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Gadsisar Lake – Excavated in 1367 by Rawal Gadsi Singh, it is a scenic rainwater lake surrounded by small temples and shrines. Earlier, this lake was used to be the main water source of Jaisalmer. Plan for a camel ride, a picnic, and perhaps a short paddle-boat excursion, and bring some bread to feed the catfish.
When I was at the German Origami Convention 2016 I met Dirk Eisner, (AKA Eisfold), he was one the special guests.
He has been given several workshops and I followed the one learning how to make the "Di-excavated octahedron".
The folding of the modules is not difficult, but to ensemble them together is something different and it was quite a challenge. But it worked out well for all the participants and I even could refold it at home, as you can see ;-))
Here is another view of the same origami model.
Folded from 18 rectangles 1:2.
If you want to read more about this model, please follow the
this link, it brings you straight to Dirk's photo of this "Di-excavated octahedron".
Black woodpecker in front of the excavated tree hole nest.
Not my most beautiful photo but I would like to show this giant among the woodpeckers on Flickr
This is the largest species of woodpecker in North America. They appear to have a strong tendency to be solitary birds but during the breeding season they can be found in pairs.
The breeding territory of a mating pair will be defended by the pair all year long and will still continue by the surviving bird if something happens to one member of the bonded pair. The remaining bird will not desert their breeding territory which encompasses about 40 ha.
The vacated nests of the Pileated Woodpecker will usually become a nesting site or crucial shelter for various species including swifts, owls, ducks and sometimes mammals like bats and pine martens.
This male is peeking out of the nest site he has been excavating for himself and his mate.
Excavated at Thebes, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th dynasty, 14th century BC. Granodiorite. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
Calakmul (auch Kalakmul) war während der klassischen Periode eine mächtige Stadt der Maya. Zusammen mit El Mirador und Tikal ist Calakmul eine der größten jemals entdeckten Maya-Städte. Calakmul befindet sich rund 300 km südöstlich der Stadt Campeche (Mexiko) im gleichnamigen Bundesstaat.
Calakmul erstreckte sich auf einer Fläche von ca. 30 Quadratkilometern und besaß über 100 Kolossalbauten; es sind insgesamt mehr als 5000 Gebäude bekannt. Dominierend sind hier vor allem die sogenannten „Strukturen“ I und II. Letztere besitzt eine Höhe von ca. 45 Metern. Der Großteil von Calakmul ist jedoch bisher weder ausgegraben noch eingehender erforscht worden. Über die Einwohnerzahlen lassen sich nur Spekulationen anstellen. Für den Stadtkern etwa wird eine Bevölkerung von etwa 50.000 Menschen angenommen.
Calakmul (also Kalakmul) was a powerful Mayan city during the classical period. Along with El Mirador and Tikal, Calakmul is one of the largest Mayan cities ever discovered. Calakmul is located around 300 km southeast of the city of Campeche (Mexico) in the state of the same name.
Calakmul spread over an area of approximately 30 square kilometers and had over 100 colossal buildings; a total of more than 5000 buildings are known. The so-called "structures" I and II dominate here. The latter has a height of approx. 45 meters. However, most of Calakmul has not been excavated or explored in depth. Only speculations can be made about the population. A population of around 50,000 people is assumed for the city center.
This partially excavated castro is located next to the Camino de Santiago and it is estimated that it was occupied from the 5th century BC until more or less the 1st century AD.
It sits on a gentle hill with a panoramic view of the right bank of the river Miño, but as it is not a steep terrain, it was necessary to build a series of defensive elements that made this settlement unique.
An intricate system of ditches, walls, embankments and palisades surrounds the entrance to the settlement, where the houses have straight, regular walls and are grouped into neighborhoods.
Originally excavated for the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894, it underwent a significant redesign after the fair in order to be repurposed as a venue for public gatherings centered on music performances.[1]
The focal point of the plaza, Spreckels Temple of Music, also called the "Bandshell", was a gift to the city from sugar magnate Claus Spreckels.[2] The structure was built in 1899, in advance of the Music Concourse's completion in 1900. It was severely damaged in the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes, has repeatedly undergone extensive renovation, and has served as a stage for numerous performers over the years ranging from Luciano Pavarotti to the Grateful Dead. It has for decades been the venue for annual celebrations of the anniversary of the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791.
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The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) is a medium-sized woodpecker with pied black and white plumage and a red patch on the lower belly. Males and young birds also have red markings on the neck or head. This species is found across the Palearctic including parts of North Africa. Across most of its range it is resident, but in the north some will migrate if the conifer cone crop fails. Some individuals have a tendency to wander, leading to the recent recolonisation of Ireland and to vagrancy to North America. Great spotted woodpeckers chisel into trees to find food or excavate nest holes, and also drum for contact and territorial advertisement; they have anatomical adaptations to manage the physical stresses from the hammering action. This species is similar to the Syrian woodpecker.
Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla) juvenile
Digging for grass seeds for lunch.
A random selection from the archives.
The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) is a medium-sized woodpecker with pied black and white plumage and a red patch on the lower belly. Males and young birds also have red markings on the neck or head. This species is found across the Palearctic including parts of North Africa. Across most of its range it is resident, but in the north some will migrate if the conifer cone crop fails. Some individuals have a tendency to wander, leading to the recent recolonisation of Ireland and to vagrancy to North America. Great spotted woodpeckers chisel into trees to find food or excavate nest holes, and also drum for contact and territorial advertisement; they have anatomical adaptations to manage the physical stresses from the hammering action. This species is similar to the Syrian woodpecker.
The road cleared of snow leads to Renge Hotsprings that is a trailhead to climb Mt. Shirouma-dake (白馬岳 2,932m). Yellow vehicles parked by the road is for snow clearing.
The red overpass is for National Road No. 148 that is the arterial road connecting the Japan Sea coast with Hakuba and Azumino Valley. Many sections of the road are in tunnels due to the scarcity of flat terrains and to spare the efforts for clearing snow. The overpass in the photo connects two road tunnels. Long road tunnels are a horror for cyclists like me.
Hiraiwa (平岩) is a small community of Itoigawa city with a few hotsprings inns. Mountains behind the settlement belong to Otari village of Nagano prefecture. There is a gold mine in the mountains.
Pairs excavate long horizontal tunnels into riverbanks using their feet and bills. These tunnels typically average 2 meters but can reach record lengths of over 8 meters.
Clutch: Usually consists of 3 to 5 eggs, which are incubated by both parents for approximately 26 days.
Giant Kingfishers typically hunt from a stationary perch overhanging water, making precise dives to catch prey. For larger prey like crabs, it will repeatedly beat them against a branch to remove shells and pincers before swallowing.
Giant Kingfishers are solitary and highly territorial, though they are monogamous breeders.
Giant Kingfisher (megaceryle maxima) adult female Senegal_1860
Having excavated the old mortar between the stones of this ruined building, these Sand Martins have a secure nesting location, albeit it's next to a busy cafe and car park. The birds aren't bothered at all and have been there for many years
Section of a bucket-wheel excavator at College Lake, Tring (Hertfordshire), operating here from the 1960s to the 1980s. In the background you can see what the machine had excavated, namely chalk/limestone used for making cement. It was open-pit mining, and the pit filled with water. Today, the area is a nice nature reserve.
Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary, Worcester, Massachusetts
In subsequent visits there were no signs of anyone occupying this nest hole.
Home on the Desert's Rooftop is one of many attractions at the El Morro National Monument in New Mexico.
The Puebloans, smart farmers of the high desert, were master builders. Atsinna Pueblo, the largest of the pueblos atop El Morro, dates from about 1275. Its builders made use of what they had around them: flat sedimentary rock easily cut up as slabs they could pile one on top of another and cement with clay and pebbles.
According to the National Park Service, ~ 355 interconnected room structure is buried under the ground, which was occupied by 500-600 people. Currently, 18-room structure has been excavated.
If this is fully excavated, it could be American Machu Pichu, but the park ranger said, no plan for further excavation.
Although the Beewolf (Philanthus triangulum) is regarded as a pest on the Continent due to the damage it can do to Honeybee apiaries I still get excited when I see one! We are very lucky to have a well established colony in Christchurch Park in Ipswich, and yesterday evening it was great to watch them busy excavating new burrows!
Male
The largest of the UK's woodpeckers. It nests in holes that it excavates in trees in broadleaved woodlands, orchards, large parks and gardens. It can often be seen hopping about on pastures and lawns, looking for ants.
Skylarks NR, Nottingham
A Northern Flicker forcefully ejects a load of wood chips from a nest cavity it was excavating in Calgary, Alberta. This entertaining behaviour was witnessed in mid-April, which is early spring in that part of Canada. This species is increasingly evident year-round at this latitude, a sign of climate change. This bird is an intergrade male, with red on the malar stripes and the nape.
This little Brown-headed Nuthatch was excavating a small hole in a dead pine tree. He took a break to check me out, then continued working on this, and a few other holes he had started on the same tree.
Gila Woodpeckers pretty much exclusively nest in saguaro cacti. They peck a hole and then excavate a cavity inside the cactus. After a bit, a “scab” forms inside the cactus and there is a hard-walled, boot-shaped cavity inside the cactus, in which the woodpecker builds its nest. This guy would go down into the hole and emerge with a beak full of cactus innards. He'd drop some out the hole and then shake his head violently back and forth sending even more junk flying. You can see some of it stuck to the needles of the cactus. It was interesting to observe.
Good workers are hard to find nowadays! Better call Mr. Pileatus if you need woodwork done efficiently and in timely manner!
Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Cheers.
Sacred Kingfisher
Scientific Name: Todiramphus sanctus
Description: The Sacred Kingfisher is a medium sized kingfisher. It has a turquoise back, turquoise blue rump and tail, buff-white underparts and a broad cream collar. There is a broad black eye stripe extending from bill to nape of neck. Both sexes are similar, although the female is generally lighter with duller upper parts. Young birds are similar to the female, but have varying amounts of rusty-brown edging to feathers on the collar and underparts, and buff edges on the wing coverts.
Distribution: The Sacred Kingfisher is common and familiar throughout the coastal regions of mainland Australia and less common throughout Tasmania. The species is also found on islands from Australasia to Indonesia and New Zealand.
Habitat: The Sacred Kingfisher inhabits woodlands, mangroves and paperbark forests, tall open eucalypt forest and melaleuca forest.
Seasonal movements: In Australia, Sacred Kingfishers spend the winter in the north of their range and return south in the spring to breed.
Feeding: Sacred Kingfishers forage mainly on the land, only occasionally capturing prey in the water. They feed on crustaceans, reptiles, insects and their larvae and, infrequently, fish. The birds perch on low exposed branch on the lookout for prey. Once prey is located, the Sacred Kingfisher swoops down and grasps it in its bill, returning to the perch to eat it.
Breeding: For most of the year Sacred Kingfishers are mainly solitary, pairing only for the breeding season. Usually two clutches are laid in a season. Both sexes excavate the nest, which is normally a burrow in a termite mound, hollow branch or river bank. The nest chamber is unlined and can be up to 20m above the ground. Both sexes also incubate the eggs and care for the young.
Calls: The voice of the Sacred Kingfisher is a loud "ek ek ek ek" repeated continuously throughout breeding season. Birds also give a "kee kee kee" in excitement and a series of chirring, scolding notes when alarmed.
Minimum Size: 19cm
Maximum Size: 24cm
Average size: 21cm
Average weight: 45g
Breeding season: September to December; occasionally extended to March, if conditions are favourable.
Clutch Size: 3 to 6
Incubation: 18 days
Nestling Period: 26 days
(Sources: www.birdsinbackyards.net and "The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds - Second Edition")
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EXCAVATES TIMBER BY DRILLING WITH ITS BILL, but this one is seen drilling the shell of a cob nut, by placing it in a tree hollow, and enjoys the nut, have seen it do this before at the same place, a joy to see, and Tolerates me a bit, because it does not want to leave its meal.
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The dock was excavated and constructed in 1884 by the local engineering contractors B Cooke & Company, under the guidance of the civil engineer Edward Woods, the dock was designed to take not just lighters and barges, but also coastal steamers. It was wide and deep enough to allow craft to turn, as well as allowing two rows of vessels to pass, and to leave on the lowest of tides.
Underground ice wells were built for the Natural Ice Company Ltd which had premises beside the dock to store ice that was shipped direct from Norway. t was later taken over by Slaters Ltd and, by 1902 belonged to the United Carlo Gatti Stevenson Slater Company an amalgamation of block ice trade merchants. During the 1920s, with advances in refrigeration technology, the store was replaced by an ice-making plant above ground and an ice making factory was built in Parkgate Road. The factory remained until some time in the 1970s. Parts of the building became a restaurant in the late 1990s.
In stillness I meet the mess of my mind—
a shovel, a seed, a ringing bell.
Thoughts rise like dust and fall like rain.
Breath by breath, I come home again.
Same time and location as yesterday's shot - here's a look at those formidable front claws.
The badger had excavated two large holes near the road; I don't know if they were connected underground. It went from one to the other and did not appear to be hunting. I suspect it was a temporary den.
Badgers move their denning locations frequently, often digging several and moving from one to the other every night or second night. Following this encounter I kept an eye on the two mounds, but did not see this individual again.
I had four fabulous badger photo ops this past fall - this is the greatest location I've ever stumbled upon for badger photography. But these chances overall are few and far between. Months can go by, and... nothing. In the 14 full years I have lived in Saskatchewan, I've had only 16 extended encounters - the kind that go beyond one or two grab shots. Four of them came this past fall. And I'm out there a lot, looking, looking. It was a little like winning the lottery. Better, in fact, because I have never been motivated by money. I don't need any more "stuff" in my life; not interested. Just give me more badgers!!!
One more shot to come of this little predator...
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2024 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
DB Cargo (Deutsche Bahn Cargo) TRAXX 185 306, operated by Rail Cargo Austria, with a "Bernegger railway logistics" construction material transport train. The train is presumably transporting excavated material from the construction site of the Semmering Base Tunnel. The photo was taken near the Ollersbach stop! (Lower Austria)
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Excavate the foundation, assemble Styrofoam basement walls and fill cavity with concrete. This is just after 3 weeks and already pouring concrete...see link below:
www.canadianhomeinspection.com/home-reference-library/bas...
The 'Put van Broekhoven' is a artificial lake, which is created when the site was excavated. The sand from the well was used to build the nearby A12 highway. The well lies in the Weijpoortse polder, and the mill is therefore named the Weijpoortste mill. It is a water-wip-mill, dated 1674. It drained the polder until 1975. It is now not longer in use, but under control of the Rijnlandse Molenstichting, a foundation that preserves all the Rijnland-mills (mills situated in the Rijnland-water board).
Writhed in agony
scathing silhouettes stand motionless
Worshipping the sun that caused the pain
As daylight descends
A sigh of relief excavates
The birth of a new day sheds its colors slowly
followed by its death over and over again..