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McDonalds are open to drive-thru customers, but closed to sit customers. So many will park up and eat in the car park. The seagulls aren't daft. They have learnt to scavenge, or maybe some people have been feeding them.
The birds with black head are called black-headed gulls.
Second version of this Mute Swan pair forming the classic love heart shape during courtship behaviour.
Sunseekers newest offering, the very sexy looking Preditor 68.
Seen near Dor Drecht in Holland on the Rhine. We were returning to the UK after the Düsseldorf boat show.
Greater Manchester Police has praised the behaviour of visitors to Manchester during a weekend of sport in the city.
On Friday 20 May 2016, the Great City Games saw a number of athletes compete in various events on a purpose-built athletics arena in Albert Square and track on Deansgate.
The following day (21 May 2016) saw Manchester United beat Crystal Palace 2-1 to win the FA Cup at Wembley Stadium, with a number of fans watching the match in public venues throughout Greater Manchester.
The weekend extravaganza concluded on Sunday 22 May 2016 with over 30,000 lining up to take part in the Great Manchester Run before England defeated Turkey 2-1 at the Etihad Stadium in a UEFA Euro 2016 warm-up match in the evening.
The events saw tens of thousands of visitors to the city centre, creating a buzzing and carnival-like atmosphere.
Assistant Chief Constable John O’Hare said: “This has been a fantastic weekend for Manchester and the atmosphere in the city has been superb from start to finish.
“It was great to see so many pictures of smiling faces and people having a good time and I hope everyone who has visited the city this weekend will be going away with some great memories.
“I would like to thank everyone who has played a key role in ensuring that the weekend has been successful.”
For more information about Policing in Greater Manchester please visit www.gmp.police.uk
To report crime call police on 101 the national non-emergency number.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
Greater Manchester Police has praised the behaviour of visitors to Manchester during a weekend of sport in the city.
On Friday 20 May 2016, the Great City Games saw a number of athletes compete in various events on a purpose-built athletics arena in Albert Square and track on Deansgate.
The following day (21 May 2016) saw Manchester United beat Crystal Palace 2-1 to win the FA Cup at Wembley Stadium, with a number of fans watching the match in public venues throughout Greater Manchester.
The weekend extravaganza concluded on Sunday 22 May 2016 with over 30,000 lining up to take part in the Great Manchester Run before England defeated Turkey 2-1 at the Etihad Stadium in a UEFA Euro 2016 warm-up match in the evening.
The events saw tens of thousands of visitors to the city centre, creating a buzzing and carnival-like atmosphere.
Assistant Chief Constable John O’Hare said: “This has been a fantastic weekend for Manchester and the atmosphere in the city has been superb from start to finish.
“It was great to see so many pictures of smiling faces and people having a good time and I hope everyone who has visited the city this weekend will be going away with some great memories.
“I would like to thank everyone who has played a key role in ensuring that the weekend has been successful.”
For more information about Policing in Greater Manchester please visit www.gmp.police.uk
To report crime call police on 101 the national non-emergency number.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
Officers of Greater Manchester Police Rochdale Division are joined by colleagues from the Specialist Operations Branch for the Force’s latest Supervortex operation.
Supervortex sees officers out in force in a specific area to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour. The latest operation, conducted on Thursday 25th of March 2010, was centred around the Langley area of Middleton.
The Specialist Operations Branch provided support with officers from the Tactical Aid Unit, Road Policing Unit, Tactical Mounted Branch and Air Support Unit assisting members of the Middleton Neighbourhood Policing Team.
The operation gets under way.
To find out more about Policing in Greater Manchester please visit our website.
Our neighbouring horses do a bit of mutual grooming. I find it fascinating how they decide to do this.
This male swan was getting very agitated as he felt the family 'next door' were too close to him and his nesting wife. The fact that a fence divided them made no difference as he tried to bite his way through it
Phill and I quite often split up when we go out photographing as we tend to go for different things. And quite often something unusual will have happened during his absence. So when he returns, I say "you never guess what you missed" and then show him the evidence. This was taken at Dungeness back in the summer and it is the second time he has 'missed' the action when he has been off photographing old buildings and boats down there. This is the second photoshoot I have seen there, so it must be a popular place used by agencies
See below for the last time I witnessed a photoshoot on the beach
I've been stopped and questioned for around 20 mins this morning (01/04/09) under Code D of the PACE act. I received a 5090X form for the Police to "investigate suspected crime/disorder/anti-social behaviour".
My "suspected crime"? Taking this picture of the Royal Bank of Scotland building and a news crew outside. No police visible in the shot. Where's the crime?
Her'es the form they handed me, see if it makes sense to you? www.flickr.com/photos/piersmason/3410180254/
Hemerocallis fulva, the orange day-lily, tawny daylily, corn lily, tiger daylily, fulvous daylily, ditch lily or Fourth of July lily (also railroad daylily, roadside daylily, outhouse lily, and wash-house lily), is a species of daylily native to Asia. It is very widely grown as an ornamental plant in temperate climates for its showy flowers and ease of cultivation. It is not a true lily in the genus Lilium, but gets its common name from the superficial similarity of its flowers to Lilium and from the fact that each flower lasts only one day.
Description
It is an herbaceous perennial plant growing from tuberous roots, with stems 40–150 centimetres (16–59 inches) tall. The leaves are linear, 0.5–1.5 metres (1+1⁄2–5 feet) long and 1.5–3 cm (1⁄2–1+1⁄4 in) broad. The flowers are 5–12 cm (2–4+3⁄4 in) across, orange-red, with a pale central line on each tepal; they are produced from early summer through late autumn on scapes of ten through twenty flowers, with the individual flowers opening successively, each one lasting only one day. Its fruit is a three-valved capsule 2–2.5 cm (3⁄4–1 in) long and 1.2–1.5 cm (1⁄2–5⁄8 in) broad which splits open at maturity and releases seeds.
Both diploid and triploid forms occur in the wild, but most cultivated plants are triploids which rarely produce seeds and primarily reproduce vegetatively by stolons. At least four botanical varieties are recognized, including the typical triploid var. fulva, the diploid, long-flowered var. angustifolia (syn.: var. longituba), the triploid var. Flore Pleno, which has petaloid stamens, and the evergreen var. aurantiaca.
Distribution
Orange daylily is native to Asia from the Caucasus east through the Himalaya through China, Japan, and Korea. Orange daylily persists where planted, making them a very good garden plant.
Hemerocallis fulva var. fulva has escaped from cultivation across much of the United States and parts of Canada and has become a weedy or invasive species. It persists also where dumped and spreads more or less rapidly by vegetative increase into woods and fields and along roadsides and ditches, hence its common name ditch lily. It forms dense stands that exclude native vegetation, and is often mistaken for a native species.
Hemerocallis fulva is an invasive non-native plant in parts of the United States and is included on lists of plants to avoid planting in some states, including Maryland and Virginia and other mid-Atlantic states.
Cultivation
Hemerocallis fulva has been cultivated in Europe and naturalized there since at least the 16th century. A few cultivated varieties exist which are grown as ornamental plants. Their propagation is by division since most plants in cultivation are sterile triploids.
They are long lived perennials that are adaptable to varied garden conditions and vigorous growers doing well in even difficult areas where other plants do not thrive. The plants grow well in full sun to open shade, and are drought tolerant. H. fulva is winter hardy to UDSA Zone 4.
All portions of Hemerocallis species may be seriously toxic to cats and somewhat toxic to dogs. Cats are particularly vulnerable as their grooming behaviour causes them to lick accidentally transferred pollen from their fur.
Uses
The flowers, leaves, and tubers are edible. The leaves and shoots can be eaten raw or cooked when very young (or they become too fibrous). The flowers and young tubers can also be eaten raw or cooked. The flowers taste better when cooked but can also be fried for storage or dried and used as a thickener in soup. The cooked flower buds, served with butter, taste like green beans or wax beans. The tubers are a good potato substitute
This Robin seemed a little nervous, not sure if it was another rival or a Sparrow Hawk that has been known to visit the area.
The grass is greener on the other side. Actually there is almost no green grass around since we have not had rain for months!!! Anise checks out the sheep that will keep her company while she's at the farm.
8/3/2015
On 13th January 2015, Artur Piotr Ruszel was hit by a car close to this spot on Upper Brook Street while riding his bike. He died from his injuries later that day.
This ghost bike was installed here in his memory a month later. Ghost bikes are bikes that are painted white and placed at the location where a cyclist was killed or fatally injured....
Recently i got a call from one of my friend stating that one of my photograph is in website(given below)
www.asiapacifictravel.vn/tours/indochina_travel/india_tou...
I was quite stunned while see that image in a website of a company which is operating from Vietnam, I never expect money for using my photograph but atleast a permission through mail or mobile, even i entered my mobile number in the profile page. I was quite surprised Flickr is almost a giant in web industry don't they have watch dog to monitor such image thefts. I don't know how many of your images are glittering in the websites without your permission.
For you reference find the image below.
Thanks
Raja
The hole in the soil was made by voles intent on stripping the covering from my car's central controller (allows the roof to fold down and rise, also the windows to go up and down!). Only cost me £500 to replace ;'-0
Anyway ... the wasp appeared to be digging in a new direction ... wonder if it was nesting? Strange!
Museum of Modern Art De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Part of the Museum Behaviour series bit.ly/H0skbp
Nest building behaviour is often associated with courtship and pair formation in birds. The degree to which this behaviour is used in courtship varies from mere manipulation of a piece of nest material or display of a potential nest site to the building of an entire nest by the male individual.
Both the partners of a pair carried the nesting materials together during the initial stage of nest construction. Males contributed more to find and fetch the materials, while the females took charge of manipulation at the nest.
Nest materials consisted of green branches, sticks and grasses. It was possible to identify 8 plant species among the constructing materials brought to the nest. Fresh leaves of Dumur (Ficus glomerata), Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus citriodora), Jarul (Lagerstoemia speciosa), Kadamba (Anthocephalus indicus), Durba Grass (Cynodon dactylon) and Mutha Grass (Cyperus rotundus) were used more commonly in nest formation.
Asian open-billed stork - Anastomus oscitans (Shamukh Khol in Bengal) in the Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary (Kulik Bird Sanctuary)
A resident colonial breeder distributed in tropical Southeast Asia. During monsoon period, the Kulik river enters the sanctuary, which supports a wide variety of food for the open billed stork. The main diet of the bird is apple snail, Pila globosa or other types of snail which grows in large number in the smaller or larger water bodies surrounding Kulik.
Every year large number of this bird species come in the sanctuary only for breeding purpose. According to the field report prepared by the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), more than 100,000 storks came to Kulik during 2018, forming one of the World’s largest concentrations of this group!
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Images of Bengal, India