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A diffused sun trying to make an early morning appearance, but the fog was very thick on Lake Choctaw near Clinton, AR.
Thick dark low clouds with big holes for the suns rays to offer up a truly beautiful show...
Myrtle Beach, SC
Sunday‎, ‎November‎ ‎27‎, ‎2011 8:22 AM
1/250 sec. f/5.9 68.48mm ISO100
The species Syritta pipiens is within the family of Syrphidae, commonly called hover or flower flies. Syrphidae is one of the largest families within the Diptera order[12] and contains about 6,000 known species widely distributed around the world. They are distinctive flies that are often found on flowers, where the adult males primarily feed on nectar and adult females eat protein-rich pollen to produce eggs
La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Euphonia laniirostris
(Thick-billed Euphonia / Eufonia piquigruesa)
The Thick-billed Euphonia is found in Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
This euphonia measures 10 cm (3.9 in). The female, like many euphonias, is dull olive above and yellow below. The male has entirely yellow underparts from throat to vent save for a small terminal patch of white on the undertail. Upperparts are a dark blue-black except for the yellow crown patch which extends from the bill over the head to just past the eye.
... Combination of Flora and Fauna.
A Thick-legged flower beetle ~ Oedemera nobilis on a Seaside Daisy ~ Erigeron glaucus.
I took this photo on the 6th, but didn't know what the theme was for today at the time. Since last Monday, I've hardly been out due to the horrible weather.
The photo hasn't been on Flickr before, although similar ones of it have.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites.
Senegal Thick-knee - Queen Elizabeth National Park, Western, Uganda
Bird Species # (651) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
On this trip to Uganda we used Ngoni Safaris Uganda. They provided excellent service. I highly recommend them.
eBird Report and listing details - macaulaylibrary.org/asset/645046996
Thick cloud was swelling around the fells summit. The drama of it, overhead was stunning, and slightly intimidating. I had to capture it, and to do it justice I stitched the shot together as a panorama. Hopefully you think I have done it justice. Enjoy.
Peruvian Thick-knee - Chilca, Lima, Peru
Bird Species # (647) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
eBird Report and listing details - macaulaylibrary.org/asset/637917907
Great Smoky Mountains - The place is surrounded by a dense forest with a river running though it. The great smoky mountain is covered with foggy all year long, sometimes it is too thick, you have to wait for a while until you can see the scenery… But the foggy covered scenery always attracts me, in the middle of nowhere with nothing around but Natures Mountains… The beauty of these mountains allow you for those brief moments to forget about everything else that's going on in life. It's just you, and the majesty of the woods in the mist.
These mating thick-headed flies look almost identical to the mason wasp that I photographed and posted on Flickr yesterday! However, they are flies and not wasps, if you can believe that, and so have no ability to sting. But that's no comfort to area bumble bees, for after mating here, the female (on the bottom) waits for a bumble bee to land on a flower and start gathering pollen. Then she pounces on its back and pries an opening between the bumble bee's abdominal segments and lays an egg before flying off. Notice the hook-like structure on her last abdominal segment for doing this, working like a can-opener. After hatching inside the bumble bee, the baby thick-headed fly starts eating the bumble bee's insides. It takes about 10 days for the larval thick-headed fly to eviserate the bumble bee and just before dying, the bumble bee buries itself in the dirt, giving the fly larva a nice safe winter home. Next spring, the thick-headed fly larva will pupate and then emerge as a new adult thick-headed fly when the bumble bees are abundant and active.
western sector of the Serengeti, Tanzania
Thick-knees ( Burhinidae ) are also called Stone Curlews or Dikkops and are large waders/shorebirds ( the order Charadriiformes ).
They all have large eyes and long thickly jointed legs.
The Spotted Thick-knee is often active at night when its loud call can be heard from a distance.
This one was resting in the shade together with its partner
Burhinus capensis
Kaapse griel
Oedicnème tachard
Kaptriel
Alcaraván de El Cabo
Occhione maculato
alcaravão-do-cabo
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Early morning fog envelops the light at Montauk Pt. June 2017
Montauk Light house. Construction on the lighthouse was authorized by the Second United States Congress, under President George Washington it's the 4th oldest lighthouse in USA and the first built in NYC. Was one of the most important lights, guiding many ships form Europe.
The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve is a Costa Rican reserve located along the Cordillera de Tilarán within the Puntarenas and Alajuela provinces. Named after the nearby town of Monteverde and founded in 1972, the Reserve consists of over 10,500 hectares of cloud forest. It draws roughly 70,000 visitors a year. The reserve consists of six life zones, 90% of which are virgin forest. A high biodiversity area, consisting of over 2,500 plant species (including the most orchid species in a single place), 100 species of mammals, 400 bird species, 120 reptilian and amphibian species, and thousands of insects, has drawn both scientists and tourists alike.
Costa Rica, Santa Elena Cloudforest Reserve
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The thick-legged flower beetle, swollen thighed beetle, false oil beetle...does one glitzy little beetle really need so many names?!
Early in 1914, moreover, we realized that it would be impossible to free the Saint Anna from the ice; at best, we would drift until the autumn of 1915, more than three years after we had departed Alexandrovsk.* If we stayed on board, starvation would become a real threat by January 1915, if not sooner. In the darkness of the long polar night, a struggle against hunger carries no hope of salvation. During this season, hunting is out of the question, as all animals are in hibernation. The only certainty for those trapped in its realm is that "white death" lies in wait for them.
excerpt from In the Land of White Death by John Krakauer
I photographed this Thick-billed Euphonia (Euphonia laniirostris) near Santander de Quilichao in Cauca, Colombia. This small finch feeds mainly on mistletoe fruit and other small fruits, usually in pairs or small groups, and is a good mimic of other birds' calls. IUCN lists it as Least Concern with a stable population, and it is considered common in Colombia. Both sexes build the nest, a globe with a side entrance made from twigs, leaves and plant fibers. Its song is a long, rambling mix of its own notes and borrowed ones.
I made this frame with a Canon R5 and the RF 800mm f/11 plus the RF 1.4x extender, at 1/250 sec, f/16, ISO 3200, −0.5 EV. It occurs in many protected areas, though most of its habitat is unprotected.
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