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Jim O'Bryan
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Post subject: Fauna - In and around Lakewood.  Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 2:52 pm |
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Before the Observer Project I had a website called, "I love Lakewood" some of the more fun sections were the Flora and Fauna sections where people sent in their photos of animals and flowers in and around Lakewood.
Seeing some of Joe Ott's amazing bird photos last week in another thread made me think we should start it again
So please post your photos of Fauna in and around Lakewood into this thread.
Thank you.
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Post subject: Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 3:00 pm |
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Turkey Vultures
13 Turkey Vultures, flying through the Emerald Canyon. The vutures come back each year to Hinckley Ohio. "Hinckley is also known for the return of Turkey Vultures each spring. For 23 years a park ranger made note that the Vultures returned each year on March 15. A Cleveland newspaper published this phenomenon in February of 1957. Since then, thousands of photographers, naturalists, ornithologists, and "backyard buzzard watchers" gather each year for what is called the largest organized bird walk in the United States. The community of Hinckley has designated the first Sunday after March 15th as "Buzzard Sunday." The timely return of the Turkey Vulture to Hinckley has even been attributed to the numerous carcasses that were a result of the Great Hinckley Hunt..." Duane Smith Findlay Living
A couple Turkey Vultures, flying through the Emerald Canyon.
A couple Turkey Vultures, catching sun on the rim of the Emerald Canyon.
A Turkey Vulture flying through the Emerald Canyon.
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Jim O'Bryan
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"The very act of observing disturbs the system."
Werner Heisenberg
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If not, don't worry. Just forget about it."
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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Post subject: Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 4:03 pm |
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Here's a Kinglet from a couple weeks ago heading back to Canada. Wish I had my flash when I took this to fill in a little...
and a Great Blue Heron from last year
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Jim O'Bryan
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Post subject: Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 5:45 pm |
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Joe
Beautiful work.
not so nice but to get it in.
Bunny / Rabbitt
On an early evening watch you can see bunnies/rabbits throughout the entire city. Here one peeks above the grass before running off.
To hook up with his little buddy around the corner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny
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His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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Post subject: Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 8:17 pm |
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a few more...
Jonathan Livingston Seagull?
somebody was being watched during an early morning dog walk...
this was in our oak tree last fall.
a lkwd Golden puppy
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Ivor Karabatkovic
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Post subject: Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 8:22 pm |
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What is this, a competition? I should stay out of it- unless I feel like getting embarrassed!
FWIW, this, to me, is the real "Lakewood Conversation".
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 10:53 am |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 10:56 am |
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Try again.
With feeling... 
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 10:53 pm |
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American Robin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Robin
American Robin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel
Squirrel, in his natural surroundings. The center of a road causing
everyone to brake and dodge him.
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Jim O'Bryan
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"The very act of observing disturbs the system."
Werner Heisenberg
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If not, don't worry. Just forget about it."
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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Post subject: Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 5:53 am |
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Bald Eagle seen in the Emerald Canyon, photographed from
West Clifton and Riverside Dr.
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Jim O'Bryan
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If not, don't worry. Just forget about it."
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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Jim O'Bryan
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Post subject: Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 10:54 pm |
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Heron, in the Emerald Canyon, as a fish swims by.
Right outside my front door in Lakewood, Ohio.
Red Tail Hawks play on the thermals off the West rim of the Emerald
Canyon in Lakewood, Ohio.
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Jim O'Bryan
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"The very act of observing disturbs the system."
Werner Heisenberg
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If not, don't worry. Just forget about it."
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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Post subject: Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 8:17 am |
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Mallards swimming in Lakewood's Rocky River, in the Emerald Canyon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallard
Mallard Hen in Westlake.
I mean a Mallard Hen in Westlake, looking for Lakewood's Rocky
River and the Emerald Canyon.
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Jim O'Bryan
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"The very act of observing disturbs the system."
Werner Heisenberg
"If anything I've said seems useful to you, I'm glad.
If not, don't worry. Just forget about it."
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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Post subject: Re: Fauna - In and around Lakewood. Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 5:37 am |
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 African Spurred Tortoise, cleaning weeds between sidewalks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Spurred_Tortoise.
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Jim O'Bryan
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"The very act of observing disturbs the system."
Werner Heisenberg
"If anything I've said seems useful to you, I'm glad.
If not, don't worry. Just forget about it."
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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Post subject: Re: Fauna - In and around Lakewood. Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 8:22 pm |
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 Hoover the 40 lb. African Spurred Tortoise, that comes when called, with one of his terrarium mates Elvis, an Eastern Box Turtle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Box_Turtle
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Jim O'Bryan
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"The very act of observing disturbs the system."
Werner Heisenberg
"If anything I've said seems useful to you, I'm glad.
If not, don't worry. Just forget about it."
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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Post subject: Re: Fauna - In and around Lakewood. Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 11:33 am |
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After going through some of my other photos of the Rocky River in the Emerald Canyon. I could not help but notice how many large fish are in the river. Here are three fish at least a foot long, as a Heron watches them.  .
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"The very act of observing disturbs the system."
Werner Heisenberg
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If not, don't worry. Just forget about it."
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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