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Charlie plays peek-a-boo with me on my patio.

An abandoned car, engulfed by thick brush, sits in a coulee near Drumheller, Alberta.

The switching crew at the tiny Cobourg ON yard pops out from behind a cut of cars with rebuilt GP9 No. 4121, as a VIA LRC train holds the main in a scene from 26 March 1993.

Lotus flower seedpod

Shinobazu Lotus Pond

Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan

As usual :))

My tulips are starting to fade away.

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On my very first day there, this mum came along. What amazing sight!

One Mile Lake, Pemberton

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European Starling -

Peeking to see if there is any food under the bark. They will feed in trees where there is ripening fruit or large numbers of caterpillars. Foods eaten include seeds, insects, small vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, and fruits. The most common animals eaten by the Starling are centipedes, spiders, moths, and earthworms.

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close encounter with python

Common blue damselfly on a grass stem.

A Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)

Little one a curious feral cat who has adopted us.

Barred Owl, Abbotsford, B.C.

3 nosy calves wondering what I was up to with my camera. A game of peek a boo then followed :-)

Another masked marauder!

Explore, 2008-10-29, #450.

What can an astrophotographer do if the skies are cloudy?

There are several possibilities:

-Catch some sleep

-Have a drink with civilized friends that do not share his passion for all nighters in remote places

-Process old images that are buried in the abyss of your hard drive

-Go out shooting anyway and hope for a break in the clouds

While the last option might sound like the least alluring, its results can be very rewarding, if you are lucky enough to find that break in the clouds. If not, well… another lost night.

Here is an example from March. As the weather forecast was not entirely hopeless, I got out of my bed at midnight, drove 90 minutes into the mountains and snowshoed to the top of a hill for 30 minutes. I was rewarded with 2 minutes of partly clear skies and was able to capture this image.

What do you think; was it worth the effort?

EXIF

Canon EOS 6D, astro modified

Samyang 24mm f/1.4

8 x 10s @ISO 6400

Stacked for noise reduction

Prints available:

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1 of over 100 alligators at deep hole in Myakka River State Park.

Church peeking out of the trees by the lake at Lymm, Cheshire

Hooded Merganser drake trying to impress the ladies

There might be something coming out of it's home in the tree.

I'm not sure this meets the challenge of black and white with high contrast.

red belly woodpecker (m)

blackstone park

providence, ri

10/10/2020

A male cardinal plays peek a boo with me between the branches of a neighboring tree.

Thanks for posing with me Famous ^^

Pose: Peek-A-Boo

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This is the same little spotless lady bug, this time peeking out at me. I didn't think I had any other usable shots of her, but by golly, you CAN see a little face! I'm so glad bug season is here!

5 new additions and they are cute as can be.

The questions continue...

You might remember this little hole in a fence post at St Cyrus. A few weeks ago, I'd noticed a couple of male leafcutter bees on these posts, so on another visit I looked for nest holes in the posts, and was thrilled to find one occupied hole, but was then surprised to see that it was occupied not by a bee, but by a digger wasp (`Flick' back about 10 images in my stream). Since then, when I've been at St Cyrus, I've keenly looked in on the digger wasp as I passed; it was there every day I checked. Yesterday, after a break of about 6 days, I think, I was back and checked the post to find not the digger wasp but a cute bee in the same hole! Unfortunately I didn't have my camera, so this is a quick snap on my phone.

I'm curious about what's gone on here; could they both be using the same hole?; did the wasp move out naturally, and then the bee moved in?; did the bee evict the wasp?; is one a parasite?; are they both nesting?; was one or both using it as shelter?

I'm also not sure what type of bee this is. The leafcutters I saw (a few photos in my recent uploads) have now been kindly IDd by the expert Steven Falk, as one of the rarer leafcutters, the black-headed leafcutter bee (Megachile circumcincta). This could be a female (according to his book, they usually nest in sandy ground, but have also been reported to nest in wood), but that's a wild guess.

So much to learn :D

Here is a peek-a-boo shot through a sprawling tree beside Crum Elbow Creek as it winds through the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site in Hyde Park, NY, October 6, 2023. Even if you don't go for a tour through how the rich-and-famous lived in the 19th century, the grounds here are incredible. The bridge design is a common one that you will find on old carriage roads, such as in Acadia National Park, ME.