Nice pictures
View allAll Photos Tagged Biting
European Goldfinch m. [Carduelis carduelis] on a beech tree in my garden.
It was a cold and windy morning in the garden, but the snow was just melting as the sun came out. Lots and lots of wee birdies flitting around the trees and the feeders.
Lovely to sit in the sun, out of the biting north wind, watching the comings and goings of goldies, robins, chaffinches, dunnocks, blue-, great-, and coal-tits.
In my garden,
South Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
🎼 “You’ve Got A Friend” - (Carole King) James Taylor
(cropped)
To have a plan B if my original plans don't work out. In this case the fish were not biting so this will have to do...
a bee (what else 😂), for a change in a different environment. no flowers...
Olympus E-M1 Mark II + Olympus 60mm F2.8 Macro
Thanks to everyone who stopped by to watch or leave a comment or award :)
All my photos are © All Rights Reserved. The pictures are for viewing, not to be downloaded and shared on any other site or for personal use without my explicit permission. And definitely do not post ads in my photos!!! Thank you! :)
- Witness The Emerging Spirit 1: 8, 2: 7
- Living Jewels of Nature: 19, Precious Living Jewels of Nature: 11, Members Choice : 20
- Nature in Focus 6A/8P
cuz there's so much I want to say ...Remember.... Silent, and Listen, are spelled with the same letters....
A male Red Crossbill at Bogus Basin near Boise, Idaho
"A fascinating finch of coniferous woodlands, the Red Crossbill forages on nutritious seeds in pine, hemlock, Douglas-fir, and spruce cones. Their specialized bills allow them to break into unopened cones, giving them an advantage over other finch species.
A crossbill's odd bill shape helps it get into tightly closed cones. A bird's biting muscles are stronger than the muscles used to open the bill, so the Red Crossbill places the tips of its slightly open bill under a cone scale and bites down. The crossed tips of the bill push the scale up, exposing the seed inside."
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.
LUCKY OPPORTUNITY to photograph one of these Slim and Savage predators, active by day and night, it relentlessly tracks down its prey by scent. It often kills prey more than twice its size, biting deeply into the neck.
Captured at Elmley Nature Reserve in Kent.
====================
THANK YOU for your visit and friendship. Please leave a comment, and I will try to do the same for your latest posting.
Keep safe and well, God bless
............Tomx
Well, this guy was either very clever or strangely confused....fishing for something...money? That other person’s cell phone? A compliment??? I never found out.
taken at Caumsett State Park...
Happy Fence Friday and wishing everyone a wonderful weekend!!
A fly mask is a piece of gear used on horses heads to cover the eyes, jaw, and sometimes the ears and muzzle to protect them from flies and other biting insects. Fly masks can also provide UV protection to the face and eyes of a horse and there are even fly masks that are treated with insect-repellents.
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!
Thank you all for visits, faves and comments - greatly appreciated!
(english follow)
Ce jour- là, je n’ai pas cherché à me protéger du vent sauvage et du froid mordant. J’ai trouvé refuge en moi, à cet endroit où prennent forme les sensations uniques qui définissent qui nous sommes et ce que nous « voyons » du monde. Ma caméra a fait le reste. (Patrice)
(note : Cette photo a été prise à moins de 100 mètres de ma maison….)
……………
That day, I did not try to protect myself from the wild wind and the biting cold; I found refuge in myself, in this place where are shaped the unique sensations that define who we are and how we "see" the world. My camera did the rest. (Patrice)
(note : This photo has been taken within 100 meters from my home....)
i'm coming alive
in places on my body where stinging and biting can thrive
on ears and necks the ointments will go
like butter on toast
lather here and fro
soon the itch will turn to a burn
and bugs will sizzle
in the frying pan of summer
so with a little drizzle
i'll take my skin to local burn center
and feel the sizzle
because in the end
the sun doesn't care what color you are
it only wants a little flavor on that meat
© Meljoe San Diego. All Rights Reserved. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, facebook or other media without my explicit permission.
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.
© All rights reserved Rosa Maria Marti. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
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...
This coastal brown bear yearling is rolling on the ground and chomping on its claws while giving a glance in my direction. Probably looking to see what's making that shutter sound as the cameras click away around me, capturing some endearing moments in the life this young cub. Momma bear was very close by during this.
Taken 5 June 2019 at Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.
Another scene from the Euryops daisy patch, where most of our action is now. At first glance, I thought I'd caught a mosquito, but something was missing...Seek indicated "non-biting midge", a different Dipteran for this Fly Day Friday. HFDF!
My 26 year old Green Wing Macaw. Huey is definitely not a name I would have chosen for her.
We got her when she was about a year old and she was already named. Then we had a DNA test done to find out her sex and it turned out she was female.
But she already knew her name so we just left it at that.
I am not an advocate for having these animals as pets or for people breeding them. In my opinion, they should remain in their natural habitats.
But Phil fell in love with her where she had lived for the first year of her life which was a local Grange Co-op here and he eventually talked me into us buying her and she became a part of our family.
She has it really good here with a very large outdoor aviary where she spends the majority of her time. She is pretty entertained seeing all kinds of wild birds and animals from her favorite vantage point in her aviary. Then I have various perches for her in different places so she can be with me and whomever else is around. But she seems to like her aviary the best.
Anyway, it would not be easy having a large parrot like this without the set up I have here for her and I would never advise anyone to have one of these birds as a pet. She will long outlive me and my oldest daughter will take over for her after I am gone.
She will likely outlive my oldest daughter, too, so my daughter knows that she will need to make arrangements for someone else to take her after my daughter is gone.
They are very smart and very social animals. Huey fortunately has always had a very good life here and has never fallen into some of the neurotic behaviors that some captive birds take on, like feather plucking, screaming or biting. She is always treated respectfully, given affection, fed well and treated like part of the family.
So many birds like this end up in rescue situations because their owners lose interest in them or get old and die or just can't care for them anymore. Or some just decide they no longer want the bird. I feel sad for those birds. They don't ask for that.
Most people don't really realize how long these birds live or how important a social environment is for them.
Anyway, long story. Sorry. you're a good contact if you read all the way to the end here :-)
I just came across this photo I took of her on one of her outdoor perches and decided to share with you.