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Supplying chick food
Sigh…. This is my first posting in nearly a week. My blog was hacked by sleaze merchants, and for an hour was promoting junk pharmaceuticals before I took everything offline. It required a professional to muck out the barn. … Continue reading
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Breakfast bugs
Birds meet the dawn hungry. Here are two that chose bugs for breakfast. The birds, I know; the bugs, I do not. Song Sparrow. Killdeer
Beast with two heads
The beast with two heads is meant to evoke Iago’s remark about the beast with two backs (Othello Act 1, Scene 1, ll. 126-127), for like the bard’s beast, this butterfly with two heads is a copulating pair. The blending wings of … Continue reading
Clearwing
This has to be one of the neatest bugs ever. It hovers over flowers sipping nectar like a hummingbird, but it looks like a giant bumble bee. It is neither bird, bee, nor fly. Rather, this oddity is a daytime-flying moth with … Continue reading
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Small fliers
Recently, I wrote about the difficulty of taking a picture of a Spring Azure in flight. The motivation was to capture the lovely blue upper wings that become apparent during flight. However, capturing a close image of any insect in flight … Continue reading
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Crane Fly mating
As I wander about the yard watching the progress of spring, I ofttimes have seen the frenetic flight of Giant Crane Flies, but my photographic skills were not able to match their rapidity. I managed a picture of one … Continue reading
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Packing pollen
Bumble Bees collect nectar (to feed their own activities and make honey) and pollen (to feed their youngins). The nectar is carried back to the hive in the honey sack, and, normally, the pollen is carried on the bumble … Continue reading
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Robbing and looting
Flowers produce nectar for one reason: to entice insects to brush against their reproductive organs and, in doing so, to transfer pollen from one flower to the next. To accomplish this, flowers are structured such that the insect must … Continue reading
Western Spring Azure
It has become a spring tradition to try to get a shot of the Western Spring Azure in flight. The blue colour is only apparent when the butterfly’s wings are open, and generally that is when it is flying. … Continue reading
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September goulash
This is an end-of-the-month collection of images, none of which rated a posting on its own. Sub-adult Bald Eagle Not all Kokanee Salmon spawn in creeks and rivers. Some, such as these, spawn along the shore of the Lake. … Continue reading
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