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Over lockdown trying to do haircuts and other grooming has been a feature. How well it is completed is a whole other thing! I have documented some of my items, enjoy.
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This is the flicker from the photo yesterday before she flew over to the tree. Almost didn't post cause it's a bit too noisy, but I don't know when or if I'll ever get to see this happen again.
"The thing about repairing, maintaining and cleaning is: it's not an adventure. There's no way to do it so wrong you might die."
Tell that to a tree kangaroo trying to scratch its tail.
A spectacular and iconic cloud forest bird of northwestern Ecuador and western Colombia. Note gray throat, red breast and belly, black cap, thick white stripe behind eye, and stout, yellow bill tipped with black. Nothing remotely similar occurs in range. Usually found in pairs in the forest canopy, often with mixed-species flocks. Eats large insects as well as fruit.
This grooming couple was photographed in Colombia guided by Neotropic Photo Tours.
My guide was enjoying a fine brew of Colombian coffee during this all too brief encounter; I heard it was very good cup of coffee; one for the ages!
Falling back on the ol' archives as the bayou has been a distant memory, but I remember this gang quite well!! Some of my winter time visitors on the bayou that allowed me to get fairly close!! American White Pelicans on Horsepen Bayou!
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This long horned Locust Borer Beetle (Megacyllene robiniae) is grooming itself on a blooming yellow goldenrod plant (Solidago)
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Locust Borer Longhorn Beetle – 2020OCT02 – Charlotte, NC
I went to harvest goldenrod for goldenrod tea, finding in the bountiful blossoms a breathtaking bonus: a beauteous beetle!
Spectacular arrays of brilliant yellow flowers attract throngs of insects intent on collecting and consuming the nutritious large and rather sticky pollen from myriads of small flowers on each plant, a magnet for late summer and early autumn insects, this wasp-striped longhorn beetle among the most eye-catching, especially important to it as a mimic (Batesian mimicry, something harmless imitating something dangerous): looks like a bee or a wasp but cannot sting.
Many insects, like this locust borer, try very hard to imitate bees (called bee mimics) and wasps, and do a surprisingly good job of it!
Hope you enjoy this 25% of 213 captures I took here this day!
Another shot of my raccoon visitor looking quite comical as it was grooming its tail. The same raccoon climbed the chestnut tree for a snooze last Wednesday and it obviously had such a restful time that it came back again on Saturday morning. This time I caught it having a bit of grooming session before it went back to sleep for the day. A few times it was actually upside down and I was worried it might fall out of the crow's nest and tree as it was at least 35 feet up. But all was well as I think this raccoon has most likely done this before!
I came across this story about a man in Nova Scotia who might have too many raccoon friends!
www.boredpanda.com/raccoons-hot-dogs-james-blackwood-nova...