Picture-A-Week 2014 - Week 41

Pictures taken between Monday, October 6 and Sunday, October 12.

We have seen a couple of wooly catapillers who are suppose to be good predictors of the winter weather.

This one was constantly running faster than I could get his picture:

It appears that we should have a mild winter. We shall see.

Our neighbors start to decorate for Halloween at the end of September:

The witch on the spinning wheels can only be seen in daylight:

On my way to one of the mines this week :

On my way to one of the mines this week :

Is it safe to drive and take pictures at the same time?

Love the pictures dileep.

Is it safe to drive and take pictures at the same time?

I'll put my skills in rural AZ at 5AM against any texting youngun any day!!! (Yes, I'm very careful I'm clear of vehicles before I attempt something like this).

We bought a teardrop yesterday!

Quite a sight this past Saturday as a very large flock of vibrant pink roseated spoonbills arrived and flew over the wetlands:

Note one white ibis flying with them wanted to pretend he was pink that day:

There were upwards of 40 of them, and I couldn't fit them all in to one shot with my big lens:

As some came down lower, I was able to use the long 600mm lens to get some nice closeups:

Quite a sight this past Saturday as a very large flock of vibrant pink roseated spoonbills arrived and flew over the wetlands:

 

Note one white ibis flying with them wanted to pretend he was pink that day:

Great shots of these amazing birds :)

Very nice bird shots!

I'll put my skills in rural AZ at 5AM against any texting youngun any day!!! (Yes, I'm very careful I'm clear of vehicles before I attempt something like this).

 

We bought a teardrop yesterday!

 

 

Cute -- but where is the restroom? :D

Quite a sight this past Saturday as a very large flock of vibrant pink roseated spoonbills arrived and flew over the wetlands:

 

Note one white ibis flying with them wanted to pretend he was pink that day:

 

There were upwards of 40 of them, and I couldn't fit them all in to one shot with my big lens:

 

As some came down lower, I was able to use the long 600mm lens to get some nice closeups:

 

 

Great pictures -- I see that 1 Ibis flying with the others.

The orchids are beautiful.

No surprise that this one made my POTW choice for week 41

Blood Moon

Dave

No surprise that this one made my POTW choice for week 41

 

 

Blood Moon

 

Dave

Great shot!!!

Can't send you a thank you note -

"A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its

recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

>>> dpierce@pierce324.com (after RCPT TO): 550 5.1.1 <dpierce@pierce324.com> Recipient not found. <http://x.co/irbounce> etc."

Great shot!!!

 

Can't send you a thank you note -

 

 

"A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its

recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

 

>>> dpierce@pierce324.com (after RCPT TO): 550 5.1.1 <dpierce@pierce324.com> Recipient not found. <http://x.co/irbounce> etc."

Try again Tom. I found the issue.

Dave

Cute -- but where is the restroom? :D

See that tree in the background? :D

Thanks -- but I would like a little more privacy than that.