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Incorporating the Celery Farm and Screech Owl Companion blogs
August 2, 2007
The Celery Farm up close
Yesterday morning and this evening, I walked around the Celery Farm and concentrated on close-ups.
The only shot not taken at the refuge is the black eastern tiger swallowtail above, taken in our side yard — although some say it’s hard to tell where our yard ends and the Celery Farm begins.
I took close-ups because I am enjoying a new Canon zoom…
One question for after you’re done:
What’s unusual about these photos, not counting the great-horned-owl feather at the end?
What’s unusual? Not one bird in the whole bunch. 🙂
4 comments
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Hi Jim,
I still check into your blog to see how things are going and seeing the Great Horned Owl feather prompted me to write. I occasionally find an owl feather in the yard, but now that the screeches are gone, I can’t tell what kind are. I can tell an owl feather from a hawk feather by how “fuzzy” it is (for lack of my knowing the technical term). As I understand it, the fuzziness their feathers helps keep the owl flying silently.
Can you share your secrets on how to tell what feather belongs to what kind of owl/hawk?
Cheers!
Diana -
Great pics !
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Thanks, Pedro! Very helpful.
Jim -
Hrm… the first butterfly, it’s likely to be a spicebush swallowtail and not a eastern tiger swallowtail. I recently had problem identifying my own pictures and learned that if the body has white spots and the wing has two defined rows of orange spots it’s a spicebush swallowtail and not a eastern tiger swallowtail.
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Diana & Jeff
Hi Jim,
I still check into your blog to see how things are going and seeing the Great Horned Owl feather prompted me to write. I occasionally find an owl feather in the yard, but now that the screeches are gone, I can’t tell what kind are. I can tell an owl feather from a hawk feather by how “fuzzy” it is (for lack of my knowing the technical term). As I understand it, the fuzziness their feathers helps keep the owl flying silently.
Can you share your secrets on how to tell what feather belongs to what kind of owl/hawk?
Cheers!
Diana
Doug M.
Great pics !
jim wright
Thanks, Pedro! Very helpful.
Jim
Pedro
Hrm… the first butterfly, it’s likely to be a spicebush swallowtail and not a eastern tiger swallowtail. I recently had problem identifying my own pictures and learned that if the body has white spots and the wing has two defined rows of orange spots it’s a spicebush swallowtail and not a eastern tiger swallowtail.