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Rufous Hummingbird Hatching at Delta BC Canada
Camera Information:
Model: Sony NEX-6, Shutter Speed: 1/160 sec, Aperture: f/5.6, Focal Length: 210mm, ISO: 3200
Lens: LA-EA1 + Sony 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DT Alpha A-Mount Telephoto Zoom Lens (SAL55300).
Note the rare white eggs. Occurs in about 5% of females. If they lay white eggs, they lay all white eggs. In my DIL's box in Tuttle, OK. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
A handful of sunflower seeds brought in a number of woods birds this morning, including five Blue Jays. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
Now listen up you two ... if we can hatch this thing, I reckon we can give that cat one heck of a fright ....
Explore - Highest position: 80 on Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Is Yuki trying to be a mother of invention?
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Created for the We're Here group's incubation of the theme: Eggs are My Muse.
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Brainard series, working capture number three and a 180 degree spin about in the morning frost. Were you sweltering on that day? You could try a dip in Brainard Lake there to cooool offt. Why, it doesn't look like there is a layer of ice! ...must be warm. That water is not far from those remaining peak snow fields with Mitchell and Long Lakes even closer; they may have a coat of ice. I wonder how many folks trekked to make camps by them, or yet, were heading over the Continental Divide, above, westering. Boy, the days are just packed! For me, I donned my heavy shirt but my warmer coat was still vibrating from eDDie's snoring in Blazer. Personally, I say, "Shoot 'em while you got 'em" and I was hopping faster than the chill and grabbing for that bottle in my vest pocket. I guess that I shot the sweet spot as the sun rose and before morning clouds started to block the light. It looks like it won't last. The rays haven't reached the water yet. The larger peak on the right is Arapahoe and thus butresses these "Indian Peaks." Numerating left, south from Audubon, are Paiute, Shoshoni, Apache and Kiowa peaks. Google: [www.google.com/maps/@40.0712483,-105.6123523,9149m/data=!...] will get you there. On down below Ward and below the grade was Brainerd's, a mill and station on a big curve on the D, B & W narrow gauge RR, the Switzerland Trail RR. Been there, shot there. Two different Brains, I guess. The route ended just past Ward and down the road from here. This is the MY best time to paint MY Colorama book. Reality or duplicity, plucked or pumped?
And Gawd spoketh, "Son, I am deathly drained by your silly captures. "GOD WILL" light you up! Stand back, boy!" A shivver rund up my back as I was a shakin' in my boots; but still, I shot away as the divil hisself was a' tappin' on muh shoulders from behind, like my puppet, Calvin. Boy, I was a' feelin' 'xactly like I were a' gettin' giitaar lessins from 'im at the Crossroads! "Save me Jesus!" Boy, did I ever git humbled right then... as eDDie sawed away in the Blazer, bummed. It is possible that eDDie died and Foghat was born... right there and then! And gawd handed me that Nikkor 24-70 zoom but I never got the guitar lessons, just the lens. That's when I turned again and saw Foghat in the same rising son.
I got hauled along on the sur-prise, sun-rise, Blazing jet trip up to Brainard Lake in the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area with eDDie (I got a call at 3 in the morning). I keep him awake and in his lane. We snuck past the early starkly, empty entrance booth for free, parked at a no-parking sign and eDDie decided to nap as soon as we parked; Foghat, indeed! However, as soon as I saw the early sun starting to fire the Indians up in the morning sky, I bailed and started shooting soon enough, the morning, mountains and meese. Is this way we live in the Rockies? No, some are eyeing their first toke and cuppa... of whatever.
Brainard Lake is the source of the South Fork of the South Saint Vrain Creek, pronounced "crick" in the Rockies. It was clear that the early clouds were going to hammer my first light on the mountains (and eDDie slept) but I managed this as the bummed eDster slept. In fact, killer clouds were soon to put the kibosh on decent light at all and here, in the wilderness area, it was in the 50s but NOT in that water. This what can be expected in the Rockies in July. I am now working on a new reality series and this looked like "reality" as I stood in the chill. Sure, this is my killer 24-70 zoom lens and the EXIF reports 24mm on the full frame, the max imaginable in the frame for me. The light needed no help to pop. The meese kept on browsing in the distance unseen from here; they were busy and I was busy fighting the frosty morning... waiting for the warm up the 'divil' hisself promised as I burned film card.
Chicks hatching in our incubator last weekend. We set a combination of Rhode Island Red, White Wyandotte and Exchequer Leghorn eggs.
Horned Grebe nest activity on the day of hatching for only the first egg, two hatched while I was there and a third hatched within the next 12 hours. This is highly condensed to show mainly the nest activity regards egg rotation and evidence of the progress. Also illustrates that not only may the chick have an ordeal with breaking open the egg – it also has to deal with the parental actions along the way. Some interesting communications by the parents so I have left the ambient noise intact. July 28 2016. Small pond south Edmonton.
One large eucalypt was covered in these hatching butterflies. Or rather, the mistletoes attached to the tree were covered and the butterflies were everywhere. There was also an unusually large number of Eastern Spinebills using the same trees, though I don't think this was related and I didn't see any feeding on butterflies. Maybe they liked the mistletoe flowers?
Taken 14th Feb.
A cluster of hatching eggs of a Coccinellid (exact ID ?, maybe Harmonia axyridis) on our garden fence.
Stack based on 60 exposures (ISO100, f/5.6, 1/200s, flash), combined in ZS (Dmap & Pmax), treated in Lightroom & Picasa. Uncropped image 7mm across, 5x on FF.
31/365 Camping again this weekend!! hopefully I can take some great shots before I head of to my real 5 week camp!!
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Off The East Coast Of Equador
South America
Genovesa Island
Nazca Booby image taken on Genovesa Island in the Galapagos.
Source Wikipedia - The Nazca booby (Sula granti) is a colonial seabird in the family Sulidae, native to the eastern Pacific.
The female is bigger and heavier than the male, has a slightly differently colored beak, and squawks while the male whistles. Chicks are snow white and fluffy, plumage changing to grey along with beak and feet upon fledging.
The species occurs in the eastern Pacific from the islands in Baja California to the Galápagos Islands and the Isla de la Plata in Ecuador and Malpelo in Colombia.
The Nazca booby preys on small fish caught by diving at high speed from flight into the ocean. The main food species is South American pilchard, but also take flying fish, anchovies and squid, specially during the El Niño events, when sardine numbers are low. Because of their sexual dimorphism, females tend to feed on bigger prey and dive deeper.
The Nazca booby nests near cliffs on bare ground with little to no vegetation. The male chooses and defends a territory, then enters into courtship to attract females. Like many seabirds, the species has a long lifespan combined with low annual reproduction and long periods of development in the young. Clutch size is one or two eggs, due to the low hatching success, it is common for only one of the chicks to survive.
The Nazca booby is classified as Least Concern by the IUCN. Some of the factors that influence the decrease of populations are overfishing and marine pollution.
Near the end of last summer I spent some time building a greenhouse with my brother for our mother. This happened in the garden beside me...