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The African wild dog hunts in packs and small groups. Like most members of the dog family, it is a cursorial hunter, meaning that it pursues its prey in a long, open chase. Nearly 80% of all wild dog hunts end in a kill; for comparison, the success rate of lions, often viewed as ultimate predators, is only 30%. The misleadingly placid appearance of this fellow can prove fatal to many an unfortunate antelope or other animal victim. African Wild Dogs are experts in team work and are know to chase their prey over long distances and then literally tear the unfortunate victim apart when it's still alive. (Al Ain, Dec. 2012)
Wild fennel grows everywhere in this section of Fort Ord. It's very aromatic, which was lucky for us, because we held bunches of it up to our noses to ward off the absolutely nauseating smell of the dogs, who managed, within seconds of our arrival, to roll in something that smelled like the bowels of hell.
An abstract image of an old fence with rubbish and dead leaves in front. Taken on School Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, England.
The images in this series were inspired by Mishka Henner's 'No Man's Land', a series created using Google Maps randomly taken images on the roadside. This series is created in the same way by photographing from the window of my car while driving around my local area. However, I added my own personal touch by zooming in and positioning the camera to get abstract style images and this is the result. I believe this concept is what truly has made these images rather different if not unique. This series also shows how our streets that we walk along every day can be made into art if you just take the time to look at it in a different way. It showcases the natural beauty of our manmade structures and local wildlife amongst it that we often take for granted.
Please comment and critique because I would always love and appreciate feedback to improve my photography.
Alarge saguaro cactus overloks the Sonoran desert in the Saguaro National Park (West), Tucson, AZ. A saguaro cactus has a lifespan of 150-200 years, and takes about 70 years to grow the first arm.
Isn't it cute? I hope we do an October function here (actually in their downstairs lounge/ wine vault/ dining room).
3rd Avenue and 40th Street.
24/08/2016 - GallinaRock 2016 seconda serata.
Lo ZOO di BerlinO
In Apertura: Carbonifero, Thunderdogs, Wild Rabbit Project
Taken in an alpine setting, approx. 5,000 feet elevation, San Bernardino National Forest, California, between Lake Arrowhead and Running Springs.
Maybe the most unusual campsite we've ever had - also a serious contender for second best. This is right on the edge of the Rio Grande Gorge.
We drove around and looked at all of the sites right on the gorge. Very few had any place at all to put a tent, if there was a spot, it was usually in what looked like it would become drainage in a storm. All of the sites had concrete pads and metal roofs and of the sites that were in use, most had set up their tents under the roofs. We were thinking that they might know something we didn't so, as the saying goes, when in Rome...
It felt weird, like setting the tent up inside a house. But when the hail started on the second night, it sounded like the whole Blue Man Group was up there on the metal roof banging away. We were glad to be "inside".
When photographing wild mustangs, you always hope that they'll suddenly rear up dramatically, hooves churning the air and nostrils flaring. In reality, they tend to just have staring contests with boulders.
Daucus carota (common names include wild carrot, (UK) bird's nest, bishop's lace, and (US) Queen Anne's lace) is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to temperate regions of Europe, southwest Asia and naturalised to northeast North America and Australia; domesticated carrots are cultivars of a subspecies, Daucus carota subsp. sativus.
Daucus carota is a variable biennial plant, usually growing up to 1 m tall and flowering from June to August. The umbels are claret-coloured or pale pink before they open, then bright white and rounded when in full flower, measuring 3–7 cm wide with a festoon of bracts beneath; finally, as they turn to seed, they contract and become concave like a bird's nest. The dried umbels detach from the plant, becoming tumbleweeds.[1]
Very similar in appearance to the deadly poison hemlock, Daucus carota is distinguished by a mix of bi-pinnate and tri-pinnate leaves, fine hairs on its stems and leaves, a root that smells like carrots, and occasionally a single dark red flower in its centre....Wikipedia
Another mystery plant showed up this year thanks to a bird or critter.
Canon EOS 5DS with a Sigma 105mm EX DG f2.8 lens that no longer will autofocus.
I want to thank you for taking the time to visit my little space here on Flickr.
For Our Daily Challenge "wild goose chase". I had no idea what to shoot, apart from wild magpie geese! (Which I chased around for a while to get a close enough shot of them).
These guys bombard the top end during the wet season, grazing on local grassy areas. In the dry season, they congregate mainly around billabongs and wetlands, but as we are now in wet season, and everything is wet and green, they can be seen all through the suburbs of Darwin.
The Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is native to North America and is the heaviest member of the Galliformes. It is one of two species of turkey, the other being the Ocellated Turkey, found in Central and South America. Adult Wild Turkeys have a small, featherless, bluish head; a red throat in males; long reddish-orange to greyish-blue legs; and a dark-brown to black body. The head has fleshy growths called caruncles; in excited turkeys, a fleshy flap on the bill expands, becoming engorged with blood. Males have red wattles on the throat and neck. Each foot has four toes, and males have rear spurs on their lower legs.
Cliff trails at Wilder Ranch State Park, Santa Cruz, CA. I don't usually ride these trails, but I was lazy this day and headed out there for the sunset.
Up in Hartford for the crazy picture time! We all do our thang, and I flex that non-existent muscle once again. Why do I insist on doing that?
I've been a fan of wild goose chase's stream for some time.
Her still life photos are such an inspiration to me. I love the artistic ideas and unusual compositions and combinations.
The series 'a series of unsuitable nests' is fantastic.
For the Wednesday Contact Showcase
1. nocturne in black and gold, 2. riders on the storm, 3. an unsuitable nest no. 5, 4. a bit of this and a bit of that, 5. www.flickr.com/photos/wildgoosechase/2615879866/, 6. you win again, 7. an unsuitable nest no. 1, 8. cat amongst the pigeons, 9. life
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