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Male Violet Dancer (a.k.a. Variable Dancer; Argia fumipennis violacea) - Loantaka Brook Reservation, Morris County Park Commission, Morristown, New Jersey
My fav colors for damsels are orange and red, but I'll settle for purple every time!
I also saw these guys at Best Lake but had no luck in sneaking up on them.
They were much more numerous along the Loantaka brook so finding cooperative subjects was a bit easier.
Here, I used a Canon 180 mm Macro with a 2xTC to give me the 360 mm focal length needed to capture these guys from a respectful distance. The extra focal length added by the TC also helps to blur the BG a bit more though some of that is lost to the smaller aperture needed to extend the DOF for a more in-focus bug.
As the name suggests this hawk has more than one combination of plumage colours. This one is typical for the high Andes area of Puno and this seemed to be their tree of choice for hunting the local Guinea pigs.
Cette Drink ne m'appartient pas, c'est celle d'un ami qui m'a invité à passer une merveilleuse journée avec lui et nous avons été très gâtés par Dame Nature !
Small seed-eating bird of humid tropical lowlands; fairly common. Found in grassy and weedy areas and forest edges, often in same places as slightly larger Thick-billed Seed-Finch. In pairs or small flocks, mixing readily with Morelet's Seedeaters and other seed-eating birds. Note stubby bill (unlike Thick-billed Seed-Finch) and plain brownish olive plumage of female (not rich brown like seed-finch). Males in Mexico and most of Central America are black. In southern Central America and South America males have variable amounts of white on the underparts and rump, hence the name.
Variable coral snake (Micrurus diastema) found at base camp in Cusuco National Park, Honduras, Central America. Summer 2009.
Large View On Black
A pretty variable species that we found in Southern Ecuador where we saw a handful of males calling near ditches along roads.