Friday Night Photos Birds Vol 3 Edition

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 5:00pm

Happy Friday everyone. I hope everybody is doing well. Post any photos, memes, or music you like.

I didn't have an opportunity to get out with the camera this week so here are some bird photos from some previous outings at Santee Lakes.

Pied-billed Grebe

Male Yellow-rumped Warbler

Red-crowned Parrot

Male Belted Kingfisher

Male Great-tailed Grackle

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 6:19pm

A bird, you say.

be well and have a good one

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 7:13pm

Hi, EL

@enhydra lutris
Oh Shit indeed.
Love the meme.

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Submitted by orlbucfan on Sun, 04/30/2023 - 6:43am

Good laugh on a rainy Sunday morning

@enhydra lutris in east central FL, el.

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 6:21pm

Great pics, sp. Did you coordinate your music with

Joe tonight?

Thanks for the OT

be well and have a good one

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 7:21pm

I can see where one might think that

@enhydra lutris
but, no coordination, just coincidence.

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Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 7:50pm

Great minds

@Socialprogressive think alike.

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 9:24pm

Hi, OTC

@on the cusp
Joe has a great mind. As for me having a great mind, the jury's still out on that one.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 8:38pm

Nice shots!

The parrot is relaxing and only missing a drink to look way chill.

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 9:36pm

Hi, snoopy

@snoopydawg
Maybe a pair of shades to go along with that drink to round out the way chill look.

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Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 10:57pm

Hi all, Hey SP! Awesome

Hi all, Hey SP! Awesome photos as always. Can't go wrong with a good bird pic! I may be prejudiced?

I am so old I still use Audubon's and Myrtle when calling out Yellow-rumped warbler, to distinguish which subspecies (former species) the individual is. Heck we can call them in flight by chip note, so why not differentiate? I think it was a bad lump frankly. The Myrtle has completely different enzymes in its gut to digest waxy myrtle and bayberries Audubon's does not have. To me this indicates different species. Sure they hybridize and produce viable offspring. As many ways to draw species lines as ways to skin a cat. I also never liked the Yellow-rumped name because Magnolia, Cape May and Palm warblers all have yellow rumps. Awesome photo ya got there of it!

Great Belted Kingfisher pic too. As much as any bird, to me, and I have talked with other nationally known top bird photogs about it... the species HATES a lens being pointed at it as much as any. They are generally very ginchy about it. So, GREAT shot!

Thanks for the awesome arangements of pixels!

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Sat, 04/29/2023 - 8:35am

Hi, dystopian

@dystopian
Thanks for pointing out that there are two subspecies of Yellow-rumped Warblers. The one posted here is an Audubon's. As for the Kingfishers being extremely camera shy, I haven't noticed that big a difference between them and most other birds. The Red-crowned Parrots on the other hand really seem to love having their picture taken.

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 05/01/2023 - 12:36pm

We just call em both butterbutts. n/t

@dystopian

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 11:00pm

Hi Social

The Grebe looks like such a compact bird, and the Grackle looks like such an expressive one.

Thank you for sharing your photos, and for hosting.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Sat, 04/29/2023 - 8:40am

Hi, Janis

@janis b
The Grackle was expressing it's displeasure at me getting to close. He flew off right after I got that shot.

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 11:09pm

Hi all

Moon and stars

The evolution of a Nikau Palm flower cluster. This shows four different stages over a year and a half all together

Have good weekend all

Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 11:14pm

WOW Janis!

@janis b Hi Janis! WEEWOW! AWESOME!! Amazing photos!

You are a freakin' magician with that light. And yeah, you artist photogs are a completely different breed! Totally their own thing. So creative. Beautiful art! Thanks for that!

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 11:27pm

; ) dystopian

@dystopian

I am as attracted to light as you are to birds and insects. I really enjoy all our different perspectives, and the knowledge and understanding of nature it offers.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Sat, 04/29/2023 - 8:52am

Nice silhouette shot

@janis b
with the moon and stars, Janis. Is the 18 month flowering cycle of the Nikau Palm normal for a lot of the plants in NZ or is it the exception?

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Submitted by janis b on Mon, 05/01/2023 - 1:06am

It's not typical

@Socialprogressive @Socialprogressive

Most native trees bloom once a year, mostly with very small indiscrete flowers. The Puriri and Manuka, as well as the Nikau, produce flowers multiple times a year, at least in my environment.

Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 11:16pm

the yellow rose of Texas

Here is a quickie bit... something that bugs me, and the yellow rose thingie...

A beetle, no ID yet, I am not even sure of family. Most beetles I can ID to family or further on sight.

This is one of the flower Buprestids, genus Acmaeodera, not sure of species, lots similar. The yellow little dots are pollen, which is apparently catnip to them. Buprestids are borers, such as the infamous Emerald Ash Tree Borer we will all soon if not already hate. Many are native though, like these obviously great pollenators. Making Prickly Pear fruit.

One flower had five of them in it!

They were in the famous Yellow Rose of Texas. Which is a Prickly Pear cactus. See the thorns? John Nance Garner, from Uvalde, one of FDR's V.P. fought hard to make this the state flower, and lost by one vote to the Bluebonnet. Every Texan knows the Yellow Rose, half have never seen a Bluebonnet. Mitch Miller about 1955 had a big hit with the song methinks. Though I think the song dates to civil war marching origins, and has no known author...

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 11:20pm

Evening dystopian

@dystopian

Thank you for the yellow rose of Texas. Never knew it before but as a song. Your photo shows its unique rose quality, that of a succulent.

Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 11:34pm

cactus jack

@dystopian just to add... the battle for the state flower was long, heavy and protracted. John Nance Garner (whom gave Garner St. Pk. to the state) was nicknamed "Cactus Jack" over the course of the battle fighting for the Prickly Pear... and it stuck. He was known forever after as Cactus Jack.

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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.
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Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Sat, 04/29/2023 - 8:47am

There's an unofficial anecdote

@dystopian

that traces the "yellow rose of Texas" back to an alleged mixed-race mistress of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (the anecdote claims that Santa Anna wasn't exactly caught "napping" at San Jacinto - he was, um, "otherwise occupied"). Take with as much salt as you find necessary.

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Sat, 04/29/2023 - 9:12am

Pretty red beetle, whatever it is.

@dystopian
In about another month the Prickly Pear will be in bloom around here. Not only are they a pretty flower, they also attract a lot of bugs which makes them a great subject for macro photography.

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Submitted by orlbucfan on Sun, 04/30/2023 - 6:58am

I mosey over here weekly for this diary and

joe s' LP of the Week. I don't know how you visual magicians do it, but you even make bugs look great. That includes my "faves": spiders. Hope your reservoirs are replenishing, Sp. We are getting plenty of rain down here, but no tornadoes, thank natural law!! NOT looking forward to storm season! Anywho, Rec'd!!

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Sun, 04/30/2023 - 12:20pm

Good morning, orlbucfan

@orlbucfan
Hope the rain doesn't cause any more flooding. Our forecast calls for a chance of rain from Monday night thru Thursday night. Stay dry and thanks for stopping by.

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