Just a handful of wildlife portraits obtained within the past few days – they mostly speak for themselves.
How long has it been since we’ve had an arthropod? Too long?
I said it was misty last night, and you didn’t believe me. This katydid did, however.
This Canada goose was waiting for me to finish distributing corn so it could take a break from chowing on pond weeds. Now if we could only get the wood ducks this close…
This one has me quite curious, because while I’ve seen a lot of base color variation among the green treefrogs, I’ve never seen one with a speckled pattern. I’d guessed that it might have been in a transitional stage between shades, but this persisted into daylight, and had it not been for the prominent white stripe along the sides, I might have even believed this was another species. Checking just now, it seems that on occasion, green treefrogs can hybridize with another species, the barking treefrog, which has distinct spots across its back in much the same distribution as these speckles, but larger. Those can be found in this area, though I’ve never seen nor heard one. Hmmm…
But the coolest portrait belongs to this little gal:
After not having seen it for months, suddenly the anole with the bent tail tip showed up again in the exact same place, right on the lightpost alongside the front walk. And I realized with the first pic that her reflection could barely be seen in the glass from the lamp, and so re-positioned slightly to get this a lot more distinctly. Going the extra mile, that’s me…