Monday in Nature Weekly Photo Dec 1, 2014

[Laura Weishaupt]

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<p>Monday Morning Greetings,<br>

I hope you've all had a great week with opportunities to embrace nature and hug your camera as well. We'll just jump right in this week. Last weeks snow storm brought plenty of chances to dodge fat snow flakes, heed cracking branches, and get hit by phlomphy snow bombs falling out of trees. While out in the storm a copse of birch trees provided some relief with snow laden branches bent to the ground.</p>

<p>Time to get the week started here at Monday in Nature. What did you do with conditions at hand?</p><div></div>

[Rick Bortnick]

<p>I also was out & about during the recent snow. Mine is not so close ... more of a Cat Stevens song.</p><div></div>

[jordan2240]

<p>Nothing from the snow last week, but I still have a number of images to share from my recent walk through Wildwood Park in Harrisburg. This one is of a Wood Duck couple, shot with the Sigma 150-500 @ 500. Since becoming involved with the Weekly Post-processing Challenge in the digital darkroom forum, I've become less inhibited about editing an image to make it look the way I want it to look, so hopefully I haven't broken any rules by posting one with some processing that is a bit beyond the basics. The brush the ducks were up against made it difficult to see them well, so I processed the shot to make it less of a distraction.</p><div></div>

[cegeiss]

<p>From our post-Thanksgiving walk.</p><div></div>

[User_2019667]

<p>This is a shot taken last Jan. during the Polar Vortex that blanketed the country.</p><div></div>

[biomed]

<center><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17916033-md.jpg" alt="S100_thanksgiving 017" width="680" height="510" border="0" /></center>

[Bill J Boyd]

<p>This guy was in my backyard this weekend and shot taken from my patio. He is a survivor because I can see tine marks on his side and a notched left ear. </p><div></div>

[Charles_Sumner]

<p>One from a winter past. A nice start this week!</p><div></div>

[kts]

<p>leaves and water lettuce trapped in a slushy pond that's about to freeze over</p><div></div>

[jonathan_parkhouse1]

<p>Nature isn't all outdoors. This is a female <em>Amaurobius similis</em>, about 8 or 9 mm long, who's using a corner of the shower-room as a nursery. She laid her eggs in this cocoon last week and will stand guard until the spiderlings hatch. <em>Amaurobious</em> is a matriphagous spider, so she will be the spiderlings' first meal.</p><div></div>

[johnfarrar]

<p><em>Dryopteris filix-mas</em>, autumn</p><div></div>

[gordonjb]

<p>PN failed to attach the image and then threatened to ban me for posting to multiple forums. I'll try again.</p>

<p>Apologies for the multiple posts, PN and I are not getting along well this morning.</p><div></div>

[Jon Eckman]

<p>A bit more than frost on the pumpkin</p><div></div>

[Laura Weishaupt]

<p>Gordon, sorry to hear of the difficulty, but thanks for the perseverance. Your beautiful image is (for me) a lesson in how far I have to go with photographing snow.</p>

[colin carron]

<p>Great shots as ever. Jonathan, I like your spider mum very much and wish her well when her brood hatch. Excellent detail on a small subject. <br /> Here it has been misty and still so here is a misty and still picture.<br>

Laura, from last week, the fungus I posted was identified by my local forest man as sulfur tuft.</p><div></div>

[ShunCheung]

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<p>PN failed to attach the image and then threatened to ban me for posting to multiple forums. I'll try again.</p>

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<p>Gordon, sorry about the glitch. I consolidated your text into just one post and deleted the extra ones.</p><div></div>

[gordonjb]

<p>Thanks Shun.</p>

[birdied]

<p>Good Day everyone ! <br>

Not too much activity for the birds lately. Did find some Brown Pelicans.</p>

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[Laura Weishaupt]

<p>Colin, thanks for the follow up. They are wonderful little mushrooms and I usually find them in mass "fruitings", sometimes hundreds on a log. I'm glad your forester was able to confirm your ID.</p>

[David_Cavan]

<p>An unusually cold weekend here in the Pacific Northwest made for an interesting hike yesterday. This is at Shannon Falls north of Vancouver, partly frozen over.</p><div></div>

[zeff]

<p>The end of fall is migration season - thousands of cranes passing through northern Israel. Here are two in the Hula Valley. </p><div></div>

[bing_huey1]

<p>Seasonal appearance of convergent ladybird beetles.</p><div></div>

[GlennS]

<p>Great Blue Heron looking for breakfast... Southern Vancouver Island.</p><div></div>

[AJBart]

<p>Caught this on my drive to work last week..<br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17916572-lg.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="440" /></p>

 

[stemked]

<p>No snow, but that's no reason not to think of colder days.</p>

<p>This is just north of Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand.</p>

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17845148-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="580" /><br>

Yellow-Eyed Penguin, NZ Pentax K3, Sigma 400mm f5.6 APO version II</p>