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^ LOL ...good one. :)

Collecting pollen from a Prickly Pear cactus blossom:
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Mountain goats in the Olympic Mountains

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The sun and atmosphere, without which all would perish.

Marsh lands from the Willie Browne Trail near Jacksonville, FL

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Crab at Fernandina Beach, FL

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60 foot sand dune near American Beach - north of Jacksonville, FL

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Sunrise from I-95 between Jacksonville, FL and Savannah, GA

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Nice pics everyone.

In the foothills of the White Tank Mountains (Arizona):
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Beautiful sky:
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One of my favorites I have taken to date. I guess it could be classified as urban nature photography. I call it Nature Meets the City.
(Location: Tempe)http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3403/...803daaf7_b.jpg

VEryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Nice ..I love that calgary pic, Higway 66 !! Ossam

A toad hanging out in my backyard one night. These guys are all over the place, even in my avatar!

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I love toads!

the deer wants the yellow plum that fell from the tree beside the cat

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Toad on a tree; Puji Temple, Putuoshan, Zhejiang, China
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Dragonfly, Putuoshan, Zhejiang, China
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Butterfly, Putuoshan, Zhejiang, China
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Flower, Putuoshan, Zhejiang, China
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Lotus, Putuoshan, Zhejiang, China
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How beautiful could a being be! I love animals and thanks so much for your post! Peace! Guto O_O

:) Delightful imagens. Thank you so much for sharing. Peace. Guto. :)

This guy was on our front porch a few days ago. It's a Wolf Spider. It was almost 3 inches across. They aren't poisonous, but they will bite and leave a nasty sore.

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Keeping with the spider theme:

A thunderstorm from last year.

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More backyard critters. Rain brings all kinds of pests! Actually, the monarch butterflies are migrating back to Mexico this time of year and can be seen everywhere.

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Cropped.
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That would be a mosquito.
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Cropped. It was drinking rain water.
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Masai Giraffe, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

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Serengeti cheetahs

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rare to see a hippo roll over, Ngorogoro Crater, Tanzania

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lion in a tree, Terengire National Park, Tanzania

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little ele, Terengire National Park, Tanzania

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warthog backing into the den for the night, Amboseli National Park, Kenya

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^ Again Jimby, your Africa shots were incredible!

Not quite as exciting:

Thanks Bulliver!

Bird & 2 racoons at Lost Lagoon, Stanley Park, Vancouver

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Blue herron, a woodpecker, and two llamas...

Superb shots Bulliver, amazing colours.

This one isn't up to the standard of the rest of this thread, but I thought I'd use this as an excuse to stop the thread falling off the bottom of the page:

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Iguanas are some of the coolest looking critters.
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Wow these are all great pictures. Some of them are really perfect. I wish that I would be such a good photographer but unfortunately I am not that good. I really enjoyed watching the pics.

Canada geese flying south for March

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Originally Posted by Jimby (Post 4723038)

Canada geese flying south for March

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Those are some confused geese.

Impressive thread!!:tup:

nature shots from Israel

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baby tortoise we found wandering in a garden
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At the Hula Nature Reserve in northern Israel (which used to be a swamp, now drained for agriculture, which they now realize was an ecological mistake) they guesstimate a billion birds use the narrow Israeli flyway between the Mediterranean Sea and the Syrian desert to migrate between Europe, Asia and Africa.
We saw them catching birds in netting to record and band them.

This little birdie was in the process of being banded and sacrificed a few seconds of freedom to be photographed.

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a bee eater showing its irridescent wing feathers

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catch a bee eater and flip it on its back, and it just lies there, seemingly not with any distress

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