… I found nothing for World Snake Day, despite making more than a passing effort (which resulted in a lot of other photos, but they’ll be along in another post.) So we have the fallback images that I snagged a few days earlier, and a potentially-related bonus that was at least obtained yesterday.
The other day while refilling the hummingbird feeders, I found a decent snakeskin in the
Actually, it’s hard to believe that, in over sixteen years of posting, I haven’t used that title before…
So early this morning, the ISS was supposed to pass in front of the moon again, at least in my location, and I was all prepared to go out after it again. I didn’t have visibility here at Walkabout Estates Plus, so I packed my gear down to a spot just off the waterfront,
Yes, it’s time for a wood duck update – it’s been a few weeks after all. The broods that visit still remain incredibly wary, requiring no small amount of sneakiness to photograph or video – their progress in getting used to us is not at all what we’d hoped, but we take solace in the fact that this also means they’re hypersensitive to any real threats that may
Yep, it’s here already – time flies, eh? Tomorrow is World Snake Day, so we know all readers (the definitions of “all” and “readers” subject to wild interpretation) will be out combing their local areas to see what can be found. I already have my fallback, should I not
Among other things, I was out tonight specifically looking for this – I’m just not sure if I found it or not, but I think I did.
Ever since I missed the anole egg hatching (see previous post,) I’ve been checking the environs to see if I can find the newborn – mostly at night, because it’s very likely that the hatchling will stretch out on a leaf someplace to snooze,
Very little photography this week, and virtually nothing new either. I have been monitoring the various turtle nests, but no activity yet, and two of them show some less-than-promising signs – we’ll see what happens, or fails to. And I made another attempt to catch the
Not really, but last night the temperature dropped more than it had in weeks, coupled with high humidity, and dew formed with a vengeance, which we also hadn’t seen in weeks – it doesn’t often hit the dewpoint overnight in summer here. And so, there were a couple of subjects to be found because of this.
The Girlfriend and I had seen this eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica)
I was hoping to have a specific subject for this one, as we pass the halfway mark, but so far no luck – the vagaries of nature and all that. So this is kind of a fallback, with not very good images, but I’m doubling down on it so there’s that.
Just three weeks back we featured a golden silk orbweaver
These were taken, I started to say, ‘a couple weeks back now’ but it’s actually over a month ago, so I’m definitely sliding a bit. It was when friends were visiting so we went down to the waterfront, and we were watching the turtles underneath the boardwalk. While there are posted signs that prohibit feeding any wildlife along the boardwalk, it was clear that plenty of people
Holy shit, it’s been over a year since the last Profiles! You must think we’ve become compassionate or something! We’ll have to see what we can do to correct that horrid misapprehension…
This time around we have Shailagh, whose favorite month is June because people think she’s observing Pride Month when in reality she always looks like this, observing nothing because