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Marty’s photo of the day #5154: Yesterday, large flocks of migrating Clark’s nutcrackers and evening grosbeaks passed through the Essen Wildlife Refuge. The birds picked at pinecones for a while. Then, when a larger bird circled above, they vanished into the trees. This is a Clark’s nutcracker.
Marty’s photo of the day #5153: This colorful beauty is a giant clam, photographed last year in the Raja Ampat of New Guinea.
Marty’s photo of the day #5152: Juvenile gentoo penguins playing follow-the-leader on a tiny island off the coast of Antarctica.
Marty’s photo of the day #5151: Bird’s-eye view: blue-footed booby. (Photographed in the Galapagos Islands.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5150: Water art. If you look closely, you’ll see the tip of an American coot tail, as it dives for a meal.
Marty’s photo of the day #5149: This is an eleven-foot-long African rock python, photographed in Zimbabwe. Isn’t she a beauty?
Marty’s photo of the day #5148: When Deb and I explored Bonaire, we hiked to a magical little waterhole. There we sat as the birds and lizards came to us. This night heron was one of the visitors.
Marty’s photo of the day #5147: I shot this photo while snorkeling in a tiny lake filled with stingless jellyfish. In the ocean, stings from this species of jellyfish pack a wallop, but in the lake, where they are cut off from predators, they’ve lost their ability to sting. Swimming with them was so much […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5146: Whale sharks are the world’s largest fish. They can reach sixty feet in length, and their mouths can be five feet wide. Last year, Deb and I swam with four whale sharks of various sizes in the Raja Ampat of New Guinea. We even got a few unintended whale […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5145: This is a blue-chin parrotfish accompanied by razor surgeonfish (left) and black striped salema (right). (Photographed in the Galapagos Islands.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5144: I haven’t posted any photos from Europe for a while, so here’s a pretty passage between an ancient church and its cemetery, in the tiny village of Lesponne, France.
Marty’s photo of the day #5143: Galapagos penguins are the rarest penguins in the world (less than 2,000 exist). They are also only penguin species that lives in the tropics and north of the equator. To survive high temperatures, they have less fat/feathers, bare skin patches on their faces/feet, and they can pant like dogs. […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5142: Excited California sea lions, rushing into the water to greet their new swim partners. (Photographed in the Sea of Cortez.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5141: You are looking at a Christmas tree marine iguana (also known as Española marine iguana). These lizards are a subspecies found only on Española island. While most marine iguanas are black to absorb sun heat, the males on Española turn brilliant red and green to attract mates—an adaption believed […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5139: Because of all the extremely tall trees and the way Deb’s and my house sits on a ridge, we get great wildlife viewing, but not so great sunset viewing. I shot this photo using a 400mm lens to pierce through a small break in the trees on the ridge […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5138: Antlion larvae hide at the bottom of hundreds of sandy ant traps on the Essen Wildlife Refuge. Later, when those larvae become adults, they resemble a damselfly, and their diet changes from ants to pollen and nectar. Yesterday, I watched this adult land on a branch no wider than […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5135: These are short-billed dowitchers. (Photographed on Vancouver Island.)
