Nature pics

**glo** · 09-16-2007

Hi all

First of all thanks to Abdullah, Alpha Dude and Woodrow for helping me with my technical problems in posting pics. :thankyou:

I wanted to start another picture thread, and I hope others will contribute!

September is one of my favourite months: it can still bring summer-like temperatures, and yet autumn is advancing. Knowing that the season is turning, makes me appreciate every sunny day all the more!
On top of that, it is the time when there is an abundance of food ripening - only waiting to be harvested. Being a bit of a forager, I can spend hours picking plums, apples, blackberries etc - and already there are bottled plums and apple puree, frozen fruit and veg, various jams, pickled cucumbers and beans in brine sitting on the shelves in our larder.

Today I took my son plum picking. To be honest, he spent most of his time practising his aim by throwing overripe plums, rather than helping me pick - but that's 10-year-old boys for you! (Let me proudly mention here that he does have a very good aim!

)

Here are some autumn pictures for you all (or fall pictures for those of you across the big pond ...)

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Yay! I think I did it!

Do any of you have nature pictures you want to share?

**glo** · 05-21-2009

Originally Posted by Umm 'Amaarah

Wow, Amazing pictures Glo. I really like the first one of the sky, Its gorgeous!

^ and those flowers are beautiful

The credit goes to God for creating such a beautiful world - I just point the camera and click!

**glo** · 05-21-2009

This is one of my favourite places.
It's a disused canal, which is now dry and covered in wild flowers.

Because it is so secluded, I rarely meet people there and it is a place of real peace and beauty.
I remember once I was walking there in the autumn, and the mist had caught in thousands of spiderwebs. It was so beautiful that I felt compelled to get on my knees and pray.

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**Zico** · 05-22-2009

These pictures are not mine but just to show how wildlife are in a desert country of Kuwait.
Note: These pictures taken in Winter.

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Eastern Orphean Warbler (Sylvia crassirostris) and a White-throated Robin (Irania gutturalis)

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Calidris at Doha Peninsula

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White-cheeked Bulbul (Pycnonotus leucogenys)

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In the desert Spiny-tailed Lizard (Uromastyx aegyptia microlepis), locally known as Dhubs

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Bank Mynah (Acridotheres ginginianus) in Jahra City

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Crab Plover (Dromas ardeola) at Doha Peninsula

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Red-wattled Plover (Hoplopterus indicus)

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Socotra Cormorant (Phalacrocorax nigrogularis)

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male Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (Monticola saxatilis)

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Courtesy of: http://hawar-islands.com/blog/media/...report2007.htm

**glo** · 05-22-2009

I love the picture of the flock of Calidris.

And that baby dromedary is so cute! Are they all white when they are born?

**Cabdullahi** · 05-22-2009

I never posted in this thread before so here is my first picture

i feel privileged

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**glo** · 05-22-2009

^ Do you have any pics of baboons facing the camera too?

**Zico** · 05-22-2009

Originally Posted by glo

I love the picture of the flock of Calidris.

And that baby dromedary is so cute! Are they all white when they are born?

No not all of them, actually there very rare.

Originally Posted by Abdullahii

I never posted in this thread before so here is my first picture

i feel privileged

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WIN!!

**Cabdullahi** · 05-22-2009

Originally Posted by glo

^ Do you have any pics of baboons facing the camera too?

oh? sorry i thought id show the vibrant colour of them facing the opposite direction of the camera....it kinda reminds me of beetroot

there's a great similarity
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**Zico** · 05-22-2009

Originally Posted by Abdullahii

oh? sorry i thought id show the vibrant colour of them facing the opposite direction of the camera....it kinda reminds me of beetroot

there's a great similarity
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HAHAHHA, i can't stop from laughing, god bless you

**Cabdullahi** · 05-22-2009

Its friday and i feel good on holiday just about to pray friday prayers inshallah but i havent got a camera with me to take pics

**glo** · 05-22-2009

Check your socks!!

**Zico** · 05-22-2009

Originally Posted by Abdullahii

Its friday and i feel good on holiday just about to pray friday prayers inshallah but i havent got a camera with me to take pics

Inshalla me too

Originally Posted by glo

Check your socks!!

Tsk Tsk, why do you embarrass him like that!!

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j/k

**Cabdullahi** · 05-22-2009

haha dont worry i will be wearing sandals,its like 40 degrees and if i cant wear thick socks i wouldnt wana overwork someone's smell receptors

**glo** · 05-22-2009

Originally Posted by Zico

Tsk Tsk, why do you embarrass him like that!!

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Nice nature pics! Thank you for your contribution.

Now then, boys, perhaps it's time you gathered your thoughts and minds and prepared for your Friday prayers.

God bless you both.

**Zico** · 05-22-2009

Originally Posted by Abdullahii

haha dont worry i will be wearing sandals,its like 40 degrees and if i cant wear thick socks i wouldnt wana overwork someone's smell receptors

LOL haha

...I think I need some headache pills right about now from all the laughing. Thx <3

Btw 40 degrees Celsius or farenhiet?

Originally Posted by glo

Nice nature pics! Thank you for your contribution.

Now then, boys, perhaps it's time you gathered your thoughts and minds and prepared for your Friday prayers.

God bless you both.

<3