{"id":114603,"date":"2023-07-22T02:04:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T08:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=114603"},"modified":"2023-07-28T05:59:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T11:59:19","slug":"grasshopper-on-a-pickup-at-sequoyah-nwr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/07\/22\/grasshopper-on-a-pickup-at-sequoyah-nwr\/","title":{"rendered":"Grasshopper On A Pickup At Sequoyah NWR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s image is a grasshopper on a pickup and its reflection. I don’t have any idea what species it is but I hopped out of the pickup to take the photo. When I took this image last month, I was at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge<\/span><\/a> with my dear friend and wildlife photographer, Steve Creek<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"GrasshopperGrasshopper on a pickup \u2013 Canon R7, f8, 1\/1250, ISO 500, Canon RF 100-500mm at 500mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

The grasshopper landed on Steve’s pickup and I couldn’t resist photographing it. If you can identify the species, please feel free to do so.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: My friend Nancy DeWitt helped with the identification, this is a Red-legged Grasshopper, Melanoplus femurrubrum<\/em>. Thanks Nancy!<\/p>\n

I tried to identify this grasshopper yesterday afternoon and was stopped by a black monitor screen. After everything that I have personally fixed for other people in just this past week alone it seemed a cruel joke to have my video card or something happen with my own<\/em> my desktop monitor.<\/p>\n

Please be aware, I don’t need any help, I can fix this on my own. I wear my geek hat as easily as I do my photographer hat. Or bird identifier hat. Or web developer and graphics designer hat. Or any of the other 100+ hats that I wear at any given moment of any given day. It is simply a stumbling block and I kick those away regularly.<\/p>\n

At the moment though, I am dealing with other issues regarding my mother’s passing that still require my attention.<\/p>\n

What it means for me right now is that I have one more thing on my plate and working on my laptop instead of my bigger, faster desktop for a bit.<\/p>\n

So what I share for the next few days? Might be brief.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> It was just the VGA cord that runs from my computer to the monitor. Easy fix.<\/em><\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my insect and spider photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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