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The Juniper Hairstreak is also known as the Olive Hairstreak. I found one a little earlier last year (on March 30) but this is the first I have seen this year.
aprés siiara moi aussi j ai succombé a la petite juniper ..;elle va vite changer de look avec wig blanches et yeux plus clairs mais je n ai pas resister a quelques photos
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Juniper trousers from Colette patterns made with red gabardine. More on my blog: handmadejane.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/sewlution-juniper-tro...
A different individual from the previous two photos.
Seen during this morning's Birds and Butterflies tour of Negri-Nepote Native Grassland Preserve, led by NJ Audubon associate naturalists Chris and Paula Williams.
Juniper Lodge is a little wooden playhouse that John and I used when we were little. Behind it lies my vegetable patch. Usually I take the photos with the pov2 tag standing at the back corner. Except now one of the pumpkins has thumbed its nose at the boundary line and is galloping onward into the garden. There are currently two female flower buds on this particular vine. So in time we might be tripping over two pumpkins on the lawn. Assuming the plant hasn't already eaten us alive.
Abellio Scotrail Class 334 'Juniper' No. 334013 is seen standing at Edinburgh Waverley with 2M33 the 09:37 to Milngavie on Wednesday 27th January 2016.
....at the base of a Silver Maple tree. Trying out again, my daughter's new, old wide-angle lens before she hides it on me. haha
* Canon EOS M50 camera
* Vivitar Wide-Angle 21mm f/3.8 (Tokina) lens
* Fotasy FD/FL-EOSM lens adapter
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"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters."
-Norman Maclean, "A River Runs Through It"
Seen during this morning's Birds and Butterflies tour of Negri-Nepote Native Grassland Preserve, led by NJ Audubon associate naturalists Chris and Paula Williams.
From last year's archives. Processed with an artistic painting effect. At Kill Creek Park in Johnson County, KS.
This summer I found a couple of shrikes hanging out in an old Juniper in SW Colorado near the Utah border. I thought perhaps one was a younster still learning to hunt or something but I could see no sign of a nest and thought it was too late in the year for a pair to be thinking about mating. Back in March I came across a shrike in Northern Utah that had a tree all staked out and was calling and chasing other birds away from it. So I imagine if they are breeding in late March / April that these two birds would have represented an adult and a youngster.
Shrikes are interesting birds due to their hunting and killing style of impaling prey on sharp objects. I imagine that takes some special training of the young ones by the parents. Much more training for instance than say a Robin needs to give its young as they fledge.
Juniper branch berries.
Actually, these are neither fruits nor berries. Strictly botanically speaking, fruits are the mature, ripened ovaries of flowering plants (Angiosperms). Berries are fleshy fruits of some flowering plants with seeds distributed throughout the interior.
Junipers are Gymnosperms. These "berries" are simply fleshy cones, not fruits at all.
And that concludes Professor McGovern's botany lesson for the day.
BTW, I'm not certain which species of juniper (Juniperus) this is; there are several species found throughout the western U.S.
Juniper Dunes Wilderness: The Juniper Dunes Wilderness preserves the northernmost growth of western juniper, some of which have been around for 150 years, along with windswept sand dunes measuring 130 feet in height and 1,000 feet in width. Other than junipers, no trees grow in significant numbers here, but many bushes and flowers bloom wondrously come spring, although the mountains that separate western and eastern Washington generally wring the moisture from the air. The landscape here takes quite a battering, in fact, with strong southwest winds to build the dunes, seven to eight inches of precipitation to moisten them, a foot or so of snow that drifts down in winter, and summer temperatures that occasionally rise above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Elevations range from 750 feet to 1,130 feet above sea level. But plenty of animals thrive despite the extremes: mule deer, bobcats, coyotes, badgers, skunks, weasels, porcupines, pocket gophers, kangaroo rats, several species of mice, hawks, owls, ravens, quail, partridge, pheasants, doves, numerous songbirds, and rattlesnakes.\
Photo credit: BLM
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For more information about the Juniper Dunes Wilderness, visit: www.blm.gov/or/resources/recreation/wilderness2.php