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I love the framing on this shot.my cat is norris posted:I can't stop swooning over that cinnamon teal. What a loving beautiful bird. The lighting surely helps! Since nesting season is approaching, the males are getting rowdy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ho2YLlxdLU
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Abyssal Squid posted:Took a surprise trip to Florida and the wildlife is pretty wild here. Fish crows everywhere, mockingbirds so common there's nothing in the north like them, and Februrary warblers, it's all pretty great. Went to Pelican Island Wildlife Refuge and didn't get many pictures, but a couple things stood still for me: Spawn camper! 
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Moon Potato posted:Since nesting season is approaching, the males are getting rowdy. Do the females look like mallards, or is that just a mallard in the background?
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stubblyhead posted:Do the females look like mallards, or is that just a mallard in the background? A Mallard for comparison: 
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 Derobrachus geminatus, AKA the Palo Verde Borer beetle. These huge stupid assholes fly everywhere and get all over in Summer here in Phoenix. They're like, 4 inches long. Those mandibles are about a quarter inch and for chewing wood. I do not gently caress with them.  A Solifugid of some sort. When I was living out in the sticks a bit more these were everywhere. This one was about 3 inches counting legs, 2 inches just the body.  I also see mule deer all the time when I hike. Contrary to what you'd think, you really don't run in to too awful many scorpions or snakes unless you build a house right on a mountain or some poo poo.
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Snowy Egret: snowy-strike5 by Redwood Planet, on Flickr Great Egrets are getting their breeding plumage now.  ge-plumes2 by Redwood Planet, on Flickr Missed!  egret-missed by Redwood Planet, on Flickr Western Grebe with a smelt:  grebe-smelt2 by Redwood Planet, on Flickr When they scratch their heads you can see their crazy lobed toes.  grebe-scratch by Redwood Planet, on Flickr
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I'm glad someone got this thread going again. Have some owl pictures from this weekend   
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"I watch you poop."
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Lovely shots, Junky!
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I met this little fella after a fireworks show last July! A face of  
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Moon Potato posted:Since you're in Oregon, the Northern Goshawk is another candidate for your back yard raptor. It's in the same family as the Cooper's Hawk and Sharp-shinned Hawk, but the coloration is different. I was walking my dogs yesterday and spotted a hawk up in a tree that looked quite similar, though I don't know that it was the same bird of course. it did squawk at us as we passed, though, and it sounded exactly like one of the clips the Cornell bird lab has for Cooper's hawk. I've heard that same call a lot of times, so it seems the most likely candidate. Now to figure out who the much larger hawk is that likes to hang around and piss off the local crow community.
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stubblyhead posted:Now to figure out who the much larger hawk is that likes to hang around and piss off the local crow community. My neighborhood White-tailed Kite was out hunting while I was driving home yesterday.  One of the kites at Arcata Marsh was eating a vole while I was walking past its perch. After a few minutes of tearing off bits of fur and eating some strips of flesh, they swallow the rest in one go.  The Snowy Egrets that showed up in Arcata Marsh's brackish pond a few weeks ago have learned to stop being afraid of people because a lot of the good fishing spots are right below the trails. This one was marching back and forth right in front of me while grabbing fish.  I went to the mouth of the Mad River to see if the seals had pups yet. They didn't.  Some Caspian Terns were fishing there until a group of dogs that escaped from someone's yard jumped into the river and scared everything away. 
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Chickadee-watching at my parents' place is always a good time.    Optimal vantage point.  And oh, hey, a moose!  
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Camera is long since dead, so no photos. Regardless, we've got carpenter bees starting a nest by the front door of the condo. Besides the fact that they are as docile as bumblebees, and the territorial males can't sting or bite, anything we should be concerned about?
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Kilo147 posted:Camera is long since dead, so no photos. Regardless, we've got carpenter bees starting a nest by the front door of the condo. Besides the fact that they are as docile as bumblebees, and the territorial males can't sting or bite, anything we should be concerned about? Damage to your buildings. If you plan on selling, it could very well be a negative point that needs to be resolved before a sale.
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 ANT WAR!!   
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VendaGoat posted:Damage to your buildings. If you plan on selling, it could very well be a negative point that needs to be resolved before a sale. Do they actually do that much damage?
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Is there anything underneath besides the metallic blood of death's army? Finally saw a (not flattened) Alligator Lizard in Oregon today with a surprisingly long tail chillin in our unseasonable sun. I think it's a Southern given the light eyes and clear stripes?  
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Nope, just happens every year in a few places in my yard. Big battle royal between neighboring hives or whatever to decide who's in charge of that particular spot. I missed one in the back yard a few days ago too--nothing left but a shitload of ant carcasses and a few of the victors carrying of the dead to feed their ever-ravenous brood. e: also I had no idea we had lizards around here, I don't think I've seen a lizard in the wild since I lived in Florida. Any tips on spotting one? stubblyhead fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Apr 4, 2016 |
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Kilo147 posted:Do they actually do that much damage? They make holes in fascia, which depending on your buyer, is how big of a deal it is.
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Nice closeup. What a tail on that thing! Wood Ducks have returned to Sequoia Park. I'm going to keep an eye out for nesting behavior over the couple months in the hopes that I can film some falling ducklings. In the mean time, they're just looking awesome.  The females outnumbered the males 5 to 3, so some of the ladies were getting protective of their beaus.  They're one of the only ducks that have sharp claws on their feet to help them perch in trees.  Great Blue Heron:  Marsh Wren: 
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a cooper's hawk just landed right next to my birdfeeder a few feet away from me like "whats up do you mind if I eat some birds here" i told him to eat the blackbirds
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stubblyhead posted:e: also I had no idea we had lizards around here, I don't think I've seen a lizard in the wild since I lived in Florida. Any tips on spotting one? That one was right in the middle of a logging road, so... hope you get lucky and find some idiot waiting to get eaten by a hawk? The only other one I've seen was dead in a woodsy part of Corvallis. Moon Potato posted:The females outnumbered the males 5 to 3, so some of the ladies were getting protective of their beaus. Females protecting mating rights seems so different from duck pond Mallard gangbang shenanigans, that's really cool. I bet they're all gettin some on the side though? 
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I love this thread, so glad it's here again!stubblyhead posted:
This is my poo poo right here, thanks!
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I don't know much about finding lizards in Oregon (you have twelve species), but your best bet is to walk through the woods or scrubland and keep your eyes and ears open. Alternately, flip rocks and logs and you might find some, or might instead find some salamanders/etc. I had a blast two years ago looking for salamanders in CA and OR, stumbled on an alligator lizard under a dry log in northern CA, which was neat - it was early in the year and I didn't think I'd get to see one.
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 This lil dude was hanging out at work the other day, he did a tether jump when I picked him up and he had pretty good sized main eyes so I think he's some sort of jumping spider, but if anyone could tell me what species that'd be cool! southern Connecticut, for reference
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The huge cephalothorax, tiny abdomen, and beefy biceps say Platycryptus undatus, even though they're usually tan rather than gray. They're common and adorable! 
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Alpenglow posted:Females protecting mating rights seems so different from duck pond Mallard gangbang shenanigans, that's really cool. I bet they're all gettin some on the side though?  Also, this is what a hovering Osprey looks like from directly underneath: 
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Moon Potato posted:Also, this is what a hovering Osprey looks like from directly underneath: Bombs away! 
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Mrs.Nameko posted:
"ima fok u up m8"
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PathAsc posted:I love this thread, so glad it's here again! All of Nat Geo's documentaries on ants usually feature a war or two if you're a nerd who likes documentaries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me1V7bS0wWA
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Waterfowl are loving cool and chill (except ducks amd geese gently caress them). There is a drainage gulley (bayou, pilot gulley, whatever they call them where you live) behind my parents' neighborhood that we kids used to gently caress around near back in the day. They've now put sidewalks and padestrian bridges on it and added some flowering local plants, and turned it into a little jogging trail area. Since then egrets and other marsh and coastal birds have taken up residence and they just chill there, being ice cold and badass. I know it cost a little money to put all the nice poo poo in. A few miles of paved trail, the plants, and bench/trashcan pit stops. But it the grand scheme of things it's amazing how little effort you have to go through to ensure wildlife retains the kind of space it needs to flourish alongside even Houstonian Hellburbs. On the same topic I worked at Walt Disney World for a year during college and they have a really good track record with this. Some of you who know the area might snort loudly in response to that statement, given how they took a huge chunk of forest and wetlands and turned it into WDW, but it's true. Something like half the land area of the joint is permenantly allotted to land management uses. It's not completely wild, they installed shitloads of water retention poo poo so the place doean't flood like a motherfucker, but it is kept relatively pristine. Pristine enough that the local wildlife is all over the place. Also they have mostly avoided disrupting the local microclimates. All while hosting god knows how many tens of millions of people a year and being one of the biggest vacation spots in the world. It goes to show that it IS possible for voracious human greed to coexist with the environments our buildings rest upon and within. Anyway, fuckin words in gbs. poo poo used to depress me though. Once I found out that there were fewer known siberian tigers than are needed for a healthy gene pool. Thus their extinction had ultimately already been sealed. This has actually changed iirc, with a lot of science and effort they and many other species have been drug back from the brink. The idea is still the same though, that new generations of people might find only in history books the kind of biological diversity and distinctiveness that makes our world so wonderful and climatologically stable. That's why I fukkin love it when I see local ecosystems being guarded and enjoyed as they should be. There IS a right way to do it. And greedy fucks can still have all the loving material wealth they can imagine as long as they are willing to stab other people in the back to get it. We can do both. It's not too hard actually.
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Nathilus posted:Waterfowl are loving cool and chill (except ducks amd geese gently caress them). There is a drainage gulley (bayou, pilot gulley, whatever they call them where you live) behind my parents' neighborhood that we kids used to gently caress around near back in the day. They've now put sidewalks and padestrian bridges on it and added some flowering local plants, and turned it into a little jogging trail area. Since then egrets and other marsh and coastal birds have taken up residence and they just chill there, being ice cold and badass. 
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Yeah I hear you mang plus add the world's tiniest whitebread violin but jfc.
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Found this friendly guy wandering on a property where I was clearing brush and debris.   This guy was in my sink getting a sip from water droplets, I think.  
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Those are some very outta focus spider shots, but I actually love them just for how the reflection from Spidey's eyes really stands out.
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the green things in that photo are actually the spider's chelicerae! you can see its lil shiny black eyes in the second shot looks like a lil bold jumping spider (Phidippus audax) which everyone loves
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