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A rare sight in the university city, a pair of GBRf class 73 electro-diesels on a Network Rail test train.
Strolling along the South Bank with two famous London buildings behind us, the Shard is London's tallest structure and the oddly shaped City Hall is where the Mayor of London is based. Of course three other sights of London would be Sarah, Rebecca and I.
Typical sight in Almeida Ribeiro Avenue, also known in Cantonese as San Ma Lo. The iconic avenue, with its long row of buildings and dense arcades makes anyone waiting for the bus, to lean and peek over the street which sometimes provides some funny and less usual poses.
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Macau, 2020.
After months of repairs to tracks and bridges, the local railroad is once again hauling freight. Bright red new diesel locomotive doing the heavy pulling.
The Rila mountains are the highest in the Bulgaria and the Balkans, topped by Musala at just under 3000 meters (about 9500 feet). It had been raining in Sofia but as we drove south en route to our day's destination, the Rila Monastery, we began to emerge from the thunderheads and blue skies winked among grey. As the heavens cleared in fits and spurts, the Rila itself came into view, white-topped peaks amidst the bruise-colours of the sky, looming over the verdant green valley through which we were hurtling. Quite a sight.
Just went to the eye Dr. yesterday, Looks like stronger bifocals. He said it just something that comes with age. Is'nt that nice!
Lighting Info.....Two Lp160s; one on camera right towards subject, and one overhead
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This is the first time in almost a month we have seen the sun, sky, clouds, or anything like it without a thick layer of smog. It was a very welcome sight when the air cleared and the sun came out. 1-31-2013.
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When you are in that dark back alley mood ...
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The National Harbor and MGM complex have several interesting sights and plenty of restaurants and shops.
Here you see two of the landmarks (a portion of) The Awakening sculpture in the foreground and the Capital Wheel in the background.
More about them here (from Wikipedia)
220034 approaches Nuneaton with 1T18. The unit would carry on to Coventry where it would turn round before going up to Birmingham New Street.
Tampa, Florida, manatee sighting with shadows of spectators cast on the water. Yes, I'm in there somewhere too!
Look thru my eyes and you will see;
Seeing what I have seen - but wait;
a bright blur, then fade to a fog.
Fog in your mind, you can't see thru my eyes.
The way I have shown you to see is wrong,
hard to focus, right for me but wrong for you,
You don't see what I see with or without my sight.
But, I need you to see more so than I -
For it is not the sight but the vision. *copyright*
Daughter of hjalmar1886
From morning to night I stayed out of sight
Didn't recognize I'd become
No more than alive I'd barely survive
In a word...overrun
The Purple Martin photos and the 7 extra photos I have just posted tonight were all taken after our morning birding tour with Tom Hince had finished. This was Day 3 of our trip in May to Point Pelee in Ontario, and Tadoussac in Quebec. I guess I ended up posting rather a lot of photos of the Purple Martins, but they were so beautiful with their hanging gourd nests. Normally, I don't see Purple Martins in Alberta, except for once at someone's acreage near Chestermere years ago, and at the Ellis Bird Farm.
On Day 3, we had arranged for a guide, Tom Hince, to take us out between 6:00 am and 11:00 am, so it was an extremely early start, There were so many birders on the trails! Funny how so many birders are very tall people, so I often could not even see anything and missed a lot of the sightings. However, I was happy to see what I did see. After lunch, we made a second visit to the Hillman Marsh Conservation Area and this time, we went for a walk. This area is further north along the coast from Point Pelee. This is where we had seen a wonderfully creative barn with a Heron scene on the front of it, on a different day. Saw a few interesting things, including several Painted Turtles and a green frog. I will be glad to get as far as photos from later in the afternoon, when we walked the Homested Trail at Pt Pelee, thoroughly enjoying two or three beautiful old buildings as well as the nature along the way.
It feels good to get back to sorting through and editing a few more of my photos from a trip with friends to Pt Pelee in Ontario, and Tadoussac in Quebec, in May 2018. Will have to work on this in between an absolutely mammoth clearing-out of my home, partly because of the mouse/mice that have totally stressed out and drained me for the last seven or so months. Though I started off using mouse traps, nothing was caught, which is when I had to pay for a pest control guy to come - useless. Friends and I placed several simple, disposable traps recently and, hey presto, one mouse was caught (to my horror, ha). Since then, after my friends very kindly came and removed it, I have seen no sign or sound from any further mice, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
I try to post in more or less the order in which my images were taken - this helps me remember things a little more clearly. I have a lot of images that I want to add to my albums for this holiday, many of poor quality or of little interest to others. I wil try and post a lot at night, when most people are probably off Flickr. Please bear with me.
Four friends (four of the six friends with whom I went to Trinidad & Tobago in March 2017) and I left Calgary airport on 6 May 2018 and flew to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There, we rented a van and did the long drive to Point Pelee for four whole days of birding. We stayed at the Best Western Hotel in Leamington, which is close to Point Pelee National Park. It fills up very quickly (with birders) and our rooms were booked months ahead of time.
Our four days walking at Point Pelee and area were very interesting and I, for sure, saw various things I had never seen before, including my very first Raccoon : ) Various friends had told me that the Warblers at Pelee were fantastic - so many and numerous species, and so close. Have to disagree with the "closeness" when we were there! I don't have binoculars as cameras are enough for me to carry around, so I know I missed all sorts of birds. Though my Warbler count was lower than my friends' counts, I was happy to at least get a few distant photos of some species. So many of my shots are awful, but I will still post some of them, just for the record of seeing them. Some photos are so bad that I doubt anyone can ID them.
We covered several different trails at Pelee, and also drove to a few places somewhat further afield, such as Hillman Marsh. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the magnificent barn at this Conservation Area! I was in so much pain that I wasn't sure if I would be able to walk across a grassy area to take a few photos. However, it was so unusual and beautiful, that I reckoned I could try and move forward inch by inch - or crawl (ha, ha) if necessary. Another place we enjoyed was Rondeau National Park. One amazing and totally unexpected sighting just outside Pelee was a very distant male Snowy Owl sitting in a fieldl!!
We walked every single day that we were at Pelee and the areas mentioned above, seeing not just birds, but a frog/toad, snakes that we suspect were mating, several Painted turtles, a few plants (including both white and red Triliums, that I had never seen growing wild before, and a couple of Jack in the Pulpit plants).
The Friends of Point Pelee have food available at lunch time that one can buy. They also have a shuttle bus that one can take from the Visitor Centre all the way to the southern tip of Pelee, which is the most southern part of Canada. They have birding walks with a guide each day (there is a charge), but we walked the trails on our own, except for one morning. On 9 May, we spent the morning from 6:00 am to 11:00 am on a birding walk at Pelee with guide, Tom Hince, whom we had contacted while we were still in Calgary.
At the end of our stay at Point Pelee, we had to drive all the way back to Toronto, from where we flew to Quebec airport. From there, we had a four-hour drive to Tadoussac on the coast of the St. Lawrence Seaway. This is such a delightful, small place and in a beautiful setting. One of our friends, Anne B, and her husband have a summer cabin further along the cliff from the few stores and port. She had invited the four of us to go with her from Pelee to spend a week at her beautiful home. What an absolute treat this was! We were able to meet some of her relatives, too, who also have built cabins out there. We were looked after so well, and we were able to see and photograph all sorts of birds and other things. We made several trips to see different places, including the Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area, where we were able to see endless thousands of Snow Geese. Breathtaking!
We also had two boat trips from Tadoussac - one was a whaling trip in a Zodiac, where we saw very, very distant Beluga and Minke Whales. The Belugas looked almost like the white wave crests - but they were Belugas. The other boat trip was to the Brandy Pot Islands, inhabited by thousands of Razorbills and Common Murres, which were new birds for us, and Double-crested Cormorants that were nesting in tree tops. That long boat trip (in a tiny boat named Juno) started off in the rain and dark clouds and it was soooo cold! Thermal underwear, layers of fleece and toque and gloves were needed. This day was arranged through a contact of Anne's and it was so much enjoyed! Of course, we anchored a distance away from the island and sat there and ate our sandwiches and took endless photos. It is forbidden to land on the island at nesting time.
Anne B, I can't thank you enough for organizing this holiday for us all and for inviting us to spend a week at your cabin. You worked so hard and it was so much appreciated by each and every one of us. Thank you for doing all the many hours of driving, too! Janet and Anne, thank you so much for compiling the lists of birds seen each day at various locations, and posted to ebird. These entries will be a huge help while I try and sort out where we were and when, and what species we saw. Miss your cookies and muffins, Janet, that you kindly made for us in Tadoussac, to go along with the wonderful meals that Anne planned and made for us : )
The start of 2023 has revealed some unusual sightings on Limerick City Services.
Route 306 is one of two not-so-busy routes on the network and it could possibly be withdrawn without any loss of connectivity if there was some creative rerouting of Route 303 on the northside and Route 301 on the southside.
In recent years, my only recollection of seeing a double deck bus on it would have been when I saw PAD128 operate a few turns on Saturday, 7th May, 2022.
However, with the arrival of 20 new Electroliners at Roxboro Depot in 2023, the smart money seems to be on the remaining 6 single-deck VWLs cascading to other depots, so Routes 305, 305A and 306 will most-likely convert to double-deck operation.
NTA/BÉ (Roxboro) Wright Gemini 3 Volvo B5TL VWD53 (152-L-1774) was seen on Route 306, a few hundred yards from its southern terminus at Edward Street, Limerick on Friday morning, 6th January 2023.
November has redeemed itself this morning. While out and about, I was treated to the sight of the rising sun blazing through the fog and reflecting on the frost on the ground. It was as if time stopped for that moment. So... the day is made and I've hardly even gotten going. Fabulous!
I take back what I said about you yesterday, November.