Monday in Nature, 27 April 2020

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This week's is another from the Bear River MBR. This heron was posing just alongside the rode, so we stopped and blocked traffic for a few minutes.

 

Saw bluebirds on my morning walk in Austin, Texas

 

African Jackal

 

Our hummingbird on Pride of Madeira season in the San Francisco area is unusually long this year. I think the reason is that this past March was relatively cool so that the flowers bloom a bit later this year. I went out on April 26, 2020 and still got quite a few images.

 

Taken in Jack E. Hill Park, Elk Grove, CA 16 April 2020 @ 2:56 PM
Nikon D750 1/1250 sec, f/8, ISO 720 (Auto) Tamron SP 70-200mm f/2.8 Di VC USD A009N @ 200mm Range: 23.71 meters
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Tanzania - Lake Manyara giraffe

 

Harpswell, Maine

 

Touch Down by David Stephens, on Flickr

 

As promised last week, this is the blue phase of ribbon eel. All of the blue coloured eels are male.

 

my old friend "Nelson". Wounded in a wing by hunters and recovered after several months of care
Canon F-1n. Canon FDn 70-210. Kodak Gold 200

 

GBH in flight

 

That is one very sharp image for film. You nailed it!

 

Fat muskrat. Great Meadows NWR.