catbird with worm
Charlie guarding the field, the house, the porch...he takes his role very seriously
6 point buck, and while I was taking this two more appeared: I suspect they are triplets, usually you don't see bucks like this together and they all seem to be of the same size and age, so...
Mother and fawn, still in it's spotty stage and yes it's in the same spot the bucks were in the previous day
this is what a really good zooooom lens can do. This is a tiny butterfly called, GreenishBlue (how imaginative), and its no bigger than my little fingernail
These are wonderful nature pictures and I appreciate you sharing them. Nice job!
ReplyDeleteI've always been glittery green with envy over people who can get photos of bee fur and butterfly eyelashes, and now, by the harry, I can too.
DeleteBrushing the glitter out of my hair...
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dont even need to retouch them, although once enlarged I notice that the buck was a bit blurry around the edges...
very nice! i especially love the photo of Charlie. you can feel his presence in the midst of that beautiful scenery.
ReplyDeleteCharlie is, as all cats are, his own critter. He has finally decided on his role as Guard Cat, apparently escorting turkeys off the driveway in front of HIS porch two summers ago was so heady, he decided to expand his range. The turkeys, btw, have never come back to that part of the driveway.
DeleteHe was down there for at least a half hour, until he was satisfied that All Was Clear. =)
GOOd pics. what kind is the camera?
ReplyDeleteIt's a Lumix DMC-FZ300 (Panasonic)--
ReplyDeletedigital zoom, it will take movies (with sound), you can control the lighting, focus, color, spped of the shot, panorama, it probably could walk the dog and wash the car if I can find the right combo on this...and it comes with a PDF file, 375 page instruction booklet. I do have to be careful not to hit the wrong button at the wrong time or odd things begin to happen onscreen =)
One thing I do like, it's excellent in low light.
And you don't have to have your camera in the lion's face (so to speak) to take a close up.
What I'm waiting for is this fall, when the geese migrate, and when the starlings invade the woods on their way to wherever.
Have you noticed that little butterflies often have boring names? Severely descriptive, like comma because there's a little wing marking that looks like -- a comma! The bigger ones fare better. Tiger swallowtail, dusky swallowtail are nice.
ReplyDeleteIt could be that all the really cool Big butterflies are easier to see, and record, and those poor lovely little ones are just getting the left over names. Like comma,and bluegreenish..."well, waddya think, Joe, it's kinda blue and kinda green, how about just 'blue-greenish' and leave at that..."
DeleteGreat Eyeaful JT!
ReplyDeletewell, thank you. Are you braced for the tropical storm? Wouldn't you know, we just got our first two cords of wood deliverd two days ago...
DeleteI did notice that the weather men seem to have little to no idea how to pronounce "Isaias" and one of them this morning gave up and is calling it Eseese.
sigh.
It's a Hispanic name so people are falling down between the Anglo version most of them are used to and the authentic one! I'm having enough trouble spelling it, never mind saying it too.
DeleteI posted a comment several days ago which hasn't landed. Hm.
ReplyDeleteoops. I think it landed, gently, I just didn't pick it up. sorry...(mentally whips self with birch stick)
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