daniel_benoit

Early morning Lake Martin Louisiana just down the road from where I

was born and raised in Lafayette Louisiana.

White tailed Kite. Formerly Black Shouldered. Why they keep changing the names I do not know. There are more Kites out there with white tails but none with black shoulders.

 

Nice shot Hung thanks for sharing.

 

Heading out for Corpus Christi, King Ranch, Brownsville Texas, Sable Psalm Audubon center Brownsville, South Padre Island, Santa-Anna Wildlife Center and another one my wife found that she says looks even better. So wish me luck on the bird photos. We bird watch as a hobby and this is the main purpose for this trip. My goal is a full frame shot of a Green Jay. Awesome bird.

 

Daniel

I contacted Photo.net but no response yet. I have a new e-mail address. Not wanting to post in the open forum I will wait a little longer. Meanwhile I will upload a new photo or two. Have been inactive here for a while.

 

 

Would be nice to know the names of both. But I think I have asked you this before. I am an avid birdwatcher and also a member of North American Native Fish Association. The reason for my critique or input here is that I am trying to contact you but I cannot seem to get my new e-mail into photo.net's system for now. It says to go to my account, then look at the right top and find account beaurocrocy but I cannot find that anywhere on my-acount page even looked on all the drop down menues.

 

I see you recently updated me as being interested in me. We have shared and communicated before and I just wanted to see how things were going for you.If you want to email me you can contact me "I was thinking about putting my new e-mail here but decided I did not want to share in the open forum". So I suppose I will wait for the site administrator's response to my problem. Nice to know that someone is interested in me. I have been inactive on this site for some time. Just checked in this past few days to see what is been going on. This, as usual, is a nice capture. Without getting out the field guide it seems this could be a winter plumage of the eared grebe. Or possibility the Clarks or western grebe which look almost identical. Well I got off of my can and looked it up in my Sibley's guide. It seems this is the eared grebe as I suspected in winter plumage/non-breeding plumage. The fish I could look up to but not worth the traumatic exertion of energy to look in the fish book. Looks like some kind of mullet off the top of my head but who knows. Doesn't matter I just wanted to contact you.

 

Looking forward to more communications with you when I get this e-mail thing ironed out.

 

Daniel Benoit

By the way that is an exotic species of catfish not native to the US. The are established widespread in Florida. The Walking Catfish.

The colors seem a bit bright but try House Finch out for size. The only other two possibilities are cassins finch which I do not believe come as far east as Texas for they are an extreem western bird and then there is the preverbial Purple Finch which is more robust and fatter looking and overall more color than this one. After that long lecture I believe House Finch is the bird here.

You are funny to the point of being rediculous. What a bunch of Nonsense! I would say that if you can't come up with more than a personal attack on a person or his country then one should not say a thing. I mean what else is a male going to think when he sees a female on a couch, legs spread wide open, leaning back and holding her head bracing for the impact. If you are into a sexual pose then so be it. If you want to call this an art form so be it. Just not my Idea of a museam piece thats all I am saying. " Bushism " new word for my vocabulary I guess.

I can't tell the scale here. Depending on size there are four choices as to the name of this gull. Bonaparts, Laughing, Franklins, or Little Gull. May be named something different in your country but it is still a gull. Nice photo of one at that.

Very nice moody shot. I would crop the distraction that takes away from this beautiful girl. ( On the right )

Very Nice. I was and am always facinated with a good mushroom shot. Has been wet here in Chattanooga TN area latley and I found this log with some interesting growths on it.

Nice capture of a Stellers Jay. First time I saw them was over twenty five years ago when I hiked the Grand Canyon rim to rim. Saw them on the north rim. Just remember how beautiful they were.

But are they mushrooms? I have shot some of this kind of stuff and I was calling in some type of Fungi.

Comfortable distance of eight feet or so! These guys can bolt faster than you can blink. I wouldn't get too comfortable. I haven't seen anything like this here on PN but I have seen this at Sabine in Louisiana. These guys were pissing the aligators with this same sort of technique.

Dayflower because the blooms last only one day and I suppose it originated from Asia. I did not notice where you were from but I live in Tennessee USA and it is a exotic non native plant here.

Try looking up Sphinx Moth. May be called humming bird moth in your part of the world but we have a moth in the U.S. that resembles a humming bird when flying. And in the description in the book says may be mistaken for a hummingbird.

Tiger swallowtail. Great shot looks a lot like one I shot.

Beautiful capture.

Nice Rock. Beautiful capture of the clouds.

The flowers are alright but I think it is the fence that makes this shot special. Beautiful shot and nice angle.

This is the spotted touch-me-not and also known as the Jewelweed. The stems when crushed have a relieving salve for poison ivy. Though they look tropical I have seen them in Canada all the way down to Louisiana. I lived in Ontario canada and they grow there. It gets the name touch me not from the early unopened flowers. When just right and you squeeze them they pop. I was just looking at my book and it says they grow from Newfoundland all the way down to Florida. I just noticed you live in Toronto. I lived in Oshawa for six years. I am from Louisiana. Too cold for this cajun boy up there. Met my wife down here in Tennessee where we live now. I tried living in her country but had to move down. Brrrrrr

This is for the person that asked. In North America they have Yellow Crowned and Black Crowned Night Herons, this is the Yellow Crowned. Looks white up there on his head but in breeding plumage it is yellow.

A wonderful work of art. Pleasing to the eye and very tastefully done. And it helps that the model is beautiful.

Promotes great desire for one to snuggle. Great relaxed shot. Actually more sexually inviting and leans to the erotic more than the artistic in my opinion than the one on the rocks in the stream face up. Non the less great work.

Unlike "Love on the Rocks." This one is more relaxed looking. The one of this lady standing backlit by the sun is fantastic. So tall and lean. Beautiful, and great work again Niko.

Beautiful. Nature has it appealing side at times. Well done Niko!