p.33 #6 · Official Nikon DSLR images, videos and discussion thread
I have several more loon images to post after these.
First, May is a busy month for Common Loons. They are highly territorial. On this first pond of my boyhood just one nesting pair is tolerated. And this pond is about 2 miles long and 1/4 mile wide. So the nesting pair claims a large area and will defend it.... if they can. During May they thrash out who will be the nesting pair.
Mating is about to happen and this nesting adult is preparing the nest.
p.33 #8 · Official Nikon DSLR images, videos and discussion thread
bs kite wrote:
I have several more loon images to post after these.
White balance is off. Remember a few months ago, we had this same discussion in some other thread?
Greenish tint on all those images.
p.33 #15 · Official Nikon DSLR images, videos and discussion thread
The entire living world will collapse without insects...... yet we continue to poison them.
"95% of our passerine bird species require a diet of 95% insects for their nestlings..."
from Doug Tallamy's "Bringing Nature Home"
"If all humans were removed from Earth now, the Biosphere would regenerate to the rich state of equilibrium that existed 10,000 years ago. But if all insects were to disappear, the Biosphere would collapse into chaos. ...."
from the late Harvard Professor E.O Wilson, considered to be America's greatest ecologist.
It follows that most passerine species coordinate their nesting with the abundance of insect hatchings. In this latitude (47th north) in aquatic systems, this happens in June. It's not until June that the aquatic insect nymphs begin emerging from the water, crawl up the stems of aquatic stems and transform into adult. This is when the Eastern Kingbird parent begins running out among the Pickerelweeds searching for new adult Odonata.
p.33 #19 · Official Nikon DSLR images, videos and discussion thread
I wish I had captured this one with a video. This Damselfly nymph emerged from the water, and made it up over the front of the Bull Frog and was transforming into an adult. I wonder if it made it.
