Yes, I thought it was a great move. But lots of people complained about murdering the geese so they had to change tactics and now they claim to relocate them.
Last October my 3-year-old phone suddenly died the death of a broken USB port and my cheap emergency replacement had a truly awful camera. I got a replacement a few weeks ago and enen though the reviews mostly described the camera in very mediocre terms, I think the shots I got of this harvestman tonight are pretty good.
Agreed!
Modern camera phones are really quite competent at most standard things. Long telephoto, very tight macro and extreme processing situations are exceptions, but most folks don’t need that stuff most of the time.
Wow, yes, great shots (although maybe you should have included a trigger warning for any Dopers with arachnophobia 
)!
Too late 
My husband took this picture of a baby gator yesterday. (He always takes such nice photos without really seeming to try. I think I need a new phone!)
Anyway, you see one of these adorable little lizards, you know his big ugly mama isn’t far away.
Yesterday was a day of snakes. We’re at our cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
In the morning we were walking around a small lake and came across a brown northern water snake sunning across the path and not moving, so I took the dog on his leash up the hill and around the snake. I look back to my wife who was following me and she immediately trips and falls almost right on the snake, who then moved very quickly off the trail.
Then I was walking my dog around our pond. He was carrying a rawhide in his mouth when we came across another water snake also sunning himself and also disinclined to move. It startled my dog, who dropped his rawhide right next to the snake. My dog was beside himself, I had drag him away to the porch and go back with a broom to get the rawhide from the snake (I know they’re not venomous, but they’re still a wild animal with teeth).
So I take my dog out for another walk and we come across a copperhead right by our front porch.
At this point I decide to relax with a bourbon on our screened in porch. Our cat brings me a small black snake she has caught and very much alive.
Good day at my favorite ponds(s) today. Got a great close-up look at a least bittern, though sadly no great pictures. However I did see a juvenile great-tailed grackle with a fresh-caught minnow, which kinda threw me for a loop. Apparently not an uncommon thing, but you could have knocked me over with a feather:
Speaking of fish (well, crayfish):
Ran into a family of river otters (mother and three youngsters) and got ahead of them. They very kindly obliged by hauling out in front of me for several minutes to groom and rest. Cute enough you’d almost forget they’re vicious little weasels .
Speaking of youngsters, a bit of brood-parasitism. Loud and demanding juvenile brown-headed cowbird being fed by its song sparrow foster parent:
Great pictures!
We’re baby bird central here - wrens in the pot on the deck, bluebirds in the nestbox on the back fence, finches on the downspout next to the deck and I saw some juvenile titmice demanding food from a parent in the riiver birch in the back yard. Lots of peep-peep-peeping all around.
I bought this cheap set of clip-on lenses for my phone - one is wide angle, another is fisheye, and the third is macro. We have violets and violas that spontaneously pop up in the grass, so I clipped the macro on and took a couple pics. Not bad (click to see the whole pic).
That is gorgeous.
I love violets and their many colors. Thanks for sharing.
Very nice 
. I’ll have to look into giving those a try - I’m not always in the mood to carry a full camera myself.
These are the ones I got. They also sell sets of 7 and sets of 9. I’m toying with getting one of those - I’d like to try the telephoto that comes with them since the zoom on my phone is terrible.
We have a ton of raspberries around our meadow and horse pastures. I’ve been walking around most days, collecting the ripest ones and eating them.
No blackberries. Two mulberry trees.
Interesting. Do the black ones taste like raspberry or mulberry?
Once upon a time a neighbor up and died leaving me free to take all his black raspberries that summer. Absolutely delicious. I’ve never had the right kind of soil for growing raspberries so I buy mine from a local farm family.
They taste like raspberries. We have a bunch of blueberries that my gf planted, but most years the birds get more than we do.
Well, yum! I’ll be right over.
A new, non-arachnid challenge for my new phone:
It has an 8 MP wide-angle/macro lens, but the minimum focal distance for the main camera is practically identical so there is no reason not to use it. These and the earlier photos were all taken in non-binned 50 MP mode.
So what is that thing?
Weevil.