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In poor light these guys are hard to tell apart. Even in good light it's...

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:31:42 GMT

In poor light these guys are hard to tell apart. Even in good light it's tricky.

[Stephen and I saw a raft of these today; he thought it would make a nice picture
but I said the light was not nearly good enough. This is from March 2010.]

The green-headed guy is a Common Goldeneye, the blue-headed guys are Barrow's Goldeneyes.

The rest are either females or immatures and pretty hard to ID.

[For MickPt: ISO 100, f/8, 1/320 seconds, 280mm for a 35mm equivalent of 448mm]

Photo by mramshaw

from a road trip with Suzanne

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:10:28 GMT

from a road trip with Suzanne

Photo by mramshaw

from a road trip with Suzanne

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:09:42 GMT

from a road trip with Suzanne

Photo by mramshaw

from a road trip with Suzanne

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:47:21 GMT

from a road trip with Suzanne

Photo by mramshaw

Eight-spotted Skimmer (female/immature). I thought Twelve-spotted but a local...

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:07:32 GMT

Eight-spotted Skimmer (female/immature). I thought Twelve-spotted but a local expert tells me the wingtip markings are missing, plus we're outside of their range. I have more pictures if anyone is interested, but this is the best (it was windy).

Photo by mramshaw

This is a crane fly. We call them Daddy longlegs, why I don't know. It's a...

Fri, 13 May 2011 06:26:48 GMT

This is a crane fly. We call them Daddy longlegs, why I don't know. It's a little jaggy here, but seems okay on the clickthrough. Those round extensions below the wings (halteres) are for flight dampening.

Photo by mramshaw

A spring-like day

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:26:22 GMT

A spring-like day

Photo by mramshaw

I wanted to upload this for 'Nachbarnebenan' to show how important eyes are....

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:21:19 GMT

I wanted to upload this for 'Nachbarnebenan' to show how important eyes are. This was in the wild, but kudos to all who tag their photos as 'zoo' as it's a bit of a cheat to not do so.

There were some first-year deer wandering around last summer. This young stag is keeping a rear-guard eye on me as the others parade off.

Resized for the web but otherwise uncropped and unprocessed. If I did, I would rotate it a little and crop slightly to make the head more prominent.

Photo by mramshaw

These guys are a bit of an urban menace. Still, they're darn cute, just don't...

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:39:01 GMT

These guys are a bit of an urban menace. Still, they're darn cute, just don't get angry when they shred your garbage and leave it all over the lawn.

This is resized but otherwise uncropped and unprocessed. I think it's just about perfect as it is.

Photo by mramshaw