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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2011 0:00:15 GMT
Cheery,your swallows,and most of all your bee pics are fabulous!!! Some really beautiful shots.
I love the crow pic imec. I saw a crow today eating out of a Popeyes fried chicken box on the street,didn't have my camera with me,drat!!!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 19, 2011 16:28:19 GMT
Imec...I love Mr Crow.... ;D they really are amazing birds and so adapted to city life. I remember giving my dog a doggy treat (quite a large one) in the garden one day....and whilst she was distracted a large crow landed, picked up the treat and flew away!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 19, 2011 16:29:32 GMT
Ha ~~ good one, Imec! I don't care what Cheery ( ) says, there is a great deal of talent involved in being alert to good photo opportunities and staying calm enough to capture them well, not to mention the composition, etc., as Imec shows so beautifully. I was talking about my pics Bixa...not other peoples' ones.... ;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2011 11:27:03 GMT
Just before leaving for England I saw this family of deers in the front garden. Looks like it could be a mom and 2 babies: and then they walked off:
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Post by imec on May 1, 2011 19:10:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2011 18:43:34 GMT
Great dive bombers!
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Post by hwinpp on May 3, 2011 6:23:50 GMT
Fantastic series, did you use the 'serial shoot' on the pelican?
Whenever I do that the following shots are unclear.
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Post by imec on May 3, 2011 16:47:51 GMT
Thanks! I was using the continuous shoot feature, and the images posted did appear in sequence on my camera - and it is definitely the same bird. The last pic though is actually from a successive dive. The first three are the same one.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2011 11:43:16 GMT
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Post by Kimby on May 21, 2011 3:36:39 GMT
imec, where were your pelicans shot? We just spent the past couple weeks watching the exact same thing in Florida.
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Post by Kimby on May 21, 2011 3:37:38 GMT
deyana, what is the shadow that isn't the gull's shadow in your photo?
And do you know what the purpose of that red spot on the gull's bill is?
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2011 7:04:38 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2011 12:50:41 GMT
deyana, what is the shadow that isn't the gull's shadow in your photo? And do you know what the purpose of that red spot on the gull's bill is? kimby, the shadow is the bench handle! We were sitting on a bench at the time. I don't really know what the purpose of that red spot is on the gull's bill, any idea at all? The pic was taken in the England, so it's an English Seagull.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2011 12:51:14 GMT
Wow, nice picture of the bird there, Kerouac.
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Post by Kimby on May 21, 2011 21:47:00 GMT
The red spot on the gull's bill is instinctively tapped on by the baby gulls, causing the parent to regurgitate partially digested food for the young ones to eat. Ain't it sweet?
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2011 13:00:03 GMT
Yeah, that is sweet. I had no idea. Nature is wonderful isn't it?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2011 11:35:25 GMT
During a walk in the woods the other day, I came across this fur (or is it feathers?). I just can't figure out what kind of animal it was? Any idea anyone? And a close up:
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Post by Kimby on Jun 5, 2011 3:08:59 GMT
Looks like deer hair to me, deyana. They shed their winter coat of hollow grey-brown hair about this time of year and sport a sleeker red coat for summer.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2011 11:22:45 GMT
If I were a deer, it would freak me out to lose so much fur at once.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2011 12:42:45 GMT
Kimby, I can see it now. It has to be deer. Tell me though, do they always shed so much fur one go?
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Post by Kimby on Jun 6, 2011 3:15:23 GMT
K2, the new hair grows in and pushes the old hair out, so they aren't running around naked! deyana, I've never seen quite so much hair without bones. But I do see lots of clots of deer hair that look just like this hair. Perhaps the deer spent a long time in one spot during the rainy weather and lost most of its old coat?
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Post by mich64 on Jun 6, 2011 3:19:39 GMT
Or there was more than one of them concentrated together during some bad weather? I have seen this occur here as well. Cheers, Mich
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2011 11:30:19 GMT
hmm...that could have been the case. I should mention though that I did see a fire pit not too far from there, so it makes me wonder if the deer was not killed at that spot? This wasn't in my woods but another area. However there were no bones or blood around, so the shedding of the coat sounds more logical.
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Post by thill25 on Jun 11, 2011 17:44:39 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Jun 12, 2011 16:43:56 GMT
I know the first two, but who is the third bird?
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Post by Kimby on Jun 12, 2011 16:48:01 GMT
This den of foxes is just off the highway on the way to the cottage. We stopped the car to watch them play. There are at least 4 kits, and they play just like our cats do, pouncing and rolling around on the ground.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 12, 2011 16:58:46 GMT
Tis the season. Mr. Kimby was playing basketball in the driveway and his ball rolled off the pavement. When he went to retrieve it, this is what he found. The little guy froze in place and didn't move, even when Mr. Kimby's size 11's stepped in to grab the ball. It's a survival mechanism that mostly works fairly well for whitetail deer fawns. Beginning the first week of June, the does drop their fawns and we are treated to sights of them traipsing across the lawn. Many does have twins. This one is fuzzy because it was taken through the window. Mama taking care of Bambi, or is it Faline?
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Post by thill25 on Jun 13, 2011 15:26:23 GMT
I know the first two, but who is the third bird? Mockingbird me thinks...what was the second one? That's the one I was trying to figure out. That fawn pic is crazy! I can't believe you were that close.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 13, 2011 15:47:46 GMT
Green Heron/Green-back Heron/Little Green Heron (3 names for the same bird - can't remember which is in current use)
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Post by Kimby on Jun 13, 2011 15:49:44 GMT
That fawn pic is crazy! I can't believe you were that close. We couldn't either. That rock in the picture with the basketball is on the edge of the asphalt driveway/basketball court. What was Mama Deer thinking? Did she birth him there, or just leave him there "hiding" while she grazed a safe distance away?
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