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Archer
·Not exactly wild, but we saw some baby goats on Saturday and they were cute as heck...
Some other creatures as well:
Some other creatures as well:
Nature Watch, Your Flora and Fauna Photos and Stories
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vbrad26
·Spent the past week in Corolla Beach NC. Being from Florida, I'm used to the beach - but not used to horses on the beach.
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Charlemagne1333
·A blue tit 'sunbathing' at my local reserve. Taken with a long telephoto lens, so I didn’t need to disturb this little fella.
There’s a few reasons why birds might do this, but on on warm days it’s most likely to encourage ticks and lice to evacuate before they overheat and die.
There’s a few reasons why birds might do this, but on on warm days it’s most likely to encourage ticks and lice to evacuate before they overheat and die.
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Fallout Boy
·bougainvillea-explosion 😀
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bubba48
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pdxleaf
··In Art We TrustFive of us recently went on a 9 day raft trip on Beaver Creek in central Alaska. Several times we took side trips hiking from the boreal forest along the river where there were good access routes to climb into alpine areas. We arranged for a bush plane to land on a gravel bar at the end of the trip to take us back to the starting point. Here are some flowers I saw as we ascended on one of those days. On most gravel bars that we camped on, there were tracks of wolves, black bears and moose. Fortunately, there were only recent tracks and we did not see them where we camped.
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Erik_H
·Malayan water monitor lizard, this one was about 1.5 meter.
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Cartesian
·A very friendly garter snake lounging in the spirea:
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elephantcage
·We converted about 2 acres to butterfly field. There’s still several acres to mow☹️
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Hetcins1
·This is a beautiful privet hawkmoth which I found today I returned it somewhere safe it the the largest species of moth here in the UK .
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Waltesefalcon
·I saw two baby Texas Horned Lizards this morning. One in my backyard while sitting on my porch, and one when walking my dogs down the gravel drive.
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Cartesian
·The monarch butterflies are finally arriving, a bit late this year:
First, they fill up on the nectar from the butterfly bushes:
Then, they go off amongst the milkweed, where they'll lay eggs:
This new generation, after hatching as caterpillars, forming chrysalises, and emerging again as butterflies, will be the one that heads all the way down to central Mexico for the winter.
First, they fill up on the nectar from the butterfly bushes:
Then, they go off amongst the milkweed, where they'll lay eggs:
This new generation, after hatching as caterpillars, forming chrysalises, and emerging again as butterflies, will be the one that heads all the way down to central Mexico for the winter.
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TasMike
·The monarch butterflies are finally arriving, a bit late this year:
This new generation, after hatching as caterpillars, forming chrysalises, and emerging again as butterflies, will be the one that heads all the way down to central Mexico for the winter.
Our (Australian) Monarchs are interesting. Not native to Australia (arrived from North America in the 19th century) they don't do the big migration here; our climate is milder. Instead, they form overwintering colonies and hibernate in the cooler months and re-emerge when it's warmer to feed and breed. A remarkably adaptive species.
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Cartesian
·Beautiful photos!
Our (Australian) Monarchs are interesting. Not native to Australia (arrived from North America in the 19th century) they don't do the big migration here; our climate is milder. Instead, they form overwintering colonies and hibernate in the cooler months and re-emerge when it's warmer to feed and breed. A remarkably adaptive species.
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Archer
·We were lucky enough to have a bunch of them migrate through our property one time...they stayed overnight and left the next morning.
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Dan S
·Flora processed by fauna. The bears are back in town...
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Cartesian
·The monarch butterflies are finally arriving, a bit late this year:
First, they fill up on the nectar from the butterfly bushes:
Then, they go off amongst the milkweed, where they'll lay eggs:
This new generation, after hatching as caterpillars, forming chrysalises, and emerging again as butterflies, will be the one that heads all the way down to central Mexico for the winter.
And now we have the first chrysalis - which is interestingly on a rose bush, rather than the milkweed that the caterpillar would have been born on and ate in order to grow:
The lovely gold ring around the top of the chrysalis is especially beautiful
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Omegafanman
·Window shopping .....
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Canuck
·We’re just back from 4 days trailering in the Rocky Mountains. We knew that one of Mrs. C’s orchids was about to bloom, and this is what we found when we arrived home. We have a greenhouse attached to the house and we have primarily orchids. Orchids like cooler temperatures, filtered light, and they seem to be happiest later in the summer and early fall as the days get shorter, and they tend to flourish between now and the end of November.
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