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In this entry, I'm
cleaning out some miscellaneous photos that I took this spring—ones
sitting around on my computer that didn't make it into the other
spring entries.
On the 11th of April,
I found this little red-legged fly on my car door when I opened
it at work. I don't know if he flew onto it when I opened the
door, or if he had ridden with me all the way from home.
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| The next
day, the 12th, I took a few photos in the courtyard at my condo.
These first two were of some Cherry blossoms. |
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next one, of course, is a tulip. |
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final one from that day is a moth that was on one of the building's
doorframes. |
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| This photo
of tulips in the courtyard and their reflection in the lagoon is
from the 5th of May. |
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| On the 22nd
of May, I came out to find a pair of Gadwall in the lagoon. I've
seen a male Gadwall here once before, but to have the pair of them
was a nice treat. Especially since I had my camera with me. |
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| This is
the male, preening. |
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| And this
is the female. |
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| On the same
day, I found this worm in the garage and had to run get my flash
unit so I could get a picture of him. It's interesting how he's
got different colors and textures along his length. |
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| On the 6th
of June, I went out to take duckling photos, but found Sonic tending
to his hygiene before I found the ducks. |
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I did find the ducks, and I got several photos of them. |
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| The next
day I took more duck photos. |
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| The following
was one of my favorites. |
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| Sonic was
out and about that day, too. He has the courtyard memorized now,
and doesn't need to look where he's going. |
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| It was a
Wednesday that day, so I had to go on to work. When I came home,
about two blocks away from where I live, I saw a Bald Eagle being
harassed by crows. |
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| Behind the
eagle was another raptor being harassed. At first I thought that
it was another eagle, but when I got a look at it, I saw it was
a Red-tailed Hawk. |
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| The hawk
looked to be molting, and was having a tougher time of it than the
eagle. He was really being ganged up on. |
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On the 23rd of June,
I went back out to Surrey Lake Park to see if I could find that
Green Heron that had eluded my camera, and also to try to get
better photos of the Eastern Pheobe. I was able to do neither,
but I did watch a few Barn Swallows while they drank on the fly.
To do this, they fly along close to the water, and dip their head
(or maybe body; it's hard to tell) down into it. This causes a
bit of a splash.
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But the swallow is
still flying, and he comes zooming out the middle of the splash.
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I've seen them doing
that once or twice before.
I also found this Red
Admiral out at the park. Here, he's got his head turned up for
some reason.
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| Further
along in the park, I also found an eagle up in a tree. |
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And that's it for my
spring photography.
Wondering what summer
will hold,
Tom
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