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As a amatuer photographer I have been trying for the last 2 years to capture a Hoverfly in hover - Finally did it a week or so ago --- He almost posed for me after I scared a wasp away from the little Hoverfly's - My favorite garden bug and totally harmless ;)
I took a break from errands and went to the bluffs above the beach to watch boats and seagulls. It was super windy, and the seagulls were hovering in the updraft...and riding the wind *sideways*!
That, and the usual wheeling around, made them difficult to catch on camera. But I managed eventually!
This Belted Kingfisher was hovering just like a Kestrel would except over a lake instead of land. The first time I have witnessed this behavior. It would hover for about 20 seconds in one position at about 60 feet high, then fly about 100 feet and repeat the process. Taken at Ridgefield NWR 4/14/11.
Kestrels hover....I went to a new location today to watch birds of prey and wildlife.Will visit here again as there were kestrels and buzzards.
Grandson learning to control a visiting quad copter. The white and purple lights identify the front and back of the copter. The controls must be moved differently depending on whether it is flying toward you, or away • Black copter control, black socks, black pants, and black sofa pillow. Black.
iPhone 6s native camera in HDR mode • Photoshop Elements with one filter from Anthropics' Smart Photo Editor plugin
This image of a pair of mating Hover Flies was made back in 2008 with my Point & Shoot. While i have posted it elsewhere, this never found its way to my Flickr stream. Shot in the leaving spring-coming summer days of April in a garden still choking with Dahlia flower power, this is one of my all time favourites among my captures. My mind reminds me again, how i miss making macros ...more than ever!!!!
For those interested in details here is a note :
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Family Syrphidae
Order Diptera
Hover flies have a characteristic flight pattern - hovering in one spot, moving suddenly forwards or sideways, then hovering again and hence their name. They are important as pollinators of plants.
Identification
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Hover flies have large heads, large eyes, and small or inconspicuous antennae. Their bodies are medium to slender, with a waist that is not significantly narrow, unless it is a wasp mimicking species. They have one pair of clear wings, and the banded forms have yellow and black bands of equal width. These small to medium sized flies have an average body length of 1-1.5cm. Most hoverflies have ornate body patterns, often of black and yellow, to mimic wasps and bees but are harmless.
Mating
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The male hoverfly generally has two strategies in seeking a mate. 1) He patrols around oviposition sites. The female will have already mated if she is seeking a site to lay eggs. But if the male can persuade her to mate again his sperm will have precedence. 2) He patrols over flowers. This is shown above. He will investigate anything that remotely resembles a female hoverfly bouncing down to get close or even touch the insect. Mating is rarely common sight seen and hence a lovely sight is presented here for you.
After mating, the female look for the good site to lay her eggs. Usually somewhere near the aphids feeding place. Some hover fly species (Eristalis sp) lay their eggs in stagnant water. These aquatic larvae have a long thin breathing tube - hence the common name, "rat-tailed maggots".
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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. :-) )
Kestrels hover....I went to a new location today to watch birds of prey and wildlife.Will visit here again as there were kestrels and buzzards.
Check out the bees! flickr.com/photos/21491339@N08/2748286594/sizes/o/
The Cotton House was built on land owned by Louis Beaupre, title transfer to John Arndt in 1826. John Cotton built the house sometime in the early 1840s. The home belonged to the family until 1893. It was sold to J.W. Woodruff who lived there until 1896, then sold to the Catholic Diocese, who used it as an orphanage until 1933. Between 1938 and 1941 the home was moved to its present location and restored by the Brown County Historical Society, opening as a museum in 1941. In 1977 the home became a part of Heritage Hill. This building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This building design is a fine sample of timber frame construction, model after the Greek Revival style popular from the 1820s - 1850s.
About 3 cm long. Swimming and digging in a little pool at the rocky coast after the rain, so in fresh water or half salty water.
I found a similar image on this website:
We have a tub of lilies on the patio and it is a popular place for hover flies to hang out. I have been taking advantage of their antics in the last couple of days and now have lots of photos of them. If insects aren't your thing, look away now ( and probably for the next few days as well!).
Hover Flies are genius things, where as most things that are stripey, yellow and scary looking just fly round and buzz a lot, Hover Flys will sit there and play the trumpet. This particular Hover Fly must have been feeling a bit melancholy as he was playing a bit of soulful jazz on one the smallest trumpets I have ever seen. (Sadly when I took this photo I did not have my macro lense)
This beauty would hover for a little while, take a quick dip, leave and then come back a few minutes later! My best hummingbird experience yet!
This is one of Cherry Creek State Park's faithful sentries. This is the fourth or fifth year that he's guarded the territory below the park office from the same bare branch on an apple tree.
He greeted me by buzzing me and then hovering about twenty-feet up for a couple of minutes. I took hundreds of pictures in that time. I thought that I'd just upload a bunch (more than my usual three or four a day) so that you can see a variety of poses as he hovers.
I think....
Stop here...
because we are not along a path
The best way I should do is ...
Have A distance.....
To keep happy .. I guess I should not touch it (my sister said so.....)
I began calmly before his warm heart...
I'm sure of it... ( to fk )
cumulonimbus clouds hovering over the Toronto area...please excuse the repetitive nature of all these cloud images...and there's still more to come..