bryan
April 3, 2020, 1:17pm
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They REALLY like blueberries.
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hotel
April 5, 2020, 8:18pm
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The lockdown dramatically limits fetching opportunities and locations, but we found some empty grass today…
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Ratel
April 6, 2020, 12:10am
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(Watching) Spring cleaning is exhausting.
Double Streeeeeetch
Bonus
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A world before social isolation.
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Ratel
April 12, 2020, 5:52pm
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Nick V Briggs: “While admiring the garden of James Busby, the first resident, who built a house in 1833 and it later became known as the Treaty House, I saw this butterfly land on this flower and was able to snap this image before it flew off.”
Please, please tell me this is “dry wit”.
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Anu-branco.
A world before social isolation II.
The guira cuckoo (Guira guira) is a gregarious bird found widely in open and semi-open habitats of eastern and southern Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and northeastern Argentina.
One of only four species within the subfamily Crotophaginae of the cuckoo family Cuculidae, G. guira is also the only species within the genus Guira.
It is a rather scruffy-looking bird, with a total length of approximately 34 cm (13 in). The sexes are very similar in appearance, except that the female is slight...
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Ratel
April 12, 2020, 7:09pm
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Happy Easter Mona (carrot tops and strawberries)!
Post-strawberry feast:
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Purple finch at my feeder:
Burrica purpurea
Carpodacus purpureus
The purple finch (Haemorhous purpureus) is a bird in the finch family, Fringillidae.
This species and the other "American rosefinches" were formerly included with the rosefinches of Eurasia in the genus Carpodacus; however, the three North American species are not closely related to the rosefinches of the Old World, and have thus been moved to the genus Haemorhous by most taxonomic authorities.
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Keep on rollin´.
A world before social isolation III.
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Ratel
April 14, 2020, 10:12pm
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Update: they’ve since updated the caption. One wonders if Mr. Briggs is a little hazy on entomology (and the “facts of life”), or if he figured the BBC would never print his picture if he told them what it actually was.
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Ratel
April 15, 2020, 3:07pm
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No idea: I assume British. Fairly confident they are shield bugs .
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chgoliz
April 15, 2020, 3:16pm
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Thanks!
Now that I’ve got something to look for, possibly a striped shield bug:
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Hooded crow (Corvus cornix) wet and miserable standing in sleet. Kallio, Helsinki, Finland today.
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A World before social isolation IV.
Andorinha no distanciamento social. Social Distancing Swallow.
Hirundo cyanoleuca Vieillot, 1817
Notiochelidon cyanoleuca
Pyrochelidon cyanoleuca
The blue-and-white swallow (Notiochelidon cyanoleuca) is a passerine bird that breeds from Nicaragua south throughout South America, except in the deserts and the Amazon Basin. The southern race is migratory, wintering as far north as Trinidad, where it is a regular visitor. The nominate northern race may have bred on that island.
Sometimes placed in the genus Pygochelidon, it was first formally described as ...
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