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The common eider is one of the largest ducks found in Europe and North America.
It is most famous for the eiderdown, which are feathers plucked from the female that are then used to line nests. The soft, warm lining has long been used as filling for pillows and quilts but it now consider a rare luxury.
This male bird made for a fairly standard shot but I liked the small feather hanging from its bill. In a sense it captured the whole essence of eiderdown and how significant an item it has become in both nature and within human society.
Snapped by James.
Common Redpoll! Latin: Carduelis flammea: Swedish: Gråsiska! April 2024, Arvidsjaur, Lapland, Sweden!
This visitor to my garden yesterday was vey obliging, settling on this chive seed head and posing very nicely
Common Green Darner Male and Female in mating position on the leaves at Beaver Island State Parks pond. via 500px ift.tt/2afOHgZ
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This latest scan from my 1964 Western Region timetable shows the passenger service available back then between Bristol and Bath Green Park via Mangotsfield.
A reasonable level of service of 8 trains per day (Sundays excepted – the Sunday service was withdrawn some years earlier but only amounted to two trains per day, and always referred to by my father as the “Parson’s trains”).
Most trains stopped at all stations. Bitton wasn’t served by the first train in the morning in either direction, and the 1903 from Green Park, the last train of the day (actually starting at 1540 from Bournemouth West) ran non-stop to Mangotsfield. It then languished there for 10 minutes whilst a van was detached from the train and later attached to the northbound Newcastle Mail.
Those trains that are showing as only running as far as Mangotsfield were actually heading further north on the Midland main line towards Gloucester. One of them in each direction, the 0820 from Bristol and 1710 return from Mangotsfield, only ran as far as Yate and were primarily for the workers at the factories belonging to Parnalls and Newmans. The trains were known as the “Parnalls trains” for this reason. Parnalls factory still stands in 2016 in Station Road, Yate, and currently owned by Indesit, but Newmans factory was demolished and the site is currently occupied by a Morrison’s supermarket and a B&Q DIY store. All the other “short” trains in the timetable went on to Gloucester.
One oddity that got into the timetable during the last few years of operation was that there were some northbound express trains that stopped at Mangotsfield to make a connection with trains from Bath Green Park, but no express trains stopped in the southbound direction. In this 1964 timetable, the 0740 departure from Bristol was on its way to Bradford, the 1040 departure was heading for Newcastle, and the 1930 departure was the overnight Newcastle Mail. As will be seen, these trains did not call at Fishponds or Staple Hill, and neither did the 1545 departure from Bristol; this, however, was only a local service to Gloucester, and missed out those two stations simply because the 1535 departure for Bath Green Park (final destination Bournemouth) was only 10 minutes in front of it. If anybody from Fishponds or Staple Hill wanted to go north they could change at Mangotsfield.
Saturday 2nd January 1965 saw the last stopping trains run between Bristol and Gloucester, all stations being formally closed between Yate and Haresfield on the following Monday. Thereafter there were only the Bath Green Park trains and this timetable, or at least one very similar to it, ran until Saturday 1st January 1966.
The line to Bath was supposed to close on Monday 3rd January 1966 but got a nine-week reprieve. The service provided for those nine weeks, however, was meagre to say the least, and the “Emergency timetable” as it was known is reproduced here:
These Common Goldeneyes (Bucephala clangula) look like dolls. I waited for so long with the hope that they will move near the shore for me to get a close-up shot but they decided to be in the middle :(
Cropped.
I got lucky and this Common Morpho must have gotten tired holding his wings up and he dropped them to reveal his beautiful blue dorsal view! He stayed like this for more than a minute so I managed to capture a few images of his colorful side!
Whatcom Creek Estuary, Maritime Heritage Park, Bellingham, WA.
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We set off for our next destination soon after breakfast (it was actually 2 days to get there with an overnight stop just for sleep).
Before that I was able to take a few final photos.
These were also common at both this and our final destination, but this was the only photo I managed which shows it reasonably well. My only decent kingfisher photo from the trip. I saw 3 species of them in total.
Common Sunflower. (Helianthus annuus).
Village Creek Drying Beds. Fort Worth and Arlington, Texas.
Tarrant County. September 30, 2022.
Olympus Tough TG-6. 4.5-18mm F/2.0-4.9.
(9.7mm) =54mm. f/4.5 @ 1/200 sec. ISO 100.
LA: Listera ovata
EN: Common Twayblade
DE: Großes Zweiblatt
HU: Tojásdad békakonty
An orchid that can hide very well in plain sigh.
Small green flowers. Two big leaves.
Endemic to Europe and Asia. Often grows in forests, along creeks, but in mountain areas even on dry meadows.
Protected plant in Austria and Germany.
Kaisertal, Austria
This butterfly was quite sought after by others though I had never heard of it. I saw few on the trip. These were very skittish and I never managed to get a photo with wings open in spite of trying to do so.
Common Loon - Wilson Lake, Quebec, Canada
Loons are water birds like ducks. The Common Loon is the species best known to most of us, as its breeding range lies across most of Canada. The Common Loon in summer is very striking with its black-and-white checkered back, glossy black head, white belly and wing lining, and characteristic white necklace around the throat. All loons have greyish feathers in the winter, and immature birds tend to resemble adult birds in winter plumage. The white feathers of the belly and wing linings are present year-round.
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