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Sympetrum striolatum on the lounger
They were still mating on 11 October! I was watching a pair in the hopes of a pic when suddenly the female vanished. I lifted a lily leaf to see if she had drowned and found her wings sticking out of a frog mouth...sadly it was off before I got a photo!
The Common Whitetail is literally a Pondhawk, that is, a dragonfly that will protect the female that he *thinks* is his mate though she may have mated with 10 other Common Whitetails just that morning. As I pointed out once before, the last male to mate will force out any previous partners' sperm and it is he who becomes the "father." In the meantime, since no one Whitetail knows who was last in line, no one knows who's really the mate. Therefore, you could have 10 males patrolling the territory after the female lays her eggs. If you're thinking, "hell of a system," you're not thinking like a dragon or damsel. Obviously, 300 million years of history says something about the success of the Dragonfly Draft. They only have six months, so gather ye rosebuddies and damsels while ye may and the line continues. You're no even around long enough to pick out names.
By the way, judging by the lack of color on the abdomen and the bright colors on the thorax, this male hasn't been around for more than a day or two. If he catches the light just right, it's almost as though there are prisms of color like diamonds where his wings meet. He will become whiter, glossier, and then light blue just before the end of his days. The dragonflies' lives as adults are highly compressed.
60002 heads 6J37, Colas Rail’s 1258 Carlisle Yard – Chirk logs along the southern end of the Eden Valley at Birkett Common on 7 June 2017.
Another day out trying to photograph Kingfishers in early August. After the last trip which was excellent with lots of visits, this day was going to be a struggle with only few visits and long long periods of nothing.
This was to be my last Kingfisher outing of 2023.
This male Kingfisher posses for the camera.
The Common Kingfisher is a small bird with unmistakable plumage. Its back is bright metallic blue and its breast is a coppery-brown. The beak is long and black, though females have a red patch at the base.
Two common mergansers - female waterfowl glide smoothly over a calm lake, creating gentle ripples in the water. The scene is serene with soft reflections of the surrounding light!!!
Common Snipe / gallinago gallinago. 21/08/19.
One of c9 Common Snipe that eventually flew in for a prolonged feeding fest mid-afternoon. Once they got going their feeding was frenetic, beaks working like sewing machine needles.
This bird was captured taking a brief rest to check the surrounding area. The position of it's beautifully large, dark eyes gives it excellent periphery vision.
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I have not seen this one in my yard before. Thanks to my iPhone that helped to id this one for me. I got a bonus wee insect on the plant as well. Taken with the Sigma 105mm f2.8 macro lens on a Canon EOS 5D Mark II.
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Common Teal / anas crecca. East Yorkshire. 21/08/19.
Too close to fit in the frame but I'm not complaining as I was able to capture some amazing feather details and colours. Viewed large you can still see a trace of the former green eye patch ... and the eye itself is as bright as a button!
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Common wasp, Vespula vulgaris. This is a queen. 21 April 2021. Ealing, London, England, UK.
The backstory is that I found this queen common wasp in the house in the morning. It was very sluggish, not because it was cold but probably because it needed an energy fix. I put a drop of sugar water near it which it took readily, and then put it in the sun. After two or three minutes it was as right as rain and flew off, hopefully to start a new colony.
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Those raggedy figures out in cornfields may be called scare-crows, but grackles are the #1 threat to corn. They eat ripening corn as well as corn sprouts, and their habit of foraging in big flocks means they have a multimillion dollar impact.
A hard morning in the gdn again as usual on mondays.
I thought I had posted this one already but cannot see it in photostream.
A Common Carder Bumblebee on the tiny flowers of some chickweed in my gdn earlier this month. obviously desperate for every last bit of nectar
by Trevor Pinchen
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Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea) male in the mixed woods of the aspen parkland region near Thorhild, Alberta, Canada.
21 February, 2013.
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