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Gloria's Birds: Cooper's Hawk's my name, and preying's my game...

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler
(Well, thought photog, I could tell that by those claws! 

A juvenile Cooper's Hawk because her eyes are yellow. Adult's eyes would be orange/red.)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



 




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Gloria's Insects: Opened our front door and saw the loveliest moth

Sunday, September 15, 2024

The White Satin Moth. 

Took a zillion shots, so excited was I. 

He never moved.

They were introduced in the U.S. in the 1920s, probably from Europe. 

I love the "furry" mane (so like a horse!) and the comb looking antennae. 

This is likely a male; they take flight just before dusk, says the internet, which may explain his long interlude on our door. 

They're found here in the summer.

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Insects: Sylvia the Sachem...

Thursday, September 12, 2024

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

Yep, said Sylvia, doesn't take much to attract me to a plant... even just one blossom meets the criteria, photog.

(Sylvia is probably a Sachem Butterfly, aka grass skipper. Skippers' antennae are looped backward at their tips like a hook. Other kinds of butterflies have clubbed tips. Skippers are also smaller but stockier than other butterflies. And they're extremely fast fliers! Skippers are one of my favorite animals to spot in the summer garden... so glad I found this one even so late in the season.)

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Birds: That's right, photog, said Cora Cormorant,

Saturday, September 7, 2024

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler


I've always preferred life on the edge!

(Love those feathers of yours, Cora...)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Insects: Saw this wasp (first time seeing this kind)

Thursday, September 5, 2024

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

on a walk last week and, looking online, id'd it as a Great Black (Digger) Wasp. Then, today, I researched a little further and learned that those wasps are found everywhere in the continental U.S. EXCEPT the Pacific Northwest!

So, might be a Thread-waisted Wasp, or some other species (any thoughts on that?), but I love it nonetheless;). 

Look at the tiny, light hairs on its thorax,abdomen, and head...fuzzy wasp. I also admire her translucently black wings! 

Hope I see one again, sometime.

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Birds: I dunno, photog,

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

are you sure this water's been changed today?
(Red-breasted Nuthatches can be particular...as they should be!)


--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Birds: We camouflage our young...

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

Fledgling Spotted Towhee, no easy-to-spot colors, yet, eyes not brilliant red.


Adult Spotted Towhee, red eye and all. 

Both photographed in our yard, though different years

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Birds:Wow, did you see that crow whiz by, photog, asked Hedda House Finch

Saturday, August 24, 2024

Female or young house finch
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

You don't think it was a hawk, do you, she asked fearfully, continuing to watch (just in case).

(Methinks a fledgling or female House Finch, in our yard in Washington State last week)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Insects: We've got a deal, said Sylvia the sweat bee (Green Metallic!) to Adam the flying ant

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Green metallic sweat bee and flying ant
Photo by Gloria Z. Nagler

You take the smaller blossoms, leave the biggies to me! 

(Don't think I've ever seen so much pollen on so many legs! Go, Sylvia! 

Seen in Seattle park last week. And l am not 100% certain on species i.d.)

--Gloria Z Nagler


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Gloria's Birds: Sybil the young Song Sparrow at last perfected the Birdbath Pivot...

Thursday, August 8, 2024

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

she couldn't wait to tell her mom.

(Taken in King County, WA in our yard. So many young birds right now!)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Insects: One more sip for the road, photog,

Sunday, August 4, 2024

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

said Beulah the Yellow-faced Bumblebee, proboscis extended, as she revved up for takeoff...  (At the community garden in King County last week)

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Birds: Bored! shouted Sybil the Seagull chick

Saturday, July 27, 2024

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

My sibs and I are suffering ennui, photog, and so would you if your entire young life was spent on a ferry piling!

(I love the spots on Sybil's head, and that she's familiar with words like "ennui"! Some chick, eh? Photographed yesterday from the ferry to the Olympic Peninsula.)

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Insects: Ooohh, thanks for the black background, photog

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

said Yvette the Yellow-faced Bumblebee.  I love the contrast with my yellow pollen sacs.

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria Nagler: Different but alike

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

"Snowflake" photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

Despite the difference in the portion of white displayed, both the Douglas' Squirrel and Dark-eyed Junco in these images, taken in our yard, are leucistic.

Leucistic Junko
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

Not albino, because, e.g., their eyes are not affected. 

The internet tells me its a partial or total loss of pigmentation. 

I've seen a number of leucistic birds, but only ever this one leucistic squirrel (whom we call Snowflake:).

--Gloria Z. Nagler

  

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Gloria's Birds: Hey, photog, do corvids get to wish on a star, too?

Saturday, July 13, 2024

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(Of course! I'll bet non-humans even get priority:)

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Birds: Hey, photog, do you see what I see?

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(Before I could look, Peter the Pileated Woodpecker took off -- can barely see his male-marker red moustache, but it's there:)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Birds: 'Nary a feather out of place, that was Chelsea's motto

Friday, July 5, 2024

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(Chestnut-backed Chickadees are fastidious creatures:)

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Insects: On her way to work

Monday, July 1, 2024

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

I believe this is an Asian Lady Beetle, not a true ladybug, brought to the U.S. to control other insects that live on plants such as aphids and mites. 

Apparently, they sometimes reproduce enough to be pests themselves. 

Spotted this lovely creature in a community garden in King County last week.

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Insects: Locked and Loaded

Saturday, June 22, 2024


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Gloria's Critters: Just chillin'

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

Just chillin', photog. What're you up to?


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