Parc du cap St-Jacques Montreal

AlainL

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This is a very nice park in my area, I think it's the biggest park in Montreal but not sure.

Sorry, not much spiders:8o

Testing the new camera















 

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Good shots Alain, nice start considering you do not have any specialized lenses (or you might be hiding something?:p ). I presume they are all taken with the kit 18-55mm?

Specially the wood pecker, I am surprised you got that shot with this lense, you must have been very close?

Martin
 

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Very nice Alain, you have convinced me, when are we going?

Tiger beetle, very nice, those are so difficult to photograph!

Take care

Martin
 

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Great photos!You sure you didn't go buy a macro lens?? haha!
Oh and I agree martin those beetles are so hard to capture.I've found some here and every shot I've taken so far is rubbish lol!
-Chris
 

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Very nice Alain, you have convinced me, when are we going?

Tiger beetle, very nice, those are so difficult to photograph!

Take care

Martin
Hi Martin,

Thanks for the comment:D

We can go the 1st of July or the following Saturday if you want.

I saw 2 tiger beetle and took a lot of photos, and that was the only photo that was ok :rolleyes:
 

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Great photos!You sure you didn't go buy a macro lens?? haha!
Oh and I agree martin those beetles are so hard to capture.I've found some here and every shot I've taken so far is rubbish lol!
-Chris
Thanks for the comment Chris:D

No macro lens yet, just cropping.

I will buy one soon but these thing cost a arm and a leg.
 

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Martin, Amanda and myself went to Cap St-Jacques today and we saw a lot of cool bugs and spiders:D











































 
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was a lot of fun indeed, here are my pictures to complete the post, some animals are obviously the same as Alain, but we do have different ones as well.



























 

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Next series of pictures





crab spider is not sharp at all, but it is the only remotly accessible that I got

























 

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and to finish the damn tiger beetles... very frustrating







and happy Canada Day too the Canucks on this site!



Take care

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That one came out pretty nice Martin:clap: I'm surprised cause that animal was probably less than 3mm:eek:

I know the tiger beetle made you swear a little bit{D But the photos are looking great.
 

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Wow nice shots both of you :)

Can I assume: Male


And female




I need to practice with my new macro lens. *sigh* but very little time.
 

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Thanks for the comment Nerri:D

Martin had a lot of fun with these one;)

According to the book I have, it would be a Tanytarsus sp., and your are correct, first one is a male and second one female.
 

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More photos



Look at the dorsal pattern on that one, look like a very scary face:eek:

















 

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Nice new pictures Alain, that opilionid is... strange for lack of better word to describe it.

Also went there this morning, Alain was working, so I was on my own (Amanda is bored to death when I go out and take pictures!).

a small hoverfly drinking the morning dew on a plant




a damsel fly



a lot of these guys mating this morning



doing the dirty deeds

 

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some more of these guys, I really like these insects, I mostly got new shots of the same species of bugs, did not find a lot of diversity today.





one of my favourite ones of the day



that spider again



 
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