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.
Females do not, actually, have the orange tips on their wings, but the patterns on the underside are gorgeous.
You drive through the fields and spot 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.
Why settle when I could get a 800mm 5.6 for a mere 14k?
The only reason I didn't impulse buy a teleconverter to tack on my impulse bought 600mm is that it would just get me (more) underexposed pictures. But the urge is real, and we don't even have bald eagles around here.
She goes into the Hell Bag for roughly 15 minutes a month, the time it takes to get her monthly Old Kitty Medicine (which comes as a jab).
She earned the Hell Bag (aka bathing bag) after requiring sedation and injuring her Human during the first home visit from the vet. Totally unrelated, but her teeth are in remarkably good, pointy, stabby condition for a 14 year old cat.
Edit: Halictus scabiosae, identified through observations.be with 99% certainty.
What am I looking at? Except a very industrious little worker?
How do I go about figuring it out? Is there some reliable site that would allow me to refine by stripes and such? Thanks.
This is Wallonia, Belgium. I got a new camera, which allows me to get much more detailed entirely useless pictures! I was one with the bees for an entire hour, came home with 500 pictures, and this is the only photo I got of this one. The stripe pattern struck me, with the very sharp lines, but I have no head, no thorax, no nothing...
Wavre, Belgium, today ♥ I knew there were chaffinches in town, I hear their calls on the regular, but I hadn't managed to see one up close yet.
"A dumbass committed her email address hardcoded as a recipient for all mails, again."
-- Me, the dumbass
Taken near my workplace in Belgium a few years ago. I still love this birb.
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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!