LightAngel Posted April 13 Author #726 Share Posted April 13 13 hours ago, simplybill said: Wow! That was beautiful. I want to go! 🏃♂️ I will tell God to make sure that you will be reborn near that temple. ☺️*giggles* On a serious note, when we are in nature, we are 'returning home' to a place where we inherently belong. 😉 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojo Posted April 14 #727 Share Posted April 14 I noticed this guy (or gal) flying around and s/he appeared to be just enjoying doing a few acrobatics. Maybe they were was just testing and practicing some maneuvers. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ouija ouija Posted April 14 #728 Share Posted April 14 @Sojo maybe it was a very young bird trying his/her wings out for pretty much the first time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplybill Posted April 18 #729 Share Posted April 18 (edited) Quote That look on your face when you’ve just woken up from a long winter nap. Edited April 18 by simplybill 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightAngel Posted April 18 Author #730 Share Posted April 18 56 minutes ago, simplybill said: That look on your face when you’ve just woken up from a long winter nap. Priceless. 😄 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojo Posted April 30 #731 Share Posted April 30 (edited) I saw these two lizards fighting. The smaller one was taking it to the bigger one. I watched until it looked like they finally came to an impasse. Or one drove the other one away. Edited April 30 by Sojo 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplybill Posted May 8 #732 Share Posted May 8 Well that didn’t take long. I set up the shepherds crook and the orange slices, and about 45 minutes later this hungry Oriole swooped in for lunch. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightAngel Posted May 9 Author #733 Share Posted May 9 13 hours ago, simplybill said: Well that didn’t take long. I set up the shepherds crook and the orange slices, and about 45 minutes later this hungry Oriole swooped in for lunch. More lovely pictures. 😊 Orange slices and Orioles complement each other in a delightful way. 😄 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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simplybill Posted May 12 #735 Share Posted May 12 This is very strange. Here in the middle of Iowa, you can’t see the Northern Lights with the naked eye, but you can point your phone camera at the sky and the camera gets a photo. How weird is that? 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplybill Posted May 12 #736 Share Posted May 12 Here’s something else that I didn’t know my phone camera could do until tonight: the stars look really bright when using the time delay feature. I may have to buy an iPhone tripod so I can take non-blurry photos of the stars. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightAngel Posted May 13 Author #737 Share Posted May 13 Born Free is one of my favorite films. The journey of Elsa the lioness, from being a dependent cub to a wild and free adult, symbolizes the spirit of freedom for me. Born Free was released in 1966, but it is timeless - the film was ahead of its time in promoting the ethical treatment of animals. And the fact that it is based on a true story just makes it even better for me because it adds an extra layer of depth. We just saw the film this weekend and it was a pleasure as always. If you didn't see this film then I highly recommend you do. If you love animals, then you will love this film too. 🥰 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojo Posted May 16 #738 Share Posted May 16 We just installed a new security camera and it captured this deer on the first night. A few minutes later, it caught a second one and it got the security alarm treatment. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojo Posted May 17 #739 Share Posted May 17 I thought this was pretty amazing! Whatever critter built it's home in this palm tree stump has gone the extra mile and added a roof to it! At first I thought it might be a squirrel but now I think it could actually be a bird. I still haven't see the stealthy creature. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Waters Posted May 17 #740 Share Posted May 17 18 hours ago, Sojo said: We just installed a new security camera and it captured this deer on the first night. Your videos remind me of the night we spotted two roe deer in a front garden directly across the road from us. I just happened to look out of our bedroom window in the early hours that morning and couldn't make out what I was seeing at first ,they looked like two large dogs. I just thought someone must be out with them for a late walk, but then they moved onto the roadside and walked along a bit, that's when I could see their white butts. In all the 45 years we've lived here I've never seen roe deer come into the street so close to the houses before. It's possible they do that more often than we think and especially when the neighbourhood is so quiet. It was lovely to see them and we watched them for quite a while until they eventually moved off out of sight. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glorybebe Posted May 18 #741 Share Posted May 18 (edited) This little guy came to swipe the bird's seeds Edited May 18 by glorybebe Picture didn't attach 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glorybebe Posted May 18 #742 Share Posted May 18 glGuarding his stash from the other the other guy 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojo Posted May 19 #743 Share Posted May 19 On 5/17/2024 at 12:27 PM, Still Waters said: Your videos remind me of the night we spotted two roe deer in a front garden directly across the road from us. I just happened to look out of our bedroom window in the early hours that morning and couldn't make out what I was seeing at first ,they looked like two large dogs. I just thought someone must be out with them for a late walk, but then they moved onto the roadside and walked along a bit, that's when I could see their white butts. In all the 45 years we've lived here I've never seen roe deer come into the street so close to the houses before. It's possible they do that more often than we think and especially when the neighbourhood is so quiet. It was lovely to see them and we watched them for quite a while until they eventually moved off out of sight. The problem with expanding communities is they are expanding out into rural areas where there is more wildlife. Our area used to be semi-rural until the county populations started surging in northeast Florida. We have a couple military bases not far from here and military folks like to live in Florida since there's no income tax. Also, Florida population has been surging lately with folks moving here from other cities and northeast Florida is popular because it's still not as far a drive to other locations than it is from south Florida. We now have subdivisions going in all the way up to within a few blocks of our location. The deer have had no place to go but out to the less populated areas such as ours where the home sites are all at least one acre or more. I do feel bad for them and turned off the alarm function on the camera. It was a new camera for us of a different brand than our first ones and I didn't realize the alarm was on by default. Hopefully they'll still keep coming through to get to all the good clover in our neighbor's yard. Sojo 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojo Posted May 20 #744 Share Posted May 20 23 hours ago, Sojo said: I do feel bad for them and turned off the alarm function on the camera. It was a new camera for us of a different brand than our first ones and I didn't realize the alarm was on by default. Hopefully they'll still keep coming through to get to all the good clover in our neighbor's yard. Just an update to my own post for the very, very curious: Last night we did still see deer on the security cam heading over to the clover-laden area. With the alarm disabled, they didn't even know they were being watched, so the desire for the clover will likely keep them coming to it if nothing else eventually scares them away (but we live in a dead-end area of the county bordered by ocean and inland waterways so the more likely end will simply be them eventually dying off without replacement). 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplybill Posted May 24 #745 Share Posted May 24 A severe thunderstorm that sounded like an incoming tornado woke me up at 3:57 AM, so I sat in my rocking chair and edited a few random photos from yesterday. Red-headed Woodpecker, Blue Jay, House Sparrow, trail at the nearby quarry lakes. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplybill Posted May 24 #746 Share Posted May 24 I did lose one tree in the storm last night. Unfortunately for the squirrels, it was a walnut tree. I may have to supplement their diet with circus peanuts. 😇 The tree blocked the road in front of my house, but the limbs were broken up in pieces that were easy to move with a log chain and my lawn tractor. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojo Posted May 29 #747 Share Posted May 29 I was kinda freaked out when I saw these blobs of light dancing around in front of the security camera near the marsh side of our property. After watching carefully and thinking on it, I figured out they were spiders hanging on webs down from the trees. It felt all Harry Potterish or Hobbit-territory-like for a second or two. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+joc Posted May 29 #748 Share Posted May 29 14 minutes ago, Sojo said: I was kinda freaked out when I saw these blobs of light dancing around in front of the security camera near the marsh side of our property. After watching carefully and thinking on it, I figured out they were spiders hanging on webs down from the trees. It felt all Harry Potterish or Hobbit-territory-like for a second or two. Spideys! A really cool thing I noticed is at second count :21...there is a flash of lighting on the horizon... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplybill Posted May 29 #749 Share Posted May 29 These photos from 6 years ago popped up in my Facebook memories today. I was driving home from southern Iowa when we saw this Arcus Roll Cloud above the road. They’re very rare here in upper Iowa. The guy in the red shirt is my nephew. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojo Posted May 30 #750 Share Posted May 30 14 hours ago, simplybill said: These photos from 6 years ago popped up in my Facebook memories today. I was driving home from southern Iowa when we saw this Arcus Roll Cloud above the road. They’re very rare here in upper Iowa. The guy in the red shirt is my nephew. Decided to login for the sole purpose of saying WOW! Way cool pics! Sojo 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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