It means… actually, it doesn’t mean a damn thing, because I haven’t done a weekly topic on Thursdays since, oh, 2021, but I like the idea of new people coming here and thinking they’re missing out. Well, sure, of course they are, if they’re new, but even more so than they really are. All this presumes that new people are actually coming here, and this whole
Category: Nature
A few boids
I’m not doing terribly well on cleaning out the backlog, partially because there’s no real subject/theme among most of the pics, so I’m just throwing up a couple for the time being, recent avian images.
A few days back, The Girlfriend and I did a pass through Goose Creek State Park in the late morning, turning up surprisingly little – the place seemed almost
Gotta do this backwards
I have a small collection of the same subject from two consecutive days, but the best images were the first and tapered off a bit from there, so we’re doing them mostly in reverse order.
Four or five days ago (depending on when I actually post this – it’s 11 PM right now,) the day dawned quite foggy, and I looked out at the pond and saw practically nothing. No, it wasn’t quite
No, not there, there!
Just illustrating one of the common pitfalls of nature photography.
The other day while I was up in the bathroom observing the ducks (which sounds weird if you haven’t been following along,) a pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) was hopping excitedly between a couple of trees in relatively plain sight, and I say “relatively” because there is no completely plain sight
Estate Find 55
There were about 2-3 minutes today when seeing this was actually possible, so The Girlfriend and I are extremely lucky to have been there when it happened. But as we were walking the property and discussing where some trees would be going, I spotted this microspud booking as fast as it was able across the gravel driveway.
This is easily the smallest turtle I’ve ever found,
Madame Mesquite
And so, part two of the visit to Mattamuskeet National Widlife Refuge, focusing entirely on the one species that made a cameo in the first. The foreshadowing of the day came early on, when we saw a pair of birds far in the distance crossing the road.
This is cropped from the full frame at 600mm, so suffice to say I wasn’t identifying them based on what I saw in the viewfinder,
Matt Amos Keat
It’s taking a little longer to get to this than intended, because other things keep happening, and I’ve decided that there are enough images to go along with it that I’m going to split it into two posts this is the first. So let’s go out to Lake Mattamuskeet, North Carolina.
The Girlfriend and I have been planning to do this trip since we moved to the new
Signed and notarized
Yesterday we went on a nice little day trip, and consequently I have just a few photos to put up, but first, we have last night’s news, which is, now it’s official:
Yep, the first appearance of a treefrog, in this case a Copes grey treefrog (Dryophytes chrysoscelis) means that spring is officially here. Sure, we’ve seen some spring peepers before this,
Rehab x 8
It’s that time of the year, the time when the critters are getting more active and birthing their bebbies and all that, so we revisit our now-annual post on the topic of wildlife rehabilitation, in the hopes that it helps someone out there handle their unexpected situation a little bit better. Below begins the content first written in 2013 and still quite topical.
I used to work in this field
That would do it
I mentioned in the previous post about the possible explanation for the raised water levels in the pond, and The Girlfriend and I went out in the kayaks today to check things out. I would say the mystery is adequately solved.
That’s the edge of the kayak peeking in there, as it sat against the top of an impressive beaver dam, one that measured better than six meters in length