Topic: Northern Flicker pic
started by: Liberal
Posted by Liberal on Apr. 16 2022,10:22 pm
Was up in Brainerd today to have Easter with 2 of my mother-in-laws, and got a pic of this northern flicker at the feeder. I see them around here but it's usually in wooded areas so it's hard to get a good shot.
Posted by Brand New Day on Apr. 17 2022,7:05 am
oh nice Northern Minnesota is grand to say the least think that's a red-bellied woodpecker though
they kind of look like flickers especially up close. the dimensions in particular
saw one yesterday and my first thought was flicker for a minute
you're probably just trolling us though lol
nice pic nonetheless
banging colours on the birds in the spring
Posted by Self-Banished on Apr. 17 2022,7:13 am
Cool pic BossBND, you’re not all there, are you?
Posted by Brand New Day on Apr. 17 2022,7:28 am
meanwhile down on the 'southern' Minnesota border: the sky was full of bright white pelicans yesterday.
the pelican -
His beak can hold more than his belly can. He can hold in his beak. Enough food for a week!
here's an Easter Poem for yah Anus:
Rabbit - A Haiku
Stormy eventide
A wild, silly rabbit drools
watching the zombie
Posted by Self-Banished on Apr. 17 2022,7:31 am
^^ yep, out to lunch.
Posted by Liberal on Apr. 17 2022,9:28 pm
(Brand New Day @ Apr. 17 2022,7:05 am)
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oh nice Northern Minnesota is grand to say the least
think that's a red-bellied woodpecker though
they kind of look like flickers especially up close. the dimensions in particular
saw one yesterday and my first thought was flicker for a minute
you're probably just trolling us though lol
nice pic nonetheless
banging colours on the birds in the spring
think that's a red-bellied woodpecker though
they kind of look like flickers especially up close. the dimensions in particular
saw one yesterday and my first thought was flicker for a minute
you're probably just trolling us though lol
nice pic nonetheless
banging colours on the birds in the spring
I think you're right, it's a red bellied woodpecker. The uncompressed image is much better, I'd attach it but somebody set a limit on upload size.
Brainerd is nice but the property values, and taxes are insane. We stay with a family friend every summer on Gull Lake and there's a house between that house and Kristi Yamaguchi's that sold for around $2,000,000. The new owner tore the house down to build a new one, so they really just bought the land for that price.
I spend so much time that week taking pictures and videos of loons on Gull lake that I bought a camera that takes long distance shots just for that. The year I bought it nearby fires made the whole lake smokey so all my pictures and videos sucked like this.
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Posted by Self-Banished on Apr. 18 2022,5:24 am
^^From what I’ve seen in the last 4 years, values have doubled.Gull is a pretty lake but it’s infested with zebra mussels.
Posted by Brand New Day on Apr. 19 2022,7:54 am
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sold for around $2,000,000. The new owner tore the house down to build a new one, so they really just bought the land for that price.
there goes the neighborhood. a lot of that buy the footprint thing these days. the people that bought science fiction writer Ray Bradbury's house did the same thing.
remember hearing about somebody building a rather posh house on a lake in the south western Twin Shitties sprawl. in the aughts think it was.
it supposedly raised everyone's property value. so the people already there were all not happy about that. hah
here's a sordid fake-estate story for yah -
New $18 million Lake Minnetonka mansion escapes teardown — for now
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what we talking about again?
oh yeah your camera zoom. . .
when you zoomed out on that loon. you could really appreciate the capability of the lens.
Posted by Liberal on Apr. 22 2022,9:02 pm
It's a Nikon d900, it's all one piece so it's really light.The person we stay with got reassessed and her property value went up several hundred thousand dollars this year, and the McMansion next door hasn't even been built yet.
Posted by Liberal on May 23 2022,10:09 pm
Trying to get an unblurred image of a hummingbird's wings. This is 1/600 of a second shutter speed, with an ant for scale.The ruby-throated hummingbird beats it's wings about 53 times a second.
Posted by Brand New Day on May 24 2022,7:51 am
nice shot lots of detail and vivid colour
one way to solve the wing dilemma might be to just wait till they perch
ants always have to be in shots trying to steal the show
was cleaning out a rather large hummer feeder several years ago
found quite the 'plethora' of fauna wedged in the innards of the thing
was rather amazing the magnitude of it all
just seemed to keep coming out of it as was trying to rinse it out
Ants are one of the most abundant animals on Earth! The ants' vast and varied contributions to our ecosystems are important. Ants are complex insects that live in large social groups called colonies. As insects, ants have a hard outer body called an exoskeleton and three body parts: head, thorax, and abdomen.
and they have an affinity for hummingbird feeders heh