Show us a snapshot!

[Glazer]

anonymous photo sharing

Canada Geese.

[Glazer]

fallout new vegas creepy

[Rock]

Originally Posted by Glazer

upload pictures to the internet

Zoomed and cropped to oblivion. Looked like some kind of Turn through my binoculars.

Maybe a killdeer?

[Rock]

Originally Posted by 3acres

Those are great, Bumbershoot! Looks like everyone's drinking the kool-aid.

Thanks- I wish the finches would leave some nectar for the hummingbirds.

[Glazer]

That's it. I've never heard of a killdeer before. Beautiful bird.

[Rock]

They are indeed. A couple of interesting things about killdeer (besides their appearance): they often make their nest on the ground, in gravel. The eggs are speckled and blend in very well. Also, when approached they will run away from the nest with one wing sticking out at an odd angle, pretending they're injured to lure away predators.

A killdeer used to nest in the gravel beside the parking lot at work. I saw it do the 'injured' act many times. I could be almost on top of the nest before I saw the eggs, and that was with knowing where it was. Disclaimer: I never stepped on an egg or unnecessarily disturbed the bird. But the nest was near the gate which led to the shipping dock in back and I opened the gate almost every morning.

[Glazer]

There must have been a nest in the area cause they did the broken wing dance. This is the area I saw them in.

[Rock]

Looks like a fine spot to raise a family.

[JackieLikesVariety]

great photos, Glazer, and thanks for the info Bumbershoot.

[Glazer]

Originally Posted by Glazer

There must have been a nest in the area cause they did the broken wing dance. This is the area I saw them in.

If you blow up this pic and look along the tree line. Across the open water you'll see two white RVs. Then just to the right of those you'll see a small white dot. That's my car.

[JackieLikesVariety]

[Oxirane]

Nice! We got snow...

[Rock]

The sharp-shinned hawk was back today. Got some photos of him taking a bath.
Water droplets flying everywhere:

[Rock]

Some more:

[Rock]

Still more:

[JackieLikesVariety]

very cool! do you have a super good camera or a lot of talent or both?

[stormie]

Hawks always look judgemental. It's nice to see one looking silly

[Rock]

Originally Posted by JackieLikesVariety

very cool! do you have a super good camera or a lot of talent or both?

I have a super good camera that I just bought a couple of weeks ago and very little talent. But I'm very patient and I took a lot of pictures this morning to get those!

[3acres]

Originally Posted by stormie

Hawks always look judgemental. It's nice to see one looking silly

All the other hawks in the neighborhood are just shaking their heads at that last shot. "Hezekiah is such a putz."

[JackieLikesVariety]

[Glazer]

I made a new friend.

[Sputnik]

Originally Posted by Glazer

I made a new friend.

Almost perfect camouflage.

[Oxirane]

Memorial Day at the Oxirane homestead

[Glazer]

Nice porch.

[Oxirane]

Crappy picture, my cell phone is OK, but the camera is not the highlight, then I send it to my Gmail, download to my laptop, upload it to post image, resize it for message boards, and post the link...and the columns turn out wavy...

But, thank you, it really turned out well, the garden and mulch that is, and we had five days of near-perfect weather here...

[Diamonds2020]

Nice rainbow I saw yesterday.

Sent from my SM-A102U using Tapatalk

[Rock]

I got a couple of decent shots of the Bullock's Oriole that is a regular customer at my hummingbird feeder:

[Random Precision]

It rained here for most of the Memorial Day weekend, but we did get a new visitor that didn’t seem to mind the swamp our pasture has become.

[JackieLikesVariety]

beautiful shots, everyone!!!

Random, what do you think that is?

[Random Precision]

My best guess is “Night Heron”. We sometimes see a Blue Heron which is much larger, but this is the first time we’ve seen this bird.

[JackieLikesVariety]

pretty cool!

[Rock]

I got some photos of the male black-chinned hummingbird:



Shutter speed 1/500 of a second and still his wings are a blur:

[JackieLikesVariety]

[Oxirane]

Nice!

[3acres]

A couple of black rat snakes hanging out by the kitchen stoop.

[Glazer]

They aren't "hanging out". They're fucking.

[stormie]

OK birrd bird bird BIG SNAKES FUCKING

Look, I needed a warning OK?

I know they are good snakes having healthy good snake fun, but still.

[Glazer]

Here's a cute lizard to calm the nerves.

[stormie]

long tail!

So you gettin some worms and stuff to feed your pets?

[Oxirane]

3acres, those are good sized - growing up in Maryland, we had a bunch of those on the farm, we never bothered them, and they never bothered us...they are good to have around...

Glazer, what is that specifically?

[Glazer]

@Karma karma karma chameleon.

[Oxirane]

Thanks for the ear worm...gonna need to go watch some Phish...

[Karma]

You rang?

[Glazer]

Well I couldn't not tag you. Now you're it.

[JackieLikesVariety]

Lilly!

[Oxirane]

Nice! That looks just the ones in our garden (Asiatic lilies) except ours are not in bloom yet, but are getting there.

[3acres]

There's a storm coming.

[C2H5OH]

Originally Posted by 3acres

There's a storm coming.

I saw some clouds just like that before a storm a couple of months ago, but didn't have my camera. I should steal your pic and claim it's mine.

[JackieLikesVariety]

I posted photos in a facebook group and they ID'd this huge plant as Adams Needle Yucca. that's the first two photos.

(now if I could just figure out how to post more than one photo at at time from imgur to fb)

also, some lovely groundcovers are blooming. I recognized one as a sedum.

[Rock]

There sure are a lot of beautiful flowers and plants in your neighborhood, Jackie.