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Nominated CMU alumni were honored guests at the Tartans on the Rise Ceremony in Purnell on April 15, 2023.
Slender-billed Oriole. Photographed at Laifengshan National Forest Park, Yunnan Province, China on 27 January 2019. Nominate subspecies tenuirostris.
Variegated Fairywren - male
Malurus lamberti
Nominate race - Malurus lamberti lamberti
The Bower, adjacent to Illawong Nature Reserve, NSW
29th. December 2010
Distribution: avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=DB7...
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Whitewater Passenger Depot
Whitewater, Wisconsin
Listed 06/12/2013
Reference Number: 13000376
The Whitewater Passenger Depot is nominated to the National Register of Historic Places under criteria A and C for its significance at the local level. It is nominated under criterion A for its association with the growth and development of rail transportation in Whitewater. Whitewater was one of the first stops on the first railroad built in Wisconsin. The railroad link in Whitewater helped make the community an important industrial town in the nineteenth century. The original depot was a nondescript frame building that became the freight depot in 1891 upon the completion of this building. The freight house, as the old depot became known, was demolished in the 1990s, making this building the only extant resource related to the most important method of transportation of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the railroad. The building is also nominated under criterion C for its local architectural significance as a fine and unusual example of a typical small-town depot enhanced by High Victorian style details and distinguished by its high integrity. It was the work of master architect J. T. W. Jennings , who had an important architectural career in Wisconsin, beginning with his work for the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad (Milwaukee Road). The distinctive appearance of this depot can be attributed to the talent of Jennings, who went on to design important buildings in Madison, Wisconsin.
National Register of Historic Places Homepage
Whitewater Passenger Depot, Whitewater, Wisconsin, Summary Page
Nominate subspecies femoralis.
Pampas del Heath, Heath River Wildlife Center [200m], La Paz Dept., Bolivia
Male Common Goldeneye (nominate) (Kvinand / Bucephala clangula clangula) from Østensjøvannet (Norway).
These birds living in a natural reserve was actually less shy than the birds in the center of Kongsberg. Nice to be able to take pictures at down to 5-6 meter distance! :-)
Canon 550D, Sigma 150-500mm.
The photo is part of a Male Common Goldeneye (nominate) set.
For female birds, see my Female Common Goldeneye album.
While we were out visiting the 'Gardens Of Ireland'
came across this Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
on the River Slaney, Altamont Gardens, Co.Carlow 21-06-2021
[order] Coraciiformes | [family] Alcedinidae | [latin] Alcedo atthis | [UK] Kingfisher | [FR] Martin-pêcheur d'Europe | [DE] Eisvogel | [ES] Martín Pescador de Eurasia | [IT] Martin pescatore comune | [NL] Ijsvogel
Measurements
spanwidth min.: 24 cm
spanwidth max.: 28 cm
size min.: 17 cm
size max.: 19 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 19 days
incubation max.: 21 days
fledging min.: 23 days
fledging max.: 27 days
broods 2
eggs min.: 5
eggs max.: 7
Physical characteristics
The smallest of the kingfishers to be found in most of its range, has a long bill, and is blue-green above and orange below.Size 15-16 cm with a wingspan 23-25 cm. The flash of iridescent blue as this Kingfisher flies along a river is an exciting experience. Male nominate race rufous loral spot, black eyestripe, rufous ear coverts, white neckstripe. Crown and malarstripe barred blue and black. Upperparts and tail brilliant azure-blue, wings dark greenish-blue with paler blue spots. White chin and throat, rufous underparts. Bill black, gape red, iris dark brown, legs and feet orange red. Distinguished from similar small Alcedo species by rufous ear coverts. Female like male, but lower mandible orange-red with black tip.
Race bengalensis smaller, brighter and ispida slightly larger, bluer crown, darker rufous underparts. Race taprobanasimilar in size to previous, but upperparts bright blue, and floresiana darker blues on uppperparts, some blue feathers on rufous ear coverts. Race hispidoides ear coverts blue, purple tinges on hindneck and rump and salomonensis ear coverts blue, more extensive purple-blue upperparts.
Habitat
Usually still or gently flowing water with plentiful small fish, and with reeds, rushes or shrubs on the banks for perches, are essential aspects of the habitat. Small rivers, streams, canals and ditches preferred to open waterbodies, but sometimes uses lakes, ponds and flooded gravel pits. In winter becomes more coastal, frequenting also estuaries, and rocky seashores.
Other details
Alcedo atthis is a widespread breeder across much of Europe, which accounts for less than half of its global breeding range. Its European breeding population is relatively small (<160,000 pairs), and underwent a moderate decline between 1970-1990. Although the species was broadly stable overall during 1990-2000-with stable, fluctuating or increasing trends across the vast majority of Europe-its population has not yet recovered to the level that preceded its decline.
The kingfisher is present throughout most of Europe except for in Northern Scandinavia, as it is dependent on fresh water during the whole year. Their area of circulation stretches to Northern Africa, and all the way to Japan in the East. The kingfisher is highly endangered in Austria. The Danube Floodplains National Park East of Vienna, and the Pielach in Lower Austria are its central zones.
The European kingfisher, although widespread, is endangered or even threatened by extinction. The massive development and regulations of our flowing bodies of water (about 30.000 km since 1950) are constricting the kingfisher's habitat and spawning opportunities daily. Over the past years, it appears that the birds are switching to stagnant waters, as vertical walls can no longer be developed from the banks.
This bird inhabits rivers, small streams, ponds, lakes and reservoirs in a major part of Europe, northern Africa and Asia. All populations are strongly subjected to fluctuations according to climatic condition prevailing during the breeding season and the winter period as well. Nevertheless this species is threatened on the long-term by transformation and pollution of its habitats. The population in the European Union (not including former USSR countries) can be estimated at 20000-50000 breeding pairs.
Feeding
Main diet based on fish, include roach, trout, roach grayling, barbel, carp and many other species. Also takes aquatic insects, also flies, butterflies, amphibians, crayfish, prawns, shrimps and isopods in winter. Very occasionally feeds on berries and stems of reed. Perches for long periods, usually 1-2 m above the water, periodically turning around and bobbing head and body to gauge distance when food sighted. Dives steeply and catches prey below water to maximum depth of 1 m. Using its buoyancy and flapping the wings.
Breeding
Egg laying starts March-July in Britain, May in Sweden, March-May in Morocco and Iraq, March-June in India, March-August in Japan and in January in Papua. Common Kingfishers are Monogamous, solitary breeders. The territory is defended by calling in flight and by displaying from perch, where it sits quietly, crouches and stretches, swaying body from side to side, bill agape and wings drooping, before chasing off and intruder.
Nest usually in sandy, stone-free streamside bank, quarry, sandpit, peat catting or earth bank, occasionally in hole in wall, rotten tree stump. Both sexes take part in the excavation which taking 1-2 weeks. The tunnel is straight and usually 50-100 cm long. Clutch size is 6-7 eggs, both sexes incubate during day, but only female at night for a period of 19-21 days. During extreme winters the species suffers grave losses. This kind of loss has been quickly bridged by several incubation periods, within a year's time.
Migration
Northern populations, in areas where freezing conditions in winter, regularly migrates South, generally staying within species' breeding range. Populations in Central Europe migrate in severe winters, and South populations (e.g. in Spain) are mainly sedentary. Distance moved varies, up to 250 km in Britain, 500 km in France and Belgium, 1500 km in Czechoslovakia, to 3000 km in Russia. Non-breeding birds present in North Africa September-April and in Sudan October-April. Migrates mainly at night and pronounced movements evident along Mediterranean shores. May form small flocks during migration. Wintering birds establish territories, and juveniles may stay together as pairs or groups.
Eurasian Oystercatcher (nominate) (Tjeld / Haematopus ostralegus ostralegus) near Utstein Kloster (Rennesøy, Rogaland, Norway).
Canon 60D, Sigma 150-500mm.
The photo is part of a Eurasian Oystercatcher (nominate) set.
Photographed in Palos Verdes Botanical Garden in Los Angeles CA, Feb 5 2006.
They where busy doing the flower-piercer thing, going for the nectar in the flower. I wasn't aware they did this.
I nominated Ruth for an award and she won. I got to present it. Here was my speech:
Today I have the honor to stand before all of you incredible women of our community and present a Women’s Business Leadership Award to an amazing person I have had the honor of calling friend for nearly 20 years. You may know her from her very active previous role at Local First Arizona. You may know her from Altai Leather, an artisan shop she cofounded in Jerome AZ where she may have designed your custom belt or bag. More recently, you may have worked with her at Yavapai College's Small Business Development Center. You may have seen her at events or on social media promoting her family's Pindrop Travel Trailers, built in Arizona using Arizona sourced materials. You may have encountered her as a Flinn Brown fellow, or a member of the Cottonwood Oak Creek School Board. Wherever you first met Ruth Ellen Elinski, you certainly walked away feeling good about the experience.
Most people may be really good at one or two facets of life, but rarely do you meet someone so successful at so many. She's a mother to two brilliant, emotionally intelligent and deeply kind young daughters and the supportive wife of the mayor of Cottonwood, Tim Elinski, also a wonderful human being. She leads an award-winning team at Yavapai College's Small Business Development Center. She promotes nature conservation and appreciation as the message behind their family's very sustainable business, Pin Drop Travel Trailers.
And she's just a fun, funny, gracious, good-hearted person.
As a fellow former Midwesterner, I felt an instant rapport with Ruth when we met back in 2005, and I have enjoyed seeing her blossom into a very involved, engaged and supportive member of our community. It was my great honor to nominate her for this award, and to present it to her now today.
Grammy-nominated Emerson Drive rocking the house at the One Change simple actions matter celebration event in Alberta (Photo credit: Linda Patterson, Timeless Edge Photography)
Each spring, Ford School faculty and staff nominate dozens of outstanding student research and service projects for recognition at the Gramlich Showcase of Student Work. Established in 2008 to honor internationally renowned economist and former Ford School dean, Ned Gramlich, this event features exceptional student work on a broad range of local, national, and international policy challenges.
For students, the showcase is an opportunity to share their academic work and service engagement with the broader community – to teach others about major policy challenges, to respond to thought-provoking questions, and to engage in dialogue about complex problems. For guests, the showcase represents an opportunity to learn about contemporary domestic and international problems, and the policy interventions designed to tackle them.
Saline County, KS
Listed: 08/04/1988
The Fox-Watson Theater (c. 1930-1931) is being nominated to the National Register under criterion C for its architectural significance as an Art Deco movie theater. Built during the peak years of movie palace construction, the Fox-Watson is Salina's only movie theater from this era. Its decorative Art Deco exterior and opulent interior treatments are hallmarks of the movie palaces that were built across America in the 1920s and 1930s. The buildings were designed to be showplaces, with sumptuous appointments, inviting the rich and poor alike to share the lavish surroundings and escape into celluloid fantasies. Salina's Fox-Watson Theater was designed by Boiler Brothers, the prominent movie theater design firm responsible for many such palaces throughout the midwest and southwest.
The Fox-Watson closed in August, 1987 as competition from the mall theaters rendered the downtown theater unprofitable. The building, which maintains a very high degree of interior and exterior architectural and structural integrity, may be threatened, particularly its fine interior. The Fox-Watson Theater is an excellent example of an Art Deco movie theater that draws its architectural significance from its construction dates of 1930-1931.
The Fox-Watson draws its distinction as an Art Deco building through its setbacks, stepped treatments, and projecting pilasters which emphasize the building's geometric form. The terra cotta floral and vegetal reliefs, stringcourses door mouldings, a capitals and bases on the building's exterior and the geometric friezes, door surrounds, stair railings, and other decorative treatments found in the building's interior are all hallmarks of the Art Deco style. The Fox-Watson stands as a fairly typical mid-western interpretation of the Art Deco style, looking more toward applied ornament as style defining rather than toward a stronger integration of style defining structural units
Male Common Goldeneye (nominate) (Kvinand / Bucephala clangula clangula) from Østensjøvannet (Norway).
These birds living in a natural reserve was actually less shy than the birds in the center of Kongsberg. Nice to be able to take pictures at down to 5-6 meter distance! :-)
Canon 550D, Sigma 150-500mm.
The photo is part of a Male Common Goldeneye (nominate) set.
For female birds, see my Female Common Goldeneye album.
This building was nominated and placed on the National Register of Historic Places, two years ago. It is owned by the city of Buffalo, is wide open in various locations and home to a number of "urban campers" who manage to stay for various lengths of time. It is just over the tracks and less than 500 feet away from the recently renovated Emerson School High School - now Harvey Austin School.
Learn more here: Wollenberg Grain Elevator, 1912 - 2006
European Goldfinch (nominate) (Stillits / Carduelis carduelis carduelis) photographed in the garden of a couple of good friends living in L'Estartit, north-east of Girona on the Costa Brava, Cataluña, Spain.
Canon 60D, Sigma 150-500mm.
The photo is part of a European Goldfinch set.
I have been nominated in Excellence in Live Music Photography category -
www.flickr.com/groups/topic/63676/
if you to to this topic, you can vote by posting my name to the thread!
See my collection in my sets on my flickr page or search on the tag "excellence in live music photography"
Thanks!
kitty
Grammy-nominated blues artist. Here's a quote from her agency.
"2012 GRAMMY Nominee for her latest album Roadside Attractions (Best Blues Album), her fifth GRAMMY nomination overall and a very impressive fourth CD in a row of hers to be nominated, following Peace, Love & BBQ (2008), Live! Down The Road (2005) and So Many Rivers (2003). She received an earlier nomination for Sing It! (1998) with Irma Thomas and Tracy Nelson."