Stick Figures in Peril
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A Great Blue Heron flies away from the camera as it carries a stick for building its nest. I believe this is the same heron that I featured on Thursday as it came in for a landing at the nest-in-progress. I've placed that image in the first comment.
For Our Daily Challenge: Patterns, and for Cliche Saturday
HCS!
The Caspian Tern does an interesting landing. They sometimes drop from a high altitude and come down like this. The control their descent speed by the position of their wings. This image is a good display of exactly that.
I don't see these as much as I use to
Found predominantly in the tropics and subtropics stick insects thrive in forests and grasslands, where they feed on leaves. Mainly nocturnal creatures, they spend much of their day motionless, hidden under plants.
Many stick insects feign death to thwart predators, and some will shed the occasional limb to escape an enemy’s grasp. Others swipe at predators with their spine-covered legs, while one North American species, Anisomorpha buprestoides, emits a putrid-smelling fluid.
Little is known about stick insects, making it difficult to declare the vulnerability of their status in the wild. The pet trade presents a potential threat, along with the popular practice of framing their carcasses, like butterflies.
This is Bonnie catching the afternoon sun (not that we have seen much of that lately).The plastic toy in the shape of a bottle was brought into the garden by foxes.
Gentle Juno loves to play in the water , not easy taking a picture with one hand while Juno shakes the other with the stick :))
Vas'ka likes to play with a string attached to a stick. Previously, there was a toy kitten at the end of the lace, but Yashka tore it off.
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A Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus) that only has one leg, but he works hard and is constantly fetching sticks for his missus to stick in the next. It's great to see him coming and going.
The blue herons are back! On this day they were adding sticks to their nests and sitting on eggs.
My goal in bird photography is to get them doing something, rather than just a standing or perching portrait. This means sitting and waiting for something to happen. On this day my friend and I spent three hours watching this rookery. But, as things worked out, this image, my best of the day, was made in the first three minutes.
nesting herons
presenting and accepting a stick
high atop a pine tree
Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer
The morning was sunny and we spent some time in the garden again. Linus tried to dig out some plants but soon got bored. When looking for new mischief to get into he found a stick in the rock garden which kept him entertained for a while (I swear I heard a sigh of relief from the plants). This photo sums up the character of Linus pretty well, I think !
Macro Mondays ~ Superstition. A small section of a Sage smudge stick, used for burning to cleanse spaces.
Questo tema presentava numerose possibilità di scelta... questa è quella che è venuta in mente a me... un bastone di ghiaccio!
HappyMacroMonday a tutti!
This theme presented numerous possibilities of choice... this is what came to my mind... an ice stick!
HappyMacroMonday to everyone!
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