the birds and the bees

May 4, 2007 at 10:35 PM
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if it weren't for my camera, i don't think i would have taken the time to face some of my fears.

oh, and remember that ladybug infestation a few months ago? they eventually stopped coming into the apartment and up until last week, all i've seen are bumblebees flying around the balcony and the kitchen window. apparently, there's a nest behind the wall siding. i figured it out after i watched a bee disappear into a crack. they aren't bothering me so i haven't reported them to maintenance, yet.

whose house were you trying to get into anyway
because it sure looked like mine!

and some video footage of bees around my balcony.

bee movie 1

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Wow, it's hard to get shots of owls!!!!! Joe looked it up and thinks it is a screech owl. :)

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Oh and get this, according to the Audobon field guide, apparently they're very defensive of their nests and will swoop down and "strike unsuspecting humans on the head as they pass nearby at night."

I'm serious! I'm not trying to freak you out, although I totally know I just did. :)

*hugs*

That is one huge bee!

Once we had a wasp's nest on our porch, this was when I lived in a house, and the damn wasps had to die. We ran to the store and got some wasp and bee killer. It was great because it had a 20 foot spray range, so you don't have to get too close.

You're better than me for not reporting it because they would have died the second I knew. I cannot be stung. I will not stand for it. Please get rid of them before they attack you. Yes, I care.

P.S. cool shots of the owl. :)

OMG. and would you believe i stood there staring at it for a while? it was early in the morning, just before 6am when i took the dog out when i first saw it. i thought it was a hawk because all i saw was a dark shadow perched above the breezeway. it scared the crap out of me! so i took the dog back to the apartment and grabbed my camera. i stared at it for a while trying to figure out its size and all the while i kept thinking it would attack me at some point. stooopid.

Wow, I don't think I've ever known someone to actually capture an owl on camera. I usually only see them in nature magazines or books. Nice shots!

Oh my goodness. Just the sight of that bee scares me. I don't know why I'm so afraid. I've only been stung once in my life, and it was done by a very tiny bee. *runs away*

aww, thanks for caring lea. i don't know why i'm okay with the bees being there, but in the past i would have done the same thing as you and pulled out the wasp/bee killer spray. actually, i had to use it a month ago when i found a wasp nest in my parents' garage. i feel like they're harmless but i am going to talk to the office about it.

hmm, something tells me i should stop complaining about the owl's red-eye and just be grateful for the fact that i even got this shot. ;)

i don't want to scare anyone with the giant bee photo, i just find it so amazing that i found the courage to get that close. i haven't been stung by a bee before but if i keep this up, something tells me it may happen one day. *crosses fingers*

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Gamany -- the owl shots are GREAT!! I love it -- they are really under-rated when it comes to birds-of-prey.

thanks, steve! it's still sinking in that there bird is an owl. i'd seen one before (from a distance) when my family lived in alaska and it looked huge, but the one in this photo was so small. and to think the closest i had ever gotten to an owl was in biology class when we had to dissect their pellets. *lol*

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I thought the scratching sound in our house in Connecticut was harmless. I knew it was probably a mouse, but it came from the other side of our kitchen wall. He was just scratching around under the deck, right? Then I open a drawer and find he'd been helping himself to some trail mix, the nuts-raisin-m&m kind. It was mixed in with all his little droppings. I also found droppings in my towel drawer! And those two drawers were on opposite sides of the kitchen. So he was running through the wall and cabinets making himself at home, along with his extended family. Brad set traps and we wound up with eight dead mice! You're right to tell the office about the bees. The office wants to know!

And great photos of the owl. That's a prize :) Maybe he didn't attack because he was a baby?

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wow, a very interesting idea in here, gamany: the things that "art" does to change us and affect our ideas about the world, i mean in creating art.

mmmmmm.....facing your fears in order to "capture" something on film! fascinating. and looking at these pictures makes your viewer realize how beautiful this creatures are.....

GAH! scary! especially those bees... i've never been stung, so i'm afraid to get stung. heh.

But owls kills mice another pest! The bees would bother me the most, but since they are honeybees, I wouldn't worry too much. Hope they don't get in!

oh, georgia, that's terrible! if you're trying to scare me, it's not working. *lol* ;) i did wonder if the owl was a baby but i haven't looked up what the average size is for an adult. maybe i can find more info in the audobon field guide crystal mentioned above.

mcco12, i always wonder if people see and appreciate beauty in the unlikely of subjects. thank you so much for the affirmation. it really means a lot to me to know that people are willing to step into my shoes and see the world through a different lens. i definitely agree, creating art changes us and affects us on so many levels. it pushes us, and gives us the ability to look, think, and feel, different.

so Ange, you have nothing to be freaked out about...I had a BAT in my house last fall. :) Now you can feel better. :) Nothing is as heart-stopping as seeing one of those flapping about your living room!!!!

omg, i totally remember you talking about that! you'd mentioned that it must have been stuck in your house for a couple of days, right?

yeah...had to get it rabies tested. Glad it was negative because it might have meant 6 month quarantine or putting romeo down :(

eeeeee, i hate bees!

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