Yeah, they're all very persistent. It sounds incredible I know but I manage a ranch with three vacation houses for a family and they are bird enthusiasts. We have six feeders of carrying descriptions. We go through about 2500 pounds ( I kid you not ) of black sunflower seeds a year. At least half of it goes to the squirrels.

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Tree ferns on an avocado tree:



Bananas in progress:



Hummingbird perched on a bromeliad in the avocado tree:

Tulip Enlightened By The MAL-1 Macro Arm Light by RedTail_Panther, on Flickr

Wow. You lot have some big bromeliads. Ours are quite small. That curly stuff in my titmouse pic is a bromeliad. We call it Ball Moss down here in Texas.

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2500 pounds! That makes my 1 or 2 pounds of peanuts pale into insignificance.

I love your picture, I can never get to my zoom lens in time, he always runs away.

Monarch Caterpillar: GF1 w/Micro-Nikkor 55mm


Lilly of the Nile: GF1 w/Micro-Nikkor 55mm


Golden Poppy Bud: GF1 w/Micro-Nikkor 55mm


Praying Mantis emerging from egg pod: GF1 w/Micro-Nikkor 55mm


Artichoke Fruit: GF1 w/Micro-Nikkor 55mm


Orchids: GF1 w/Micro-Nikkor 55mm


Dog: GF1 w/Micro-Nikkor 55mm

Gary

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Love the zucchini flower -- gorgeous. I have a killer recipe for zuccini bread and another for calabacitas. Every time I see the word "zucchini" I think of them.

I think I sounded patronising ... sorry

I think there are three or four species in this tree -- the Ball Moss, then something bigger, stiff leaves in a rosette, about fist sized to double that, and then the really big one. It's the tropics down here (Nicaragua).

However, we don't have squirrels in town, though there are squirrels out in the country.

Shot with M.Zuiko 45mm f/2.5, ISO 200, 1/3200s

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