A small (heh!) collection of diminutive critters from the environs, the past several days.
Checking out the diamond spire gardenias one night as they had started blooming again, I saw a little knot around one leaf cluster, almost but not quite appearing as fallen leaves.
Yes, this is a reasonable illustration of scale – gardenia leaves and flowers aren’t that big, the
This is from the same night as this shot, and probably should have been posted then (or even as the month-end abstract,) but it wasn’t, so here it is because I’m not going to do much else with it. I like how confusing it is solely because the mist drops obscure the necessary details, but if you look closely, you may figure it out.
Or not. You’re looking at the tail and the hind
I’m not quite going to make this in July, but so be it. Late at night on the 31st, I found the first newborn Carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis) on the oak-leaf hydrangeas (Hydrangea quercifolia.)
Here’s the deal: At old Walkabout Estates, we’d planted a few oak-leaf hydrangeas,
Just a brief interlude, and because c’mon. The other night we had a persistent drifting mist, and the sleeping young Carolina anoles (Anolis carolinensis) were recipients of this, as was about every flat surface. Naturally I couldn’t pass this up…
In a previous post (don’t I say that a lot? Livin’ in the past, livin’ in the past) I mentioned that the tag, ‘Carolina anole’ was the most prevalent on the ol’ bloggachomps here, and since we just recently had a post about the runner-up, ‘Chinese mantis,’ we now have to feature more anoles just to prevent slipping from first place. This is how I justify
For reasons unknown, I keep going throughout the weekdays without really feeling like posting, even when (as now) I have a selection of photos to put up, as well as a couple of other topics that I could tackle. Instead, I let myself get involved in other projects, which is fine, they need doin’, but makes the posts rather sporadic and clustered.
So let’s see what the Estates anoles are
… which only means two nights ago now, since these got bumped by a heron.
Did a nighttime patrol, specifically looking for something since The Girlfriend and I saw evidence while we were out on the deck grilling steaks (back when it was daylight.) However, we’re going to build rather than doing them in order, because dramatic writing (well, typing) and all that.
I had the 180mm macro lens
Wonder of wonders, I can actually put together a short video! Don’t get too used to it, though…
Total display/dispute lasted just a couple of minutes, and probably only occurred because the anole scampered across the door when the sun was right. We’ll see more of that reflective film (primarily in place so we can observe the wood ducks without spooking them) in a little bit.
By the
Who needs one, am I right? No need to get all hoity-toity with this – it’s a blog.
Which means I’m cleaning out a handful of images that have been piling up in the blog folder, unable to be attached to any theme.
Out one night and tracking a nearby ratcheting sound, I happened across this guy and got some nice poses, largely to try and invoke an identification since
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
