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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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Official Plant Nerd
Join Date: Dec 2008
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It was a family affair! One gosling looks significantly smaller than the others.
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#23 |
WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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Maybe he's adopted..........
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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Official Plant Nerd
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Tidbit, "Biologists theorize that by adopting goslings, adult geese may help their own young in a variety of ways. In a larger group, for instance, each gosling's chance of falling prey to a predator is likely to be lower. Later, the adoptees can help their host family defend good foraging sites against other geese. Jablonka and Avital also suggest that geese may adopt in order to set their own offspring up with future mates; geese that couple with individuals they've known since chickhood seem to have more stable relationships than those who mate with strangers. All such possible advantages are difficult to prove, of course. It may be that adoption persists in geese simply because it has little impact one way or another. Research has shown that goslings whose parents raise outsiders survive just as well as those who live only among their genetic brothers and sisters."
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#26 |
WG Operations, Facilitator
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Northern Wisconsin
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What a cool photo!! How did you capture it at the perfect moment? Is that a bird feeder in the photo with your birdy? BooBooBearBecky |
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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What you do is take about 100 pictures, spend about an hour downloading them and going through them, throw away 98 0r 99 and keep the one or two that are worth keeping. It's not a feeder. It's the chimney on my outdoor wood stove in that shot. I hope that the stainless steel stays reflective. When the flycatcher decides to beat up his reflection in my sliding glass doors it becomes as annoying as a child with a new drum set. ![]() |
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WG Operations, Facilitator
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Northern Wisconsin
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#29 |
Fox
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Wisconsin
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June is cecropia moth month in my area.
Caterpillar - in August. Cocoon - in December. Adult cecropia - in June.
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#30 |
Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Franklin, MA
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2009, contest, images, june, month, photo, post, thread |
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