Project: One photo a day (but not necessarily every day)

[j44ke]

This Swamp darner (a very large dragonfly) flew into a skylight on the porch, wore itself out and ended up getting chilled overnight on the concrete floor. I've learned that dragonflies need to be warm in order to fly (muscles get stiff) so I picked it up and held it in the sun. After vibrating its wings for 2-3 minutes, it stopped and then took off.

[rwsaunders]

[Matthew Strongin]

Hiking > Biking

[open roader]

Bower bird of some sort? Recognize the beak shape but knowledge stops there.

Yes, Satin Bower Bird, this one is a female - the females have dark beaks, the males have pale beaks (juvenile males have the same plumage as the females)

[open roader]

Another female Satin Bower Bird. The bower birds come out of the local Otway Forest in winter in search of food. We have 6 acres of garden with plenty of food sources, winter flowering plants, old rotting fruit left over on trees from last summer, insects and they eat the leaves of some things too. Currently have 10 -12 bower birds in the garden.

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[rwsaunders]

[NorTX-Dave]

Opuntia ellisiana aka South Texas Prickly Pear or Spineless Prickly Pear

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[rwsaunders]

[open roader]

Love this!

Where abouts?

[rwsaunders]

Thanks OR. That’s the Rachel Carson Bridge in Pittsburgh, PA…one of the Three Sisters Bridges (Rachel Carson, Roberto Clemente and Andy Warhol)…should be the Three Siblings Bridges, right? Unique in that they are the first self-anchored suspension bridges built in the US (1924-1928) and they are essentially identical. I never tire of the design details and when you think about the fact that almost 100 years later, stone and steel still do their job, it’s pretty cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_...s_(Pittsburgh)

[rwsaunders]

[robin3mj]

Tiny little wind hills on the beach in Ireland.

[j44ke]

Yard is becoming a nursery school.

[Mabouya]

Yard is becoming a nursery school.

Bambi says "Where's the hosta? I want a snack. I thought everyone planted hostas!"

[open roader]

Mr. Bob - many thanks for the bridge info. That rivet work is sensational.

Me - more bower birds again, cold overcast weather now that winter is set here. This shot through window glass with exposure wound right up in very dull light.

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[open roader]

On the way to work this morning

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[Mabouya]

Nice image, but let's hope that that turbine doesn't take out too many bower birds.

[open roader]

Got lucky - sun over my shoulder, camera was in the ute and this brown falcon allowed me to close in to 30 m distance

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[bcm119]

The cheap seats of the Bay Area

[DJB]

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