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John Heinz Wildlife Refuge Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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A solitary figure searching for a glimmer of light in the darkness..
Canterbury Cathedral 24th April 2026
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I was having lunch and a visitor showed up... Needless to say I ran for the camera...This is only the 3rd time I have seen them and one of the times I couldn't get the camera from the office quick enough...:-(
Generally thought to be an eastern bird, I found this Yellow-shafted Norther Flicker (olaptes auratus) competing with two local Red-shafteds for our suet feeder this morning in the rain
Today the smoke from the forest fires triggered a "hazard" alert, the highest level. When I got up at 4 am it was at 365, but it's dropped to 300 by this afternoon, still hazardous, but less so. I have an n95 mask, ONE, which I wore for the first time today. All of my other masks are triple layer t-shirt material masks. I took it off in the car, and promptly put it back on because I could smell the smoke. I have an air purifier which has been running non-stop in the house, I rigged another one by putting a hepa air conditioner filter on the back of a box fan, using stretchy cords to secure it to the fan. With the two fans, I have breathable air on one side of the house. But what about the birdies? They are on their own. The only birds I've seen today are woodpeckers, like this Northern Flicker. I haven't seen the little ones. Maybe the leaves of the trees give them extra oxygen. The sky is yellow and there isn't even a pale disk of sunlight.
A female red shafted Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) in for the suet at our feeding station. She also had a juvenile tagging along with her
A Yellow-shafted female I believe taking a sip from the heated bird bath. I see a Flicker visit the yard every January for a few days for a number of years now. Possibly an early migrant as birds that breed in the north winter in the southern US according to Cornell.
I wasn't aware that female flickers (Colaptes auratus) hammered to mark territory, as their male counterparts do, but she did, she hammered loudly for quite some time on the (highly resonant) cedar birdhouse.
A peek at the newly laid eggs deep in the cavity of a popple tree.
Mother flicker returned almost immediately after I moved away. Thankfully.
Bacino di Torano, Fantiscritti
Carrara
Part of the Railway system that was built beginning 1871 and ended in 1890 to transport the Marbel Blocks from the quarries in the mountains to the Port in Marina di Carrara.
The line was long more than 22 km leading from the docks up to the altitude of 445 meters in the middle of the quarries and tackle gradients that could reach, in some sections, 70 per thousand, on standard gauge tracks.
Of the two 19th-century viaducts, the smaller one, called Canalpiccino, leads to the Torano area and is supported by three high arches, while the larger one, with its five arches 38 meters high (at its highest point), is undoubtedly the most admired.