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Some better shots this morning of the same little bird seen yesterday and posted earlier. I think its a Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus). At first I thought it was a bit small for a Thrush!
Galinsoga quadriradiata -
Thank you martinsanford for onece again helping me with the name of a flower!
by the rivulet in our backyard in Shutesbury, MA
from Wikipedia
"Equisetum is the only living genus in the Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds. They are commonly known as horsetails.
Equisetum is a "living fossil," as it is the only known genus of the entire class Equisetopsida, which for over one hundred million years was very diverse and dominated the understory of late Paleozoic forests. Some Equisetopsida were large trees reaching to 30 meters tall"
(littleboyatmillerlake)
This photo was probably taken from 1915 to 1940 or so. I suspect that this boy may be a distant cousin of mine, but I am not sure. Can anyone identify where this Miller's Lake place was, and who the little boy might be? Please show your grandparents, or parents or even great grandparents, and see if they remember it. I'm thinking now it may have been 1930s or 1940s. anyjazz65 has pointed out there is a water tower. Thanks.
Oklahoma or Colorado might be good starting points......
"U" is for Unknown Identity of Child and of Location?
Delaware County Indiana Farm
The Fallow Deer (Dama dama) is a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae.
The male is a buck, the female is a doe, and the young a fawn. Bucks are 140-160 cm long and 90-100 cm shoulder height, and 60-85 kg in weight; does are 130-150 cm long and 75-85 cm shoulder height, and 30-50 kg in weight. Fawns are born in spring at about 30 cm and weigh around 4.5 kg. The life span is around 12-16 years. All of the Fallow deer have white spots on their backs, and black tips at the ends of their tails.
The species has great variations in colour, with four main variants, "common", "menil", "melanistic" and "white" - a genuine colour variety and not a true albinistic which is extremely rare.[2] The common form has a brown coat with white mottles that are most pronounced in summer with a much darker coat in the winter. The white is the lightest coloured, almost white; common and menil are darker, and melanistic is very dark, even black (easily confused with the Sika Deer). Most herds consist of the common form but have menil form and melanistic form animals amongst them (the three groups do not stay separate and interbreed readily).
Only bucks have antlers, these are broad and shovel-shaped. They are grazing animals; their preferred habitat is mixed woodland and open grassland. During the rut bucks will spread out and females move between them, at this time of year fallow deer are relatively ungrouped compared to the rest of the year when they try to stay together in groups of up to 150.
These are a few of the different butterflies over the past couple of days. Couldn't find an ID yet on this skipper, but will keep trying. I've ruled out what it isn't. LOL. Thanks, Janet, for the ID, and it does look like the female Zabulon skipper.
Below are the Eastern Comma, Northern Pearly Eye, and the male Spicebush Swallowtail butterflies.
whatever you do, don't shake, don't stir this pretty one. She might give you the evil glare for mistaking her as a drink, and fly off without warning.
This unusual gecko was about 5 inches long and had rusty-red splots all across his grayish body. His tail was likewise patterened, and his eyes were golden-gray with a black pupil. He was right there at the cave enterance and was rather skittish.
The facial structure crosses out the comparatively-smaller wood gecko, as do the stark markings. The closest thing I could find was the indigenous wood slave gecko (Aristelliger praesignis praesignis). But it doesn't quite fit. Wood slave geckos have different markings as adults, and the texture of their skin is very different. In addition, wood slaves (also called house geckos), have golden irises and pupils.
I'm going to send emails to the Cayman Wildlife Connection site and see if I can't get an ID. In the meantime, I'm stumped.
UPDATE: The Cayman Wildlife Connection AND the National Trust both agree that this is indeed an unidentified new species. Thus, I am the only human being on Planet Earth to have ever photographed this gecko. I am stoked. :D
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Visiting a mushroom habitat again today...one that I could not ID last week...after a fair amount of recent rain...I see more. Yesterday's double is currently undergoing the spore test...slowly... the old print was a pale tan..
Today, nearby specimens looked definitely mauve in colour...see below. !!
IDPlease...( and there is a link below to what I posted last week: )
I'm sending this to the ID Please group in hopes that someone will know where this '06 (1906) rock or boulder is, Norman, Tulsa, or Oklahoma City, Oklahoma??? or some other college campus in Oklahoma?
Digital shot I took of a picture in an album. It is my mother and her brother Jim at the '06 Rock. I believe the '06 Rock was in Norman, Oklahoma at a college or university, but it may have been one in Oklahoma City or even Tulsa. Can someone tell me? Picture probably taken by my great grandfather in about 1921. Until I get a good scan of it, this is what I have to work with. I rotated it 1 degree more to make it nicer. I adjusted some bright and contrast. I removed a spot from my Mom's dress, touched up the edges, and made the white ink writing that says, "when we were young" more legible and white. I think I got a good start on it, but if someone wants to try their hand at it, it is fine with me. Oh, I also removed the two white things that looked like spitwads on each side of picture.
I came across this insect on the old railway line near Kirk Michael in the Isle of Man. It has been identified as a Short-Tailed Ichneumon wasp in the genus Ophion.
For more info somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/12/03/large-brown-cra...
Thanks to Sandi of www.flickr.com/groups/wilduk/, for the link and ID, and also speech path girl of www.flickr.com/groups/idplease/, for the ID.
You didn't really think I could go all week without a bug or critter pic, did you? I found this unusual creature yesterday wandering around a cone flower. Tiny little thing (ant size, but with a rounder belly).
I notice the littlest things, ask anyone in my family. With all the pollen bits and pieces showering our yard and vehicles, I'm surprised I noticed this bug at all, much less for long enough to realize it was a bug and not a bit of leaf. The bug is smaller than the tip of a pencil eraser in diameter. I did my best, as I was in a hurry to get to work, and I do think this bug is spendidly interesting. I'm glad I saw it and captured it as best I could on the fly, pun intended, LOL!
Do tell if you think you know what kind of bug this is...and thank you!
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No I am telling a lie...but it's not in my book...after a careful look ( too small to be Vermillion Waxcap) so I am naming it in honour of today.
I deserve to walk the plank for this out-of-focus shot...but it is much better than one I took a few days ago...it seems my camera lens is not happy to focus on red in this type of surroundings ( and a tripod would have helped I suppose).
A real IDPlease would be appreciated !!
Note...We will soon be away for a while ..in Quebec ...to see fall colour and an art festival... comments will vanish shortly... I will have no access to a computer . I'll catch up eventually...!
Seen in our local woods, growing on a path covered with wood chips...and I could not find this unique little mushroom in my book. I did not do a spore print ( might have time today )...it looks to me like the gills quickly curl up and form a border as the cap unfurls. I think this is not a long-lived 'shroom...and I will try to see this again today, before others walk on this path and tread over the whole collection. IDPlease-help will be greatly appreciated !
SW Ontario, near Lake Huron...mixed woodlands.....IDPlease needed for the first two, if possible.
For a couple of days I have seen this neat little polka-dotted butterfly ( less than 1" or i.5 cm)...and today i was able to shoot the fast moving little creature....
and yesterday I saw this glittering -winged insect at the garden we visited ...and it too was quick...and did not sit still for a proper portrait.
The third is a Wood Satyr...common enough around here...inconspicuous...but very beautiful when it sits still...and it wiil...if you are lucky !
What we have here is Little Red Riding Hood's Christmas Tree. Clearly it is an Evergreen, but what kind? I tend to think everything evergreen in Oregon is a Douglas Fir. Of course, that is not true.
This tree is in Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon USA in what is called the Willamette Valley. Someone has suggested Deodar Cedar, but it doesn't have the customary crook at the top that they have. Someone else said Spruce.
I really did drive back to this location and try to get a closer picture than the one in my little story about LRRH, but my driver's side window will not open. So, I shot the picture from my driver's seat through the open passenger window, and completely forgot about the cold morning exhaust. I'm going to post this here as its own entry, and then also as a small version on my actual story about Little Red Riding Hood. Thank-you.
It has been identified as a Grand Fir (Abies Grandis).
(IMG_7508-LRRHsTreeSpruce-Fir-or whateqlrot8)
Look closely - you'll see me :-) We met this little guy on Cannon Beach and he was quite up for a photo shoot until he was nudged in the butt by a shovel. Then he was a moving target that I just couldn't keep up with! All told I think his body was about 2" across and he was about 3.5" total. And boy could he move!
This tree is growing in Western Oregon, specifically the Willamette Valley on the southern outskirts of Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon USA. There are 5 other pictures showing various parts of it, posted right before this one; so six altogether. (DSCN0033Hugetree63-80feetwhatkindinit)
Depending on height of shed and fence, it may be 60 to 82 feet high. There are 5 or so more photos next to this one in my photostream, but I didn't want to post all of them here in the ID Please group and inundate the people who do the identifications. I also took a close up of the trunk, the sort of flowery (seed?) hanging down and the leaves, all to hopefully help identify. I gave the location. I wasn't expecting anyone to take one look at a tall tree from a distance and be able to identify it. I'm hoping someone from the ID Please (group) can tell me what it is.
Would you rather I go ahead and post each individual picture, or is it possible someone could just look next to this one in my photostream? Thank-you.
Whatever it is, I think the grace and curvature of these branches is very pretty, and I like the way the light sort of glows through the foliage.
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New birds today! They are not the Killdeers I have seen here in the past. I looked up Plovers & Sandpipers but not sure. I am sure though that my Flickr friends will know! : )
Sorry about the images being so poor but they are heavily cropped.
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I got this welt three days before this photo was taken; it was very sore at first, now it's not so sore but the red dots appeared around it.
Does anyone know what this could be?
I am in the Santa Cruz mountains of California.
a habitat shot...I could see at least 4 varieties of fungi in this immediate area. The ground was covered by Herb Robert....looking like second growth plants, as they are small and do not appear to have bloomed.
My computer is back; NO problems, not even any charge, we just had it hooked up wrong... (Embarrassed "phew!!!) :)
My BFF told me it was and I'm quite sure it is....but then I looked in google and could not find one that looked exactly like it. I know they evolve for climates. I know for sure it's a dandelion species. If anyone disagrees let me know...just for posterity.
Two massive plants I do not know....developing flower buds.. Each more than one metre, or yard , in diameter. You can be sure I will be watching them !
A lovely fungus...easy to ID...not so sure about the rest...and no specimens taken home for spore prints... so I don't have enough info for ID...and I am in a rush at the moment !!!
I'd appreciate any expert help ...thank you !!!!
We found two of these creatures on the sand at Antechamber Bay, Kangaroo Island, as shown on the map.
They were stranded at the high tide mark, several metres above the then low tide, within 25 metres of the rocky outcrop at the Northern point of the Bay.
Not knowing whether they were free swimming creatures or burrowers of some kind we left the one which was still alive where it was.
Thinking one was dead, and not having good enough light to photograph it in situ, I took one back to the house.
The following morning, as I moved it into good light I realised there was some slight response to my touch and so placed it on a flat surface and sprinkled some (fresh) water onto it. I hadn't thought to take some sea water.
These first four photos are the result.
We put a thin layer of water onto a plate and watched, astonished as it began to move quite purposefully from the centre of the plate to the outside edge and then over the edge, lifting (what we assumed to be) its "head" end and turning definitely left (away from the sunlight) and and then slightly towards the sunlight, before proceeding down over the edge of the plate onto the timber table.
We returned it to the plate and after some minutes it expelled a dark liquid which shot about 15 - 20 cms from its body and fell past the ledge of the table and in spots onto the floor.
We added a little more water and it expelled two more "bursts" of the dark brown liquid into the water.
After taking a series of pictures at very quick intervals (which make a staccato "movie" of its movements as described) we took it back to the beach.
We had a copy of Dakin's Seashores of Australia (details later) which made us think it a sea cucumber and likely to try to burrow near the rocks, so that's where we returned it
a challenge to get these photos...dark and buggy in the woods...and my little tripod not enough for sharp shots ( and the white fungus up too high to reach...)
Flash used on the cup( peziza variety...not sure which one..) and I am wondering about the little spotty ones beside it...a slime mould ??? ID Please will be appreciated...
Also for the white fungus, another slime mould, I think.... but I need IDPlease...and thank you !
A flower from the "Hymenocallis" family .. identified by the ID Please group . I've seen these in Australia, too but those were planted in a perch in Sydney ..
This light pole in Seattle at the corner of 9th and Stewart has some fancy technology attached to it. I wonder if anyone knows what it is.
Note: The answer is in the notes above. (12/17/2005)
Listen to the worst song ever ever ever !!
was out to look for a song about batdogs or batman and this came up.
Djeeeeezus. Hold on to your chair : )
www.radioblogclub.com/open/93207/bat/Bat Boy - Hold Me Bat Boy
yesterday's insect on my garage door... I would appreciate help with the species ID Please !
Today I went with friends to walk again on the Bruce Trail, at Skinner's Bluff , near Wiarton. The views were wonderful....and I was happy to see this little green tree frog, below....commonly heard, but rarely seen .
I also saw a lot of fungi.... but i will have to spend some time with my book before I post any more photos....
I will likely return to photos form our trip tomorrow.
Thursday in the sand dunes....I'd love to know this mushroom ( with a brown spore print...slow to develop....) IDPlease would be appreciated !
Shot in the dark (well, just after sunset) this giant sculpture in the park of the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall commanded my attention. A fruitless search online for the name and artist, so I hope someone will be able to point me the ID so I may credit it. For now, it is one of my "art of art" images, a striking and iconic image. To find this one, look just to the north of the Scottsdale Center for Performing Arts and immediately south of several restaurants at the west end of the park.
Two varieties of caterpillars on this Joe PYe Weed.....growing beside a small pond area on Lake Huron, SW Ontario. ID Please would be greatly appreciated.
Dahlia or zinnia?
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I think the first type is a bracket fungus...looking pretty much like Tyromyces chioneus...according to my Barron book...but I am NOT sure....and the second type...looks like one of the sac fungi...and not like anything in my book. I I poked it see how it was attached to the dead wood,...and found it full of dark grey dust...and hairy things.......
If YOU know what either of these are... I'd be thrilled to know...Thank you !!!
quite a lot of intense colour on my walk this afternoon...though no sunshine.... this snail was the first surprise....