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Posted: May 23 2011,08:42

Educational:

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

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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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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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Posted: May 26 2011,15:39

That's a gorgeous bird!

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Posted: May 26 2011,18:08

Beautiful Albatrossity!

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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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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!

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Posted: May 29 2011,12:48

Nice collections, fellers!

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Posted: May 29 2011,17:02

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

Henry

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Posted: May 30 2011,15:43

Went to the Austin Nature Science Center with X-boy on Saturday. 狢t 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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Posted: May 30 2011,17:02

Yes, hawk, looks like a ferruginous ...

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Posted: May 30 2011,17:42

Do the supplies for the coyote come from Acme?

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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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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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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

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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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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 ...

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Posted: June 03 2011,01:11

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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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Posted: June 03 2011,08:03

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

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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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Posted: June 03 2011,09:07

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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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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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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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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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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?)

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Posted: June 12 2011,14:40

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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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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 ...

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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.

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