{"id":13683,"date":"2015-05-18T07:27:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T14:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13683"},"modified":"2015-05-18T07:56:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T14:56:12","slug":"not-camera-dross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13683","title":{"rendered":"Not camera dross"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don’t always look at the contents of my camera’s memory card immediately. Having taken pictures of things around me, I quickly move on. Yet, now and then, things I thought were dross, turn out well. Here are a few from recent days.<\/p>\n

This Song Sparrow sang vigorously, then looked at me as if to say: “This is my reality.”
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Insects are notoriously difficult to photograph in flight. Success is often the result of happenstance, as was the case of this Hover Fly approaching some Deer Brush.
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I have only seen a female Common Merganser alight atop a piling during spring. Why are they there? On this occasion, the merganser’s presence was challenged by a European Starling, which probably had a cavity nest lower in the piling. The merganser is still quacking towards where the starling was as it approached.
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A Huntsman Spider was doing the huntsman thing of hanging around bark waiting to pounce on insects at night.
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When I see White-tailed Deer along the shore, they are usually doe. But here was a buck. He has just started on this year’s antlers. It will be many months before they are ready to be used to contest a doe.
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