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By: J4yDubs 6/4/2023	Posted By: J4yDubs - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/24/2015 Location: Total Posts: 4737 Experience: Date Posted: 6/4/2023 6:31 PM
I always loved this thread! It's been so long I'm not even sure I remember how to post a photo.....here goes! nhall Great shot Nancy. Are you using a macro lens? Wasn't able to get any good shots on our latest Outer Banks trip. Weather was bad most days. Pelican riding the waves.

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RE: Nature
By: J4yDubs 6/4/2023	Posted By: J4yDubs - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/24/2015 Location: Total Posts: 4737 Experience: Date Posted: 6/4/2023 6:33 PM
Osprey riding the waves.

RE: Nature
By: J4yDubs 6/4/2023	Posted By: J4yDubs - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/24/2015 Location: Total Posts: 4737 Experience: Date Posted: 6/4/2023 6:36 PM
Mocking bird feeding young one.

RE: Nature
By: nhall 6/4/2023	Posted By: nhall - (Send PM) Member Since: 12/26/2020 Location: Martinsville, VA Total Posts: 5 Experience: Date Posted: 6/4/2023 10:30 PM
I always loved this thread! It's been so long I'm not even sure I remember how to post a photo.....here goes! nhall Great shot Nancy. Are you using a macro lens? Wasn't able to get any good shots on our latest Outer Banks trip. Weather was bad most days. Pelican riding the waves. J4yDubs Thanks, John! Yes to the macro question. Discovered a whole new world in my backyard during the Covid lockdown! Love your Pelican and Osprey shots! The Mockingbirds, too! Sorry to hear the weather was bad for your trip. I was down for a couple of weeks in March. Brigand's Bay the last couple of visits. Weather was great most of the time. Hope to make it back in the Fall.

RE: Nature
By: Rick 6/5/2023	Posted By: Rick - (Send PM) Member Since: 2/8/2004 Location: Amissville Va. Total Posts: 3076 Experience: Date Posted: 6/5/2023 7:31 PM
We came up on this little feller at the Ocracoke light house,

RE: Nature
By: kinakeeter 6/7/2023	Posted By: kinakeeter - (Send PM) Member Since: 2/17/2023 Location: Total Posts: 54 Experience: Date Posted: 6/7/2023 9:04 AM
Just nature being natural.

RE: Nature
By: J4yDubs 6/11/2023	Posted By: J4yDubs - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/24/2015 Location: Total Posts: 4737 Experience: Date Posted: 6/11/2023 3:55 PM
My son took this one last week. I left it untouched (just barely cropped). It was one of the bad smoke days, so it was really hazy. The fox just layed there for about 20 mins.

RE: Nature
By: J4yDubs 6/11/2023	Posted By: J4yDubs - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/24/2015 Location: Total Posts: 4737 Experience: Date Posted: 6/11/2023 3:57 PM
Here a direct shot of the sun that day. Night sensored lights were on that day.

RE: Nature
By: Bentmtn 6/11/2023	Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 4614 Experience: Date Posted: 6/11/2023 4:50 PM
My son took this one last week. I left it untouched (just barely cropped). It was one of the bad smoke days, so it was really hazy. The fox just layed there for about 20 mins. J4yDubs Awww! That's sweet!! A field of wildflowers too!

RE: Nature
By: J4yDubs 6/11/2023	Posted By: J4yDubs - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/24/2015 Location: Total Posts: 4737 Experience: Date Posted: 6/11/2023 6:23 PM
My son took this one last week. I left it untouched (just barely cropped). It was one of the bad smoke days, so it was really hazy. The fox just layed there for about 20 mins. J4yDubs Awww! That's sweet!! A field of wildflowers too! Bentmtn We're at 4 weeks without measurable rain here in NW Philly. The only thing growing is the clover flowers in the lawn. I agree though, it is pretty. Calling for rain Monday, so fingers crossed. We need some rain soon. Wild blackberries haven't even flowered yet. Going to be an interesting Summer.

RE: Nature
By: Bentmtn 6/11/2023	Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 4614 Experience: Date Posted: 6/11/2023 11:46 PM
My son took this one last week. I left it untouched (just barely cropped). It was one of the bad smoke days, so it was really hazy. The fox just layed there for about 20 mins. J4yDubs Awww! That's sweet!! A field of wildflowers too! Bentmtn We're at 4 weeks without measurable rain here in NW Philly. The only thing growing is the clover flowers in the lawn. I agree though, it is pretty. Calling for rain Monday, so fingers crossed. We need some rain soon. Wild blackberries haven't even flowered yet. Going to be an interesting Summer. J4yDubs Hope you get some rain soon! Last summer was absolutely perfect for veggies and fruits, so hoping rain will come in soon gradually like it did last year. Kinda dry in our area of VA. Hoping that our blackberries will be ready to pick when we get home from Frisco in a couple of weeks. Our bushes border our 4 acres so we have a lot to pick. I freeze them for the grands for their oatmeal when they visit in the summer. Picked a few blueberries last night before the sun went down...enough for a July 4th pie!( nice respite after flying home from Chicago). Hope the birds don't steal the unripened ones!!! Foxes are beautiful, but mean. But I do love the pic!!!!!

RE: Nature
By: lowtide 6/12/2023	Posted By: lowtide - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/27/2013 Location: Hatteras Village/ Virginia Total Posts: 2277 Experience: Date Posted: 6/12/2023 6:13 PM
Swarm trap success!

RE: Nature
By: J4yDubs 6/13/2023	Posted By: J4yDubs - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/24/2015 Location: Total Posts: 4737 Experience: Date Posted: 6/13/2023 7:22 PM
Swarm trap success! lowtide Very cool. Is that your hive?

RE: Nature
By: lowtide 6/13/2023	Posted By: lowtide - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/27/2013 Location: Hatteras Village/ Virginia Total Posts: 2277 Experience: Date Posted: 6/13/2023 10:37 PM
Yes, it is now! That hive in the picture is just a smaller 5 frame hive that I baited with old drawn comb and lemongrass to attract swarms. I will move them into a larger commercial size hive in a couple of days. I have about 30 colonies at my permanent residence and some more 30 miles away at a friends orchard near Cape Charles, Va. I do not have any colonies in Hatteras.....my lot is too small and there are too many people.

RE: Nature
By: J4yDubs 6/14/2023	Posted By: J4yDubs - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/24/2015 Location: Total Posts: 4737 Experience: Date Posted: 6/14/2023 9:40 AM
Yes, it is now! That hive in the picture is just a smaller 5 frame hive that I baited with old drawn comb and lemongrass to attract swarms. I will move them into a larger commercial size hive in a couple of days. I have about 30 colonies at my permanent residence and some more 30 miles away at a friends orchard near Cape Charles, Va. I do not have any colonies in Hatteras.....my lot is too small and there are too many people. lowtide I'd love to put a hive in my back yard. Not a huge lot, but I back up to woods, a field and a creek. No development behind me. I just never really looked into it and I'm not sure I could maintain it properly. Do you mind if I PM you for tips if I ever decide to try? Saying "no, you shouldn't try" is very valid as well.

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