As I promised Orleander.. Roadkills and other dead animals. Roadkills Topleft: Decapitated butterfly found while hiking on holiday in Sweden. Topright: Dead Badger, found on the same hike. The smell was sickening btw. Bottomleft: A dragonfly that decided to crash into my car, decapitated. Bottomright: A stepped-on(?) bumblebee. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Deaths 1 Topleft: Two dead Shrews, found on a walk. Topright: Dead baby Blackbird, taken from the nest by a Magpie and left on the hot pavement. Bottomleft: Dead Song thrush, flew itself to death against my home window. Bottomright: Dead Seagull. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Deaths 2 Topleft & Topright: Dead dried out toad, crisped by the sun. Bottomleft & Bottomright: A live toad but not far from death. Looks like it is or was infected with some kind of parasite (for the eggs see inset). I think the parasite worked their way to the in- or outside through the poor toads nostrils. One of the saddest things I ever seen.. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! more:
Deaths 3 Topleft: Dung beetle attacked by a hoard of mites. Topmid: Dead Dung beetle getting ripped apart by some ants. Topright: This mosquito tried to bite me.. she failed.. Midleft: A beewolf (predatory wasp) catches a bee. Midmid: Dead beewolf I found on my car. Midright: A beewolf head I found. Bottomleft: Jumping spider catches a fly. Bottommid: Dead fly. Bottomright: Dead fly. Far right: A crane fly died in a mysterious way on a heather plant. Notice it's abdomen in the bottomleft of the image. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Orleander has a thing for roadkills, so everyone.. post your roadkills here Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
This thread is Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!:thumbsup: Enmos, what camera do you use and how much does it cost? Thx.
LOL thanks Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Nikon Coolpix 8700 http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Nikon/nikon_cp8700.asp It cost 800 euro when I bought it but it has been taken out of production now I think. You can still buy second hand ones for around 200-250 euro or so. The newer model (Nikon 8800) isn't as good at macro.
I dont prefer to buy second hand one, but the new one is too terribly expensive :bugeye: Ok, frog for Orleander. Its not shot by me, I found it on google. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
That's gotta be the prettiest roadkill I've ever seen inzomnia. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Did she ask for the dead one? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Terrible woman! j/k Enmos, your sun-dried dead frog is very cool pic!
Yep, it must be dead (or dying). She prefers flattened frogs (the ones that cars have driven over a couple of times and then left to dry on the hot pavement). Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I do lots of country miles driving. The amount of road kill is sickening. Tonight I did a two hour drive home at dusk through the S.E Australian wilderness. I managed to dodge a succession of wallabies, roos, possums and small marsupials( antechinus, bandicoots) I nearly mashed a bat also. I hate it, I see these exquisite creatures like red necked wallabies splattered..just going about there business then Bang! It can be really hard to miss a wombat or roo if they come flying out of the scrub but some slow moving things like blue tongue lizards should never be hit, yet there are thousands killed.
Which? the green frog in the water? I repeat: I didn't shot it, I found it in google Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I gotta manage to buy the cool camera like Enmos have, ooohhhh... *jealous*
I feel so pity with the dead in death 1 pic, but strangely I feel almost nothing for others.:scratchin:
Yeah, it's pretty sad.. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Recently, I had to pounce on the brakes for a group of Red Deer as they jumped from the bushes.. I missed the last one by a hair. They are really a lot big bigger then you'd think..
Inzomnia, click the link below to see what I do with the camera. Then you can decide whether you still feel it's too expensive Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! http://enmos.eu
Not even the toad with the nostrils ? I can hardly look at that.. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!uke:
What's the last thing that passes through a Dragonfly's mind when he hits your windscreen at 100kmh? His arse.
