Well, okay, not quite that many – more like half a dozen.
For the past couple of nights I’ve noticed that the three small transplanted Japanese maples out back each have their own bebby Carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis) living thereon, mostly visible when they’re sleeping draped across the leaves. One we’ve
Back on Wednesday when it was Word Snake Day, I went down to Goose Creek State Park specifically to find some snakes, which failed miserably. This did mean, however, that I got into a few areas that I hadn’t been before, and I went prepared for other subjects, so I captured a few images that worked for the overall bloggetty theme, if not for the day itself. So we now get to those.
Looking out
I hadn’t found anything too exciting this week and was resigned to having to post something banal (even though I’d found some great stuff off of the property,) but I took one last pass around the environs late last night to see what I might scare up. And indeed, scared up something, though if I’d been more leery of being out at night, it might have scared me up instead
Definitely one of the more awkward things I’ve ever attempted, especially in the name of mere curiosity.
So the eastern kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula) made another appearance a few minutes ago, and this time it was too far out of the burrow to retreat back into it, so in moments I had it in hand. First things first: this is not the same one as
Out last night trying (and succeeding) to find a new Estate Find, I came back to the outside door to Walkabout Studios and saw a distinctive pattern, right alongside the steps: an eastern kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula) emerging from a burrow about as close to my door as it could be. The day after World Snake Day as well, when I spent so much time trying to locate any.
… 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
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