Notice the peter built bearing down on tulsi 'tween the insights
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I thought the first pic was maybe taken down under?
Believe they are metamorphosing into some spectacular shutter fly.
Will leave out the more explicit mating poses in case this is family friendly.
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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
@janis b
I love yer shadow. Long Tall Sally comes to mind. And bunches of great little bits on the sand. I would have to investigate every one myself. Is that a P. Man-of-War jelly? What a beautiful blue! Wonderful pix as always J!
Thanks for the friday photo fun. I'm glad you enjoyed playing with the imagery. Your stone wall is a thing of beauty.
Here are some colourful seaweeds and other beach life. I'll be back later to play if you all aren't already asleep; ).
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#2 I love yer shadow. Long Tall Sally comes to mind. And bunches of great little bits on the sand. I would have to investigate every one myself. Is that a P. Man-of-War jelly? What a beautiful blue! Wonderful pix as always J!
Hope all are doing well livin' la vida quarantina!
This is a first fall (imm. or juv.) male Baltimore Oriole. They take a couple years to get the fully black head of the adult male. They are coming through my area now and a few visit the birdbath.
The brush pile is adjacent to the bath so birds have shelter to dive into, when things like a Cooper's Hawk make attempts on them. This is a juvenile, just a couple months old. A terror on two wings if you are a little bird.
A Great Egret
a little closer
and a male Red-winged Blackbird in breeding (summer) plumage
be well, play it safe amigos!
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@dystopian
We don't have Baltimore Orioles here in the west. Sure would be nice if we did.
Hope all are doing well livin' la vida quarantina!
This is a first fall (imm. or juv.) male Baltimore Oriole. They take a couple years to get the fully black head of the adult male. They are coming through my area now and a few visit the birdbath.
The brush pile is adjacent to the bath so birds have shelter to dive into, when things like a Cooper's Hawk make attempts on them. This is a juvenile, just a couple months old. A terror on two wings if you are a little bird.
A Great Egret
a little closer
and a male Red-winged Blackbird in breeding (summer) plumage
be well, play it safe amigos!
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with your visitors. It's nice you enjoy such good company.
I don't know why my fish monger grandfather from brooklyn rooted for the baltimore orioles while the rest of my family were avid dodger fans.
Hope all are doing well livin' la vida quarantina!
This is a first fall (imm. or juv.) male Baltimore Oriole. They take a couple years to get the fully black head of the adult male. They are coming through my area now and a few visit the birdbath.
The brush pile is adjacent to the bath so birds have shelter to dive into, when things like a Cooper's Hawk make attempts on them. This is a juvenile, just a couple months old. A terror on two wings if you are a little bird.
A Great Egret
a little closer
and a male Red-winged Blackbird in breeding (summer) plumage
with your visitors. It's nice you enjoy such good company.
I don't know why my fish monger grandfather from brooklyn rooted for the baltimore orioles while the rest of my family were avid dodger fans.
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The hawk looks hungry.
Noticed the starlings and sparrows have begun
to flock around here. Hummers have mostly escaped.
Gold finches are active, woodpeckers subdued.
Deer are already slate gray. Early fall?
I have mentioned my out of control yard is like a botanical garden.
This is a view of my yard from where we sit on my front porch. Many depths of lush greenery, a haven for birds, bees, butterflies, rabbits, and a couple of humans who never tire of the beauty.
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Are those white flowers a climbing vine? I didn't know how lush areas of Texas are. Thank you.
I have mentioned my out of control yard is like a botanical garden.
This is a view of my yard from where we sit on my front porch. Many depths of lush greenery, a haven for birds, bees, butterflies, rabbits, and a couple of humans who never tire of the beauty.
@janis b
However, there are parts of it that do have good soil. Anything and everything in that picture were planted there by me. The flowers are plumerias. They are all blue, and if they appear white in the picture, blame the sun. I do have vines, Morning Glories, running wild all through the foliage in that picture, just haven't grabbed a picture of them in the morning when I am rushing off to work, just at the time they bloom.They are a lovely pink.
At any rate, there were errant Mexican Petunias, blue blooms, that also go for it in the mornings, only.
I do not have to go to a park. All I need to do is open up my front door, and this is what I see.
It is the little things, janis b.
I didn't recognise them as plumeria, as I know them from hawaii. Here they call them frangipani. I have two recent ones in planter pots, hoping the rainy colder winter has been kind to them so they produce flowers his coming summer.
Yeah, the little things!
#5.1 However, there are parts of it that do have good soil. Anything and everything in that picture were planted there by me. The flowers are plumerias. They are all blue, and if they appear white in the picture, blame the sun. I do have vines, Morning Glories, running wild all through the foliage in that picture, just haven't grabbed a picture of them in the morning when I am rushing off to work, just at the time they bloom.They are a lovely pink.
At any rate, there were errant Mexican Petunias, blue blooms, that also go for it in the mornings, only.
I do not have to go to a park. All I need to do is open up my front door, and this is what I see.
It is the little things, janis b.
@janis b
There was no breeze the morning I took these so the water was very calm but the smoke from all the wildfires added a slightly different color cast to everything.
@Socialprogressive
GREAT ode photos SP! Love yer dragonflies! They are: Green Darner, Flame Skimmer, not sure on the immature #3, then a Western Pondhawk, a pair of Green Darner, and a pair of Black Saddlebags. Excellent work! Beautiful! There is a cheap paperback, something like Common Dragonflies of California, by Kathy Biggs, a great learners photo guide. She has a CA dragons and a dragon ponds website too, or used too...
Out west you have the counterpart to Baltimore Oriole, the Bullock's Oriole. Which should be around Santee Lakes, they like willow/sycamore riparian, along any creek good, in breeding season. This time of year look for them in blooming Blue Gum Eucalyptus groves, as at many parks.
Went to Santee lakes recently where the Dragonflies have been out en masse.
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#6 GREAT ode photos SP! Love yer dragonflies! They are: Green Darner, Flame Skimmer, not sure on the immature #3, then a Western Pondhawk, a pair of Green Darner, and a pair of Black Saddlebags. Excellent work! Beautiful! There is a cheap paperback, something like Common Dragonflies of California, by Kathy Biggs, a great learners photo guide. She has a CA dragons and a dragon ponds website too, or used too...
Out west you have the counterpart to Baltimore Oriole, the Bullock's Oriole. Which should be around Santee Lakes, they like willow/sycamore riparian, along any creek good, in breeding season. This time of year look for them in blooming Blue Gum Eucalyptus groves, as at many parks.
@dystopian
I see Hooded Orioles here during breeding season, but have yet to see a Bullocks Oriole.
#6 GREAT ode photos SP! Love yer dragonflies! They are: Green Darner, Flame Skimmer, not sure on the immature #3, then a Western Pondhawk, a pair of Green Darner, and a pair of Black Saddlebags. Excellent work! Beautiful! There is a cheap paperback, something like Common Dragonflies of California, by Kathy Biggs, a great learners photo guide. She has a CA dragons and a dragon ponds website too, or used too...
Out west you have the counterpart to Baltimore Oriole, the Bullock's Oriole. Which should be around Santee Lakes, they like willow/sycamore riparian, along any creek good, in breeding season. This time of year look for them in blooming Blue Gum Eucalyptus groves, as at many parks.
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With them came Black Headed Grosbeaks, which sang during the day a song like an embellished and fuller vocabulary than a Robin.
As Oaks died, were taken down because, you know, Fall leaves which take three years to decompose, Bullock's Orioles moved in as the Black Headed Grosbeaks faded. I missed those songs.
They (Orioles) are a fascinating bird and colorful. Males and females are bright yellow-orange and both call, sing, talk. Before the females arrive, the male would build several skeletal hanging tear-drop shaped nests around the area. The female on arrival would inspect them all and make her choice. Then the building of the hanging nest continued with gusto.
Watching them weave a nest that hung at the end of an Oak twig but could withstand maybe 30-40 mph winds, was an unbelievable sight. The male and female would talk, chatter and sing to each other, through nesting, young and fledging. The male did the meals, the female tended the nest and babies. Nest with young in a Pear Tree
Great recording of typical calls: https://youtu.be/agkVG4i1-5k
It took us three years to figure most of this out, and then the fledging. The male slowed his chatter and meal bringing about a week before the babies were lured out of the nest.
Finally, the female would side step onto the nest branch and call the babies out. It seemed the oldest came out first as they were closer to flight-feathered than the last one. The youngest was not ready to fly and actually fell into Mr. M's lap. He donned leather gloves and climbed a ladder to put the fuzzy one on the peak of our garage.
He called and mom fed him for a week on top of the garage then he flew with the rest.
photos, and for hosting this evening--I needed something to make me smile.
A couple things sorta got fowled up for me this evening, and I didn't get the photo screenshot that I had planned to post. Think I've learned my lesson--do it during the week. Or, 'Plan.'
Want to thank all our excellent and super talented C99 photographers. This Friday OT is one of my favorites, every week.
Thrilled that Fall is finally coming--high of 73, tomorrow. Yeah! Everyone have a nice weekend.
Mollie
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Anti-grav bugs landed in the backyard
Believe they are metamorphosing into some spectacular shutter fly.
Will leave out the more explicit mating poses in case this is family friendly.
question everything
Rear shot
Notice the peter built bearing down on tulsi 'tween the insights
question everything
GREAT contrast!
Hey QMS! What a contrast the gas misers are with the carbon spewing gas hog!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
aww, good morning, I guess one can
say "Kiss my ass, Tulsi" in many different ways. /ducking.
I would like to kick into some asses of those, who destroyed Tulsi.
Don't cry for me, America.
How could I not cry? I ask.
You destroyed so much. I cry all the time in my inside these days. You betrayed so many.
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redacted - double entry /nt
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first pic down under?
I thought the first pic was maybe taken down under?
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
oops, the darn thing went
ass over teakettle so I just left it alone
like anti gravity bugs
reflected in a still lake
question everything
No ripples...
Ha! And here I was so sure it was a reflection shot!
You are very clever and funny dystopian ; )
You’ve noted that those down under drive opposite to those up over. I hope when I get into my car tomorrow I’ll remember what direction to go in.
Hi QMS
Thanks for the friday photo fun. I'm glad you enjoyed playing with the imagery. Your stone wall is a thing of beauty.
Here are some colourful seaweeds and other beach life. I'll be back later to play if you all aren't already asleep; ).
Wow the shadow vee
Amazing shots Janis!
Some things are upside down.
question everything
So that's what it would have looked like
in the northern hemisphere. Thanks for that QMS.
lol
speaking of clever and funny... /eom
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
By the way dystopian,
my grandmother's (married to my fish monger grandpa) name was Sally. Neither of us was long and tall except in the shadow of the setting sun.
[video:https://youtu.be/eFFgbc5Vcbw]
Great pics Janis!
I love yer shadow. Long Tall Sally comes to mind. And bunches of great little bits on the sand. I would have to investigate every one myself. Is that a P. Man-of-War jelly? What a beautiful blue! Wonderful pix as always J!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
That is a P. Man, Pacific style
https://oceana.org/marine-life/corals-and-other-invertebrates/bluebottle
Very colorful indeed, Janis
Nice shots, Janis. The seaweed colors I've seen here on the west coast are really bland compared to what you have in NZ.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
thanks for bein' here QMS!
Hope all are doing well livin' la vida quarantina!
This is a first fall (imm. or juv.) male Baltimore Oriole. They take a couple years to get the fully black head of the adult male. They are coming through my area now and a few visit the birdbath.
The brush pile is adjacent to the bath so birds have shelter to dive into, when things like a Cooper's Hawk make attempts on them. This is a juvenile, just a couple months old. A terror on two wings if you are a little bird.
A Great Egret
a little closer
and a male Red-winged Blackbird in breeding (summer) plumage
be well, play it safe amigos!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Nice bird shots, dystopian
We don't have Baltimore Orioles here in the west. Sure would be nice if we did.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
Thank you dystopian, for keeping us in touch
with your visitors. It's nice you enjoy such good company.
I don't know why my fish monger grandfather from brooklyn rooted for the baltimore orioles while the rest of my family were avid dodger fans.
the orioles have nice hats
he would have had more trouble rooting for the yankees or mets in NYC!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Thanks dysto
The hawk looks hungry.
Noticed the starlings and sparrows have begun
to flock around here. Hummers have mostly escaped.
Gold finches are active, woodpeckers subdued.
Deer are already slate gray. Early fall?
question everything
Lovely pics from everyone!
I have mentioned my out of control yard is like a botanical garden.
This is a view of my yard from where we sit on my front porch. Many depths of lush greenery, a haven for birds, bees, butterflies, rabbits, and a couple of humans who never tire of the beauty.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Beautiful, OtC
Are those white flowers a climbing vine? I didn't know how lush areas of Texas are. Thank you.
Texas sucks in oh, so many ways.
However, there are parts of it that do have good soil. Anything and everything in that picture were planted there by me. The flowers are plumerias. They are all blue, and if they appear white in the picture, blame the sun. I do have vines, Morning Glories, running wild all through the foliage in that picture, just haven't grabbed a picture of them in the morning when I am rushing off to work, just at the time they bloom.They are a lovely pink.
At any rate, there were errant Mexican Petunias, blue blooms, that also go for it in the mornings, only.
I do not have to go to a park. All I need to do is open up my front door, and this is what I see.
It is the little things, janis b.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
So your Texas garden is also fragrant!
I didn't recognise them as plumeria, as I know them from hawaii. Here they call them frangipani. I have two recent ones in planter pots, hoping the rainy colder winter has been kind to them so they produce flowers his coming summer.
Yeah, the little things!
Thanks for Friday Photos tonight, QMS
Went to Santee lakes recently where the Dragonflies have been out en masse.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
Stunning, Social!
You must have really enjoyed that experience. How mirror-like and calm that day on the lake must have been. Thank you.
Thank you, Janis.
There was no breeze the morning I took these so the water was very calm but the smoke from all the wildfires added a slightly different color cast to everything.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
Fantastic ode photos SP!
GREAT ode photos SP! Love yer dragonflies! They are: Green Darner, Flame Skimmer, not sure on the immature #3, then a Western Pondhawk, a pair of Green Darner, and a pair of Black Saddlebags. Excellent work! Beautiful! There is a cheap paperback, something like Common Dragonflies of California, by Kathy Biggs, a great learners photo guide. She has a CA dragons and a dragon ponds website too, or used too...
Out west you have the counterpart to Baltimore Oriole, the Bullock's Oriole. Which should be around Santee Lakes, they like willow/sycamore riparian, along any creek good, in breeding season. This time of year look for them in blooming Blue Gum Eucalyptus groves, as at many parks.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
You still beat google, dystopian!
Cheers
Thank you for the Dragonfly ID, dystopian
I see Hooded Orioles here during breeding season, but have yet to see a Bullocks Oriole.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
In the Hood River Valley, there used to be many large Oaks.
With them came Black Headed Grosbeaks, which sang during the day a song like an embellished and fuller vocabulary than a Robin.
As Oaks died, were taken down because, you know, Fall leaves which take three years to decompose, Bullock's Orioles moved in as the Black Headed Grosbeaks faded. I missed those songs.
They (Orioles) are a fascinating bird and colorful. Males and females are bright yellow-orange and both call, sing, talk. Before the females arrive, the male would build several skeletal hanging tear-drop shaped nests around the area. The female on arrival would inspect them all and make her choice. Then the building of the hanging nest continued with gusto.
Watching them weave a nest that hung at the end of an Oak twig but could withstand maybe 30-40 mph winds, was an unbelievable sight. The male and female would talk, chatter and sing to each other, through nesting, young and fledging. The male did the meals, the female tended the nest and babies.
Nest with young in a Pear Tree
Great recording of typical calls:
https://youtu.be/agkVG4i1-5k
It took us three years to figure most of this out, and then the fledging. The male slowed his chatter and meal bringing about a week before the babies were lured out of the nest.
Finally, the female would side step onto the nest branch and call the babies out. It seemed the oldest came out first as they were closer to flight-feathered than the last one. The youngest was not ready to fly and actually fell into Mr. M's lap. He donned leather gloves and climbed a ladder to put the fuzzy one on the peak of our garage.
He called and mom fed him for a week on top of the garage then he flew with the rest.
Now here in France we have the Loriot (lore-ee-oh)
Eurasian Golden Oriole
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Greetings, QMS! Thank you for the fun
photos, and for hosting this evening--I needed something to make me smile.
A couple things sorta got fowled up for me this evening, and I didn't get the photo screenshot that I had planned to post. Think I've learned my lesson--do it during the week. Or, 'Plan.'
Want to thank all our excellent and super talented C99 photographers. This Friday OT is one of my favorites, every week.
Thrilled that Fall is finally coming--high of 73, tomorrow. Yeah! Everyone have a nice weekend.
Mollie
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