gvallee Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve F Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 Amazing sunrises! What time did you have to get up for these? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Steve F said: Amazing sunrises! What time did you have to get up for these? The Exif data of the first shot tells me it was taken at 6:04 but the light is interesting well before that. Generally for sunrises, I get up around 5am, which is not a problem for me as I am a professional insomniac. There was a place in another State recently where sunrise was at 4:50 !! I just love sunrises, they're so atmospheric. Not that they sell much, but that's another story. Edited April 1, 2021 by gvallee 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Morrison Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 A couple of cyclists found a good spot to take a break... next to the duckpond in the village of Askham Richard in North Yorkshire... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 Sand Monitor or Sand Goanna (Varanus gouldii gouldii) Black Kite (Milvus migrans) feeding on the wing White-bellied Sea-eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster) taking off 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 (edited) Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, I think it was foggy and smoggy. One of the better Reuben sandwiches I’ve had. Lake Placid, New York in 2009. Common teasel. I’ve had this forever but didn’t know what it was or even how to search for it. Allan Bell posted one at a POD site and I finally discovered what it is. Not that there’s not a million of them on site. Edited April 2, 2021 by Betty LaRue 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted April 2, 2021 Author Share Posted April 2, 2021 Second batch of the day. Cape Hillsborough National Park, Queensland 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Hyde Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 (edited) Mrs Hyde chopping up some wild garlic we picked in our local woodland the other day. Edited April 2, 2021 by Steve Hyde 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colblimp Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Uploaded yesterday - I like it because it made the front page of my local rag - 2F6K046 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 (edited) On 02/04/2021 at 07:11, gvallee said: Second batch of the day. Cape Hillsborough National Park, Queensland Looking for crabs. OH! NO! Throwing arms in the air. The rays have had them all AGAIN! Sorry to hijack your images Gen. Just being a bit jocular.😉 Allan Readers will have to expand the images to get the meaning. ITMA Edited April 3, 2021 by Allan Bell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Standfast Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Bristol's 5th Kill the bill Protest, peaceful so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted April 4, 2021 Author Share Posted April 4, 2021 Heron Island, Southern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 I was watching the local news the other evening and saw how in a month or so, this Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. will be overrun by millions of cicadas. They are harmless insects that spend nearly their 17 years of their life underground but then emerge all at once to mate and then die. We see some every year but this brood (brood X) is a true invasion, they cover everything and are super noisy! Well I photographed them 17 years ago and never uploaded them to Alamy until this weekend. I see that there are plenty already here but why not add mine. Here are a few. They emerge as a nymph and then bust out of their shell to become an adult with wings. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted April 5, 2021 Author Share Posted April 5, 2021 Green Turtle hatchling (Chelonia mydas), Great Barrier Reef This hatchling crawled painfully all the way from the nest to the water. There were smiles all over people's faces, cameras were clicking. It got to the water edge, swam 2m, SNAP, a shark got it. It had a 10 minutes lifespan. A white-capped Noddy (Anous minutus) carrying a leaf for its nest. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanU Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 (edited) A happy doggo going for a walk as the UKs restrictions loosened and the sun came out to play! The sunbathing mood! A gorgeous cherry blossom tree in somebody's front garden! Enjoying a nice book in the shade of a tree. Edited April 5, 2021 by RyanU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 Cicadas; baby turtles, owww! Why does a Cicada Year make me feel old? It was a Cicada Year while we lived in DC. 17 years have flown past. I may well see the cherries again, but another Cicada Year? Check out CicadaMania here. wim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 42 minutes ago, wiskerke said: Cicadas; baby turtles, owww! Why does a Cicada Year make me feel old? It was a Cicada Year while we lived in DC. 17 years have flown past. I may well see the cherries again, but another Cicada Year? Check out CicadaMania here. wim The Brood X is the big one in this area...so many that you can't help but step on them or drive over them and the whirring call they make is nearly deafening. They equate the sound, in decibels, as something like a low flying jet aircraft when they are "singing" in unison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 7 hours ago, Michael Ventura said: The Brood X is the big one in this area...so many that you can't help but step on them or drive over them and the whirring call they make is nearly deafening. They equate the sound, in decibels, as something like a low flying jet aircraft when they are "singing" in unison. Yes, deafening. I think if a person was trapped out all night in that noise, they’d be gibbering idiot by dawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 13 minutes ago, Betty LaRue said: Yes, deafening. I think if a person was trapped out all night in that noise, they’d be gibbering idiot by dawn. Betty, do they show up out your way? Or at your former city/state? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 17 minutes ago, Michael Ventura said: Betty, do they show up out your way? Or at your former city/state? Yes they do. Of course, some years or worse because of the hatch, but there are some every summer. When my son was 6, he gathered their shells off trees and tried to sell them 10 for a penny to his friends! 😂 He’s still a go-getter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colblimp Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 This morning's sunrise - I managed to get out of bed! 2F7AYYR 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 (edited) My second attempt at this laid up cruise ship berthed on the Tyne at North Shields, but photographed through the arches of South Shields old town hall. Edited April 6, 2021 by Bryan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted April 6, 2021 Author Share Posted April 6, 2021 17 hours ago, wiskerke said: Cicadas; baby turtles, owww! Why does a Cicada Year make me feel old? It was a Cicada Year while we lived in DC. 17 years have flown past. I may well see the cherries again, but another Cicada Year? Check out CicadaMania here. wim Cicadas don't always make it. Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 9 hours ago, gvallee said: Cicadas don't always make it. Here That one is only molting his old shell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 My daughter did a science report on cicadas while in the 4th grade and I learned a lot. One of the things I learned is that the vast amount of the cicadas do not make it reproduction. But the ones that do, lay dozens of eggs in the tree branches and they will soon drop and burrow into the ground and start the cycle over again. So many get squished by humans and eaten by birds and a assortment of mammals and some just die in the process of molting. But enough survive to ensure another swarm in 17th years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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