PHP dev, sometimes pixel artist. Also takes pictures of bugs and birds to see what they look like up close.
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!
Rouge-Gorge here :)
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".
Robin
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27734177
Bless this little potato for posing perfectly for me.
Robin
Bless this little potato for posing perfectly for me.
Oh wow, gorgeous bird!
Pantaloons!
Possibly "Colletes daviesanus". Tiny and cute.
Orange tip
Females do not, actually, have the orange tips on their wings, but the patterns on the underside are gorgeous.
Herons look so incredibly cool. Until you see them from the front, of course. Gorgeous shot!
I saw mining bees today!
I know they're not rare or anything, but it's the first time I get to observe some.
Sorry for the shaky video, I keep forgetting to take a beanbag.
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.
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.
I saw some active webrings on neocities sites!
Thanks! He's so puffy, I figured he was cold.
Gorgeous photograph. How cold was it outside that day?
Such a beautiful bird
Amazing scene! That must have been great to watch. Less so to hear!
A handsome boi!
So mossy. It's beautiful!
"Did they see me? Naaah. I am perfectly hidden behind this tall grass!"
Such a beautiful area. I love that golden light.
Me too! It's been bugging me that I'll never know.
A survivor
It seemed to be doing fine as far as "racing over plants and climbing from leaf to leaf" was concerned.
Old lady in bag jail
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.
Little identification help please?
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...
How to capture your smol criminals
Hi there. I unfortunately ran out of smol criminals of my own to post here, so I figured I would help my fellow birb law enforcement agents to get more work done, with helpful tutorials from the internet.
The videos are not mine. I like that photographer a lot and he is single-handedly responsible for that one time I captured an actually good picture of a birb.
He's good at what he does. He loves what he does. He does NOT yell at the viewer (which is appreciated, ISO settings do not need to be discussed at a decibel volume equal to said iso settings). He has excellent underhanded tricks to get smol criminals to commit crimes on camera.
His pictures are lovely.
Check it out.
Do what he does.
Then post your results here so I can enjoy them, thank you very much, byyyye :D
Kitty
Done... a whiiiiile ago for a daily challenge
Smol criminal spotted over prison wall
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.
Common chaffinch, Belgium, today
Finally. I kept hearing them and not seeing them. Very frustrating.
"Bon appétit!" - Grey heron, Wallonia, Belgium
Very efficient killer. He didn't miss a single fish in the three hours I watched him, and he was also catching dragonflies as they flew by.
Possibly a marsh tit?
Or less possibly a willow tit? I can't tell. Belgium, Wallonia.
Coot chick
From that year when a coot decided to nest right on the edge of the Louvain La Neuve lake (Belgium), next to a walking path. I was blessed.