While I made a significant dent in the backlog of photos to be posted, there are still too many in the queue, some of which just don’t fit into any decent category. We’ll get a handful more out right now.
The layout of the property, especially the water sources, is weird and hard to describe. The eastern border is a creek, but at one spot there’s a channel that leads into a small
Looked out the kitchen window in early afternoon the other day and found this guy:
Eastern rat snakes (Pantherophis quadrivittatus) are excellent climbers, not even hesitating to scale virtually any kind of tree in search of birds’ nests (for eggs, nestlings, or adults) a friend insists that one was regularly shinnying up a perfectly smooth, 6-inch
So does your readership, and in fact, your actual existence – is there anyone actually reading? Plowing ahead anyway…
I have two pairs of very similar photos for you to evaluate, and all I’m looking for is which you like best. Not asking about artistic merit, or which shows better details, or whether I should give up photography and go back to, um… something… just which
Actually, it’s already waited a few days now, mostly because I either didn’t have the time to post or wasn’t in the blogging mood since it was this past Friday, it really could have just squeaked in as an ‘Estate Find XXa’ or ‘XX.V’ – did the ancient Romans use decimals? Maybe lower-case Roman numerals, like, ‘XXv?’ Whatever.
Out with the
This one goes back a little too far, certainly not counting as this past week in any way, but I didn’t want it back-to-back with XIIX. Once again, I was out exploring at night by headlamp, but really, I was standing just outside the front door when I spotted a dark spot in the yard not far from the greenhouse. It was easily identified just by getting a little closer.
That’s
Well, not like a convention of reptiles…
First off, this serves as your reminder that Endangered Species Day is Friday, May 23rd (the third Friday in May,) which also falls on World Turtle Day, always the 23rd of May. No cheating and using an endangered turtle to celebrate both in one go, unless you actually can, and then go for it.
The example photo here is actually an endangered
Did I observe World Migratory Bird Day, you’re asking? Did I even complete the goal I set out for myself in an earlier post? Well, yes, though I actually had two, and one remains only half-completed.
First off, two days before the holiday, I was surprised to suddenly see a female wood duck shoot into the nest box without warning, revealing that it was currently in use, and so one of the goals
Several days back, The Girlfriend found a potted blue lobelia for me, which I’ve been intending to get for a while, because they’re blue, and I mean, seriously blue – more blue than any flower I’ve seen, more blue than almost any thing I’ve seen. Note that this is not the US native great blue lobelia, or blue cardinal flower, but an African
Or at least, badass-looking, anyway. The specimen you’re about to see is only about 20mm in leg spread – not especially large as far as spiders go, and it only appears this impressive because we’re going in so close. This was found within my outside trash basket, which I have because the resin 3D printer produces some heavy fumes, as does the stuff used to clean it all
Or at least, they were for a short while.
Back when the internet was out, I found two new subjects for photos and posts – except, i didn’t recognize either of them, and couldn’t post anyway. Now, it’s true that I have the Audubon Guides to both birds and reptiles & amphibians, but I’ve found them to be so inadequate that I haven’t used either in years, mostly