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Yet another grey damp day but it didn't dampen Charlie's spirits as he happily trots along the sea wall. Aw my small brown chum never ceases to cheer me up with his jaunty gait and cheerful little face, gawd bless'im! :-)
An older shot taken in 2013 with the 60D of the Union Coke train climbing the steep grade north at Dravosburg. They'll crest the worst of the grade about half way through the tunnel, then cruise to the summit about a mile from this location.
5 MP15's handle the 70+ car train and put on a good show doing so. Stupid me has yet to do this shot again since I purchased my 70-200 F/2.8 in 2014.
Yellow-browed Warbler is a puzzling bird in many ways. Its closest breeding area is just west of the Urals, which is at least 3000km from Britain, yet hundreds turn up in Britain each year, particularly in autumn. The species breeds right across the taiga zone and winters widely in Nepal, southern China and the Malay peninsula. So birds would generally fly about 6000km southeast to reach their wintering grounds. So why do hundreds fly 3000km west (ie the wrong direction) to reach Britain? I wonder if there is now an undiscovered wintering area in Africa that has established recently and so these "vagrants" reaching Britain are just stopping off on their normal migration to Africa. At least one Yellow-browed Warbler has occurred in Senegal in December.
Anyway there were an unbelievable 27 Yellow-browed Warblers in the Spurn area yesterday, and I managed to find two of these myself as I was wandering along the peninsula, including this little poser. They are small birds, considerably smaller than a Chiffchaff, but this crop makes it look large. There was a bit of clutter right and left so I opted for a portrait crop.
Its scientific name, Phylloscopus inornatus, is also a bit of a puzzle. Phylloscopus means leaf-gleaner and it is the same genus as Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler and Wood Warbler. But inornatus means undecorated or inornate, yet it has more stripes and bars than its undecorated cousins. That is because when Edward Blyth first described it new to science back in 1842, he thought it was a type of Goldcrest but lacking the golden crown. So Blyth named it Regulus inornatus, the undecorated Goldcrest or Kinglet.
This young Red Squirrel has still to develop the distinctive ear tufts which appear as winter approaches !
Yet again I totally forgot to check what the Saturday Self-Challenge theme was. As I looked around despairingly, lo & behold my well used, mostly red, saucepan came to the rescue.
I'm cooking a variation on chilli con carne for my dinner : minced (ground) angus beef, onions, garlic, carrots & courgette. Throw in reconstituted seaweeds, chia seeds, a can of chopped tomatoes & one of red kidney beans, sliced mushrooms & half a jar of passata. There'll be enough for at least 3 meals.
Some flowers simply do not wilt, they let go gracefully.....
Wonderful light for this Diva!
Enjoy the beginning of the week, thank you for your visit....Pat...xo...
The air is turning crisp and cool here...love it....and as I walked today, I saw for the first time, an American Bittern in a nearby marsh area....no camera:(
The meteor flies over the distant city glow, lucky shot
The red dots are windmills on the mountain
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This Spring has been a very hard one for the toads who arrived in the pond back in the middle of March. A first batch of spawn was laid which failed completely due to the continual cold and nighttime frosts. More toads arrived again in April during a less chilly spell, but as soon as they laid their spawn the weather turned Arctic again and all that spawn got destroyed too. Now we seem to have gone straight from Winter into Summer and warm days are at last here. Now the ponds have been taken over by a frenzy of activity including the toads who are having one last try. So far things are looking good for them at last. Could this be third time lucky ? I do hope so.
Before the crowd arrived for the ribbon cutting ceremony I captured this image from inside the Seaview's new and not yet in service shop building as the morning sun reflected off the spotless paint still curing on the floor.
The owner of Rhode Island's Seaview Transportation Company and sister tourist operation Newport and Narragansett Bay Railroad recently added to his expanding collection of center cab locomotives by purchasing two former US Navy units that had been long based at Portsmouth Navy Yard but were replaced in recent years by a car mover. They are both GE 65-tonners, USN 65-00308 and USN 65-00566, built in 1945 and 1943, respectively. The latter was trucked to the isolated trackage on Aquidneck Island where it will be used to pull the Grand Bellevue Dinner Train and other future expanded passenger operations. The former is seen here parked as a display on the BB&S lead with some other historic equipment that is out of sight to the right. It will soon join the Seaview's former US Army 80-tonner cousin, 1667, in freight service.
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Monday July 15, 2024
This charming gray cat is one of the stray/feral cats living around the Boca del Cufré breakwater in San José, Uruguay. The locals feed them and control the colony by neutering as many as possible.
Explored: December 30, 2024
The squirrels haven’t yet found this one. Still hanging on!
Every few years, some species of trees and shrubs produce a bumper crop of their fruits or nuts. The collective term for these fruits and nuts is 'mast', so it is said to be called a mast year. The downside of such bountiful years, is that the dreaded squirrel population inevitably, and dramatically increases!
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back from italy ... working on older images as i'm not able to show new ones yet. but i really love it when the barley is still green.
. . . With a Polar Vortex coming down to Michigan and other Midwestern states, one would think everything to be frozen solid! Well the edges of the Rapid River may be starting to freeze up by the weekend, but the majority of the water is still flowing! I kind of feel sorry for the poor cold blooded trout here!
Have a great weekend Facebook, Flickr, and 500px friends!
One daylight LED lamp and four LED spotlights. Converted from raw in macOS High Sierra photo editor.
yet another update to one of my favorite figures
Loadout:
Ops-core ballistic FAST helmet (R.Goff)
Green/Black IR IFF patches
MSA Sordins headset (TT)
LBT 6094A in AOR1 (Combat Brick)
Eagle industries 1X3 M4 pouches (TT)
MSA PTT (Scrap?)
Eagle industries MAP pack (TT)
9-11 Never forget pentagon patch
Full Color American 3X5 inch flag patch
LBT Slap Charge pouch (Sculpted with green stuff)
LBT padded sling Single to two point sling AOR1 (E-tape)
Voodoo tactical skeleton gloves (EG/TT)
Bastion Coyote brown T-Shirt (TT)
SOE Gear Riggers belt
New Balance AOR2 trousers (Green stuff used for pockets)
New Balance issue boots
Weapons
mk18 block II (TT)
4X Acog and RMR sight (TT)
KAC Suppressor (TT)
Magpul PMag (TT)
Garmin Foretrex GPS device (On stock, green stuff)
M79 "Pirate Gun" (BA)
EOTech 552 (TT)
Hope you enjoy the fig!
*2004
*feeling a little down today, anticipating another major change in my life.. yet another chapter will come to a close... sad? kinda.. mostly nervous about what the future will hold. but perhaps change is a good thing.
Gone yet not forgotten, although we are apart, your spirit lives within me, forever in my heart.
(Author: Unknown)
Those we love remain with us...
In the whisper of the wind
In a soft rain that falls from Heaven
In each sunrise
In every single star that lights the night sky and
In every single memory we hold within our hearts.
(Author: Mary Chandler Huff )
Textures thanks to Evelyn Flint and Tóta. | My own photo
Yet another example of a waterfall in Norway.
But don't be surprised.
Because it's covered with mountains and because it snows all winter long, in spring and summer, the entire country just might be one big waterfall.
This, actually, is Norway taken from the stratosphere.
One of Modiin's iconic buildings (Yigal Yadin street). Modiin, established in 1993, is one of Israel's youngest cities and a bold urban project at the same time.
...towards the final completion.
On the alignment rack, we went over every nut and bolt again. The car has new shocks, springs, balljoints, brakes, and I also replaced every bushing. Many nights were spent under this car....
El Lunes pusimos el auto en la maquina para alinearlo bien. Ya que estabamos, Juan y yo miramos y ajustamos todo de nuevo. Esta suspencion estuvo toda desarmada, y ahora el auto tiene todo nuevo ahi. Todavia he pasado muchas mas horas debajo de este auto trabajando en el, que adentro manejandolo...