Photo Phriday 6
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07/23/21 08:19 AM
07/23/21 08:19 AM
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Gulo
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Good morning/day/evening/whatever. This week's selection will hopefully pique your interest in the outdoor world. The first is a red fox image taken this week by a trail camera set up on my driveway. Note that he's got a dried toad in his mouth. This one is a photo I took this week of a western terrestrial garter snake ( Thamnophis elegans), which surprisingly, is indeed a poisonous snake. However, they have no fangs for delivery, and the toxins are very weak. This third photo this week is a head-scratcher. I was going to include it with a question as to what is it? (No. Not a gelding device.) Instead, I'll spill the beans and tell you it is a photo of beaver external ear bones. I discovered them many years ago. All beavers have them. You'll not see any mention of them in the scientific or popular literature. I'm assuming they are to seal off the ear canals to exclude any water entering the ears when a beaver submerges and folds their ears rearward. Kind of a neat "gee-whiz" discovery. No other mammal has them, as far as I know. I'm calling them the superior and inferior auriculars.
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Re: Photo Phriday 6
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07/23/21 08:41 AM
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Gulo
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Yeah Range. Very interesting. I've never seen combs put in a place like that either. Fascinating! Thanks for posting that.
Jack
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Re: Photo Phriday 6
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07/23/21 09:44 AM
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Thanks for pics Gulo, ive seen honey bee combs like that on tree limbs. Dont know why the bees decided to make foundation in the open.
RdFx
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Re: Photo Phriday 6
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07/23/21 11:24 AM
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Leftlane
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Dang Tray- that looks like the trip of a lifetime!
Jack, my grandma's layin hens were dedicated meat eaters when ever a garter snake would slither out into the sun. I always noticed they ate everything except the head and the last 2 or 3 inches below it. It surprises most of us that a garter snake is at all venomous but they knew it. IDK what the life expectancy of those hens would have been but evidently the old one taught the young ones when they passed the torch.
God's creations are fascinating and any man who doesn't realize that early in life must be a mental midget
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Re: Photo Phriday 6
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07/23/21 04:00 PM
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white17
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[quote=Gulo]Good morning/day/evening/whatever. This week's selection will hopefully pique your interest in the outdoor world. The first is a red fox image taken this week by a trail camera set up on my driveway. Note that he's got a dried toad in his mouth. Should a guy expect to find toadstools behind that fox ?
Mean As Nails
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Re: Photo Phriday 6
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07/23/21 04:08 PM
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3 Fingers. You truly work in a beautiful world
NYSTA, NTA, FTA, life member Erie county trappers assn.,life member Catt.county trappers
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Re: Photo Phriday 6
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07/23/21 06:59 PM
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Gulo
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MJM - Mark, the puffin burrow shot is a great one. Thanks! Sharon - Nice garter snake. It's interesting to me that the species Thamnophis elegans (which it appears is what you've adopted) is dramatically different colored over in the headwaters of the Clearwater, the Joe, and upper Coeur d'Alene, just over the hill from you, and on the "wet" side of the divide. They are very dark and very brown in comparison. The one you've shown is much closer to the color we have down here. Interesting! D.T. (is that for Delirium Tremors?) - Thanks for chiming in. Both those chores you depict are indeed honorable ones. I'm jealous. I have a buddy who makes his own arrows, and wraps them exquisitely with snake skins. Each one is beautifully unique. Ever done anything like that?
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07/23/21 09:47 PM
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Sharon
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MJM - Mark, the puffin burrow shot is a great one. Thanks! Sharon - Nice garter snake. It's interesting to me that the species Thamnophis elegans (which it appears is what you've adopted) is dramatically different colored over in the headwaters of the Clearwater, the Joe, and upper Coeur d'Alene, just over the hill from you, and on the "wet" side of the divide. They are very dark and very brown in comparison. The one you've shown is much closer to the color we have down here. Interesting! D.T. (is that for Delirium Tremors?) - Thanks for chiming in. Both those chores you depict are indeed honorable ones. I'm jealous. I have a buddy who makes his own arrows, and wraps them exquisitely with snake skins. Each one is beautifully unique. Ever done anything like that? Indeed , the colour variants are so interesting to me too-in any animal in various habitat . This guy has been here for a few years. The pic was among the first times I caught him. After a few years, I have assumed he was the same one due to his very tame composure when I casually pick him up every summer. All the others are frantic at first when I catch them....so my amature biologist observation notes. I feel this is my own neat experiment....do they remember events ? This one seems to. To my great dismay, my Gator lizards have been all but absent the past few years. I miss them. They are a thrill for me to find, the young with their skink-like dark tails ...to the big, chunky adults that are so easy to catch, compared to the lightning fast racer lizards I used to run and catch in Florida. I don't know what happened to them. But I keep watching for them always. Our world....so amazing. Did you know, Jack, that my mother was an assistant professor of biology at Fairbanks U ? Years ago I took a trip into SE AK., and met some log home builders ...who mentioned where they studied. When I told them my mother's name, their expressions glowed and they said they took their biology classes with her help. Must run in the DNA....my science teachers all told me I needed to go into marine biology after they saw my illustrations of deep sea fish. The ones with lights and big eyes and teeth....I was in a phase then in ink drawings of them. I soon changed into fur and feathers interests I will always be a biologist at heart....I just put it all into my art. I didn't have someone by my side to encourage me in the tec details. Thank you, sir Jack, for your enjoyable shares. There are more of us that you may know who appreciate them very much.
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