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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #90 on Apr 10, 2010, 11:55pm »

Apr 10, 2010, 10:46pm, deyana wrote:

What an amazing photo, Kimby. These bats are called 'flying foxes'? Or is that just a nick name?

Flying fox is another name for fruit bats, and they are quite large and have a foxy looking face. But they are not carnivores.

http://www.bellingen.com/flyingfoxes/bats_or_flying_foxes.htm

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #91 on Apr 11, 2010, 12:23am »

crikey, they really do have faces that look like foxes. Kind of cute in a way, If you didn't know they were bats..

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #92 on Apr 11, 2010, 12:30am »

Thanks, Casimira. One of my sisters lives in Texas and the brick on her house is the kind called "blonde". The geckos love it, maybe because they're almost invisible against it.

That bat photo is fascinating. Not only is it a good photograph, but a great opportunity to really look at the bats.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #93 on Apr 11, 2010, 12:33am »

thanks, bixa. They were moving around a lot, so I tried to time the photo for when they were doing something interesting. I took about 10 pictures of bats, hard to decide which one to show here.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #94 on Apr 11, 2010, 12:36am »

I like the way the shapes of the bats and the negative spaces in the photo mimic each other.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #95 on Apr 11, 2010, 12:51am »

pure coincidence, bixa. I didn't notice it till you pointed it out. ;-)

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #96 on Apr 11, 2010, 10:21pm »

The geckos made me laugh. When I was dating my husband, his parents were having issues in their home with these tiny spiders, and since my father-in-law was then on a lot of medications for his cancer, they didn't like to use chemicals if they could help it. I actually took my future mother-in-law a thank you gift that consisted of a large plastic bowl full of bits of grass and 8 geckos, and she was quite thrilled. I had gathered them at my mother's house, which is tan and always has swarms of them in a quick half hour by looking for them on the window screens. They seem to like the lights in the early evening and congregate there, so I would just slip a bowl over them, slide a poster board under, and deposit them in my little transport container. My mother-in-law is thrilled the critters are still thriving in her yard and every spring gushes about her darling babies.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #97 on May 4, 2010, 3:31pm »

We found hundreds of dead fish washed up on this shore the other day. There were hundreds more live ones still swimming in the lake:

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #98 on May 4, 2010, 7:34pm »

Mmmmm... did you take them home and marinate them?

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #99 on May 4, 2010, 8:06pm »

that is a bit scary though with the dead fish.. why did they die?

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #100 on May 4, 2010, 9:29pm »

um...no. No marinating of dead fish that day anyway.

Riky, I think they just swam too close to the shore and got stuck in the sand, the rest of them were swimming right by the sand too.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #101 on May 5, 2010, 9:51pm »

hm i see... though somehow i think that is strange behaviour for fish - to get stuck in the sand, i mean, not to swim close to the shore... but maybe the lake got lower than usual recently?

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #102 on May 5, 2010, 10:30pm »

Yeah, it is a little strange. I'll see if I can find out more about it. I've seen much bigger fish stranded on the shore too like this...

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #103 on May 10, 2010, 2:20pm »

Hey sweetiepie.

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Hey honeybunch.

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Oh, I love you so much!

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Hey, who's that?

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Hey!

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #104 on May 10, 2010, 7:13pm »

Very funny.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #105 on May 13, 2010, 5:22pm »

It was still chilly in Paris today, but the wildlife had clearly found a comfortable grate blowing hot air.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #106 on May 15, 2010, 3:07pm »

It's a.......... bunch!

The brand new offspring of the pair of Canada Geese which nests in our backyard made their debut last evening. The parents are quite skittish and began to herd them back down the bank as soon as they heard me open the screen door.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #107 on May 15, 2010, 3:59pm »

Awwww!

Are the parents the loving couple from the fabulous sequence in #110?

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #108 on May 15, 2010, 4:05pm »

Yep, the same happy couple.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #109 on May 18, 2010, 6:15pm »

As a footnote to the story of "our geese"... they're no longer with us. It appears all of the young were killed by predators and the parents, having no further reason to be here, have moved on. The circle of life is indeed both beautiful and brutal.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #110 on May 18, 2010, 6:57pm »

*sigh* I used to live on a canal off the Gulf of Mexico which was heavily populated by ducks. As we'd fondly watch the mommy ducks being followed by their fluffy yellow offspring, there would be miniature reenactments of the opening scene of Jaws.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #111 on May 19, 2010, 8:11pm »

on the lake next to the school i used to go to... (picture taken on a visit last summer though)

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #112 on May 21, 2010, 5:30pm »

I like the way the water came out in that one, Riky. A good shot there.

Here are a couple of ducks from Odell Park, in Fredericton:

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Time for a clean?

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Maybe this should be in the 'reflection' thread?

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #113 on May 21, 2010, 5:31pm »

imec, it's sad to hear about the baby ducks. Yeah, the circle of life and all that...

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #114 on May 21, 2010, 5:56pm »

There are local eagles that are very proficient at hunting waterfowl and I've seen them take ducks from the water and carry them off screaming. It's a fascinating sight but certainly not a pretty one. I'd love to be lucky enough to capture the drama with my camera, but it's probably not likely to happen.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #115 on May 21, 2010, 6:06pm »

We have some hawks that come and snatch the purple martin babies from the houses we provide...the first time I saw it happen I was on our balcony and started yelling at the hawks....so ridiculous, I must have looked and sounded...didn't phase the hawks one bit.

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