Monday in Nature Weekly Photo Oct. 14, 2013

[Laura Weishaupt]

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<p>Good Morning,<br>

The coffee is warm, with a satisfying breakfast here at South Lookout on Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. The counters have headed up to North Lookout for another day of fall raptor migration. I'm waiting for Helios to hitch up the chariot. I hope you all have a pleasant morning and feel the Sun rise on a new day.</p>

<p>It's Monday and Nature beckons. What do your images say?</p><div></div>

[mbkissel]

<p>Snowy Egret</p>

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[colin carron]

<p>A shot from the foreshore near Lyme Regis, UK, showing fossil ammonites eroding out of the Jurassic period rocks from about 200 mya. This beach is covered in fossils and also fossil hunters.</p><div></div>

[Rick Bortnick]

<p>Intricate helices</p><div></div>

[geoffm]

<p>Good morning (or should that be evening?) These amazing plants are Xanthorrhoea, also known as grass trees, kangaroo tails, or where I come from, yakkas. The tall yellow flower spikes grow up to two metres and are covered with myriads of tiny flowers. It is exceptional to see such a profuse and intense flowering, which in this case is the effect of a bushfire which went through this area last summer. I've often seen occasional plants flower this copiously, but never so many is one area (which extended for several kilometres on both sides of the road.)</p><div></div>

[Bill J Boyd]

<p>A<strong> 10-point-buck</strong> entered my back yard this week. Was able to get a shot from my patio. Living in Austin has some advantageous.</p><div></div>

[Lou_Meluso]

<p>Happy Monday, Nature lover's!</p><div></div>

[Bill C1664885404]

<p>Some good shots already coming in this week...and that Misty Valley shot is a great scenic.<br />Only thing new I have is from just yesterday, driving out through the country and spotted some Canada Geese out in an open field about 150-200yds from the road....U-turned, parked, and tried to sneak closer along the treeline of the road. Finally got busted and they launched so I jumped out into the field and got a couple long distance action shots handholding a Canon FD 300/4.0-L @ 5.6 on a NEX-7, ISO1600, 1/1600...a bit noisy and should have used F8 or 11 for better DOF, but it is what it is...next time I'll know better, LOL. <br>

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/roundball/PHOTOGRAPHY/BIRDS/FD300mm40LHH561332C-GroupCrop7_zps37a473f2.jpg" alt="" /></p>

[Jon Eckman]

<p>Noticed this one watching me as I walked past its habitat</p><div></div>

[RickDB]

<p> A green stink bug nymph (Chinavia halaris) making a bee line for the last of my tomatoes!</p><div></div>

[hanappa]

<p>Good morning all. Thanks for those this week who helped me with my Spider ID. I was out shooting at the park this weekend before the rain came in, and nearly sat on this little two-inch Pallid Spiny Softshell. A very gracious model, relaxing in the sun and posing patiently despite my 60mm and ring light towering over its face like giant paparazzi.</p><div></div>

[SCL]

<p>Leaves are just beginning to get good colors, but the lowly lamb's ear collects the brown dead ones.</p><div></div>

[jonathan_parkhouse1]

<p>Cold, wet windy weather here in the UK the last few days, but even dead vegetation can be worth a picture:</p><div></div>

[kts]

<p>that was a nice sunrise Laura</p>

<p>got a bunch of close-ups, wide angles, overheads and individuals in this field of fungi but i kinda liked this one</p><div></div>

[ljwest]

<p>I nearly sat on this poor Mantid! (And I really need a macro lens...)<br /> <a title="Mantis by Viggen61, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7382/10237195856_c83da06103_z.jpg" alt="Mantis" width="640" height="427" /></a></p>

[sankha]

<p>It is that colorful time of the year again.<br>

Here's a fall picture from my end. This pair of leaves was fluttering in the breeze as they defied gravity thanks to a string of spider web.<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17551873-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="450" /></p>

[Andrew Gosden]

<p>Great shots so far. And I see the thread is now showing on the most active list.<br>

This is from a couple of weeks ago. There were a few of these wasps visiting the spot on this tree where some sap was coming out. <br>

<img src="http://akgosdenphotos.smugmug.com/Nature/Insects-and-other-bugs/i-gwnpZNV/0/700x700/IMG_1217-700x700.jpg" alt="" /><br>

<strong>Canon XSi, Tamron 70-300 vc with extension tube</strong></p>

[User_2019667]

<p>Beautiful shots so far today. Mine is a misty morning on the pond this morning. </p><div></div>

[David_Cavan]

<p>Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend on Vancouver Island - got up early enough to catch sunrise over the Gulf of Georgia.</p><div></div>

[birdied]

<p>Another set of beautiful nature scenes. <br>

I have posted some of the Gulf Fritillaries that have visited the Passion Flower Vine. It has been fascinating to watch them lay eggs on the tendrils of the vine. <br /><br /><br>

Hope you enjoy</p>

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[paul_de_ley]

<p>I spent an afternoon chasing butterflies in a field of wild sunflowers, but in the end I think I like this shot best - the seed head of a diminutive relative of dandelions that I haven't been able to put a name in yet (my local plant guide is pretty detailed but clearly still not detailed enough)</p>

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[MarcelRomviel]

<p>I was driving my car at the highway at 100 km/h and suddenly noticed this cricket that kept hanging on my windscreen wiper. It stayed there until I had to stop for a traffic light, then it jumped away like it had just needed a ride.<br>

I just had to get a photo of it.</p><div></div>

[dcstep]

<p><strong>Light-morph red-tail hawk:</strong></p>

<p><a title="Light-morph red-tail hawk by dcstep, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3677/10110106584_1f15b07a11_z.jpg" alt="Light-morph red-tail hawk" width="640" height="640" /></a></p>

<p>Click on the image if you'd like to see it full-frame.</p>

[bing_huey1]

<p>All beautiful images so far. This is a banana slug mucus trail on a mossy redwood.</p><div></div>

[Laura Weishaupt]

<p>What a beautiful set of shots. I'm going to look much closer.<br>

I noticed, as Andrew pointed out, that MiN is showing up in the most active thread box. Yeah! This week I put the thread in the admin category. If not categorizing the thread was the problem, then I apologize for not doing it sooner, but will certainly do it from now on. This is an amazing community of photographers and all the contributors to this thread deserve to be in the most active box.<br>

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