F/6.3, 1/125, ISO 800.
Day 78 / 365
I made a flute out of this branch. Now watch me play. ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ 🙂
Interesting Fact: Squirrels communicate with each other through various vocalisations and scent marking. They also use their tails as a signalling device, twitching it when uneasy to alert other squirrels of potential danger. ( http://www.onekind.org/be_inspired/animals_a_z/squirrel/ )
F/6.3, 1/1000, ISO 560.
Common Merganser
Day 73 / 365
She suspects him of cheating, so she decided to follow him today. She is literally on his tail. 🙂
Interesting Fact: Common Mergansers usually nest in natural tree cavities or holes carved out by large woodpeckers. Sometimes mergansers take up residence in next boxes, provided the entrance hole is large enough. On occasion they use rock crevices, holes in the ground, hollow logs, old buildings, and chimneys. ( http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Merganser/lifehistory )
It has been one year since my first post. What a great year! Thank You everyone for your support.
F/6.3, 1/320, ISO 1600.
Ring-Necked Pheasant
Day 66 / 365 Part 1
“Oh sh*t people, time to run”.
Interesting Fact: Ring-necked Pheasants sometimes cope with extreme cold by simply remaining dormant for days at a time. ( http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/ring-necked_pheasant/lifehistory )
F/6.3, 1/125, ISO 800.
Short Eared Owl
Day 66 / 365 Part 2
“I can see clearly now the snow has stopped”!
Interesting Fact: The Short-eared Owl may compete with the Barn Owl in some areas. Some successful nest box programs to attract Barn Owls have coincided with the decline of the Short-eared Owl in the same area. ( http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/short-eared_owl/lifehistory )
F/6.3, 1/500, ISO 1600.
European Starlings
Day 64 / 365
“My family immigrated from Europe”.
Interesting Fact: All of the 200 million European Starlings found in North America today are descendants of approximately 100 birds released in New York City’s Central Park in the early 1890s by an industrialist who wanted to establish, in the U.S., all birds mentioned in the works of Shakespeare. ( http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/160/_/European_Starling.aspx )
F/6.3, 1/800, ISO 800.
Common Merganser
Day 60 / 365
You quack me up!
Interesting Fact: These large fish-eaters have serrated edges to their bills to help them grip their prey. Along with the Smew and the other Mergansers, they are often known as “sawbills.” ( http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/416/_/Common_Merganser.aspx )
F/6.3, 1/320, ISO 200.
Bald Eagle
Day 59 /365
And I was going to stay home today! 🙂
Interesting Fact: Immature Bald Eagles spend the first four years of their lives in nomadic exploration of vast territories and can fly hundreds of miles per day. Some young birds from Florida have wandered north as far as Michigan, and birds from California have reached Alaska. ( http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/bald_eagle/lifehistory )
F/6.3, 1/500, ISO 320.
Day 53 / 365
“Did you hear something”? “I say lets bail out of here”!!!
Interesting Fact: Hooded Mergansers are extremely agile swimmers and divers but clumsy when moving on land because their legs are set far back on the body. ( http://www.withmephotographyblog.com/10-interesting-facts-about-the-hooded-merganser )
F/8.0, 1/320, ISO 100.
Song Sparrow
Day 51 / 365
“Got any food? ”
Interesting Fact: They recognizes enemies by both instinctual and learned patterns, and adjusts future behavior based on both its own experiences in encounters, and from watching other birds interact with enemies. ( http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/146/_/Song_Sparrow.aspx )
F/8.0, 1/125, ISO 100.
Merlin
Day 47 / 365
“I see you, and after you take that photo I am out of here ”
Interesting Fact: Merlin pairs have been seen teaming up to hunt large flocks of waxwings: one Merlin flushes the flock by attacking from below; the other comes in moments later to take advantage of the confusion. ( http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/merlin/lifehistory )
F/6.3, 1/320, ISO 1600.
Gadwall Duck
Day 45 / 365
Even on a frozen ocean you can find love today.
Interesting Fact: Gadwall sometimes steal food from American Coots and from other ducks.
( http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/gadwall/lifehistory )
Bonus Valentine Facts: 2. Valentine’s Day may have a rather gory history. As one variation of a popular myth goes, Claudius II, the Emperor of Rome, forbade young men from marrying because he wanted them as soldiers in his army instead. St. Valentine defied him and married people in secret, so he was executed on Feb. 14 in the year AD 269 – or so the story goes. ( http://m.ibtimes.com/valentines-day-facts-history-fun-ideas-free-burritos-singles-awareness-other-things-1813226 )
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