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Wishing everyone a Happy Easter. I won't be around much over the Easter weekend and probably won't be posting any images. I have a couple of tips on birds that I have been wanting to see for a long time so, hopefully, will be out n about looking for them.
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built by REV. DR. Thomas Sharp
Rector of Rothbury 1720-1758
for the relief of unemployment amongst local stonemasons and use as an observatory.
It is the oldest folly in the country and is a listed building.
While it was tipping down with rain I noticed one of NCT’s driver training Omnidekkas in Beeston Interchange, but by the time I’d got over there it was long gone. However, I was just in time to see a Sharpes bus that had also unusually driven through the interchange, and get my camera ready in time for when it looped back around onto Middle Street.
Sharpes ex-Dublin B7TL ALX400 MIB 658 is seen in Beeston on 27.5.25
Immediately after I made for the shelter and caught a 36 home, from which I glimpsed the driver trainer again on Queens Road through the misted up, rain soaked windows. It was during the time High Road was shut and 36, indigo etc were diverting.
The Gloucester & Sharpness Canal was once the broadest and deepest in the world. Even today, it stands out from other navigations because of its sheer scale and impressive engineering.
I took a stroll along the canal, it had been dry and sunny all day, but half way through my ambling the skies opened and camera and I became rather wet!! anyway, the rain was short lived and the sky delivered this bust of colour just before nightfall. The Sharpness Canal connects Gloucester to Sharpness, allowing boats to bypass a treacherous tidal stretch of the River Severn. The structure in the foreground is part of the swing bridge mechanism.
A tiny hawk that appears in a blur of motion—and often disappears in a flurry of feathers. That’s the Sharp-shinned Hawk, the smallest hawk in North America and a daring, acrobatic flier. This juvenile staked out a perfect ambush spot close to feeders in our backyard.
Sharp-tailed sandpiper. Werribee water treatment plant, Victoria, 2011.
These birds breed in North eastern Russia and migrate to Australia in the southern summer to fatten on freshwater wetlands. With climate change and the Australian drought, many of their usual feeding flats will be dry this year. It is to be hoped those birds that migrate to different countries and different parts of Australia will have a successful season.
I'm still watching a neighbors crab apple tree for waxwings, but a flock of Sharp Tail Grouse are still doing their best to eat all the berries before the trees are found by the waxwings.
The sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) is famed for its elaborate courtship display, which is imitated by Native Americans during their traditional dances. The short tail has elongated central feathers, giving the tail a pointed or ‘sharp’ appearance.
Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) male performs on the "lek" or "dancing ground" in defence of its territory on the prairie landscape near the Great Sandhills south of Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Fortunately the landscape is groomed by a herd of beef cattle which keep it in a nice state for photographing the birds on the grass cover.
22 May, 2018.
Slide # GWB_20180522_6327.CR2
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The last few photos from my walk at Bebo Grove. I was on my way back to the parking lot when I heard the chickadees mobbing something. I was surprised to see a sharp-shinned hawk and it did not fly away. Then I found another Pileated Woodpecker that I managed to get just two photos of through many branches.
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