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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2010 22:45:48 GMT
ParisT, a well taken picture there.
Kerouac, that one looks like a professional shot! Are you sure that bird is real? I always have trouble taking pictures of birds, they just won't pose properly!
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 15, 2010 6:29:19 GMT
Poor turkeys... they can't help being turkeys. please see Imec's post #55 on the previous pageTurkeysSometimes we saw shadows of gods in the trees; silenced, we went on. Sometimes the dog would bound off over the snow, into the forest. Sometimes a tree had twenty or more black turkeys in it, each seeming the size of a small black bear. We remember them for their care for their kind ever since we watched the big hen in the very top of the tree shaking load after load of apples down to the flock. Sometimes I felt I would never come out of the woods, I thought its deeper darkness might absorb me or feed me to the black turkeys and I would cry out for the dog and the dog would not answer. -- Galway Kinnellpub. in The New Yorker, Jan 18, 2010
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 8, 2010 6:08:46 GMT
These were taken a few minutes ago of the little visitor who must have come in through the open window next to my computer table. In the first one he is right next to the window, where I first noticed him. In the second and third he's up by the picture frame on the wall over the computer. In the fourth one I thought he was posing for me, but it turned out the stance was preparatory to jumping onto the monitor, then disappearing underneath it. He emerged again & was on the corner of the table contemplating the window, but I stupidly tried for another photo and now he's skulking behind the speaker, on top of the electrical extension bar. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemidactylus
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Post by rikita on Apr 8, 2010 21:18:47 GMT
(from a zoo though)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2010 21:23:58 GMT
I love the lizard, Bixa, especially the color.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 9, 2010 3:14:12 GMT
Thanks, Kerouac. Those pictures were taken in very low light, with the flash. When you see geckos in good light, you can see their organs right through their skin -- even their little hearts beating. The little guy in the pictures was only @4 inches from nose to tip of tail.
Rikita, that bear is so beautiful. The picture is a wonderful noitcelfer, as well.
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Post by rikita on Apr 9, 2010 21:21:29 GMT
ah true, i hadn't even realized that... i mean, i realized there is a reflection there, but i didn't think of the picture when i posted in the reflections thread... here is another one from the same visit to the zoo (i don't usually go there but we went there last summer once with a friend)
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 10, 2010 0:19:47 GMT
Whoa ~~ truth IS stranger than fiction!
You really take great photos, Rikita
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2010 15:53:53 GMT
Such a nice run of great photos in this last stretch here that I haven't seen in a bit... The geese are beautiful imec,somehow look more graceful in your photos than I remember them being,having seen so, so many in NY. Bixa,the gecko shots are amazing,as you well know, we have them skulking about here and they are so quick to scurry! I once saw an albino gecko,was strange,strange. We have a "new" invader breed of small anole like lizard here,arrived after Katrina,has become a nuisance and is threatening the others.I will see if I can get a shot of one,also very quick. Rikita,your shots are fabulous,love,love the bird!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2010 16:09:58 GMT
pigeons:
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2010 16:53:42 GMT
Errr... do you have a zoom lens on your camera?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2010 16:56:32 GMT
;D Um...yes, I'm trying to get the hang of it.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 10, 2010 21:41:48 GMT
There's a huge colony of "flying foxes" living in the Botanic Garden in Sydney. At sunset they fly over the city, but they hang out (literally) in the trees of the botanic garden all day. There is a plan to discourage them from roosting there because of the damage that is caused to the collection.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2010 22:46:44 GMT
What an amazing photo, Kimby. These bats are called 'flying foxes'? Or is that just a nick name?
Reminds me of the bats I saw hanging off the side of walls late at night, when I was in India.
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Post by rikita on Apr 10, 2010 23:38:07 GMT
cool!
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Post by Kimby on Apr 10, 2010 23:55:04 GMT
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. www.bellingen.com/flyingfoxes/bats_or_flying_foxes.htm
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2010 0:23:24 GMT
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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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 11, 2010 0:30:07 GMT
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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Post by Kimby on Apr 11, 2010 0:33:18 GMT
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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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 11, 2010 0:36:49 GMT
I like the way the shapes of the bats and the negative spaces in the photo mimic each other.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 11, 2010 0:51:11 GMT
pure coincidence, bixa. I didn't notice it till you pointed it out. ;-)
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Post by gertie on Apr 11, 2010 22:21:21 GMT
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. ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2010 15:31:20 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2010 19:34:29 GMT
Mmmmm... did you take them home and marinate them?
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Post by rikita on May 4, 2010 20:06:46 GMT
that is a bit scary though with the dead fish.. why did they die?
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2010 21:29:54 GMT
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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Post by rikita on May 5, 2010 21:51:46 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2010 22:30:14 GMT
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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Post by imec on May 15, 2010 15:07:48 GMT
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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Post by bixaorellana on May 15, 2010 15:59:57 GMT
Awwww!
Are the parents the loving couple from the fabulous sequence in #110?
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