I have a small collection of photos taken last night that I need to put up, and they were bumping four others from a few nights ago, but they all got kicked out of line by what I took this morning. These are the privileged piccies, the ones too good to wait in line. Yes, I’m terribly classist about my photos…
I was just setting up to reshoot an illustrative image for tomorrow’s
It’s always nice to have your own pool, but you have to factor in the fencing around it to keep the neighbors’ prying eyes out, of course. Out on the beck deck today, I found that a watering can featured a new detail.
Now, I know, every time we go to use the grill, I have to remove the cover and then chase three green treefrogs (Dryophytes cinereus) out from
When doing the end of the month tallying for the ol’ Walkabout blogaroosta, I found that I had uploaded 497 photos for the first half of the year. Three more, and I would have had a nice even 500 – I even had three waiting in the blog folder for a post! You can imagine the pain that this caused me.
Which was, not much at all. ‘Round’ numbers are a conceit, little more –
I’m quite pleased to have gotten this. I was up yesterday at first light, not exactly intentionally, but used the opportunity to watch for duck and geese raids on the pond edge. Instead, I realized I was hearing the juvie barred owl (Strix varia) calls from right in the backyard again, so I gathered the long lens and tripod and went out looking.
While two were in evidence from the calls, I
Within two days, I had two similar subjects to work with, with rather disparate cooperativeness, but it gave me the chance to catch up a little on the image count for the month.
The rains came in this past week, too many cloudbursts to count, but it made the amphibians happy, and we all know how important that is. One decided to come in the front door as soon as I opened it, though it likely
Wonder of wonders, I can actually put together a short video! Don’t get too used to it, though…
Total display/dispute lasted just a couple of minutes, and probably only occurred because the anole scampered across the door when the sun was right. We’ll see more of that reflective film (primarily in place so we can observe the wood ducks without spooking them) in a little bit.
By the
And so, June did expire, but not before, with its last breath, producing an abstract. It shouldn’t have made the effort, really…
I find myself woefully unprepared for the month end, and can offer only an archival image – at least, in the truer sense of the word, “abstract.” I stumbled across this earlier this month, kinda liked it, and set it aside in case I, you know,
My sleep schedule is quite whack right now, so when I say I was doing something, “early in the morning,” that means for me, translating to midmorning for most people. So, early in the morning, I looked out back and spotted one of the green herons (Butorides virescens) right down at the pond edge. We’ve had a couple sticking around for a while now, but virtually
Another round of sorting finds, because I emptied out the folders (well, the image folders – the video folders still need ‘some work.’) Except, the image sort folders remained empty for less than a day, so I could do it again, but it’s not enough to worry about right now.
So let’s see, we’ll start with a sequence:
A bit earlier in the year (these
Ha! More puns on multiple levels!
So sometime last year, when out early, I observed a northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) on top of a Leyland cypress tree, venting forth with a varied and seemingly neverending barrage of calls, many of them lifted from other birds I vowed then to return with the long lens and tripod and capture video of it. This finally happened, oh,
