cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27734177
Bless this little potato for posing perfectly for me.
Rouge-Gorge here :)
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Thank you!
All of my Dick Grayson fanart came with the wrong bird until I figured out American Robins were a thing.
And the "old world" version of animals are usually superior. I had a very confusing conversation about squirrels with a New Yorker friend who was describing squirrels as fluffier rats, and I was describing lovely furballs. Then we respectively found out about grey/red squirrels.
“Turdus” being Latin for “thrush” and having absolutely nothing to do with their propensity to crap on your car. Honest.
Here I am, wiping european tears of laughter off my cheeks. Incidentally, I was wondering who blackbirds had pissed off to be named "Turdus Merula", aka "poop noxious fungus".
Bless this little potato for posing perfectly for me.
That, sir, is not a butt, but a blep. Gorgeous pic tho!
A meadow scorpionfly snacking on a dead caterpillar (peacock butterfly), next to (mayyyybe?) the cocoon of the parasite that killed the caterpillar.
I'm not entirely sure of the subspecies. They are tiny, adorable, and really favor tansy.
Thank you!
Possibly "Colletes daviesanus". Tiny and cute.
Females do not, actually, have the orange tips on their wings, but the patterns on the underside are gorgeous.
Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipes). They're cute as heck so I'm gonna be stalking their foraging area.
It is!
Thank you so much!
Right?!
Thank you! A proper camera (R7) with a 85mm lens :) I know some people manage great macro with their phones, but I couldn't have gotten close enough with a phone, the bees hurried back into their tunnels whenever I got near.
Grey backed mining bee (Andrena vaga) waiting for me to get away from her nest.
Herons look so incredibly cool. Until you see them from the front, of course. Gorgeous shot!
You drive through the fields and spot a dishevelled young woman hunching over roadkill, reaching into the corpse with pliers as flies buzz around her. You accidentally make eye contact just as she - grinning - drops a writhing maggot into a translucent plastic bottle.
A birch catkin bug invited itself.
I got myself extension tubes and it just happened to be THE season.
It's based on a template, I made it for the Afternoon Tea pixel club: https://lostletters.neocities.org/afternoontea/ which you should check out :)
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Canon R7, Sigma contemporary 150/600mm. It was on a low tree branch so between 2 to 4m away? The odds were NOT in my favor for this picture because I accidentally locked the camera on "ISO 100", this handheld with 2kg+ camera/lens on a windy day. Got lucky :)
Oh that's wonderful. I head "Robin Redbreast" before but I had no idea about Jenny Wren. Lovely!