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Didn't you notice the
?Several in our group felt that cloud looked like a running goose.
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Didn't you notice the
?Several in our group felt that cloud looked like a running goose.
hurtinbuckaroo
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Tell us more about this jellyfish with 120-foot-long stinging testicles.
Arctish
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I think hurtinbuckaroo is mostly interested in hearing about the giant stinging gonads, not the other details.
Only now did I notice my own typo. Gotta be more careful with spellcheck.
Elixir
Made in America
OK, not going to win any photo contests, but I wanted to share this because it's just so ... weird.
There is an old (at least 50 years) piece of steel culvert that has been getting re-absorbed by the woods near the river, just about 40 feet off the road to my house. It's about 8 feet in diameter and maybe 25 feet long. It's really massive - I think it's quarter inch riveted steel. For the last couple of months there is a young buck who has been occupying it whenever it's too hot, too cold, too rainy or whatever. We named him Kevin. Smartest deer ever - it's warm in there when it's cold, it's cool when it's hot, it's dry and spacious, keeps him hidden but there are two escape routes - it's perfect. He's basically invisible due to the overgrowth, but there's one spot from which it's possible to pick him out. Yesterday I stopped the car and tried to get a couple of shots with my phone. Here he is laying down watching me watching him:
There is an old (at least 50 years) piece of steel culvert that has been getting re-absorbed by the woods near the river, just about 40 feet off the road to my house. It's about 8 feet in diameter and maybe 25 feet long. It's really massive - I think it's quarter inch riveted steel. For the last couple of months there is a young buck who has been occupying it whenever it's too hot, too cold, too rainy or whatever. We named him Kevin. Smartest deer ever - it's warm in there when it's cold, it's cool when it's hot, it's dry and spacious, keeps him hidden but there are two escape routes - it's perfect. He's basically invisible due to the overgrowth, but there's one spot from which it's possible to pick him out. Yesterday I stopped the car and tried to get a couple of shots with my phone. Here he is laying down watching me watching him:
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4321lynx
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I like Kevin. He's smart.
Rob
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A long-jawed orb weaver.
Monarch.
Common grackle.
inchworm!
Rob
I honestly can't recognize a deer. I guess I'm looking at it all wrong. But a very neat story. Near as I can tell our deer just walk around rain or shine. Sleep where they are. For a deer to think about a place as home seems pretty special.
What on earth does that thing do for a living?
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Orb weavers are snare hunters - they build large and impressive webs.
The silk of a cousin of that spider, the golden orb weaver, has even been made into clothing.
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-25/spider-silk-outfit-on-show/3791928
This gown took 80 people five years to make. So it's extremely expensive - though I doubt that tbe spiders get a large cut of the profits.
(Yes, that's the natural colour of the silk).
Potoooooooo
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Blackbird's breath smoking in the cold
Eastern wood-pewee.
White-breasted nuthatch.
Cooper's hawk.
Red morph fall webworm moth.
Common buckeye.
Rob
Common buckeye.
Goldfinch.
Monarch butterfly caterpillar.
Red-legged grasshopper.
Clouded sulphur.
Rob
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Our last trip to Maine this summer Late August.
A laughing gull at Schootic
A common Loon in the fog
Two cormorants at the shore by the house
A school most likely of mackerel off shore by the house
A harbor seal feeding on the school of mackerel
Some butterfly
Sandpiper by the shore
On Eagle Lake, a snapping turtle on a rock and a dragonfly on the snapping turtle
A bald eagle at Jordan Pond
A herring gull at the shore.
15 minutes after taking the photo of the gull we got a call to come home. My dad was being taken to the hospital. About an hour later my neighbor called to tell me that my dad had died. https://talkfreethought.org/showthr...way-it-was-supposed-to-go&p=710928#post710928
A laughing gull at Schootic
A common Loon in the fog
Two cormorants at the shore by the house
A school most likely of mackerel off shore by the house
A harbor seal feeding on the school of mackerel
Some butterfly
Sandpiper by the shore
On Eagle Lake, a snapping turtle on a rock and a dragonfly on the snapping turtle
A bald eagle at Jordan Pond
A herring gull at the shore.
15 minutes after taking the photo of the gull we got a call to come home. My dad was being taken to the hospital. About an hour later my neighbor called to tell me that my dad had died. https://talkfreethought.org/showthr...way-it-was-supposed-to-go&p=710928#post710928
4321lynx
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My heartfelt condolences to you and your family on the loss of your father.
Lynx.
Lynx.