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.
Gentle Juno loves to play in the water , not easy taking a picture with one hand while Juno shakes the other with the stick :))
A Snowy Owl makes a quick landing on its momentary perch...
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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.
This osprey was returning to its nest and hovered for a couple seconds allowing for this close in shot.
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 !
I would ride your bed
and leave the yellow bark dust
on your pillow.
...
Michael Ondaatje, The Cinnamon Peeler, 1989
stick mantid/popa undata or popa spurca
And here is the complete mantid, about 55mm long. It was at a location where taking a picture was difficult, so invited it onto a stick and placed it somewhere else where I could choose the background, very docile creatures...
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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from a Senegalese musical instrument
Schlägel ("Schlagstock") von einem Musikinstrument aus dem Senegal
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balafon
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April means mud and stick season in Maine, along with frost heaves and suspension testing roads. On this particular spring morning, it is business as usual for Maine Northern train 909 headed north from Brownville to Oakfield, Maine. Eastern Maine lettered EMD SD70M-2 6406 and 2 sisters crosses the famed Golden Road just south of Millinocket, Maine on Friday April 22, 2022. Thankfully the state of Maine and NBM have turned the former B&A from what might have been a tragic story to a complete sucess.