image of the day
grrlscientist | February 16, 2007
Carolina Wrens, Thryothorus ludovicianus,
on the photographer's front porch light puffed up to keep warm.
Note the polka dots -- a pattern not seen when the plumage is normally laid down.
Image: John Schukman
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grrlscientist | February 15, 2007
Snow Moon.
Here's a picture that David took on 2 February 2007 of the full moon, this one known as the Snow Moon because it is the first full moon in February. The photo was taken with a new Pentax K100D DSLR, attached at the prime focus of a Celestron C-8 telescope via an f/6.3 focal reducer, effectively making it a 1270 mm telephoto lens for the camera. Some mild post-processing. Click image for a truly huge view in its own window.
Image: David Warman (email)
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grrlscientist | February 14, 2007
River kingfisher, Alcedo atthis.
Orphaned image. Contact me to receive proper credit.
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grrlscientist | February 13, 2007
Citheronia splendens sinaloe,
a member of the family Saturnidae, a species on limited range in the SW USA and extending down into Mexico. This was photographed at Tierra de los Suenos in southeast Arizona. The photographer set up a sheet with moth lights behind and to the side of the main building.
Image: Biosparite.
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grrlscientist | February 12, 2007
This is one of the photographer's favorite photos of a jumping spider. She discovered the spider inside of a cicada exuviae on the underside of a milkweed leaf. Again, the photographer is not certain of the species. Can anyone else identify this species?
Image: Bev Wigney.
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grrlscientist | February 11, 2007
The photographer writes, "Shot from the hip in a flower patch in the aviary at Wickham Park. Most of the tulips had bloomed at this point, but this one was still a little shy. Because I'd been looking for birds, I had the 135 and the 2x TC on there, hence the lovely depth of field."
Image: grendelkhan.
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grrlscientist | February 10, 2007
Moon over Yosemite Valley.
Image: Jim Norton.
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grrlscientist | February 9, 2007
This Southern Copperhead, Agkistrodon contortrix,
was basking in the late-afternoon sun on an unpaved road in the Big Thicket in Texas, in early April 2004.
Image: Biosparite.
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grrlscientist | February 8, 2007
Julia Longwing Butterfly, Dryas julia.
Image: Biosparite.
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grrlscientist | February 7, 2007
Female jumping spider, unknown species. Can any of you readers ID the species?
"A female guarding her egg case. She was so very cute," the photographer says. "I could tell she was a little fearful, but wasn't about to abandon her egg case." Unfortunately, the photographer didn't get an ID for her as she didn't get such a good look at the spider because the spider wanted to keep her eyes on the photographer!
Image: Bev Wigney.
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grrlscientist | February 6, 2007
Red-banded Hairstreak, Calycopis cecrops.
29 June 2005. Houston, Texas.
Image: Biosparite.
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grrlscientist | February 5, 2007
Airnemone.
a wind-borne seed trapped in a wind-blown fence near Helena, Montana, November of 2005. This is an old-fashioned clematis. Their filaments, evolved to catch the wind, also caught the sun and the photographer's eye. Click image for much larger view in its own window.
Image:Martin Richard.
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grrlscientist | February 4, 2007
Zitting Cisticola, Cisticola juncidis, from Bangalore.
These birds are extremely widespread, missing only from North and South America and Antarctica. They are common in short- to medium-height grasslands, where they are difficult to see, except when courting.
Image: Natasha.
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grrlscientist | February 3, 2007
View from the Great Kiva,
Chimney Rock Pueblo, Colorado.
The photographer was fortunate to visit on Jan 2, 2007, the date of the full moon rising between the spires of Chimney Rock and Companion Rock, an event associated with the major lunar standstill and the winter solstice. This occurs only every 18.6 years, but it is likely that the ancient Pueblo astronomers used this site that that same purpose in 1076 and 1094 AD.
Image: Dave Rintoul.
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grrlscientist | February 2, 2007
Snow atop Mesa Verde, Colorado.
Image: Dave Rintoul.
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grrlscientist | February 1, 2007
Hoarfrost on Tamarisk
in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.
Cuz it's the day after my birdday ...
Image: Dave Rintoul.
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grrlscientist | January 31, 2007
A Western scrub-jay, Aphelocoma californica
in Mesa Verde, Colorado.
Image: Dave Rintoul.
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grrlscientist | January 30, 2007
A rare and lovely ferruginous hawk, Buteo regalis,
in Hovenweep, Utah.
Cuz it's the day before my birdday ...
Image: Dave Rintoul.
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grrlscientist | January 29, 2007
Moon over Chimney Rock Pueblo, Colorado.
The photographer was fortunate to visit on Jan 2, 2007, the date of the full moon rising between the spires of Chimney Rock and Companion Rock, an event associated with the major lunar standstill and the winter solstice. This occurs only every 18.6 years, but it is likely that the ancient Pueblo astronomers used this site that that same purpose in 1076 and 1094 AD.
Image: Dave Rintoul.
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grrlscientist | January 28, 2007
A flower -- can anyone identify the species? (I have a guess as to its identity but I might be wrong).
Image: David Harmon.
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