guy!
I wasn't originally planning on documenting this train, as this time it was running northbound on Line 142, which meant the train would be completely backlit, no matter when it departed.
But, it turned out to be a very cloudy early-afternoon, and so I headed to my trusty spot, hoping that the horses would be also out on the fields.