O yeah, and there's a train in it! (Invite Only)
View allAll Photos Tagged notching
The late-evening sun illuminates this architectural detail of the I.M. Pei-designed Dallas City Hall.
Moritzburg Castle (Schloss Moritzburg) or Moritzburg Palace is a Baroque palace in Moritzburg, in the German state of Saxony, about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) northwest of the Saxon capital, Dresden.
The castle has four round towers and lies on a symmetrical artificial island. It is named after Duke Moritz of Saxony, who had a hunting lodge built there between 1542 and 1546. The surrounding woodlands and lakes were a favourite hunting area of the electors and kings of Saxony.
In 1972 Moritzburg Castle was one of the locations of the Czechoslovak-German film Tři oříšky pro Popelku ("Three Nuts for Cinderella"), which became a popular fairy-tale movie in Central Europe.
I did my first real hike of the year in the White Mountains over the weekend, Mount Willard is one of my favorites. It's quite an easy hike, and the reward in terms of view is pretty amazing. The "notch" as you see it is a deeply carved "valley" between two mountain chains. In the middle runs route 302.
Notch chases my car on my way to work, you can tell he's a risk taker! I think he feels a bit left out with all my deer shots. He gave me a pose I couldn't pass up. Too bad even though I think he's adorable, most people will just pass this pic by.
Grabbing into the incline, WBD BNSF grainer G-DNEWAW9-11A nears Austin through a bright notch in the hills building up towards Mullan. 4 MRL ACE's are shoving hard mid-train to get this guy up to the top. Its showtime!
Another five-pack of EMD's start up the intense grade out of Clifton, AZ, with FMI 51 as the leader.
Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my written permission.
© Toni_V. All rights reserved.
Steps notched into fallen log, Clay Creek Trail above Siuslaw River, Oregon.
Minotla SRT-102, Kodak Tri-X. Processed by Blue Moon Camera, BMC print, home scanned with Epson Perfection 4490.
I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of my zoo shots, so I'm going to save them for the winter doldrums. I thought I'd round out this series with another elephant shot.
I'll be away from Flickr most of the day. I hope you have a good one.
© All rights reserved. No usage allowed in any form without the written consent of Mim Eisenberg.
After completing their assault over Rich Mountain, the Kansas City Southern’s OCS or BKCSH, descends southbound into the small town of Mena, Arkansas with a classic F unit A-B-A set behind their gorgeous passenger train. Seen here with the KCS 1, screaming into town in notch 8 on the KCS Shreveport Sub, leaving the famous Rich Mountain behind on their deadhead trip from Kansas City, Missouri back to Shreveport, Louisiana. Taken: 3-20-22
Conway Scenic's Notch train takes it slow across the Willey Brook Trestle on its way back to North Conway with a train full of leaf peepers. The lashup on the way back was interesting after the 1751 was added to the headpin at Fabyan's. It's also not too common seeing the 4266 making trips to the notch. GP38 252 leads 4266, 1751 and the 8 car train down the 2.2% grade from Crawford Notch snaking along the side of Mount Willard. Just on the other side of the trestle is the site of the Mt. Willard section house.
Plainest swallow in North America. Plain brown above with indistinct brown wash across throat and breast. Wings are relatively broad; tail is short and square (or slightly notched). Juveniles have rusty wingbars. “Ridgway’s” subspecies, mainly found on the Yucatan peninsula, is larger and lankier, almost recalling a martin. Look for the deeper notch in the tail and dark-tipped undertail coverts. Often seen near water, sometimes in mixed flocks with other swallows. Breeds in holes and crevices, often along riverbanks or under a bridge. Not a colonial nester like Bank Swallow. Call is a low, grating buzz that rises slightly in pitch. Compare with Bank Swallow, which has a contrasting dark chest band. Also very similar to Southern Rough-winged Swallow, which overlaps in Central America. Southern Rough-winged has a brighter tawny throat and paler rump.
The Conway Scenic Railroad's "Mountaineer" excursion arrives at Crawford Notch as the day's torrential down pour finally begins to lift.
CSX M561 passes through the middle of Botkins, OH in notch 8 as they work hard to bring their train up the hill just north of town.
The top of Avalanche Falls at Franconia Notch. A short 7/10 of a mile from the visitor center and you get to the flume trail. The entire loop gives you a view of two waterfalls, plenty of moving water in the flume, and two covered bridges. Definitely a must do in the White Mountains.
This was the scene at Willey Brook from early October in 2016. Although it is one of the home roads for me I haven't yet checked up on the foliage in the notch this year, it seems the weather usually turns pretty sour the past couple of years when it peaks. Cory was at the throttle of this one to Fabyans and return with Mr. Grover riding shotgun.
Wingate notch is a “shortcut” between Cane Wash and the San Rafael river. This was the route we chose to get to Petroglyph Butte.
Hollyhocks are annual, biennial, or perennial plants usually taking an erect, unbranched form. The herbage usually has a coating of star-shaped hairs. The leaf blades are often lobed or toothed, and are borne on long petioles. The flowers may be solitary or arranged in fascicles or racemes. The notched petals are usually over three centimeters wide and may be pink, white, purple, or yellow. The fruit is a schizocarp, a dry disc divided into over 15 sections that contain seeds
L&C Train #16 spews out black smoke as they rolls up to the crest of the grade outside of Knox, SC. In just a few minutes, the train will encounter the steepest grade on the line, coming in at 4.7%.
The Notch Train has finished the runaround and is ready for the trip back to North Conway as the sun breaks through clouds after a snow squall. It’s also nice to get a photo here without a car or person in sight.
Back 30 years or more ago, the DXs used to be famous when notching up for throwing an orange aurora towards the heavens.
After an extended period of coasting, their engines were suddenly fed fuel but the hot turbo spooled up lazily and it took a while for the required amount of air to arrive for clean combustion. When the engines were modernised, this spectacle seemed to die off, and this may only be the second time I've captured it in a picture.
It was after midnight and with a few hours of travel ahead of me, so I figured I'd pace the train south, and noticed it flame up a few times after passing road crossings. A nice surprise to find that I'd snapped it earlier, when it was cranking up through Rolleston - albeit not quite as visible here in the bright lights through this patch of rain.
27 November 2020, Train 915, Rolleston, SIMT-NZ
My first time in the "North Country", the part of NH north of the White Mountains. Ironic that it was my first time here, since I've been numerous times to the White Mountains. It was a few weeks ago that I went to Dixville Notch. I think it's one of the first places in the US that reports on elections because only 5 people live there! The original argument for going to the North Country was that if I kept on going north sooner or later I'd reach peak foliage colors. I think that mostly worked out. I didn't have to cross the border into Canada, LOL (It was only 30 min away). The colors on the mountain were the best I saw on the trip.
Best viewed in large.
Enjoy the weekend!
The Twin Cities Western “Saint Paul Turn” starts rolling east on TCW trackage at Hopkins, MN. This train is bound for the UP East Minneapolis Yard.
PO-74 has finished its work at Tobyhanna and is accelerating back up to track speed after clearing the crossing.
Many thanks for the visits, faves and comments. Cheers
Brown Falcon
Falco berigora
Description: Brown Falcons are small to medium-sized raptors (birds of prey). The female is larger than the male. The Brown Falcon has a range of plumage colours, from very dark brown to light brown above and off-white below. Generally, the upperparts are dark brown and the underparts are pale buff or cream. The sides of the head are brown with a characteristic tear-stripe below the eye. Birds from the tropical north are very dark, with a paler face and undertail, while those from central Australia are paler all over. Younger birds resemble dark adults, but have less obvious barring on the tail, and a buff-yellow colour on the face, throat and nape of the neck.
Similar species: Paler birds may often be confused with a related raptor (bird of prey), the Nankeen Kestrel, F. cenchroides, which is quite a bit smaller and has a more rufous crown. Dark Brown Falcons may be mistaken for slightly larger Black Falcon, F. subniger. The Black Falcon has longer legs and lacks barring on the tail. The Black Falcon also appears sleeker in shape and movements.
Distribution: The Brown Falcon ranges throughout Australia, and north to New Guinea.
Habitat: The Brown Falcon is found in all but the densest forests and is locally common throughout its range. The preferred habitat is open grassland and agricultural areas, with scattered trees or structures such as telegraph poles which it uses for perching. Around outback towns, the birds become quite tame and will allow quite close approach. Birds may stay within the same areas throughout the year or may move around locally in response to changes in conditions. Paler birds are usually associated with inland areas, but all the colour varieties are fairly scattered throughout the range.
Feeding: Brown Falcons are usually seen alone, searching for food from an exposed perch. When prey is sighted, the bird swoops down and grasps it in its claws (talons), killing the prey with a bite to the spine. The powerful bill has specialised 'tomial' teeth and matching notches for this purpose. Less often the species will hunt by hovering or gliding over the ground, often at great heights. Brown Falcons feed on small mammals, insects, reptiles and, less often, small birds.
Breeding: The nest used by the Brown Falcon is normally an old nest from another hawk species, but the species may build its own stick nest in a tree. Occasionally birds nest in open tree hollows. Both sexes share the incubation of the eggs, and both care for the young, although the female performs the bulk of these duties, while the male supplies most of the food.
Calls: Normally silent at rest, but gives some cackling and screeching notes when in flight.
Minimum Size: 41cm
Maximum Size: 51cm
Average size: 46cm
Average weight: 530g
Breeding season: June to November in the south; November to April in the north.
Clutch Size: 2 to 6 (usually 3)
Incubation: 30 days
Nestling Period: 45 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net; and Pizzey & Night, The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia)
© Chris Burns 2025
__________________________________________
All rights reserved.
This image may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photocopying and recording without my written consent.