I've been rendered 'hors de combat' with M.E. during the greater part of the week or so that this bird has been entertaining the many birders and photographers that have visited the site, but I was finally able to make the trip from Nottingham yesterday.

I've not seen a Hoopoe since we had a pair nesting in a tree stump at an archaeological site in Bulgaria, close to where I was working on the animal bones 30 years ago, at Nicopolis ad Istrum (Nikiup).

This one didn't disappoint. An extraordinarily confiding vagrant passage migrant, that presumably should have been heading for sunnier climes in Africa, but has been knocked off course to turn up here, it happily pottered about all day searching for grubs and digging them up for food, coming within feet of watchers without fear or favour. What a super little bird, brilliant experience and well worth the trip..

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Bucket wheel excavator 1473 (type SRs 1500) manufactured in 1964, called the "Blue Wonder"

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Evening excursion with M Grafix at an excavation lake in Thuringia

A big excavator resting after a day of work.

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Bucket wheel excavator 1473 (type SRs 1500) manufactured in 1964, called the "Blue Wonder"

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Londrina - Paraná - Brasil

Bucket wheel excavator 1473 (type SRs 1500) manufactured in 1964, called the "Blue Wonder"

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An old bucket-wheel excavator from an East German open-cast mining in the Lusatian lignite mining region. Decommissioned in 2003, this giant excavator now stands near the municipality of Schipkau and meanwhile is a lost place.

3850 tons of steel, 172 Meter long.

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A Pileated Woodpecker works on a hole

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Lever du soleil sur les rives de la Gironde à Pauillac.

Le phare de Patiras ou Phare Saint-Paul est un phare, aujourd'hui éteint, situé au nord-ouest de l'île de Patiras, sur la commune de Saint-Androny au milieu de l'estuaire de la Gironde, en face de Pauillac, dans le sud-ouest de la France.

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Braunkohlebagger

Probbacher Waldsee

Probbach forest lake

europes largest dragline excavator ,now abandoned and a good home to owls and kestrels

Bucket wheel excavator 1473 (type SRs 1500) manufactured in 1964, called the "Blue Wonder"

Capelle aan den IJssel

Excavator Extraordinaire

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Bucket wheel excavator 1473 (type SRs 1500) manufactured in 1964, called the "Blue Wonder"

Explore #6

10.08.2019

Huddinge, Sweden

Sunrise over this excavator.

grown older, at the workshop of a construction company in Hamburg

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erwas älter, an der Werkstatt einer Baufirma in Hamburg

Bucket wheel excavator 1473 (type SRs 1500) manufactured in 1964, called the "Blue Wonder"

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Bucket wheel excavator 1473 (type SRs 1500) manufactured in 1964, called the "Blue Wonder"

Shoveling sand to build a burrow and an adjacent sandcastle, this horn-eyed ghost crab scoops and carries with the large left claw then flings the sand with the smaller right claw. Interestingly, individuals are right or left clawed (laterality). Males heap the excavated sand high in the intertidal zone of a broad sandy beach, thought to be a territorial signal to other crabs or to attract a potential mate. Horn-eyed ghost crabs (Ocypode ceratophthalmus) range across the Indo-Pacific and Polynesia.

Eleonoraskolan

Botkyrka, Sweden

Coal Excavators Cemetery

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Revisit after year.. as You can see, excavators are under demolish process.

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