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This is Bunnykins, our backyard wild rabbit, munching on some lawn grass. This spring she established her nest under the grape arbor, which collapsed during a strong spring rainstorm. Her litter of little bunnies are on their own now and are wandering around our lawn and field, but Bunnykins likes to stay close to our house, even taking naps on our back porch. Backyard wildlife.
We have now had well over 500mm rain in the last 5 weeks, and the fungi are loving it! Here are a few little mushrooms from the backyard.
I'm still unpacking a zillion boxes trying to get situated after moving - a daunting chore to say the least, but I keep reminding myself "Rome wasn't built in a day". The new digs are located on the edge of a dense woods and this morning I had a visitor join me for breakfast just outside my back door. I still don't have internet access so I've had to use my phone as a mobile hotspot - I feel like I'm really roughing it 😄😁
It was a sunrise that makes you put down your coffee and go outside on a below zero morning. I hope I did it justice :)
Sammy, one of our backyard gray squirrels,is the self-appointed backyard boss. This squirrel chases other squirrels away from food and from his favorite tree. He is also very greedy. Yesterday as I was sitting on the back porch eating an apple he paced back and forth at my feet, waiting for me to give him the apple core. Needless to say, I felt pressured to quickly eat the apple! Backyard wildlife.
The first measurable snow of the season today and this Black-capped Chickadee found the top of one of the Norway pines I had planted in my backyard last month - just for this reason 😁.
Backyard visitors. This is a pink and grey galah. very common in this area. The colourful bird in foreground (out of focus) is a rainbow lorikeet. A beautiful and feisty bird which unfortuantely is an introduced species and bit of a pest for the endemic species such as the galah and other parrots. The galahs are real characters and very intelligent (like most parrots).
I took these photos to try out my new telephoto zoom lense. A christmas present that I will use when winter comes again and the surf is up.
My backyard friends came to visit me last month! Living on a bluff brings me a variety of wildlife throughout the year. As you can tell, the changing of the leaves had just started, still have a ways to go before more beautiful colors are seen, if the rain doesn’t damage them first! Photo images credited to Vickie Lynne Klinkhammer of Vickielynne Photography and Designs(VLP&Designs)
Peeking through vine and passion into late afternoon sun ....
The grapevine has already little green grapes and the passion plant (Passiflora) flowers abundantly ....
Happy Monochrome Bokeh Thursday - HMBT!
While doing some backyard birdwatching the other day, it was just so hot there wasn't much going on, so I decided to close the window and put down my camera.
Moments later this hawk swooped down and got one of my doves. It happened so quickly it took a few moments to register what I'd just seen. While I watched, it started plucking the feathers so I grabbed my camera to get a few shots.
Just goes to show you never know who's going to show up next. Or when.
** Taken through the window so not as clear as I'd like.
It is that time of year again. The orioles are passing through central Illinois once again. I will they would hang around here for more than a few weeks. They are so colorful and fun to watch. Enjoy!
House Sparrow [Passer domesticus] in his best light
Happy New Year Everyone!
My Backyard
Oreland, PA
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For the flowers are great blessings.
For the flowers have their angels, even the words of God’s creation.
For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary.
For there is a language of flowers.
For the flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
-Christopher Smart (from Benjamin Brittens' 'Rejoice In The Lamb'
So, just kind of goofing around during a snowfall. 6-sec exposure (giving it that mustiness, the snow was really coming down at this point) with an ND8 filter and all the settings way up (down?): Exp Bias -5, f/22. But of course, that wasn't enough thus, the first 3 sec's were spent swiveling the camera back and forth on the tripod. Whole bunch of extra shit in post and viola! "Eess is what's we gots"