image of the day
grrlscientist | August 26, 2008tags: Green parakeet, Aratinga holochlora, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Green parakeet (conure), Aratinga holochlora, at Elizabeth Street Parrotry, Brownsville, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 31 March 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/750s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 25, 2008tags: Green parakeet, Aratinga holochlora, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Green parakeet (conure), Aratinga holochlora, at Elizabeth Street Parrotry, Brownsville, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 7 April 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1000s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 24, 2008tags: Green parakeet, Aratinga holochlora, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Green parakeet (conure), Aratinga holochlora, at Elizabeth Street Parrotry, Brownsville, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 7 April 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1000s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 23, 2008tags: Green parakeet, Aratinga holochlora, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Green parakeet (conure), Aratinga holochlora, at Elizabeth Street Parrotry, Brownsville, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 7 April 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1000s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 22, 2008tags: Red-Crowned Amazon Parrot, Amazona viridigenalis, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Red-crowned Amazon parrot, Amazona viridigenalis, at Elizabeth Street Parrotry, Brownsville, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 7 April 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/750s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 21, 2008tags: Red-Crowned Amazon Parrot, Amazona viridigenalis, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Red-crowned Amazon parrot, Amazona viridigenalis, at Elizabeth Street Parrotry, Brownsville, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 7 April 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/750s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 20, 2008tags: Northern Fulmar, Fulmarus glacialis, birds, nature, Image of the Day
These Northern fulmar chicks, Fulmarus glacialis, are from the northern end of the Isle of Lewis (aka the Butt of Lewis) in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Image: Dave Rintoul, August 2008 [larger view].
grrlscientist | August 19, 2008tags: Northern Fulmar, Fulmarus glacialis, birds, nature, Image of the Day
The Northern Fulmar, Fulmarus glacialis, in flight is from the ferry that took the photographer and his wife to the Orkneys, Scotland.
Image: Dave Rintoul, August 2008 [larger view].
grrlscientist | August 18, 2008tags: Eurasian blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus, birds, nature, Image of the Day
This Eurasian Blue Tit, Cyanistes caeruleus, is from the photographer's ancestral village of Rintoul, near Kinross, which is north of the Firth of Forth, about 20 miles from Edinburgh, Scotland.
Image: Dave Rintoul, August 2008.
grrlscientist | August 17, 2008tags: Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 25 July 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1600s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 16, 2008tags: Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 25 July 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/2000s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 15, 2008tags: Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 25 July 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/2000s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 14, 2008tags: Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 25 July 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1600s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 13, 2008tags: Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 25 July 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1600s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 12, 2008tags: Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 25 July 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/2000s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 11, 2008tags: American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, birds, nature, Image of the Day
American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 10 May 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1000s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 10, 2008tags: American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Reflection.
American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 20 July 2007 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1000s f/8.0 at 500.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 9, 2008tags: American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, birds, nature, Image of the Day
American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, in flight over Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 13 April 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1000s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 8, 2008tags: American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, birds, nature, Image of the Day
American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 13 April 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1000s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 7, 2008tags: American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, birds, nature, Image of the Day
American Avocets, Recurvirostra americana, feeding at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 12 May 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1250s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.