Well it will not be long before we hear of the juvenile ospreys joining the females who have already left our shores.
Both the eldest at Loch of the Lowes and Manton Bay have reached 90 Days taking the hatching as Day 1.
Looking at LG statistics we had Rothes leave as early as 79 days and Millicent who waited until 98 Days.
Generally somewhere around averaging 90 days over the past 9 years at LG.
JUNE - Like your old trains.
Whilst in the Borders in Tweed Valley we heard of the new rail line opening from Edinburgh to Tweedbank. As part of the opening they are running a steam journey on a few days a week from opening (early September) for six weeks in the fall.
We have booked one of these journeys through the Tweed Valley on this locomotive.
LNER Class A4 - Union of South Africa built in 1937.
Hi Keith I had noticed that you had "liked" the above picture of the caboose, again by my retired pastor Fred Shaw. In spite of his own ill health and also his wife Nancy, they have used his retirement well. He has an exceptional eye for beauty in small everyday things and is very skilled with his camera. He has continued to bring joy to probably thousands on facebook by posting hundreds of pictures, a few of which I have thought might be appropriate to share here on Gabfest.
Good pictures do bring joy, yours included. Your wonderful photographs through the years have been greatly appreciated by me and I am sure by others as well.
Just now I am enjoying your above post - picture and plans. More on that from you later, I hope.
I understand the caboose was for the crew where they could rest on a rail journey.
I have seen your friend Fred Shaw and his wife Nancy on FB and most recntly on a rail road journey they have taken.
I trust I can use my retirement as well as them. Like Ospreys I also have a fascination for trains especially the old steam and early big haul Diesel Locomotives that took to the Highlands.
Cabooses also were a platform from which politicians could make speeches. ;)
Oh to be in Shetland!!! A bright green hillside, the vast blue ocean, light jacket weather (my favorite), and a REEL Music Festival. Wonderful!!
As always on Wednesday afternoon I'm listening to Jesse Andrews Music of Scotland. He's playing wonderful selections today and I'm looking a pictures of Shetland islands on Facebook. Jesse just played You Lift Me Up and boy, am I homesick. How can I be homesick for a country where I have never been??
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June Glensi is still at Dufy
"Birds are, quite simply, little miracles - and as such they require care and consideration."
Magnus Ullman
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Glad to know that Limpy
Something I took to day while photographing the Osprey at Abberton Reservoir in Essex.