Latest posts tagged with #FrontRangeNature on Bluesky
Two bees hover above tiny not-very-showy maple flowers. The maple flowers have protruding exerted stamens, but not much in the way of petals.
#iNat #honeybee #FrontRangeNature
Honeybees were buzzing all over maple tree flowers yesterday, gathering as much early pollen as they could haul away.
Three white-tailed bucks climb out of a shallow stream. One has a nice rack of antlers, and two have their big white tails raised in alarm.
#iNat #FrontRangeNature #DeerofFrontRange
White-tailed deer startled by an off-leash dog.
Forgot the hashtags: #naturalist #pika #PikaofBlueSky #FrontRangeNature #iNat 🌱🌿
A chipmunk stands on its hind legs and stretches to reach the top of a grass-like sedge. It's standing on a pink granite rock. It is tan with white and brown stripes that run from the tip of its nose to its tail.
A chipmunk stands on its hind legs to eat the top of a grass-like sedge. It's standing on a pink granite rock. It is tan with white and brown stripes that run from the tip of its nose to its tail.
A chipmunk sits on a pink granite rock to eat the top of a grass-like sedge. Its mouth is so full that it demonstrates the meaning of the phrase 'chipmunk cheeks'. It is tan with white and brown stripes that run from the tip of its nose to its tail.
Chipmunk determined to eat the delicious top of a sedge.
#FrontRangeNature #ColoradoNature #chipmunkcheeks
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Female broad-tailed hummingbird hovers in mid-air as she drinks from a small, pale red yucca flower.
#hummingbird #birds #nativepollinator #nativeplants #birdsofBluesky #plumescrolling #FrontRangeNature
Ealy morning light hits a hummingbird as it hovers in mid air.
#plumescrolling #FrontRangeNature #hummingbird #birds #nativepollinator 🦜🌿🌱🐝
On-the-wing shot of female broadtailed hummingbird hawking for insects this morning.
Sky blue butterfly and hairy tachnid fly on yellow sunflower
Happy Pollinator Week!
From 2020: arctic blue butterfly and tachnid fly on sunflower at 11,000 feet. Bumblebees can't fly much higher than this because the air is too thin, so tachnids take over.
#Pollinators #fly #butterfly #FrontRangeNature #birds #naturalist #nature
A tan animal that looks like a gerbil with bigger ears perches on a lichen-covered granite rock.
Happy Nature Photography Day!
Pika at 11,000 feet (3352.8 m)
#NaturePhotographyDay #naturalist #pika #PikaofBlueSky #FrontRangeNature
#ColoradoNature
