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I bought this tiny bar of soap over a year ago thinking it might make a nice prop. I've no idea what it looks like inside, but I liked that it glowed when the sun shone through it ... and that it was tied up with hairy string! There's a dolls house bath behind it and the starfish in the foreground is madly tiny (less than ½" across). :)
For this week's Looking Close... on Friday! group theme, Soap Bar.
BAR 80 is on an Eastbound working at Goodman Street Yard in Rochester, NY on May 8, 1979. After I got my first SLR camera I kept the old Graphlex in the glove box of my truck. I would use it if I came across something when I was out and about, in this case on my way to work. I always checked what was around the East end of Goodman Street Yard on my way in to work. I could grab a quick pic or two and then head over to work.
This photo shows the sand bars in Badwater Creek as seen from the bridge on US Highway 20 north of Shoshoni, Wyoming. This location lies new the old townsite of Bonneville, in Fremont county, Wyoming. Badwater Creek has very little water most of the year but in the spring and early summer, water, which is mostly runoff from rain and melting snow, sculpts the sandbars in the sediment clogged channel. Geologist refer to this type of creek as a braided stream and the sandbars in it are referred to as braid bars. The bridge and this portion of the creek lie in Boysen State Park.
The Bar-tailed Godwit is a rather plain, but quite large wader, more or less confined to marine habitats around Britain’s coasts.
Birds arrive from late summer and on into early winter from their arctic breeding grounds, favouring low-lying coasts with a muddy or sandy substrate. Their winter dress is pale greys and browns and they have a long, very slightly upturned bill, which is pink at the base.
The Wetland Bird Survey estimates a wintering population in Britain approaching 30,000 birds with two thirds spending the winter months on The Wash in eastern England. The tideline is the best place to observe Bar-tailed Godwits feeding, and at high tide they gather in tight flocks to roost.
I found it fascinating that these birds have the remarkable ability to flexibly curl the top of their beak. Amazing. :))
The Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, near Kiruna, Sweden. Everything is made of ice, including the bar and the drinking glasses. One pub where you definitely leave your coat, hat and gloves on.
Jade-green pitta with densely striped, green underparts and a black mask. Male has an aquamarine-blue patch on the back of the crown and a dark purplish-blue one on the belly. Female lacks both of these features and instead has a pale orangish head. Like other pittas, forages deep in dense undergrowth and can be hard to see, especially in the limestone gullies and forested riversides it prefers. Predominantly a lowland species. Can be seen mostly in Vietnam, Cambodia and rarely in Laos. (credit: e-bird)
I was puzzled by those chevrons along the flanks of this Bar-tailed Godwit in Norfolk as none of the other "Barwits" looked like this. It certainly did not look like any of the illustrations in the Collins Guide, so when I got home I checked the ID Handbook of European Birds, and there it was. It is an adult female still in breeding plumage. Males acquire a red colouration all over the underparts but females are variable, some with a bit of orange, and some pale birds just like this. There is a slight hint of peach on the belly, but in the field it looked creamy. An additional pointer to it being a female is the very long bill, which are a bit shorter in males. There is actually an optical illusion here that makes the tail look like a Black-tailed Godwit. But if you zoom in it is the right wing-tip you are seeing, rather than the tail.
The nominate subspecies that occurs in winter in Britain (Limosa lapponica lapponica) breeds patchily on tundra in northern Scandinavia east to Russia's Yamal Peninsula. It winters around the coasts of Britain and the Low Countries down to Africa. According to the BTO there are about 30,000 individuals wintering in Britain, with two thirds of these inhabiting The Wash. It was always assumed that European wintering birds were all of this western subspecies. But genetic work published recently in Ibis (2025) shows that large numbers of subspecies taymyrensis from further east make up the majority of European wintering birds. It suggests that the entire population of the nominate subspecies lapponica only numbers 30,000 individuals, which is much rarer than previously thought, which was 150,000 to 180,000 individuals. Birds of subspecies taymyrensis are just slightly larger than nominate lapponica but also differ genetically. However, they do not differ genetically from the doubtfully distinct subspecies yamalensis, which breeds between the other two subspecies in northern Russia.
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Hedon Estate Surabaya, Indonesia. The cafe, they have lots of luxury classic cars and motorcycle.
This caught my eye when we were visiting Polperro and made me smile. There is another photo of the place in my comments below
Way back when, the Bangor and Aroostook was a very busy railroad. So much so the railroad had CTC in place on much of the Southern Division south of Oakfield, with power switches, a complex interlocking and tower at S. Lagrange, and a mix of searchlights and semaphores along the Medford Cutoff and the main line.
However with economic collapse of the potato traffic during the Penn Central bankruptcy and declining traffic, most of the system was unplugged and removed in the 80's and 90's. I believe the signals around Millinocket might have lasted into the early 90's. To my knowledge, this signal posted at the south end of the former siding at Quakish Lake, is the last one standing (there is a set at the end of the airport runway in Bangor which were felled and never picked up). This remaining signal is one of the last remnants of a time when things were busy enough, to warrant a signaling system.
On this day I found EMR 910-25 making its way south to BVJ, with a pair of SD70M-2's bracketing the last SD40-2 in service, along with NBSR GP40-2 3068 hitching a ride to Saint John .
Eastern Maine Railway
Train: 910-25
2/25/2024
Quakish Lake
Millinocket, ME
EMR Millinocket Subdivision
This is another photo of the Margaret Todd schooner in Bar Harbor, Maine during a mid September sunrise. (image 34A2558) Please also visit: acadiamagic.com.
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(Limosa lapponica)
Not many times you get the opportunity in December in Northumberland to photograph both species of Godwit