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Checking its catch
Young eagle checking its very impressive catch at Conowingo Dam
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Kingfisher catching a common minnow.
The light circumstances weren't perfect at all, reason why I'm more than content with only 1/640 of shutterspeed.
A few minutes after returning from the previous catch, the Osprey pulls out a bigger prize to deliver to the hungry family.
GLC 386 puts the hammer down as they bust through some massive drifts after working a customer in Ashley. This was the first train after their holiday shut down, which coincided with the season's first major snow/blizzard event, leaving its mark in the form of massive drifts. Little did we know just how epic this drift bust would be.
Train: GLC ONTN with GLC 386 (SD35), GLC 383 (SD35), and GLC 390 (GP35).
Ex Ann Arbor main
Ashley, Michigan
done for "Working Towards a Better World"
"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray."
~Lord Byron~
.....We believed we'd catch the rainbow
Ride the wind to the sun
Sail away on ships of wonder
But life's not a wheel
With chains made of steel
So bless me
Come the dawn....
Once I landed on a virgin beach - the home of millions of red crabs all over. Running after these little ones and catching them was too much fun. Never seen a crab so close and Oh My God Loved it all. Starred at her for some time and caught her through my third eye. Cherishing and sharing those memories.
Probably one of the most consistent daylight jobs in Maine, POAY gets underway at CPF203 with MEC 7585 leading. Surely anything can happen, but I'm fairly sure the writing is on the wall in about 3 months when CSX will likely takeover this property. In the meantime, catch 'em while you can!
Also to note-- a few cuts of UP reefers hauling State of Maine Aroostook County potatoes to Washington State. 2022 off to a great start... who would have thought we'd see that traffic ply these rails once more.
Juvenile with catch
Juvenile Eagle with what looks like a walleye or juvenile shad at Conowingo Dam
PS Thanks to input from several people I believe the fish is either a juvenile shad or a walleye not a bass
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Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus)
If you look closely you can see a large European Carp in its beak.
From the archives.
...If You Can...
#MacroMondays
#Container
This is a detail of a small soy sauce container shaped like a fish that I took along from a nice sushi restaurant years ago because it looked/looks so cute. These "soy-sauce snappers" or "shoyu-tai" were invented in Japan in the 1950s to replace glass or ceramic bottles. Apparently, one can still buy them everywhere (at the big river, the big bay, and at other online stores) by the hundreds, but one shouldn't, of course, because they are made of plastic, and, as we all know, throw-away, single-use items made of plastic are a huge problem for the oceans and other waters. Microplastic particles have even been found in crystal clear, actually clean, and very remote lakes, so it's high time to return to glass or ceramic bottles for takeaway dishes. I will keep my cute little soy sauce fish so it won't end up anywhere where it could impose danger to the very creature it represents.
Size info: The part of the soy sauce container visible in my image is 3 cm/1,18 inches. This is a single image processed only in DXO PL6 and Lightroom. The setup was super simple, too: With modeling clay, I "glued" the fish onto a small glass jar to get the right height and placed it in front of blue glitter foam sheet (dull side up). I illuminated the little scene witn an LED photo lamp (natural light) from above, a warm-light LED lamp from the left, and a handheld flashlight (set on "spot") from the right to highlight the eye. That's it.
HMM Everyone, and have a nice autumn/spring week ahead!