amazing bugs you didn't know existed.... enough said
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTQZAiuDoTg&feature=player_embedded#!
I'm still working on my Charlie and the Nature Factory theme song.
What rhymes with Factory?
I could watch a video like that for hours. There's just no end, it seems, to the diversity of insect life.amazing bugs you didn't know existed.... enough said
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTQZAiuDoTg&feature=player_embedded#!
I've been to a similar garden, which is a beautiful place to visit. Though I've tried to shoot pictures there, the results always appear contrived, like capturing wildlife images at a zoo.In Victoria, there is the Butterfly Gardens. According to their blurb, they have 3k butterflies and moths flitting about the place...
One more for the road.
A younger anhinga, perhaps the offspring of the one pictured above:
I thought of you recently when I came across two roseates. Not sure if they're a couple, but one foraged to beat the band while the other looked on, balanced on one leg and showing little interest:Wow, gorgeous, SK! I love watching the cormorants and anhingas sun themselves. They look so zen.
From a distance, they resemble cormorants but are not as social and are usually seen by themselves. They're great to photograph, as they don't spook easily and almost seem to enjoy posing.I always watch for them at Sanibel; they don't look like anything else, and they, like herons, remind me that there's a genetic link with dinosaurs.
Great pictures--thanks.
Thank you.Never seen an anhinga, never even heard of them. Thanks SK, those are really great photos!
I can't help but think of you now when I see them. It's as if once you mentioned roseates earlier in this thread, they started to appear in the areas I frequent. Until then, they were a very rare sighting.Wow! Look at all that pink! Love it.
I taped the show and watched it last night. I was blown away by the filming and story lines and can't wait to see the rest of the episodes when they air.Those beaks are amazing!
and did anyone watch Frozen Planet? Very enjoyable. Well. Except for the deaths of the poor penguins and seals.... and there was a mercy kill by a bison... that freaked me right the heck out.
Rectory.I'm still working on my Charlie and the Nature Factory theme song.
What rhymes with Factory?
If you do, which I realize is a lot of work, they'd be welcomed here....I should go through and scan/post them when I get a chance.
The way I've heard that one before ended with, "Rectum? Hell, it nearly killed 'em!"Rectory.
Which reminds me of that short little joke with the punch line "Damn near killed'em!"
I can't help but think of you now when I see them. It's as if once you mentioned roseates earlier in this thread, they started to appear in the areas I frequent. Until then, they were a very rare sighting.
You mean "here," as in this thread? Okay:::jealous:: I want to see some here!