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Entry for C.O.W. #368
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In order to grow their endo- and exoskeleton, screamers need to supplement their fruit diet with lots of minerals. They get them in abundance in the caves where they make their nests by the thousands. The rock of the particular caves they favor are natural sources of helium. Screamers store the ingested helium into their own porous bones and use them to achieve buoyancy. They use their high-frequency screams, which have distinct helium induced notes, together with their very sensitive to vibration hair-like structures as a primitive sonar to navigate the darkness of their cave dwelling.
While I was photographing the Bumble Bees in the garden this suddenly turned up. At first I thought it was a wasp. Which is what it wants everything to think apparently. Then I realised it was about the size of a Bumble Bee, so not a wasp. I have never seen one of these before but a bit of internet research revealed it to be a species of Hover Fly. Wikipedia tells us the following: Hoverflies, also called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while the larvae (maggots) eat a wide range of foods. In some species, the larvae are saprotrophs, eating decaying plant and animal matter in the soil or in ponds and streams. In other species, the larvae are insectivores and prey on aphids, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects.
Episyrphus balteatus. I've plenty of these in my garden at the moment but not much else in the way of hover flies.
Hoverflies, (family Syrphidae) also called flower fly, or syrphid fly they are a member of a family that contains about 6,000 species world wide. Their various common names refer to the behavior of hovering around flowers. Hoverflies, with their yellow markings, resemble wasps or bees but do not bite or sting. Adults are 4-10 mm long and have dark flattened bodies with black and yellow markings. During flight, they move in a characteristic way. As their name suggests, they hover over objects but will also dart to and fro. The immature hoverfly looks like a maggot and can grow up to 10 mm long. The larvae hunts by touch.
South Pambula NSW
Triple Crown trailers always look to me as if they're hovering a few inches off the rails. Their road wheels are, at least!
Two Westland Sea King helicopters of the Commando Helicopter Force hovering above the crowd at the end of the RNAS Yeovilton Air Day finale.
Hover-taxi I built 5-6 years ago and never got around to photographing before. The Fifth Element movie was obviously a big influence on the design.
I haven't changed or updated it since it was built. If I was doing it today there are some changes I'd make.
OLYMPUS XZ-1 / Flying (Hovering) Dragonfly
It is difficult to photo the insect which is flying in compact digital camera.
Movement is too early and cannot catch the dragonfly in the Auto Focus by compact digital camera.
I observed a dragonfly and noticed the following things.
The dragonfly has a habit to stop to the same branch repeatedly.
Therefore focused the dragonfly which stopped to a branch in a Manual Focus and waited for a dragonfly to fly away.
After having flown away, I pressed the shutter at the moment when the dragonfly returned to the same branch.
(Since I am poor at English, a comment is described using translation software in many cases.
There may be a strange part in description.
Please forgive. :-) )
Hovering in preparation to eat, this is one beautiful Stripe-throated Hermit Hummingbird. This picture was taken in the rain of the Los Ángeles Cloud Forest Reserve in Costa Rica.
I have finally worked my way through all my hummer pictures from Costa Rica, so we will take a break now. Looking back, I see that there were seven different species that I was able to identify. I think there were a couple more that I didn't get very good quality pictures of. The species we saw were:
• Green-crowned Brilliant
• Purple-throated Mountaingem
• Violet Sabrewing
• Coppery-headed Emerald
• Green Violetear
• Violet-crowned Woodnymph
• Stripe-throated Hermit
The conclusion - if you want to photograph hummingbirds, Costa Rica is a very good place to go. If I ever go again, I will be much better prepared with lighting, as that is one of the big challenges. The second challenge, as with all BIF shots, is focus as these little birds dart around so quickly. All-in-all, while I can see a bunch of ways I could have done better, I am not unhappy with the results.
Platycheirus sp. Probarbly P. manicatus
Found this beautiful hoverfly resting on a blade of grass. I nudged blade to get a Dandelion as a background. That woke the hover up but I managed to snap a few shots before it took off.
Hummingbird hovering by feeder behind the visitor center on Sandia Crest, at 10,678' above sea level, northeast of Albuquerque, NM. At one point there were 5 or 6 of these energetic birds buzzing all around us.
Chasing and eating aphids. They look a little like small caterpillars and they are hungry! Photo Jean
The personal hover car of the Blacktron III overlord.
BA used: 3 u-clips, 2 monopods, and 1 apoc smg.
A hover car. The idea here was to create a vehicle using the four round and grey technic pieces for the engines.
Soon after my conversation with the raven I ducked down to a more sheltered part of the Marwick Head cliff face. Only on this day it was far from sheltered as can be seen by this fulmar hovering and playing at being a kestral. It needed its wings held high - any lower and it would have been swept away.
There must have been a competition that day because one after another these fulmers had a go at hovering like this with varying degrees of success. On a less windy day they would be showing off swooping around the cliff tops.
Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while the larvae (maggots) eat a wide range of foods. In some species, the larvae are saprotrophs, eating decaying plant and animal matter in the soil or in ponds and streams. In other species, the larvae are insectivores and prey on aphids, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects.
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The oft-quoted conventional wisdom is that there are only two hovering raptors in our area, the Kestrel and the Black-shouldered Kite. But it's not entirely true - we passed this very dark BF yesterday, hovering for 30 secs at least. They're not exactly the smoothest hoverers and don't do it nearly as often as the aforementioned birds. A kind of brute-force hover compared to the refined and less effortful Kestrel.
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