SHOW us YOUR PIX here .... Odd, WeiRd ,UnUSuAl or EyE CaTchIng things from your rides

[Jeremy McCreary]

I know they are Robins eggs but why in the world are they bright blue when poor mama robin is trying to hide them from assorted predators?

Wild speculation department: Some wild bird eggs have identifying patterns visible only in the near-UV, which some birds see quite well. These patterns allow the nest owners to tell their own eggs from imposters left in their nests by cuckoos and the like.

Don't know that robins play that game. But in terms of chemical bond structure, blue pigments would be somewhat adjacent to near-UV pigments, and there might well be some overlap in their visible light spectra.

Maybe there's a connection along those lines. Either that, or the robin equivalent of Martha Stewart likes blue, and that's what they all go with.

 

[MTO]

A coyote

 

[MTO]

A tree mauled by a bear

 

[MTO]

A bear

 

[MTO]

Batman

 

[MTO]

Zoom on this crazy house

 

[MTO]

A crow bar

 

[McCorby]

A salvage yard along side the Glacial Drumlin State Trail in southeast Wisconsin

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

A salvage yard along side the Glacial Drumlin State Trail in southeast Wisconsin
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Are you sure that isn't a street in Portland? Recognize that spot, @fooferdoggie ?

 

[McCorby]

Are you sure that isn't a street in Portland? Recognize that spot, @fooferdoggie ?

It’s too sunny though!

 

[McCorby]

Forgot to post this one for foofer. In front of same salvage yard.

 

[BlackHand]

Chromedome Silverback

 

[fooferdoggie]

free lunch.

 

[BlackHand]

This bike lane didn't look THAT old

 

[fooferdoggie]

all these burns did not happen at once this time. maybe over a month. but most of them look like something was set on fire on the bike path and got away.

 

[fooferdoggie]

I wanna go to this. It looks fun

 

[fooferdoggie]

a bunch of these cats around tow nas a art display.

 

[Jackie0407]

Beauties,blue Sky ,breeze and ebike

 

[Prairie Dog]

A goat’s life: Chew, bleat, repeat

Rode out last week to check on our two Piper Creek community garden plots that we rent from the municipality which contracts a local herder to use their goats to manage invasive weed species on the adjacent parcel of land.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Rode out last week to check on our two Piper Creek community garden plots that we rent from the municipality which contracts a local herder to use their goats to manage invasive weed species on the adjacent parcel of land.

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Once lived in Orinda, CA. Lots of open space all around, and huge goat herds showed up every summer to graze down the weeds. Pretty cool, I thought, but it was hard to walk my border collie and Belgian sheepdog off-leash without running into them.

The comical part: These 50-60 lb so-called "herding dogs" were totally spooked by the goats and stayed as far away as they could get.