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Species: Passer domesticus.
The House sparrow is an endearing, friendly little garden bird whose almost consistent year-round presence is always welcome. However, despite its notoriety as being one of the most sociable and gregarious birds in existence, it’s an understatement to say the sparrow has had a very tough time throughout history. Info: GardenBirds.
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Winnats Pass, Peak District, UK
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It must be a decade since I photographed Winnats Pass at sunrise. I avoid it as it gets very busy, especially at weekends.
But I made the opportunity to visit today and it was quieter. Nice to bump into Phil Harrison again. the second time in as many months. Looking forward to your shots.
In a wicked display of smoke and sound, MRL #4400 emerges out of the west portal of Bozeman Tunnel after successfully scaling the pass. The current tunnel was completed by the Northern Pacific in 1945, replacing the original 1884 bore.
Straight off, I'll be honest with you: I don't know if this is Buffalo Pass at all. Buffalo Pass. The name is quite ironic: I doubt any buffalo ever passed that way! Surely an average buffalo has more sense than me, as will soon become apparent.
Going over Buffalo Pass isn’t like going over the edge of the Niagara Falls. It is a gradual, painful process, quite akin to passing a kidney stone. How is that, you ask? Well, suffice to say that the last 6 miles getting to/past Buffalo Pass (who the hell knows - the passing of Buffalo Pass cannot be perceived by any of the senses), I repeat, the last 6 miles getting to/past Buffalo Pass took an hour and a half, during which our rental Jeep (Grand Cherokee XL, for the record) bottomed out at least three times and we managed to get overtaken six times by the same misearable mountain biker who’s sole aim in life seemed to have been to, you guessed it, get to Buffalo Pass!
But hey, some nightmares have a happy ending. On the way down from Buffalo Pass (though for all I know we may been still passing through it - the bumps in the road sure did not make it feel it was otherwise, and if I didn’t have brain damage before that, I do now!)…… the view opened up.
I slammed on the Jeep's breaks (Grand Cherokee XL, for the record), snapped up my camera, exploded through driver side door so fast that the dust had barely started to settle, and click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click….I shot this panorama, without a thought given to composition, focus or whether I would get a single like on Flickr. If there is a photographers' Heaven - I was in it!
Buffalo Pass? I love it! ❤
Doug Harrop Photography • May 30, 1982
One of Union Pacific's six Sultzer powered SD45 locomotives leads an eastbound train along the Oregon Short Line just west of Kemmerer, Wyoming.
This narrow cut was blasted out of a rock formation at Hodges Pass, on a 1943 line change to bypass a tunnel.
A view from High Crag If I remember , The road leading up to Honister pass with the path on the right up Fleetwith Pike.
The much under-rated, and often "forgotton or overlooked", female House Sparrow.
Another example of Lockdown Garden Birding!
Taken driving home from a weekend trip to Leavenworth and Winthrop in Washington State.
This is the very intimidating Liberty Bell Mountain located on the North Cascades Highway, aka Highway 20, which is a jaw-dropping scenic route that passes through some awe inspiring sights!
More to come.
Song: None Shall Pass
Artist: Aesop Rock
Album: None Shall Pass
At the last decade close to disappeared the species but nowadays I happy to see again a flock of Passer montanus in my garden .
Lots of burnt up slot machines in the back room of the casino. Also a safe. This is a most interesting location, besides the burned out casino there are about 12-15 houses, two motels, a restaurant, truck repair garage and lots of sheds and smaller buildings. On US6 at Montgomery Pass. A real ghost town with a US Highway running right through it.
Located on US Highway 6, "the loneliest road" in Mineral County, Nevada. This is part of the series of the loneliest tourist attractions on US6. Not all are abandoned joints.
A four pack of geeps drag the daily switch job from Canton yard to Republic Steel (directly across from the yard) east past the signal bridge at CP Fairhope with the outbound cars from the mill on the afternoon of Dec. 2, 2017. Three highhoods are currently based out of Canton: 5016, 5204, and 5205.
Notably, the 5016 is the unit fellow railfan RJ Vitchner was operating when he suddenly passed away almost two years ago now. May he rest in peace.
Doug Harrop Photography • July 11, 1984
A variety of colorful EMD and GE power (UP 6916, UP 2843, NW 8033, NW 8082, UP 3470, and UP 3200) pull an eastbound train along the Weber River east of Devils Slide, Utah.
Iniziamo a scendere sulla lunga cresta verso il Passo sovrastato dal Monte Venturosa.
Questo valico in epoche remote era la via di collegamento più agevole tra la Val Taleggio e l'alta Valle Brembana e fungeva da confine tra lo Stato di Milano e la Repubblica di Venezia.
Pare che il nome Baciamorti derivi dall'antica consuetudine di trasportare i corpi delle persone della Val Taleggio morte in Val Brembana, o viceversa, dove si erano recate per lavoro o a trovare parenti, per poi essere seppellitine nei paesi d'origine.
Al Passo avveniva la consegnare del defunto al parroco e ai portantini delle località di destinazione, ed i parenti lo salutavano dandogli il bacio d'addio, da qui il toponimo Basamorcc in italiano Baciamorti...
This is my second time at the Cajon Pass Inn. I like it here. There is a bottle opener on the front of bathroom vanity. More a vibe than a utility. Out front is a gas station with no premade sandwiches or anything beyond coffee for breakfast. The worst feature here is loose electrical sockets. I’m here writing this and charging all the batteries after an evening of setting up to photograph a train at night, occasionally pushing the chargers back into the wall.
Still on East coast time, I woke early, bought my coffee and something like a comically large lunchable and walked off the dead end remnant of 66 into the desert searching for @gordofromearth. He has been in orbit around the desert in a RV school bus / space shuttle type situation.
I found the railroad security. I saw him driving along one line while I was walking along another. Through a culvert, up a wash and along another line, I was gone. Hours later the security guy returned. He let us stay and told us the hotel’s worst feature was the tweakers who stay there. He told us he’s deployed to a section of railroad to keep the cartels from hopping aboard and stealing its cargo. He told us he'd let the next guy know that we could stay and that we were cool.
Gordo parked at sundown yesterday and apparently went largely unnoticed. He noticed some seriously poor air quality. I saw it too, driving in around 2am, cones of light under every street lamp. By morning the wind had reversed and the smoke from the fires terrorizing LA had blown out to sea. As the afternoon wore on, the wind again revered course and the smoke filled the pass again.
We started setting up the lights knowing the smoke would give a most undesert-like hazy effect. At this point the steady stream on trains stopped. We stood on this windy ledge for two or three hours waiting for a train to come up the pass. We heard a train horn and saw the new security on shift driving up the road along the tracks looking around with a spot light - was this guy going to ruin the shot? He passed under us as the train slogged up the hill in front of us.
I have previously posted my favourite shot from here as a portrait image making the most of the foreground rocks. This landscape shot shows more of the Honister Pass road leading down to Gatesgarth and Buttermere.
The conditions were just wonderful and I sat here for quite a while having a well earned snack and waiting for the light to come through.
The view of the distant hills and the Irish Sea on the Cumbrian West coast was really crisp and clear in the cool conditions.
Volcanic landscape via volcanic window at the Dee Wright Observatory, McKenzie Pass, Oregon.
(Shot with an IPhone 6)
Working photo as a photographer.
Wilcox Pass Trail is located in Jasper National Park. It is about 9.4km long. When climbed to the ridge, the panoramic views of the surrounding mountains, glaciers, and alpine meadows are stunning.
Wisconsin Central train 49 passes WC intermodal train 219 in the yard at Waukesha, Wisconsin, on the morning of May 6, 1995. Both trains are powered by a pair of EMD SD45s, with lead locomotive in WC maroon and gold and trailing unit still in Santa Fe colors.
CP Rail Class 1400 number 1424 negotiates the cliff top between Porto stations Sau Bento and Campania. The tunnel behind 1424 passes under the city and its western portal opens directly into Sau Bento station. 1424 in original CP Rail retro livery is working the 1320 to Pocinho with some vintage stock dating back to 1946 and made by the Schindler company.
Fields of lupine in bloom beneath of the slopes of Echo Peaks, on the edge of the meadow at the top of Cathedral Pass, along the John Muir Trail in the high country of Yosemite National Park.
dopo il Passo di Val Fredda superiamo il Passo Della Vacca, così definito per la presenza di una formazione rocciosa che da il nome alle zona, e su di un sentiero lastricato risalente alla prima guerra mondiale, procediamo verso il rifugio...
On our third day of exploring, we took off out of Silverton to Ophir Pass. The day started off pretty gloomy with this sky, but I loved the look it gave us. The pass tops out right about 12,000 feet at this point. The air gets pretty thin up here and I tried not to do any climbing off the main road.
This pass has been used from the 1800s by traders traveling to Ophir, which is still a small mountain town today. It was upgraded for vehicle travel in the 1950s and is used as a recreational trail today. The trail was easy to drive up to the pass from Silverton. The downhill drive to Ophir was steeper and more challenging. We used low gear a lot on the way down. I wouldn't want to try this with a two-wheel drive vehicle. This is a great day trip out of Silverton.