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Maquoit Bay, Maine
Every once in awhile a commercial fishing boat dumps excess fish into the bay...a smelly and wasteful practice. The seagulls have been hovering and screeching for days...nature's cleaners.
Maquoit Bay, Maine
Every once in awhile a commercial fishing boat dumps excess fish into the bay...a smelly and wasteful practice. The seagulls have been hovering and screeching for days...nature's cleaners.
Maquoit Bay, Maine
Every once in awhile a commercial fishing boat dumps excess fish into the bay...a smelly and wasteful practice. The seagulls have been hovering and screeching for days...nature's cleaners.
There are many ways to describe rain and this image tells why Singaporean calls it pouring!! The approaching storm clouds simply "dumps" its water onto that small area. If you are among those under, only one word to describe you after - drenched!
I don't know about you but I'm down in the dumps about the end of summer. I'm not ready for Autumn yet and I'm not looking forward to smallest son's first day at school! The sands of time are moving too fast!
Maquoit Bay, Maine
Every once in awhile a commercial fishing boat dumps excess fish into the bay...a smelly and wasteful practice. The seagulls have been hovering and screeching for days...nature's cleaners.
Ring-billed Gulls are the most common gulls in Michigan. They can be found on all of the Great Lakes. In the summer they are also found in parking lots of fast food restaurants, on beaches, and in dumps.
Maquoit Bay, Maine
Every once in awhile a commercial fishing boat dumps excess fish into the bay...a smelly and wasteful practice. The seagulls have been hovering and screeching for days...nature's cleaners.
"THE VILLAIN "! nest raider, bullying, foraging around rubbish dumps, saw one pulling the intestines out of a dove. Other birds are quick to identify and give out vocal warnings. The Pied Crow is one of only three Corvidae Species in the Gambia.
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Maquoit Bay, Maine
Every once in awhile a commercial fishing boat dumps excess fish into the bay...a smelly and wasteful practice. The seagulls have been hovering and screeching for days...nature's cleaners.
Maquoit Bay, Maine
Every once in awhile a commercial fishing boat dumps excess fish into the bay...a smelly and wasteful practice. The seagulls have been hovering and screeching for days...nature's cleaners.
My dear friend and sister Ashley . Together we always have fun and we laugh so much together. Doing this picture with you was an exciting little journey with several dumps and obstacles in the way, but we are stubborn, never gave up and we managed to recreate our own version of a real picture that was the basis for the idea and the picture. We had a lot of fun from start to finish despite all the challenges along the way. But I have to say ,even if you're a little clumsy, lol. I still love you anyway. I am infinitely grateful to have you in my life here and I love you to bits. I could not have found a better friend then you here. I really appreciate you my dear friend and sister.
Thanks for doing this picture with me and for all the laughs we had along the way doing it..
Here is a song that I feel is right for the two of us. ♫ TUNE ♫
Big hugs and a lot of love sent your way.
Yours Lori
Medium-sized, rather nondescript raptor with overall dark plumage. Varies considerably across range, but always note tail fork (can disappear when tail is fully open), and short head and neck. Juvenile averages paler and more contrastingly-marked. Flight style buoyant, gliding and changing direction with ease. Frequently forages in urban areas, rubbish dumps, aquatic habitats, and grassland, but usually avoids heavily forested areas. Sometimes solitary, but also gathers in large flocks on migration and at good feeding areas. (eBird)
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We saw many of these raptors in India and a good number in the Northern Territory. They were outnumbered, though, by the Whistling Kites. I just noticed, after posting this image, that there is a second bird in the photo, well hidden by the pine needles but seen by the bird out in the open. Probably mates!
Yulara, Northern Territory, Australia. October 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Tropical Australia.
Parc National d'Ordesa/Mte Perdido - Aragon - Espagne
Le Percnoptère d'Égypte est un petit vautour dont les couleurs dominantes sont le noir et le blanc.
Migrateur il arrive d'Afrique vers la moitié du mois de mars pour nicher au printemps en montagne, on peut le rencontrer jusqu'à 3000m d'altitude.
Le plus souvent, la nidification est rupestre à l'instar des grands vautours.
Le nid, construit de branchages, de laine de mouton et autres déchets, est installé sur une vire,
protégé par un surplomb rocheux, ou dans un creux de la paroi.
Le Percnoptère d'Égypte est, comme tous les vautours, un nécrophage.
Son vol plané de surveillance et sa vue performante lui permettent de localiser sa nourriture potentielle.
Sur les carcasses, il passe d'habitude après les grands vautours comme le Vautour fauve, se nourrissant des restes.
Il peut aussi descendre sur les animaux écrasés sur les routes.
Il fréquente régulièrement les décharges et zones d'équarrissage où sont déposées les carcasses d'animaux domestiques.
The Egyptian Vulture is a small vulture whose dominant colors are black and white.
Migratory, it arrives from Africa around the middle of March to nest in the spring in the mountains, it can be found up to 3000m altitude.
Most often, the nesting is rupestrian following the example of the big vultures.
The nest, built of branches, sheep wool and other waste, is installed on a slope,
protected by a rocky overhang, or in a hollow of the wall.
The Egyptian Vulture is, like all vultures, a scavenger.
Its surveillance glide and its powerful sight allow it to locate its potential food.
On carcasses, it usually comes after large vultures like the Griffon, feeding on the remains.
It can also descend on animals crushed on the roads.
It regularly frequents dumps and rendering areas where the carcasses of domestic animals are deposited.
Maquoit Bay, Maine
Every once in awhile a commercial fishing boat dumps excess fish into the bay...a smelly and wasteful practice. The seagulls have been hovering and screeching for days...nature's cleaners.
So, i just want to say thank to all the really amazing, kind-hearted people who left me messages and comments the other day. i feel silly and kind of embarrassed for sounding so pitiful. I'm normally not so down in the dumps. however, some things were just floating around in my brain and they ended up turning into some really intense spouts of sadness. forgive me.
i had a lovely day taking pictures by myself. i don't get to do it that often. and it was so nice. the sun is so good today you can taste it.
(i guess i didn't realize it before, but this picture does look a lot like one of Rosie Hardy's pictures. So, i guess it was subconsciously inspired by her. Thanks Rosie! :) )
A very common bird in the Himalayan belt - they were more common than Crows and Sparrows much to my surprise. They were present in the cities, forest areas, hill sides and even around river edges and garbage dumps. The bird must have adapted to the environments around it.
We sighted it several times and our bird guides found it amusing that we were excited about it and photographed it. The bird has an easy to remember whistling call, but we didn't hear it much during the trip. Maybe its not the breeding season.
Many thanks in advance for your views, faves and feedback.
John Mayall: Nature's Disappearing
Man's a filthy creature
Raping the land and water and the air
Tomorrow may be too late
Now's the time that you must be aware
Nature's disappearing
Polluted death is coming, do you care
Garbage going nowhere
Soon the dumps will spread to your front door
Lakes and rivers stagnant
Nothing lives or grows like years before
Nature's disappearing
The world you take for granted soon no more
Read about pollution
Make manufacturers uncomfortable
Boycott at the market
Containers that are non-returnable
Aluminum, glass and plastic
Eternal waste that's not destructible
We're a generation
That may live out our natural time
But as for all our children
Born to suffocate in human slime
Nature's disappearing
And we are guilty of this massive crime
The waste dump Hoheward is a mountain waste dump in the Ruhr area. She originated from the earth of the bill Recklinghausen II, the bill to Ewald and the bill general Blumenthal / Haard. Lying between the cities of Herten and Recklinghausen, she forms together with the waste dump Hoppenbruch the biggest waste dump scenery of the Ruhr area. The highest place of the waste dump is reached with a height of 152.5 m above sea level. The waste dumps Hoheward and Hoppenbruch are a part of the route of the industrial culture and the scenery park Hoheward. Owner of both waste dumps is the regional association of Ruhr which has taken over the surfaces from the Deutschen Steinkohle AG. As a project bearer he is responsible for the removal of the waste dump Hoheward. With good view the Rhine tower about 50 km away is to be recognised in Dusseldorf.
from Wikipedia
"Emergency, emergency, emergency!", that's what comes over the radio when an engineer dumps the air on his train or if the air dumps on it's own. They then give their location. That's what I heard on my scanner in the car after finishing a night shift. Then the engineer told the dispatcher a rock had fallen upon the track. "River Line dispatcher to SECS.....just how big is this rock? Will you need assistance?"
"SECS to River Line......it's the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. Yes, we need assistance."
Most engineers worry about rock throwers in urban areas, but out here, Mother Nature has her own way of putting things. 20 more feet and SECS would have been in the drink.
West Point, NY., March 1997
This male house finch doesn't look too happy about all the recent snow we've had here in the Driftless region but he'll be a lot more down in the dumps when we fall into the deep freeze tomorrow - yikes.
Maquoit Bay, Maine
Every once in awhile a commercial fishing boat dumps excess fish into the bay...a smelly and wasteful practice. The seagulls have been hovering and screeching for days...nature's cleaners.
The Black Kite is thought to be the world's most abundant species of Accipitridae, although some populations have experienced dramatic declines or fluctuations. It’s an unforgettable sight to see these aerobatic birds with their swooping turns in their hundreds filling the sky over urban areas and rubbish dumps in India.
The flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and sometimes a soul,
and the women break vases against the walls
and the men drink too much
and nobody finds the one
but keep looking
crawling in and out of beds.
Flesh covers the bone and the
Flesh searches for more than flesh.
there's no chance at all:
we are all trapped by a singular fate.
Nobody ever finds the one.
the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill
nothing else fills.
Charles Bukowsky
Ring-billed gull
From Cornell -
Familiar acrobats of the air, Ring-billed Gulls nimbly pluck tossed tidbits from on high. Comfortable around humans, they frequent parking lots, garbage dumps, beaches, and fields, sometimes by the hundreds. These are the gulls you're most likely to see far away from coastal areas—in fact, most Ring-billed Gulls nest in the interior of the continent, near freshwater. A black band encircling the yellow bill helps distinguish adults from other gulls
Auf dem Gelände des ehemaligen Dorfs Wollseifen errichtete das belgische Militär 1950 zahlreiche Kulissenhäuser, um den Häuserkampf üben zu können. Beispielsweise wurde hier im Mai 2001 für den Kosovo-Einsatz trainiert.
Um diese Häuser entstand eine heftige Debatte, ob alle unter Denkmalschutz gestellt werden sollten. Aus Sicht des Nationalparkforstamts sprachen Gründe der Verkehrssicherheit (jedes bestehende Gebäude muss verkehrssicher gehalten werden), die damit verbundenen Kosten, das Verbot jeden menschlichen Eingriffs in den Nationalpark, sowie die Benutzung der Häuser als ungereinigte Toiletten und Müllkippen für einen Abriss. 2012 einigten sich das Denkmalschutzamt und das Nationalparkforstamts auf einen Kompromiss: Von den ursprünglichen 52 blieben 21 Häuser stehen. Diese wurden im Frühjahr insbesondere durch Vermauern der Türen und Fenster im Erdgeschoss so gesichert, dass ein Zugang für Besucher des Nationalparks nicht mehr möglich ist. Für Reptilien und Fledermäuse wurden Schlitze gelassen und in den Kellern Aufschüttungen zum Verlassen vorgenommen. Ein Nebeneffekt bei dieser Maßnahme ist auch, dass der Blick auf die ehemalige Pfarrkirche freier ist.
(Wikipedia)
On the site of the former village of Wollseifen, the Belgian military built numerous backdrop houses in 1950 so that they could practice house-to-house fighting. For example, training for the Kosovo mission took place here in May 2001.
A heated debate arose around these houses as to whether they should all be listed as historical monuments. From the point of view of the National Park Forest Office, there were reasons of road safety (every existing building must be kept safe for traffic), the associated costs, the prohibition of any human intervention in the national park, and the use of the houses as uncleaned toilets and rubbish dumps for demolition. In 2012, the Monument Protection Office and the National Park Forestry Office agreed on a compromise: 21 of the original 52 houses remained. In the spring, these were secured in particular by bricking up the doors and windows on the ground floor so that access for visitors to the national park is no longer possible. Slits have been left for reptiles and bats and embankments have been made in the cellars to leave them. A side effect of this measure is that the view of the former parish church is more free.
Kewstoke beach is not what you would call a traditional sandy beach. It is part of the Severn estuary and therefore has a 13 metre rise and fall spanning a one mile course. It collects sediment up river and dumps it along its banks at certain places, parts of Kewstonke are one of them. Be warned...you will sink in this mud up to your waist if you walk on it!
The two Islands on the horizon are Flat Holm and Steep Holm, Bristol Channel, UK.
Dock 6 rail and sail, night edition.
R922 dumps Minntac pellets on the east while the John G. Munson loads.
Sometimes when we are down in the dumps, it is hard for us to even think about what dreams we have. It then becomes very easy to just focus on making our situation better and to forget about what dreams we may have had for ourselves. Little do we realize is that when we forget about following our dreams, we forget that we are forgetting a life that we never even got to know.
We are forgetting life experiences that we never were able to experience, riches we never saw to spend, people we never knew to love, and answers to questions we never knew to ask. Do not let your situation or circumstances determine your future, let whatever is in your heart determine your future. Even though going through hard times makes it difficult for us to believe and to hope, we must push through and believe in ourselves and in our dreams.
A spring thunderstorm dumps some rain on the Idaho side of the Hell's Canyon seen from the Oregon side. Nice and green this time of year but will soon be dry and brown. Some say the Hell's Canyon was so named due to the high heat that builds up in the basalt and sedimentary cliffs down along the Snake River that does not cool off much at night during the hot summer months. Having experienced that heat I understand. However the most common and established thought for the name is that passage with any watercraft thru the canyon on the Snake River was deadly and nearly impossible. The name stuck but to me the area isn't hellacious but imposing and majestic.
Thanks for taking a look, always appreciated.
Enjoy a safe and wonderful Easter holiday weekend.
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh nor more;
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never;
Then sigh not so,
But let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny;
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into. Hey nonny, nonny.
Sing no more ditties, sing no mo,
Or dumps so dull and heavy;
The fraud of men was ever so,
Since summer first was leavy.
Then sigh not so,
But let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into. Hey, nonny, nonny.
Leaving the boots by the back door.....
Hoping this is the last of it......my town does a great job of digging us out, except for the part where the plow plows straight down the street and dumps a couple of feet right at the end of your driveway!
#7/52, Weather, 52 Weeks in 2021
Massive wave dumps on Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse in a severe weather event.
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A very common bird in the Himalayan belt - they were more common than Crows and Sparrows much to my surprise. They were present in the cities, forest areas, hill sides and even around river edges and garbage dumps. The bird must have adapted to the environments around it.
We sighted it several times and our bird guides found it amusing that we were excited about it and photographed it. The bird has an easy to remember whistling call, but we didn't hear it much during the trip. Maybe its not the breeding season.
Many thanks in advance for your views, faves and feedback.
If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle - that's the thing.
And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...
(Monty Python)
Yes, I deleted my first image cause it was poo, LOL! This one is staying though, cause I really love it!
The Ertebølle culture (ca 5300 BC – 3950 BC) is the name of a hunter-gatherer and fisher, pottery-making culture dating to the end of the Mesolithic period. The culture was concentrated in Southern Scandinavia, but genetically linked to strongly related cultures in Northern Germany and the Northern Netherlands.
It is named after the type site, a location in the small village of Ertebølle on Limfjorden in Danish Jutland. In the 1890s, the National Museum of Denmark excavated heaps of oyster shells there, mixed with mussels, snails, bones and bone, antler and flint artifacts, which were evaluated as kitchen middens (Danish køkkenmødding), or refuse dumps. Accordingly, the culture is less commonly named the Kitchen Midden.
As it is approximately identical to the Ellerbek culture of Schleswig-Holstein, the combined name, Ertebølle-Ellerbek is often used. wikipedia
A dozen years ago there was a miraculous return to service for the Erie Mining F9s in Minnesota. At this point in time it was known as the Cliffs Erie Railroad and the taconite fines/chips were being backhauled from the Harbor to Hoyt Lakes, MN in the old side-dumps that used to haul raw taconite to the pellet plant before it was shuttered. For a few months the railfans were treated to covered wagons working freight on their home rails. Special thanks to Doug Buell and others on the OreRail YahooGroup for keeping everyone informed on when the F units would be running.
Amsterdam - Oosterpark - OLVG
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The place of the Ertebølle culture (ca 5300 BC – 3950 BC) (Danish pronunciation: [ˈɛɐ̯təˌpølə]) is the name of a hunter-gatherer and fisher, pottery-making culture dating to the end of the Mesolithic period.
The culture was concentrated in Southern Scandinavia, but genetically linked to strongly related cultures in Northern Germany and the Northern Netherlands. It is named after the type site, a location in the small village of Ertebølle on Limfjorden in Danish Jutland. In the 1890s, the National Museum of Denmark excavated heaps of oyster shells there, mixed with mussels, snails, bones and bone, antler and flint artifacts, which were evaluated as kitchen middens (Danish køkkenmødding), or refuse dumps.
Accordingly, the culture is less commonly named the Kitchen Midden. As it is approximately identical to the Ellerbek culture of Schleswig-Holstein, the combined name, Ertebølle-Ellerbek is often used. wikipedia
The beautiful and ornate interior of The Fabulous Fox.
Time for a PSA to talk about what I post and why. I recently shared some of this on my FB Profile, so thought I’d expound and share it with my Instagram, Flickr and FB Page followers. Some of you may ask, and some have asked, “I see you in Maine, then Colorado, then Florida, then Maine again, some old, some new, what is going on?!?”. I began my journey in photography about 15 years ago. For many years thereafter I did very little with my photos other than share some with family and friends. I didn’t get active with sharing publicly on social media and printing until about 5 years ago, significantly ramping that up when I retired in 2018. At that point I had hundreds, if not thousands of unloved photos waiting for some love. Since then, I have been slowly releasing and sharing my archived photos along with photos current at the time. As you also know, I post my photos slowly over time, usually 2-3 per week, preferring to savor and share individually over time, rotating through the several genres that I enjoy, rather than big dumps. I hope you enjoy my journey!
Too bad I didn't take along my skis !
(Seen on my bicycle trip along the Werra River this July)
"Monte Kali" and "Kalimanjaro" are local colloquial names for the spoil heap or spoil tip that towers over the town of Heringen, Hesse, Germany. It is one of a number of sites where the K+S chemical company dumps sodium chloride (common table salt), a byproduct of potash mining and processing, a major industry in the area.
The names are puns of Kali (shorthand for Kalisalz, German for "potash") on "Monte Carlo" and "Kilimanjaro."
The heap lies directly next to the border with the state of Thuringia, and hence next to the former inner German border with what was once East Germany
The heap rises over 250 metres (820 ft) above the surrounding land, its summit reaching 530 metres (1,740 ft) above sea level.According to the Werra Potash Mining Museum in Heringen, Monte Kali has been in operation since 1976; as of August 2016, it covered 98 hectares (240 acres) and contained approximately 201 million tonnes of salt, with another 900 tonnes being added every hour and 7.2 million tonnes a yearThe amount of salt that goes to the region's soil and rivers is enormous.
The Werra river has become so salty (up to 2.5 g/L chloride ions, which is saltier than parts of the Baltic Sea) that few freshwater organisms can survive in it. The groundwater has become salty as well. K+S are licensed to keep dumping salt at the facility until 2030. (Wikipedia)
A late running F16 rolls through the old log yard in Brownville, behind Canadian Pacific GP38-2 3100. A rather varied assortment of power compared to what the train usually runs with made it worth hanging around after getting out of work, especially with the large 101 car train, and 10k tons (it also helped I had moved those side dumps out of the way a few days prior).
Päuschen?
I came across this armchair during my walk in the forest today. I haven't noticed it until now because it was probably completely overgrown. Now in autumn the leaves have disappeared and the armchair has reappeared a little.
It upsets me that someone just dumps his trash in the forest. But I find it impressive with what force nature takes back its rights.
The headlights on this truck are a bit off-kilter. One headlight is pointing up into the trees. It is obviously being used to spotlight raccoons who are stealing the fruit off the trees. It is questionable whether this truck drives, dumps or lights up, but it is after all for farm use. All those pesky emissions regulations, decent brakes, good tires, nice upholstery and stunning paint finish are only in the way in a hard working truck. HTT
1965 or 1966 Chevy truck C60 ...
- IX- Nailed Septum Silver
- ::GB:: Teddy Jacket (Gianni) Gray
- AITUI - Sheltered Pants - Black (Body: Signature Gia.)*
- Archviefaction_Vertex Crown_Ashes
- Sweet Thing. Demon Tail (Bento) - XS
- [Val'More] x Kitz'une - Sanguinem Collar - Nails
LooseScrew
'Through the snow, when the coldest weather
.45 make you flow like a feather
Like you done it down my nose, bitch get up
Comin' down, Geronimo go hit 'em
Was in the dumps, 'til I finally got fed up."
The Ertebølle culture (ca 5300 BC – 3950 BC) (Danish pronunciation: [ˈæɐ̯təˌpølə]) is the name of a hunter-gatherer and fisher, pottery-making culture dating to the end of the Mesolithic period. The culture was concentrated in Southern Scandinavia, but genetically linked to strongly related cultures in Northern Germany and the Northern Netherlands. It is named after the type site, a location in the small village of Ertebølle on Limfjorden in Danish Jutland. In the 1890s, the National Museum of Denmark excavated heaps of oyster shells there, mixed with mussels, snails, bones and bone, antler and flint artifacts, which were evaluated as kitchen middens (Danish køkkenmødding), or refuse dumps. Accordingly, the culture is less commonly named the Kitchen Midden. As it is approximately identical to the Ellerbek culture of Schleswig-Holstein, the combined name, Ertebølle-Ellerbek is often used.