Monday in Nature Weekly Photo March 16, 2015

[Laura Weishaupt]

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<p>Monday Greetings,<br>

The snow is receding around here and seasonal changes are under way. I'm looking toward seeing the sprouts from the seeds once held in this pod. Finding it there in the snow was a reminder that the big picture is made of small details. I hope you've had a great week with your camera. Grab your coffee and let's get Monday in Nature under way.</p>

[Laura Weishaupt]

<p>Oh, yes, how about the image.</p><div></div>

[Bill J Boyd]

<p>It must be Spring because the <em><strong>Cedar Waxwings</strong></em> have arrived in Texas. </p><div></div>

[gduffy]

<p>Everglades NP</p><div></div>

[Rick Bortnick]

<p>Another moment in the snow<br>

(You would think we would co-ordinate better :) )</p><div></div>

[User_2019667]

<p>I've been in sunny Arizona for the past two months. Here is a a honey comb in the rocks on Usery Mountain just east<br>

of Mesa, Az. </p><div></div>

[rmuckey]

<p>Old man winter's back is broken though he still struggles in the Southern Tier of NY - saps running!<br>

Though not the best, I caught a chickadee sipping sap from a branch our resident red squirrel had barked to get the sap flowing out last week. Lots of critters seem to have a sweet tooth or in this case a sweet beak... </p><div></div>

[kts]

<p>not as dramatic as the mummified bodies found in the Mexico mountains but pretty much the same thing</p><div></div>

[johnfarrar]

<p>An autumn sight in spring - a huge polypore (don't know the species) in a Welsh oak wood.</p><div></div>

[Robin Smith]

<p>...</p><div></div>

[RickDB]

<p>Barely a night goes by without hearing barred owls calling but I have only glimpsed them in my back yard at night. Seems I should have been looking in the front yard; I'm hoping this one has found a great nest site. EOS 7D2 + EF 500mm f/4 IS II + 1.4x III; 1/10s at f/5.6 ISO 800 (tripod)</p><div></div>

[Gup]

<p>Cacoa seed pod. Somebody has already sampled the sweet pulp.</p><div></div>

[Gup]

<p>Rick, beautiful shot. <br>

I love to walk my dog late at night to hear the barred owls. Last week we were out around 2:00am in the woods, the moon was brilliant so no need of a light, the owls were very active. Then the wolves started up. I could detect many individual voices and in a few minutes it was a full on symphony. They were immediately in our path and my dog didn't make a sound. I stood motionless, he sat by my side, for 4 or 5 minutes in awe and then turned back. I just live for those kinds of moments.</p>

[dcstep]

<p><strong>Eagle Eye</strong></p>

<p><a title="Bald Eagle Gives Us "The Eye" by David Stephens, on Flickr" href=" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8596/16584746269_f99898bdee_c.jpg" alt="Bald Eagle Gives Us "The Eye"" width="800" height="534" /></a></p>

[ShunCheung]

<p>How about sandhill crane eye? :-)<br>

<br />This one is getting ready to land.</p><div></div>

[patstacey]

<p>Eye see</p><div></div>

[sallymack]

<p>Laetiporus gilbertsonii, February 2012 -- Sally</p>

[sallymack]

Trying again with the photo, this time.<div></div>

[colin carron]

<p>Here in the UK our woodland birds are having a relatively easy winter. Here is a great tit with its distinctive black bar down the front.</p><div></div>

[stemked]

<p>Winter is come and gone in Texas anyway. I visited my mother in Houston last week. It wAS REALLY lovely to see all the Paintbrushes up!</p>

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17986921-lg.jpg" alt="" width="598" height="900" /><br>

Indian Paintbrush, Seagent, TX Pentax K3, 100mm f2.8 DA macro</p>

[srspeck]

<p>Did someone say Sandhill Crane eye?</p><div></div>

[jpalmer57]

<p>The first tangible sign of the end of winter and beginning of spring, the Snowdrops coming up.</p><div></div>

[geoffm]

<p>Down here we are just beginning to enter our golden autumn, best season of the year in southern Australia. I've really enjoyed the chilly pictures from the north over the last few months. :-)</p>

<p>Water-worn channels in soft sandstone.</p><div></div>

[anthea50]

<p>Lomandra bud...</p><div></div>

[roman_p]

<p>Well, even the snow is slowly receding now it’s still going to be a few more weeks before we can see new buds and sprouts in our area. This winter has been a harsh one. Extremely low temp and strong wind really impacted my photography. On the high elevation the wind usually gusting up to 50 kts and the windchill factor approaching -40F. In such conditions you don’t feel like staying for hours on the summit waiting for sunset and you photographic inspiration is fading out. You thoughts are about just how to survive. I was trying to catch those rare moments when the conditions were more or less civilized squeezing time of my busy weeks for photography. I’m not a stranger to extreme conditions on the high altitude, but after all the photography is not meant to be performed in adverse conditions. Anyhow, messing up with a few rolls of films on my light table, now it’s time to summarize whatever has been done before the spring takes full control. </p><div></div>