The Nature Photography Thread

[ConcinusMan]

Well they are around here, I swear to you. At least in summer they are. Sure, they eat seeds and whatnot in the off-season but their nests and surrounding area is full of grasshopper legs and other insect debris. When insects are in season, they eat nothing else.

I know wiki says they (North American voles) eat fir needles and other things, and make no mention of insects, but it's true.

[infernalis]

Richard, Please do not take wiki anything as gospel. Anyone can type anything, and anyone else can edit.

Taken from a REAL web site...... I did notice insects are included, but the preferred food is vegetation, roots and bulbs.

Now I have witnessed mice eating pinks, but one simply cannot say that mice consume their own young as a primary food source.

I have often wondered that during a harsh winter, if mice would not consume their own offspring to survive, chances are they would, Heck I would bet it most likely, because if the parents starve off over the winter, then they cannot reproduce in the spring, so survival over long term means they most likely will eat the litters to stay alive.

DIET

The vole's diet consists of seeds, tubers, tree needles, bark, various green vegetation such as grass and clover, and insects. Voles prefer not to feed in the open.

Voles require dense grass cover and prefer to live outside in fields. They are very poor climbers and have difficulty reaching upper floors of buildings

Voles are very destructive to gardens and will gnaw the bark of fruit trees. They can also cause damage to tree roots, which may eventually kill the trees.

[guidofatherof5]

While doing a snake rescue/removal I was looking through a wood pile. I found half a dozen of these big slugs.
I believe they are Leopard slugs(Limax maximus)

[ConcinusMan]

Maybe they are. I never speculated on the species but I can tell you I have quite a variety of slugs here in my yard or surrounding areas. A few are yellow, a few are darn near black but the biggest ones I find look just like that one. In fact, I have a little checkered T. ordinoides and his head is half the width of that slug you got there. He devoured one that big today, in spite of his size!

[Hollis_Steed]

Baby Great Horned Owl found in early June. Baby Skunk met me on the trail yesterday. Young Great Basin Gopher Snake found sunning on the side of the road yesterday. Isn't nature grand!

[ConcinusMan]

Awesome! Skunks are so cute. Never saw one in person until I moved to downtown Reno, Nevada. Every night, believe it or not, skunks run the streets. Every spring and summer, Canada geese take over downtown with their chicks. They block traffic, keep the grass short in the parks, and cover everything in poo. That's something they don't put it the tourist brochure.

[infernalis]

Awesome! Skunks are so cute. Never saw one in person until I moved to downtown Reno, Nevada. Every night, believe it or not, skunks run the streets. Every spring and summer, Canada geese take over downtown with their chicks. They block traffic, keep the grass short in the parks, and cover everything in poo. That's something they don't put it the tourist brochure.

Kinda look like a black possum with a white stripe to me.

[ConcinusMan]

Not even close

[ConcinusMan]

Old camera still had pics on it. Native wildflowers near my home.

Cascade Daisies:



Lupin:



Good T.ordinoides spot around the blackberry thickets in SW WA, Mt. Hood (Oregon) in the distance.

[infernalis]

Not even close

Picking on you bub.

Old camera still had pics on it. Native wildflowers near my home.


Good T.ordinoides spot around the blackberry thickets in SW WA, Mt. Hood (Oregon) in the distance.

Absolutely stunning!!!