Beautiful Animals

Letty, Cuckoos don't steal eggs from nests. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the eggs hatch, the larger cuckoos push out the natural offspring of the parent birds and get fed and raised by adoptive parents who aren't sure why their baby is so big and doesn't look a thing like them.

A bear watches LA city rescue workers as they try to get him out of a tree. The bear was shot with a tranquiliser dart and suffered no injuries. It will be taken back up into mountains above Porter Ranch before being released back into the wild
Photograph: KPA/Zuma /Rex Features

I remember driving yet again through the forest and seeing cubs tumbling, rollicking, down a hill from the corner of my eye.

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Hey Boida - look who came to visit...
















(hey Tsar - I believe the singing boid was a female chaffinch) )

Love all those photo's, y'all.

Roberta, when Francis labeled his bird, "...thief..." I thought that the bird was stealing eggs from another's nest. Thanks for the clarification. Now I know where I got the idea. It was from the movie Divorce Italian Style.

A remarkable bird is the pelican,
whose bill can hold more than his belly can.

He can hold in his beak,
Enough food for a week,

But what I don't know's
How the hell he can.

Our state bird is being drenched in tar on Pensacola Beach.



Iz, are those dragonflies? I always referred to them as having stained glass wings.

That's a helleva camera, Izzie!

Oooooooooooh!

hey there beautiful animals folks

yep Letty - dragonflies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad-bodied_Chaser

there was a boy and girl - I think that's the first time I've seen the female!

They're quite small compared to the big dragonflies (which I haven't seen this year yet) - I'm hoping they will come by to visit too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrogomphus

Have lots of damselflies too in teal blue-green and reds - they don't sit still for very long at all and are teeny thin so difficult to focus on



(love a dragonfly - have a stained glass front door with blue dragonflies on).

<waves to Lil'K and Thomas >

That looks more like what I thought a head louse looks like (I've looked at one under a low-power microscope.

Dragon flies are perfect Art Deco insects! Tres magnifique!!

Glad the bear got out of the tree unharmed. Can't say the same for the orange.

Pelicans are amazing birds, Letty. Big, strong, great flyers, great swimmers. And they come with their own storage space.

The dragonfly photos are gorgeous, Izzie. Gorgeous. Their wings are breathtaking.

Damselfly:

The bug in the blue dress is quite beguling.

This line of clothing comes in a variety of come-hither colors:



Dese bugs is gawgeous!

Serval:

Black-footed cat (very small wild cat of southern Africa):

Wow! That wild cat looks a bit like my calico cat that we named Big Mamma. Better keep it away from this pug.



My next door neighbor calls his BeeBee.

Love dem pugs, Letty. There used to be one down the hall from me. Tres cute and friendly. At one time there were six dogs living on this floor. Now we're reduced to a mere three.

That's got to be the most adorable cat ever to grace this universe.

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