Tag: Photo on Flickr
Rata and Allies
Ferns
Polycarpon
American Crow
I’ve mostly stopped taking pictures of crows to submit here, because they’re so common. But this one was just standing on top of a hedge as I walked quickly along the sidewalk. It didn’t budge. So I stopped, grabbed my phone, and took a bunch of pictures from maybe 6 feet away. I even moved to get a better angle and it didn’t fly off, just kept looking around while staying put.
Largeflower Pink-Sorrel
Beach Sheoak
Beach Naupaka
Green Buttonwood
Uploaded a handful of bird photos ranging 2004-2015.
Uploaded a handful of #bird #photos ranging 2004-2015.
I imagine this #seagull reading the “No fishing” sign and being very disappointed.
An #egret wading in a marsh.
And another egret (I thought it was a crane at the time, but 3 people have IDed it as an egret) that I caught walking by the side of the road.
Funny thing is: I didn’t use the Flickr-to-#iNaturalist importer for these. On Flickr I posted the full, composed shots. For iNat, I wanted to crop them to show the birds more clearly.
Gray Whales
This was my first digital camera, and my first real frustrating experience with the delay between pressing the button and actually capturing the image. It’s just not fast enough to capture an image of a whale breaching the surface.
I have lots of pictures of splashes.
This was the best image I got where you can actually see part of a whale!
Hawaiian Silversword
On the upper elevations on Mauna Kea…and just about nowhere else…grows the endangered Silversword . Park rangers actually planted one near the side of the road and put a fence around it so that visitors could see it without hiking through the 11,000-foot-high wilderness.
Treasure Flowers / Gazanias
This lone flower was growing against the base of a tree in the strip of grass next to the sidewalk. It reminds me of some flowers in a planter down the street, but it’s not quite the same. They’re purple and white, and the petals are thicker than these.
I spotted some of these feral parrots in the grocery store parking lot today.
Two of these parakeets flew across the grocery store parking lot into a palm tree, squawking as they went. I could only spot one of them once they’d settled, but I managed to get almost a dozen photos of it while it sat there.
Link: Feral Parrots Are Taking Over America!
“These birds, descendants of escaped pets, have managed to create thriving colonies in these cities despite the annual cold weather.”
I spotted some of these feral #parrots in the grocery store parking lot today. Two #parakeets flew across the lot into a palm tree, squawking as they went. I could only spot one of them once they’d settled, but I managed to get almost a dozen photos of it while it sat there.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26590485
#birds #parakeets #FeralParakeets #FeralParrots
#nature #wildlife #photos
TODO: combine with this post and others
Ground cover. The jacaranda flowers haven’t covered the ground yet, but they will.
Ground cover.
The #jacaranda #flowers haven’t covered the ground yet, but they will.
For now, the oxalis has most of the ground to itself.
On PixelFed.Social
Woodsorrel on iNaturalist (alternate shot)
mustard family
I’m still amused every time I tag a “feral pigeon” on iNaturalist
I’m still amused every time I tag a “feral pigeon” on #iNaturalist
House Sparrow taking wing
Somewhere between 6-12 of them wandering around the brush and open area at the top of the bluffs near the coast. A lot less nervous than the ones I’ve seen in the city. I was able to get a lot closer.
