Monday in Nature, 1 June 2020

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Happy June! Another Great Blue Heron from Bear River MBR.

 

Mallard ducks, mother and daughter. Male mallards have a green head; their colors are very different.

 

Taken in Jack E. Hill Park, Elk Grove, CA 21 May 2020 @ 12:56 PM
Nikon D750 1/800 sec, f/8, ISO 900 (Auto) Tamron SP 70-200mm f/2.8 Di VC USD A009N @ 200mm Range: 23.71 meters

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fledgeling American Dipper, Sierra County California

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Goose feather in a pond near my home in Olathe, Kansas
300mm f4 PF Nikkor, D-850

 

Many years ago I worked at a wildlife rescue center in the SF Bay Area—this is a scanned Ektachrome half-frame slide (Olympus Pen-FT) of one of our more unusual charges.

 

Bumble Bee & Currant Blossom by David Stephens, on Flickr

 

One problem with catadioptric lenses is the shallow DoF

but I don't give a rat's *ss

 

Wildebeest migration backlit. Will try this in black and white for comparision.

 

Continuing my at-home fascination with bumblebees, here's a very symmetrical one hanging on in the wind...