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Amazing Nature - what has wowed you lately?

Zoran Jovanovic

Posts: 17

Location: Belgrade, Serbia

posted 1 year ago

"Nature always offers something"

Equisetum

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My goal would be, sweet pepper on a tree

Zoran Jovanovic

Posts: 17

Location: Belgrade, Serbia

posted 1 year ago

Matthew Aspinwall wrote: It has no chlorophyll

That is what I thought.when I found in a forest (on a northern slope, close to very shallow black of organic material 5x2 m pond, on very wet clay soil).

Are these plants similar or it is my imagination?
My photo is not so good...

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My goal would be, sweet pepper on a tree

Laura Emil

Posts: 95

Location: northeastern USA

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posted 11 months ago

a mostly WHITE skunk - ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL, but WHAT am I supposed to do about it? LOL!!! I think it's living under part of my house! I know it has a place in the balance of things here, but am worried about it being right under the house. Any suggestions? (see video at http://bit.ly/whiteSkunk, taken from my living room window.)

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~ laura . . . . . (with land to share in northeastern PA . . . visitors welcome . . . http://bit.ly/land2sharePICS)

Greg Martin

master gardener

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Location: Maine, zone 5

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posted 9 months ago

This picture reminded me that as the cooler mornings arrive I need to remember to try and do this (I managed it in a dream last night!).

Not my picture....this is the winner of the 2019 Audubon Photography Awards. Nice work Kathrin Swoboda!!!

Biochar maker/enthusiast whose mind wants to dance, but whose body is a really awkward white guy.
Pics of my Forest Garden

Jocelyn Campbell

steward

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Location: Missoula, MT

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posted 9 months ago

Laura, that white skunk is magnificent! Is it still around or under your house? A better place to ask what to do would probably be the nibblers forum.

Greg, I'm not sure what you mean you want to do. Make shapes with warm air in the cold outdoors? Or sing like a blackbird? ;-)

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Laura Emil

Posts: 95

Location: northeastern USA

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posted 9 months ago

Hi Jocelyn!
Perhaps my two cats had a polite conversation with the critter and it decided under my house was not the optimum location. I've not seen it again, but on occasion I catch a whiff of skunk musk in the barn. Nothing too strong, though, nor lingering. So the skunk has either found a way to co-exist, or has moved on. I felt so lucky to see it that day, and equally lucky that it did NOT take up permanent residence! Things like this just make life WONDERful!

~ laura . . . . . (with land to share in northeastern PA . . . visitors welcome . . . http://bit.ly/land2sharePICS)

Rene Nijstad

pollinator

Posts: 291

Location: La Mesa, Cundinamarca, Colombia

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posted 9 months ago

We had a real wow not too long ago. Close to bizarre actually... Some type of spider, way over half a meter in size if you would stretch it out. Of course we went on an internet search to find out what it was... A whip spider it turned out. It actually walks on 6 legs, because the front two developed into sensory organs. It's not poisonous, but the thorns on it's huge arm like claws can grab and injure your fingers if you would try to touch it. One of the most strange creatures I ever saw showing up right next to our house!

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Chris Sturgeon

pollinator

Posts: 193

Location: Yukon Territory, Canada. Zone 1a

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posted 9 months ago

Pictures like the one above make me sooooo glad to live in the Yukon! Thanks for sharing, Rene!

I went out earlier to check on my stuck IMO and ended up watching a pair of beavers work in the creek for about an hour.

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Building soil in the Yukon.

Rene Nijstad

pollinator

Posts: 291

Location: La Mesa, Cundinamarca, Colombia

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posted 9 months ago

Hahaha Chris, it's not as bad as it looks sometimes. I would love beavers here! But not enough water.... Great picture!!!

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Dana Natrarium

Posts: 1

posted 8 months ago

This plant growing across the street from me recently exploded with balloons! Unbelievable that a plant can create a pressure-filled chamber. May have to sneak back over there and pop one to see what’s inside.

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Joseph hackett

pioneer

Posts: 82

Location: Sydney, Australia. Subtropics

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posted 8 months ago

A few years ago I was doing some nature photography in an urban park, and came across an Australian spider wasp (Cryptocheilus bicolor). The wasp had paralysed an enormous huntsman spider and I took photos as it dragged the spider 30m before I lost it. The wasp was on its way to a burrow where it would place the spider inside and lay its eggs on top. Lucky I had a long lens, because they are known to inflict enormous pain if they sting you!!

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Dave Anderson

Posts: 3

Location: Eagle Mountain, United States

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posted 8 months ago

This isn't lately but as a teenager, I used to enjoy running trails near my parents house. I like to hike too but jogging the trails allowed me to see things in a different way. It's something that people who don't jog will ever see or understand. And it's incredible.

Jenn Bertrand

Posts: 44

posted 8 months ago

Wild carrot perfectly entwined with a garden carrot, yin yang tomato and a heart shaped potato... Maybe my garden is in balance and full of love ?

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Cory Ray

Posts: 4

Location: San Antonio, TX

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posted 8 months ago

Here's a couple lizard wows - An Anole with a split tail and a prairie lizard. Natural blues are always amazing.
And a bonus spider-wow, check what's in their mouth!

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Steve Thorn

master gardener

Posts: 1496

Location: Zone 7b/8a Temperate Humid Subtropical, Eastern NC, US

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posted 8 months ago

It's amazing to me how nature, if left to itself or even helped along by permaculture practices, usually finds a balance.

This plant had aphids on it, and you can also see an ant corralling the aphids. A ladybug larva also found the aphids and was vigorously devouring them.

I couldn't get a great photo, but this shows the ladybug larva walking away after picking up an aphid snack to go!

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Tyler Ludens

pollinator

Posts: 11741

Location: Central Texas USA Latitude 30 Zone 8

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posted 7 months ago

Parthenice Tiger Moth in our woods

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Idle dreamer

Daron Williams

gardener

Posts: 2027

Location: Olympia, WA - Zone 8a/b

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posted 7 months ago

I don't have a picture of them but I was excited last night to discover that my "beaver pond" (I built it) already has water boatman beetles swimming around in it! The pond was dry over the entire summer and only filled up in the last week or so and already life is back in it. Just exciting to see!

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Judith Browning

Posts: 7472

Location: Ozarks zone 7 alluvial,black,deep clay/loam with few rocks, wonderful creek bottom!

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posted 7 months ago

We finally got out on one of our favorite hiking trails yesterday and because we have had so much rain and the day was overcast all of the colors and textures were more intense than usual.

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Tyler Ludens

pollinator

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Location: Central Texas USA Latitude 30 Zone 8

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posted 6 months ago

This cute Ringtail caught on the gamecam

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thomas rubino

gardener

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Location: latitude 47 N.W. montana zone 6A

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posted 6 months ago

Sadly we didn't get a picture.
The wife and I were headed up a forest service road, when something large flashed by the passenger window.
It quickly crossed in front of the windshield and landed in a tree 50' off the road.

A HUGE, great horned owl, had caught a columbian ground squirrel ! Right next to the car! While we were driving! She landed on the branch and glared at us! With the large squirrel hanging limp from her mouth! By the time we got over our awe at this site, she flew off deeper into the trees! Then we realized we should have tried for a photo! I think the saying goes "shoulda, woulda , coulda"

Even without a photo we will remember that event forever !

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Justin Gerardot

pioneer

Posts: 76

Location: north west Michigan

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posted 6 months ago

Had our first significant snow a couple weeks ago, so I went hiking

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Lana Weldon

Posts: 142

posted 5 months ago

All the different geckos with their amazing patterns, spots and colours, I saw i S E Asia, and then in Germany, the fire salamanders, black and bright yellow, coming out during rainy nights in the forest.

Jocelyn Campbell

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Location: Missoula, MT

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posted 4 months ago

Okay, I am in love with this beautiful composition. Wow.

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Greg Martin

master gardener

Posts: 1636

Location: Maine, zone 5

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posted 4 months ago

Jocelyn, you have just given us the basis for butterfly wing font!

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Biochar maker/enthusiast whose mind wants to dance, but whose body is a really awkward white guy.
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Greg Martin

master gardener

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Location: Maine, zone 5

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posted 4 months ago

Or is it better using the dot from the "I"?

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Jocelyn Campbell

steward

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Location: Missoula, MT

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posted 4 months ago

I think the dot shows up better in your first version though just a little. Both are awesome!

Should have mentioned in my post though that some are moth wings - the article title neglected to credit the humble moth!

The artist is selling high quality prints of whatever folks want to spell out. As what you did, Greg!

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Robert Ray

gardener

Posts: 1522

Location: Cascades of Oregon

posted 4 months ago

Southern Oregon

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Amy Francis

Posts: 350

Location: London, UK

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posted 4 months ago

I get a thrill whenever I see a plant (especially if it's young/tender) break through concrete! I guess it might be mostly city folk who curse this though, i.e. spoiling their patio and seeing it as an enemy/weed (just a plant in the wrong place!) to be destroyed!!

When I moved to this flat of mine, it had a front area that was just concrete (save for marked areas for rose bushes). I loved that red valerian (a garden escape) broke up this boring, grey man made stuff.....

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Trace Oswald

master pollinator

Posts: 1853

Location: 4b

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posted 4 months ago

Birch trees and grape vines intertwined.

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Mk Neal

Posts: 84

Location: Chicago

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posted 4 months ago

I have been amazed by the adaptability of wildlife to the urban environment.

A pair of peregrines has been frequenting the area near my office, hunting pigeons off the tops of the taller buildings.

Today on the elevated platform, I saw fluffy pigeon feathers floating through the air overhead. I thought the peregrines must be hunting. Sure enough, there on my building I saw them on each side of the fire escape. It is not a great picture. But there on the left is a falcon eating a pigeon, and on the right side its mate standing guard or waiting its turn.

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