Camping This Weekend
 

[Princess OTR's first time "real" camping - (tent, not trailer or cabin) - she LOVED it.

That looks ike one princess who is going to be able to defend her own castle; bold knights may be optional extras.


Is that a real gun?

BB gun - adult just behind her out of the shot. But real ducks and real trout!

My clematis.

Bonus side story, only available here at the Cellar for a limited time:

We were talking flowers, and my mom said something about cyclamen. I said "Cyclamen, isn't that the new 4 day treatment for Clematis?" Ba dum dum...

He tried to ride a cyclamen
he took a bad spill
then he rhododendron
and just looked like a dill.

Rainbow Lorikeet
 

I took this picture outside my fence a few days ago. The parrots really love the blossom on this tree (which I don't know the name of unfortunately, but I'll be finding out) and they spend most of each morning there lately. The blooms are almost finished now though, so I guess that'll be the end of the parrots till next year.

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Wow, great pics! It must be very cool to have parrots naturally flying around.

Thanks classic. :) It is nice to have native birds around, but they can be pretty raucous. Not so great at the crack of dawn, but still beautiful to look at.

Those particular ones are very common around here, and in most coastal areas of Australia. They can be quite comical to watch.

We have to go to the zoo to see stuff like that. That's cool.

If we didn't have cats and dogs, we'd be able to hand feed them. They get very tame very quickly if you leave food out for them. Particularly that breed of parrot. Bread with sugar or honey can easily be held in the hand to offer to them and it doesn't take too long for them to get brave enough to come for a feed. I was pretty close to that bird. Only about 2 metres away (6 feet). They're pretty cocky really.

I feed squirrels here. But really, they're just tree rats. Some of them are very social. But Frank and Trixie make their contribution to keeping them leery.
Australia got squirrels?

Squirrels. Thank heavens for spell check.:)

No, but we have possums. All kinds, and they get pretty friendly too. They like making homes in people's roof cavity actually, and can be very annoying when they bounce around at night. Possums are nocturnal as you probably know. Most of the possums we have here are pretty cute as opposed to the ones you guys have over there.

We have armadillo. But I shoot them. They are pests.

Beautiful pics Ali.

I think that's a Wattle.

Me and one of my students. A complete coincidence that we dressed this way, so I had to capture it on film.

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Impress: I LOLed.

CpnHowdy: try getting Japanese people to pronounce Sukuwiwu. Sukuwiiwuru. Yes I am mean.

And Australian possums are also friendly and can be easily semi-tamed to take food from your hand. Many birds will too, especially magpies. Emus can be hard to keep off.

The parrots are beautiful, Ali. I'm thinking this is some sort of biological yin/yang balance to make up for all the scary shit you guys have over there. :eek:

No parrots here in chi-town. But no big hairy bugs either.

Good point Dar - I'm debating whether I want the parrots AND the bugs or if I should just be happy without either. hmmm

from the peak of Bull Run Mountain today

Beautiful. You know what kind of bird that is?

@Impress: What is it? Where did you take the shot? I love it.

impress - Painting of a bobcat?

glatt - that an osprey? I can't tell not seeing the head behind the wing.

no idea what kind of bird it was, but it was huge, and there were a bunch of them soaring in the thermals on the mountain side. I thought it was a big hawk or an eagle, but I don't know.

I also saw a skink, a box turtle, and a deer on the same hike.

Here's another shot of one of the birds, but is kind of out of focus. They were moving so fast the camera was having trouble locking onto them.

nope not an osprey. I think you're right probably a hawk.

[quote=classicman;569860]impress - Painting of a bobcat?
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No, real live animal at a zoo in Phoenix. Beautiful cat.

Probably the painted backdrop fooled him.

That zoo in Phoenix was a disgrace, to be perfectly honest. Deplorable. But that cat was magnificent.

My baby girl.

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Damn. She's gonna be HUGE when she gets grown!:rollhappy

Exactly. I thought the animal looked real, but the foliage was obviously not.

I wonder if the cat can "see" the painted foliage at all, or if it just looks like a cement wall.

Armadillo = Opossum on the half-shell!:D

So I'm turning the water hose off today and I see this thing over there next to the wall. I ask self what it is.:eek:
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I move in closer with caution and it starts to climb up the wall.
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Obviously he doesn't appreciate the photo op and turns around and snares at me.
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I move and he flies right in my face.
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Now that's batshit crazy. Little bastard almost gave me a CA.

Pics pending of the camera hitting the ground.

Would've given me a FPS. Full Pair of Shorts.:speechls:

He looks like a nasty little sucker! ;)

Spider-bat, spider-bat, does whatever a spider-bat does...

God I'm sick of the Simpsons! lol

A what?

Cardiac Arrest.

My little pot o' gold.

Here's some stuff from this year so far. Haven't posted much of anything in the way of photos for this year, so please excuse the long post:
-From my ski trip visiting a buddy in Bend, Oregon in January. Skied Mt. Bachelor.

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-Blue Heron nests down in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in March

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-Day trip to the Asian market area in Cleveland in May

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-And some nicely blooming flowers from mom's garden last week.

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Love the pic of the birds in the trees.

Hey Bullitt:

Those are some beautiful shots. My two favorites are the backlit snowy trees and the wide shot of the heron colony. Really great! Thanks!

I loved the Naughtier Baby Dragon. I guess the safer version says Hello. The naughtier version shakes his dick at ya...

Those pics of birds in flight are wonderful

Oh, and I want a bat! I love bats, they're beautiful! Fancy finding one just like that in your yard. How marvellous.

Ahh. Me and Dad used to go looking for bats at night in Queen's park. happy days.

Methinks they'll bite the batshit outa you!

And Barney Fife said they'll get in your hair and lay eggs and make you go crazy.

Looking in their mouth is like looking into a mini Rottweiler's .

Our old neighborhood was bat infested, and 3 or 4 times a year we'd have one flying around in the house. I hated that.

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Disclaimer: I didn't take this pic, but a good friend did, right down the street from my house on Sunday (while I was ignorantly cruising around on the back of a Harley in the rain):

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Thanks guys, hopefully I'll be able to get some cool shots next weekend at a Daytona Prototype auto race that I will share with you all.

That would be really cool.

Those bird colony pictures are really interesting. I've never seen a group of herons like that in one tree.

It looks like that house sprang a leak QotR.

[quote=impress;569898]What zoo?

Great tornado shot. They should have sent it CNN to post on the tv.

I stalked this little guy (or his siblings) for twenty minutes, wading through the waist deep water (with no housing to protect my camera :eek: ) and I got a couple well focused shots. This one cracks me up the most. He's cocked his head and he's lookin' right back at me "What are you lookin at?!". Hahahaha!!

excellent shot!

oh thats beautiful V!