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A pair of Steel-blue Cricket Hunter Wasps circled my yard for several days. The only place they would stop was on the orange flowers of the Butterfly Weed.
They strongly resemble Blue Mud Dauber Wasps, which have a longer pedicel (the "stalk" that connects their thorax to their abdomen).
Butterfly Weed is a native plant species, and my favorite Michigan wildflower. Ironically, I have never seen a butterfly land on the flowers, although it does attract a variety of wasps and hornets.
Listening to Carole King today… another old Rocker that’s made beautiful music for a number of years.
Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who has been active since 1958. King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the record for most weeks at No. 1 by a female artist for more than 20 years.
Her record sales were estimated at more than 75 million copies worldwide. She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She has been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a performer and songwriter.
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The Hooded Merganser:
Spotted this Female Hooded Merganser Strutting Her Stuff after finishing a breakfast of Frog Legs alfresco. The legs were still attached to the frog, so it took her awhile to dine, but she seems to have had a Happy Ending : )
Hooded Mergansers are fairly common on small ponds and rivers, where they dive for fish, crayfish, and other food, seizing it in their thin, serrated bills. They find their prey underwater by sight. They can actually change the refractive properties of their eyes to improve their underwater vision. In addition, they have an extra eyelid, called a “nictitating membrane,” which is transparent and helps protect the eye during swimming, like a pair of goggles.
Hooded Merganser ducklings leave their nest cavity within 24 hours of hatching. First, their mother checks the area around the nest and calls to the nestlings from ground level. From inside the nest, the little fluffballs scramble up to the entrance hole and then flutter to the ground, which may be 50 feet or more below them. In some cases, they have to walk half a mile or more with their mother to the nearest body of water.
The oldest recorded Hooded Merganser was a male and at least 14 years, 6 months old when he was shot in Mississippi in 2009. He had been banded in Minnesota in 1995.
(Sony, 200-600 @ 600 mm, 1/400 @ f/6.3, ISO 5000, edited to taste)
Hi there,
I recently spotted this pair of dahlias at a local park. What caught my attention were the subtle colour variations within the petals.
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Usually in winter, I photograph birds outside, but the kowhai tree flowering last spring was incredible... and the best view is from inside, where it's elevated and I can photograph straight into the tree. So I spent some time photographing through double glazing! Not my favourite glass... but... the glimpse into birdworld was too strong to resist :-)
Silvereyes are very communal birds, often visiting in small family groups and pairs. Some preening pairs are family, some couples, and some just dating ;-) If one preens too roughly the moment is soon over!
I glimpsed this pair through my lcd quite far back in the tree... I didn't see them at all with my bare eyes. They were there maybe only a minute, but seeing minutes like these makes a lot of happiness :-)
Here's to the world beyond the window...
and to moments of joy 🌼
whether quiet or aloud
my thanks for being here
on the other side of the glass!! :-)
A macro shot of the two main components that make up a pair of pliers.
The two halves of the pliers were put in clamps to hold their alignment and positioned over my black background. Lighting was adjusted to provide a reasonable even illumination and two focus layers were made, one on the machined surface and the other on the cast surface. The two focus layers were aligned and processed in PS. The parts measure 2.25 inches or about 2.5 inches as shown.
Macro Mondays group
Theme: Pair
Nikon 55mm f/2.8 NIKKOR Micro
This pair of Northern Shovelers were seen at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Florida.
The green-headed drake leads in this picture.
I went to the Sandhill Crane Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska and was pleasantly surprised. I was expecting four days of rain but we had two nice afternoons of some sunshine otherwise it would have been disappointing for photograhy! One of the rainy evenings I was thrilled to see hundreds if not more than a thousand cranes arrive to Creamer's Field in Fairbanks. Here I've captured two cranes coming in to one of the fields to eat and rest for a bit on their migration south.
Taken 25 August 2018 at Creamer's Field, Fairbanks, Alaska.
This Bald Eagle pair (Male-upper left, Female-lower right) share a bough and bask in the early morning sunshine.
This pair of Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) posed very nicely at the viewing platform of Bonaventure Island over the coast near Perce, Quebec, Canada.
9 June, 2012.
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A pair of blue-winged teals (Anas discors, Anatidae) zoom by as they do over last year's brown cattails in the marsh.
Uihlein Waterfowl Production Area
Leopold Wetland Management District
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Winnebago County, Wisconsin
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Taken through the window. Greenfinches have been absent from our garden for many years so it was nice to see this pair enjoying the sunflower seeds I put out.
Fullerton Arboretum
This image took one hour waiting for this moment. The temperature was high and these butterflies are fast. I got lucky to capture two in one image.
This pair is well practiced in flying in formation. It's hard to see from this photo but they were inches apart and perfectly synchronized in their wing movement. Beautiful to watch.
A pair of Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata) resting in the shallows of a wetland on the prairie landscape east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
17 May, 2018.
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Mottled Ducks are quite common in Florida. They sometimes breed with Mallards and hybrids form, much to the consternation of my biologist friend who is interested in preserving the Florida line. Here is a mated pair in flight. You can tell the male is in the foreground by his brighter yellow bill. The female's bill is more orange and duller.
I just looked up the Latin name and I'm almost jealous. How'd you like to be named "Anas fulvigula"? Not great: "Hey Anas, get a load of this!" Great: "Hey, Fulvigula, get a load of this!" :)
Rissa tridactyla
Bempton Cliffs
The Black-legged kittiwake, to give it its proper name, (Rissa tridactyla),Breed on cliffs in the summer months and spend the rest of their time at sea on the Atlantic.
The population is declining in some areas, partly due to a shortage of sandeels as a consequence of overfishing and climate change.
I did go looking for Wood Ducks on this day, but of course couldn't pass on this fast-cruising pair of Mandarins. They were in and out of shade, which sort of accounts for my ridiculous EXIF settings. These exotics, likely descended from caged escapees, show up during our SoCal winters. As you can see, the female looks a lot like a female wood duck, and they were mixed in with the wood ducks I was hoping to find.