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Showing posts with label gloria nagler. Show all posts
Gloria's Birds: Bufflehead gliding close to the water's surface, even touching it,
Friday, September 15, 2023
It's the "ground effect", which, to the best of my understanding, is: air funnels between the bird's wings and the water's surface, creating a cushion that increases the lift and reduces the drag.
Go, Bufflehead!
--Gloria Z. Nagler
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Gloria's Birds: Eat and run? How gauche do you think I am, photog, said Chuck the Black-capped Chickadee
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
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Fly and run, though, now that's enviably sophisticated.
(Chickadees don't lack confidence:)
--Gloria Z. Nagler
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Gloria's Insects: Bee meets blossom
Monday, August 28, 2023
The way honeybees (and other bees) often draw their legs together when in flight is, for me, photogenic, but also interesting. Aerodynamic? Helps stabilize during flight? I haven't yet found an answer, so lemme know if you have one!
Read more...
--Gloria Z. Nagler
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Gloria's Insects: Who knew?
Sunday, August 20, 2023
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Flies are second only to bees as pollinators of flowers. We need 'em!
(This is a Lesser Housefly busy dining and pollinating in the community garden last week. They live only 2 or 3 weeks. I'll probably never see her again.)
--Gloria Z. Nagler
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Gloria's Birds: Wide-eyed woodpecker pauses briefly while fleeing a winged predator...
Monday, August 14, 2023
(Pileated Woodpecker, to be exact. Male, coz of the red "moustache".)
--Gloria Z. Nagler
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Gloria's Birds: Eight Bushtits, four of 'em upside down, on a suet
Sunday, August 6, 2023
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(Bushtits travel in groups - safety in numbers, anyone? - and even sleep huddled together. Saw these little ones gathering in our back yard, ran pell-mell to grab my camera and grab a few shots.)
--Gloria Z. Nagler
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Gloria's Birds: Crownies mono fini
Saturday, July 29, 2023
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These are two quite companionable American Crows who perched close to one another in our yard.
--Gloria Z. Nagler
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Gloria's Insects: I can see clearly, now, the rain is gone...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
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(Yellow-faced Bumblebee astride a petal, having a look-see. Wouldn't bet the farm on my i.d. so I'm open to other options:).
--Gloria Z. Nagler
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Gloria's Insects: Unscheduled flyover in the garden last week...
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
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(My best guess/i.d.: Bee on blossom is a Long-horned Bee -- I mean, look at her antennae! -- with a green eye to boot! Related to the Honeybees, but the Long-horns nest in the ground.
The bee in flight may be a Western Leafcutter Bee, a common summer pollinator in our region. The green-eyed males are known to guard flowers in "their" territory -- like this one is doing now -- and can be aggressive towards other bees. The females, like the Long-Horned Bees, nest in the ground.)
--Gloria Z. Nagler
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Gloria's Birds: Diamonds don't do it for me,
Saturday, July 22, 2023
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but gimme a juvenile inland Steller's Jay posing on a branch, and this photog is cock-a-hoop!
("Juvenile" because of gape at base of mouth - attracts mom for feeding - grey, not turquoise blue breast feathers, short, not fully developed crest, and fuzzy feathers. "Inland" because of white eyebrow.)
--Gloria Z. Nagler
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Gloria's Birds: No time for a portrait today, photog, I gotta go
Sunday, July 16, 2023
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Gloria's Birds: I love the Owl Perches you humans attach to your transportation, photog. Quite handy!
Friday, July 14, 2023
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Clara leaves no stone unturned and no branch unbitten in her quest for a midday snack...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
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(Juvenile American Crow without a parent nearby to advise her:)
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Gloria's Birds: Wait - What?
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
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I'm not here to eat your precious Dougies, photog. I'm simply hanging out on the deck to catch a few rays.
(Barred Owls may be charismatic, but they're not credible:)
--Gloria Z. Nagler
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Gloria's Insects: Dressed to the Nines
Monday, June 26, 2023
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Wouldn't bet the farm on my i.d., but certainly it's a swallowtail, and the Oregon Swallowtail looks closest to these untrained eyes.
They're Pacific Northwest butterflies, and the official insect of Oregon. Now I gotta see if Washington has one of those:)
I adore everything about her, and especially her red and blue splashes at the edges of her wings.
--Gloria Z. Nagler
--Gloria Z. Nagler
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Gloria's Birds: Pigeon Guillemot after a successful dive
Friday, June 16, 2023
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They swim underwater using their wings! Yes, I do have compassion for the prey, but a seabird's gotta eat, and there were no vegan cafes in sight.
--Gloria Z. Nagler
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Gloria's Insects: Dragonfly husk
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Spotted this in wetlands in New Orleans. The dragonfly had already reached adulthood when s/he emerged from this larval casing. Process is called eclosion.
Learned this and more from Dragonflies and Damselflies, by Dennis Paulson. Useful book if you're photographing or even just observing dragonflies.
--Gloria Z. Nagler
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Gloria's Birds: See, photog, I can fly the colors without hoisting any flags,
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
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said Millard the Mallard. He can, indeed!
(On the shores of Lake Washington the other day)
--Gloria Z. Nagler
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