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A pair of swans looking decidedly amorous. This was sort of the opening salvo in a courtship display that went on for some time, and became progressively more intense and heated.
GWT Coombe Hill.
In winter, the Reed Bunting often joins other finches and buntings to feed in arable landscapes. At the end of the 20th century, BTO research attributed declines in these species to intensive agriculture reducing food availability over the winter months. This issue has been, to some extent, addressed through agri-environment schemes, and there has been a gradual overall increase in the UK population since the late-1990s. However, the picture is mixed with a significant decline in South-east England. (BTO).
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Situada a Socobio, un llogaret del municipi de Castañeda (Cantà bria), la Colegiata de Santa Cruz té el seu origen en un monestir benedictà al segle X.
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Located in Socobio, a hamlet in the municipality of Castañeda (Cantabria, Spain), the Colegiata of Santa Cruz has its origins in a Benedictine Monastery in the 10th century
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Distressed Old Book Page/Paper by ArtByChrysti
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Well what else is there to do on a Thursday but stick your head into a dandelion and leave your stripy butt hanging out?
HBBBT everyone.
Looking smart in Great Western Trains 'Merlin' livery, 43135 is captured crossing the river at Bradford-On-Avon leading a diverted Paddington-Bristol Temple Meads HST on 14 February, 1998. The livery was relatively short-lived. Introduced with privatisation in 1996, the company became First Great Western in December 1998, with trains repainted in 'fag packet' livery, reminiscent of the scheme used by a certain cigarette brand.
A close-up of ferns and mosses growing on the walls of Fern Canyon. Thanks to my Flickr Friend Geoff Threadgill (www.flickr.com/photos/gwts/) for the title.
Happy Thursday! Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your kind comments -- I appreciate them all.
© Melissa Post 2016
A very rare beetle in Wales. Recorded on three times previously in Wales, and this was only the second for the county. Agapanthia villosoviridescens.
Waiting for the car tyres to be sorted out, I managed to sneak in one of my old faves... a moving train shot. Hand held as propping the camera on the bridge didn't work with the vibrations of the traffic on it,
So, what's wet, fuzzy, furry and completely spherical, and eats apples? Answer: a water vole!
Seen at Magor Marsh, Gwent Wildlife Trust reserve, this evening. Completely ignored all the people clustering around to take pictures so long as they stayed back a few feet from the fence.
The marmalade hoverfly, Episyrphus balteatus, on a batter old marsh marigold caltha palustris, which is a member of the buttercup family.
Notch-horned cleg fly female, on my car.
Playfully, I say that this is a typical female: she has the most beautiful eyes, but she wants your blood.
Donderdag - Thursday 14 April 2023
Info :
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Registration : OE-FJG
Type : PA-31T1 Cheyenne I
C/N : 31T-8104029
Build : 1981
Owner : GWT Group
Flight : LOAN
Location : EHLE
Back to more usual fare from me, and still trying to catch up on my picture backlog. Here are a few shots from a trip to brockwells Meadows gwent Wildlife Trust reserve. This is a fantastic SSSI limestaone grassland habitat with an amazing flora.
Still getting used to my new lens, so the focus is a bit soft on this shot.
I finally got out of the house today to take some fresh pictures, and I can't tell you how great it felt to be outside after weeks of being housebound.
This Zygiella spider posed very nicely for me at Magor Marsh reserve, where I went because it is flat and so wouldn't put too much strain on me.
One of the big rarities on the site. Only known from one other site in the county (albeit in enormous abundance there), Marsh helleborine is a speciality of Henllys bog, and seems to have benefitted from recent management to remove tussocks of Molinia caerulea.
GWT 1400 Class 0-4-2T 1473 at Watlington station, on a cold day in April 1960, during the Locomotive Club of Great Britain 'Six Counties Limited' railtour.
The loco was withdrawn in August 1962, and scrapped in September 1963. Four examples have been preserved.
The line - from Princes Risborough - had closed to passengers in 1957, and closed completely at the end of 1960, apart from the section to the cement works at Chinnor, which is now part of the preserved Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway.
Today (2021) the platforms and station building have gone, and the site is largely overgrown, but the 'open' corrugated iron shed on the left still exists:
Restored from a very-unfocussed grainy cyan-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
I put out another apple for the water voles at Magor marsh today. Frist the magpies flew down to it, and the adult was feeding her newly-fledged chick. They were too wary for a picture.
Then this mad creature appeared. I can only assume that it is some form of aquatic hedgehog!
Who said eating fruit won't make you fat?
Have a Wacky Weekend!