Photos A Walk in Nature

CelloDan said:
Thank you Jack ! :)



lol 😄 Thank you Colin !




Thank you Dan :)


Very keen observation that I not considered myself.
Thank you !!! :thumbsup:😁

While not as effective as the device you posted what I did to my shoes should go a good way in preventing a similar mishap :cool:

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PS: those are the shoes I use when kick sledding :)
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Shoes with lugs! I love it!
 
JohnDF said:
Went for a little hike this morning... gorgeous weather for it.


Had my Case Stag Stockman with me...


Poor Raccoon made a nice meal for the Coyotes...
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What a great looking place for a hike John.
😎👍
Just Tom. said:
Went for a walk along the canal again. The river was high and fast today after recent heavy rains.

These things are very common, but I never get tired of seeing them:

I wish my phone had a better zoom, though.
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Is that a Great Blue Heron?
 
bigfish64 said:
Is that a Great Blue Heron?
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It is!
I usually see at least 2 or 3 every time I go to the river. I have even seen them pretty far from water, which confused me until I learned they will also eat mice. There used to be one which would visit my parent’s back yard to steal goldfish from the small decorative fish pond they had.
The Wikipedia article has some really nice pictures of them:
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Great blue heron - Wikipedia

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Just Tom. said:
It is!
I usually see at least 2 or 3 every time I go to the river. I have even seen them pretty far from water, which confused me until I learned they will also eat mice. There used to be one which would visit my parent’s back yard to steal goldfish from the small decorative fish pond they had.
The Wikipedia article has some really nice pictures of them:
en.wikipedia.org

Great blue heron - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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I thought it was. 40 years ago we only saw them around here in the spring and fall. Now when we take our boat out we see one every 50 yards along the shoreline. 6D392380-B812-43D6-B4C3-25FE707746D7.jpegC4E83214-A787-4497-91C3-5DCA5CE6A53B.jpeg
This one didn’t let us get close enough for a good picture, but it turned out okay.
 
My walk in nature today was a little bit more of a walk in history. 😁

I started with a Coffee and a Bulgarian pastries sitting outside in Abingdon on Thames market square,the oldest inhabited town in England (see totin thread for knife carried).

In-between walking around looking at the historic sites I visited the museum at the top of the old Council tower.

Here was a wooden chest over a 1,000 years old, a massive Mammoths tooth (size of a bag of sugar) and lots of very old stuff from the bronze age and even before.

Police batons with very nice royal warrants on them,which you could admire as they batted you around the ear with them 😅

There is displayed a knife and whetstone see the photo and explanation.

But and its a big but at the end of the room was the very last MGB made in Abingdon in a fetching 1970s beige colour scheme with rubber bumpers (thank you California).

This was hoisted in after they removed the windows,good job whoever managed that.

I went down to the river over the very old and historic bridge,with details of the civil war which ranged strong around this area.

It was windy and cold so I didnt venture to far from the town,the towpaths around this area are stunning so I will be back for more of it.


I forgot to mention the wooden chest with the domed top is only 600 years old o_O







































 
Johnnythefox said:
Wow you must have been close.
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I zoomed in a little, but was probably within 30’ or so.

We have a huge overpopulation of whitetail deer around here (hence the managed hunts), and they have largely lost their fear of humans.

Here is a picture of a buck with rare piebald coloration, which I practically bumped into less than a mile from my house:

In my back yard:

In my parents’ back yard:

Keep in mind we live in a fairly densely populated area.
 
I had to go back to Abingdon today to collect some tailoring so took a walk up the Thames Towpath first.

The rain was coming down in buckets the roads where flooded,it was wet but I stuck to my plan.

Nice to see the snowdrops out and the ducks and geese getting wet.

I have never seen anything like it before, but that handsome geese couple got quite close to me and I could actually see the rain running down their back and sliding of the end like an Olympic ski jump.

Difficult to focus on the rain drops also running down the tree branches, did I mention it was raining? 😅

I went for another coffee at the Bulgarian cafe and got chatting to the lovely Monica who served me,wait a minute there's a script there somewhere cafe/Monica Friends.😍

I know the couple who own and live on Anamac, that boat has some hisory.

It was imported from the USA in 1938 and later used in the evacuation of Dunkirk,its a very well made boat the owners look after it.

Anamac | National Historic Ships

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History​

ANAMAC was built in Algonac, Michigen by Chris Craft in late 1937/ 38 as part of only 30 of the 40 foot designed. She was shipped to the UK in 1938 and bought and registered by Lloyds as BIRAC by Sir George Harvey MP and moored in the Fulham area of London. Sir George Harvey died suddenly on March 29th 1939 and the boat remained moored up while registered by the navy as suitable size and draught for potential War work. She was then believed to have been taken to Dunkirk or Sheerness by the Navy in June 1940 as all boats moored below Teddington Lock London were conscripted for Operation Dynamo. There are photographs of boats like her at Bob Tough's Little Ship Boatyard after the event and only two boats of this type known to exist here. After that she was Conscripted into the Royal Navy under the name CARDIGRAE II and served as the Pilot boat in the Pool Of London for the rest of the war.

Registered in small craft service list compiled by the shipping intelligence branch of the ministry of war transport (Caird library ID: PBP1505/1 and PBP 1505/2) records that her service began on 18 December 1942 and that she was compulsorily acquired on 13 May 1943. The nature of her service is given as ‘Misc.N’. The owner is still listed as ‘Acquired by his majesty’s government’ in the 1947 edition of Lloyds register of Yachts

In 1947 she was sold to the river by the Royal Navy and sailed under the name TORRINGTON, and then CUMBERLAND MAID, until she was bought in the early 50's by the owners of MacMillan Publishing house and acquired the name of one of the wives, Ana or Anna and turned into a portmanteau with her surname to become known as Anamac. She has kept that name since. We have a complete log book of names and addresses and she has had 12 owners since 1947. She appeared in the British movie Buster in 1988 as the getaway boat, ANAMAC, with Phil Collins and Julie Walters on board.







































 
Is anybody else seeing red “X”s in place of pictures in this thread? It’s not all the pictures, and not always the same ones. I think both Johnny and I use postimages.org - I’m wondering if they are having issues.

I’m viewing this on my iPad, if that makes a difference.
 
Just Tom. said:
Is anybody else seeing red “X”s in place of pictures in this thread? It’s not all the pictures, and not always the same ones. I think both Johnny and I use postimages.org - I’m wondering if they are having issues.

I’m viewing this on my iPad, if that makes a difference.
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I’m viewing on my iphone and I’m seeing them also Tom. There were several in Johnny’s last post.
 
Just Tom. said:
Is anybody else seeing red “X”s in place of pictures in this thread? It’s not all the pictures, and not always the same ones. I think both Johnny and I use postimages.org - I’m wondering if they are having issues.

I’m viewing this on my iPad, if that makes a difference.
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bigfish64 said:
I’m viewing on my iphone and I’m seeing them also Tom. There were several in Johnny’s last post.
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Viewing on my laptop in Edge, the pics show up fine.
 
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