Category: spot the nightjar (and other beasts)

Spot the hawk!

May 19, 2023 • 9:00 am

This “spot the. . . ” post comes directly from Matthew, who probably took it himself. Can you spot the hawk? It’s not too hard. I’ve put the photo below so you can enlarge it, and the reveal will be at noon Chicago time.

Please don’t put the answer in the comments so that others can try. But you can write “Got it” or something similar if you spotted the bird.

Spot it!

Here’s the damselfly!

April 30, 2023 • 12:25 pm

Did you spot the damselfly in the photo below. It’s right there in plain sight, but then again it’s not. The reveal is in the second photo:

I’ve circled it, so here it is. I can’t see the wings: perhaps they’re too clear to see or this is a newly emerged adult and hasn’t yet expanded its wings

Spot the damselfly!

April 30, 2023 • 7:30 am

Matthew found this tweet from Marianne Denton with a hidden damselfly in it. Can you spot it? This is pretty damn hard.  PLEASE don’t reveal the location in the comments; just say “found it” if you found it.

I’ve put an enlarged version of the photo at bottom; click once or twice to make it big.

The reveal will be at noon Chicago time.

Click to enlarge and look for the insect:

Readers’ wildlife photos, or “spot the osprey”

April 16, 2023 • 8:30 am

Due to my obliviousness, Sunday’s regular batch of photos from John Avise was posted yesterday. Today we have only one photo. It’s a weird one from Peter Fisher in Cumbria, and could easily have been a “spot the osprey” photo—except you can see the reveal below. Plus I enlarged the photo, and can’t make out the species, though I’m sure Peter knows what it is.

Peter’s notes (click the photo to enlarge it).

Don’t know whether you’ll be interested in this for your Reader’s Wildlife Photos. It’s not the most impressive shot of an osprey (I think you call them fishing eagles in The States) but maybe the world’s only dashcam shot of one?

JAC: The osprey, found throughout the world., is Pandion haliaetus. I quickly trawled the Internet and could NOT find any other osprey photos taken with a dashcam. Perhaps this is unique!