I’m supposed to be working on the weekly post right now, but I heard a noise outside and, since it was nearly 11 PM, I thought I’d check – you only get one chance to be eaten by a bear, you know? Though despite my cavalier attitude in the preceding sentence, I was cautious and went out slowly,
Tag: Anolis carolinensis
Not dead? Then it’s working
Once again, we find ourselves (that’s the royal “we,” not [necessarily] including you) on Darwin Day, without anything prepared to show for it. I have long maintained that we should be celebrating the scientist on some other day than his birthday, since the dead of winter is a hard time to find topical content. The fictional readers that I insist are real shoot back that I’m
It’s called fashion – look it up
Just had to post this one. This guy’s been rockin’ the kerchief for a couple of weeks now, I think…
This is in the greenhouse, specifically on the foxglove plant that he seems to really like, since I’ve found him there (and scared him off while watering said plant) numerous times. In fact, several days ago when it was quite warm and I’d left the greenhouse
Ticking away
I’m sitting here reflecting on perspectives, somehow believing that something profound will be produced by it and yet not really finding anything that isn’t trite, and the reason for this is, this marks the end of the seventeenth year of the old blogoblob. Reaching the age of seventeen, personally I mean, seemed interminable, and now I’ve been posting for that
Recall those wicked winters…
… what, five days ago, when the temperature dropped to -6°c overnight, and got barely above freezing during the day?
Yeah.
It was 21° as I took these this afternoon. North Carolina, man…
Six yellow-bellied sliders (Trachemys scripta scripta) had piled onto the limited real estate of Turtle Island to enjoy the sun, showing that they’re adept at detecting the air
Let’s hope it’s the coldest
As intimated earlier, I did get out to do a few shots while the temperatures remained in the ‘frigid’ class, eventually peaking above freezing, but not by a lot. And while we’ve already well surpassed the record for images uploaded during a year, we’ll take any opportunity to blast it out of the water, because why not? The ducks were not only conspicuously absent for nearly
Why you like that?
Seriously, what is it with anoles and their sleeping positions?
This is far from the first time finding one here, but the position was so perfect this particular evening.
Look at those toes. Though you’d think that getting, you know, on top would be more comfortable and less likely to fall off, but then you wouldn’t be thinking like an anole. At the very least,
A few quick portraits
Just a handful of wildlife portraits obtained within the past few days – they mostly speak for themselves.
How long has it been since we’ve had an arthropod? Too long?
I said it was misty last night, and you didn’t believe me. This katydid did, however.
This Canada goose was waiting for me to finish distributing corn so it could take a break from chowing on pond weeds.
Nominal nominal nominal
So, [you ask because you’re following everything I post with due excitement] how did Monday morning’s pursuit of the Leonids and aurora borealis go? And I, being the suspicious type that tries to detect subtle impish questions that you already know the answer to, pause just long enough to convey this suspicion before plowing ahead anyway.
In short, no better than any other time I’ve
Life in the wild
To say that the property is littered with lizards is understating things to a serious degree, since they can be seen nearly everywhere when the day is warm enough and the sun is out, and I’m used to seeing them scampering away around the edges of the house, shed, and greenhouse – in fact, I have to regularly check the shed to see who’s gotten locked inside because, if the door