Sorting finds n+13

Gotta bunch this time around, and it’s going to be herp-heavy, which means we’re classing together species that barely have any relation to one another scientifically, but they seem kind of the same this means frogs, lizards, and turtles. We’ll try to space them out a bit.

This one should have been in the last post, but I forgot about it until I’d already posted and didn’t read more

Little things for now

Just a couple of pics for the time being – I’m in the middle of sorting and some sorting finds will be along when I finish, so right now, we have a couple of recent discoveries for giggles.

First off, last night the five bebby anoles that could be found on the Japanese maple nearest the door to Walkabout Studios could be captured in a single frame:


Can you find them all? read more

Estate Find XXXVI.V

We have a late Find entry, which I’m rushing out to make it still within the confines of Friday (I have a half hour.)


After watching the hatching taking place many moons ago, I saw no signs of any Chinese mantids (Tenodera sinensis) at all, except for the adult that suddenly read more

Estate Find XXXVI

I apologize, but there’s no Estate Find this week – I’ve spent the past two days doing almost nothing but dealing with contractors, after an extended weekend with guests over. While I did indeed go out a few times trying to find something, I was interrupted/cut short twice and found nothing new the other times.

It do be like this sometimes despite your best efforts, read more

Crikey stroppin’ beeah!

Today, so my calendar informs me, is National Wildlife Day, which is actually different from World Wildlife Day, found on March 3rd and yet somehow not on my calendar. In fact, this is only a National Wildlife Day, since it also falls in February – perhaps it depends read more

Jiskaske nou rankontre ankò, August!

Squeaking in under the wire with this one, getting out two specially-produced abstract images to see August on its way (since I found absolutely nothing during my normal perambulations.) Will this make them better, or worse than normal? Who’s judging? Who’s reading?

Anyway, what I produced after a little playing around a short while ago:


A handful of people might recognize read more

Banana (spider) for scale

While I was out last night photographing the Estate Find, I grabbed two other images of opportunity and I’ll throw them up now.

I’ve mentioned the explosion of golden silk orbweavers (Trichonephila clavipes) on the property, but they’re getting big now, and I needed an illustration read more

Still here, really

These long empty stretches keep happening, and probably will, since there are plenty of other things going on here that need my attention, so the posts get neglected. Plus, those same things keep me from finding new images or topics. So, we’ll have just a couple of sideline pics gathered here and there just to prove I’m not dead. But also consider, I could be resorting to AI to generate read more

Estate Finds XXXIV

Nothing too exciting this week, so I’m making up for it by providing several different things – quantity instead of quality, the bywords of the US.

Let’s start with one that I discovered while mowing, and thus had to resort to the smutphone to capture, which once again convinced me how much they suck.


The mantids have not been highly visible on the property, and read more

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