lemonjelly Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Interesting photo , well not the subject really but the image from crop , this is taken with the ED60 Mzuiko , and although not in great focus shows great IQ IMO . and crop Looks like some sort of fly impersonating a bee, similar to a hover fly 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goompa Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Maybe , I was not sure of the subject although it did seem to " hover " upon inspection . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sometime Posted May 9, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 9, 2015 Update on the caterpillar, it’s not pollinating the plant its eating the buds, so less for the little bees. So should they go? 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sunshine51 Posted May 9, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 9, 2015 (edited) Yesterday I posted the Traveling bees on their hive/nest. This morning I went to have a look & found this.... They buzzed off somewhere & the ants were having fun with the leftover honey, royal jelly & wax. While I was pondering where the bees may have flown off to, I heard a bird vocalise a call that sounded like...WoooOOOT....long pause then ....WoooOOOT. Seriously, that's what the call sounded like, so I strolled in the direction of the sound...about 30 meters towards our curry leaf tree (Murraya koenigii) and saw a medium size many coloured bird fly away. I looked up into the tree and saw this.... Most likely the same bees I suspect. This time their hive/nest lays directly East-West, the wide flat bits, while the thin edges lay North to South. When they were in the wild fig tree their nest laid in an NE-SW direction for the wide bits. Hmmmmm...perhaps the Queen wasn't satisfied with the initial lay out? Hive not getting warm enough? Beats me...I don't speak bee at all. No groovy video today y'all....couldn't find anything that fit quick enough. Edited May 9, 2015 by sunshine51 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Robby nz Posted May 9, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 9, 2015 Peacock Pansy. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post samuijimmy Posted May 9, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 9, 2015 Friendly little guy! ...he hung around for quite a while! 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mousehound Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Interesting photo , well not the subject really but the image from crop , this is taken with the ED60 Mzuiko , and although not in great focus shows great IQ IMO . and crop Looks like some sort of fly impersonating a bee, similar to a hover fly It is as you suggest, a Hover Fly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mousehound Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Update on the caterpillar, it’s not pollinating the plant its eating the buds, so less for the little bees. So should they go? P1050372.jpg P1050420a.jpg I was referring to the adult pollinating the plant. it would be interesting to take a couple of these and rear them in a box to see what they hatch into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sometime Posted May 10, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 10, 2015 This tiny? I will call him ET, head size 3mm 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goshawk Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 While I was pondering where the bees may have flown off to, I heard a bird vocalise a call that sounded like...WoooOOOT....long pause then ....WoooOOOT. Seriously, that's what the call sounded like, so I strolled in the direction of the sound...about 30 meters towards our curry leaf tree (Murraya koenigii) and saw a medium size many coloured bird fly away. you do realise you got me saying that call out aloud to myself...? sat here in front of the screen sounding like a complete turkey (or something, lucky nobody's here) racking my brains for some glimmer of hope . . ! nada ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine51 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 GH....You are not alone with this dilemma. The missus was out doing town stuff while I was shooting the bees. When she returned I was vocalising the birds call to the dogs, who btw, must have thought their main human just flipped out by the looks they gave me. Rin asks me what was that sound so I vocalised it for her after explaining the fleeting glimpse of the bird it comes from. She had me doing it for many minutes then I cought on to her prank. It was a good giggle to say the least. She has absolutely no idea what bird it comes from either. The colours I made out in that fleeting fly away were red, yellow, a greenish-blue and black brown for the underside. It's appears to be about the size of a pidgeon & has a normal looking beak. This was the first time I have "seen" it and have only heard it around 5 or 6 times in the time we've been living here. If any help the vocalisation is about half as loud as a Koel and like the Koel...this birds noise carries a long way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiddlesticks Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 GH....You are not alone with this dilemma. The missus was out doing town stuff while I was shooting the bees. When she returned I was vocalising the birds call to the dogs, who btw, must have thought their main human just flipped out by the looks they gave me. Rin asks me what was that sound so I vocalised it for her after explaining the fleeting glimpse of the bird it comes from. She had me doing it for many minutes then I cought on to her prank. It was a good giggle to say the least. She has absolutely no idea what bird it comes from either. The colours I made out in that fleeting fly away were red, yellow, a greenish-blue and black brown for the underside. It's appears to be about the size of a pidgeon & has a normal looking beak. This was the first time I have "seen" it and have only heard it around 5 or 6 times in the time we've been living here. If any help the vocalisation is about half as loud as a Koel and like the Koel...this birds noise carries a long way. Sounds like you are describing a coo coo. But I have no idea what the bird is you are talking about! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goshawk Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 @ SS . . . vocalising the birds' call to the dogs is fine . . . doing the flappy flying away actions to them for more clues isn't (hope you didn't stray that far) not a clue mate . . far too late in the drink morning for me to even blurt out Barbet, so i won't bother . . . (hiccup) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine51 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 (edited) It's ironic that the Koel makes a similar vocalisation to this mystery bird. One of the Koel's vocalisations sounds exactly like it's name...Ko El... short pause...Ko El...short pause again...Ko El...accent on the El bit, and repeats ad nauseum until it decides to make anouther sound of which the Koel has a fair amount of. The WooOOT...long pause...WooOOT...repeat pause...WooOOT bird also places the accent on the OOT bit at the end...maybe an octave increase? That end bit is a bit louder than the leading Woo is. Anyway...I'm gonna try to save our butts here lads by mentioning we should not vocalise these calls out loud in the presence of wives. GF,s and the general public lest we get committed to the local looney bin. Then again...it is Sunday...WooOOT......WooOOT! Edited May 10, 2015 by sunshine51 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine51 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 @ GH...I did vocalise & the mutts thought it was neat...I guess. But no...I swear I didn't go as far as to flap me arms about in a flying motion. They most likely, may have, run for the forest had I done that....Freakin human's gone whacko...we're outta here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goshawk Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 It's ironic that the Koel makes a similar vocalisation to this mystery bird. One of the Koel's vocalisations sounds exactly like it's name...Ko El... short pause...Ko El...short pause again...Ko El...accent on the El bit, haha . . . it's no irony & no coincidence SS, it's onomatopoeic . . . much like the cuckoo is named as it is, or the hoopoe, or the whip-poor-will etc . . your disyllabic bird probably is a Barbet . . . there's many in Thailand though, and a few sound very similar . . . and are coloured & sized as you describe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine51 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 @ GH...^^^ Thanks for that info. The bird doesn't come around that often, however in the past week since I returned from Nepal it has been in our vicinity 3 times from the distinctive call it makes. It seems to have a fairly large fight or flight bubble though because I can never get close enough to actually see the thing in a tree, let alone point a lens at it. When it flew outta the curry leaf tree this was the first time I had ever seen it and like I mentioned...it shot away in a blur...a very fast blur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goshawk Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 ^ i don't understand . . . you say you have all this great birders dream tele glass & D810's etc . . but you can't even nail a bird in your own garden? with that lot, you should be the best bird togger on this forum bar none! whats going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine51 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 (edited) GH...I've never been into birds. Wars & disasters were my main thing. That said...these days I only occasionally do a war & a disaster when called to do em...if the job interests me. Shooting wildlife, the four legged kind was also somehing I did plenty of in between wars. disasters & current events. I just never really got into birds; until recently that is. So I'm new to this genre. Plus I have heaps of respect for the photogs who go out & spend hours & days in a hide or elsewhere just to get that one shot or perhaps a few shots that depict whatever bird(s) they set out to capture in excellent form. Also...I have no real patience with birds...and never have. Edited May 10, 2015 by sunshine51 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goshawk Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 ^ ok . . i'll buy that, but after decades as a pro then you should instinctively know how to shoot anything . . . especially fast moving objects. Show us your work ! (it must be vast) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine51 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 ^^^ GH...Patience is a virtue. One day I will, you can bank on that. However...being a pro doesn't mean said pro can shoot any subject and the pix will look great. We each have our genre's where we excell. Other genre's may or may not work well for us. Birding is a fine example. I know of no birder who has ever done war photography personally. That's not saying there isn't some out there. Take street photography...wonderful genre if you're into it as I am and really...a war photographer is really a street photographer in a war zone. Some get addicted to it, many others don't. One of the best streeters IMO is Joel Myerowitz, he's been around for decades also. But he's not a birder...unless the bird is in a skirt perhaps. We have strayed way OT IMO....wars may be a natural phenomena of man but that's not the case for this thread on Nature is it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mousehound Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 This tiny? I will call him ET, head size 3mm P1050456_cr.jpg P1050473.jpg I believe that these look like pics of a "Crab Spider" They are small and hide in the flower of say a rose. They are the colour of the flower and the markings, if any, replicate the stamens. Their bite can be quite toxic but most are too small to be a problem for humans. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Goompa Posted May 11, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 11, 2015 A shot of the back end of a Fly that imitates a bee , I don't know the name of this one , and it would not let me get a front on shot either ! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Fiddlesticks Posted May 11, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 11, 2015 A shot of the back end of a Fly that imitates a bee , I don't know the name of this one , and it would not let me get a front on shot either ! Not a bumble bee but rather a bee bum! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goompa Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Thanks , maybe that's what it is ... a Bumble Bee . I thought it was a Big old Horse fly kind of thing . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Dragonfly. 1200mm, F/6.5 Dragonfly by Pekka Oilinki, on Flickr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goompa Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Nice colours Oilinki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Goompa Posted May 12, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 12, 2015 This is my Dragonfly attempt today , ED60mm - EM10 - focal distance 25mm - f5.6 - 1/500 -iso 200 Resplendent in Green 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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