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DOES THE CAPTION SAY "IT'S
LIVE"? IF IT DOESN'T, IT ISN'T.
(Actually, it hasn't been "live' in a long, long time.)
Recent Updates of other pages:
Page or file name
Date of update
Description of update
Kites page
10/16/2024
NEW PAGE!! Inspired to create
this page because Kites aren't exactly like other
raptors...so they got their own page.
Water Insect page
10/11/2024
NEW PAGE!! Inspired to create this page
due to research I've just done. First time uploads of OLD
pictures, and new materials.
Just
Rick page
09/26/2024 Added
new videos and phtos from 2003, driving an ARGO ATV to crush
vegetation at Brazos Bend State Park
Alligator Behavior
Walking etc. page 10 09/05/2024
New Page!
Added new posts with imagery from 2023
Rick's General Oddities
08/27/2024 Added
new video and pictures from August 11 and 20 2024 (long camera
sticks).
Eagles
page 5
07/30/2024
New Page! Split original
"Eagles page 4" into 2 pages. Page 4 is observations from Jan - May
2024; Page 5 is from May 2024 on. I can't believe I've seen Bald
Eagles so many times!
Internal Martial Arts page
07/30/2024 Added
new video and pictures from July 2024 (a few days before Beryl).
Piper the Pup's Page
06/19/2024 Added
some pictures and a couple videos from June 2024.
Ichnology page 4
05/04/2024 Added
more material from summer 2023. Cicada killer drama.
Ichnology
page 4
05/01/2024 Added
more material from summer 2023. From two more days. A snake appeared!
Ichnology page 4
04/27/2024 Added
more material from summer 2023. From two more days. .
Ichnology page 4
04/25/2024 Added
more material from early summer 2023. I intend to add more soon.
Ichnology page 4
04/09/2024 NEW
PAGE! Added a lot of material from early summer 2023. I
intend to catch up and add more soon.
Osprey page
03/21/2024 Added a
lot of pictures and a video clip of an Osprey observed feeding at
Fiorenza park 05/29/2023.
Rick's General Oddities
12/13/2023 Added some
pictures and a video of me tossing boomerangs at Scobee Field.
Rick's
3D model Page 5 (gator den; ver. 2) 07/04/22
I
once
used Solidworks at work. Now Solidworks has access I can use at
home, so I'm modeling an alligator den. My attempts are here.
Rick's
3D model Page 2 (cookiecutter shark bite) 07/01/22 Solidworks has access I can use at
home, so I've modeled a tube that a shark had bitten.a plug out of.
Rick's 3D model Page 1 (gator den) 05/27/22 I once used Solidworks at work.
Now Solidworks has access I can use at home, so I'm modeling an
alligator den. My attempts are here.
2008 2010
Videos of folding bicycles from 2008 & 2010
Update
11/11/2024 - 11/09/2024
Fiorenza
Park while on
the low
bridge, I
noticed a
turtle sharing
a branch with
some
Cormorants. It
was at least
50 yards away
(the arrow in
the first
image below
shows where
they
were.
When I started
taking
pictures of
the
interesting
sharing
situation, one
of the
Cormorants (I
believe these
are Neotropic
Cormorants
(Nannopterum
brasilianum))
decided to act
like a brat. I
captured some
of that in a
short video
clip,and some
of these
images are
frames from
the video,
while some are
from photos.
In the 4th
picture below,
the turtle has
its mouth
open. Reptiles
"yawn" for may
reasons. In
the photo, the
turtle seems
to be talking
to the birds.
That seems
unlikely, but
after many
years of
watching and
reading about
Nature; I've
learned that
almost
anything is
possible.
Gaping jaws to
not have to
produce sound
to communicate
a message.
Sometimes a
yawn
is just a
yawn, and at
other times it
could be a
threat
display.
Context is
important. You
can see older
pictures of
Cormorants at
Fiorenza Park
on my
Cormorants
page.
The
turtle is
probably a
Pond Slider (Trachemys
scripta),
possibly a
"melanistic"
Red Eared
Slider.
The
last Cormorant to land apparently didn't want to share. It gently
tweaked the
turtle's head...
...and
gently probed
the turtle's
carapace with
its beak.
The turtle
retreated a
little. When
the Cormorant
looked away,
the turtle
tried to move
a little
higher. The
Cormorant
turned back.
This
time, it
"nipped" the
turtle's head
(still gently,
it
seemed).
But it poked a
bit more and
caused the
turtle to back
away and slide
off the
branch. None
of this
movement
seemed
especially
aggressive.
Activity was
at a leisurely
pace. Even the
turtle's slide
off the
log-backwards-wasn't
rushed.
Even
after the
turtle
submerged, the
Cormorant
poked around a
bit under the
water. I've
put some of
the pictures
and the
captured video
together into
this
edited video.
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Certain
natural
observations that first appeared on this page have been moved
to my other pages. Go back to my home page, Welcome to Rickubis.com for links to those pages.
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11/03/2024
At
BBSP, while
walking on the
Spillway
Bridge around
8:30am; I'd
been hearing
Limpkins
calling to the
South. But
they were far
away, and
out of sight.
I'd stopped on
the bridge to
just look
around. The
view to the
South now
shows parts of
the "mile
stretch"
section of the
road--which
hadn't been
visible until
recently.
A Roseate
Spoonbill flew
over me, and
landed a few
hundred yards
Southwest, so
I decided to
experiment
with some
photos. All of
these are
cropped from
the originals,
but
the last one
wasn't too
bad. You can
see closer
pictures of
Spoonbills
taken at BBSP
on my
Spoonbills
page.
I
finally found
one of the
Limpkins about
40 minutes
later. (yes,
I was still on
the bridge.
What the heck,
it was a nice
morning.),I
was still on
the bridge,
because it was
a nice
morning.
The Limpkin
was even
further away
than the
Spoonbill was.
But I tried
some photos
for that, too.
It was to my
left, or
Southeast of
my position,
at 9am. I was
looking almost
towards
the Sun, and
it brightened
the outline of
the Limpkin.
This was just
the second
weekend that
I'd heard
Limpkins in
the park after
a year or so.
The last 3
summers have
been brutally
dry. Hurricane
Beryl and the
rain a week
after
helped
replenish some
of the water
we needed. The
presence of
the Limpkins
was a good
sign. You can
see closer
pictures of
Limpkins taken
at BBSP on my
Limpkins page.
03/07/2021 Sometimes, one of the park gators
seems to say:
Just pay
attention to the sign, okay?
04/08/2012---Easter Sunday at BBSP
gets very busy. This year, I had time to put a camera on my bicycle
handlebars and do a quick ride on the Elm Lake Trail before it got
busy. I was
experimenting with doing "virtual" trail tours of the park.
I'm not sure if this works or not, but here is an edited
version of the footage I filmed. A surprise unique to the park
happens near
the 6:47 mark. Links to the video are here (files are about 200mb):
Elm
Lake trail mp4 .
11/06/2013---Piper
the
Pup 
now has
her own page. For Piper-related stuff, you can go here,
but I don't update often.
Pages that show where mom gator has left babies, possibly so
she can forage: 03/06/2016 03/14/2016 12/05/2021
and two times when a mom left after a bellow bout:
02/16/2020 08/28/2022
I have created all the content on *my* pages. That means that I have
either shot the video, taken the pictures, or performed any
demonstrations. That also means that I've edited every image on
these pages, that is, I've cropped,
enhanced, resized, labeled, and otherwise optimized *every*
single image on my pages. That means that I've also edited,
enhanced, extracted images from, recoded (in two or three or four
formats) every *video clip* on these
pages. I've also, for better or worse, composed all the text and
layout on these pages. I've had to learn to use the various
utilities for doing all of this, as well as finding and legally
getting copies of them in the first place. I'm also
responsible for all the hardware used to do this. I also pay
for the server space used for all of this information as well as for
my access to it. It costs a lot of money, time, and effort to put
these pages out here...hopefully to
entertain and to inform. And this is *after* I spend time at my "day
job". People are welcome to the information here, but if it's
used elsewhere, then I deserve credit for my effort. If it is used
for someone else's profit, then I
deserve part of that profit. *That* is the purpose of my notices
about copyright.
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DO NOT EVER APPROACH ALLIGATORS. THEY CAN BE EXTREMELY
DANGEROUS IF THEY FEEL THREATENED, JUST LIKE ALMOST ANY ANIMAL.
DON'T DISTURB ALLIGATORS AT THIS PARK, OR ANYWHERE ELSE.
For the story of my hip
replacements, click here. I've come to think that these pages are
less about me than what I'm writing about, but I've been talking to lots
of old folks (like me) that
wonder how that surgery works.. So, this page shows my experiences with
it.
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from the year 2000!!)
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