Show your Bugs and Critters
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Re: Show your Bugs and Critters
Spider built web over night under Hummingbird feeder outside kitchen window.
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Eary this morning two of the three in pond socializing.
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Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Re: Show your Bugs and Critters
I liked this:
https://youtu.be/BNXPd6I1MuQ
Jim
https://youtu.be/BNXPd6I1MuQ
Jim
Re: Show your Bugs and Critters
Cool video! Looks like a fun experience raising the caterpillars into full grown moths.
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Re: Show your Bugs and Critters
How are these tiny ants able to clear an ant highway?
The path shown runs from my driveway to my neighbor's driveway
but the ant highway begins before my driveway
and continues well after my neighbor's driveway.
Click on the link below and then on the small Google photo
to start a 13 second video of poor quality,
but the ant engineering is impressive.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Uguhu6oPeGphNYCM7
The path shown runs from my driveway to my neighbor's driveway
but the ant highway begins before my driveway
and continues well after my neighbor's driveway.
Click on the link below and then on the small Google photo
to start a 13 second video of poor quality,
but the ant engineering is impressive.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Uguhu6oPeGphNYCM7
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Re: Show your Bugs and Critters
That is so cool ! Frankly I have no idea . I’ve never seen this before. I wonder just how big the colony must be , has to be large . Thank you for sharing . DanMad Mac wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 8:05 amHow are these tiny ants able to clear an ant highway?
The path shown runs from my driveway to my neighbor's driveway
but the ant highway begins before my driveway
and continues well after my neighbor's driveway.
Click on the link below and then on the small Google photo
to start a 13 second video of poor quality,
but the ant engineering is impressive.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Uguhu6oPeGphNYCM7
MNOSD 0002 / Do more than is required of you . Patton
Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
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My son-in-law took this shot this morning just a few miles North of town .
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Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
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Best shot I could get today . We can’t count how many we have , it’s a circus ! Dan
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Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
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Overcast so shot not the best .
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Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
Re: Show your Bugs and Critters
Man, quite a day Dan! You got some rare shots. Very cool.
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Re: Show your Bugs and Critters
A few mornings ago
more than a hundred cattle egrets
descended on the north 40 (my backyard).
to breakfast on thousands of grasshoppers.
An attempt with a pano feature on my iphone failed.
A fragment of it appears below.
Then I tried taking a series of zoomed in pictures left to right.
Yes, that is a coyote at 3 o'clock.
I gotta get a real camera with a telephoto lens.
more than a hundred cattle egrets
descended on the north 40 (my backyard).
to breakfast on thousands of grasshoppers.
An attempt with a pano feature on my iphone failed.
A fragment of it appears below.
Then I tried taking a series of zoomed in pictures left to right.
Yes, that is a coyote at 3 o'clock.
I gotta get a real camera with a telephoto lens.
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Still a great shot Mac ! Your place looks so beautiful. I’ve only seen a coyote in my backyard once several years ago late at night after my German Shepard woke me up . I. Warned neighbor across street , he thought I was crazy . Next night they ripped apart his rabbit hutch and lost all his rabbits .Mad Mac wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 7:50 amA few mornings ago
more than a hundred cattle egrets
descended on the north 40 (my backyard).
to breakfast on thousands of grasshoppers.
An attempt with a pano feature on my iphone failed.
A fragment of it appears below.
Then I tried taking a series of zoomed in pictures left to right.
Yes, that is a coyote at 3 o'clock.
I gotta get a real camera with a telephoto lens.
MNOSD 0002 / Do more than is required of you . Patton
Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
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My new hound dog Ginger has to get the credit for spotting this one.
She barked, took off and drove it farther away
while I scrambled the 220 Swift.
This one was a shoot and release.
In other words, I missed.
Here is a post I made a while back on the hunting thread.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=68974&start=20#p1145506
Those noble predators have my admiration
but I can not give them a pass.
She barked, took off and drove it farther away
while I scrambled the 220 Swift.
This one was a shoot and release.
In other words, I missed.
Here is a post I made a while back on the hunting thread.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=68974&start=20#p1145506
Those noble predators have my admiration
but I can not give them a pass.
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Re: Show your Bugs and Critters
Nice choice of round for coyotes. I got to know three young guys at work before retiring that are avid coyote hunters . They harvested 68 two years ago not sure of total last year . They use 223 or 556 on their hunts . There is a bar that has a coyote kill competition. You have to sign up ahead of day and most taken that day is the winner .Mad Mac wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 10:00 amMy new hound dog Ginger has to get the credit for spotting this one.
She barked, took off and drove it farther away
while I scrambled the 220 Swift.
This one was a shoot and release.
In other words, I missed.
Here is a post I made a while back on the hunting thread.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=68974&start=20#p1145506
Those noble predators have my admiration
but I can not give them a pass.
MNOSD 0002 / Do more than is required of you . Patton
Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
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On a chilly 40 degree morning in October of 2017
the game camera I had set up
over the remains of a hog we had processed
caught this Caracara
of the eponymous Byrd knife.
Smaller Black Vultures will not contest a Caracara for carrion
but the turkey buzzards in the picture are much larger
so the "Mexican Eagle" is social distancing.
the game camera I had set up
over the remains of a hog we had processed
caught this Caracara
of the eponymous Byrd knife.
Smaller Black Vultures will not contest a Caracara for carrion
but the turkey buzzards in the picture are much larger
so the "Mexican Eagle" is social distancing.
1990: Endura SE, Delica PE, Mariner, Police. 2014: ClipiTool Bottle Opener. 2015: Kitchen Knife PE, Tenacious CE, Stretch PE, Moran Drop Point, Kiwi, 2 Byrd Cara Caras, Schempp Bowie, Native 5 Forum Knife, Police SE, Tenacious SE, 4" Paring Knife, 2" Paring Knife, Terzuola Starmate. 2016: The Spyderco Story, Terzuola The Tactical Folding Knife, USN Ladybug H-1 Hawkbill SE, Black BaliYo, Yellow H-1 Salt Dragonfly 2 SE, Hennicke Ulize, Pink Native 5 PE, Renegade C23PS and C23P, Gayle Bradley 2, Terzuola Double Bevel, Gayle Bradley Air, Cricket Blue Nishjin, Centofante Memory, K2, 2 Large Lum Pink, Carey Rubicon. 2017: Dialex Battlestation, Orange Southard Positron, Gray Baliyo, Native 5 CE, Tenacious CE. 2018: Schempp EuroEdge, Eric Glesser ClipiTool Standard. 2019 Calendar Contest Reinhold Rhino CF PLN. 2022: Byrd Robin 2 Wharncliffe, Byrd Cara Cara 2 Rescue Orange, Janich Yojimbo 2 CruWear.
Motorcycle adventures in a past life.
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What a great shot . We have Turkey Buzzards here also they catch thermos and soar over our house frequently. I have only had one in yard clean up,after a Great Horned Owl killed a Raccoon . He was very tidy nothing was left when he flew off . DanMad Mac wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 3:46 pmOn a chilly 40 degree morning in October of 2017
the game camera I had set up
over the remains of a hog we had processed
caught this Caracara
of the eponymous Byrd knife.
Smaller Black Vultures will not contest a Caracara for carrion
but the turkey buzzards in the picture are much larger
so the "Mexican Eagle" is social distancing.
MNOSD 0002 / Do more than is required of you . Patton
Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
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Bumble Bee on Pinkie Winkie blooms . Dan
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Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
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Found an old railroad tie plate with a colony of ants as a bonus .
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Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
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MNOSD 0002 / Do more than is required of you . Patton
Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau