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Big double gate on rollers at the front of Z Ward. The hinge on the right is for the inset door-sized wicket gate.
Z Ward was a separate building at the Glenside Mental Hospital that catered for the criminally insane. The criteria for being an inmate was having committed a crime and posing a danger to others and/or themselves due to insanity. Built in 1885, it is now empty and preserved by the National Trust.
I promise.. no more Rollers after this one. But I just couldn't resist photographing these wonderful birds whenever I got the chance. Hans is só fed up with Rollers, he swears that next time we'll ever go to Africa, he'll bring a shotgun....:-)
(just kidding..)
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!
A striking multi coloured bird that is hugely territorial. Often witnessed chasing mammals and other birds, including huge eagles from the nest area.
Image taken in the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
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A man operates a steam roller to compact the rock in an early morning photo.
Now that I looked up "steam roller" I am guessing this modern version is not operated by steam so would be a "road roller", though I think "steam roller" is more readily recognized as a term. See Wikepedia's link.
DB Cargo Class 66/0 No. 66148 crosses the ECML and drops down the relatively new Doncaster North Chord towards Haywood Junction with 6H65, the 12:15 Immingham – Drax Power Station biomass working on 30th November 2018.
I have spent many hours looking for the European Roller! I had more or less given up on finding them where I was told they'd be. But yesterday while out exploring I couldn't believe my eyes when I drove right past one sitting on a pole! What a joy to finally capture this magnificent bird in a picture!
The Lilac-breasted Roller (Coracias caudatus) is an African member of the roller (or Coraciidae) family of birds. It is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa.
The lilac-breasted roller has a robust body and a proportionately large, green head with a heavy black beak. It has a white chin and a white or yellow band above the eyes and beak. Its breast is a dark lilac that grows lighter towards the throat.
The abdomen and underside of the wings are turquoise, and the wings’ underside is also trimmed with dark blue. The upper part of the wings is reddish brown. Their forked tail, which is also turquoise, ends in black streamers.
Males and females have the same coloring. Juvenile birds don’t have the black streamers, and their throats and breasts are reddish-brown. As they reach maturity, their throats and breasts will turn lilac.
Like other members of the roller family, the lilac-breasted roller has syndactyl feet with the second and third toes fused together. While its upper legs have turquoise feathers, its lower legs and feet are bare, scaly, and yellowish.
The lilac-breasted roller could have just as easily been called the “rainbow roller.” They have around 8 colors; green, white, black, yellow, turquoise, dark blue, reddish brown, and of course lilac. That is one colorful bird!
This beautiful Lilac-breasted Roller was captured on a Photography safari on an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
This was in the fast room at 'Canvas' in King's Cross. I had to skate/slip & slide my way back to the slow-er room.
Someone's been flattening their field in old-school fashion. Messing with FilmPack, hopefully it doesn't look too cheesy.
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The blue-bellied roller [Coracias cyanogaster Cuvier, 1816], photographed here in The Gambia, is a member of the roller family of birds which breeds across Africa in a narrow belt from Senegal to northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo.
This species is resident, apart from some local seasonal movements, in mature moist savannah dominated by Isoberlinia trees. It is a large bird, nearly the size of a jackdaw at 28–30 cm. It has a dark green back, white head, neck and breast, with the rest of the plumage mainly blue. Adults have 6 cm tail streamers. Sexes are similar, but the juvenile is a drabber version of the adult.
The blue-bellied roller is striking in its strong direct flight, with the brilliant blues of the wings contrasting with the dark back and cream colored head, and the tail streamers trailing behind.
The call of blue-bellied roller is a harsh clicking ga-ga-ga sound.