OneGuyFromBarlick

Very pleased to confirm the sighting of a greenfinch today on the feeders.

This is the first I've seen for certain for several years, the population crashed because of a fatal infection (bacterial, I think) usually spread in areas of high numbers, for example around bird feeders.

Talking of young things - getting to see a few young birds now. Some of them being shown the feeders we keep topped up all year, others far more independent ... let me see. what's been about today. Young male blackbird, still in his brown coat. young greater spotted woodpecker. various tits and chaf...

Armoured car or light tank ?

Same seems to apply to Ants ( having disturbed in Error two nests in different places - armful of formic acid !) A local hedgehog has been eating the cat food outside the back door including the dry cat food. I am not sure this is good for the hedgehog (and give that the houses surround gardens but...

Neatly parked, but I suspect whoever was in charge will be having an "interview without tea and biscuits" ...

Bibby's didn't do pet food but some cans were army emergency rations. Mostly vegetables and puddings. Hopefully not the canned cheese, anything but the canned cheese ! That stuff wouldn't melt, even in the oven ! The oatmeal "biscuits" and canned jam were quite nice, though Most of the ra...

polishing compound ?

chinatyke wrote: ↑22 Jun 2019, 05:14

Stanley wrote: ↑22 Jun 2019, 03:06 ... it was originally off a German railway carriage ...

Where was Stoneroad when you needed him!

Playing trains aka gricing at a gala in TLC of Wales

(but I'm not good with continental rolling stock)

This year, for example, two breeding pairs of greater spotted woodpeckers, several members of the tit family and at least two pairs of goldfinches, blackbirds, robins, wrens and chaffinches make up most of the rest. This year I seem to have acquired some house sparrows ... That's great, well done! ...

The other rescues have been Hedgepigs ...

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/312383/album/404901


We don't have a resident in care at present, and I'm not sure if there is one in the wood or garden at all this year.

With regards to the blackbirds hereabouts, there is one male that is definitely less timid than normal

this album explains ...

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/312383/album/482279

I may try some fresh mealworms later in the month, to see if he will come down to me.

I have an enormous garden and attached bit of mixed woodland, rural and about 800/900 foot up in SW Northumberland (so not actually local to Barlick!) When we first moved in, over 20 years ago, the garden was neglected and overgrown and the bit of woodland didn't exist. I did my best to improve thin...

Reference plates ?

Is it a foxglove ?

Looking closely, I can see two funnels and sets of mechanical rods. So I assume one was for each screw.
I had thought one engine would be propulsion and the other turning the weed cutting screws.

Another look and I see the tow bar between the bits, on the rear of the foredeck.

That's a steam launch that has been modified to cut reeds / clear weed from a river / canal

first - get some sun whilst gardening (and doing laundry, thankfully the washer is behaving itself) then mid-morning, change into blacks and head for a funeral (may chicken out, it is only a few months since my dad died) mid-afternoon, meet up with S-I-L to scatter some of F-I-L's ashes. back home v...

I thought surveyor's mark as well.

But the spacing might mean "chainage" ie distance measurements (a chain is 22 yards, if I remember my old money stuff)

First class picture. Went on to look round your other images. Some really good stuff in there. There is a section on restorations etc: why not put some of them in there? Thanks, Plaques. Glad you enjoyed looking around my Ipernity images. Although it is a long time since I last updated the thread, ...

IIRC there was a theory that "Spinners" were for higher speed passenger services, something to do with larger driving wheels whereas goods trains needed haulage power at lower speeds and so had smaller, coupled wheels. here's a "Stirling Single" NER 50 built 1870 (or spinner with...

4-2-2 tender locomotive ...

with narrow gauge track in the foreground.

will have to do some thinking for anything else !

Low water level in a reservoir, but no idea which one, exposing remains of a farm building or something similar ? ...

Seen something similar at Whitehaven Marina's Sea Lock, more than once.

Usually resulting from the remains of a storm surge plus highest spring tides, the lock was full which resulted in the inner lock gates being over-topped. (But not the outer gates, which are 12m vs the 8.4m of the inner ones)

Water level too high - so flowing over the top of the lock gates.

My knowledge of Avonmouth post-dates this picture - when the "modern" grain terminal / handling plant was installed my father was involved in both design and commissioning the mechanisms for unloading the ships. This would have been in the 1960s / 1970s I think However, in the 1950s my fat...