Nights in April

You can expect to find things like this, if you’re looking around. Two short clips, one from last night, one from, damn, ten days ago – I’d been hoping to get some more to go along with it, but there’s been no further sign as yet.

A note about the toads. This isn’t actually mating, since they do external fertilization: the female finds a body of water read more

Doesn’t seem farfetched

Among other things, I was out tonight specifically looking for this – I’m just not sure if I found it or not, but I think I did.

Ever since I missed the anole egg hatching (see previous post,) I’ve been checking the environs to see if I can find the newborn – mostly at night, because it’s very likely that the hatchling will stretch out on a leaf someplace to snooze, read more

Before the deadline

Today is World Turtle Day, and I’m prepared, having in fact obtained a few images the day before, because I’ve got it going on. What “it” is and what “going on” means is up for interpretation, and I doubt we’ll be in agreement over those. Regardless, some World Turtles.

The explosion of both foliage in the many trees around the pond and large lily leaves read more