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A few weeks ago I saw a rat snake chillin on the side of a boulder.  
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Also, can someone please tell me what plant this is?
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May 27, 2018 07:56
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Ant sex update: there are like twice as many stupid drones in the same spot today, but there's a jumping spider on the scene, so I'm gonna just smoke weed and see how things play out
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May 27, 2018 15:37
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I've had way too much fun shooting ants off the wall today and they keep climbing back up the wall and forming back up into groups to be shot again. It's nature's shooting gallery
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May 28, 2018 00:14
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Alpenglow posted:
Alaus oculatus. Nice! 
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May 28, 2018 11:56
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Buncha critters out on the bike trails this morning. A Red Tail that I expect bounced off a windshield, and a medium sized momma common snapping turtle.    
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May 28, 2018 16:21
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Please don't pick up turtles by their tails. It can injure them. Please DO help them get off roads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgd_B6iKPxU
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May 28, 2018 16:31
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It's not a critter, but I've got these trees that sprout white flowers all over them in the spring/summer. They can grow a good 50 feet tall, and during the ice storms this past winter, one of them got torn right out of the ground roots and all and fell smack dab into my former poolyard, where it still lays. It's sprouting white flowers. It's still alive, even after falling down! I've never seen that before. I'm sure it probably won't survive much longer in that shape, but it's a really neat thing that is apparently possible if they come out with the roots intact.
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May 30, 2018 11:11
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heres a really good yt channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQGoJ5zOZUU
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Jun 1, 2018 01:03
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Centipede!! Tiny centipede!!  I'm pretty sure it's head is to the right. The poor thing kept getting freaked out by the bright light / flash from my phone.   That's your standard house brick for size. (Central Arkansas)
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Jun 2, 2018 04:20
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What's this cute little fella? It's pretty good at strafing.
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Jun 4, 2018 16:09
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anatomi posted:What's this cute little fella? It's pretty good at strafing. A hemipteran nymph, possibly some kind of leafhopper.
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Jun 4, 2018 19:04
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I saw a heron eat a mole alive including seeing the mole still struggling in its throat. It was kinda gross.
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Jun 4, 2018 19:11
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The great blue herons around here seem to specialize in snagging Muscovy ducklings. They’ll stalk mama ducks, and wait for a duckling to get distracted. It’s kinda sad, and kinda amazing.
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:I saw a heron eat a mole alive including seeing the mole still struggling in its throat. That segment with pelicans eating baby birds in a BBC nature documentary deeply upset me.
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Jun 4, 2018 20:29
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A couple weeks ago I saw a swan nesting near the river that runs by my work with a heron perched a few feet away from the nest. Watching. Waiting. A work colleague said that it looked like the heron was guarding the swan  I didn't quite know how to break it to her...
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Jun 4, 2018 21:13
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Recently saw footage of a magpie killing a baby rabbit. Not a surprise to me that they are capable of doing that, but christ is it brutal.
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Jun 5, 2018 00:28
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A couple of years ago I saw a whole group of young magpies absolutely going in on another fledgling magpie, no idea what it did to piss em off but it must have been pretty serious
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Jun 5, 2018 06:55
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Hey, what that on the newspaper machine? No, that.  It's an adorable tiny spider!   Some kind of crab spider? I'm in Central Arkansas.
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Jun 6, 2018 21:55
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Flower crab spider Misumena vatia is your most likely candidate there, nice find! Looks like you caught it partway through a colour change maybe, if it was a few days later and it was fully yellow you might not have even spotted it
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Jun 7, 2018 06:56
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I bought a new macro lens (ultra wide angle laowa 15mm) just in time for all the creatures to start stirring around here. Widow skimmer  Wheel bug nymph  and some black vultures fixin' to drop the hottest album of 2018 after they finish eating an armadillo 
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Jun 7, 2018 15:47
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I have only ever seen "fully" bald black vultures. Is that one a juvenile that hasn't shed all of its fledgling feathers? It's an excellent photo also! I still need to upload my photos of a bunch of black vultures going to town on a possum.
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Jun 7, 2018 17:08
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Those photos are great.
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Jun 7, 2018 17:26
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Thanks a lot!Skutter posted:I have only ever seen "fully" bald black vultures. Is that one a juvenile that hasn't shed all of its fledgling feathers? It's an excellent photo also! I still need to upload my photos of a bunch of black vultures going to town on a possum. I think that's exactly what's going on with the feathers, it's definitely a younger bird given the lack of "wrinkles" and it also had a pretty bad attitude, of the 10 or so around there that one was the one hissing at me quite a bit. Stood out from the group for sure. Definitely upload those photos sometime! They're fascinating critters. Here's a closer shot of the head 
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Jun 7, 2018 17:35
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PREYING MANTITS posted:I think that's exactly what's going on with the feathers, it's definitely a younger bird given the lack of "wrinkles" and it also had a pretty bad attitude, of the 10 or so around there that one was the one hissing at me quite a bit. Stood out from the group for sure. D I think you're on to something. A few years ago, a man who spends much of his time banding birds told me that turkey vultures (the only species in Saskatchewan) are really chill when they're adults. He climbs up to a nest, finds a vulture, holds it in the usual gentle-but-firm way, and tags it. If there's a juvenile in the nest, it will freak the gently caress out and try to murder his face as soon as he reaches the nest, but the parents don't mind a bit. Coming of Age for a vulture apparently means no longer giving any fucks at all.
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Jun 7, 2018 17:54
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A good life philosophy really.
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Jun 7, 2018 22:46
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Got to check a lifer off the list - I've seen what I was PRETTY sure were barn swallows flying around before, but never close or still enough for a positive ID. This is at my work and I've already let the people in charge of maintenance stuff know they're there & they're taking steps to make sure they're not bothered. They're like 15 feet up though so this is a pretty safe spot w/r/t cats, birds of prey, etc as well as people passing through.
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Jun 8, 2018 23:56
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It's been raining a lot so I can only look out my window, but there's some cool guys outside my window  
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Alpenglow posted:Also saw this cool dude, who would not slow down for anything: Is this an ant-mimic spider?
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Jun 9, 2018 03:00
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Yes it is! I always figured they were some tropical-exclusive, not something that would climb on my car in Pennsylvania. I wouldn't pose at all like a nice calm Phiddipus jumper, so that was the only remotely decent pic I got. More Pennsylvania critters from the few last weekends: Lil Crab Spider  Chill stripey spider missing a leg  Ichneumon wasp with what must've been almost 6" of ovipositor   This adorable little fuzzbum hanging out under a leaf  And a fairly friendly young Marmota monax! 
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Jun 9, 2018 03:15
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Those are some sick macros, what are you shooting with?
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Slo-Tek posted:Buncha critters out on the bike trails this morning. A Red Tail that I expect bounced off a windshield, and a medium sized momma common snapping turtle. Red tail is probably a juvenile who is still figuring out how to fly. Proportions are all wonky and youngsters usually have bright yellow gapes like that.
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El Burbo posted:It's been raining a lot so I can only look out my window, but there's some cool guys outside my window Clearly jays, but I'm not quite placing them. The colors look a lot like a scrub jay, but the crest seems to indicate they aren't Aphelocoma.
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Those are Blue Jays.
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the yeti posted:Those are some sick macros, what are you shooting with? Thanks! I ditched the standard giant Canon 100mm setup and roll with the Olympus 60mm now on an em-5ii. Just added the Olympus dual-flash which needs a bigger diffuser but so far is really helpful. It's soooo much more convenient to carry and set up. Just saw my first firefly of the season! It seemed pretty wimpy- might have jumped the gun on molting a bit. Best of luck to it in the coming psychedelic love-fest.   
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Jun 10, 2018 00:37
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I saw the first fireflies of the season here a few nights ago in the back yard it's officially summer
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YggiDee posted:Those are Blue Jays. Guess I'm not using to seeing blue jays with such gray heads. Also haven't lived in a place with blue jays in years - around here it's scrub jays and Steller's, and some gray jays up in the mountains.
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I think it's a lady. Edit: Nope! Did some research. It's just a typical blue jay with a little color variance. Lots of pictures out there with them looking like that. Shrug! my cat is norris fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Jun 10, 2018 |
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Alpenglow posted:Just saw my first firefly of the season! Great photos! Can't wait to see these guys around here. They don't seem quite as plentiful as when I was a kid, but they still put on a good show. Pearl Crescent waiting for sunrise.   Still getting used to this lens, the hardest part is the working distance. I'm getting the front glass element within about 2 or 2 1/2 inches of the critter for these. Using live view to focus is pretty much mandatory. PREYING MANTITS fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Jun 10, 2018 |
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drat those photos are nice
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