🖼️︴photography

[amber flicker]

Yeah. It depends on the quality

[slender terrace]

why inverted bunnies

[gleaming fable]

Practicing their handstands

[slender terrace]

All 4 in the group did it lol

[gleaming fable]

Cheerleaders!

[small spruce]

Might be a rare dove

[fickle falcon]

Hidding btw

😂

[gleaming fable]

Probably would put pics of this gorgeous little monk in #🦝︴pet-pics

[small spruce]

Piebald dove

[small spruce]

That dove is in my backyard and it's a piebald

[gleaming fable]

Yeah, I'm aware.. I replied to dream, who posted a photo of a monk parakeet right below it.

[small spruce]

Sorry

I can't believe its a piebald

Very first time ever seeing a rare animal

[gleaming fable]

Doves and pigeons have wonky genetics. They dont go 'pied' the way ducks might

the genetically can be predisposed to white factoring - which causes any number of white feathers to grow in

its fascinating, and this is a really great example of it - nice find

[small spruce]

I looked it up and its is a piebald

[gleaming fable]

Okay

[wispy ginkgo]

She knew that I was going to kill her, and she didn’t want to hear the shot

[glass star]

piebald doves arent rare afaik

[low plinth]

Don't think it's piebald. Doves get weird coloring. Now it could be said it's piebald since that it is it's coloring but isn't considered rare.

[small spruce]

It is a piebald I looked it up

And around here they are rare

For piebald doves

This is the first one I ever seen

[low plinth]

Hmm. I guess then.

[wispy ginkgo]

If u want to see a rare animal look for piebald mallards. They are pretty easy to find but I think they are considered rare

@small spruce like this one

I think

[small spruce]

Thats a duck

[uneven nova]

Mallard ducks kinda have the estonian flag on them

Not my pic

But u can kinda see the estonian flag

[gleaming fable]

🇪🇪

Yeah, I kinda can see it

[uneven nova]

funny cus mallards are also in estonia

C:

[wispy ginkgo]

Yeah, those “ducks” had that

But idk why when they swim that feather is not visible

[uneven nova]

dk

[wispy ginkgo]

Like this, is the same mallard, but only in one of them u can see the feather

[uneven nova]

thats a very bright blue on that

irl its not usually that bright

prob bcs of the lens

[wispy ginkgo]

Yeah, I modified the original image. In fact all of those pics were took from me

[uneven nova]

nice

[wispy ginkgo]

So all of those ducks are mallards

[uneven nova]

in estonian its called a blue necked duck

[wispy ginkgo]

Oh I didn’t know that

[uneven nova]

but in english

mallard

[uneven nova]

thats if u directly translate it

yup

using my trusty google translate

[wispy ginkgo]

In my language if u translate it correctly it’s called “real german” idk why 🤣

[uneven nova]

blue necked duck

=

Mallard Duck

[wispy ginkgo]

Same thing for me

For my language

[fringe plank]

Some goldeneyes i photographed today

[wispy ginkgo]

I want to see some goldeneyes one day

[gleaming fable]

I wish the ones that would land on the Salzach would come closer

[fringe plank]

It was a lot of work too get that close i took like 40-50 photos just with my phone and these are the best ones

[fringe plank]

First time they landed here but i saw one on a big distance at a lake far fron here once

[gleaming fable]

The ones I see are an easy hundred meters away

[fringe plank]

On the open water?

[low plinth]

Lake I presume?

[gleaming fable]

River

[low plinth]

ah

[gleaming fable]

big arse river

[low plinth]

What's it called? Salzach

?

[wispy ginkgo]

But where I live they don’t arrive

At least I think so

[fringe plank]

I also thought that

[fringe plank]

Can i ask in which state or country your in?

[uneven nova]

I see mallards everywhere in estonia

in the summer

[low plinth]

Estonia

Just everything about there is amazing

[uneven nova]

tyty

[low plinth]

From models to cars and just URGH

I WANT TO GO THERE

[uneven nova]

come by in the summer

u will enjoy it here

[fringe plank]

I live in sweden its so good

[wispy ginkgo]

I’ll come too

[wispy ginkgo]

Yeah

[fringe plank]

I love too search 4 ducks

[wispy ginkgo]

I love also Italy 🇮🇹

[low plinth]

France would be cool too

[fringe plank]

I only found 4 species and photographed 2 good but theirs more to find and photograph

[uneven nova]

I love finland

was there in the summer

[wispy ginkgo]

I love Mars

[fringe plank]

We also have a lot of malards a looot

I once saw like thousands of gray laged- and barnacle geese flying south and resting at a lake

[wispy ginkgo]

I have literally a park behind my house with mallards and baby mallards

[fringe plank]

Same here

But where do you live?

[wispy ginkgo]

Italy 🇮🇹

Nice for waterfowl and for upland birds

[gleaming fable]

Hi yes sorry, I was multitasking and forgot I was talking. Yes, the River Salzach

[fringe plank]

Here is a picture of the Population Distribution in summer in winter they are a bit more south but i gues in italy you have bad chanches

@wispy ginkgo i think in some parts of italy you can find them during the winter

February and january

[wispy ginkgo]

Thanks 👍

[low plinth]

aight

[left cosmos]

Picture of a bird i toke

[jovial onyx]

Picture of fence (with pheasant in background)

[amber brook]

more pixels please

[amber brook]

shit photo but deer found in wiltshire uk

[amber flicker]

What deer is that one?

[gleaming fable]

guessing roe? wrong color for red

[low plinth]

Roe deer it looks like from body shape and head

Ears too

[amber flicker]

Okay. I was curious because it wasn't red like a roe deer.

Although probably got that from the game

[gleaming fable]

Also seasonal! Colder times of the year I find deer to be 'grayer' than in the warmer months

[amber flicker]

Okay. Out of curiosity do you hunt in real life? On your profile description it says that.

Only question like that I'm asking on this channel area.

[gleaming fable]

Used to, with my Grandfather when I was younger.

Haven't since I got old and had to work myself half to death as a corporate shill.

[amber flicker]

Oh that's rough. What did you use to hunt?

[gleaming fable]

Whitetail was the local deer

Turkeys sometimes

he talked about duck and geese with me, but we never went

He had a farm, and part of the property was raising a herd of fallow and off propert was a herd of red deer for a hunting preserve

I wish I had the camera tech I have now back then

they were so cool.. Also had a few aoudad

at the end we got some cape buffalo calves and on the preserve there were 5 bison (with the hopes they would breed)

[amber flicker]

Okay. That seems very fun.

[gleaming fable]

It was pretty great

[fossil night]

donde esta cr7

[amber flicker]

Tu habla Espanol?

[dense hamlet]

Little unicorn

[low plinth]

This is facts. This is even seen in american deer species.

Main example is mule deer will have a lighter more brown coat but still grey in summer but a darker grey in winter.

[left cosmos]

Bird

[gleaming fable]

Some coot we saw on the hike we took today

[true ferry]

kwak

[gleaming fable]

The mallards were so curious haha

Def think folks have been feeding them at the shore

[wispy ginkgo]

Awesome pics

Where were you?

[gleaming fable]

Fuschl, in Austria

[wispy ginkgo]

I thought u were near the alps

[gleaming fable]

I am indeed 🙂

[wispy ginkgo]

Sorry I used the wrong verb: I meant “I knew that u were near the alps”

[gleaming fable]

Oh. Yes. 😄

[gleaming fable]

Bee Party!

[amber brook]

i was very confused for a second cuz i read “australia” and then read “i thought u were near the alps”

[gleaming fable]

Cows not Kangaroos!

[amber brook]

lmfao

[gleaming fable]

New Daisy bottle

[amber brook]

noice

you got a really good camera, whatchu using?

or at least good from someone who’s never touched photography

[gleaming fable]

It's my cellphone 🤣

Samsung s22 Ultra

[amber brook]

wow

[gleaming fable]

I can't handle my Nikon and the dog leash at the same time

So I bring my cellphone to have a quick photo capability

(Thank you popsocket!)

[amber brook]

nice

[low plinth]

pretty bees

[dense hamlet]

They drunk "bee-rs" at the party?

[gleaming fable]

Man probably haha

[jovial onyx]

Random bumblebees

[amber brook]

i’m laughing and i hate it

[gleaming fable]

Fumblebees are the best!

[uneven nova]

hornets not so much

was having fun with relatives

stepped on a underground hornet nest

C:

glad only one of the bastards stung me

[true ferry]

[twin bramble]

he got a band

[dense hamlet]

Well spotted

[gleaming fable]

He's beautiful

[torn pivot]

Bison

[gleaming fable]

Was it a farm of them?

[low plinth]

We need a petting goose emoji

[low plinth]

Ooh man idk which one is my favorite

Mando looks sick but also the stormtrooper is pretty great too

[upper dune]

Stormtrooper one is probably my favorite because of the sunlight

Though that first one makes it a hard decision

[low plinth]

Yeh

[torn pivot]

It wasn’t a farm just a drive through attraction

Here are some elk

[gleaming fable]

Love it

[torn pivot]

Also a lake

Where I am rn it feels like a cotw hunting reserve

[gleaming fable]

I feel the same haha

[small trout]

eat it

[twin bramble]

gort

[small trout]

protogen

[trail ocean]

I would find it funny if i was a random guy and just stumbled upon you with action figures and taking photos in the woods lmao

[gleaming fable]

Oh my heart. It's beautiful

[low plinth]

I can't believe you found one that's sick.

When I'm out in the woods I try to look for owls but rarely see them.

[gleaming fable]

@lapis jetty this cactus

Rescued from the plant graveyard at the grocery store earlier

[lapis jetty]

ah ok 👍

[gleaming fable]

It was dry and the soil was crumbling so I set it to slow hydrate from the bottom up in a shallow Tupperware of water

[true ferry]

you call that a cactus?

[gleaming fable]

It's a succulent, called an Easter cactus

[true ferry]

O

[gleaming fable]

....but I forgot I was hydrating it. For like an hour.

[void trench]

Good drink lol

[gleaming fable]

I'm hoping it survives.. it cost me 1.79 hahaha

[lapis jetty]

basically what i probably should've done with my rosemary bush that didn't survive the winter due to me forgetting about it (it's in my wintergarden and despite the purpose it's rather cold there)

[void trench]

Should be fine as long as you let it go bone dry before watering it again.

[gleaming fable]

Well, it said to water it every two weeks - which is doable. It's not the first I've cared for, just the smallest and most poorly one

The store buys plants in bulk and then "forgets" about them

Palmela, my palm tree, was half brown when I got it home. Had to whack most the fronds right off

[low plinth]

Looks like a xmas cactus

you want to see my Ogre ear succulent?

[gleaming fable]

It's the cousin to an Xmas one! Easter, Thanksgiving, Xmas

And YES

[void trench]

Fair enough. My wife grows a lot of succulents and she just finds letting them go dry between waterings makes them happiest for some reason lol

[low plinth]

c: okie

[gleaming fable]

They like to THIRST for their survival hahaha

[void trench]

Apparently 😂

I'm more into bananas and such. She likes the xerophiles lol

[low plinth]

Here's my big Boi. I want to repot him but I'm afraid too.

So thicc

[gleaming fable]

I think that having constant access to h2o makes them rot from within, so soaking and drying is safest. Or something to that effect, this is my first willing foray into succulents haha

[void trench]

Makes sense. Always heard that better to underwater than over.

Bananas on the otherhand will take all the water you can give them 😂

[gleaming fable]

My orchid would agree. It's been 15 days and the fool has put out a new crown, a single leaf and two new baby stems

[low plinth]

I thought you said succubus

[gleaming fable]

Yes, definitely.

[low plinth]

Should I re-pot my Ogre Ear plant?

[true ferry]

all the succulents in our side yard became compost more than a decade ago 🥲

[low plinth]

it's in a pretty big pot already but I am trying to grow another succulent in it. Maybe I should take that one out instead?

[void trench]

Some plants like to be constrained. Probably look into it first?

[low plinth]

Hmm okay

[true ferry]

but the upshot of that is that our orange and lemon trees were doing a lot better once all the succulents died

i see now why they are called succulents. because they succ up all the water

i'll show myself the door

[low plinth]

I think we really should rename them into succubus's

[gleaming fable]

https://www.reddit.com/r/plants/comments/exqybc/ogre_ear_jade_how_long_should_i_wait_before_i/

[low plinth]

Nooooo

It's blocked for me

I'll do it on phone

Thanks also

[gleaming fable]

Ofc

There's also an app called Planta

[low plinth]

I'll check that out too thanks

[gleaming fable]

Yw

[dense hamlet]

My friend with his albino ibex.

He looked quiet happy after collecting it too.

[low plinth]

look at that smile

[gleaming fable]

b e a u t i f u l

[uneven nova]

Estonian Winter can be beautiful

@gleaming fable

Took this majestic picture in december

[gleaming fable]

I love it

[uneven nova]

Tyty

[amber brook]

Easter chillin' on cherry.

[gleaming fable]

lookin cozy

[amber brook]

Our ancestors planted comfortable trees for us. 😆

[slender terrace]

looks like your missing some back support 😂

[uneven nova]

i think they see me

[gleaming fable]

I love them

[amber brook]

Much is what it seems, but much is not what it seems. 😉

[amber brook]

Picturez of some red deer i saw during a walk today 😄

Didnt get a great picture of him sadly

[uneven nova]

Wooow

[gleaming fable]

I love them

[uneven nova]

Good enough for me

[uneven nova]

Ive only seen deer like once or twice in my life

Not including zoo visits

[amber brook]

If i see a boar or bison ill take a cool picture

Got my camera with me today

[gleaming fable]

I wish that there wasnt such a high concentration of people where I am.. I've seen four roe deer in 3 years.. and none red deer.

[amber brook]

i live in the middle of central europe

hirschfelden 2.0 🤣

[gleaming fable]

I'm also in Europe haha.

[amber brook]

Depends if you live in a city haha

[gleaming fable]

Edges of one, yeah. It's just bonkers expensive.

[amber brook]

Oo looks like swiss

im from the netherlands haha

[gleaming fable]

Austria, so.. Not too far haha!

[void trench]

Frickin' gorgeous

One day I'll get around to backpacking that area.

[uneven nova]

Tallest hill in estonia is only 330m above sea level @gleaming fable

Fairly flat country

[amber brook]

I am currently 5 meter below

Sea level

🤣

[uneven nova]

Lmfao

Netherlands lemme guess

[amber brook]

Indeed ahha

[small spruce]

BACON!!!!!

[slender terrace]

Honker of a chonker

[slender terrace]

Them are beef nuggets

[amber brook]

Coulndt get a nice pic

From the little ones

[slender terrace]

Oh he is cute

Shoot it

[upper dune]

I was about to say that 😂

[slender terrace]

00 buck

[low plinth]

could do it with a .22

magnum

[slender terrace]

Could do it with a slingshot tbh

They are tiny

[low plinth]

fr yeah

Although I watched a video of one florida man killing hogs with a .22

I was amazed

but I guess it's all about shot placement

[amber brook]

well its Florida

[slender terrace]

I’ve seen 15 or so piglets killed with one shot from a rifle

[low plinth]

these are cool wild boar tho

[amber brook]

Haha not allowed here

Unless you have a permot

Permit

[low plinth]

I didn't actually realize how big they are

[amber brook]

This is near my house, i take my camera with me if i go for a walk😄

[low plinth]

sick\

[slender terrace]

Tanerite go boom piggy go flop

[low plinth]

I don't have anywhere near me I can do that

[slender terrace]

That’s fair if they aren’t damaging let them be

[amber brook]

Also its a protected area

Even if you have a permit

Still not allowed haha

[slender terrace]

I see

[low plinth]

I want to live where you live

[low plinth]

where were these pics taken at? Germany?

[amber brook]

Me too

[amber brook]

Veluwe, Netherlands.

[low plinth]

moomins

[amber brook]

yes moomin

[low plinth]

ahhh okay

[amber brook]

But yeah quite close to germany

Hour drive

[low plinth]

THEY ARE MOOMINS! YES, THEY ARE THE MOOMINS!

theme song will forever be stuck in my head

[amber brook]

YES MOOMINS

[low plinth]

dang ok

[amber brook]

YES MOOMINS THE LEGENDS

[uneven nova]

Moomins were a part of my childhood ngl

[amber brook]

Me too

[slender terrace]

Wtf is a moomins or do I want to know

[low plinth]

maybe take this to off topic mah dudes B)

[low plinth]

it was a kids tv show from the 90s I think

[amber brook]

its a famous serie from finland

[low plinth]

It was quite good

theyre is an english dub on youtube

you can actually find the whole series on YT

[uneven nova]

It was in estonia aswell

Young me loved it

[amber brook]

damn i did not know that

[low plinth]

yeah

[gleaming fable]

Bruh same. I got my self imported

[low plinth]

what

how

[gleaming fable]

I married an Austrian

[amber brook]

nice

[low plinth]

Hmmm

I will have to find a Austrian woman to marry

[amber brook]

me too then

[low plinth]

or maybe an Estonian.....

Estonia is pretty cool

[uneven nova]

Im a dude buuut

C:

[amber brook]

Swedens also nice

[low plinth]

Yes. Lots of cool chicks out there.

[amber brook]

ofc

[uneven nova]

It is

So is finland

[amber brook]

yes

[uneven nova]

Man but when i visited finland

It was such a vibe in the summer

We were at a lake side campsite

And there was a sauna

So we could just run into the water after chilling in the sauna for a bit

[amber brook]

Sauna is nice

[low plinth]

never been to a sauna before

maybe one day

[amber brook]

it is very hot and nice

[uneven nova]

Its just a hot shower without the water

[gleaming fable]

Oh you mean Florida, midsummer?

🤢

[amber brook]

No he means Finland midsummer

[amber brook]

Central Europe does not touch Germany by any chance, its real point of appearance is in Belarus 😆

[gleaming fable]

the joke was Florida is 100% humidity and 34C in the summer

[amber brook]

ow haha

[amber brook]

very western europe then 😂

[amber brook]

ok i didnt get that my bad

[gleaming fable]

No no worries haha

[upbeat pebble]

Today was a concerning day

[uneven nova]

rip

there was a fire near my home

[upbeat pebble]

Beautiful 10 point Whitetail ran out infront of him and messed him up good

[uneven nova]

like 2 days ago

some flammamble material leaked out of a truck carrying it

[upbeat pebble]

no bueno

[uneven nova]

and something overheated and it set fire

[upbeat pebble]

I don't work with fires as much but mostly wrecks and hazardous material

I've been working hazmat for around 5 years now and I will admit it is much more rare to get a call nowadays than a few years back

I should prob not say this but me personally would have hit the thing

[slender terrace]

same though

my bumpers dented already

[small spruce]

I would to

In my eyes it's either me or the deer

[low plinth]

Just as important

[celest moat]

Long night/morning for me and many others. But we got it done with what we had.

[uneven nova]

You're a firefighter?

[gleaming fable]

Husbro took me to the garden center and I was limited to my hands for carrying space.

[void trench]

That's... actually a good rule. But also sounds terrible. 😂

[gleaming fable]

It.. really made me consider my options

I saw lots of tree types I want

But I settled for a hibiscus and what I think is a pothos

It's hella variegated

Currently trying to ID the TYPE of hibiscus because God forbid I bring home spicy plants and my idiot cat eats them

I think it's rosa-sinensis.. which is a Chinese hibiscus which is lightly non-tasty or not toxic

[void trench]

Good choices! I love hibiscus but am terrible at identifying plants by sight. Lol

It's a beauty though.

[gleaming fable]

Good news: the pothos should survive. Since it can somehow thrive in lowlight/dark rooms. BLESS. My little white leafed child can not be sunburned

[uneven nova]

i had 3 cactuses they all died of some infection

:C

[gleaming fable]

Oh no :C

[uneven nova]

Tyk is like a mom to this whole community

[gleaming fable]

😂

[uneven nova]

The Cotw Mom

i remember when someone thought my s21 was a actual Camera

[gleaming fable]

I mean,

they above and beyond are best cameras in phones I have seen

[uneven nova]

Samsungs do have some very nice cameras

The S23 Ultra is basically a camera built into a normal phone

Its a phone built into a camera

[gleaming fable]

I have the s22 Ultra

that#s what has posted every photo in here and in pets

of mine*

[uneven nova]

i have a s21 fe

fan edition sum

it had a 200$ discount so i had to get it

from 600 to 400$

[gleaming fable]

ooh

[uneven nova]

well

it mostly was a gift from my parents

since my gecko had just passed away and my old phones charging hole was fucked up

fairly sad since i lost my gecko and my lizard in a 6 month period :C

[gleaming fable]

Oh no :C Gecko too??

[uneven nova]

gecko passed away like 5 months ago last year

lizard this year

:C

u probably know what it would feel like

when u come home from school and see ur pet lying dead

doesnt feel very good :C

[gleaming fable]

Yeahhh... Last one that happened with I was at work and my aunt sent me the photo of my bird just laying in his cage

[uneven nova]

rip

but atleast i had my dog to cheer me up :C

[small spruce]

My dog yelped before he went into for ever land

Bout 5 years ago

It was a couple days before I was starting 5th grade

[celest moat]

I am, and I enjoy it a lot too.

[dense hamlet]

Mallard portrait.

[kind schooner]

dummy thicc male

[low plinth]

He's a biggen

[kind schooner]

yeepers

[snow sedge]

Question are you in Ohio cuz something idly similar happened there

[uneven nova]

No

Not even remotely close to USA

[snow sedge]

Oh

Well if you don’t know a train got derailed and spilt a bunch of chemicals and so they lit it on fire

[uneven nova]

U talking about the train that flipped in ohio?

Oh yeah that one

[snow sedge]

Yep

[uneven nova]

It was on that big here in estonia

A small field set on fire

But in ohio half the city burnt down

[snow sedge]

Did it oh well I’m getting flash backs to when the port hills were on fire now

Good times for New Zealand

[dense hamlet]

👀👀👀

[dense hamlet]

That sharp of a raw must turn out good after a bit of editing

[wispy ginkgo]

Bro

Just teach me

This is the only pic that I took that i really like

[oblique sinew]

its preaty good

i plan on building like a place to take pictures of animals at a place where there is tons of deer and pheasants and all kinds of birds but i dont realy have the time

[wispy ginkgo]

Wdym with “building”?

[oblique sinew]

like making

i have materials

[wispy ginkgo]

Yeah but u don’t have animals

[oblique sinew]

i dont own them

[wispy ginkgo]

Ohh like a spot where they can drink, rest…

?

[oblique sinew]

yes

[wispy ginkgo]

Okok cool

[oblique sinew]

and lika observatory nearby

[wispy ginkgo]

Wow

Where?

[oblique sinew]

like 50 m from my house

i hear a pheasant every 10 sec

[wispy ginkgo]

I mean what Country.

[oblique sinew]

bosnia

[wispy ginkgo]

Lucky u!

[oblique sinew]

dude theres like 5 deer there every morning

i go outside i see them looking at me

[wispy ginkgo]

Oh well, not really near my country lol

[oblique sinew]

also a red fox once came up to my house like realy close

[wispy ginkgo]

BRO U ARE SO LUCKY

[oblique sinew]

theres not a lot of hunter at my place

i mean there is they just dont hunt, they go to the lodge, make barbeque and drink

[wispy ginkgo]

I have 2 fricking houses and none of them is near the woods or near places where I can see wildlife

[oblique sinew]

bad thing is i dont know if im allowed to build it there

its not my property but the guy who owns it hasnt been there for like 15 yrs

his house is there also its like demolished by now

[wispy ginkgo]

Well fuck that and build it and send me all ur pics

[oblique sinew]

idrk when i will

[wispy ginkgo]

Also what lens do u use?

[wispy ginkgo]

?

Oh ok

[oblique sinew]

well....

[wispy ginkgo]

Nice pics man

[oblique sinew]

kind of a hard question

[slender terrace]

Not bad for an iPhone

[wispy ginkgo]

Why? 😂

[oblique sinew]

i dont use a camera, i use my phone

[wispy ginkgo]

iPhones u’re pretty good for macro pics

[slender terrace]

Yeah

[wispy ginkgo]

Bro

[oblique sinew]

idk i need to save up money for so much stuff

i could buy a camera tmr but idk

[wispy ginkgo]

Oh wait I thought u took the pic of the red fox lol

No but it’s fine to take pics with ur phone

[oblique sinew]

nah by the time i did grab my phone it ran off

it also had like realy damaged tail

almost no hair on it

[wispy ginkgo]

Same thing for the camera

[oblique sinew]

ill try to take a nice pic tmr morning to show u what it would look like

[wispy ginkgo]

👍

With my phone it took this pic, guess where I am 👀

[oblique sinew]

what continent just tell me that

if iits america then idk cause of the states

the building on the left looks like italy style for me

[wispy ginkgo]

In fact I’m in Italy 🇮🇹 👍💪

[oblique sinew]

ayy lets go

[wispy ginkgo]

Ur really good guessing countries

I’m in Bergamo, northern Italy

[oblique sinew]

idk, i tought of hungary since everything is so flat mostly but u said u werent close to bosnia

[wispy ginkgo]

Clever

[oblique sinew]

well, i guess ill see you tmr when i take the pic

bye

also at night if u have a clear vision try to catch some falling stars, they will appera from tonight to 30th april

and it will be lyrid meteor shower on night of 24th i think im not sure

[wispy ginkgo]

Yeah. Good night bro

[wispy ginkgo]

Really I didn’t know that

But where I live the sky is not clear, so it’s really hard to see everything

[oblique sinew]

on 20th april should be a full solar eclipse also

[wispy ginkgo]

Woooow

[oblique sinew]

yeah preaty rare

one in like 140 k

like 1 day in 140 tausand days

[wispy ginkgo]

Bro that’s rare than the GO 😂

Well, se ya tomorrow!

[dense hamlet]

Haha, you're doing well don't worry.

[low plinth]

Italy

Don't ask me where tho cause I ain't got no clue

I almost said California cause it kinda looks like it.

[wispy ginkgo]

It’s northern Italy, in particular Bergamo

[low plinth]

aaahh ok

[oblique sinew]

@wispy ginkgo Not the best but the weather is just aweful its so cold so i tried to hurry

[wispy ginkgo]

This is ur phone camera right? It’s not that bad

[oblique sinew]

it was better when the phone was new, its kinda like used in some way

[oblique sinew]

nice photos bro

[dense hamlet]

Thanks! Was lucky enough to have good light for once!

[gleaming fable]

Mannnn I love it.theyre so beautiful

[uneven nova]

three lvl 4s

maybe one is lvl 3

[slender terrace]

I am steal thing for my wallpaper

Wow that’s pro level grammar

I ain’t editing it either so cry about it

[gleaming fable]

Found a nest of blackbirds

[slender terrace]

Guys I found a MASSIVE crawfish

Promptly used it for bait

[dense hamlet]

Wow I need to put some watermark in there loool

[slender terrace]

yep imma sell them and make bank!!

[dense hamlet]

They aren't even good quality🥸

[slender terrace]

they are great

[uneven nova]

where did u take pictures of em

near ur home

or where

[slender terrace]

in their kitchen most likely

[uneven nova]

lul

[dense hamlet]

Like an hour drive

In the Netherlands

[uneven nova]

epic

[slender terrace]

nice

[low plinth]

Sweeeeet

We've had waxwings coming by. I hope they stay all summer and make a nest. They probably won't though.

I once got a pick of an oriental that came by.

[gleaming fable]

Ooh I love bohemian waxwings

I think the two birds I'll mist the most are common loons and Redwing blackbjrds

[dense hamlet]

Over here all birds on nests are protected so can't make any nest pictures.

[slender terrace]

You can’t take pictures?

Like I get not destroying them or something but no pictures seems overkill

[low plinth]

they're pretty great. We have about a dozen that come by everyday.

[gleaming fable]

I waited for quiet to even snap that photo

Bless the super telephoto lens haha

[dense hamlet]

😂❤️

[dense hamlet]

Can't come within a 100m range of a nesting bird.

[slender terrace]

What the fuck

That makes it illegal to walk in the woods

😂

[gleaming fable]

I think it's an intentional approach

[slender terrace]

Yeah I’d assume

[gleaming fable]

Or if it's a known nesting site, just avoid it

[dense hamlet]

Yeah

Lots of favorite areas to photograph roedeer are locked due to birds right now.

[slender terrace]

That’s just crazy to me idk why

Like what if you have a bird nest in you back yard can you not go in it?

[gleaming fable]

Might also specifically be related to species that are recovering or rare

I can't imagine anyone would give a fuck about a house sparrow/english house sparrow

[slender terrace]

Like I’m the US you have a similar rule for eagles but that’s it

I feel like it has to be just protected birds

[gleaming fable]

There's a farmer husbro was telling me about that can't harvest one of his main crops.... because a rare bird specie has come in and established it likes the crop and is nesting among it 🤣

[low plinth]

Hmmm

Poor farmer

but also yay for the bird?

[lapis jetty]

well, there's always the option to just relocate the birds, like seriously, i understand protecting rare/endangered species and all but why should anyone let tons of crops go to waste just because of one nest? 🤔

[gleaming fable]

It's not one nest.

It's a literal flock of them

And you go catch a flock of tiny birds 🤣

[lapis jetty]

well, relocation works in 2 ways, catch and release or scaring them off and in the case of an entire flock it would obviously be the latter 🤷‍♂️

[gleaming fable]

Yeah nah. They won't do any such thing here

Not with the bird specie being endangered

[dense hamlet]

You can also make new households on another location and they'll migrate to it.

[lapis jetty]

then i hope they at least compensate the farmer for the loss of income or heck, lost food for his cattle, depending on what kind of farmer he is

as in 1-1 coverage, not cutting anything

[low plinth]

I would imagine they would have compensated him.

[gleaming fable]

Presumably there was compensation

This is Austria, not America.

[lapis jetty]

well, i can only go by german standards since those are the only i know and over here basically all kinds of relief fundings are utterly trash, no matter if for cases as that or heck, even catastrophe relief, since the people that got struck by that flood in the ahr valley 2 years ago are still waiting to at least receive even close to 50% of the intended sum, heck, even 25% of the charity donations are still not handed over 😮‍💨

[wispy ginkgo]

What camera did u use?

[dense hamlet]

Sony RX10

[wispy ginkgo]

Lens?

[dense hamlet]

It has a build-in lens.

You can't switch it.

600mm

[lapis jetty]

60cm? now that sounds like one absurdly unwieldy cam 🤨

[dense hamlet]

Where did u get 60cm from?🥲

[lapis jetty]

that's what 600mm are

10mm = 1cm after all

[dense hamlet]

It's smaller

But it's a 600mm

No way that thing is 60cm

[true ferry]

1cm = 10mm

[lapis jetty]

well, no clue what that measurement refers to then but yea, metric goes in incements of 10, 600mm=60cm=6dm=0,6m

[dense hamlet]

Oo weird, it doesn't feel that big tho

[lapis jetty]

😅

[dense hamlet]

Might be because it's weight is only 1095gr.

[lapis jetty]

ok, that sounds really light for a cam of that size 😅

[dense hamlet]

Yeah it is, very small aswell

And easy to handle

[lapis jetty]

60cm isn't exactly what most would consider small tho 😏

[dense hamlet]

Only - is it isn't full frame so when you crop pictures you lose quality way faster.

[dense hamlet]

Depends on who you ask

[lapis jetty]

true, yea

[dense hamlet]

nice

[visual quest]

Thanks!

[wispy ginkgo]

Euro hare?

[visual quest]

Yes

[wispy ginkgo]

Where did u see it?

[visual quest]

Denmark

I saw quite a few hares on that walk actually. But only that one came close enough for a good picture.

[dense hamlet]

They're common over here too

[lapis jetty]

not sure if it's the same species or if their flocks are supposed to reach enormous numbers, but i remember seeing a huge flock of them while being on the train a few years ago right on the outskirts of a city, like 30-40 on one small patch of grass 😅

[cedar tendon]

Hares are solitary. You probably saw rabbits

[lapis jetty]

so the scrub hares in cotw aren't authentic then since they usually roam around in flocks of 4-8 🤔

[cedar tendon]

european hares in cotw are a bit of an insult. Don't know about the other lepos

[lapis jetty]

ah ok, well, i don't really know all that much about most of the species details, heck, i didn't even know there's an actual difference between hare and rabbit, i just thought it's mostly just 2 words for the exact same thing 😅

[gleaming fable]

Rabbits are overall rounder, softer shaped, shorter, and pudgier than hares

Hares also tend to walk places while rabbits are more prone to the hopping/bouncing we are accustomed to

[wintry tusk]

Chubby potato > hare

[lapis jetty]

big brain > small brain

at least by those photos xD

[gleaming fable]

Smooth brain > wrinkly brain 😏

[uneven nova]

Very nice

[dense hamlet]

Over here hares live together.

[cedar tendon]

Where's over there? 😄
European hares only tolerate the other sex in breeding times, and that's about it

[dense hamlet]

The Netherlands.

You always see them in flocks in the polder, all year around.

[lapis jetty]

yea, my sighting apparently wasn't completely uncommon either and was in south germany just no clue what species it actually was, but by the looks of it it was a hare since they weren't totally puffed 🤷‍♂️

[dense hamlet]

Looks like an European Hare.

Nice picture too!

[uneven nova]

@gleaming fable

[gleaming fable]

The mountain has eclipsed our sunset

also its rainy again

[uneven nova]

Estonian sunsets very beautiful

[uneven nova]

that fat fuck'

[lapis jetty]

please tell me that's an oil painting 😏

[low plinth]

so nice where at?

Wyoming?😏

[lapis jetty]

the picture quality is so bad it might as well pass as an oil painting 😜

oof

[hushed bough]

love your photos guys

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34758775@N03/3379803592/

[low plinth]

I mean can you get a bison pic tho

Noice

[eager flare]

Goose. prettiest photo ive gotten yet

[lapis jetty]

nope, but i can't exactly recognize the supposed bison either, going by the quality it very well could be a rock or some piled up rubble like at the front 🤔

[gleaming fable]

iight, we aren't here to punch people down about their photography. You don't have to love what is submitted, but you also don't need to yeet insults

We're here to enjoy photos of things from nature, to an in game screenshot the user really enjoyed, sports or whatever. We punch up, not down. Take a page from Thumper - 'If you can't say something nice, then don't say nothin at all.'

[shell trench]

What kind of goose is that?

[amber flicker]

Greylag maybe

[eager flare]

Grågås! i think thats called a '' greylag goose '' in english :)

[lapis jetty]

now that i think about that goose there, it looks like the ones my mom used to raise and that kept chasing me away from the chicken coop whenever i was ordered to collect the eggs 😅

that damned beast was definitely more agressive than any guard dog

[shell trench]

Greylegs are my favorite!!!

[upbeat pebble]

Last Night we responded to a church on fire

police got involved

fire investigator said it was arson

turns out it was an African-American Church and a group of teens (1 16yrs, 2 15yrs, and 1 14yrs) decided to light it up

what has this world come to

[amber flicker]

It's just sad.

[celest moat]

Good n hot, the fire I was on that morning, is being looked at as arson. What I know so far is the Owner's relative was supposedly seen prior to the fire moving the furniture out the house and cut out the newly placed carpet, loaded it into a rental truck and took it off somewhere. Due to the house being quite old made the possibility of fire detection systems were installed. Roughly 60 seconds when the call was dispatched one of our units was passing the street it was on heading to the station, and reported heavy flames pretty much across the whole street nearly to the house on the other side.

[low plinth]

burned hot

[upbeat pebble]

wow arson is getting out of hand

but this church burned HOT!

[sacred raft]

Male roe deer after swapping their coat from grey to warm brown

This male has yet to change and still has his velvet

[wispy ginkgo]

Lovely bucks!

[sacred raft]

thanks ❤️

[uneven nova]

Those pics beautiful @wispy ginkgo

[dense hamlet]

Love the mallard with the landscape.

[gleaming fable]

What are the 4th and 5th birds?

[dense hamlet]

Which are 4th and 5th for you?

@gleaming fable

[gleaming fable]

If the blackbird is one, and Egyptian goose is 2 -

[dense hamlet]

4 is pied flycatcher for me

[gleaming fable]

4th would be the black and white bird, and then the next one down is 5th

[dense hamlet]

And 5..

[gleaming fable]

I haven't seen either of those two here in austria (yet/before)

[dense hamlet]

5 is whinchat

Not to sure about that one

[gleaming fable]

Huh. I guess it's another in the fly catcher family

[dense hamlet]

?

[gleaming fable]

Was just reading about them

They used to be in the thrush family, but got reclassed to old world flycatchers

[uneven nova]

i dont understand anything but keep it up

[dense hamlet]

😂👍

Think it's a pied

[gleaming fable]

《- bird nerd

[gleaming fable]

I was meaning the whinchat, sorry

[dense hamlet]

<- Ecologist

[gleaming fable]

Nicee

[small spruce]

I kill birds

[uneven nova]

for me birds fly and make noises

[dense hamlet]

Yeah that's possible. Don't know about that one.

[gleaming fable]

Birds are friends for me haha

[uneven nova]

i still remember when my dad once was walking me to kindergarden and a bird shit on me and my dad

C:

[steady tusk]

Lightning cuthulu coming down to beat up my day

[uneven nova]

das epic

[wispy ginkgo]

Wait, I’m checking the English name

@gleaming fable 4th black nurse (but I’m not sure), 5th whinchat

[gleaming fable]

what is it in italian? the 4th one, I mean

also thank you~

[wispy ginkgo]

More or less

Cuz “balia” it’s a type of nurse

But “nurse” it’s “infermiera” in Italian

[gleaming fable]

Hmm

Okay thank you

[wispy ginkgo]

No problem

[uneven nova]

Nice

[uneven nova]

rate my ride

it fucking goes 338 kph

@twin gyro

it very fast

[twin gyro]

bro

thats not even a car

thats just a jacked up lawnmower

[uneven nova]

thats a go kart built around a engine

[amber flicker]

Mario Cart in real life

[uneven nova]

Beamng*

[lapis jetty]

umm yea, where yould you actually sit tho? 😅

[uneven nova]

on the block

[lapis jetty]

i see, someone likes roasted nuts xD

[uneven nova]

hell yea

[lapis jetty]

seems like someone told a joke the right one didn't like while the center and left ones are laughing their asses off 😏

definitely a nice shot tho 👍

[wispy ginkgo]

Bro where did u see them? Do u know that they are extinct in nature????

[gleaming fable]

What are they?

[amber brook]

yup i know! theres around 25 who live in "natuurpark lelystad" in the netherlands!

[wispy ginkgo]

Soooo lucky man!!

Are they called St David’s deer or something like that?

[amber brook]

Pere Davids Deer

[wispy ginkgo]

Ok Thx

[amber brook]

I believe there are around 1500 on the whole world right now

[gleaming fable]

Ohhh. I had no idea they looked like that

I've only read about them haha

But like reading about them does not do the animal justice

[wispy ginkgo]

Oh and do u know if they have velvet in their antlers throughout all the year?

[wispy ginkgo]

I think they are the rarest deer ever

[amber brook]

i have no clue haha, but i dont think they had it in the summer last year

[uneven nova]

Why the antlers look so fluffy lmao

[gleaming fable]

I didnt - but it makes sense. I recall reading something about they can grow two sets of antlers a year

[amber brook]

sadly discord makes the quality worse..

[wispy ginkgo]

Gorgeous!! 😍

[amber brook]

if you ever visit the netherlands its definitly worth a visit, theres also moose and european bison ( wisent )

the wisent is also extinct in the wild

[lament ravine]

Cant you still hunt them?

[empty orchid]

'

[small spruce]

Can you sboot them

[wispy ginkgo]

I would like to visit them

[gleaming fable]

@small spruce it looks like there are reserves that offer them as hunts for sale to the tune of 6k+ in Texas

But they are extinct in the wild according to this one site, so, going to China to hunt them is unlikely

But, paying for one in Texas is doable

[slender terrace]

yay! pay to shoot whats basically a farm animal!

just kidding you do you

[gleaming fable]

Eh, they asked. I googled.

Pere David are no longer native to their home range, so farmed hunting is pretty much the only way you could get one of them as a trophy

[slender terrace]

yeah i really have no problem with it

just dont claim it was a wild one

same for any fenced pay to hunt type thing

[amber brook]

This is a protective area

Not allowed to hunt anything

[uneven nova]

@gleaming fable

Very epic

Got the Swedish cup aswell

[slender terrace]

Looks fire

[uneven nova]

Indeed

[slender terrace]

you ever put the sandwich in a waffle iron to cook it?

idk why but that makes them wayyyy good

with mayo on the outside

[lapis jetty]

why would you put mayo on the outside and make a mess of everything tho? O_o

[slender terrace]

do it before you cook it

trust me

its life changing

better than butter

[lapis jetty]

on the inside, yea, but def not the outside, that would only result in making a huge mess out of everything

[slender terrace]

ive never had a mess while doing it

put it on one side then put that side on the cooking device and the add some to the other side before you flip it

easy as that

[lapis jetty]

yea and that way mayo get's on the heated surfaces making a mess

[slender terrace]

cooks off just like butter

[lapis jetty]

put it on the inside and you won't have any of that

[slender terrace]

basically just replace butter with with mayo

pleasae tell me u cook them in butter?

[lapis jetty]

except that mayo isn't more or less just fat like butter, it's egg and oil so definitely leaves a nasty residue

[slender terrace]

sir

im sorry you grilled cheese will never reach god tier

[lapis jetty]

lol

[slender terrace]

because your scared to wash a pan

[lapis jetty]

i'm simply for efficient cooking, including the aftermath in the equation

[true ferry]

#🦝︴off-topic

[slender terrace]

sorry

[slender terrace]

Purty

[gleaming fable]

Theeeenks
This is from the day husbro limited me to what I could carry in my arms

I didn't expect it to throw blooms so quickly haha

[slender terrace]

I’ve never seen one that small with flowers on it

[low plinth]

our tulips are getting ready to bloom. Already got big ass buds on them.

[slender terrace]

Send pics when they do

[low plinth]

I will

[gleaming fable]

If you check pets channel, you can see the monster tulips behind keeonah

[gleaming fable]

Same! It's from the company hibisqs, if you wanna look them up

I think they bred them for long blooms from what I read

But also I've never seen a double headed bloom, and that's what made me initially interested. I thought it was a one off, but these two also have the excess petals

[low plinth]

Hella sick

Looks just like a scene from the show

[upper dune]

Thanks!

[hushed bough]

Circus aeruginosus

great photos

where you live¿

[wispy ginkgo]

Nord Italy 🇮🇹

[hushed bough]

Nice bro

[wispy ginkgo]

Thanks

[amber flicker]

My family also originates from italy

Well. My dad's side.

Como Italy.

[wispy ginkgo]

Como? It’s near where i live!

[amber flicker]

Nice. But yeah. On my dad's side my great great grandfather or something was from como. Not only is some of my family history there but also the origin of my last name.

My last name is Bettiga.

[wispy ginkgo]

Nice man. I’ve never met someone not completely Italian with Italian origins

[amber flicker]

Oh. I'm not completely Italian but a decent percentage. I'm also part English and part Czech or Eastern European.

[wispy ginkgo]

Multiethnic 😂

[amber flicker]

Yeah

[eager flare]

bird :) tooook this the 6th march this year, sad news tho i think one of our cats ate it here yesterday or atleast its long lost family member 💀

[sacred heron]

Just shoot them

[wispy ginkgo]

What lens and what luminosity did u use?

[eager flare]

(canon) ef 75-300mm f/4-5.6 iii lens, and i have messed with settings alot since then, but now its abt 4 (or +2) if you mean it like that-

[wispy ginkgo]

Wow nice

[uneven nova]

nice

[frosty steppe]

Puppies 🥹

[swift nebula]

I'm so good 🙃

So good I Shot it in the arm and counted as a brain shot

[amber flicker]

Bruh

[gleaming fable]

Found this Uggo when we were almost home

hideous... but I love that blue.

[wintry tusk]

What kind of bug is that

[lapis jetty]

a smexy posing one 😏

[gleaming fable]

No idea but it's horrifying

It like full was turning its head to watch me

[dense hamlet]

Black oil beetle?

[digital finch]

blue oil beetle i would say

[dense hamlet]

You're probably right, we don't have them around here.😆

[frosty steppe]

I thought the same 🤣

[amber flicker]

Irl great one peacock

[dusky oar]

I took this pic when i was at the city zoo Bratislava and this was one of there newer exibits

[gleaming fable]

Peafowl are so pretty

[steady tusk]

Texas had a storm and the after math is beautiful

[hushed bough]

Transylvania?

[gleaming fable]

More uglybeetles

I think I saw like ten total

[gleaming fable]

And in doing some reading - I guess they secret a toxin and even a small ingested amount can cause death in a human.

Wtf lil bug.

[twin bramble]

massachusetts

[wintry tusk]

Might wanna keep your distance

Lol

[gleaming fable]

I do, but I gotta walk the dog all the time. She gets minimum 3 walks a day

And as many as she wants when the weathers good

Gotta keep my eyes peeled so that she doesn't eat one

Because you know. She would.

[wintry tusk]

Wow. What breed?