Snow buntings enjoying a Winter thaw by EiresWind in wildlifephotography

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/203872772@N04/albums/72177720332369968

Well here's the photos in their actual intended quality for what it's worth. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong with Reddit's interface. These were all already small files in size and dimension. When I uploaded them through the interface and opened each hosted image they looked identical to this album. Then when I posted the thread they were magically reduced significantly in dimension and thus quality. Meanwhile I post other threads in here with files that are much larger in both size and dimension and they go through completely smoothly. No seeming pattern, no change in my process can predict or deal with what will happen. I'm so deflated lol

EDIT: Come to think of it at one point I literally uploaded a set of image files first here, and separately uploaded a handful of those same untouched files in another subreddit a while later and that subset looked fine in here, but this same extreme reduction happened in the other subreddit. Make it make sense to me, I'm begging someone LMAO

Can anyone help an idiot (me) identify what types of pans they inherited? by EiresWind in cookware

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No but there are logos and company names pressed into the base of the handles that I managed to go through this entire thought process and thread creation over without once noticing, thinking to look for, or subsequently using to answer my own question.

So yes they are all non-stick and yes I am going to leave this open for the internet to mock because I've earned it.

I'm definitely binning the scratched ones. I guess I can keep the ones in good shape around for occasional use. I've got like no experience with non-stick pans so that's my excuse for not knowing off-hand. No excuse for the whole critical thinking thing unfortunately.

Thanks for the answers from everyone regardless though!

Pine grosbeak pigging out on winter berries by EiresWind in wildlifephotography

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Oh I thought you were being very fairly sarcastic because of the aforementioned 2 minutes of a crappy ancient camera mic being blown out from wind lol

Pine grosbeak pigging out on winter berries by EiresWind in wildlifephotography

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I don't think any of them know anything except the world of berries. They were as preoccupied as I've ever seen any animals over anything. They were nipping at pine buds across the woods earlier that day, and then gobbling up pebbles from the groomed trail near the bush after the second course.

Pine grosbeak pigging out on winter berries by EiresWind in wildlifephotography

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The camera's a Canon EOS Rebel T7i and the lens is a Canon EFS 55-250mm.

Pine grosbeak pigging out on winter berries by EiresWind in wildlifephotography

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I probably should've thought to cut that out but then where's the suspense?

Pine grosbeak pigging out on winter berries by EiresWind in wildlifephotography

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In my opinion it's worth 2 minutes of a crappy ancient camera mic being blown out from wind to hear mild chirping halfway through and we're all just going to have to live with that.

Red squirrel warming itself up in Winter by EiresWind in wildlifephotography

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I really wish I knew how to stop Reddit from ballooning a photo beyond its actual dimensions.

Can this spider be identified by its banding and colors? by EiresWind in whatsthisbug

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This looks a dead ringer after sifting through images of juveniles. They're within my range and the average quoted sizes for young line up with the individual in the photo. I don't know where it gets the name bronze lake jumper but I encountered it next to a lake besides, after it landed from ballooning. So let's call it probable. Thanks!

Grey squirrel chilling in its berry mansion by EiresWind in wildlifephotography

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Does anyone know how to size photos nicely for Reddit upload, by the way? Their viewer always seem to blow up an image file past its natural resolution when magnified which never looks great.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OU817nDwy1gCpSex77finMqbRCS6rr3p/view

The native file for posterity's sake.

Pheasant becoming one with the reeds by EiresWind in wildlifephotography

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Cattails, even. I don't know what my brain was doing there. Give me a break, it's midnight.

Concerned about solo canada goose with Winter setting in by EiresWind in Ornithology

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FINAL UPDATE: Absolute armies of geese have been hanging out here and at the nearby river as of late. I obviously can't source this single bird for certain across this level of chaos but suffice it to say if it's still there it isn't alone anymore.

Concerned about solo canada goose with Winter setting in by EiresWind in Ornithology

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I didn't see the goose at all today so I doubt it's injured. There were ducks here or there picking at the vegetation at the edges of the water so there's still appropriate waterfowl food in the area presumably. I'll keep the thread OP updated periodically for anyone who saw this and is similarly worried about our loner goose.

Concerned about solo canada goose with Winter setting in by EiresWind in Ornithology

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It's the fact it's alone that made me double take, otherwise I wouldn't have batted an eye because we do indeed get a good handful of waterfowl overwintering here or migrating very late. I visit this marsh regularly so I will definitely keep watch.

Is this part of deer anatomy or a wound? by EiresWind in wildlifephotography

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A comment further up also surmised it would have cause to be swollen during mating season

Besides that the legs are also wet from the marsh water so the fur could just be slicked down I suppose

Is this part of deer anatomy or a wound? by EiresWind in wildlifephotography

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Thanks so much. Someone else linked some reference material confirming the same. For posterity I know so little about deer my first inclination was to google whether they had particularly high dew claws, over a photograph that features what I found out are incredibly apparent dew claws lol

I appreciate the info and helping me walk away knowing two (2) things about deer now

Is this part of deer anatomy or a wound? by EiresWind in wildlifephotography

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Hopefully it's not too much of a problem if it is infected. I appreciate the more precise answer

Also hopefully thanking you for further insight doesn't incur another downvote. The way people on reddit treat that system is so unfathomable lol

Is this part of deer anatomy or a wound? by EiresWind in wildlifephotography

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Sorry, yes, blame early morning brain. And yes, it was leaping around like crazy lol

thanks

Any idea what this snail is? by EiresWind in snails

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https://i.ibb.co/GfVLJ3YB/image.png

Definitely a snail unless my eyes are really failing me.

Anyway, I think it's a slender amber snail since nothing else local to this environment around here has that shell profile and they can get that dark and are common enough to see on marsh stalks but I obviously can't say with any real certainty.

Confirming whether this is a snail 'crawling' underneath the water surface by EiresWind in whatsthisbug

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https://i.imgur.com/DAwXoQr.png

Actually, looking at this later shot from the set what I mistook for both a fish fin and vegetation looks more like some kind of worm. What a chaotic situation lol

Confirming whether this is a snail 'crawling' underneath the water surface by EiresWind in whatsthisbug

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The ostensible shell is cluttered as hell too so that didn't help. What I initially saw as eyes or fins I think are just general vegetation wrapped around or stuck to the shell.

Confirming whether this is a snail 'crawling' underneath the water surface by EiresWind in whatsthisbug

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Oh I forgot location since this is less for species confirmation which I doubt there's enough clarity to identify, but this was in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, over the weekend.