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Macro Mondays ~ Made of Wood... Substrate made of tiny chips of wood and used in a vivarium to create habitat for pets.
One of the more common and easily recognised Galerina species in that the cap has a papilla (a raised area in the centre of the cap).
Common name: None
Found: Native Forest
Substrate: On wood
Spore: BrownHeight: 60 mm
Width: 25 - 35 mm
Season: Autumn
Edible: No
(Bombycilla cedrorum). Angelina County, Texas.
Presented here is a tranquil image of a waxwing, compared to the chaotic scene I posted yesterday. This was one of hundreds, if not thousands of waxwings that were feeding on a berry tree in a neighborhood lawn. They would routinely pause to drink from puddles accumulate in the curb. To capture this image I was laying flat in the road (it was a very quite neighborhood street and Carolina was on the lookout). Luckily some leaves had accumulated in the curb, and shooting from this low angle otherwise concealed most evidence of the unnatural substrate.
Imagine - Kitchen Goddess No. 4
with Myself for size. 32" x 27"
Materials. Unglazed porcelain, glass, fused millefiori, & dinnerware on hand built substrate
& some nice details in the previous posts
JardĂn, Antioquia, Colombia
The spectacularly bizarre Andean Cock-of-the-rock is perhaps the most popularly recognized bird of the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains.
Distributed from Venezuela to Bolivia in the Andes, this species is readily identified by its fan-shaped crest and brilliant orange plumage. Males spend much of their time displaying at leks, where they jump up and down on particular branches and utter low, guttural croaks. The name is derived from their preference for rocks and ledges as substrates for their mud cup nests.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/...
Name this shroom so I don't spend all night getting it wrong
Started as a white egg in a cup and burst overnight to this. There doesn't seem to be a veil and the substrate I believe is Maple
The clubless Dusky Clubtail (Gomphus spicatus) is an Eastern/Midwestern species that’s unusual in that it prefers sand-bottomed marshy/boggy/glacial pothole lakes and ponds instead of running water. It’s an early clubtail; look for it from late spring through mid-summer in Wisconsin. The description of Dusky Clubtail behavior in Mead’s lovely Dragonflies of the North Woods fits perfectly, “When not actively engaged in oviposition, Duskies are likely found far from water, perched in the sunshine on gravel roads, trails or rocks.”
Dragonfly naiads are meat eaters, ambushing smaller aquatic critters from their burrows in the substrate. Adult dragonflies are also carnivores; Dusky clubtails feed on damselflies they encounter at the pond’s edge.
Bogner Marsh Management Area, Ontario, Canada. May 2021.
Aster amellus (Asteraceae) 257 22
Aster amellus, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the genus Aster of the family Asteraceae.
It reaches on average a height of 20–50 centimeter. The stem is erect and branched, the leaves are dark green. The flowers are lilac. The flowering period extends from July through October.
This plant is present on the European mountains from the Pyrenees and the Alps to the Carpathians. Outside Europe it is located in western Asia (Turkey), the Caucasus, Siberia, South and Central Asia.
Its typical habitat is rocky limy areas, the edges of the bushes and copses, but also the sub-alpine meadows, marshy places and lake sides. It prefers calcareous and slightly dry substrate with basic pH and low nutritional value, at an altitude of 0–800 meters above sea level.
JardĂn, Antioquia, Colombia
The spectacularly bizarre Andean Cock-of-the-rock is perhaps the most popularly recognized bird of the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains.
Distributed from Venezuela to Bolivia in the Andes, this species is readily identified by its fan-shaped crest and brilliant orange plumage. Males spend much of their time displaying at leks, where they jump up and down on particular branches and utter low, guttural croaks. The name is derived from their preference for rocks and ledges as substrates for their mud cup nests.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/...
Beautiful Demoiselle (f) - Calopteryx Virgo
Mainly found along streams and rivers, particularly those with sand or gravel bottoms. The males rest on bank side vegetation waiting for females.
Males are territorial, perching in bankside plants and trees, waiting for females or chasing. They chase passing insects, often returning to the same perch. Males can stray well away from water, females live away from water unless egg-laying or seeking a mate.
As with the banded demoiselle is also in the blue wing-demoiselle a pronounced territorial behavior of sexually mature males. These days occupy territories that they defend against other males. The defense consists mostly in threatening gestures. For this they spread their wings and put them on display so clearly visible, there is also DrohflĂĽgen and in rare cases to air combat between rival males. Optimal areas correspond to the optimal nesting places for the females and are characterized by a normally increased flow and a suitable oviposition substrate in the potential breeding sites from. The size of the spots and their distance apart is the density of the population dependent as well as the occurrences of the water and may be between several meters and a few decimetres. Males who do not occupy spots can keep themselves in the vegetation on the shore and try to mate with fly to females or to fill vacant spots. Especially when only a few males are present, the territorial defense is very aggressive, with a higher number of competing male aggression but decreases significantly. The males sit in their areas mostly in exposed places in the vegetation, which extends over the water, sometimes on vegetation or rocks cushions amid the waters. This seat is waiting at the same time the center of the district they do their gaze primarily on the aquatic center and will show a behavior that is referred to as "wings lapping" and in which the wings beat quickly down and slowly lifted. It is believed that it is mainly used for communication, it also supports the ventilation in the thorax and accordingly probably also plays a role in thermoregulation of the animals
The curlew's call — cur-lee — not its bill shape, gives this bird its common name.
Breeds in areas with sparse, short grasses, including shortgrass and mixed-grass prairies as well as agricultural fields. Long-billed curlew chicks hatch after about four weeks. To defend their nests, curlews feign injuries to lead predators away from their eggs and chicks. ...Outside of the breeding season, found in wetlands, tidal estuaries, mudflats, flooded fields less than 6 inches deep, and beaches.
Forages for earthworms and other deep-burrowing prey such as shrimp and crabs in soft muddy substrates using its long, curved bill. On drier grassland habitats, pecks at insects. Walks with a strut, pushing its head forward with jerky steps.