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Unusual for this country at the moment ... blue sky that is. This Red Admiral is content foraging in the heat of the day. Sony DSC HX400V Bolton, Lancashire NW England !https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.308245539.8992/flat,300x300,075,f.jpg! !https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.587615128.4555/flat,400x400,075,f.u1.jpg!

I think this is my favourite of the photos I took yesterday watching cultivators at work.

If you can shed any light on the breed of this one, please do let me know and I'll add it in to the tags. Both this and the leghorn are on the same farm, free roaming a nice large grassy paddock which is occasionally shared with sheep, when there's enough of a bite of grass on. Possibly a red mottled leghorn. Lancshire, NW England Sony DSC-HX1 !http://ih3.redbubble.net/work.7922257.1.flat,800x800,070,f.jpg!

There's no jaunty angles here, this is an actual hillside. In the mid section you can see the level of the properties in the are Chorley, Lancashre Sony DSC HX400V !https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.216174937.6301/flat,300x200,075,t.u6.jpg! !https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.587615128.4555/flat,400x400,075,f.jpg! !https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.13906176.4792/flat,400x300,075,f.u4.jpg!

An eryngium growing amidst California Poppies Lancashire NW England Sony DSC HX400V

Wild Iris Lancashire NW England Sony DSC-HX1 !http://ih2.redbubble.net/work.7759949.2.flat,300x300,075,f.alphabet-soup-series-1-2012.jpg! !http://ih1.redbubble.net/work.8157727.1.fp,375x360,black,off_white,box,l,ffffff.jpg! !http://ih1.redbubble.net/work.7220784.1.fp,375x360,black,offwhite,box,l,ffffff.jpg!

British Rail Class 2MT building up stem in advance of a day's work, sheltering behind a more modern heavy weight Type 3 diesel, on a frosty winter morning

Running over the ground with a power harrow, in preparation for oat sowing in 2020 Lancashire, NW England Sony DSC HX400V

Sea King at RIAT

Collecting Straw following harvest of a wheat crop (300 bales if you're wondering) Lancashire NW England !https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.216174937.6301/flat,300x200,075,t.u6.jpg! Sony DSC HX400V

Are these gulls on their vacation? Away from the coast

45212 has just had new tyres and was in service on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway over Easter weekend. 45212 hauled the final steam-hauled revenue-earning service for British Railways on 4th August 1968.

Exploring the great outdoors. These two are actually from triplets, the third was out of shot. Sony DSC-HX1 Lancashire NW England !http://ih1.redbubble.net/work.7659548.1.fp,375x360,black,offwhite,box,l,ffffff.jpg! !http://ih0.redbubble.net/work.4860396.1.flat,550x550,075,f.cb-banner.jpg! !http://ih3.redbubble.net/work.7922257.1.flat,800x800,070,f.jpg! !http://ih1.redbubble.net/work.7864018.1.mtd,375x360,n,s,U1VSRkVSUyBQQVJBRElTRSBDSVRZ,ffffff.jpg! !http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.13883293.9396/mtd,375x360,n,s,QmFubmVy,ffffff.jpg! !http://ih1.redbubble.net/work.7505502.1.flat,300x300,075,f.jpg!

505 views as at 18 April 2013 One of San Francisco's most famous landmarks spanning The Golden Gate. This was taken from the Marin County side. I don't know of a nicer 1.7 mile walk, 220 feet above the sea on a deck supported by two cables 3'3/8" in diameter that are made up of 80,000 miles of wire. In 2012 she'll be 75 years old ... over 1.75 billion crossings and still going strong. In 1994 The Golden Gate Bridge was named one of the Seven Civil Engineering Wonders of the United States by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Sony DSC-HX1 "Featured in Bridges":http://www.redbubble.com/groups/bridge-art-photography-writing/featured_works !http://www.richards-photos.net/just_fun/feature_004a.jpg! !http://images-0.re...

End of the line

Madeline is travelling along San Francisco Bay headed out to the Pacific Ocean, first trvelling under perhaps one of the worlds most famous bridges. Is she on her way home to Crecent City, further up the coast, after mooring up for Fleet Week, or going out to sea, to earn her captain and crew a living. !http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp85/Rambler25/FeaturedWorkcopy.jpg!

Tail art on a RNLAF F-16 from their 323 TACTESS based at Leeuwarden Celebrating the squadron's first 65 years, Diana The Huntress is the squadron's mascot. Painted on this F-16 by Ted Marcel Sony DSC-HX! RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire, England !http://picasion.com/gl/76/2Lju.gif! !http://ih0.redbubble.net/image.13536898.3185/pp,375x360.jpg!

A tracked combine harvester emptying the grain bin on the move Sony DSC HX400V

Fritillaria Meleagris Lancashire NW England Sony DSC HX400V

The Royal Netherlands Air Force have two flying display teams. This is the Orange Lion F-16 Fighting Falcon Seen here at RAF Fairford The 2013 season was the last she wore this special livery as after receiving an anti corrosion treatment, she returned to her natural grey colour scheme from 2014. Sony DSC-HX1

This is the same plant as "Bluebells in the Shade" but 12 months on. A few more bells. Quite a difference in colour when the sunlight is on them - more purple than blue It's still the only one in the near vacinity. Lancashire NW England Sony DSC HX-1 They're a protected species under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 !http://ih1.redbubble.net/work.8157727.1.fp,375x360,black,off_white,box,l,ffffff.jpg! !http://ih3.redbubble.net/work.7393439.1.flat,550x550,075,f.flowers-banner.jpg! !http://ih1.redbubble.net/work.9588564.1.flat,550x550,075,f.jpg! !http://ih3.redbubble.net/work.6202738.1.flat,550x550,075,f.wildflowers-of-the-world-feature-banner.jpg!

These two lambs probably won't even feel the stinging nettles Lancashire NW England Sony DSC HX400V !https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.216174937.6301/flat,300x200,075,t.u6.jpg! !https://ih1.redbubble.net/work.7659548.1.fp,375x360,black,offwhite,box,l,ffffff.jpg! !https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/4954252656_2ee7bb3904.jpg! !https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.65153407.7507/pp,550x550.u3.png! !https://ih1.redbubble.net/work.10714762.1.mtd,375x360,n,s,Kioq,ffffff.jpg!

Spring seems a long way off just now, but you can always wish it would come quicker. These Daffodils were in a banking. The usual view of the daffodil is with the light very much in front or above them. I thought this view looked a little more unusual with the sun rising behind them. Picture taken in Lancashire NW England. Sony DSC-HX1 !http://ih3.redbubble.net/work.6202738.1.flat,550x550,075,f.wildflowers-of-the-world-feature-banner.jpg! !http://ih0.redbubble.net/work.4860396.1.flat,550x550,075,f.cb-banner.jpg!

60+ tonnes of M1 Abrams Tank zooming down a taxi way at MCAS Miramar

US Marines UH-1N at MCAS Miramar

I'm not sure, I say I'm not sure of the breeding of this fella. Possibly a Brown Leghorn. Lancashire NW England Sony DSC-HX1 !http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.10869390.9231/flat,550x550,075,f.jpg! !http://ih3.redbubble.net/work.8628942.1.flat,300x300,075,f.theaddictedphotographer.jpg! !http://ih2.redbubble.net/image.11950220.9165/flat,215x200,075,f.jpg! !http://ih0.redbubble.net/image.13906176.4792/flat,300x300,075,f.u2.jpg!

Reload Best to not let anyone in the British Railways world see this, it'll be the new excuse for delays. Built in 1945, Class 5MT 44871 on Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, letting off a little steam as she prepares to couple up to her carriages under the shed. If it were a giant cotton wool ball, my money would be on the 80 ton loco in a head to head West Yorkshire, England Sony DSC HX 400V !https://ih2.redbubble.net/image.12552192.8152/flat,550x550,075,f.jpg! !https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.308245539.8992/flat,300x300,075,f.jpg!

Lesser Celandine from ground level Perennial herb Sony DSC HX400V Lancashire NW England !https://ih1.redbubble.net/work.10702673.1.mtd,375x360,n,s,Kioq,ffffff.jpg! !https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.562772774.9941/flat,400x400,075,f.u7.jpg!

Grassland freshly ballast rolled to de poach the ground Lancashire NW England Sony DSC HX400V !https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.65153407.7507/pp,550x550.u3.png!

In these times of quarantines and lockdowns (March 2020) I am fortunate to live in a rural area and can see these scenes from my own back door

A Bell 412 EP of the Aviation Unit of the United States Park Police, based in Anacostia Park. Flying low over the tidal basin on the Potomac River that is home to the Jefferson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorials Sony DSC-HX1 !http://ih1.redbubble.net/work.7220784.1.fp,375x360,black,offwhite,box,l,ffffff.jpg!

My own Grey Fergie (1948 with a 1957 P3 diesel conversion). I was watching the baler and couldn't go back empty.

Small Tortoiseshell butterfly foraging amongst the mayweed Sony DSC HX400V

Long Ranger flying down the runway at Farnborough Airshow

One of a pair of Liver Birds that perch a top the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool

Ground preparation in the foreground with oat sowing in the background