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Showing posts with label wildlife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wildlife. Show all posts
Saturday, August 22, 2020
clever parrot
Monday, August 10, 2020
day lily and bunny
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I was looking at the day lily when I took this pic. I didn't notice the bunny in the upper right corner until I saw the image on "the big screen".
Friday, July 03, 2020
another zoo critter walkabout
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Here's an article (with lots of pics and video) about dolphin reaction to a sloth........... That one dolphin, apparently mimicking??? Wow!
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Here's an article (with lots of pics and video) about dolphin reaction to a sloth........... That one dolphin, apparently mimicking??? Wow!
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020
more zoo walkabouts
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Animals coming face to face with others they would never see in their natural habitats. :-)
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Animals coming face to face with others they would never see in their natural habitats. :-)
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020
squirrel watching
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This is long, but it's interesting and funny in many places. (No squirrels were harmed.)
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This is long, but it's interesting and funny in many places. (No squirrels were harmed.)
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020
penguins visit Nelson art museum
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A lot of critters in zoos are getting to go walkabout in the zoo, during this time when people cannot visit the zoo. Flamingos visiting the penguin exhibit, for example. (Flamingos standing/walking where the people would be, if the zoo were open.)
Some penguins from the Kansas City zoo got to make a trip into town to the Art Museum!
:-)
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A lot of critters in zoos are getting to go walkabout in the zoo, during this time when people cannot visit the zoo. Flamingos visiting the penguin exhibit, for example. (Flamingos standing/walking where the people would be, if the zoo were open.)
Some penguins from the Kansas City zoo got to make a trip into town to the Art Museum!
:-)
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Saturday, May 16, 2020
Saturday, April 18, 2020
wartlets!
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I remember when we saw wartlets at the zoo in (near?) Stockholm. :-)
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I remember when we saw wartlets at the zoo in (near?) Stockholm. :-)
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
Tuesday, April 07, 2020
Wednesday, October 09, 2019
not such big birds
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Big birds, but not as big as cassowaries.
I hadn't realized that pelicans can be bigger than flamingos........
Flamingos, with pelicans in the upper left corner, and roseate spoonbills in the upper right.
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Big birds, but not as big as cassowaries.
I hadn't realized that pelicans can be bigger than flamingos........
Flamingos, with pelicans in the upper left corner, and roseate spoonbills in the upper right.
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Tuesday, October 08, 2019
Monday, September 23, 2019
Toledo zoo. Polar bears and wolves.
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This cub was born last winter. They grow fast! He was very busy, playing with a bucket. This was the best shot I got. He was at least as big as a big dog.
Here's his mama. She was relatively still, though behind some not-too-clean plexiglas.
Wolves. See the one at right, inside the tunnel?
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This cub was born last winter. They grow fast! He was very busy, playing with a bucket. This was the best shot I got. He was at least as big as a big dog.
Here's his mama. She was relatively still, though behind some not-too-clean plexiglas.
Wolves. See the one at right, inside the tunnel?
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Sunday, September 02, 2018
August 26, 2018
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Irish soda bread from Zingerman's Bakehouse.
Tomatoes from the farmers' market.
Day lilies in front of the yoga studio.
Busy pond in West Park.
One adult duck, three young ducks, and a turtle.
This turtle's shell was 6-8" from front to back.
Ironweed and goldenrod in the park.
I am seeing more monarch butterflies this year. Yay! I am also seeing more milkweed here and there, which I believe is a contributing factor. The ironweed near the top of the next image is feeding a monarch.
Monarch (and bumble) on the ironweed.
There is a lot of jewelweed in the park this year.
Jewelweed is a very tender watery plant. Its stems and leaves are at right. The sturdy reddish stem at left belongs to someone else. The flowers are about an inch long.
Lots of goldenrod and ironweed along the southerly path through West Park.
One of my neighbors has a patch of datura. These plants are enthusiastic about self-seeding.
This is another of the very tropical-seeming plants that grows without coddling in southeast Michigan. The buds (including green part and white part) average about 8" long, and the open flowers 6-8" across.
As you see, the flowers unfurl as they begin to bloom. On the 26 there were honeybees working hard to get through those tight folds down into the incipient flowers (no bees in the image).
The datura above are in a lawn extension. This storm-sewer opening must be down hill (it's only a few properties away from the previous. I'm betting a seed from the previous patch floated a few hundred feet and arrived here. It's growing right where there ought to be an opening to the storm sewer, but no one has kept it clean. There is enough dirt here for this plant to grow.
This plant had dozens of almost-ready tomatoes. And then it had none. We hope it is furry four-legged critters who took them, rather than two-legged ones who ought to know better. But we've only seen one or two damaged tomatoes, and no fragments on the ground................... >:-(
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Irish soda bread from Zingerman's Bakehouse.
Tomatoes from the farmers' market.
Day lilies in front of the yoga studio.
Busy pond in West Park.
One adult duck, three young ducks, and a turtle.
This turtle's shell was 6-8" from front to back.
Ironweed and goldenrod in the park.
I am seeing more monarch butterflies this year. Yay! I am also seeing more milkweed here and there, which I believe is a contributing factor. The ironweed near the top of the next image is feeding a monarch.
Monarch (and bumble) on the ironweed.
There is a lot of jewelweed in the park this year.
Jewelweed is a very tender watery plant. Its stems and leaves are at right. The sturdy reddish stem at left belongs to someone else. The flowers are about an inch long.
Lots of goldenrod and ironweed along the southerly path through West Park.
One of my neighbors has a patch of datura. These plants are enthusiastic about self-seeding.
This is another of the very tropical-seeming plants that grows without coddling in southeast Michigan. The buds (including green part and white part) average about 8" long, and the open flowers 6-8" across.
As you see, the flowers unfurl as they begin to bloom. On the 26 there were honeybees working hard to get through those tight folds down into the incipient flowers (no bees in the image).
The datura above are in a lawn extension. This storm-sewer opening must be down hill (it's only a few properties away from the previous. I'm betting a seed from the previous patch floated a few hundred feet and arrived here. It's growing right where there ought to be an opening to the storm sewer, but no one has kept it clean. There is enough dirt here for this plant to grow.
This plant had dozens of almost-ready tomatoes. And then it had none. We hope it is furry four-legged critters who took them, rather than two-legged ones who ought to know better. But we've only seen one or two damaged tomatoes, and no fragments on the ground................... >:-(
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Saturday, September 01, 2018
August 25, 2018
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The beautiful garden at the other end of my old block. Phlox.
Wet phlox.
Zinnias and pink/purple phlox in the beautiful garden. And a monarch butterfly! On an orange zinnia, near the center of the next image.
Closer crop of the above.
Even closer.
Carefully we ooched around to a different angle, working not to scare the butterfly away........ It is still on that orange zinnia, pretty much in the center of the next image......
I am seeing more monarchs this year, and more milkweed. I hope we can save these guys from the ill effects of humans spraying more and more poison everywhere............... (Hope we can save ourselves from it, too. Spraying poison everywhere just isn't a good idea........... Not, as they say, sustainable............)
More zinnias in the beautiful garden.
Closer.
All the digital cameras I've had have gotten really excited by this sort of magenta color. They oversaturate it, and make details harder to see. Believe it or not, I have taken both the saturation and the brightness down a bit in the next image.
There is a lot going on in the center of a zinnia!
Hibiscus. Even though there are a number of these, here and there in Ann Arbor, they always strike me as "too tropical" for this climate. Some of them actually are hardy and make it through the winter with no protection.
I believe this is impatiens.
I had heard of Wayzgoose, but only in Tacoma, WA. When I saw that there would be one here in Ann Arbor, I was interested.
Wikipedia: A wayzgoose (or wayz-goose, waygoose or wayzegoose) was at one time an entertainment given by a master printer to his workmen each year on or about St Bartholomew's Day (24 August). It marked the traditional end of summer and the start of the season of working by candlelight. Later, the word came to refer to an annual outing and dinner for the staff of a printing works or the printers on a newspaper.
Tacoma, Washington holds an annual Wayzgoose event dubbed a "printer's celebration". This event, which includes a large-scale relief printing project using a steamroller, is designed to get the community interested and involved in the art of printmaking.
I read about the Ann Arbor wayzgoose in library materials. Most of it was at the downtown library. There were also parts at Hollander's (which has letterpress printers, and maybe other kinds of printers?), and at the Art Center. (Do we call them printers? Probably not? I think a "printer" was the person who used the ... printing machine?)
After our usual farmers' market and then breakfast on Saturday, August 25, I walked around and looked at printing and printed products. I was in the basement at Hollander's for the first time. They have a lot of printing machines, I don't know how many different kinds. (Alas, no steamroller printing in A2.)
The library has a lot of different ways to print things. They have letterpress (not sure how many printing machines), they have stamps, they have silk screen. (They also have 3D printers, which I expected to see in use, but did not see. So many toys, so little time.............)
The library was printing cheap tote bags and letting us each have one. They also have a drier (that seemed to be hot but didn't blow) so we could have our freshly-printed bag get dried rather than letting us wander around smearing blue paint on everything............
On the main level at the library there were a lot of small printing businesses set up at tables. A few were doing demos, and I believe all of them brought their work to sell. So many people working in so many different media!
I was glad to see all the different things people were doing.
The library has classes on using the various methods of printing for which the library has tools. I'm torn between wanting to learn how to use allthetools, and thinking I should stay focused on what I already know how to do (and already have the tools and materials to do)..................
I say again -- so many toys, so little time!
I waked home through the park. One duck and two turtles in this next image.
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The beautiful garden at the other end of my old block. Phlox.
Wet phlox.
Zinnias and pink/purple phlox in the beautiful garden. And a monarch butterfly! On an orange zinnia, near the center of the next image.
Closer crop of the above.
Even closer.
Carefully we ooched around to a different angle, working not to scare the butterfly away........ It is still on that orange zinnia, pretty much in the center of the next image......
I am seeing more monarchs this year, and more milkweed. I hope we can save these guys from the ill effects of humans spraying more and more poison everywhere............... (Hope we can save ourselves from it, too. Spraying poison everywhere just isn't a good idea........... Not, as they say, sustainable............)
More zinnias in the beautiful garden.
Closer.
All the digital cameras I've had have gotten really excited by this sort of magenta color. They oversaturate it, and make details harder to see. Believe it or not, I have taken both the saturation and the brightness down a bit in the next image.
There is a lot going on in the center of a zinnia!
Hibiscus. Even though there are a number of these, here and there in Ann Arbor, they always strike me as "too tropical" for this climate. Some of them actually are hardy and make it through the winter with no protection.
I believe this is impatiens.
I had heard of Wayzgoose, but only in Tacoma, WA. When I saw that there would be one here in Ann Arbor, I was interested.
Wikipedia: A wayzgoose (or wayz-goose, waygoose or wayzegoose) was at one time an entertainment given by a master printer to his workmen each year on or about St Bartholomew's Day (24 August). It marked the traditional end of summer and the start of the season of working by candlelight. Later, the word came to refer to an annual outing and dinner for the staff of a printing works or the printers on a newspaper.
Tacoma, Washington holds an annual Wayzgoose event dubbed a "printer's celebration". This event, which includes a large-scale relief printing project using a steamroller, is designed to get the community interested and involved in the art of printmaking.
I read about the Ann Arbor wayzgoose in library materials. Most of it was at the downtown library. There were also parts at Hollander's (which has letterpress printers, and maybe other kinds of printers?), and at the Art Center. (Do we call them printers? Probably not? I think a "printer" was the person who used the ... printing machine?)
After our usual farmers' market and then breakfast on Saturday, August 25, I walked around and looked at printing and printed products. I was in the basement at Hollander's for the first time. They have a lot of printing machines, I don't know how many different kinds. (Alas, no steamroller printing in A2.)
The library has a lot of different ways to print things. They have letterpress (not sure how many printing machines), they have stamps, they have silk screen. (They also have 3D printers, which I expected to see in use, but did not see. So many toys, so little time.............)
The library was printing cheap tote bags and letting us each have one. They also have a drier (that seemed to be hot but didn't blow) so we could have our freshly-printed bag get dried rather than letting us wander around smearing blue paint on everything............
On the main level at the library there were a lot of small printing businesses set up at tables. A few were doing demos, and I believe all of them brought their work to sell. So many people working in so many different media!
I was glad to see all the different things people were doing.
The library has classes on using the various methods of printing for which the library has tools. I'm torn between wanting to learn how to use allthetools, and thinking I should stay focused on what I already know how to do (and already have the tools and materials to do)..................
I say again -- so many toys, so little time!
I waked home through the park. One duck and two turtles in this next image.
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Monday, August 27, 2018
August 19, 2018
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Wisteria over the driveway. Encore performance.
The pond in West Park, full of vegetation. I am seeing more turtles this year than ever before. There is a small one sunning itself on a piece of wood in this pic.
Here it is.
Its shell was probably about 3" from front to back. This is the smallest one I've ever seen in the park, I think.
The next pic was taken last spring. A new-to-the-neighborhood baby nectarine tree's pretty pink flowers.
I was astonished to see that the baby tree grew at least six nectarines this year! Go, baby, go!
Rose of Sharon.
Jewelweed.
Jewelweed has orchid-y looking flowers......
Ironweed in the park.
Closer.
Closer.
Ironweed with almost-ready-to-bloom goldenrod.
I think this is heliopsis.
Slanting sidewalk with walnut-hull stains. And walnut leaves.
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Wisteria over the driveway. Encore performance.
The pond in West Park, full of vegetation. I am seeing more turtles this year than ever before. There is a small one sunning itself on a piece of wood in this pic.
Here it is.
Its shell was probably about 3" from front to back. This is the smallest one I've ever seen in the park, I think.
The next pic was taken last spring. A new-to-the-neighborhood baby nectarine tree's pretty pink flowers.
I was astonished to see that the baby tree grew at least six nectarines this year! Go, baby, go!
Rose of Sharon.
Jewelweed.
Jewelweed has orchid-y looking flowers......
Ironweed in the park.
Closer.
Closer.
Ironweed with almost-ready-to-bloom goldenrod.
I think this is heliopsis.
Slanting sidewalk with walnut-hull stains. And walnut leaves.
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