The Girlfriend and I were out in the backyard early this evening and we spotted a red wasp with deep blue wings skimming close to the ground right near out feet, and quickly discovered why, as a fishing spider suddenly broke its camouflage by scampering off madly. It was clear that the wasp was one of the spider hunting varieties, and had just missed nailing the fishing spider. I bent down and identified
Category: Photography
You’d blame me if you missed something
Once again, we enter into another annual meteor shower season, actually the two for late July: the Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids. Both of
The Magic Bucket strikes again
The trash can that sits next to the outside door to Walkabout Studios, used primarily for the stinky trash that resin printing produces, has claimed another capture. For reasons unknown, wildlife keeps getting into the can only to be discovered later, and now it’s a semi-regular feature.
This was the find a couple of days ago:
Okay, this one isn’t too surprising
Night of 1,000 lizards
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
Not snakes
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
Estate Find XXIX
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
Still more of the shit I get up to
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
Somebody being perverse
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.
As luck would have it…
… 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
I’m an idiot
Actually, it’s hard to believe that, in over sixteen years of posting, I haven’t used that title before…
So early this morning, the ISS was supposed to pass in front of the moon again, at least in my location, and I was all prepared to go out after it again. I didn’t have visibility here at Walkabout Estates Plus, so I packed my gear down to a spot just off the waterfront,