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Some pictures I took recently
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Blue Fleabane Erigeron acer
This species of plant is becoming scarce by all accounts, and is difficult to find.
I spotted it several weeks ago in an old quarry close to Pollardstown Fen. It's a protected species in Northern Ireland:
Autumn Gentian Gentianella amarella
Bumblebee sp.
I didn't get a chance to see the colours on this Bumblebee before it took off, so couldn't make a definite I.D. However, if you look closely, you will see a parasitic mite on the thorax just behind its head:
Bronze Shieldbug Troilus luridus
14-Spot Ladybird Propylea quatuordecimpuncta
A small shoal of Roach Rutilus rutilus
This small shoal was seen in the Grand Canal recently. I remember being on a barge trip as a child and seeing huge shoals of fish in the canal, but it's just not something you ever see now, whatever's going on?!
Liberty Cap Psilocybe semilanceata
Some of you may be familiar with this fungus!:)
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I was one of the lunatics who spent the early hours of the morning observing the lunar eclipse (and I'm bleedin' knackered now!). I took these shots from the Curragh in Co.Kildare.
At 2:58 a.m. the earth's shadow is beginning to engulf the moon:
The full lunar eclipse at 4:09 a.m. ..........
............. and at 4:29 a.m. this morning:
My very last shot at 5:01 a.m.
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Its a super moon when its closest to earth....Its a blood moon when its a lunar eclipse...I think...
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whyulittle wrote: »
Brown Hawker?
Open to suggestions on this one. It was patrolling the same area as the Brown Hawker, but was much smaller. Abdomen had a checkerboard appearance in flight.
The top one is a Brown Hawker alright.
I can't see the colouring on the abdomen of the second dragonfly so I'm less certain, but it could be a Migrant Hawker Aeshna mixta? A teneral Common Hawker is another possibility. If pushed, I'd plump for Migrant Hawker.0 -
Had to Google teneral
Just going by the NBDC swatch, which I didn't have on me at the time, the only two that match size wise are Migrant and Hairy Hawker, in that it was visibly smaller than the Brown. But going by the swatch, Hairy should be well gone at this stage.
It had a Green/Blue or Blue/Green appearance in the flesh that isn't coming across in the pic that doesn't seem to match the male or female Migrant pics on the swatch. However, googling Migrant Hawker does seem to return pics more like what I saw.
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Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo wrote: »What's the point of posting Nature photos if they are faked by photoshop? I'll never trust a shot of yours again.
A Couple of days late but Here is a photo of the moon tonight , still looking very orange , and this is straight out of the camera for you , no Photoshop . It was taken less than 15mins ago with an equivalent of 1600mm ,lens with the crop factor included and is Hand Held, no tripod.
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whyulittle wrote: »Had to Google teneral
Just going by the NBDC swatch, which I didn't have on me at the time, the only two that match size wise are Migrant and Hairy Hawker, in that it was visibly smaller than the Brown. But going by the swatch, Hairy should be well gone at this stage.
It had a Green/Blue or Blue/Green appearance in the flesh that isn't coming across in the pic that doesn't seem to match the male or female Migrant pics on the swatch. However, googling Migrant Hawker does seem to return pics more like what I saw.
@Whyulittle
Believe it or not, I took the image below at the weekend and thought what I was looking at was a female Common Hawker Aeshna juncea, but on closer inspection is in fact a female Migrant Hawker Aeshna mixta:
One distinguishing feature between the Common Hawker and the Migrant Hawker is the colour of the 'costa', which is the colour of the leading edge of the forewings; in the Common Hawker it is distinctly yellow and quite obvious, while the Migrant Hawkers have a brown costa. Your first image of this mystery dragonfly doesn't appear to have yellow costa, so chances are
it's a Migrant Hawker. You did mention that you thought it had a green/blue tinge to it which would suggest a male Migrant Hawker, but just to complicate things further, some females are known to have paler blue markings on their abdomens too. I took the image below last month and posted it here believing it was a Common Hawker, but now know it's a Migrant Hawker
. The blue markings on this Migrant Hawker would suggest it's a male, but if I'm wrong I stand corrected:
One other distinguishing feature on Migrant Hawkers that isn't present on other Hawker species is a 'golf tee' shaped mark on S2 of the abdomen; the image below shows this distinctive mark:
I'm not sure if any of the images I've posted above help identify your dragonfly, but I'd plump for a female Migrant Hawker.0 -
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I reckon that bird of prey is a turkey vulture
Spot on! (I had to look it up though
) There were also a lot of Black Tailed Hawks around but for some reason I don't seem to have taken a photo of those.
I've attached another one I took of a Raven in flight. They don't mind the tourists at all as they were getting fed Beef by loads of people when I was there. It's at a place on the West Rim where everyone stops for lunch.
I've only ever seen Ravens from a fair distance away and either in ones or twos but to see a dozen of them at the one time and so close was a joy. The noise out of them was amazing too. If a hooded crow or rook has the bark of a dog, then the Raven has the roar of a lion.0 -
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgbK2FZFFdw
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