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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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
For now, the oxalis has most of the ground to itself.
On PixelFed.Social
Woodsorrel on iNaturalist (alternate shot)
I’m still amused every time I tag a “feral pigeon” on #iNaturalist
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.
A #finch that I spotted practically right outside my door a few weeks ago. I posted an animation made from several of these photos a while back. Here are the best of the still shots, cleaned up a bit.
Photo taken at: Yellow Fever
Going to miss this place. Stopped by @yellowfevereats for a final Kona Bowl today.
Rocketship park (one of very few remaining parks with this sort of climbing structure). I stopped to grab coffee and realized I’d been able to see the shopping center from the park…so it stood to reason I ought to be able to see the park from the shopping center.
Yep!
I think the #BlackAndWhite version works a bit better on this.
#photos #park #rocketship
Flax-leaved horseweed, according to iNaturalist’s identification engine.
Since the idea is to catalog nature, not gardens, I’ve found myself taking lots of photos of weeds. Some that I know, like dandelions, and a lot that I don’t.
Unfortunately, while observations of birds almost instantly attract other users who are ready to fine-tune the ID, people don’t seem as interested in identifying plants.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26041661
On Photog.Social
On iNaturalist
Fellow iNaturalist user @sohkamyung recommended this forum thread on photo-taking recommendations by taxon
@rubah suggests tagging fediverse pictures with #plantID or #PlantIdentification.
