Momentos de alegrÃa hoy por la mañana y de profunda desazón también durante una pequeña recorrida al Arroyo Mártires, pese a la masacre ambiental del tratamiento costero, el cual también se está encargando de destruir este lugar de Posadas la naturaleza resiste a duras penas al embate de las máquinas. Hoy luego de 3 años […]
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Red-billed Tropicbirds at the gulf
Late June 2001, while writing my final work for my B.Sc and before leaving Israel and going to start my life in East Africa, I was standing on North Beach in Eilat together with Barak Granit and admiring my first ever Red-billed Tropicbirdwhich came in from nowhere and gave me my farewell present from Israel. […]
Greenish Warbler
The friendliest bird i have ‘EVER’ worked with. So friendly was this specimen, that as time went by, foot after foot it hopped and came closer till it was sitting on my shoe. Never have I experienced something like this before. Here is one of the images of this Greenish Warbler that I liked. Hope […]
Growing Caterpillar
For the past few weeks, I have been watching black swallowtail caterpillars in a nearby stand of fennel plants. Like many butterfly species, black swallowtails are picky about what they eat. They prefer host plants in the carrot family, Apiaceae, which includes parsley, fennel, dill, Queen Anne’s Lace, and of course, carrots. Fennel smells like […]
Picabuey (Cattle Tyrant) Machetornis rixosa
Bueno….oficialmente puedo considerarme ambidiestro, al menos par escribir en la pc. y para editar en photoshop =), me cuesta un poco moverme en el menú desplegable para editar niveles y contraste pero como tengo tiempo de sobra no me preocupo jajaja!!!. Hoy preparé para compartir con ustedes estas dos imágenes del Picabuey que pude obtener […]
Cerquero de collar (Saffron-billed Sparrow)
Esta es la última tanda de fotos que me quedó para compartirlas con ustedes de la última vez que fuimos a la zona de la desembocadura del Arroyo Garupá el dÃa 11 de Mayo; dese esa fecha no volvimos mas a este lugar porque yo estuve dedicándole varias jornadas de observación y fotografÃa a la […]
A Baby Wheel Bug !
I found a tiny assassin sitting on a yellow flower in Brooklyn Bridge Park last week. It’s an immature, or nymphal, stage of an assassin bug. Assassin bugs are predatory insects in the family Reduviidae. They have long downward-facing beaks that unfold forward. Assassin bugs capture other insects and pierce them with their sharp beaks. […]