Wildlife Photography | Gift Books | Bird Art | Bee Art | Insect Art | Wild Light Nature Photography http://www.bugdreams.com Portraits of the Wild World | Unique Wildlife Photography Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:44:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 WildLighthttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with Google A Small Dispute http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WildLight/~3/1lw446zuCWo/ http://www.bugdreams.com/archives/small-dispute/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:44:48 +0000 Rick http://www.bugdreams.com/?p=2077

Two songbirds leave a wake of quiet drama,
dancing through the air,
a small dispute never explained.
 
Songbirds leave a wake of quiet drama

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus

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A crowded tangle of twigs,
a scout with a bright idea;
conspiring alone at the jumping-off point
of an ambitious treasure hunt.
 
An ant scout with a bright idea

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Ant | Hymenoptera | Apocrita | Vespoidea | Formicidae

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Fly this fast and the world never looks the same,
the tipsy universe whips by in a wing’s beat.
 
Honey Bees return to the hive

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

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A spontaneous leap into a new space age,
escaping an exhausted flower, ignoring old sign-posts.
 
A bee leaps into a new space age

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

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“Who the hell do you think you are?

Do you think I can forget the past?

Don’t promise me the impossible!”
 
Don't promise this finch the impossible!

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus
House Finch | Carpodacus mexicanus

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Chasing the summer madness,
unlocking a fearless wind,
drunk songbirds get their wild-eyed kicks.
 
Sparrows in flight

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus

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A young mantis takes a curious turn,
exploring a place seldom noticed,
lost to a larger world,
illuminated by scattered diamonds.
 
A curious young mantis

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Praying Mantis | Tenodera aridifolia sinensis

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A toy-box explorer with a troubled back-story
attempts to map the overcrowded microwilderness,
finding larger patterns in the small spaces between buds.
 
An ant maps the overcrowded microwilderness

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Ant | Hymenoptera | Apocrita | Vespoidea | Formicidae

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A star in her own show,
a worn and slightly disheveled songbird,
between the lightning and the wild rain.
 
Sparrow in a spring rain

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus

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Impossibly complex abstraction reigns,
cobbling together a life from scavenged freedom.
 

Vultures from a trip to South Beach earlier this year.
Just a portion of the sky filled with hundreds of birds
near the Oleta River.
 
Vultures near the Oleta River

. . . and a detail:
Vultures near the Oleta River

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Turkey Vulture | Cathartes aura

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