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a bee (what else 😂), for a change in a different environment. no flowers...
Olympus E-M1 Mark II + Olympus 60mm F2.8 Macro
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I got a better look at this female scarlet tanager today with brighter light. Notice her heavy-duty bill, built for biting into beetles, caterpillars, spiders and even ripe fruits like apples. With luck, she will be nesting in the local neighborhood.
I passed a strange day on Wirral peninsula with weather going through basically three stations: rain, storm, sunshine, biting cold, everything. Here an instance of the sunny period :)
Happy late Textural Tuesday! (been out at the shore all day long)
Tatoosh Mountains, Mount Rainier National Park, Washingon
The winds of winter
sweep across the empty places
and scour the deserted hills
to leave no vestige of seasons past
Through this flows a stream
not yet succumbed to winter’s sleep,
undeterred by cold or gusty howl,
it speaks with an eternal voice
With fresh snow in the mountains and the irresistible call of a clear and sunny day after two weeks of stormy weather, I decided to head up to Mount Rainer National Park for a winter hike. The east side of the Park, where I often hike, is now closed for the winter so I went up to the Paradise area on the west side.
The morning fog that had settled in the valleys overnight was lifting during the drive up, so when I arrived at the Park the sun was shining and the skies were a clear and brilliant blue. There was however, an unexpectedly strong wind blowing, and I was greeted by a biting cold when I stepped out of my car. Fortunately once I started hiking, the topography of the area provided some respite from the worst of the wind. At least until I climbed up to a ridge and cleared the tree line into a more open area. Up there, it was at times gusting so hard that I had to plant my hiking poles in the snow to brace myself as I felt like the wind might blow me over!
In between the mighty gusts though, the views were spectacular. The trail was covered with snow and ice, but the early winter snow depths were not yet enough to completely bury the vegetation, nor to quell this determined stream that still flowed through the frozen landscape above the Edith Creek Basin.
Their stripes perhaps serve to dazzle and confuse predators and biting insects, or to control the animal's body heat. Because each individual's stripes are unique, their stripes may also have a social purpose, helping zebras to recognise one other.
cuz there's so much I want to say ...Remember.... Silent, and Listen, are spelled with the same letters....
A bull elk uses his antlers to scratch and drive off biting flies on a warm day in Estes Park, Colorado. The bull and his harem retreated into Lake Estes to cool off, but the flies continued to plague them. If you look closely, you can see a few of the flies on his upper leg and rump.
This shot was taken on the first day of our fifth trip during 2022. It has become an annual tradition to visit Rocky Mountain National Park for the elk rut.
Mossy Stonecrop (Sedum acre)
Crassulaceae - Crassulacées
Common Names: Goldmoss Stonecrop, Wallpepper, mossy stonecrop, goldmoss sedum, biting stonecrop, hen-and-chickens, stonecrop, yellow stonecrop, Autumn Joy, Autumn Stonecrop
Noms communs: L'Orpin âcre (Sedum acre) Orpin brûlant, Poivre des murailles, Poivre de muraille, vermiculaire âcre,
petite jourbarbe.
"Open up and cast up to me your fish and glittering crabs! With my best bait I shall today bait the queerest human fish. My happiness itself I cast out far and wide, between sunrise, noon, and sunset, to see if many human fish might not learn to wriggle and wiggle from my happiness until, biting at my sharp hidden hooks, they must come up to my height- the most colorful abysmal groundlings, to the most sarcastic of all who fish for men. For that is what I am through and through: reeling, in raising up, raising, a raiser, cultivator, and disciplinarian, who once counseled himself, not for nothing: Become who you are!"
In general, Vaska is indifferent to shoes (unlike our previous cats). But one of our guests wore knitted slippers, to which Vaska was clearly interested :-) HAPPY CATURDAY!
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Poor little deer is being bitten by a horsefly. They keep biting until they draw blood (on his forehead).
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Great blue heron in action ... biting off maybe more than it can swallow ... at the Blackwater Refuge in Maryland.
Taken with a 50mm Voigtlander Nokton f/1 at f/8. I have yet to get anything in biting sharp focus with this lens. Which is OK at f/1, by f/8 I would like to see it do a little better. Before I blame the lens I'm making sure it isn't me.
BugGuide identified this as a non-biting Midge. I hadn't seen one before but that's just me ;) I find it quite interesting that it has interesting mouth-parts, like two little arms with which I believe it uses to hold it's food while it eats it. It also has these very interesting and quite fuzzy antenna. Cute for a bug - in my opinion and ever better when it's a bug that doesn't bite me!
Taken 29 May 2023 in my yard near Wasilla, Alaska.
With at the time, a bold forecast of heavy grain traffic in Canada, the decision was made to bring in reinforcements, i.e., pull power out of storage, which meant all but about half a dozen 8-40CM's were reactivated. BCOL 4604 was one of the chosen ones as it was pulled out of Homewood and put back in service. While the grain was not as heavy as expected, there has been an upturn in traffic recently that seems to have justified the revival. While it was not on grain when I saw it, it was leading the hottest eastbound train on the CN Flint Sub, Q148. With temps in the teens and winds comparable, the cold was definitely biting at my hands while the stack train flew by, but seeing a barn back from the brink, is definitely worth the cold fingers.
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A biting –19°C winter day in Hjerdalen, where the sun pushes through frost‑laden birch trees and turns the deep cold into something strangely warm. Soft shadows stretch across untouched snow, and every branch glows like it’s holding its own quiet ember. A perfect moment from the slopes above Sollia, captured in the golden calm of a Telemark winter.
Fun fact: In very cold and dry air—typically below –15°C—sunlight often creates stronger golden hues because tiny ice crystals scatter and reflect light more efficiently, giving winter scenes a surprisingly warm color palette.
Fall is the perfect time at the cottage: the biting bugs and noisy summer folk are gone, allowing for stress-free enjoyment of nature
THIS IS TWO PICTURES I PUT TOGETHER SIDE BY SIDE OF THE SAME CUB BITING THE ELECTRIC WIRE AND RIGHT AFTER HAVING DONE SO. (I know sometimes people don't like to read a long narrative.)
Some lessons have to be learned the hard way. Like in this instance where this cub decided to explore the post and electric wire that surrounds the inflatable jet boat we use to go up and down the river every day.
And as is obvious, this is exactly why there is hot wire around the boat. I'm sure you can imagine what curious and playful bears could do to an inflatable boat, LOL.
So we were standing out in front of our meal hut as a sow and her 3 cubs came up river towards us. Mom was in the water just slowly looking for salmon and her other 2 cubs were off to the right, out of the frame doing what cubs do, just exploring and doing cub business.
So this little guy decides to check out the post and wire as Tim, Dana and I just watched him with slight amusement saying "OK, don't do it little buddy, don't do it."
But as soon as those words came out of our mouths, you got it, he did it.
He bit the wire and then of course got zapped.
I decided to put these two pictures side by side together like this because most of the time no one really looks at the picture when I put one in the first comment box below. So I did it this way instead.
Tim, Dana and I were laughing pretty hard at this poor little guy's expense but you can be sure he won't be doing this again.
There are some things mamas can't teach their babies and they have to learn on their own, the hard way.
no bears were harmed in the making of this photo
More than a week ago I got a lot of bites that made me very itchy, could this kind of insect be the culprit?
I need to find a good remedy for this...