Project: One photo a day (but not necessarily every day)

[Mabouya]

quatre bleu!

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[open roader]

Timing is everything in life

[SlowPokePete]

May 5, 2023 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

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[open roader]

Winter sun.

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[SlowPokePete]

May 7, 2023 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

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[j44ke]

Locals

[Tom]

In our little woodland patch.

Quadrillium

[echappist]

Locals

How are the bluebirds doing?

[bcm119]

Gray day on the Mendocino coast

[j44ke]

How are the bluebirds doing?

Incubating since last Friday, so if everything goes smoothly, hatching should be somewhere around 5/20-26.

Saturday my wife and I ran into a mother bear and three cubs, plus what I'm going to assume was a juvenile female bear. They were all mucking about in a wetlands near the silted-in beaver pond. Mom grabbed one cub with her mouth and herded the other two out of there very quickly. I've never seen a second bear of any size (this one was smallish) with a mother and cubs. I asked the local biologist and he said that female cubs who haven't reached sexual maturity sometimes stay an extra year, even if the mother has new cubs. Males never get to stay. Out of the house! Anyway, we were 40 yards away and they did the right thing by turning tail and running. But I really don't want to be any closer.

[SlowPokePete]

Albany, NY...

May 9, 2023 Tulips by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

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[j44ke]

Oh Moses Moses ...

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[echappist]

I presume you personally took these photos? If so, what set-up do you use? The image from earlier today has quite a bit of feather details, something I was never truly able to pull off with my superzoom.

Also, what is the name of this red-colored bird above?

[j44ke]

Everyday birds in Australia are kind of amazing. A friend just sent me a video of a tree full of screaming big white cockatoos. Hard to describe.

[j44ke]

Very low humidity (20%) and plus wind (15-20mph gusting to 30mph) lifting local soil or western Canada forest fire smoke already present on the east coast?

[j44ke]

I presume you personally took these photos? If so, what set-up do you use? The image from earlier today has quite a bit of feather details, something I was never truly able to pull off with my superzoom.

Also, what is the name of this red-colored bird above?

Crimson rosella.