Nature close up, What did you see out there? Options

[Denise]

Too funny Woody, but you do make a good point.

Strange watching it "clean its face" ! Amazing how big its head was, and how far it could twist it around while cleaning.

It was fascinating, I would really love to know what it was.

[swizz]

I stumbled upon this while on a fishing adventure in Southern Colorado.

This is only a portion of the complete jawbone (showing 1/2 of the lower still attached to 1/4 of the upper jaw) and is roughly 9" long.
The longer teeth shown are 1/2" in length and about 1/8" diameter.

If living... my hand and wrist could probably fit in it's mouth and difficult to remove (ouch if that ever happened ).

Any guesses?

Hint: I did not post this on the Fossil forum. It's an existing toothy predator.

[Denise]

Cool find Chris, but scary! More reasons Carl doesn't dredge.
My guess would be a big tiger muskie. That or a pike, but Im more thinking muskie.

[swizz]

That or a pike

BING!
Pike it is... from the shores of Spinney. And I'm thinking it was a large one.

[Denise]

Very cool, and thanks for the heads up! I will make sure I don't dip my toes too long in the shores of Spinney next time i'm there.

I haven't been able to get out as much this year yet, but I sure have been seeing some strange things around our place.
Here is a cool little lizard that surprised me in the garden....Or was it me that surprised it? It looked like a snake, but moved like lightning and had legs. This was the best picture I could get of it hiding. I didn't want to harass it, so I took the picture and left it alone. Poor things was breathing like it had ran a marathon from my scare. I just wish I had gotten a better look at it to see what kind it was.

[SandAway]

I have tons of photos I could share, but since flowers seems to be a good theme:

[Denise]

Beautiful Columbine pictures SandAway! Not alot of wildflowers where I am now, so Im always happy to see them in the forum, thanks. Bugs I do get to see, and alot of them!



Ahhh, love is in the air.......... Robber fly style. Beats seeing them eating other bugs right?

[Denise]

CP has been so busy lately that he hasn't had alot of time to post in the forums, but he's still enjoying seeing the little things nature has to offer when he's out working. Cool shot Dan, very pretty moth!!

[swizz]

wow! Both excellent and interesting macro pics.
The Robber Fly pic should be named Creepshow Erotica!
Seriously though, both pics are nearly textbook quality, nice work!

[Coalbunny]

I have tons of photos I could share, but since flowers seems to be a good theme:

I try to do similar shots, but my camera, a Nikon CoolPix L19, either doesn't have that capability or I havn't figured it out yet.
Besides, I end up using a tripod if I want good pics, I usually shake too much as it is.

[Woody]

Here is a critter that I found Friday Evening. It was on a Bradley Tank that I took out of the Motorpool to work on. I don’t recall ever seeing one this shade of brown, but it does match the color of the Bradley, Sand Brown. It’s one of the largest I have seen as well. I took it home and let it go in my backyard. I figure it will find more to eat there then in a Motorpool. Woody.

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[kmontoya911]

Here is a shot of a moose in the Northern part of the state, near Crystal lakes.
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[Coalbunny]

Here's a pic of flowers in front of a local bank. I've been having a hard time with these shots, and so Ben, a professional phtographer, gave me about 15-20 minutes of lessons. Thanks Ben!

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[CP]

wow! Both excellent and interesting macro pics.
The Robber Fly pic should be named Creepshow Erotica!
Seriously though, both pics are nearly textbook quality, nice work!

Thanks Swizz, somedays I just get lucky with a great photo op and just can't resist......the moth just happened to be there and I had the camera with me that day....lucky! Had to take several to be sure one would be in focus, it was about 7.5 ft in the air so tripod was out of the question nor did I have one with me anyway.
Sure do like the contrast of colors with the brown log backing. The next day there were double that many in the clutch and another clutch of similar size she laid under the bottom side as well. Now all the eggs have darkened to a brown nearly irridescent color.

Keep practicing Coalbunny, that one looks pretty good for an evening shot....hard lighting at that time to work around.
I'll bet you can get some great shots close up soon too. At least with a digital format you don't have to waste the film processing fees to find out how many duds one takes during field shots.


Great pics everyone, keep up the good work.

CP

[Denise]

Here is a cool tiny baby lizard (horney toad lizard?) that was only a little over an inch long, tail included. Hard to tell by the photo, but it has a black ant in it's mouth.

Never saw one this small before!!