Opisthoncus sp. On Pōhutukawa, Metrosideros kermadecensis variegata.

A lovely painted specimen. I've not seen them in the garden before.

Cottesloe, Jan 2009.

UPDATE - Now that I think about it, this spider is more akin to the Biting Jumping Spider Opisthoncus mordax than the O. polyphemus-type species I get in the garden. Not sure if O. mordax occurs in WA though.

UPDATE - This species is likely not O. mordax as it shows particular differences in markings and colouration. Possibly Opisthoncus albiventris but I have yet to find a photograph of that species.

UPDATE - This species is most likely the male of O. polyphemus. Thanks to mj_stevo and his excellent photos in his photostream.

Is is Georgia O'Keefe's fault that we appreciate skeletal images ???

I think so !!

I was pleased to find these dry bones last night at sunset, beside the lake...a big bird I think....likely a goose... The light was fading quickly...and I resisted the urge to take the bones home....

*** later, as you see below, I am inclined to agree with viewers Pete and Noe,..this is more likely a heron...or a great egret, which are now nesting around here, over on Chantry Island...about 40 nests....

I'm pretty certain this is an American Redstart either a female but more likely a juvenile male in its first summer.

It seemed to be talking to Donna 3 feet away on this boardwalk at the Gros Morne National Park Visitors centre in Newfoundland.

It didn't look too healthy! It eventually fluttered away into the bush!

Taken at the pond by Lyme Hall. The most obvious answer is a female Tufted Duck but it was much larger than a "Tufty", more Mallard size I would say. Also not a juvenile as it had young of it's own. Any ideas gratefully received.

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I'm looking for some identification help on this spring wildflower plant. It was taken during a guided wildflower hike with Naturalist Matt Minter. He hadn't encountered this one in previous walks and said he would have to look into what it was. At one time, I also think I may have come across a photo like it on Flickr that would have helped me identify it, but that was too long ago. I should have posted this right away.

This photo was taken at Pike Lake State Park near Bainbridge, Ohio, USA on May 3, 2014. Any help is appreciated. Thank you!

I found these in our local woods yesterday...and the "berries" are very small...pinhead size.... I have never seen anything like these before...any ideas ??

Here's that cute little bird (from my previous post, a short video clip) drying off from its little dip. It's also ready to take another. I still do not know what kind of bird this is, but normally it sits quietly hidden in the trees. ID help would be appreciated. Even though it's a quiet little critter, it seems to get along well with the other birds. In the second shot, you can just notice a young cardinal sharing the branch. Awwwwww! [Please check out the little clip on the previous page for a little chuckle.]

but what are you little wild flower? Another little mystery in our wild flower plant trough.

With thanks to www.flickr.com/photos/10770266@N04/ we now know, it's Schizanthus Pinnatus. (poor mans orchid)

elegant...but short-lived.....

Little green cutie spotted on my photo walk last night. She's only 5mm across and super shy ☺️ I would love an ID for her 💚

On a prickly shrub

January, Perth, Western Australia (bushland)

...and I'd love to know the ID of the ones shown in the first trio of pics......I have found them in several places beside the lake...their feet in shallow water...hard to photograph because of seemingly constant high winds ( which is why I picked the ones in the first shot to shoot them out of the wind...)

The plants are all much less than a metre high..... less than three feet......

Many thanks as usual for any help !

seen a couple of weeks ago...I think it is a slime mould...but I don't see one like this in my book on mushrooms and fungi.... and I really don't know much about them.....

If anyone knows the name of this variety...I'd be very pleased !

LATER: Kindly identified for me by Joseba Castillo ( Spain) as:

Ustalina deusta.

Thankyou, Sr. Castillo

Wikipedia has lots of info....after noting that slime moulds are not really related to mushrooms and fungi ( but they ARE in my mushroom and fungi book)

Types of slime mold

Mycetozoa from Ernst Haeckel's 1904 Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms of Nature)

Most slime mold are smaller than a few centimeters, but the very largest reach areas of up to thirty square meters, making them the largest undivided cells known. Many have bright colors such as yellow, brown, and white.

Slime molds can generally be divided into two main groups. A cellular slime mold involves numerous individual cells attached to each other, forming one large membrane. This "supercell" is essentially a bag of cytoplasm containing thousands of individual nuclei. By contrast, plasmodial slime molds (Dictyosteliida) spend most of their lives as individual unicellular protists, but when a chemical signal is secreted, they assemble into a cluster that acts as one organism.

A common slime mold which forms tiny brown tufts on rotting logs is Stemonitis. Another form which lives in rotting logs and is often used in research is Physarum polycephalum. In logs it has the appearance of a slimy webwork of yellow threads, up to a few feet in size. Fuligo forms yellow crusts in mulch.

The Protostelids life cycle is very similar to the above descriptions, but are much smaller, the fruiting bodies only forming one to a few spores.

The Dictyosteliida, cellular slime molds, are distantly related to the plasmodial slime molds and have a very different life style. Their amoebae do not form huge coenocytes, and remain individual. They live in similar habitats and feed on microorganisms. When food runs out and they are ready to form sporangia, they do something radically different. They release signal molecules into their environment, by which they find each other and create swarms. These amoeba then join up into a tiny multicellular slug-like coordinated creature, which crawls to an open lit place and grows into a fruiting body. Some of the amoebae become spores to begin the next generation, but some of the amoebae sacrifice themselves to become a dead stalk, lifting the spores up into the air.

The Acrasidae, have a life style similar to Dictyostelids, but their amoebae behave differently and are of uncertain taxonomic position.

The Plasmodiophorids also form coenocytes but are internal parasites of plants (e.g., club root disease of cabbages).

Finally the Labyrinthulomycetes are marine and form labyrinthine networks of tubes in which amoebae without pseudopods can travel.

Flooded field in Geneva, Indiana

This is not an artistic shot by any means. I'm trying to get it identified. It is very unique!...little wrap around blooms stacked in the brightest true yellow. Growing along the edge of a fence on a mound...it was very hard to get to with all the recent rains and mud around it! So if any one from Texas or the Southwest knows what it is PLEASE let me know...it's driving me mad not knowing! Please don't fave or even comment...I'm 2 days behind because things have been keeping too busy around here to flickr....thank you! But I'll be online for a little while....

Sunflower Cottage

Winchester, Indiana

Echinacea/coneflower?

ID Please

East-Central Indiana

October

ID PLEASE! I've had to put it in my "flies and other insects" album ... :o))

This was a strange little insect that seemed to blend in with flowers in the last stages. The mix of browns and greens made for perfect camo, and hard for me to focus. I'm hoping ozymiles or another fellow flickrite will know the id. Thanks to Mr & Mrs Apteryx for the ID-Jagged Ambush Bug of the assassin bug family.

Jim says the bug reminds him of the old '61 monster flick, "Gorgo". The baby creature was captured and taken to a zoo, until mama came back to reclaim her young. That took Jim off on a memory tangent of all the old monster flicks, and how they compared. I was barely awake, and it distracted me from getting my morning upload on flickr. Go figure.

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Angel hair is an ice formation caused when water soaked branches are warmed during the daytime so that they release steam that is frozen in the overnight lower temperatures. It looks like thin white hair and can be as long as 4 to 6 inches in length.

www.smhi.se/content/1/c6/02/33/74/attatchments/s19_dec06.pdf

det är ett fenomen som kallas håris! Håris bildas när vatten tränger ut ur vattenindränkta trästycken (oftast bokegrenar enligt min erfarenhet, som i detta fall också) vid temperaturer strax under noll grader. Träbiten får alltså inte vara frusen medan den omgivande luftens temperatur ska ligga strax under noll. Vatten som tränger ut ur träet genom små porer kan då frysa och växa till inifrån så att stråna blir längre och längre. Det är då inte helt rent regnvatten utan det innehåller lite ämnen, eventuellt från bakterien Pseudomonas syringae, från det ruttnande träet som påverkar isstrukturen.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_ice

*American Rubyspot( Hetaerina americana) - thanks go to Kaylee Skylyn for finding the names and link in www.bugguide.net*

These seem to be common around the rivers here in western Panama (;~)>

New arrival today. Eastern phoebe (Sayornis phoebe). A type of tyrant flycatcher. It feeds on insects, fruits and berries. It was in my book but not a very good photo.

Fayetteville, Georgia USA

Thanks to Bárbol for the identification!

first , a lovely ...rather large bug...on a fresh fungus ( Ganoderma lucidum) ...I need ID Please...as usual...and then several shrubby plants with bright red double berries..IDPlease...then , another tiny bug, on a

daisy fleabane and then a large fresh Ganoderma lucidum...shining and beautiful.... !( This fungus was at least 14" across...nearly 40 cm....)

found in Ga, USA. Zone 7. Plant was about 4 ft tall and VERY thorny.

These beautiful little flowers were blooming, or maybe they are just weeds, but they were pretty to my eyes so I thought I would share with you. I love the green part of the flower more than anything. Something about that part that always catches my eye!

Hope everyone is having a fantastic week. Hugs to all!

Large: farm3.static.flickr.com/2366/2572965614_b956d2295d_b.jpg

Thank you Bárbol for helping me with the name of this green one.

Gracias Bárbol por ayudarme con el nombre de esta verde.

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I've gotten more than a few bee-in-cactus-flower photos over the last few years but I've never seen a bee that is black and white! Can anyone ID this insect? BTW, this flower is on the same prickly pear cactus that is pictured in two other photos on my stream this week.

This photo shows the cactus view about 5' above this flower and what the buds look like before they flower.

www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/2424974100/

It hitch hiked to the UK on a Dicksonia trunk not my pic

ID Please!

There were a lot of these jointed tubular weeds along the waterways, but not sure of an ID. This one was about knee height with this elaborate top, although many more were waist high and even taller.

Thanks for the ID: Rough Horsetail / Equisetum hyemale

Pleasanton, CA.

The Plain Prinia (Prinia inornata) is a small warbler in the Cisticolidae family.

@Buckeye, Thanks for helping in ID.

.......

Shot near river bank under evening sun.

Size : Sparrow+

warblers / babbler s...Anyone please id this one?

because Ginny and Musty like to eat it.

of course i say "No!"

Thanks to the IDPlease Group i know that this flower is is a Latana camara!

Dahlia or zinnia?

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See the light in others and treat them as if that's all you see.

Dr. Wayne Dyer

This little fellow turned up in our campsite at the Chain Lakes in Alberta. I think it's a ground squirrel, but I'm not sure. It looks similar to our chipmunks here in Ontario.

View On Black

It hitch hiked to the UK on a Dicksonia trunk not my pic

At first I thought this was Duncan Lake in Southern BC, but arti.fact believes it is the North end of the Arrows Lakes. We are looking roughly north on a flight path that passed over Kelowna en route to Vancouver.

Perhaps the original size (4288 x 2848 pixels) will help you identify it.

ID please?

Thanks to Lotus Johnson (ngawangchodron) for a tentative ID (see her comment below)

Thanks also to Jenn Forman Orth (urtica) for confirmation.

@Neighbor

Last week I spotted this bird in the garden, he was travelling with some longtailed tits and bluetits. I've never seen this one before and luckily I had time to grab my camera and get this shot. I know it's not a great photo but I'm hoping that someone can tell me what he is. As I am baffled.

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Atlanta GA USA

Crawled across the driveway and into the shade garden. It wasn't afraid of me. It wasn't even afraid of my wife! :-)

As for size, it was about 3 feet long. It is crawling across some hickory nuts.

Thanks to Speech Path Girl for the ID!!

Seen in the aquarium at Stevens Creek Toyota.

In the woods this morning..... the first is a bracket fungus, with a distinctly purple cast to the edges...and I don't see anything in my NE America/Canada Barron book on Fungi that looks like this...any help in ID would be greatly appreciated.

The second fungus is a Birch Polypore... Piptoporus betulinus which is commonly found (of course...) on dead birches...and I think it is programmed by the light/sun to grow horizontally to the ground., and thus at right angles to the tree trunk. I found this one today...on a downed tree...and the new fungus is still horizontal to the ground...but in line with the trunk.

Funny what interests a person... I found this VERY interesting. !

( maybe I should get out more....out of the woods !!! NO ! )

Thank you "*skipping*in*the*meadow*" for giving me an ID on this fungus!

This flower is growing in grassy clusters near a small pond next to my office in Westford, MA, USA. No idea what it is, but it is quite pretty.

EDIT: One of the kind members of the ID Please group identified this as Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium montanum).