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Findern, 19th July 1990.
60013 with 37250 have passed Stenson Jn. with 6M13, 05.05 Tees yard to Etruria girder empties.
The Diesel & Electric Loco Register, by Andy Chard, shows the 60 as entering service in 1993, so this would be a test run, with the 37 as insurance.
Someone in the cab thinks it's a bit of a prank to cover a number with his hand, forgetting that the number is on the front, and the name 'Robert Boyle' would also identify the loco, so why bother?
The tracks bottom right were for Willington power station.
©Dave Peachey.
Red-striped Gargoyle Gecko (Rhacodactylus auriculatus) is a species of gecko found only on the southern end of the island of New Caledonia. Its habitat is threatened by deforestation on the island. This species of gecko is the smallest of the six recognized species in its genus where they often reach about 125 mm in size. This gecko, along with several other Rhacodactylus species are being considered for protective measures by CITES, which would put restrictions on their exportation. This gecko was first described by Bavay in 1869.
This reptile gets its common name from the cranial bumps that give the appearance of horns or ears; in fact, auriculatus is Latin for "ears" or "eared", depending on the case. Other characteristics of this gecko include a thin prehensile tail which will regenerate if it drops off, as well as small adhesive toe pads. Although these geckos have the ability to grip vines, branches, and other obstacles, most do not have the ability to climb sheer surfaces, such as glass. As small as 1 inch (25 mm) long (from snout to vent) and weighing 3 grams at hatching, it reaches an average length of 7 inches (180 mm) to 9 inches (230 mm) and 60 to 70 grams in weight. They are considered a small to medium size gecko.
Gargoyle geckos are primarily nocturnal. They are an arboreal species, making their home in scrub forests. The female lays two eggs per clutch, which hatch 60 to 90 days after they are laid. The female can lay eight or nine clutches per year. On rare occasions, gargoyle geckos can reproduce asexually via parthenogenesis.
In their native habitat of southern New Caledonia, they have been known to sustain themselves from a mixed diet. One study found that they regularly consume a wide taxonomic and ecological variety of arthropods, lizard prey including geckos and skinks, and various plant materials including floral parts and sap.
They can propel themselves almost three times their body length to reach a vine or tree branch, yet their feet do not have as much traction as other gecko's feet do, so they slip every now and then, making them seem clumsy. Moving about is no problem to them, as long as their skin is kept moist, it will stretch and accommodate their movements.
Studio photo by Nick Dobbs, 01-11-2024
20010 + 20082 have an easy turn on 20th September 1991 with two fuel tanks for Shirebrook or Worksop, passing Langley, Erewash Valley line.
58040 departs from Mansfield colliery on 7th April 1988.
The colliery closed the previous month, but the washery stayed open until 1990.
This junction was known as Mansfield Colliery Loaded Ground Frame. The line to the right used to be a through route to Mansfield, but at this time was used just to access the empties sidings beyond the distant hill.
Backdrop : Butter Stadium Backdrop - The Bearded Guy
Top : CryBunBun [CryBigBoy]: Chan-Reaction - RedStriped
Glasses : Diaboli Design - Yakuza Sunglasses (add me)
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37685 and 37677 pass Great Brington on the Northmaptoin loop, with a Peakston to bletchley aggreagte train. 13th October 1989.
Many tropical butterflies are polymorphic, ie they have a variable appearance and imitate other species to piggyback on them being unpalatable and similar.
The Doris longwing (Heliconius doris) is one of those and can have different coloured markings.
This particular one has (as seen here) thin red markings on the ventral side of the wings - and then blue-purpleish ones on the dorsal side which makes them look like two different species depending on which side you see.
For a different form, have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53678091564/
USCGC Ingham 35 (retired) is now a dockside
United States Coast Guard Maritime Museum
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U.S. Department Of Homeland Security
United States Coast Guard - Sector Key West
U.S.A. Naval Air Station - Key West Harbor
Key West, Florida - Florida Keys - 12/4/20
*[left-double-click for a closer-look]
*[I'm doing a series on the presence of the U.S. Coast Guard
in Key West Harbor. They are the ultimate border patrol for
our country's southern border. Thank You U.S. Coast Guard!]
The U.S. Coast Guard is recognized as a leader in the field of search
and rescue. To meet this responsibility, the Coast Guard maintains search and rescue facilities on the East, West and Gulf coasts,
as well as in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
U.S. Coast Guard patrols our southern border
throughout the 90 miles to Cuba and beyond
*[On a personal note: my younger first-cousin Marty ALWAYS said when we were kids that when he grew up he wanted to work on
the water with the US Coast Guard. Well, he really lived that dream!
He worked for the US Coast Guard for the last 30+ years, enduring moves from Tampa Florida, to Alaska, to Hawaii and back to North Carolina. He will be retiring with many honors within the next year.
Great job, Marty! We're all very proud of you! - Ooh Rah! *salute*]
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My Key West 2020 Slideshow : flic.kr/s/aHsmTvNLb4
Just back from shooting a wedding in Jamaica. It was a busy work week but we stole away Thursday to get off the resort and photograph/experience the real Jamaica. It. Was. Glorious.
There was certainly plenty of variety in the early '90s with liveries galore and a wide variety of freight workings. Teesside generated a great deal of traffic and provided industrial backdrops for the photographer. This was 16th March 1990 and 37520 of local depot Thornaby, bearing red-stripe Railfreight Grey livery and the kingfisher emblem applied to it's allocation rounds the curve approaching Cargo Fleet station with a lengthy train of loaded steel carriers.
UPY 139, a former B23-7, sits in the Ley Road team track at the north end of UP's Settegast Yard. The Control Car Remote Control Locomotives (CCRCL)'s like this one were built to be MU'd to non-RC equipped locomotives to allow for them to be radio controlled. But as more and more yard units have been equipped with RC equipment, the CCRCL's have seen less frequent use. This one is likely here to be scrapped.
UP CCRCL #Y139
Houston, TX
June 22nd, 2019
20215 is seen crossing the Meadow Farm bridges on the Bentinck colliery branch on 14th January 1992.
The bridge beam has "M.R. 1897" actually cast onto it, not a plate that had been fixed on.
I made a really sweet find at the Haga Ocean butterfly house the other day - a pink rose (Pachliopta kotzebuea) which posed nicely.
In the wild, this species can be found in the Phillipines and I think it is an absolute stunner! The only thing I don't get is how someone sees this black and red masterpiece and decide to name it "the pink rose".
This extremely hungry spider is a female goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia) eating some sort of green metallic blowfly (Calliphoridae sp.) on an ox-eye daisy (Lecanthemum vulgare).
I originally found her on some cow parsley where she was eating a tachinid fly and put her in a small plastic container until I got home where I let her out on one of the ox-eye daisies in front of my neighbour's house.
Not fifteen minutes later when I checked in on her, she had already caught and was eating this fly.
The next day when I came out to look again, she had caught a bumblebee and the day after that a solitary bee!
Apparently not full yet, the day after that I saw her with yet another fly - we're going to be out of flying bugs soon if she keeps this up!
I named her Sussi and was looking forward to seeing her grow, but the day after that, she was gone.
This shot is a two-exposure focus stack for a little extra depth of field.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52308568738/
Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52579712511/
Part 3 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52728397505/
For a shot of her on the cow parsley where I originally found her, please have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52134439834/
Sussi with the bumblebee can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52163448364/
and here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52346576237/
Her eating the solitary bee here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52395316440/
This turtle is a favourite pet of many children. it was previously known as Troost's turtle in honour of an American herpetologist
Between Codnor Park, and Codnor Park sidings, on the Erewash Valley line, was a footbridge known as Monkey Bridge. Taken from there on 28th October 1988 is 58027 with a loaded MGR from the Mansfield line, to reverse in the sidings, then continue back north to the Avenue coking and carbonisation plant at Wingerworth.
After a good few months break I finally made it back out. Great day. for those of you who live in England, you know that good weather is not to be taken for granted. Today was as nice as possible. Cold as hell but no rain and for that I'm thankful.
Shouts to Dowt, Font, Tazer and all who popped through.
This angular style is getting a bit boring so thinking about getting back into the flowy pieces
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Another blog-post and YouTube video... it's probably too early to say that I'm back into the swing of things.. but it looks promising!! 😉
Still cleaning out the hard drive... so these pics bring me back to the summer. And yes, while autumn and winter will be the time for sexy boots.. I'll take summer over any other season! 🌞
For all you US people .. don't forget to vote tomorrow!!!️
Bloggity blog blog: I do think pink with red works.
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Against a recently painted auto body repair shop on L.A.'s La Brea Ave. sat this lonely chair, with weeds growing around it. There is a story here!
No, despite the title, this isn't a post about Jamaican beer, but about those markings that some of the female goldenrod crab spiders (Misumena vatia) have on their abdomen.
I used to think it was something that all of them had once they became adults, but from what I've gathered now, it appears to be something that some have and some don't - like freckles. Here's one which definitely is adult - but completely lack the red: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51543482175/
These ladies can change colour and turn light green and all the way to snow white, but it doesn't affect the red markings.
This particular one was hanging out on a cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) in Åva-Stensjödal on Tyresta National Park, Sweden, and as you can see, she hasn't had the time to adjust her colour to the new flower yet. It takes a couple of days for them to make the shift so they aren't as fancy as a chameleon or an octopus, but still quite cool.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52132332215/
Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52521449063/
'While walking Jasmine at the lake this afternoon I was pleasantly surprised to see so many garter snakes basking in the 60' sunshine.
I gently picked this one up to snap a shot w/ my macro. They would slither away when I'd crouch down for a close up. ...so had to "catch" one for a few seconds. ...s/he didn't seem to mind.
More pics in comments below.
yellow golden rod crab spider (Misumena) in wild parsnip. The camouflage (yellow in a yellow flower) seems to work very well despite the red stripes, since when I came back about 20 minutes after taking this picture she had captured a rather fat fly.
This extremely hungry spider is a female goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia) eating this male Tachinid fly called Gymnosoma nudifrons on a cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris).
I had some special plans for her though so I managed to put her in a small plastic container before going home and when we got there, I put her on a ox-eye daisy in front of my neighbour's house.
I named her Sussi and apparently she was very hungry as not fifteen minutes later, I found her having caught and was eating another fly. Next day she had caught a bumblebee and the day after that a solitary bee.
The day after that, I saw Sussi with another fly again and I was beginning to think we were going to be out of flying bugs soon if she kept this up!
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52134439834/
Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53602357564/
For a bunch of shots of her continuing her feeding frenzy, have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52308568738/
www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52579712511/
www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52728397505/
www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52163448364/
20085 + 20059 pass Stanton Gate on 2nd March 1990.
The line curving off to the left under the M1 served several collieries, and the Stanton and Staveley iron works.
More recently spun pipe traffic came out, but now the line is waiting for possible new traffic to and from the New Stanton business park development.
On a chilly day at Bennerley coal disposal point, 58018 is under the bunker just commencing loading on 22nd January 1987.
Bennerley viaduct is behind, and is now open for pedestrians to cross.
The things we do for our hobby. Heavy snow fall and freezing conditions at Worksop sees 58012 and 58049 "Littleton Colliery" resting between duties.
58012 was originally outshopped in Railfreight 2 Tone Grey/Red Stripe and later repainted into BR Coal Sector livery, before ending its days with the application of Mainline logos as shown here. 58049 also started life in Railfreight 2 Tone Grey/Red Stripe colours and also carried BR Coal Sector livery. Its next paint scheme was Mainline's Aircraft Blue but it also made in into the EWS scheme.
Nikon F5
28/80mm/F2.8
60/F8
Fuji Provia 100F
I took this photo on October 5, 1993 with my Minolta Maxxim 2000 SLR Camera with Slide Film. I scanned the slide to create the Electronic Image shown here.
For several months in 1993, AMTRAK borrowed an (Demo) ICE Train from Germany [Built by Krauss-Maffei (body) Krupp, Henschel
AEG, ABB, Siemens (electrics)] for testing on AMTRAK's Northeast Corridor.
I took several photos of the ICE (Inter City Express) at the Metropark Station on the Northeast Corridor Platform in Iselin, New Jersey during October and November as the ICE Train Demonstrator sped by on the center tracks during AMTRAK's evaluation period of both the ICE Train and the X-2000.
You can see one of my photos of the X-2000 at: