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Post by moon/Laura on Mar 17, 2020 12:27:00 GMT -5
Male wood duck
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Post by Tennesseer on Mar 17, 2020 16:05:54 GMT -5
Nice shot.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Mar 17, 2020 17:30:40 GMT -5
Male wood duck Absolutely beautiful.
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Post by moon/Laura on Mar 17, 2020 22:30:27 GMT -5
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you! They're my favorite duck so far.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Mar 18, 2020 7:06:51 GMT -5
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you! They're my favorite duck so far. After I saw this I went back to catch up past posts and saw where you said you were back into photography. I though dang that duck looks almost unreal Hope you will post more of your work. I hit and miss here but love this thread.
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Post by moon/Laura on Mar 18, 2020 11:34:24 GMT -5
Thank you! They're my favorite duck so far. After I saw this I went back to catch up past posts and saw where you said you were back into photography. I though dang that duck looks almost unreal Hope you will post more of your work. I hit and miss here but love this thread. I don't know...I take a LOT of pictures, lol. And, even though I only post my best/favorites to Facebook, those who know me both places with probably say I still post too many.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Mar 18, 2020 11:51:53 GMT -5
After I saw this I went back to catch up past posts and saw where you said you were back into photography. I though dang that duck looks almost unreal Hope you will post more of your work. I hit and miss here but love this thread. I don't know...I take a LOT of pictures, lol. And, even though I only post my best/favorites to Facebook, those who know me both places with probably say I still post too many. I don’t think anyone here would complain. If they do we’ll call out the Freezer Crew!
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Post by Tennesseer on Mar 18, 2020 12:15:05 GMT -5
Nature pictures wanted here. Anything from earth worms to super novas.
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Post by moon/Laura on Mar 18, 2020 13:02:51 GMT -5
Yeah well, I don't want to take over the entire thread. Perhaps I'll start my own later on. Then people can choose if they want to deal with it or not. 🙂
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2020 10:52:12 GMT -5
I take terrible photos and haven't figured out how to post them yet (for which you should be profoundly grateful ). However, I am delighted to share bird news confirming that Spring really has arrived here. Inca Doves - We have a nesting pair. This is a big deal here because their numbers have been in decline recently. Yesterday we watched their courtship ritual as he chased she and she pretended to be uninterested. Then she doubled back and draped her head for his neck before grooming his feathers. They sit wing-to-wing on a tree branch between feeding and chasing. The male is truly FIERCE and went after a white-winged dove about 4 times his size when the poor bird got too close to Mrs. Inca. Hawks - We were fortunate to witness part of a courtship flight. I have no idea what variety they were but their flight was truly breathtaking. Rather than the relatively slow spirals of a hunting flight, the pair engaged in high speed acrobatics over a 3 block range with vocalizations that give me goose bumps. Nothing beats a raptor for high speed ascent, steep dives and breakneck turns. I don't know if the female hawk was suitably impressed, but I sure was.
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Post by kadee79 on May 3, 2020 18:57:29 GMT -5
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Post by kadee79 on May 3, 2020 19:00:21 GMT -5
And we have at least 1 pair of American Swallow-tailed Kites in our area....They are beautiful in flight! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow-tailed_kitePS....Moon, another vote for you posting some of your pics.!
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Post by moon/Laura on May 3, 2020 19:58:50 GMT -5
Those are cool!
And I'll see about posting a link to my photos on Flickr.
Edit: new thread started with the link.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 3, 2020 20:14:50 GMT -5
If corn can be pretty, the glass gem corn is pretty.
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Post by Artemis Windsong on May 4, 2020 17:03:04 GMT -5
11 minutes of humming birds from nest building to fledgling.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 11, 2020 10:57:41 GMT -5
As I watched this video on my desktop computer just now one of three kittens I took into my home in February when they were one day old (I also took in their mother) sat in front of the screen enthralled by the hummingbird and the butterflies.
Yesterday, while watching TV, a horse was on the TV screen. As the horse exited the scene and to the left of the screen, another of the kittens watched it. When the horse left the screen, the kitten moved to the left side of the screen looking for the horse to come out from behind the TV screen.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 12, 2020 22:45:33 GMT -5
In case anyone else is interested. I joined. There's an entire Facebook group dedicated to bad wildlife photos. Here are some of the funniest ones.Taking photos of animals in the wild takes good timing and patience.The Facebook group "Crap Wildlife Photography" celebrates all terrible, failed, and hilariously bad animal photos."Mockery of pictures, especially ones deemed too good, are a significant part of CWP culture," the group warns as you join.Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. Shooting wildlife photos is an art form. It takes practice, patience, and good timing. Not everyone possesses this skillset. Luckily, there's a Facebook group that doesn't make fun of amateur photographers' shortcomings but celebrates them instead. "Crap Wildlife Photography" is a Facebook Group dedicated to hilariously bad animal photos. In fact, when you join the group, you are asked to acknowledge that "mockery of pictures, especially ones deemed too good, are a significant part of CWP culture." Rest of article here: There's an entire Facebook group dedicated to bad wildlife photos. Here are some of the funniest ones.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 19, 2020 22:42:26 GMT -5
Just because giant anteaters are so unique looking.
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 9, 2020 11:44:57 GMT -5
Quite the long neck. The picture is of a much smaller species. We Finally Know How This Ancient Reptile Lived With Such an Absurdly Long Neck
Make a crocodile out of taffy. Take its head and tug on it until its neck extends a good few metres from its body. If you squint, this could be what one odd-looking Triassic reptile called Tanystropheus looked like. More or less. This animal's assortment of ludicrously long fossilised neck bones has confused the heck out of palaeontologists for nearly 170 years. By using CT scans to unpack the crushed skulls of the reptiles' remains, researchers have now resolved some nagging questions surrounding this strange animal. Specimens of Tanystropheus can reach more than five metres (16 ft) in length, with its tail making up roughly a third of its length, and its body maybe a quarter. The rest is all neck. Complete article here: We Finally Know How This Ancient Reptile Lived With Such an Absurdly Long Neck
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