Post your yard and pond visitors

[brokensword]

My bog visitor last night, at first thought it was the fox, but nope some cat.

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Purrrrfect @addy1 , now any 'catastrophy' in your pond, you can 'scratch, off foxes as the culprit! Heh heh! Especially if any of them gets a fever!

 

[Burd]

Lebanese food night at the pond , lol
they took the alum tray too lol.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

@JBtheExplorer is the red true color? Mine seem to be MUCH darker, more scarlet/more purple than the color I see In yours. Different varieties?

Yes, it is the true color. Would like to see a photo of yours. Maybe you have some kind of variety?

 

[brokensword]

JB; Attached is MY cardinal. Now, as a photographer you're already aware of how red is one of the harder colors to get right via the camera and it's lens. Even when I had film and I took in my orchid pics to a lab, THEY had to guess what the red looked like, without having seen the scene and taken the pic. They seldom got it right. I've routinely had to decrease (slider toward white) the red channel to get the color my eyes sees. Typically, there's more blue than what the photo editor is showing.

The pics below have been processed that way as straight from the camera, they were indeed too red. NOT the red I'm seeing in your pics, either, but redder than IRL. That's why I asked if the pic I'm seeing on my monitor is the same color red YOU saw when you took the pic.

If you would, could you sample the flower petals and tell me the HSB or RGB or Pantone hex color number you get from YOUR pic? I'd like to see how far off my monitor/my pic is from yours. What I see in this post and on my monitor is true to real life.

Anyway, here they are;

 

[addy1]

Purrrrfect @addy1 , now any 'catastrophy' in your pond, you can 'scratch, off foxes as the culprit! Heh heh! Especially if any of them gets a fever!

I was thinking the fox, but when it turned its face it was a cat. Very long haired cat.

All of the snakes are gone, biggy we found the skeleton, the two smaller have not had sightings in a few weeks. Could be missing them, but I usually saw them every other day or so.

 

[brokensword]

I was thinking the fox, but when it turned its face it was a cat. Very long haired cat.

All of the snakes are gone, biggy we found the skeleton, the two smaller have not had sightings in a few weeks. Could be missing them, but I usually saw them every other day or so.

Sorry for losing 'biggie' but I'm not fond of snakes, esp near my frogs and fish. I'm sure you'll eventually get Biggie2 soon enough!

 

[Marck]

Preying mantis. I think this is the European mantis (Mantis religiosa), an introduced species in California. As you can see, it's a wingless immature (nymph), only about an inch long.

 

[addy1]

Sorry for losing 'biggie' but I'm not fond of snakes, esp near my frogs and fish. I'm sure you'll eventually get Biggie2 soon enough!

It was sort of fun seeing biggy, even the other two, but just as much fun not seeing them.

 

[j.w]

I 2nd the last part @addy1

 

[JBtheExplorer]

JB; Attached is MY cardinal. Now, as a photographer you're already aware of how red is one of the harder colors to get right via the camera and it's lens. Even when I had film and I took in my orchid pics to a lab, THEY had to guess what the red looked like, without having seen the scene and taken the pic. They seldom got it right. I've routinely had to decrease (slider toward white) the red channel to get the color my eyes sees. Typically, there's more blue than what the photo editor is showing.

The pics below have been processed that way as straight from the camera, they were indeed too red. NOT the red I'm seeing in your pics, either, but redder than IRL. That's why I asked if the pic I'm seeing on my monitor is the same color red YOU saw when you took the pic.

If you would, could you sample the flower petals and tell me the HSB or RGB or Pantone hex color number you get from YOUR pic? I'd like to see how far off my monitor/my pic is from yours. What I see in this post and on my monitor is true to real life.

Anyway, here they are;

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The flower shape looks like it's a mix between Great Blue Lobelia and Cardinal flower. I wonder if it's a hybrid of both, or some other great blue lobelia cultivar/hybrid that was sold as Cardinal flower.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Hummingbird today visiting Royal Catchfly.

 

[Burd]

katy

 

[JBtheExplorer]

A crab spider.

Quite a few monarchs today!

 

[Burd]

Love that spider. Never saw one of those.

 

[brokensword]

A crab spider.
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Quite a few monarchs today!
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the spider looks like something out of a sci-fi movie.