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Category Archives: fauna

Mallophora, The Robber Fly

10 Sunday Jul 2016

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antonio, carnivore, DeZavala, field, fly, insect, Karthik, m.t., mallophora, mtk, northwest, point, recharge, robber, rocky, RPRZ, San, stream, texas, zone

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Windmill, Live Oak, Boulder, Goats and Fence and Wires

18 Monday Aug 2014

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boulder, fence, goats, live, OAK, windmill, wires

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50,000 Male Freetail Bats Go Hunting at Twilight

15 Friday Aug 2014

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#batloco, 50k, antonio, bachelor, bat, bats, colony, downtown, event, freetail, freeway, highway, loco, Mexican, Newell, San, street, texas, thousand

Some Wildlife Living and Imagined

14 Thursday Aug 2014

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anole, at, avians, bronze, deer, flora, hummingbird, mockingbird, public, rest, statue

mockingbird at the park and a hummingbird at #homeinsanantone

which sat right above OMM long enough for him to get stills,

plus an anole and the bronze deer at Huebner Oaks

all photos: OMM

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Curb Your Doggy

11 Monday Aug 2014

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antone, antonio, creative, curb, dog, doggy, dogs, hand, handmade, home, in, made, poop, San, shit, signage, signs

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intense look to the homemade one (l) and pretty detailed poops in both. [photo: OMM]

Annual Summer Visitors to our Home in San Antone

08 Friday Aug 2014

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antone, antonio, cicada, dusk, home, in, Karthik, mtk, photo, resh, San, singing, tibicen, western

Tibicen resh – Western Dusk Singing Cicada

1 3 7 photos: MTK

Keeper Halibut

26 Monday May 2014

Posted by mtk in fauna, fish, fishing, S.F., SF Bay

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adrian, california, club, dayton, gun, halibut, Karthik, keeper, Marin, MRGC, mtk, norcal, Rafael, rod, San

Pelicans Cruising Pacifica 1080HD

30 Friday Nov 2012

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1080, brent, california, cruising, dbk, derelict, fishing, hd, Karthik, kirkpatrick, little, m.t., mtk, ocean, pacifica, pelicans, pretty

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Great White Egret, Egretta alba, Oakland Estuary

21 Wednesday Nov 2012

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2012, alba, egret, Egretta, estuary, great, Karthik, m.t., mtk, oakland, white

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Ladybug Beetle, Oakland

08 Thursday Nov 2012

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19, 19-spots, 2012, beetle, black, ladybug, oakland, orange, spot

Pretty sure this is the 19-spot, Harmonia axyridris of the Family Coccinellidae – known as the Asian Ladybug.

Looks like it got smeared with dust or flew through light spider webbing. Maybe it just escaped a spider. I let it back out into the garden.

White-Tailed Deer Herd NW SA [feat. OMM]

20 Friday Jul 2012

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antone, antonio, buck, bucks, deer, doe, does, fawn, fawns, home, in, Karthik, mtk, nw, San, tauled, texas, urban, white, wildlife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MruKBxPluPQ

white tailed deer

20 Friday Jul 2012

Posted by mtk in fauna, San Antonio

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antonio, deer, Karthik, m.t., mtk, San, tailed, tx, white

Beehive in Bushrod Park

08 Sunday Jul 2012

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bee, beehive, Bushrod, california, hive, Karthik, mtk, oakland, park, tree

Playing catch at the park we noticed what looked like fungus on a tree. Upon closer inspection it was a beehive – but unlike any I’ve seen before.

backwards edit, so it’s photo stills for 47 seconds and then the best video starts at 0:48 in the clip below. You can see the bees entering the trunk of the tree. They’d built this multi-tiered structure on its bark:

Bee in Jacaranda Slow-Mo

07 Saturday Jul 2012

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bee, flower, flying, honeybee, jacaranda, Karthik, mtk, pollen, pollinate, tree

 

 

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Hoagy LeChamp

06 Friday Jul 2012

Posted by mtk in fauna, North Oakland

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2012, Hoagy, LeChamp, swimming, turtle

Bees in Slow-Mo

04 Wednesday Jul 2012

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2012, bees, motion, mtk, oakland, slow

Northern Harrier, Año Nuevo, California

18 Friday May 2012

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año, california, coastal, Harrier, mtk, NORTHERN, nuevo

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Night Heron Eats Rat, Lake Temescal, Oakland, CA

28 Saturday Apr 2012

Posted by mtk in fauna, North Oakland, photography, short film

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CA, california, eats, elusive, feeding, feeds, heron, Karthik, lake, m.t., mtk, night, oakland, rat, temescal

Norcal Turkey, Marin, CA

21 Saturday Apr 2012

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2012, Area, Bay, california, Karthik, m.t. karthik, Marin, mtk, NORTHERN, san francisco, TURKEY

Iguana

26 Sunday Feb 2012

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basilisk

21 Tuesday Feb 2012

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academy, basilisk, california, Karthik, mtk, reptile, science

an indonesian basilisk at California Academy of Science last year

San Antonio Zoo in Drought Year 2011

22 Friday Jul 2011

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animals, antone, antonio, beautiful, birds, drought, hd, healthy, home, in, Karthik, mtk, San, video, year, zoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btuVBpHCB5k

Seagull Helps Pigeons at Dawn in SF, 2010

18 Saturday Dec 2010

Posted by mtk in fauna, music video, S.F., short film

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2010, Karthik, m.t., mtk, pigeon, san francisco, seagull

Mating Dragonflies

21 Thursday Oct 2010

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2010, dragonflies, mating, pond, san antonio, texas

I’m moving this over to the date it was shot, soon, but dug it up for blogger a french garden – this was 2010, in my father’s garden in San Antonio, Texas:

Red-Striped Ribbon Snake of SW Texas

31 Friday Jul 2009

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antone, antonio, garden, garter, home, Karthik, native, pond, proximus, red, rubrilineatus, San, snake, sribbin, striped, texas, thamnophis, water

Spotted Fawn

21 Sunday Jun 2009

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antone, antonio, deer, fawn, home, in, omm, San, spotted, tailed, white

la danse des deux papillons

08 Sunday Jul 2007

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butterfly, common, India, Karthik, mariposa, mtk, Nadu, papillon, pondicherry, puducherri, rose, schmetterling, tamil

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