Several days back we looked out and suddenly found mallards out there on the pond, after having them all disappear sometime in July I believe. This was noteworthy by itself, to a small degree, but there was an aspect that made us a little excited, in that, some of them might have been ‘ours.’
You see, over the summer we raised a trio of orphaned mallards and, well, no point in repeating
Credit for this one goes to The Girlfriend, a discovery made while she was distributing the thrice-daily ration of corn for the various critters that come to partake we now have (at least) two more:
But we’re not letting it go at that, because I have still images too.
When she came to get me, I knew the camera and long lens was still affixed to the tripod in the upstairs bathroom
I’ve been in the middle of two video projects, trying to find the opportunities to finish them, so naturally I add a third. But I got a handful of photos today as well, so here’s what’s been happening here (except for the other things which you’ll see eventually.)
First off, I noticed something slightly odd-looking about a few of the wood ducks (Aix sponsa) this morning,
So we see the month close out, and what a month it was! Well, certainly a productive one from a photography standpoint, not too shabby as we enter the cold months. I’m not even sure what the count of image uploads stands at now, since I’m writing this ahead of time, but it’s at least 145 counting the ones you’re about to see, which puts it in the top ten for all of the months
The other day I was experimenting again, and dug out the old Sigma 105mm 2.8 macro lens, my main macro provider until it quit unexpectedly about 16 years ago (!), in two ways. The first was that autofocus got very balky, likely due to a stripped focus gear, though I have no idea how that happened. I did indeed do this on my own with another lens, by inadvertently leaning the focus ring against a
… will be late, slightly on purpose. I mean, I was going to feature it in a post anyway, and this way I’m saved from having to try and find something else for the weekly feature while the weather’s getting colder again. I have a few pics I’ll throw up in the meantime, unworthy of EF status and the exacting criteria that I have for that…
And yes, the past couple of days
Since I just made a promise to you good folk, I cannot tell you about the count that I reached tonight/this morning (it’s just before 1 AM as I type this,) which was a whopping 57, um… somethings. That’s really not shabby at all for late November, but it’s quite warm out there,
Seriously, what is it with anoles and their sleeping positions?
This is far from the first time finding one here, but the position was so perfect this particular evening.
Look at those toes. Though you’d think that getting, you know, on top would be more comfortable and less likely to fall off, but then you wouldn’t be thinking like an anole. At the very least,
The Girlfriend is fond of Japanese maples and we arrived here at the new place (it’s been over a year now, perhaps I should stop referring to it that way) with a few in tow, obtaining several more in the past year, but there were already two established on the property: one perpetually deep red variant up by the mailbox, which has made the
Just a handful of wildlife portraits obtained within the past few days – they mostly speak for themselves.
How long has it been since we’ve had an arthropod? Too long?
I said it was misty last night, and you didn’t believe me. This katydid did, however.
This Canada goose was waiting for me to finish distributing corn so it could take a break from chowing on pond weeds.
