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I took a nap on a rock in Horseshoe Basin, and woke up to find a cricket/grasshopper sitting on my pack.
A Grasshopper Sparrow calling in early Morning light perched upon Curly Dock. The background is OOF Black Eyed Susans that were Growing wild within the area.
Grasshopper Sparrow (in migration), south side of the island, Lake Havasu City, Mojave County, AZ, October 16, 2013.
I recently found several pairs of Grasshoppers Sparrows in the fields around a subdivision within walking distance of my home.
These small sparrows tend to stay hidden in the grass except when they sing from a perch just above the fields where they live.
This field had been bulldozed and then grew back up in grasses when the economy kept the subdivision from being built out quickly. Evidently the sparrows like areas where the plants aren't too closely spaced.
In doing research on the birds, I found that three nests had been collected in the same area by a scientist in 1912. I wonder if they have continually been nesting in the area for the last century.
May 26, 2010, Massanetta Springs area, Rockingham County, Virginia.
There are grasshoppers all over out at NJMP and I decided to take a picture of one. This is not really a macro shot, because I was standing up when I took it with a telephoto lens zoomed out to 300mm. This is about 10% of the original 12.2MP image. I was using my new custom "Picture Control" profile that I developed for race cars that boosts saturation and sharpness in the camera. I can let the track do a card dump and use my images without any further modification when I use this Vivid-Plus setting. I think it worked well for this scene, too, with all of the greens and reds in the grass.
Camera Nikon D300
Lens: Nikkor 70-300 VR
Exposure 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 300 mm
ISO Speed 200
Grasshoppers are species which change colour and behaviour at high population densities are called Grasshoppers the typical insect body of head, thorax and abdomen. The head is held vertically, at an angle to the body with the mouth at the bottom. It bears a large pair of compound eyes which give all-round vision, three simple eyes which can detect light and dark and a pair of antennae which are sensitive to touch and smell. The downward-directed mouthparts are modified for chewing and there are two sensory palps in front of the jaws.
Nikon D200 - Micro-Nikkor 55mm 1:3.5 + TC-200 Teleconverter
1/250 sec - f/22 - ISO 200 - SB-600 Speedlight with diffuser off-camera left
Unidentified grasshopper. Selangor, Malaysia.
More Orthopterans of Malaysia: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2013/02/orthoptera-of-malaysia....