Photography
grrlscientist | September 9, 2009tags: Eastern Meadowlark, Sturnella magna, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Eastern Meadowlark, Sturnella magna, photographed at Brazoria Wildlife Refuge, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 31 July 2009 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/500s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
Review all mystery birds to date.
laelaps | September 9, 2009
An American avocet (Recurvirostra americana), photographed at Antelope Island, Utah.
grrlscientist | September 8, 2009tags: travel, nature, environment, cities, Munkkivuori, Helsinki, Finland
Gifts of chocolate and licorice from my host.
Image: GrrlScientist, 3 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
Ah, the breakfast of champions: licorice and chocolate. Well, and coffee (not pictured, but you get the idea).
My host finally awoke (I had been awake for hours, watching birds, playing on my laptop, and torturing the cat) and he gave me a meal consisting of licorice, chocolate and coffee. Dessert was a bowl of yogurt topped with muesli. A perfect way to start the day in beautiful Helsinki.
After a relaxing…
grrlscientist | September 8, 2009tags: flowers, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day
Common Burdock (Thistle), Arctium pubens, blossoms.
Photographed at the gardens at the Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum
near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland.
Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
grrlscientist | September 8, 2009tags: Speckled Pigeon, Columba guinea, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Speckled Pigeon, Columba guinea, photographed drinking at the Lake Manyara Serena Lodge swimming pool, in Tanzania, Africa. [I will identify these birds for you in 48 hours]
Image: Dan Logen, 8 August 2006 [larger view].
Nikon D2X, Nikon 200-400 VR lens at 400. ISO 800. F/4.5 1/160.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
Review all mystery birds to date.
awild | September 8, 2009
Crematogaster lineolata queen with a retinue of workers. (Vermillion River Observatory, Illinois)
This weekend we took a trip with some entomology students to the Vermillion River Observatory. The astronomical function of the observatory has long been abandoned, but the site remains as a lovely nature reserve and one of the closest patches of decent forest habitat to where we live in Champaign-Urbana.
The acrobat ant Crematogaster lineolata was one of many ants we encountered, and in this nest the queen was right up near the surface. She lingered long enough for me to get a few shots…
laelaps | September 8, 2009
A young bison (Bison bison) walking along the road during a bison jam in Yellowstone.
grrlscientist | September 7, 2009tags: horses, equus, biology, photography, books, Tim Flach, streaming video
This video is a slideshow of stunning photography that is narrated by photographer Tim Flach showing photos from his book Equus which was published on 1 October 2008.
awild | September 7, 2009Long live Myrmecos.net!
By way of a replacement, the ant photos are now over at alexanderwild.com:
Advantages of the new site include:
Galleries can be viewed as a slide show
Geo data are integrated with Google Maps (I'm still working on this)
Images can be displayed at a larger size (up to 800 pixels)
RSS feeds (for example: new photos)
Smoother navigation
Searches return relevant thumbnail images
Automated commercial licensing
Automated ordering of prints
Images and galleries allow comments
As in the old site, the ant images are accessible by taxonomic list, by natural history, by…
grrlscientist | September 7, 2009tags: flowers, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day
Poppy blossom.
Photographed at the gardens at the Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum
near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland.
Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
I am really pleased with this image and hope that you like it too.
Ripening poppy seedpod.
Photographed at the gardens at the Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum
near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland.
Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
grrlscientist | September 7, 2009tags: Wilson's Plover, Charadrius wilsonia, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery birds] Wilson's Plover, Charadrius wilsonia, photographed at Brazoria Wildlife Refuge, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 31 July 2009 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/200s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
Review all mystery birds to date.
laelaps | September 7, 2009
A scorpion illuminated under a black light. Photographed at the Utah Museum of Natural History.
bioephemera | September 7, 2009
From the 8/31/09 New Yorker: "Still, she recognized that the aesthetic enjoyment of dereliction was a recondite and ultimately unsustainable pursuit."
Perhaps. I find these touching photos of Detroit's abandoned, overgrown houses from Sweet Juniper! disturbing because they are lush and lovely. Finding aesthetic beauty in a destroyed home, abandoned by the families that once lived there, symbol of unemployment and economic depression in a moribund once-community . . . it all seems horribly inappropriate. Yet there is a calm, timeless beauty in dereliction, isn't there? Perhaps it's a memento…
grrlscientist | September 6, 2009tags: flowers, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day
Tufted Loosestrife, Lysimachia thyrsiflora.
Helsinki mystery flower, can you identify this?
Photographed at the gardens at the Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum
near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland.
Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
This isn't the best picture I've ever taken, but I hope it's good enough that you can identify the plant.
grrlscientist | September 6, 2009tags: Double-barred Finch, Owl Finch, Bicheno, Taeniopygia bichenovii, identify this bird, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Double-barred (Owl) Finch, Taeniopygia bichenovii, also known as the Bicheno, photographed at Grafton, Australia. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]
Image: Steve Duncan, 15 August 2009 [larger view].
Nikon D200 w/ Nikkor 300mm f/4 1/2000 sec, f/4, iso 200.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
The photographer writes;
Double-barred Finches, aka Owl Finches or Bichenos, are frequently observed in small…
laelaps | September 6, 2009
A male elk (Cervus canadensis) grazing among a group of fallen trees. Photographed near the West Thumb Geyser Basin in Yellowstone.
grrlscientist | September 5, 2009tags: travel, nature, environment, cities, Munkkivuori, Helsinki, Finland
Brick tower that is just outside my host's apartment
in the Munkkivuori neighborhood in Helsinki, Finland.
Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum
near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland.
Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
Now that a new month has begun, my Flickr accounts allow me to upload images once more, so I am back to cramming them full to bursting with images for the photoessays that I wish to share with you from my time in Helsinki, Finland.
As…
grrlscientist | September 5, 2009tags: Daisy, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day
Biting (Goldmoss) Stonecrop, Sedum acre, also known as the Wall-pepper.
Helsinki mystery flower, can you identify this?
Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum
near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland.
Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
This isn't the best picture I've ever taken, but I hope it's good enough that you can identify the plant.
Stonecrop is a succulent herb that includes perhaps 600 species -- mostly in the North Temperate Zone. Many…
grrlscientist | September 5, 2009tags: Killdeer, Charadrius vociferus, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Killdeer, Charadrius vociferus, photographed at Anahuac Wildlife Refuge, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 14 July 2009 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/640s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
laelaps | September 5, 2009
A family of North American river otters (Lontra canadensis) playing together, photographed at a pond in Yellowstone's Lamar Valley.