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The Schnoor quarter is the oldest documented quarter of Bremen and it has largely preserved its medieval character.
First mentioned in the 13th century. The two oldest remaining buildings are from 1401 and 1402 respectively. Some buildings are just remaining facades or have been relocated from other locations.
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The University of Coimbra (UC; Portuguese: Universidade de Coimbra) is a Portuguese public university in Coimbra, Portugal. First established in Lisbon in 1290, it went through a number of relocations until moving permanently to Coimbra in 1537. The university is among the oldest universities in continuous operation in the world, the oldest in Portugal, and played a influential role in the development of higher education in the Portuguese-speaking world. In 2013, UNESCO declared the university a World Heritage Site, noting its architecture, unique culture and traditions, and historical role.
Barn Owl - Tyto Alba
Norfolk,
Like most owls, the barn owl is nocturnal, relying on its acute sense of hearing when hunting in complete darkness. It often becomes active shortly before dusk and can sometimes be seen during the day when relocating from one roosting site to another. In Britain, on various Pacific Islands and perhaps elsewhere, it sometimes hunts by day. This practice may depend on whether the owl is mobbed by other birds if it emerges in daylight. However, in Britain, some birds continue to hunt by day even when mobbed by such birds as magpies, rooks and black-headed gulls, such diurnal activity possibly occurring when the previous night has been wet making hunting difficult. By contrast, in southern Europe and the tropics, the birds seem to be almost exclusively nocturnal, with the few birds that hunt by day being severely mobbed.
Barn owls are not particularly territorial but have a home range inside which they forage. For males in Scotland this has a radius of about 1 km (0.6 mi) from the nest site and an average size of about 300 hectares. Female home ranges largely coincide with that of their mates. Outside the breeding season, males and females usually roost separately, each one having about three favoured sites in which to conceal themselves by day, and which are also visited for short periods during the night. Roosting sites include holes in trees, fissures in cliffs, disused buildings, chimneys and haysheds and are often small in comparison to nesting sites. As the breeding season approaches, the birds move back to the vicinity of the chosen nest to roost.
Once a pair-bond has been formed, the male will make short flights at dusk around the nesting and roosting sites and then longer circuits to establish a home range. When he is later joined by the female, there is much chasing, turning and twisting in flight, and frequent screeches, the male's being high-pitched and tremulous and the female's lower and harsher. At later stages of courtship, the male emerges at dusk, climbs high into the sky and then swoops back to the vicinity of the female at speed. He then sets off to forage. The female meanwhile sits in an eminent position and preens, returning to the nest a minute or two before the male arrives with food for her. Such feeding behaviour of the female by the male is common, helps build the pair-bond and increases the female's fitness before egg-laying commences.
Barn owls are cavity nesters. They choose holes in trees, fissures in cliff faces, the large nests of other birds such as the hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) and, particularly in Europe and North America, old buildings such as farm sheds and church towers. Buildings are preferred to trees in wetter climates in the British Isles and provide better protection for fledglings from inclement weather. Trees tend to be in open habitats rather than in the middle of woodland and nest holes tend to be higher in North America than in Europe because of possible predation.
This bird has suffered declines through the 20th century and is thought to have been adversely affected by organochlorine pesticides such as DDT in the 1950s and '60s.
Nocturnal birds like the barn owl are poorly monitored by the Breeding Bird Survey and, subject to this caveat, numbers may have increased between 1995-2008.
Barn owls are a Schedule 1 and 9 species.
Population:
UK breeding:
4,000 pairs
Europe:
110-220,000 pairs
This cormorant was working one part of the lake, then evidently was dissatisfied, so moved to the west end. Fortunately for me, I was well situated for the flight.
As summer draws to a close, I thought it would be very appropriate for the Macro Mondays theme 'Leaf' to show a tiny bit of the decimation of my hosta plants! I have given up on my Gastropod Relocation Programme, and the snails seem to be enjoying themselves immensely.
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph.
It's still "Mother's Day" in my time zone so I'm sneaking this one in under the wire. Long-tailed Weasel mom relocates her youngster, half dragging half carrying. She's probably saying something like "I TOLD you not to play in the street". I'm sure our hard-working moms of the world can relate.
A woman walked down to the shore of the green space with her dog, off leash. The dog proceeded to run out after this egret, causing it to relocate. She tried calling it back, but it would have nothing to do with her. She needs to use that leash, as required by law!!! First comment is moments before, as the dog charges...
Discovered on a purple calla lily, in my greenhouse.
No caterpillars were harmed in the making of this photograph, although I did tenderly relocate it to a sheltered spot outside in the garden.
Title taken from the recording 'Time' by Pink Floyd on their Dark Side of the Moon album'.
Had to relocate some mantises that were protecting our cucumber patch so I could remove the old and plant some new. I was worried about doing so thinking it would freak out and move on. It didn't. Just after putting this one down it immediate caught a bug and proceeded to have lunch like business as usual.
On one of the roads towards the great freshwater lake named Tonle Sap, central Cambodia. Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia flooding a vast area in the rainy season and retreating significantly in the dry season. Small homes are often relocated closer to the waters edge in the dry season.
I was thrilled to see this bird standing in the upper most pond of Fernhill Wetlands mitigation area. I got as close as I could without scaring it, took numerous photos of it sitting still and hunting, but I really wanted a flight shot. I don't intentionally disturb birds, so I waited and waited. Finally after about an hour, two people walked up to the pond even nearer the bird, and loudly said, "I WONDER WHAT THAT PHOTOGRAPHER IS LOOKING AT?" Seconds later I had my shot!
At Fernald, Lodge Pond is a sure-fire spot to observe many ducks. if one is patient, afternoon light hits the ducks flying in or simply relocating across the pond. The dry weeds on the banks provide great background.
Paesi Bassi, Zaanse Schans, Primavera 2017
Zaanse Schans, in Olanda, annovera una collezione di mulini a vento storici e case ben conservati. Dal 1961 al 1974 i vecchi edifici di tutto lo Zaanstreek furono trasferiti qui. Lo Zaanse Schans è una delle attrazioni turistiche più popolari dei Paesi Bassi. Il mulino a vento verde, costruito nel 1869, si chiama De Gekroonde Poelenburg ("il coronato Poelenburg"). Gli altri due sono De Kat ("il gatto") e De Zoeker ("il ricercatore").
Zaanse Schans, Netherlands, has a collection of well-preserved historic windmills and houses. From 1961 to 1974 old buildings from all over the Zaanstreek were relocated using lowboy trailers to the area. The Zaanse Schans is one of the popular tourist attractions of the Netherlands. The green windmill, built in 1869, is called De Gekroonde Poelenburg ("the crowned poelenburg"). The other two are De Kat ("the cat") and De Zoeker ("the seeker").
BNSF 6643 heads down the BNSF Hannibal Sub. just north of Elsberry, MO. with 25 CitiRail Gevo's in tow. Running in a 1x2 formation to haul the units at this point of the journey under the symbol D-ALNSTL3 05T. This is 1 of 4 planned moves to relocate the units from Alliance, NE to St. Louis, MO. The units are headed for the Prairie Lines yard for storage in St. Louis, MO., I'm guessing that Citi got tired of paying BNSF for storage.
CitiRail units in this move: 1333, 1410, 1212, 1350, 1429, 1303, 1332, 1434, 1412, 1347, 1318, 1435, 1213, 1208, 1325, 1338, 1210, 1310, 1345, 1415, 1411, 1314, 1419, 1316, & 1201.
I really don't know if this cute little building is vintage and has been relocated to this site, or if it a reproduction made to look Victorian, period authentic to the area.
It sits perched upon the New Westminster boardwalk in Westminster Pier Park, that walks you along the scenic Fraser River.
The New Westminster Quay location makes for a beautiful view point and fabulous place to watch tugboats work their way up and down the Fraser River. ( as seen in my last couple of images)
I purposely included a couple of pedestrians to give you a sneak preview of the boardwalk next to follow.
New Westminster is the oldest city in western Canada.
New Westminster is a historically important city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada, and is a member municipality of the Greater Vancouver Regional District. It was founded by Major-General Richard Moody as the capital of the new-born Colony of British Columbia in 1858, and continued in that role until the Mainland and Island Colonies were merged in 1866, and was the Mainland's largest city from that year until it was passed in population by Vancouver during the first decade of the 20th Century.
It is located on the right bank of the Fraser River as it turns southwest towards its estuary, on the southwest side of the Burrard Peninsula and roughly at the centre of the Greater Vancouver region. ( Wikipedia )
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~ Christie ( happiest ) by the River
RKO_5274. A well fed lioness relocating her cubs. A very rare sighting as they really protect their cubs until they can safely join the group with male lions.
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I've decided to post some travel images on Tuesdays, beginning with a recent visit to Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
On the eastern edge of this city lies an abandoned Reformatory with a history that spans nearly one hundred years. This photograph is of a set of windows from this structure.
The facility sits on approximately 222 acres of serene greenspace. The walking trails and ponds that are enjoyed to this day conceal stories of incarceration, hard labour and notorious inmate escapes.
Built in 1911, with a cornerstone laid September 25th by then Prime Minister of Ontario Sir James Pliny Whitney, the facility housed 660 inmates by 1916. Alternatively known as the Guelph Correctional Centre, the institution signaled a turning point in the government of Ontario’s approach to crime and punishment. Politicians and social reform advocates of the early twentieth century sought to use productive work as a means of rehabilitating inmates for redemption after serving their sentence. The location was ideally suited for agriculture and quarry mining, and prisoners contributed to the local community with their labour.
From 1917 – 1921, prisoners were temporarily relocated, and the facility was converted into the Guelph Military Convalescent Hospital which cared for more than 900 injured WW1 veterans.
Officially decommissioned in 2001, the Reformatory buildings have been completely vacant since 2014, while the Province of Ontario and the City of Guelph continue to consult and strategize on how best to make use of these culturally significant lands and buildings.
That relocated headlight lets you know the leader on Norfolk Southern's train 290 wasn't always a thoroughbred. NS 3553 was built in 1979 for the Burlington Northern; BNSF sold it as surplus at the turn of the Century. Helm Financial had it in leasing service until 2013 when Norfolk Southern bought it and others to add to their fleet.
Ashikaga, Tochigi, Japan
It is the relocation project of a three-span arch bridge. The work had been carried out over approximately three years, and it was successfully completed two days after this day.
It's embarrassing how many cobwebs and dog hairs the small animals find behind our furniture. Here I bring this stag beetle girl outside. Yesterday we had a cornu aspersum with cobwebs and dog hairs. We've put it outside. Fun fact is, that the giant house spiders don't collect dirt before I find them and scream (I would be good in a bad horror movie). Two days ago, I saw a giant house spider in the bathroom. I screamed, and the brave husband caught the girl (it was a girl) in a glass and threw her outside. I'm sure she comes right back inside to look for a cosy spot for to make a cocoon. She was completely clean!
Relocation of a puffin (Fratercula arctica) conference
Umzug einer Konferenz von Papageitauchern (Fratercula arctica)
Die Rapp Gruppe entschied ihr Kompetenzfeld Gebäude mit Architekten, Tragswerksplaner, Gebäudetechniker und Industrieplaner in das aufstrebende Dreispitzareal umzusiedeln. Gewählt wurde das Transitlager, ein vom dänischen Architekten Bjarke Ingels in ein Wohn- und Geschäftshaus transformiertes, ehemaliges Zwischenlager für amerikanische Autos und Zigarren. Rapp plante und realisierte den Mieterausbau für 150 Arbeitsplätze als Open Space in den extrem langgestreckten 2. und 3. Obergeschossen.
Auf zweimal 114m Länge entstand eine Bürolandschaft mit grosszügigen, doppelgeschossigen Agoren, Sitznischen und gläserne Besprechungsboxen. Die Arbeitsplätze reihen sich entlang der durch die massiven Betonstützen rhythmisierte Fassadenflucht auf und profitieren von viel Tageslicht und Sicht auf den Freilager-Platz.
Der ursprüngliche Lagercharakter wird im lasierten Ortbeton und der offen geführten Haustechnikinstallationen spürbar. Einfache Grundmaterialien, wie die farblos behandelten Stahlgeländer und das geölte Seekiefer-Sperrholz, welches für verschiedene Einbauten und Abdeckungen eingesetzt wurde, setzen einzelne Akzente. Am Boden korrespondieren der sandfarbene textile Belag mit dem naturbelassenen Hartsteinholz-Belag der Agoren. Schwere Vorhänge, welche an klassische Wolltücher erinnern, dienen als temporäre Raumtrenner der zweigeschossigen Lufträumen. Die vollflächig mit Holzwolle-Akustikplatten belegten Decken, der Teppich und die schweren Vorhänge erzeugen eine sehr angenehme, gedämpfte Akustik. The Rapp Group decided to relocate its competence field Buildings with architects, structural engineers, building technicians and industrial planners to the up-and-coming Dreispitz area. The Transit Warehouse was chosen, a former interim storage facility for American cars and cigars transformed into a residential and commercial building by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels. Rapp planned and realised the tenant fit-out for 150 workplaces as open space on the extremely elongated 2nd and 3rd upper floors.
An office landscape with generous, two-storey agoras, seating niches and glass conference boxes was created over a length of two times 114m. The workplaces are lined up along the façade line, which is rhythmically structured by the massive concrete columns, and benefit from a lot of daylight and a view of the open-air warehouse square.
The original warehouse character can be felt in the glazed in-situ concrete and the open building services installations. Simple basic materials, such as the colourlessly treated steel railings and the oiled maritime pine plywood used for various fixtures and coverings, set individual accents. On the floor, the sand-coloured textile covering corresponds with the natural hardwood flooring of the agors. Heavy curtains, reminiscent of classic woollen cloths, serve as temporary room dividers for the two-storey air spaces. The ceilings, which are fully covered with wood wool acoustic panels, the carpet and the heavy curtains create very pleasant, muted acoustics.
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Sitting along the Northeast Corridor in Harrison, NJ under a fresh dusting of snow is a handful of AEM-7 AC rebuilds waiting to complete their trip to their new home in Connecticut for storage.
The night before there were nearly twice as many but due to a multiple lite engine restriction on Metro-North's New Haven Line the collection of retired motors had to be cut in half to complete the move.
Unassigned Power @ Hudson Yard, Harrison, NJ
AMTK AEM-7AC 905
AMTK AEM-7AC 941
AMTK AEM-7AC 917
AMTK AEM-7AC 919
AMTK AEM-7AC 920
AMTK AEM-7AC 908
AMTK AEM-7AC 935
Heading to its new location in the Car Shop. A truly remarkable job was done on the cosmetic restoration of this historic locomotive.
[7]... Now the Militia has relocated all civilians into these shack towns near the Swamp. They say it is for common good, but no one here believes that. They say the gangs have grown so big that it would be "too dangerous to live out there", and it is easier to guard these new ghettos. Yes, it certainly is easier to guard these areas, but it is also easier to keep the crowd under control. Te Militia controls everything in here. They decide who drink, who eat, who live. We no longer know, which is a worse fate. To be pushed around by Militia or the gangs. But it won't be long, until we are free from both of them. The uprise is coming...[9]
UP GP40-2 1361 leads a local in Superior, WI. Once a regular unit on the Harvard Sub, the elimination of ATS in favor of PTC has caused it to be reassigned up here to the other end of Wisconsin.