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         (sometimes known as the "rick, don't touch that!" page.)          
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Images and contents on this page copyright © 2001-2025  Richard M. Dashnau  
  LAST UPDATE: 04/16/2025         PREVIOUS UPDATE: 04/02/2025
      -----                 --LET'S SEE WHAT THAT RASCAL RICKUBIS IS UP TO!    
 
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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.)
                                          
 ◄▬ This is new (7/22/2022)!  Search my website with duckduckgo. Use " " to enclose multiple search terms.
Over 20 years, my website has grown into a sort of "living encyclopedia".  I've uploaded thousands of images, hundreds of video clips-on over 150 separate pages-to my domain.  To be
useful, a reference  book-or an encyclopedia-needs an index. But, indexing something the size of this domain that is still growing and changing would be very difficult. I'm trying this search
block as a solution.

 Usually, the newest material on my pages appears here first. But sometimes, it doesn't.  I'll try this--below is a list of pages that have been recently updated (outside of this one).
Visit them directly to see what else is new. I'm still updating my pages and some of the updates don't really fit on this page.  When I started this domain, the only way to connect was
 via dial up and slow dial up at first. Everything I posted then was configured so dial up users could see my content over low-speed connections. Now I'm upgrading whatever and
whenever I can so the old media looks better.  The list below will show most current updates made elsewhere in the domain (but not every change). Note 02/03/2023: With the larger numbers of
 larger images (usually 900 x 675) that I've been putting on the pages, I've found that the pages take longer to load--even with good bandwidth connections. So if I add an update with  more than 16
images, it will probably split off onto its own page, although it will usually show up first here on the RICKUBISCAM page.
                     Recent Updates of other pages:           
                   Page or file name         Date of update         Description of update

                     Grebes                              04/13/2025  Added newly-edited video clips and photos from 2020 and 2021.      
                     Grackles                         02/21/2025  Added newly-edited video clips and photos from 2022.
                     Ibises                                02/15/2025 NEW PAGE!! Moved my images of these species onto their own new page. More stuff to be added soon.
                     Grackles                            02/15/2025 NEW PAGE!! Moved my images of these species onto their own new page. More stuff to be added soon.
                     Coots and Gallinules           01/31/2025 Added 5 new video clips from 2006, 2009,2011 and 2017 to this page over the last couple days.
                     Coots and Gallinules           01/28/2025 NEW PAGE!! Moved my images of these species onto their own new page. More stuff to be added soon.
                     Osprey page                      12/23/2024 Added 30 pictures of an Osprey observed feeding at Fiorenza park on 02/10/2024.
                     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 photos from 2003, driving an ARGO ATV to crush vegetation at Brazos Bend State Park
                           Rick's General Oddities        08/27/2024 Added new video and pictures from August 11 and 20 2024 (long camera sticks).               
                            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.
                     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 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 04/16/2025 - 04/06/2025 Brazos Bend State Park. I noticed a young Pied-Billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) with a crawfish. I watch that one and a few others, as they
foraged. I wondered where their parents were.  I could hear adult Grebes calling, off to my right. I found a pair of adults about 15 yards away, and one surfaced with a crawfish. 


I intended to watch this adult Grebe eat the crawfish. But the juvenile Grebes were hungry. The images here are photos, and frames from video, edited into this Grebes nesting video.

Between hunting and feeding the young Grebes, this pair was starting a nest! I'd never seen this before!


Is this a vigilant stance? Not at me, I was too far away. She should lay 4 to 7 eggs which will hatch in about 23 days. The arrow shows the location of the nest. More grebes observations
 on my Grebe page.

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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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Update 04/02/2025 - 03/29/2025 Fiorenza Park. This pile of Diamondback Water Snakes (Nerodia rhombifer) was resting on the exposed part of a submerged log. It was about 6 yards
 away. Because of the their coloration,  I didn't realize how many snakes were there until I magnified the view. There were 6 snakes in this pile! They moved briefly once, but most of
the time there was little motion in the pile. 


At least one study: [Love is in the air: additional evidence for a volatile sex-attractant pheromone in snakes (2022) by Benjamin Jellen, et al]  shows that female water snakes emit
pheromones during estrus(mating season) that can be carried through the air. Although the snakes in that study were N. Sipedon, but they're closely related to this species,
N. Rhomibifer. In this species, the males have tiny tubercles under their jaw, and those are barely visible on a few here. In the U.S., these papillae are unique to this species. The very
short video clip and some of these photos are edited together into this Pile of Snakes video.

With pheromones in the air, male snakes within range follow the scent back to the female. It's as if a female left multiple keys to her home scattered around, and a bunch of males
found them and have arrived at her door--and are all trying to get their key into the lock at the same time. At least that's what it looks like to me.  On this day, all of their tails
were hidden under the water, but if the tails were visible, they would have been entwined as the males quietly attempted entry. About 20 minutes later, some of the snakes seemed to
be leaving. But at least one turned around and moved back into the pile. I didn't stay to see the pile break up. A year before (on 3/24/2024) I watched this same activity about 30
yards from this spot! That's shown on one of my snake pages.
 
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.  

.Click here for the RICKUBISCAM GALLERY! ----a chronicle of past rickubiscam images (16 pages starting from the year 2000!!)  

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  RICKUBISCAM on the RICKUBISCAM on the RICKUBISCAM on the....                  REPTILE GLASSES
                        This gif was made in 2011 (I had more hair!)                  This gif was made in 2011 (I had more hair!)

           This page was born 9/16/1999.  Rickubis designed it.  (such as it is.)
          Go back to my home page, Welcome to Rickubis.com 
          I'm on Mastodon for now, but I was never very active on "social" media. 

How many come by to see the RICKUBISCAM ? Well, lets look at the counterprovided by: WEBCOUNTER.
Counter started June 18, 2001. 1/10/2012 = 10473 || 3/25/2014 10904 || 11/19/2015 = 11137 || 2/16/2017 = 11326 || 6/16/2019 = 11678 || 6/21/2020=11856 || 12/27/21=12199 || 2/3/2022=12237 || 7/22/2022 12404 || 01/09/2023=12651
7/26/2023=12926 || 12/1/2023=13059        3    4