sallymack Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Detail of very small palm tree. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill J Boyd Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 American White Pelican landing at White Rock Lake, Dallas. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Parsons Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Definitely no words Stinkhorn - I think 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcstep Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Big Old Buck by David Stephens, on Flickr 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Keefer Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 5 Cheers, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Laura Weishaupt Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Tony, Oh, but a picture of fungi is worth at least a thousand words.:D Yepper, it's a stinkhorn, and depending on where you are (England?) its probably Phallus impudicus. Isn't that a great name? Just makes me want to spit it out with impunity. These have a few name changes, but that's the name used by First Nature. (First Nature is a link to the mushroom on the site.....I don't know why pnet cant get the links to show unless they are hovered over) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Parsons Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Thanks very much, Laura - about ten minutes after I took the shot (yesterday) a family with two kids and a dog kicked it over - when I asked why, they said because it was poisonous. Sigh. Thank you for the link - I've copied it to help in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_bill Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 The inspiration of this shot was the spoon shaped bill. I don't think I have used repetition in a nature shot before with one subject but here there are "three bills" 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sallymack Posted November 6, 2017 Author Share Posted November 6, 2017 Thanks very much, Laura - about ten minutes after I took the shot (yesterday) a family with two kids and a dog kicked it over - when I asked why, they said because it was poisonous. Sigh. Tony, IF it were poisonous, wouldn't kicking it spread the presumably poisonous spores more quickly and widely than otherwise? People! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Parsons Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Tony, IF it were poisonous, wouldn't kicking it spread the presumably poisonous spores more quickly and widely than otherwise? People! Yes - I know, but destruction is all they know, it appears. These days, there seems to be no education in Natural History or Ecology at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 American white pelican, taking off, captured yesterday (November 5) in Palo Alto, California 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bing_huey1 Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 (edited) A yellowjacket wasp appearing to feed off the spoils of a spider web. Edited November 6, 2017 by ShunCheung 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miha Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Autumn. Hope you'll like it. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DawsonPointers Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Toad-in-the-hole ,Punta Colorada, Uruguay. I have no idea what species this is. It came forward and retreated as I photographed it but I still don't know why. Maybe it was because we don't change the clocks down here ;-} 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Currie Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Not much going on here in drear November, so dropping back to last month, I ran into this little guy on the beach in Rhode Island. A long flight ahead, good luck! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Weishaupt Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Tony, IF it were poisonous, wouldn't kicking it spread the presumably poisonous spores more quickly and widely than otherwise? People! Truth be known, flies spread the spores. They will find remnants of stinkhorns if kicked into the next county. They will even want to lick the goo left on the kids shoes. So, yes, kicking them will attract flies to a further away location, and then spores will be taken even further. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Parsons Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 Thanks, Laura - yet another thing I didn't know ! I realised the flies were attracted to the apparent aroma (which I cannot smell, yet I can follow a fox if one's been around !), but didn't know they were instrumental in that way too. So, in fact, the apparent ecological vandalism may have had a beneficial outcome. Serve them right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Smith Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 Fall colors, New York 5 Robin Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Doo Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 Deer surprised 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Sorensen Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 Deer surprised [ATTACH=full]1218241[/ATTACH] Mary, Two deer, correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deewelch Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 There are two deers Web Designer at Petstreetmall "We are your pet supplies expert" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Doo Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 Mary, Two deer, correct? I only saw one but, you are right, there seem to be two tails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nail33 Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 There are two deers Deer is both singular and plural. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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