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,
Rather abruptly, I have a backlog of photos and two video clips to get up here, so I’m going to be working my way through these in the next couple of days, and we’ll see how many other things come up while I’m dealing with these.
We’ve been having two white-tailed deer does (Odocoileus virginianus) visiting for corn on a regular basis, usually a couple of times a
I mentioned in the previous post that, after seeing the barred owl (Strix varia) family without a camera in hand, we may try to remedy that with another kayak excursion down there. However, yesterday I got busy on modifying the dock, and then the rains rolled in, so we never actually took the kayaks out.
Right around midnight, I was in the kitchen and heard the juvie call, and it sounded close
Welcome back to Tiny Tuesday, where we— wait, what day is it? They all run together. Minuscule Monday? No, it’s Sunday, so that makes it… hold on now…
Anyway, while you’re shouting out answers, we’ll plow ahead with two miniature subjects for today – one The Girlfriend pointed out to me, and one I had waiting in the wings that I decided to tackle after the
Let’s start with, did I get out myself and photograph or video the occultation of Venus by the moon yesterday that I was alerting you of?
No. I mean, I did get out, and the day had been all nice and clear, but by the time of the occultation, the sky had produced thick yet wildly variable clouds that couldn’t make up their minds whether they wanted to be assholes or not. They apparently
Wow, it’s been better than two years since the last ‘Too Cool’ post – at least, the last with that in the title, though as a category, there’s definitely been a few since then. This one comes courtesy of Astronomy Picture of the Day, though I’m a little lax, since this was yesterday’s.
Taken by John
S’okay, not much warning on one of them, but if you’re here, you don’t really need the prompting, even if it’s prompting to not be here – you may not need that either. But tomorrow, June 13th, is National Get Outdoors Day, or at least, USA Get Outdoors Day; it may not extend beyond our own country here. Now granted, the heat index
Out the other evening, I found something that, in the back of my mind, I figured was about due to start showing up, if last year was any guide. That would be this:
Yep, it’s a golden silk orbweaver (Trichonephila clavipes,) almost certainly female yet quite a young and small one, considering how big they usually get. I guess I should say was, since I just
Poking around at night by the headlamp again, endeavoring not to get eaten by a bear, I realized there was a faint sound that kept repeating, and I didn’t recognize it as anything ‘typical’ – the frogs were making a racket down at the pond, but this wasn’t a frog. So I started following
