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GeneralNature Thread Number 24

25th Jan 2024 17:23 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Seeing the last incarnation number 23 has gotten fairly long, starting a new thread and this first photo is from this morning in SE Arizona, a "Fog-bow", the first time I have seen one and gotten a photo. We had sun to our East and a fog bank to our West and this was a colorless white fog bow in the sky. Not super pronounced but something unusual none the less for me.

2nd Feb 2024 22:41 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Between showers and when the sun came out I figure maybe a rainbow, sure enough it was right over out shop. on 2-2-2024

2nd Feb 2024 22:42 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

The colors in the lower part of the rainbow were quite bright.

4th Feb 2024 14:35 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

More dramatic sky, just before sun up.

4th Feb 2024 14:36 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

The mountains at the bottom of the photo is the Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains, what we see from our front door.

11th Feb 2024 19:10 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

After yesterday's storm with snow, this morning, after hours of fog trying to clear out, this is when the sun did come out. The Dragoon Mountains to the East of us.

14th Feb 2024 00:22 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

This coyote came to our bird feeding area this late afternoon, allowing me to get a few photos through our window, without scaring it.

14th Feb 2024 00:23 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Here it is standing my one of our big mesquite trees.

14th Feb 2024 03:00 UTCHarold (Hal) Prior Expert

We don't have Coyotes - however, frequently get Red Foxes at our feeder looking for a meal. I had to clear the undergrowth away from the feeder so the birds can see them earlier.

14th Feb 2024 22:00 UTCGregg Little 🌟

We have red fox and coyotes (Nova Scotia) but most of the predation around our bird feeders is by the sharped-shinned hawk, rarely seen but, evidenced by the occasional pile of feathers being dispersed by the wind.

18th Mar 2024 15:31 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Spring does seem to be rearing its little head here, the primroses are starting to bloom now. Not the whole blankets of blooms we used to have in SE Arizona but they are blooming.

18th Mar 2024 15:32 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

The lupine family is also starting to send up flowers. This is nice to see after a lot of dry winters, to see flowers coming up.

19th Mar 2024 11:41 UTCMartin Rich Expert

Spring is coming!

21st Mar 2024 02:39 UTCFrank Casella

How would E.O. Wilson explain this?

2nd Apr 2024 18:13 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Not a profusion as in some years past but the Arizona Poppies are in bloom at the moment and a splash of color in the otherwise barren ground color.

7th Apr 2024 17:44 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

This little wildflower, only maybe hand size for the whole plant, was blooming this morning. Not sure of the species but it was a pretty little plant.

7th Apr 2024 20:39 UTCBill Hamel 🌟

Crested Saguaros in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve, north of Phoenix AZ.

7th Apr 2024 21:14 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Wow Bill, a Picasso Saguaro! Cool looking one.

7th Apr 2024 22:38 UTCHarold (Hal) Prior Expert

Is that a unique variety of Saguaro - or is it some type of bloom?

7th Apr 2024 22:55 UTCHerwig Pelckmans

It's called fasciation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciation

8th Apr 2024 00:44 UTCBill Hamel 🌟

They are also called Cristate Saguaros. There are a number of well known & protected examples like this one. There are also some lesser known ones whose locations are closely guarded & fairly remote. Wonderful desert plants!

8th Apr 2024 13:11 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Late afternoon we put out some bird seed by a big trailing jasmine near our house. The cottontails have also discovered the seed and this one came out just before dark, a young one, only half the size of the adults. Funny how they seem to love the bird seed. The photo is not as sharp as I would like because it is through a window.

8th Apr 2024 13:23 UTCThe Evje og Hornnes geomuseum, Fennefoss Expert

Polar stratospheric clouds over Evje, South-Norway. Picture taken 2005.

8th Apr 2024 19:01 UTCSteve Ewens

Rolf, perhaps the video actually loaded. Rufous migration feeding frenzy.

Life in the Trailerhood.

Steve

8th Apr 2024 22:13 UTCHarold (Hal) Prior Expert

I love watching those little guys!! We will get 8 feeders out soon awaiting the arrival about May 1 (plus or minus a couple days). The Orioles often arrive the same day. We annually get 50-75 Ruby-Throated Hummers. they will stay until September. Feeders will need daily filling during peak of season. I sometimes feed them from hand held feeder.

11th Apr 2024 03:07 UTCKyle Bayliff

Greetings all,

I was in Mobile, AL for a wetlands ecology course and got a few good photos along the way. This first one is an osprey nest that was built on the exposed roots of a tree in the middle of the Tensaw river. A cool location, but I have to wonder what the osprey do during a storm.

11th Apr 2024 03:10 UTCKyle Bayliff

A cottonmouth hiding in the tall grass. A classmate accidentally dropped her very expensive camera lens off the boardwalk just a few feet from this fellow. She went in and got it, and the cottonmouth stayed perfectly still. Still kind of a hair-raising moment, though.

11th Apr 2024 03:12 UTCKyle Bayliff

Not the best picture, but important subject matter: This is a Mississippi sandhill crane. They are a non-migratory subspecies of the sandhill crane and there's only a few hundred left in the wild. They are highly dependent on their pine flat savannah habitat, which has suffered from human encroachment. This was taken at the Mississippi Sandhill Crane NWR.

11th Apr 2024 03:15 UTCKyle Bayliff

We found lots of carnivorous plants in the various bogs we visited during the class. Here's a pitcher plant (Sarracenia spp.)

11th Apr 2024 03:17 UTCKyle Bayliff

The pitcher plant flowers sprout before the main plant does. This is an adaptation that gives pollinators a chance to spread pollen to other plants without the danger of being consumed by the plant.

11th Apr 2024 03:20 UTCKyle Bayliff

Sundews are also carnivorous plants, and catch insects using the sticky beads of liquid on the tips of the little hairs covering the plant. When an insect gets stuck, the plant will wrap it's tendrils around the insect and digest it using enzymes in the liquid.

11th Apr 2024 03:20 UTCKyle Bayliff

Last one for now: A great big alligator we saw on a boat tour of the rivers around Blakely State Park.

11th Apr 2024 05:45 UTCLouis Chang

This is my morning walk with my dogs through the jungle in thailand. Find some milky quartz clusters up here sometimes. Alot of schorl and occasionally some blue beryl. Only a few pieces i’d count and aquamarine.

11th Apr 2024 05:49 UTCLouis Chang

You also get some carnivorous plants here. This one is interesting. It seems to thrive in the wet jungle but also seems to do well in the deforested areas that are super dry and sandy.

11th Apr 2024 05:52 UTCLouis Chang

Different biomes on a tiny island. I believe this is an old tin quarry. Have found some seams of black rock that could be massive cassiterite.

11th Apr 2024 12:44 UTCVladimir Sergienko

Strobilurus esculentus, one of the earliest edible spring mushrooms

15th Apr 2024 13:00 UTCAlex Yu

Not sure how to use threads, hope this is the proper way to reply.

This is one of my largest colonies of Houstonia caerulea. It's a lovely native perennial which blooms very early.

Is this thread only limited to wild flora and fauna?

15th Apr 2024 15:45 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Alex,

Thanks for posting the pretty photo of the flowers and no, it is not limited to wild flora and fauna, just anything in Nature.

17th Apr 2024 17:45 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Our Hedgehog Cactus has started to bloom and this flower is about 8cm across.

17th Apr 2024 17:46 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

A second Hedgehog Cactus with multiple flowers open.

17th Apr 2024 17:47 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

This one is called Oyster Plant and is also blooming at the moment.

18th Apr 2024 02:49 UTCAlex Yu

What a lovely bloom! I love desert Asteraceae, and that cheery yellow/cream gradient is so wonderful.

17th Apr 2024 17:48 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Another cactus blooming at the moment, this one is a Beehive Cactus.

18th Apr 2024 15:43 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

On this mornings dog walk, this desert Four O'Clock bush was in full bloom, great spot of color under a mesquite tree. Plant is about 3 feet across.

18th Apr 2024 15:45 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Close up of the Desert Four O'clock flowers.

18th Apr 2024 15:46 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Another member of the Four O'clock family, a trailing Four O'clock, was also in bloom.

18th Apr 2024 15:47 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Another of the flowers blooming is one called Purple Mat and is close to the ground.

An actual wildflower bloom this year after many years of not much blooming.

18th Apr 2024 15:51 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

The last flower of the morning is the Long Stemmed Gilia, which has a long flower and a small Bladderpod Mustard in the right background.

18th Apr 2024 19:26 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

This morning we had wispy clouds moving through but this one spot had the sectioned area of what looked like wind related sectional clouds. Kind of different from all the others around.

18th Apr 2024 22:17 UTCLalith Aditya Senthil Kumar

I think these might be decaying Kelvin-Helmholtz Waves.

18th Apr 2024 22:34 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Lalith,

Looked them up and you sure seem right on here. I don't know the names of the various clouds very well but this one seems to fit. Don't see those kinds here very often.

Thanks.

18th Apr 2024 23:55 UTCLalith Aditya Senthil Kumar

I personally haven't seen one either, but I remember seeing these in a field guide.

19th Apr 2024 00:44 UTCFrank Karasti 🌟 Expert

Along the Knife River, Mother Nature is hard at work. It’s not long before this aspen goes for a swim. Joining the sediments heading towards Lake Superior. When river goes low, I will have fresh rock to collect.

19th Apr 2024 14:08 UTCBill Hamel 🌟

Fields of orange Desert Globemallow near the Ray Mine; part of the "Super Bloom".

19th Apr 2024 14:33 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Our driveway is dirt and we always watch when going down to open our gate for "who" was out in the night. This morning saw this track, coming into our property from an open field. From my herpetology background, saw which way it was headed by the "push" of the soil by the moving snake, making a small berm in the direction it came from. It also told me by the many S marks it is a good size rattlesnake. So, even though it was warm enough to know they may be out, now we have seen direct evidence but in searching, couldn't find where it had gone.

19th Apr 2024 14:34 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Seeds ready for a wind to disperse them from an oyster plant, the flowers I took a photo of above.

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