A Nature Lovers Thread....

Some pics from my last visit in North Sweden:

 

i have tried to get good pics of insects like bumblebees sucking on flowers but i can never get them to stay long enough.

 

Very cool pictures. I've been trying to get some good shots of a black swan that swims around a pond on a site I've been working on but he only seems to want to follow me around when I'm actually doing work and not stalking him

 

In North America those noble creatures are known as moose.

These magnificent beasts are what we call elk. Also known as wapiti, from the Shawnee language, it literally means white rump and as you can see it's aptly named. These shots were taken during my recent visit to the Grand Canyon.

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those are some impressive sized antlers.

 

A couple of big old bulls in their prime.

Some silly people actually try to approach them and get their picture taken together. Not wise at all.

 

Stupid, even if the bulls might look peaceful they have an area of comfort where people should stay the hell out of. A charge from a bull in that size and you might not get up again from the ground.

 

They would definitely fuck you up good.

 

Got a couple of terrible shots of the swan I mentioned earlier. Black swan's aren't a usual type of fowl in Arizona so I thought it was interesting to see here. Unfortunately any time I pulled out the camera it would start swimming away



And this last picture was one I took this morning that I thought was kind of cool (even with the junk in it.) All three pictures were with a new camera that I bought recently so I'm still figuring out what in the hell I'm doing

 

A few pics of the Jackdaw i have been feeding for the last couple of Days. It is in the same birdfamily as Crows and Magpies. Probably a young bird as the grownups normaly stay a bit further away from humans. It is only common in Europe and Asia. In USA, Grackles are closely related to the Jackdaw.

 

Damn grackles. Always crapping on my equipment.

 

Just one i took a few minutes ago from my balcony (with my phone camera):

 

I took a pic of a Amanita muscaria too (... think i have posted it before, but like the dental impressions of a beaver on it)

 

^^^ Looks like a sesame seed hamburger bun!

 

autumn closing in... a little too early, maybe (had one or two almost-zeo-degress - nights already, gees and cranes on the leave).
but it finally got sunny over the weekend.









(mountain ash, maple, wild vine, leftover sunflowers, a heron, some sheeps)​

 

Taken from the terrace of my house with my Samsung phone..