Monday in Nature Weekly Photo March 9, 2015

[Laura Weishaupt]

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<p>Good Morning,<br>

A color drenched sky is a wonderful sight. This sunrise was a welcome change from clouds, ice, and snow. Has nature offered any color or a welcome change of pace? It's time to get the week started and Monday in Nature is a good place to begin.</p><div></div>

[colin carron]

<p>I'm not sure whether this could be classed as colour or a change of pace but last Thursday nature offered me a close-up experience of a predator in action. I heard a lot of squawking outside my window and looked out to see this sparrowhawk had killed a pigeon. It was about 10 ft away from me and stayed there long enough for me to rush off, get my camera and take some pictures through the double-glazing. Eventually it picked up the pigeon and flew further off with it. An extraordinary experience.<br /> Having looked it up, this sparrowhawk (<em>Accipiter nisus)</em> appears to be a female which is quite a bit bigger than the smaller male and so goes for larger prey.</p><div></div>

[kts]

<p>cold beauty.....finally, some of the water has broken thru</p><div></div>

[Bill J Boyd]

<p>This is Katie, the resident Mute Swan at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas. She is named after a female police officer who works at the park. I have been watching her for at least 5-years and this weekend was the first time I have seen her fly. Shot taken with my brand new Nikon 80-400mm lens. Dallas had 7-inches of snow the day before I arrived.</p><div></div>

[gduffy]

<p>I can see you!</p><div></div>

[Jon Eckman]

<p>Striking Colin.<br>

I'm looking forward to some color too, but for today it's yet another snowy image taken on my way home from work this past Friday. </p><div></div>

[Rick Bortnick]

<p>With luck many of us can move on from the zen-like muteness of winter into those hard to capture verdant greens of spring.</p><div></div>

[Charles_Sumner]

<p>Another touch of winter from me. Cold beauty.</p><div></div>

[Robin Smith]

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[biomed]

<center><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17973231-md.jpg" alt="G15 184" width="680" height="510" border="0" /></center>

[gordonjb]

<p>Another grey winter Monday around here. I am editing some underwater images today so here is a view of the sky upon surfacing from a shore dive in Wakatobi back in 2012. You can see a small boat to the right which I hope does not violate policy, I'm too lazy to clone it out.</p><div></div>

[johnfarrar]

<p>A sky with colour? That isn't grey? In Wales? Well, sometimes....</p><div></div>

[Gup]

<p>This is a purple land crab on the trail in Costa Rica.</p><div></div>

[ShunCheung]

<p>Acorn woodpecker (<em >Melanerpes formicivorus</em>)</p>

<p>Nikon D7100 with 600mm lens + 1.4xTC</p><div></div>

[RickDB]

<p>The Yellow-rumped warblers have returned, here is a male in breeding plumage. EOS 7D2 + Tamron 150-600mm at 600mm; 1/500s @ f/8 ISO 800, handheld.</p><div></div>

[bing_huey1]

<p>From a couple months back, some Stropharia.</p><div></div>

[Mary Doo]

<p>Not a recent shot but it brings fond memories of a colorful, magical, morning.</p><div></div>

[dcstep]

<p><strong>Bald Eagle Looks My Way</strong></p>

<p><a title="Bald Eagle Checks Us Out by David Stephens, on Flickr" href=" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7598/16138256604_45bfbf61bf_c.jpg" alt="Bald Eagle Checks Us Out" width="800" height="534" /></a></p>

[ShunCheung]

<p>Mary, very nice landscape. I wonder whether it is possible to brighten up those distant mountains a little.</p>

<p>Beautiful colors.</p>

[User_6502147]

<p>Found little bit of color in a bleah surroundings. Red Rock Canyon State PK, Calif.</p><div></div>

[anthony_r.1]

<p>Canada Goose<br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17982792-lg.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="525" /></p>

[tombest]

<p>Here is some <em>breeding</em> color found in Tri-colored Herons this time of year in Florida. It was a crummy day weather-wise but there were several Tri-coloreds with their bright blue beaks 'performing' for their partners. (Real or imagined). The wetlands in South Florida are rich with nests. Great time to be out.<br>

Tom</p>

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[thadley]

<p><img src="/photo/17981414" alt="" />. I recently took a Caribbean cruise to escape a part of the winter. One of the stops was Curacao and I found this colorful rock. </p><div></div>

[anthea50]

<p>Laura, that image is just beautiful! Some colour it is then!</p><div></div>

[paul_de_ley]

<p>More a change of scenery for me than color: a little plover gives me the heads up at Devereux Slough in Goleta, CA. Very definitely a change of pace though, it's been a while since I treaded beach and dune sand for a few hours with my optical and tripod-ical ballast as workout weights.</p>

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