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Post by htmb on Sept 21, 2012 23:04:49 GMT
 Click here to see what it looked like |
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 22, 2012 1:35:03 GMT
Very effective, although I did spot it before looking at the spoiler. And that spoiler is one excellent photo!
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Post by htmb on Sept 22, 2012 1:39:38 GMT
I kept losing it in the grass as I was trying to focus, which is why it's so far over to the left. I have other photos where it was nowhere to be seen  |
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Post by htmb on Sept 22, 2012 4:20:09 GMT
 Not just one turtle... |
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Post by nycgirl on Sept 22, 2012 20:56:58 GMT
Oh my god, was that snake as big as he looks in the photo?
Took me awhile to spot the second turtle. I'm really bad at this.
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Post by htmb on Sept 22, 2012 21:09:12 GMT
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Post by nycgirl on Sept 27, 2012 2:12:55 GMT
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Post by htmb on Sept 27, 2012 2:26:27 GMT
Cool! Is that in an aquarium?
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Post by nycgirl on Sept 27, 2012 2:28:31 GMT
Yep, that's in Sea World. Seahorses are such funny little creatures, aren't they?
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Post by htmb on Sept 27, 2012 2:57:20 GMT
Yes, they are fascinating creatures. Most seahorses are monogamous, and the males get pregnant and give birth to the babies. I've always been fascinated by them and almost caught one when I was a little kid. I cut my foot pretty badly as I was trying to get the seahorse out of the water, but went back after my father had bandaged the cut only to find some other kid had captured "my" seahorse. I'm sure he didn't take very good care of him either, the little brat  Is there a SeaWorld near NYC? |
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Post by nycgirl on Sept 27, 2012 3:26:49 GMT
the males get pregnant and give birth to the babies. If only that were the case with people, too.  No, we went to the one in Florida. |
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Post by lugg on Sept 27, 2012 6:08:45 GMT
Great photos guys and a good new thread idea htmb. I must say you were very brave to get a photo of the snake . Lovely photo nycgirl, I think that it is a leafy sea dragon rather than sea horse. Same family but a different species to sea horses and have different features. I am hoping that the sea horse evaded the boys clutches too htmb. I would love to see one in the sea but have not been so lucky only ever seen one that had been washed up on a beach following a storm.   |
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Post by htmb on Sept 27, 2012 10:51:58 GMT
Very cool pictures, lugg. I'm not sure what I'm looking at in picture one.
I may have been six years old and think I probably would have looked at the seahorse in a container of water and then let it go. I didn't know the boy, but suspect he wouldn't have been as kind.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2012 10:57:17 GMT
That squid looks like it should fall in love with a glove.
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Post by htmb on Sept 27, 2012 19:14:41 GMT
I thought the squid was an errant glove at first. Lugg, I stayed pretty far away from the snake and stood up on the running board of my car most of the time. There was no bravery - or stupidity - involved. |
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Post by lugg on Sept 27, 2012 20:15:35 GMT
Re photo 1 it is exactly the same octupus as in pic 2 ( A Day ( Reef ) Octupus) - Pic 1 was taken when I first spotted it I then waited and watched it in the hope it would move.... finally it did leading to Pic 2 Octupi fascinate me partly because they are masters of camouflage in the ocean. After it had moved off, it settled again this time immitating the coral on the sea bed  |
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Post by htmb on Sept 27, 2012 20:45:52 GMT
Oh, my gosh! Now I see it. Fascinating!!!
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Post by lugg on Oct 2, 2012 7:49:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2012 7:02:50 GMT
light pole trying hard not be seen  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 13, 2012 14:40:27 GMT
Such great pictures here. In most of them, I can only see the hidden creature because I know to look for it. And a shy lampost ~~ who'd have thought it? ;D
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Post by htmb on Dec 2, 2012 22:28:08 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 3, 2012 1:31:18 GMT
Dang! Good one, Htmb.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 31, 2012 22:25:18 GMT
 There is a kildeer sitting on her nest in front and to the left of the clump of grass in this photo. You can just see her stripes. Bixa pointed out that there is a 2nd bird in the photo I hadn't even noticed! Not my photo, but this is what they look like. Their coloration is called "disruptive because the stripes break up the shape of the bird visually. The eggs are pretty well camouflaged, too.  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 1, 2013 3:55:17 GMT
That's a really, really hard one to spot, Kimby! It would be easy to walk right past those eggs, too, without noticing them.
See that sort of swirled clump of dried grass behind the green clump in the middle of the picture? Is that some sort of nest as well, or just an accident of nature?
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Post by htmb on Jan 1, 2013 23:53:22 GMT
I was taking photos of my sinkhole and trying to zero in on the reflection of the water at sunset. I kept noticing the water moving just a little, but was too far away to tell the cause. If you look in the upper-left side of this photo you should be able to make out two pair of eyes. I believe they belong to a couple of raccoons. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 2, 2013 2:44:04 GMT
unh-hunh. Nice photo, though! I took of Htmb tidying up before taking pictures of the sinkhole. |
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Post by htmb on Jan 2, 2013 2:59:22 GMT
LOL, bixa! Too funny. But they really are there. The face on the left is especially visible; the one on the right is showing more of one eye, rather than two. I saw more with my "naked" eye, than I did through my camera lens (spare us the naked cartoons, please ) I also have a coupe of photos of them swimming. At first I thought they might be coyotes or otters, but they're too small. |
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Post by Kimby on Jan 4, 2013 16:54:10 GMT
See that sort of swirled clump of dried grass behind the green clump in the middle of the picture? Is that some sort of nest as well, or just an accident of nature? The gravel strip is a driveway that is about 12 feet wide, so that "nest" would be for something about the size of an eagle! I think that is a skeleton of one of last year's bushy weeds. |
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Post by lugg on Jan 5, 2013 8:16:33 GMT
Great photos K2 , kimby and htmb.
I cannot see the racoons either but as I cannot bring to mind how they look- that is not surprising at all.
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Post by lugg on Apr 30, 2013 19:40:46 GMT
I nearly missed this Snowflake Moray as I swam by - ( head almost central in photo, tail end jutting out from the rock left upper third)  Here is a close up of its head  Head and body  |
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