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1995 Reliant Robin LX.
Seen here promoting Stebbings Car Centre, King's Lynn.
Photo with kind permission of succulent95.
Another trip to New Grove Meadows for pink waxcap. Another failure to find it. On the plus side, it was a nice day, and the moles let me take a picture of their phone lines for Telegraph tuesday, so it was not all bad.
Trying really hard to shine of a truly miserable, wet day is this Burlingham-bodied Albion Valkyrie CX13 coach.
The coach was new in December 1947 to South Yorkshire Road Transport as their Fleet No.61, and is UK registered GWT 630.
The coach is now owned by Yesteryear Coaches of Baildon, West Yorkshire.
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Privately owned in the Southern Vintage Fire Apparatus Warehouse is this 1956 Maxim, 300gal GWT & 750gpm pump.
I'm not entirely convinced by the common name for this spider, Enoplognatha ovata, because the red stripes that give it its name are very often missing, as in this one. In fact I find it more often without the stripes than with.
Today it was finally time for a field test of my new Raynox DCR 250 macro conversion lens. This is a cheap (£40) clip on attachment that you use with your lens on full zoom. The more the zoom, the greater the macro effect, but also the smaller the depth of field. With my 18-55 kit lens and a single extension tube, it was at the limit of what the camera autofocus could handle, but I'm rubbish with manual focus and have unsteady hands,
Here are four shots taken with this lens, in natural light, and I am really pleased with all of them.
The pale form really shows the green veins in the sepals which give it its name.
Seen at New Grove Meadows Gwent Wildlife Trust reserve.
Gone to seed, and taken at dusk, with flash so the background blacks out.
Seen in the wildlife garden at Magor Marsh reserve.
Shot on the Mamiya 7 mk2 using Kodak Portra 400 color film. Not to be used or blogged without my permission.
Today's children's education day at Pentwyn Farm was based around the old restored medeival barn. In the morning we watched swallows feeding their chicks in the two nests in the rafters. Then we went on a nature walk around the reserve.
On our return we found two of the swallow chicks on the floor, having fallen from the nest. The one on the left was already dead, and the one on the right was still alive but weak and fading fast. We were unable to return it to the nest, and to be honest it was probably too far gone to survive anyway.
Explaining that to a bunch of children aged 5 to 14 was a challenge, but the children all accepted it pretty well. One of the parents was more upset than them. It is never nice to see, but is a part of nature. I took the shot as it is not a photographic opportunity that you get very often.
We think that the chicks may have been pushed from the nest accidentally by a sibling, or even suffered a nest raid from a rat, but to be honest no-one really knows why this happened.
The good news is that one chick definitely remained in the nest, and the adults were seen feeding it.
Another lucky moment at the Dawlish seaside with full sun in my back and a beautiful standard coloured westbound HST passing by.
Larger than the previous one, but found under the same piece of wood.
Thanks to Frans Janssens for identifying this.
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The view from Milton Lilbourne footpath crossing at Cuckoo's Knob as 800001 passes on 12 February 2024 working 1C77 10:35 Paddington - Exeter St Davids Great Western service.
Hanging in typical posture in its tangled web, behind the drainpipe on the Magor Marsh education centre. These spiders are unusual in having their abdomen taller than it is long, which gives them an odd shape.
New one for me, which is always nice.
Growing at the side of the dual carriageway outside Dixton Embankment reserve, Monmouthshire.
1995 Reliant Robin LX.
Seen here promoting Stebbings Car Centre, King's Lynn.
Photo with kind permission of succulent95.
These little spiders are usually described as being black and white, but often they are actually brownish.
I spotted this female just as she found a little red mite crawling on the wall, and pounced on it. A second later she relased it again and engaged in some furious mouthpart cleaning. I therefore concluded that mites taste bad.
I have observed that GWTs like to feed in grassy areas which have recently been covered with shallow water. They do not dabble in algae-filled ponds like Cinnamon and Blue-winged Teals. If frightened, they will seek refuge in the middle of a larger body of water. However, after awhile they will return to the shallow freshly flooded area to feed. Birdpedia says in the winter they prefer eating seeds that fall from reeds and grasses. That's exactly what they are into here.
Irisbus Iveco MidiRider T30 Farebús Gala de Medel Orozco Tours.
Ex Ereaga Bidaiak [BI]
Ex 635 Arriva Noroeste [C]
My first ever Nomada! Not just a picture, but first time I have ever seen one. Typically, having seen one, I saw six in half an hour! This is the best shot of many. I am of course open to correction on the species.
Seen at Pentwyn Farm Gwent Wildlife Trust reserve
Mute swan making the most of the sunshine with a thorough wash at Magor Marsh reserve. This is only part of the wash process, which went on for some time.
Spent time up at the Silent Valley Nature Reserve on 17.11.15 on a Photographing Birds course with GWT. Lovely day apart from the freezing temperatures (well, we were in Ebbw Vale in Nov!)
Sat, debating the wisdom of investigating the feeder.
This former GWT power car is fitted with Automatic Train Protection (ATP) equipment, as can be seen under the speedometer and to the right of the Ammeter gauge.
As far as I am aware, only HST's allocated or formerly allocated to the Western Region have had this equipment fitted. This equipment is now redundant in Scotland.
When they begin work in Scotland these HST's will not reach their 125 mph capability again. The fastest sections of route they will work on are limited to 100mph maximum. They will also be subject to a speed restriction due to their short formation of four or five coaches. This may possibly be 90 mph maximum.
The instrument gauges have been replaced on the entire fleet of HST power cars since they were first introduced in the mid 1970's.
The layout of some switches/ buttons are slightly different to those in the East Coast fleet that I drive most days at work. The East coast fleet have a sprung loaded "collar" around the brake controller handle on the left.The collar has to the lifted slightly to move it to the running position. This prevents the brake valve from being moved to the release position inadvertently .
As can be seen these GWT power cars do not have this fitted. As do the EMT power cars either.
This view was taken looking East with 08523 in view along with the coaches of 5S16, (43295+43300) the down Highland Chieftain that I had stabled on the fuel point. I had worked this North from Edinburgh.