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Brimstone,nice to see, this one very approachable.
Like the unusual antennae on these butterflies
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This is the reaction I got when it spotted me walking towards it with my camera. Didn't know it could stretch its neck that high.
Canada Goose (Branta Canadensis)
Rowlett Creek Nature Preserve, Garland
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Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodias
I'm guessing this is a rather old bird, based on the amount of wear and tear on its upper bill. It's pretty beat up.
Still catching up on some shots from Florida early in 2020.
Circle-B-Bar Reserve, Polk County, FL
So I looked it up, and yes, periscoping is a thing snakes really do. They do this to see what is ahead of them and to check out the terrain.
Now that we got the nature lesson out of the way, let's talk about how I captured this photo...
I was sitting in my home office when I saw this black rat snake slither across my front yard into my shrubs. Never one to miss an opportunity for a nature shot, I grabbed the camera closest to me: a Samsung NX500 with a 60mm macro lens. I went outside and was shocked to find this guy sticking his head a little bit out of the shrubs. But the camera setup wasn't working out as I would have to get too close to get a good shot and I didn't want to spook the subject. So, back inside to grab camera #2.
Camera #2 was my Canon 6D with a 70-200mm lens. When I went outside and found the snake still in the same spot, I realized that 200mm was the perfect focal length. However, the old 6D kept missing the skinny focus point making me keep having to manual focus and I didn't trust myself. So, back inside to grab camera #3.
Camera #3 was my Sony a7iii. I was able to keep using the Canon 70-200mm lens with an adapter. And surprisingly, the snake was still periscoping on my third trip out. Now I had the perfect focal length with a camera capable of incredible AF and I was all set!
Despite being about 5 feet from the snake and having to walk in front of it multiple times to get this side shot, I never spooked him. The only thing that spooked him was the FedEx truck driving by. The first trip by the snake ducked down into the shrubs with just his head sticking out. He then brought himself back up to be spooked five minutes later by the same truck. After the second time, he didn't come back up.
I hope to see my new friend again very soon!
Note on reverse: "Soldaten auf Posten" - 'Soldiers on guard'.
Nice photo of a soldier with a camouflaged trench periscope.
A juvenile Blue Heron stretches his neck to see why there was a splash in the water.
Exeter, Ontario
Canada
Green herons are goofy.
Green Heron (Butorides virescens)
White Rock Lake, Dallas Texas
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Finally found the male periscope orb weaver, 4 years after finding the first female. Now we'll have a better chance at identifying this surprised muppet!
About 3-4mm and hardly... ever... sits.. still. Lucky that it stood in this position for a few seconds for a 6-shot stack.
View more at Araneidae Checklist: Orb Weaver Spiders
Green Heron perched in the tree tops. One wonders why it's called a green heron since it's every color but that!
Adapt to polluted waters and a smoggy sky or die.
Fish sculpture from Kirkland Summerfest 2014. Part of fishfrolic.com. Unable to determine the artist. Background image shot at Clarke Beach Park on Mercer Island, WA.
One texture from Evelyn Flint / Texture Time
The hollow eyes of a trashed-out locomotive in the woods near Albany, N.Y. It’s a General Electric U25B, or U-Boat, as the U series was nicknamed.
This is Conrail #2510, formerly a New York Central locomotive. It dates to the early 1960s, and was part of the stash a local railroad historical group set aside in the 1990s for preservation. That plan didn't work out so well.