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261 images Created 19 Dec 2011

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  • I love taking a walk with nothing but a macro lens. It makes everything in the world seem 'Just Right'.
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  • Lily Pads and a Blooming Water Lily Glow In Vibrant Blue Waters
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  • A lonesome cow in the pasture on an overcast rainy winter day
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  • A friendly little ladybug crawling towards me
    Little Lady On A Stroll.jpg
  • A ladybug sits nestled in the foliage just in range of my macro lens
    Little Days Magical Perch.jpg
  • A Monarch Rests On Purple Flowering Chives in Evening Light
    Monarch on Moody Chives.jpg
  • I caught the little fella running up the screen door, fast but friendly
    Little Lizard.jpg
  • A doe stops in an autumn field to pose for a profile photo
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  • A deer greets me as I am visiting my grandmothers grave at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery
    Antlers In The Graveyard.jpg
  • A deer hears me approaching and is curious enough to turn around to keep an eye on me
    Resting Buck.jpg
  • A bird walks the shoreline at Busch Wildlife
    Wildlife Watching at Busch.jpg
  • April showers bring pink flowers
    April Showers - Pink Flowers.jpg
  • New buds form on the branches weighted down from the rain showers
    Best of a Dreary Day.jpg
  • No grabbing the bull by the horns today. This little guy has found his spot and is being lazy.
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  • Mr. Gopher On Point
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  • Gopher See, Gopher Do
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  • I think we need to teach this white-tailed doe that you should chew with your mouth closed. Lol
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  • Either this white-tailed doe is really hungry or my aunt and uncle have the best tasting vegetation in their back yard.
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  • Even white-tailed does know eating greens is good for you.
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  • Another beautiful photo of the doe finishing eating a piece of vegetation.
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  • The white-tailed doe still browsing and sampling the vegetation trying to decide what to eat.
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  • I am almost certain this doe is listening to our dinner conversations.
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  • A beautiful white-tailed doe taking a moment to pose for a photo while we continue to enjoy her company while having dinner on the deck.
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  • You can see by the expression on this doe that she is just enjoying herself while feeding on the vegetation in my Uncle’s backyard.
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  • This beautiful white-tailed doe is just browsing the vegetation trying to decide what would be great for lunch or dinner.
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  • This beautiful white tailed doe walked into my uncle's backyard and just started eating the vegetation around the trees. She didn't care that we were only about 40 to 50 feet away on his back deck having dinner and enjoying great conversation. <br />
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She just kept walking closer and closer to us the entire time. I just happen to have my 600mm lens with me. Talk about luck. More photos to come.
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  • I think the white-tailed deer finally had enough vegetation and bird seed. Now time to head to another location.
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  • The white-tailed doe realized that by tilting the bird seed holder the food would fall out a little.
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  • The white-tailed doe trying to decide the best way to eat the bird seed.
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  • The white-tailed doe telling us exactly how she feels about us watching her eat.
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  • I guess the white-tailed doe has decided bird seed will be dessert.
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  • This goose stop and poses for a cute photo after enjoying a piece of bread. Love the water drops falling from its mouth.
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  • After enjoying some bread the geese and gosling’s seem happy and just continue to swim around the docks at Maynard's enjoying the beautiful weather.
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  • This carp swam up to this cute little gosling and tried to eat its webbed food for lunch. These little gosling squealed and the big geese came to its defense.
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  • These geese come over and start attacking the carp to make them back off and leave the baby gosling’s alone. Someone’s about to have sushi for lunch.
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  • A second baby gosling came to the defense of his or her sister and helped fight off the off the carp so they could eat.
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  • A customer at Maynard's tossed a piece of bread in the lake for the geese when it landed right on this carp’s head as it was surfacing. All of a sudden this goose swam over and ate the bread right off of the carp’s head.
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  • Customers at Maynard's Restaurant on Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota were trying to feed geese and gosling’s bread when carp kept surfacing and stealing the food.
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  • This photo makes me laugh. I swear this fish looks like it is having a serious take with the goose about not sharing food.
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  • These baby gosling finally showed these two carp who was boss and got to the bread first.
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  • This goose and baby goslings are sharing food while swimming around the docks at Maynard’s on Lake Minnetonka.
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  • These two kissing carps were swimming around the docks at Maynard's Restaurant on Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota.
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  • A White-Breasted Nuthatch On The Side Of A Tree in a Typical Pointing Pose
    Nuthatch On Point.jpg
  • A White-Breasted Nuthatch on a tree branch with a moody vibe
    Nutty On Branch.jpg
  • A White-Breasted Nuthatch Taking Flight From a Tree Branch
    Nuthatch Liftoff.jpg
  • A Black-Capped Chickadee On A Tree Branch in Sunlight
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  • Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, even for a Robin!  A robin gathers a meal in morning light on the ground
    3Robin Morning Snack.jpg
  • Mr. Robin preparing for some nest building
    Robin Nest Building.jpg
  • A robin is gathering a quick meal on the trails
    Robin Gathering.jpg
  • A robin side profile on an old log in the woods
    Robin Side Profile.jpg
  • The great egret also known as common egret, large egret or great white heron, is a large, widely distributed egret. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, in southern Europe it is rather localized.
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  • Mr Egret Strikes A Pose Along The Shore
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  • A Great Egret Peeks Under The Water For A Meal
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  • A White Egret Splashes In The Water Looking For Fish
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  • A White Egret Spreads it's wings as it begins to lift off from the water
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  • A Heron on wet rocks near the water with a vibrant green pine tree backdrop
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  • Lonely Lemur sitting and looking around hoping another animal will come along and play.
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  • Yellow-Crowned Night Heron chillaxing up on a branch.
    Yellow-crowned Night Heron.jpg
  • A cool yet wavy reflection of a American White Pelican swimming on a pond at the Saint Louis Zoo.
    Pelican Takes A Swim.jpg
  • Sarus Cranes staying next to each other almost in a way to make sure each other remains safe.
    Sarus Cranes.jpg
  • Pachyderm making its way through the elephant area looking determined enough to remove anything that gets in its way.
    Incoming Pachyderm.jpg
  • White Ibis stopping a posing for the camera.
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  • Although all penguin species are native to the Southern Hemisphere, they are not found only in cold climates, such as Antarctica. In fact, only a few species of penguin live so far south. Several species are found in the temperate zone, and one species, the Galápagos Penguin, lives near the equator.
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  • I swear, I'm Like A Teddy Bear, Come Closer...
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  • Grizzly bear exhausted and just chillin in the shade at the Saint Louis Zoo.
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  • The grey crowned crane is a bird in the crane family Gruidae. It occurs in dry savannah in Africa south of the Sahara, although it nests in somewhat wetter habitats.
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  • American White Pelican just relaxing and casually swimming across the pond.
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  • The Calico Pennant or Elisa Pennant (Celithemis elisa) is a dragonfly found in North America, in the Pennant genus of dragonflies. With Distinctive wing pattern; dark subterminal wing marking small and restricted to leading edge of wing.<br />
Male has pink wing veins and red heart-shaped abdominal spots; female has yellow wing veins and bright yellow abdominal spots.
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  • The Halloween Pennant has been described as looking very similar to a butterfly. Its wings are orange-yellow in color, though its markings are dark brown, not black as is commonly believed; the entirely orange-yellow wings with dark brown bands are what has given it its Halloween common name and its typical position of being perched at the tip of a weed stalk, waving in the breeze like a pennant contributes to the remainder of its common name. The young has yellow markings, including a stripe on its back, and adult males develop pale red markings, particularly on the face, though females will occasionally get these red markings too. Halloween Pennants are normally between 38 and 42 mm (approx. 1.5 inches) in size. They feed on other insects, and they are able to fly in rain and strong wind. On hot days, it will often shade its thorax using its wings.
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  • A golden view from behind a puffy dandelion at sunset.
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  • Mature males are distinctive with reddish brown wing markings and a row of red triangles on the abdomen. Females and tenerals have the red largely replaced by yellow and could be mistaken for several other pennants.  See Banded Pennant, Halloween Pennant and Martha's Pennant.  Carolina Saddlebags has a similar basal spot but is much larger and the rest of the wing is clear.
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  • This beautiful black bodied swallowtail is black with shiny blue or green wings. It has blue between two rows of orange spots on the underside of the hind wings and the colors on the upper side of the hind wings have one row of white spots. The caterpillars look like small snakes, having large eyespots; they hide in folded leaves during the day and come out to feed in the evenings. The chrysalis is either brown or green resembling the stem in which it is attached. These butterflies are a pleasure to watch and a welcome visitor to any garden.
    Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly.jpg
  • A Glory Morning Butterfly Backed By Glistening Morning Light
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  • The spicebush swallowtail butterfly is a large, dark swallowtail. It is one of our most beautiful and interesting swallowtails. All developmental stages are great examples of adaptive coloration. The wingspread range is 4.1 to 5.6 cm. The upper surface of the fore wings is black with a narrow marginal row and a broader submarginal row of light yellow row spots. The upper surfaces of the hind wings also have the rows of spots, but they are light green in color. The median areas of the hind wings are dusted with blue in females and blue-green to green in males.
    Spicebush In Wildflowers.jpg
  • A bluebird perched on a rotting tree branch on a moody overcast day.<br />
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The bluebirds are a group of medium-sized, mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Sialia of the thrush family. Bluebirds are one of the few thrush genera in the Americas. They have blue, or blue and rose beige, plumage.
    Bluebird Blues.jpg
  • The Roseate Spoonbill is a gregarious wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae.
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  • A Yellow Crowned Night Heron Perched In The Trees
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  • A Yellow Crowned Night Heron with an intimidating pose.
    Night Heron Intimidation.jpg
  • A Yellow-crowned Night Heron Closeup Head Shot Against A drop Of Bright Forest Green
    Heron Up Close.jpg
  • A Black-crowned Night Heron in Green Waters. The Black-crowned Night Heron, commonly abbreviated to just Night Heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia. Black-crowned Night-Herons are stocky birds compared to many of their long-limbed heron relatives. They're most active at night or at dusk, when you may see their ghostly forms flapping out from daytime roosts to forage in wetlands. In the light of day adults are striking in gray-and-black plumage and long white head plumes. These social birds breed in colonies of stick nests usually built over water. They live in fresh, salt, and brackish wetlands and are the most widespread heron in the world. <br />
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Black-crowned Night-Herons often spend their days perched on tree limbs or concealed among foliage and branches. They forage in the evening and at night, in water, on mudflats, and on land. In flight they fold their head back against their shoulders, almost making the neck disappear.<br />
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These are social birds that tend to roost and nest in groups, although they typically forage on their own. Look for them in most wetland habitats across North America, including estuaries, marshes, streams, lakes, and reservoirs.
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  • A wood duck swims in green grassy waters. The Wood Duck or Carolina Duck is a species of perching duck found in North America. It is one of the most colorful North American waterfowl.<br />
The population of the Wood Duck was in serious decline in the late 19th century as a result of severe habitat loss and market hunting both for meat and plumage for the ladies' hat market in Europe. By the beginning of the 20th century Wood Ducks had virtually disappeared from much of their former range. In response to the Migratory Bird Treaty established in 1916 and enactment of the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, wood duck populations began to recover slowly. By ending unregulated hunting and taking measures to protect remaining habitat, wood duck populations began to rebound in the 1920s. The development of the artificial nesting box in the 1930s gave an additional boost to Wood Duck production.
    Woody Green Striations.jpg
  • A flamingo splashes at his own reflection in the water
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  • Only real men can pull off pink!
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  • A Flamingo Congregation
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  • Two pink flamingos highlighted in blue and purple fantasy lighting, taken at the Saint Louis Zoo.<br />
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Flamingos often stand on one leg, the other leg tucked beneath the body. The reason for this behavior is not fully understood. Recent research indicates that standing on one leg may allow the birds to conserve more body heat, given that they spend a significant amount of time wading in cold water. However, the behavior also takes place in warm water. As well as standing in the water, flamingos may stamp their webbed feet in the mud to stir up food from the bottom.<br />
Young flamingos hatch with grayish reddish plumage, but adults range from light pink to bright red due to aqueous bacteria and beta-Carotene obtained from their food supply. A well-fed, healthy flamingo is more vibrantly colored and thus a more desirable mate; a white or pale flamingo, however, is usually unhealthy or malnourished. Captive flamingos are a notable exception; many turn a pale pink as they are not fed carotene at levels comparable to the wild
    Flamingos In Fantast Lights.jpg
  • Two pink flamingo greet each-other at a sparkling green lake
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  • A Hawk and Crow Give Chase Through Stormy Skies
    Flying Through The Storm.jpg
  • A sleepy cormorant takes a nap on a tree branch
    Sleepy Cormorant.jpg
  • The Marabou Stork is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It breeds in Africa south of the Sahara, in both wet and arid habitats, often near human habitation, especially waste tips
    Marabou Stork in BW.jpg
  • A loin keeps watch
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  • A Lioness Gives A Roar
    Herre Kitty Kitty B-W.jpg
  • The Great Egret, also known as Common Egret, Large Egret or Great White Heron, is a large, widely-distributed egret. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, in southern Europe it is rather localized
    Great White Egret on Black.jpg
  • The Grey Crowned Crane is a bird in the crane family Gruidae. It occurs in dry savannah in Africa south of the Sahara, although it nests in somewhat wetter habitats.They can also be found in marshes
    Crowned CraneFeather Flow.jpg
  • A bird balances as it walks across a railing
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  • No doubt about it - the flamingo is a curious-looking bird. Its body is extremely slender, its head small, its bill strangely curved and hooked. And then there's the matter of color - how many animals can you name that are HOT PINK?<br />
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Flamingos are social birds. They live in large groups, sometimes up to tens of thousands of birds, an undulating ocean of pink. The sound of a large flamingo flock is also impressive (they're often mistaken for geese) and can be heard a great distance away. The birds are very vocal and use a wide variety of honks, alarm calls and other vocalizations.<br />
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Flamingos in a colony feed together, breed together, and fly together. They eat by day, but when a feeding area no longer provides enough food for the flock, the birds move to another location at night.<br />
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The birds are quite distinctive looking in flight. They stretch out their long necks and legs and spread their wings so the black undersides are visible. A flamingo's wingspan can range from three to five feet, depending on the size of the bird.
    Flamingo Speaks.jpg
  • A Pink Flaming Searches For Food In The Shadows
    Flamingo In The Shadows.jpg
  • The Marabou Stork is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It breeds in Africa south of the Sahara, in both wet and arid habitats, often near human habitation, especially waste tips
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  • The Western Lowland Gorillas and Chimpanzees  can be found at the Saint Louis Zoo.  In spite of their size these gorillas are gentle giants and they are critically endangered.
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  • More than any other ape, chimpanzees use tools. They use sticks to fish for insects, poking the twigs into the holes of ant or termite mounds and pulling them out, covered with wiggling food. Chimps use stones to crack open hard-shelled nuts or fruits. They also use leaves as sponges, either to soak up drinking water or to clean the body. And they use leafy twigs to keep away flies...What's even more interesting: we now know that not all chimpanzee communities use the same tools, or use them in the same way. Every community passes on its own customs from generation to generation. This shows that chimps have unique cultures, just like people do.
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