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The postman butterfly, common postman, or simply postman is one of the heliconiine butterflies found from Mexico to northern South America. Several species in the genus have very similar markings and are difficult to distinguish. This is an example of mimicry.
Heliconius melpomene, Postman
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Poor Grant. A beautiful, mild day, spring in the air, chickens to watch and follow and be chased by...It's such a burden! ;)
Kids not so well at the moment so its difficult to leave the house. Playing with some ideas under the 'geek' theme
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It was so hard to hold this postion without sliding back. It doesn't look like it but this slab of cement is on a very steep angle :P
The location that i am at is really close to my house and is the remains of a building that burnt down a very long time ago. I always feel somewhat awkward photographing there because there are houses at the top of the hill overlooking the location.
dark dropwing/trithemis furva
Coming back all the time to the same spot in the same position it was not to difficult to take a shot of this one.
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The size of insects and spiders is difficult. Not only does our eyes struggle quite a lot with measuring small sizes by eyesight alone - but
on top of that, there is the issue of what to measure.
For spiders for instance, it's boy length which is the corect way and yet many talk about leg span and citing huge numbers. The obvious problem with this is to convince every spider to stretch their legs out all the way so they can be measured. Sure it would work for a house spider or a huntsman - but how about an orb-weaver? Not likely.
Bush crickets (Tettigoniidae) are another one that's confusing people. When measuring body length, the ovipositor which the female uses to lay eggs isn't counted into body length and neither the wings which extend quite a lot behind the body (and above the ovipositor). I've had more than one discussion with people claiming they have find a specimen twice as long as they should be!
So, the green giant in this shot is a wart-biter (Decticus verrucivorus) - a verruca-vore :). This is based on an old Swedish myth that if you held one of these next to your wart or verruca and managed to get the poor animal to bite it - it would make the wart go away. I suppose Carl Linnaeus believed that one.
Here in Sweden, the entire family of Tettigoniidae are known as wart-biters, but I believe in English it is just this species.
Oh, and as we were talking about sizes - this one is about 45 mm in body length, but as you can see, the wings and ovipositor continue for quite a bit behind the actual body.
the difficult surgery went well ..... now we will hope !
listen: Yellow
Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And everything you do
Yeah, they were all yellow
I came along
I wrote a song for you
And all the things you do
And it was called Yellow
So then I took my turn
Oh, what a thing to have done
And it was all yellow
Your skin, oh yeah, your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
And you know, you know I love you so........
'The shy one'. For centuries Magpies have been persecuted by man, making it a very wary and shy bird that is difficult to get close to. I watched this omnivorous beauty foraging for acorns underneath an Oak tree, West Yorkshire.
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'Magpie on a Mission'. a Magpie flying swiftly down the valley, showing clearly that the Magpie is not a large bird as we may think when you consider that the length of its tail is more than 50% of its total length. West Yorkshire.
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Magpie
Magpie numbers in Britain and Ireland have quadrupled in the last 35 years.
The increase has been particularly noticeable in suburban areas.
During the winter the magpie’s diet is largely vegetarian, and in the summer predominately ground invertebrates.
Only during the spring, when feeding its young, does it become a major predator, raiding the nests of songbirds for eggs and young.
Opinions differ widely on the impact of magpies on nesting birds. Most studies suggest that their impact is minimal, but where magpies have been removed, breeding success of songbirds has improved.
One of the explanations for the magpie’s booming population is thought to be the amount of carrion from road kills available today, providing a year-round food source.
Magpies can be caught legally in Larsen traps, a live-capture trap that uses a decoy bird to lure others into the trap. Many thousands are caught and killed in this way every year.
A male magpie, attracted to a female decoy, will attempt to court and mate with her unless his mate accompanies him, in which case their joint response is aggressive.
Magpies have always been surrounded by superstition, and there are many versions of the poem that begins: One for sorrow, two for joy...
There was an old rural tradition of raising one’s hat to a magpie; now few people wear hats, the tradition has largely died out.
A magpie looks much bigger than it is: the tail makes up half the bird’s length. Its average weight is only about half that of a wood pigeon’s.
They can be found throughout almost all of mainland Europe, from southern Spain and Greece north to Lapland, but are absent from many offshore islands, including Sardinia, Corsica, the Balearics and Iceland.
Pairs usually remain within their territories, but non-breeding birds wander more widely in small gangs or bands.
They are non-migratory, and it’s rare for one to ever travel more than 10km from where it was hatched.
Though most nests are built in trees, where there are no suitable trees they will build on the ground.
A typical nest incorporates a roof, and may have two entrances, but some populations build open nests.
Long-eared owls often adopt old magpie nests.
The date of the first egg being laid is largely the same throughout Europe, with the peak period mid to late April.
In southern Spain great spotted cuckoos often lay their eggs in magpie nests.
In Britain magpies have relatively few enemies apart from man, but in some parts of Europe they are the favourite prey of goshawks.
Communal winter roosts may hold as many as 200 birds.
The roosting birds have usually departed before sunrise. Living with Birds Notes.
At Cornwall marsh, the goose too off when we arrived for only one minute. When we paddled off it went back to this nest managing the 5 bird eggs. Not sure when the gosling baby birds break through the eggs and quickly reach down to the water and paddle away. I would like to view the goslings but the timing is difficult.
A view of new goslings photography last year….
I spent shot after shot trying to capture this butterfly, it just would not stop moving! The shot was taken at Butterfly World in Moncton NB.....I had a great time!!
"...Sometimes difficult to spot, even in open terrain, this rufous wren, white throat and breast agleam, may continue to elude us as it creeps about the jumbled rocks. Now and then a bird will sally forth to seize a flying insect. Or, better yet, a territorial male will alight atop a tall boulder to defend his domain with song.
Throwing back his head, he pours out a clear, rippling vocal cascade that descends through a series of liquid notes te-you te-you te-you tew tew tew tew — a silvery glissando — once heard, never forgotten. Reverberating canyon walls instantly play back his wild and lovely song.
Crevice-nesting canyon wrens construct an open cup nest of wool, hair and feathers on a base of twigs and moss. In some places birds have adopted unoccupied stone buildings, nesting regally within."
tpwmagazine.com
Crimson Sunbird (Male) ... Probably one of the most difficult birds to take. Not just that it stays at one spot for no more than a few seconds but also the difficulty in achieving good exposure and focus. The feathers are in such dark colors that auto focus doesn't work well and "spot metering" always give you over-exposed image. I failed 9 out of 10 times and this one is all I got from several hours work.
For a year of terrific fun, beauty, inspiration and friendship.
I hope you and your family are all in good health in these difficult times,
You have all been great and you have cheered me up tremendously! LOVE YOU.
(I hope my effort in creating a heart shape is somehow recognisable :-)
Difficult to classify, the Silver Chute Spider seems to be an arachnid contorted into the guise of an canine. With an exceptional sense of smell (Second only to the Energy Hounds), they can find suitable prey regardless of how it hides. Once located, they will ambush the target by jabbing them with their hollow proboscis, injecting a nasty anesthetic venom which renders the victim helpless as the spider begins to feed while the prey is still alive.
It is difficult to describe the beauty of lake Bled, Slovenia, where I am spending a few days. We arrived today and had some storms. I just loved the way the clouds and mist created such delicate layering in the landscape and didn't mind getting soaked to get this picture. This is a quick edit using LR mobile.
Es difícil describir la belleza de esta zona de Eslovenia donde paso unos días con mi familia. Hemos tenido algunas tormentas estos días y el paisaje se convirtió de repente en una sucesión de capas creadas por la neblina y las nubes. Acabé empapado tras tomar esta foto pero muy satisfecho. Esta foto es una edición rápida usando LR mobile.
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Calumet discharges gypsum at National Gypsum in Waukegan IL. It took almost all day to unload, gypsum when wet is like unloading mud.
Tristeirometa bostryx - Mount Kinabalu National Park, Malaysia
Its difficult to ID this little moth down to species level, but I think its a male Tristeirometa bostryx. If I am correct then this little moth is endemic to montane regions of Borneo, which makes sense based on where i found it, the montane humid forests of Borneos highest mountain--Gunung Kinabalu. It could potentially also be Tristeirometa bathylima, a rare species endemic to just Gunung Kinabalu but which to me, a non-expert, looks indistinguishable from T. bostryx. This moth belongs to the tribe Trichopterygini which reaches its highest level of diversity in Borneo with 43 species. Anyhow I didn't know any of this when I photographed it, I just liked its green coloration and thought it was pretty.
cimice delle piante, o cimice rossonera
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As you Know i am an older fart than some and this whole trans thing has been a struggle stumbling from one event to another.
Never really knowing in the early days because it wasn't spoken about we weren't on the telly and apart from the odd newspaper article i knew nothing of being trans until a lot later in my li8fe.
That said it hasn't really been a struggle but the journey is full of regrets and missed opportunities.
Now that sounds bad with regards my life now and I do not regrets getting married or having our daughter what so ever.
So why this post.
Well i have just caught a program on Amazon called always jane. I won't tell you anything about it other than its a documentary about a trans girl called jane.
It killed me within minuets of watching bring back memories, talking about and doing things i never had the chance to do but dreamt of. Its a hard watch emotionally but if you can please watch it.
Difficult times for all of us at the moment - platespotting is not exempt from this. "Fortunately" I have just arrived with my photos in September 2019, when the world was still turning normally.
But this discovery was anything but normal - I would say my best find so far in Leipzig. On the way home from work, I saw this wrapped motorcycle in a quarter of the city that had never before been able to shine with foreign plates. I almost fell over my handlebars, so surprised was I by this Asian guest. Only 4 weeks before I saw my first South Korean plate in Prague - I never thought that it would work again so quickly with a motorcycle in Leipzig. Already the Chinese guests, which I could see in 2017( and who probably just got lost ;-) ), were a sensation for me at that time.
One day later I saw this bike again in the city centre without cover and in its "whole splendour".
Seen in Leipzig.
A difficult to find Sykes's Lark near Velavadar National Park in Gujarat, India. This rare bird is the same colour as its habitat and blends in so well. Usually seen when it flies. Sykes's Lark is mainly restricted to central India, although stray records have been found elsewhere on the sub-continent.
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The lava field is extremely difficult to move in — lots of twist, broken, sharp rocks, with many cracks and crevices making it easy to twist an ankle (or break a leg).
This High Dynamic Range 360° panorama was stitched from 51 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, processed with Color Efex, and touched up in Affinity Photo and Aperture.
Original size: 20000 × 10000 (200.0 MP; 930.89 MB).
Location: Landmannalaugar, Suðurland, Iceland
No, Jasper's talents don't stop on the frisbee field. He's been exposed to music from a young age because his mom is a pianist with her masters in piano performance. Here Jasper works his way through a difficult passage. Not easy without opposable thumbs. We try to find him pieces with a lot of tone clusters. He's becoming quite accomplished!