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  • A Vanessa Atalanta (Red Admiral) Butterfly perched atop a vibrant pink flowering thistle. This large butterfly is identified by its striking dark brown, red, and black wing pattern. More specifically, the dark wings possess orange bands that cross the fore wings and on the outer edge of the hind wings; white spots on the dorsal fore wings near the front margin; reddish bars on dorsal surface of all four wings.
    Vanessa Atalanta on Flowering Thistl...jpg
  • 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
  • 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.
    Female Calico Pennant 6.jpg
  • 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
  • Monarch butterflies embark on a marvelous migratory phenomenon. They travel between 1,200 and 2,800 miles or more from the United States and Canada to central Mexican forests. There the butterflies hibernate in the mountain forests, where a less extreme climate provides them a better chance to survive. The monarch butterfly is known by scientists as Danaus plexippus, which in Greek literally means "sleepy transformation." The name evokes the species' ability to hibernate and metamorphize. Adult monarch butterflies possess two pairs of brilliant orange-red wings, featuring black veins and white spots along the edges. Males, who possess distinguishing black dots along the veins of their wings, are slightly bigger than females. Each adult butterfly lives only about four to five weeks.
    Morning Monarch Glow.jpg
  • Adults have a long, square-tipped brown tail and are a brown or dull-brown color across the back with some shading into deep gray on the wing feathers. Breast and belly feathers may be streaked; the flanks usually are. In most cases, adult males' heads, necks and shoulders are reddish. This color sometimes extends to the belly and down the back, between the wings. Male coloration varies in intensity with the seasons and is derived from the berries and fruits in its diet. As a result, the colors range from pale straw-yellow through bright orange (both rare) to deep, intense red. Adult females have brown upper-parts and streaked underparts.
    Red Male House Finch-D.jpg
  • Male Mallard Duck was running for his life from all the little kids on a hot humid day at the zoo.  ..The male birds (drakes) have a bright green head and are grey on wings and belly, while the females are brown all over.
    mallard_duck.jpg
  • One may think there's a tiny little baby hummingbird flying among the flowers, but more than likely it's a Hummingbird Clearwing Moth.<br />
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This moth will feed during the day and it's shape, coloration and scaleless wings give it the appearance of a small hummingbird. There are two common varieties of this attractive and interesting member of the Sphinx moth family.
    clearwing humming bird moth.jpg
  • Spread your wings and fly
    Fly Like An Eagle.jpg
  • The gangly Double-crested Cormorant is a prehistoric-looking, matte-black fishing bird with yellow-orange facial skin. Though they look like a combination of a goose and a loon, they are relatives of frigatebirds and boobies and are a common sight around fresh and salt water across North America?perhaps attracting the most attention when they stand on docks, rocky islands, and channel markers, their wings spread out to dry. These solid, heavy-boned birds are experts at diving to catch small fish.<br />
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Adults are brown-black with a small patch of yellow-orange skin on the face. Immatures are browner overall, palest on the neck and breast. In the breeding season, adults develop a small double crest of stringy black or white feathers.<br />
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The Double-crested Cormorant is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It occurs along inland waterways as well as in coastal areas, and is widely distributed across North America.
    Cormorant Curves.jpg
  • The Northern Mockingbird is the only mockingbird commonly found in North America. Northern Mockingbirds are medium-sized mimids that have long legs and tails, with abridged and arched wings.
    Northern Mockingbird.jpg
  • Azrael is the Archangel of Death in some traditions. He is also the angel of retribution in Islamic theology and Sikhism. Depending on the outlook and precepts of various religions in which he is a figure, Azrael may be portrayed as residing in the Third Heaven. In one of his forms, he has four faces and four thousand wings, and his whole body consists of eyes and tongues, the number of which corresponds to the number of people inhabiting the Earth. He will be the last to die, recording and erasing constantly in a large book the names of men at birth and death, respectively.<br />
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Shortly after his creation, Azrael was assigned to study a phenomenon not well-understood by Heaven at that time: the disposition of human souls. The angels had long known that some human souls arrived in Heaven, and others did not. Reincarnation and oblivion had been offered as theories, but no one really knew where the 'missing' souls were going . . . and the Seraphim Council intuited that following the Fall, this question might be very important. Azrael was given the Word of Death to carry out his duties (angelic Words were much less competitive and assigned with less deliberation in those days). <br />
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The other Archangels know Azrael is still alive, but he is not spoken of in Heaven. It has happened -- a few times in the millenia since the Grigori were cast out -- that an angel has researched Azrael's work, identified strongly with his mission, and sought out the Outcast Archangel of Death. Azrael automatically turns away members of the Host who manage to find him . . . but a very rare few have been persistent and sincere enough to persuade the Archangel of Death to take them into his service. (Azrael only takes in angels who remain dedicated to Heaven, but who also feel a genuine calling to Azrael's mission -- he is not a refuge for dissatisfied Servitors or Outcasts seeking patronage.)
    Archangel Azrael.jpg
  • Hooded Mergansers are small ducks with a thin bill and a fan-shaped, collapsible crest that makes the head look oversized and oblong. In flight, the wings are thin and the tail is relatively long and rounded.
    Male Hooded Merganser - Color.jpg
  • Common Grackles are large, lanky blackbirds with long legs and long tails. The head is flat and the bill is longer than in most blackbirds, with the hint of a downward curve. In flight, the wings appear short in comparison to the tail. Males are slightly larger than females.
    Grackle On Golden Grass.jpg
  • 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.
    Dragonfly Sparkles.jpg
  • A Female Calico Pennant Dragonfly Perched Atop A Weed In A Field On A Hot Summer Day. <br />
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Halloween Pennant subterminal wing marking extends across wing from leading edge to trailing edge (in Calico Pennant, subterminal wing marking restricted to leading edge of wing)
    Calico Pennant.jpg
  • 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.
    Female Calico Pennant 5.jpg
  • 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.
    Female Calico Pennant 2.jpg
  • 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.
    Female Calico Pennant.jpg
  • 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.
    Female Calico Pennant 3.jpg
  • Hemaris thysbe, the Hummingbird Clearwing Moth or Common Clearwing (wingspan 38-50 mm), readily visits flowers by day throughout the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada, where it ranges far to the north, even into the Yukon. It is not difficult to see why many gardeners would mistake an Hemaris thysbe moth for a small hummingbird as it hovers, sipping nectar from flowers through a long feeding tube. The moth hovers briefly, sipping for only a few seconds before darting off to a new flower. Green body "fur" and burgundy wing scales suggest a small ruby throated hummingbird.
    clearwing humming bird moth shag.jpg
  • The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus Leucocephalus) is found only on the North American continent. Adult male eagles generally weigh about 9 pounds. Adult females weigh in at between 12 and 13 pounds. Adult eagles have a wing span of up to 7 feet. Immature eagles are mottled brown and white. The distinct white head and tail of the mature bird is developed between 4-5 years of age. In the wild, bald eagles live to between 30 and 35 years. In captivity, they have been known to live up to 50 years.<br />
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Eagles do not live in isolation! Because they are near the top of the food chain, they become an irreplaceable indicator for measuring the health of the entire ecological system in which they live. After being listed as an endangered species in 1978 following a dramatic drop in population that began at the turn of the century, the Bald Eagle's status was upgraded to Threatened on August 11, 1995. Although efforts to replenish populations of the Bald Eagle have been successful, it continues to be protected under the Endangered Species Act, the Bald Eagle Protection Act, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
    Spread Eagle.jpg
  • A Mallard Duck Flapping Wings On The Pond
    Mallard - Wing Up.jpg
  • A Male Northern Cardinal Stands Slightly Inquisitive Upon A Broken Tree Stump Against A Moody Backdrop.
    Moody Painterly Redbird.jpg
  • A Paper Kite Butterfly Rests On Top Of Fluid Pink Floral Blossoms In The Garden.<br />
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The Paper Kite, Rice Paper, or Large Tree Nymp butterfly (Idea leuconoe) is known especially for its presence in butterfly greenhouses and live butterfly expositions. The Paper Kite is of Southeast Asian origin.
    Paper Kite on Liquid Blossoms.jpg
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  • Mike Moats explained that there are other unique and fun items to macro with the exception of flowers and insects...This is my attempt to macro a fake birds nest with feathers that came with some flowers I recently purchased...Please critique and give constructive criticism.
    quills.jpg
  • A gorgeous butterfly hanging out on a leaf at the Butterfly House at the Saint Louis Zoo.
    butterfly.jpg
  • The Cynthia group of colourful butterflies, commonly called painted ladies, comprises a subgenus of the genus Vanessa in the Family Nymphalidae. They are well known throughout most of the world.
    Painted lady -Vanessa Cardui.jpg
  • The Pintail or Northern Pintail is a widely occurring duck which breeds in the northern areas of Europe, Asia and North America. It is strongly migratory and winters south of its breeding range to the equator.
    Northern Pintail (Female).jpg
  • A Red Male House Finch on a spring blooming tree branch with pink and purple blossoms.
    Red Male House Finch-E.jpg
  • The Paper Kite 2.jpg
  • Swallowtail 4.jpg
  • Owl Butterfly 1.jpg
  • Monarch 16.jpg
  • A White-Breasted Nuthatch Taking Flight From a Tree Branch
    Nuthatch Liftoff.jpg
  • Yellow-Crowned Night Heron chillaxing up on a branch.
    Yellow-crowned Night Heron.jpg
  • A Double-Crested Cormorant sits along the shore of a pond with a copper sheen.
    Cormorant on Copper Pond.jpg
  • A Wood Duck Hen Preens Along The Shore of the Lake.<br />
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Wood ducks pair up in late winter and they begin breeding in early spring. The males attract females with their call and attractive, colorful breeding plumage. <br />
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Female wood ducks have grayish-brown bodies. The back is dark gray-brown and the sides are a lighter shade. The most noticeable characteristics of the females are found on the head. The head is gray with a white eye-ring around each eye. The head also has a crest of feathers at the back and white feathers on the throat and chin. <br />
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Wood ducks will 'tip up' and dip their heads under the water to find the standard wetland fare to eat like wild rice, smartweed, pondweed, bulrush, and lotus seeds, but they love to eat "out," of the water that is. They love fruits and nuts found in the woods like beechnuts, wild acorns grapes, and one of their favorites, acorns.
    Preening Wood Duck Hen.jpg
  • Tufted Titmouse hanging out just swining on the brid feeder.
    just_a_swingin.jpg
  • I photographed these beautiful Flamingos at the Saint Louis, Missouri. Flamingos or flamingoes are a type of wading bird.
    pink_flamingo.jpg
  • Two ducks take a sunset flight in the golden glow of Lake Superior on Minnesota's North Shore
    Sunset Flight.jpg
  • A Twelve-spotted Skimmer Dragonfly in Pastel Colors. The Twelve-spotted Skimmer is a common North American skimmer dragonfly, found in southern Canada and in all 48 of the contiguous U.S. states. It is a large species, at 50 mm long
    Dragonfly on Pastels - Twelve-spotte...jpg
  • This shot was taken at Busch Wildlife while I was out walking the trails.
    bumble_bee.jpg
  • A Red-Bellied Woodpecker Pays a Visit To My White Swing Feeder For a Lunch Reservation
    Red-Belly Comes For Lunch.jpg
  • The adult female Brown-headed Cowbird is slightly smaller than the male and is dull grey with a pale throat and very fine streaking on the underparts.
    Flowing Female Cowbird.jpg
  • Insects in the Diptera family Asilidae are commonly called robber flies. The family Asilidae contains about 7,100 described species worldwide. All robber flies have stout, spiny legs, a dense moustache of bristles on the face (mystax), and 3 simple eyes (ocelli) in a characteristic depression between their two large compound eyes. The mystax helps protect the head and face when the fly encounters prey bent on defense. The antennae are short, 3-segmented, sometimes with a bristle-like structure called an arista.
    339A0748.jpg
  • Red Male House Finch perched on a tree branch as the sun sets
    Red Male House Finch-C.jpg
  • White-Breasted Nuthatch-H.jpg
  • The Paper Kite 16.jpg
  • Swallowtail 3.jpg
  • Swallowtail 2.jpg
  • Small Postman 3.jpg
  • Small Postman 1.jpg
  • Monarch 13.jpg
  • Monarch 11.jpg
  • White-Breasted Nuthatch-E.jpg
  • White-Breasted Nuthatch-D.jpg
  • Tufted Titmouse-H.jpg
  • Tufted Titmouse-G.jpg
  • Tufted Titmouse-C.jpg
  • Red-Bellied Woodpecker-A.jpg
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  • Blue Jay-B.jpg
  • Fractal Lines And Patterns With Colors And Light Lets The Imagination Run Wild. This creation started with a photo of butterflies and moths fluttering around a light. Somehow it ended up like this :)
    Crazy Color Twist.jpg
  • A white Egret flies over the pond looking for a morning meal
    Morning Egret Flight.jpg
  • American White Pelican just relaxing and casually swimming across the pond.
    American White Pelican.jpg
  • A Red SHouldered Hawk in a Tree During A Cold Snowy March Day In Missouri
    Red SHouldered Hawk in Tree.jpg
  • A Monarch Butterfly perched atop yellow wildflowers on a backdrop of Faded Green
    Monarch on Faded Green.jpg
  • A male Wood Duck rocks in the water mimicking a rocking horse, putting on a vibrant show.<br />
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Wood Ducks forage in the water by taking food from the surface and up-ending to reach food underneath. They also graze on land. Pairs form on the wintering grounds, and males attract females by showing off their brightly colored plumage. Females demonstrate strong fidelity to the sites where they hatched (philopatry), and they lead their mates back to those sites in the spring.<br />
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Male Wood Ducks are flamboyant in breeding plumage, practically unmistakable with their brightly colored chestnut and yellow bodies, green droop-crested heads, bright red bills, and bold white barring on their faces and bodies. Females are drabber, with subtle iridescence on overall grayish-brown bodies, spotted flanks, and a white teardrop surrounding each eye. Juveniles appear similar to females, as do non-breeding males in eclipse plumage (from June to September), although they have the red bill and white facial markings.
    Woody Rocking Horse.jpg
  • A tiny Downy Woodpecker grabs some suet from the bird feeder on a cold winter day
    Hello Winter Downy.jpg
  • Yes even a robin can have some majesty and prowess.<br />
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The quintessential early bird, American Robins are common sights on lawns across North America, where you often see them tugging earthworms out of the ground. Robins are popular birds for their warm orange breast, cheery song, and early appearance at the end of winter. Though they're familiar town and city birds, American Robins are at home in wilder areas, too, including mountain forests and Alaskan wilderness. <br />
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The American Robin or North American Robin is a migratory songbird of the thrush family. It is named after the European Robin because of its reddish-orange breast, though the two species are not closely<br />
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A distinctive, potbellied bird. Forages on lawns and other areas of short vegetation for earthworms and other invertebrates in a run-and-stop pattern typical of terrestrial thrushes. Adult: depending on sex and subspecies, head, with white eye arcs, varies from jet black to gray, with white supercilia and throat, blackish lores and lateral throat stripe. Underparts vary, often in tandem with head color, from deep, rich reddish maroon to gray-scalloped, peachy orange. Males tend to be darker, females grayer, but overlap makes determining sex of many problematic.
    Majestic Robin Blues.jpg
  • A Herring Gull In Flight Over Lake Superior. The American Herring Gull or Smithsonian Gull or is a large gull which breeds in North America, where it is treated by the American Ornithologists' Union as a subspecies of Herring Gull.
    Herring Gull Flight.jpg
  • The Downy Woodpecker is a species of woodpecker, the smallest in North America. The active little Downy Woodpecker is a familiar sight at backyard feeders and in parks and woodlots, where it joins flocks of chickadees and nuthatches, barely outsizing them.
    Downy on Winter Feeder.jpg
  • A Double-Crested Cormorant casts a shadow against textured peeling paint at the Saint Louis Zoo. The Double-crested Cormorant is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It occurs along inland waterways as well as in coastal areas, and is widely distributed across North America. he Double-crested Cormorant is a large waterbird with a stocky body, long neck, medium-sized tail, webbed feet and a medium sized hooked bill.<br />
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Recently the population of Double-crested Cormorants has increased. Some studies have concluded that the recovery was allowed by the decrease of contaminants, particularly the discontinued use of DDT. The population may have also increased because of aquaculture ponds in its southern wintering grounds. The ponds favor good over-winter survival and growth.<br />
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Adult Double-crested Cormorants are black or dark brown and have an orange-yellow patch of skin at the base of their bills. In breeding plumage, adults have two whitish tufts behind their eyes, hence the description 'double-crested.' First-year birds are pale on the upper breast and darker on the belly. Double-crested Cormorants have slender, hook-tipped bills that are often tipped up at an angle as they swim. They can be distinguished from the other two Washington cormorant species by their thicker bills and by the pronounced kink in their long necks in flight.
    Cormorant By Cracked Paint.jpg
  • The Common Starling, also known as the European Starling or just Starling, is a passerine bird in the family Sturnidae. This species of starling is native to most of temperate Europe and western Asia.
    European Starling.jpg
  • A Meadow Lark Perched on top of a Hay Bale
    Meadow Lark.jpg
  • A White-Breasted Nuthatch grabs a safflower seed from a feeder
    Nuthatch Grabs Some Safflower.jpg
  • A Chipping Sparrow makes a splash in the birdseed on a red feeder on a sunny afternoon.
    Chipping Sparrow in Warm Light.jpg
  • I photographed this grasshopper at Busch Wildlife in Missouri on a beautiful, sunny and windy day.
    grasshopper.jpg
  • Our roses in our backyard our blooming like crazy and drawing bees and spiders.
    pollinators_of_roses.jpg
  • A Monarch Butterfly perched on wild chives on a moody overcast morning in a Wentzville, Missouri field
    Moody Monarch.jpg
  • The American White Pelican is a large aquatic bird from the order Pelecaniformes. It breeds in interior North America, moving south and to the coasts, as far as Central America, in winter. This shot was taken at the Saint Louis Zoo.
    American White Pelican.jpg
  • I photographed these beautiful Flamingos at the Saint Louis, Missouri. Flamingos or flamingoes are a type of wading bird.
    flamingos.jpg
  • Flamingo Flow.jpg
  • You can find this beautiful Paper Kite Butterfly at the Saint Louis Zoo Butterfly House.
    paper_kite_butterfly.jpg
  • This little hummingbird sure loved these flowers at the Saint Louis Zoo. This beautiful bird was so hard to try and photograph as it flies so fast.
    hummingbird.jpg
  • An Evil Grackle Eyes a Nearby Feeder waiting for an innocent bird to approach so he can torment them.
    Ominous Molting Grackle.jpg
  • Red Bellied in Tree.jpg
  • This is more of a classical pose and composition for a Red-Bellied Woodpecker.
    Red-Bellied Woodpecker - D.jpg
  • A male and female house finch on the feeder at the same time
    Finch Feeder.jpg
  • The Paper Kite 9.jpg
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  • The Paper Kite 14.jpg
  • The Paper Kite 12.jpg
  • The Paper Kite 10.jpg
  • The Paper Kite 1.jpg
  • Small Postman 4.jpg
  • Small Postman 2.jpg
  • Northern Pearly-eye 6.jpg
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