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White-winged Doves (Zenaida asiatica) are semi-tropical doves whose native range extends from the southwestern U.S. through Mexico and Central America, into parts of western South America, and to some Caribbean islands. They are also residents in Florida, where they were introduced. The majority of White-winged Doves are seasonally migratory. They overwinter in Mexico and Central America and come to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico in April to breed, departing again in September. Some will overwinter in their breeding range, especially in residential areas where food remains available. In the southern parts of their range, they are year-round residents. There are twelve subspecies of White-winged Doves. Western or Desert White-winged Doves (Zenaida asiatica mearnsii) and Eastern White-winged Doves (Zenaida asiatica asiatica) are the most numerous and widely distributed subspecies.
White-winged Doves feed on a variety of seeds, grain, and fruit that vary depending on their range and seasonal availability. They consume seeds and fruits of wild trees, grasses, and herbaceous plants, as well as those of ornamental cultivars. Domestic grain crops including sunflower, barley, sesame, sorghum, wheat, corn, and safflower are also an important food source in many parts of White-winged Dove’s range. To supplement their seed-based diet, White-winged Doves will also ingest shells of small snails and other gastropods, or bits of bone extracted from raptor pellets or mammal feces. The bones and shell are an important source of calcium for the doves, necessary for eggshell and crop milk production.
I found this one in my backyard in Polk County, Florida.
A Semi-palmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) searches the shores for a morsel or two at Miquelon Lake southeast of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
7 August, 2014.
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A semi-palmated plover on a quiet and still morning.
Taken at Fort De Soto, Florida.
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The title may suggest that there is partial space for storage in this structure. The title actually means that you can easily store your six tractor trailer cabs in this barn. Notice the size of the entrance door on the side of the garage! You could put two times this house in the garage. This building is clearly owned by someone who values mechanical toys rather than a big screen TV. Better yet, the TV is probably in the garage. When the husband says he is going to the garage, he could be gone for days. I can see the divorce papers now. “But Judge, he was buying his 7th Semi and all I asked for was a washing machine!”
coffee matra
deep riding spice
the Kamul Setra
or is it Dora
sliding pin
library tea club
__ the merry news
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Sometimes strange things happen with flowers, again like with people... this one opened in an unusual way...
Lilium longiflorum.
This plant is native to Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands.
It is a stem rooting lily, growing up to 1 m high and bears a number of trumpet shaped, white, very fragrant, and outward facing flowers.
Have a good day and thanks for your visit, so very much appreciated, Magda, (*_*)
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As I was sitting on the beach this little guy just kept getting closer and closer as he hunted for invertebrates in the kelp. Not at all afraid as long as I didn't move!
Sandy Beach, Elliston, NL
Breeding adults are dappled in brown, black, gold, and rufous above, with pale underparts and dark legs. The head, nape, and breast are stippled or streaked with brown, but the flanks are white. Nonbreeding adults are much plainer, mousy grayish brown above, pale below, with weak supercilium (pale line over eye). Juveniles are similar to nonbreeding adult but the upperparts show a neat, scaly pattern.
Semipalmated Sandpipers walk slowly through mudflats and wetlands, rapidly and continuously pecking or probing for tiny invertebrate prey. They can occur in large flocks; dominant birds often chase or peck at others that approach too closely.
Breeds on arctic tundra; forages in mudflats, wet and plowed agricultural fields, river margins, sewage ponds, and estuaries.
1937 Packard, Custom coachbuilt by Rollston
Rollston Company
Harry Lonschein (1886-1977), an ambitious 16-year-old Romanian immigrant, found employment at Brewster & Co, one of the country’s oldest carriage makers in 1903. At that time Brewster was making the transition from one of the country’s oldest carriage makers to one of its first automobile body builders. In addition to building their own Knight sleeve-valve-engined car starting in 1915, Brewster was the NY agent for Delaunay-Belleville and later Rolls-Royce. During his employment there, Lonschein gained a lot of experience building high class enclosed bodies on the world’s finest chassis. At about the same time that Rolls-Royce opened their Springfield, Massachusetts assembly plant in 1921, Harry, along with a couple of partners, Sam Blotkin and Julius Veghso (1874-1964) formed the Rollston Company and moved into a building located on West 47th Street. They paid homage to their favorite chassis by naming the firm after it, and set out make the highest quality bodies possible. Veghso, a graduate of Andrew F. Johnson’s carriage drafting course, and a very experienced coachbuilder had founded the Perfect Body Co., an early coachbuilder who built bodies for Singer and other luxury chassis. Lonschein served as president, Blotkin, its secretary-treasurer, and Veghso the firm’s designer, draftsman and general superintendent of the factory.
Rollston’s bodies were acknowledged as the strongest of the classic-era and like the work of their favorite chassis, were over-engineered in the finest carriage-building tradition, using only the finest materials and castings. Their fine work attracted the attention of Grover C. Parvis, the Custom Body Manager of Packard's New York dealership.
Packard would become their best customer, and over the next 20 years, the vast majority of the 700 bodies built by the firm would appear on Packard chassis.
Coachbuilt.com
(sitting next to it is a 1910 Oakland, and too pretty to take out)