A couple of follow-ups to previous posts, because I know you’ve been dangling anxiously…
Two days ago, I saw a vehicle that would haul that tankah I mentioned in passing that I should have backlit the empty eye sockets of the molted exoskeleton of a golden silk orbweaver, because of course
So, we’re all already familiar with the sorting finds, the images that I come across when sorting all of the recent photos into the appropriate folders that I then realize I should feature in a post you may wonder why I didn’t do this initially upon unloading the memory cards, but I either found something else that had a higher priority, or was too busy at the time,
Out the other evening, I found something that, in the back of my mind, I figured was about due to start showing up, if last year was any guide. That would be this:
Yep, it’s a golden silk orbweaver (Trichonephila clavipes,) almost certainly female yet quite a young and small one, considering how big they usually get. I guess I should say was, since I just
Listen – we haven’t seen a single bunny rabbit in the yard since we moved here. There have been a handful of fawns, and you’ve seen them all. No lambs, no kittens, certainly no red pandas or meerkats or bushbabies or quokkas. Assuredly, if there were, I’d be photographing them, but I can only snag what I see, and the cute ones are few and far between. It’s
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
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
I was hoping to have a specific subject for this one, as we pass the halfway mark, but so far no luck – the vagaries of nature and all that. So this is kind of a fallback, with not very good images, but I’m doubling down on it so there’s that.
Just three weeks back we featured a golden silk orbweaver
This Estate Find might set the record for the most frames taken to capture what I was after, but that’s because I was after some pretty specific things that are very hard to see, from a subject that’s difficult to work with.
In the past week, as if a switch has been thrown, there’s a section of the property that sports large numbers of this week’s find, which could be a lot
The function of getting established at the new Walkabout Estates is going much slower than intended, primarily not our fault – we’re still waiting for the truck with most of our belongings to arrive. Until that time, we’re bouncing back and forth between minor repairs/improvements and exploring the area, but this has included going down to the waterfront soon after
N 35°51’43.29″ W 75°51’25.61″ Google Earth Location
Yeah, really inducing people to plan their own trips out to this location just to see species like this, aren’t I? Call me “Mr Incentive!” I originally had something else scheduled to go up here, but replaced it with this one for a particular reason and bumped the other back to next week. You see, Tuesday
