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

[j44ke]

Couldn't resist posting another panorama.

[Mabouya]

Chrysalis opened but the butterfly didn't work out so well. There's a protozoa that causes this in Monarchs, but not sure if that affects black swallowtails as well. Could be any number of other things as well.

That's a bummer. Is it still able to fly sort-of OK?

[j44ke]

That's a bummer. Is it still able to fly sort-of OK?

Doesn’t seem like it.

Of course me being me I am researching raising black swallowtail butterflies now.

[bigbill]

Here is my Bierstadt moment from today. We were fishing in the second meadow on Slough Creek in Yellowstone and the atmospherics cooperated.

[rwsaunders]

[Mabouya]

Doesn’t seem like it.

Of course me being me I am researching raising black swallowtail butterflies now.

1) That's too bad.

2) Good luck if you decide to help out.

When I was a kid I found a caterpillar crawling around outside on some plants. I brought it inside, put it in a large jar (added holes to the top) and fed it fresh leaves of the type it was eating. It eventually formed a cocoon / chrysalis (I was just a kid and didn't know the difference) and I assumed a butterfly would eventually emerge. I was a bit disappointed when it turned out to be a waspish / moth looking thing, but it was alive, so I released it outside and it flew off to continue the cycle.

[open roader]

Satin Bower Bird - this one's a girl!

[claritycycler]

Current one and done front yard cactus flower, opens at night by the next day its starting to die, 8"+- diameter. I haven't noticed such feathery edges on the flowers before, a couple of more ready to pop on the same plant, I'll make sure to check.

[htwoopup]

[bigbill]

I call this, "The back of my truck while on vacation"

[open roader]

Female Superb Fairy Wren

[72gmc]

Magnificent!

[rwsaunders]

[open roader]

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Mr. Bob,

Is that a snow capped peak on the centre right horizon or some cloud?

[rwsaunders]

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Mr. Bob,

Is that a snow capped peak on the centre right horizon or some cloud?

That my friend is Mt. Rainier letting you know that she’s the boss.

[Nomadmax]

2013-11 Germantown, Ohio 106.jpg

In my hometown, reported to be the only bowstring bridge still in use. Pedestrians and bikes only though.

[open roader]

Crested Shrike Tit - shot through filthy pane of glass.............. still can't get close enough to one of these guys outdoors.

[open roader]

That my friend is Mt. Rainier letting you know that she’s the boss.

OK, so this location is Olympia?

[rwsaunders]

OK, so this location is Olympia?

72gmc’s haunt…near the ASUW shell house at the University of Washington, on Lake Washington. Quite a storied history of the building and mentioned quite often in the book The Boys in the Boat.

https://historylink.org/File/20681

[echappist]

Crested Shrike Tit - shot through filthy pane of glass.............. still can't get close enough to one of these guys outdoors.

The focus mechanism is so good that I can't tell there's an intervening glass pane

You mentioned upthread you are using a 500 mm Nikon lens; is it paired to a DSLR or mirrorless?