… post the end of the month abstract?
Waaayyy too much like others, but this is what I got, except for some that have already been posted. Maybe I’ll go create another tonight (this is being written the night before it posts.) Anyway,
Give me credit for picking the right angle, at least. I took several from this vantage, because the depth-of-field was so short and the
Got a multi-part one for this week, dedicated solely to mammals, which are woefully underrepresented in my stock. Then again, I could live out in the west and have plenty of bison and such, but few examples of shorebirds and jellyfish, so…
The other evening while out on the edge of the pond, The Girlfriend’s Sprog asked what it was that was moving the tall pond leaves and I, rather dismissively
This past sorting task was overdue and required me to slog through 2,000 images, and the earliest image was still just May 2nd – less than a month. Now you understand why I keep talking about a photo backlog, and these only added to it…
I can’t recall the exact circumstances for this one, but we’ve noticed that if the wood ducks (Aix sponsa) get suspicious,
The Girlfriend and I did a relatively brief trip to Goose Creek State Park, shit, over a week ago now, where I snagged a small handful of photos – nothing exciting, but an outing nonetheless. The key part, as always when down near the water, is that I was on the lookout for eagles, of which I saw none. (On a latter trip this past weekend, we found what appeared to be eagle nests in two different
It’s been a busy couple of days, and so I haven’t cleared any of the backlog while, yes of course, adding to it. So I’ll clear two add-ons and reduce the amount of deficit by a small degree. Seriously, I shouldn’t even be doing this, since I’ve got a shitload of photos to sort too, and will be returning to that once this is posted. Anyway, two from this morning.
The Estate Finds are written ahead of time and scheduled to post at 6 AM each Friday – sometimes not too far ahead of time, but they’re certainly not ‘real time’ posts. This past one almost could have been though, as twice during the day Friday I achieved updates on the primary subject.
At midday, I saw something fly into the pond as I was talking to The Girlfriend out back,
Today is World Turtle Day, and I’m prepared, having in fact obtained a few images the day before, because I’ve got it going on. What “it” is and what “going on” means is up for interpretation, and I doubt we’ll be in agreement over those. Regardless, some World Turtles.
The explosion of both foliage in the many trees around the pond and large lily leaves
Credit for this one – at least, part one – goes to The Girlfriend, who was the first to spot and photograph it three days ago, but it wasn’t until yesterday that I was successful myself. I was out specifically to pick an Estate Find, hopefully this one. and wasn’t having a lot of luck – I was on my way back when I caught movement at the pond edge. Visibility was horrendous,
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