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fnxtr



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(Permalink) Posted: May 22 2011,23:27   

I tried to update my site with a smaller version but for some reason it ain't workin'.  I kind of like the closeup anyway:




eta just needed time to update, I guess. This little guy/gal was on my mom's patio last summer.

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Richardthughes



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(Permalink) Posted: May 23 2011,08:42   

Educational:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg

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J-Dog



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(Permalink) Posted: May 23 2011,10:17   

Quote (Richardthughes @ May 23 2011,08:42)
Educational:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg

Rich - How did you get Vox Day to do the narration?

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Albatrossity2



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(Permalink) Posted: May 26 2011,12:43   


Cream-colored Woodpecker (Cereus flavus), along the Rio Negro in Amazonas, Brazil. I've wanted to see one of these guys for a long time, and I found one on this trip!

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Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: May 26 2011,15:39   

That's a gorgeous bird!

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Robin



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(Permalink) Posted: May 26 2011,18:08   

Beautiful Albatrossity!

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Robin



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(Permalink) Posted: May 26 2011,18:19   

Decided to add a few pics will I'm home wid a coad:


Eastern Tailed Blue (Everes comyntas)


Red-backed Jumping Spider (Phidippus johnsoni)


Zebra Swallowtail (Eurytides marcellus)


Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus)



Gray Tree Frog (Hyla versicolor)


Common Whitetail (Libellula lydia)


Stream Cruiser (Didymops transversa)


Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana)


American Coot (Fulica americana)

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we IDists rule in design for the flagellum and cilium largely because they do look designed.  Bilbo

The only reason you reject Thor is because, like a cushion, you bear the imprint of the biggest arse that sat on you. Louis

  
qetzal



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(Permalink) Posted: May 29 2011,11:50   

This little green anole (Anolis carolinensis) managed to get caught by the tail in the web of a basilica orbweaver (Mecynogea lemniscata).

After snapping a few pics, I helped him (her?) wriggle free. Probably ruined the orbweaver's big Memorial Day family reunion. ("Sure! Everybody come to my web this year. We'll do lizard!")



Last month, I had the great pleasure of seeing a bald eagle at the lake near our house north of Houston. I saw it several times, but the only pics I could get were from far away - either perched on the opposite side of the lake or soaring. These were taken at maximum zoom, and have also been cropped and enlarged 6-fold. They're very low quality, but we don't get many eagles around Houston, so I was still really happy to get them!




  
Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: May 29 2011,12:48   

Nice collections, fellers!

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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: May 29 2011,17:02   

So was the lizard trying to sell insurance to the spider? :p

Henry

  
OgreMkV



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(Permalink) Posted: May 30 2011,15:43   

Went to the Austin Nature Science Center with X-boy on Saturday.  It was pretty neat, lots of bones, fossils to dig up and a tiny little zoo.

The 'zoo' was neat because all the animals were rescue animals that (for various reasons) cannot be released back into the wild.  The coyote, foxes, and bobcat were all raised by people so don't really know how to survive in the wild.  The hawk(?) was injured and can't fly.  

Here's a few pics.









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dhogaza



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(Permalink) Posted: May 30 2011,17:02   

Yes, hawk, looks like a ferruginous ...

  
Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: May 30 2011,17:42   

Do the supplies for the coyote come from Acme? :p

  
OgreMkV



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(Permalink) Posted: May 30 2011,21:25   

Quote (Henry J @ May 30 2011,17:42)
Do the supplies for the coyote come from Acme? :p

Yeah, what I cropped out of the picture is its feet in a big bucket full of glue.  I didn't want to embarrass him.

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Albatrossity2



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(Permalink) Posted: June 01 2011,18:37   

Still in Brazil (Belem, right now), but coming home tomorrow. Here's a pic of a bird I've wanted to see for a long time, and we saw many large flocks of them!

Scarlet Ibis (aka guara, in Portuguese)



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Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mind
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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: June 01 2011,22:11   

Saw a lizard (a very short glimpse) while on a short walk this evening. It was one of the small green kind, and rather unsociable, at least toward toward huge erect scaleless bipeds.

Henry

  
Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: June 02 2011,08:01   

A storm front came through yesterday. We had to do some maintenance on the shelter for our well equipment, and discovered something sad: our vulture had died. There's been a turkey vulture that would hang out on our power pole most days, and we saw it get a drink from our pond just this past Sunday. We think the vulture was electrocuted. We'll miss it.

Edited by Wesley R. Elsberry on June 02 2011,08:02

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dhogaza



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(Permalink) Posted: June 02 2011,08:37   

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We think the vulture was electrocuted.


How sad, after all that time it spent hanging out waiting for you to turn into lunch ...

  
fnxtr



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(Permalink) Posted: June 03 2011,01:11   

Quote (dhogaza @ June 02 2011,06:37)
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We think the vulture was electrocuted.


How sad, after all that time it spent hanging out waiting for you to turn into lunch ...

Bowie sang a translation of Brecht's "Baal" back in the 80's, I'll never forget the lines:

Vultures sometimes circle in Baal's desert sky,
Waiting there to see if Baal will die;
Baal pretends he's dead, the vultures swoop...
Baal in triumph dines on vulture soup.

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"[A] book said there were 5 trillion witnesses. Who am I supposed to believe, 5 trillion witnesses or you? That shit's, like, ironclad. " -- stevestory

"Wow, you must be retarded. I said that CO2 does not trap heat. If it did then it would not cool down at night."  Joe G

  
Ftk



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(Permalink) Posted: June 03 2011,08:03   



The boys pulled in a big one out of our pond this morning.

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J-Dog



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(Permalink) Posted: June 03 2011,08:06   

Quote (Ftk @ June 03 2011,08:03)


The boys pulled in a big one out of our pond this morning.


That's what she said...

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UD is an Unnatural Douchemagnet. - richardthughes 7/11

  
Robin



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(Permalink) Posted: June 03 2011,09:07   

Quote (Ftk @ June 03 2011,08:03)


The boys pulled in a big one out of our pond this morning.


This is how it starts - first you're holding things from a waist down perspective and next thing you know some random girl gets a pic of you from just the waist down...

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we IDists rule in design for the flagellum and cilium largely because they do look designed.  Bilbo

The only reason you reject Thor is because, like a cushion, you bear the imprint of the biggest arse that sat on you. Louis

  
Robin



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(Permalink) Posted: June 03 2011,09:20   

A few butterfly photos from my last wildlife outing:



Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)



Question Mark (Polygonia interrogationis)


Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus)


Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele)

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we IDists rule in design for the flagellum and cilium largely because they do look designed.  Bilbo

The only reason you reject Thor is because, like a cushion, you bear the imprint of the biggest arse that sat on you. Louis

  
fnxtr



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(Permalink) Posted: June 03 2011,21:34   

Quote (Robin @ June 03 2011,07:20)
A few butterfly photos from my last wildlife outing:

Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele)

So that's what they look like. I only know them from the Cocteau Twins' tune.

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Albatrossity2



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(Permalink) Posted: June 11 2011,16:14   

Vagrant Mexican hummingbird (Green Violet-ear, Colibri thalassinus), photographed today at a feeder about 8 mi from my house. First record for this species in the state of Kansas.


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Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mind
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As the only possible proof of its own inheritance.
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dhogaza



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(Permalink) Posted: June 12 2011,12:30   

Very nice photo and congratulations on the state record (assuming it's accepted, I assume you're submitting it?)

  
Albatrossity2



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(Permalink) Posted: June 12 2011,14:40   

Quote (dhogaza @ June 12 2011,12:30)
Very nice photo and congratulations on the state record (assuming it's accepted, I assume you're submitting it?)

Yeah, as a former secretary of the Kansas Bird Record Committee, I felt somewhat compelled to submit that report quickly. It went in this morning!

That species has already been seen in all of the surrounding states except Nebraska, so it's not a huge surprise that it showed up here. But it is a nice record, and a gorgeous bird. I've put some more more images here. All of them have that over-flashed look that comes from using a flash in a very shady location, but unfortunately flash is pretty much a necessity for photographing hummers in those conditions.

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Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mind
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To create an ordered universe
As the only possible proof of its own inheritance.
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dhogaza



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(Permalink) Posted: June 12 2011,18:18   

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Yeah, as a former secretary of the Kansas Bird Record Committee


I just *knew* you'd come back saying "I'm on the records committee" or something similar :)

Cool ...

  
dhogaza



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(Permalink) Posted: June 12 2011,18:23   

I rather like the last photo, btw, with the hummer's neck arched back and the "over-flashing" showing off the iridescence of its plumage and great detail on the feathers.

  
Robin



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(Permalink) Posted: June 13 2011,09:53   

Quote (Albatrossity2 @ June 11 2011,16:14)

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Vagrant Mexican hummingbird (Green Violet-ear, Colibri thalassinus), photographed today at a feeder about 8 mi from my house. First record for this species in the state of Kansas.


Awesome, Alby!

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The only reason you reject Thor is because, like a cushion, you bear the imprint of the biggest arse that sat on you. Louis

  
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