Nature & Wildlife Thread

[Stephen T.]

Looks like you had a very nice and productive day. Sometimes I think, at least for me, photography is just an excuse to go out and look closely at all the things in nature and call it a job!

 

[j.w]

@JBtheExplorer nice pix and what is that tree w/those bright red leaves? Looks like a Maple but wow it has red leaves now! We only get that in the Fall here that I know of except for the Japanese ones and some kind of burgundy colored Red Maples.

 

[addy1]

Here is a really neat write up about making your garden pollinator friendly.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smit...al-pollinators-these-ten-east-ways-180969111/

 

[JBtheExplorer]

@JBtheExplorer nice pix and what is that tree w/those bright red leaves?

A Maple of some kind. Maybe Red Maple, but I don't know tree species.

 

[j.w]

Thanks @JBtheExplorer I've just never seen one w/such a vibrant red color!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Thanks @JBtheExplorer I've just never seen one w/such a vibrant red color!

I have, but never in Spring!

 

[j.w]

Right in Fall you would expect it but not now.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

A little bit of nature in the yard today.

 

[addy1]

I have been seeing a bird flying around the front of our house. Didn't think much about it, we have so many. But noticed today this.................

Five little eggs!

Didn't get a good look at the mom, she took off fast, camera shy!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Here's the male Tree Swallow.

and here are some native plants I saw while hiking yesterday.

 

[Panzer13]

Darn cat caught a baby rabbit today but she brought it to me and I grabbed her by the scruff of her neck and she let go of it. It was not hurt and first ran to my pond, then ran to the trees and kept going. Then a mother rabbit tried to dig a hole for a new nest right in the middle of some low growing spreading flowers. I had to stop her and put a big rock over the hole as not a good place right in the middle of our backyard. The cat would have seen that one for sure! Hope she does not come back to that spot again. If she does she won't like the big rock and all the water I put around there............I hope!

Your cat has waaaay to much ambition and athleticism going on J.W. You Should lone him to me so my cat can properly school him on the fine arts of laziness.

 

[j.w]

@Panzer13 and my cat is old! She'll be 15 in July and she moves around like she's 2
I had to plug the hole in this birdhouse or she would have terrorized them to death!

 

[Panzer13]

He are some photos of Sherman, he is 7 years old and no one, no has ever come close to his ability to nap before.

 

[mrsclem]

Domino bird watching!

 

[Panzer13]

Domino bird watching!View attachment 111191

LOL, he is a wild one, you better watch him. Cut from the same cloth as mine obviously