The Eyes Have It

My contribution to Eileeninmd's Saturday's Critters #93.



And here's a rose I tried in monochrome:

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Fall Flowers

My contribution to TexWiscGirl's Good Fences #79, as well as Michelle's Nature Notes (#330).




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Happy Spiderday!

My contribution to Eileeninmd's Saturday's Critters #92.



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Fence, Sign, Bird, Bee

My contribution to TexWiscGirl's Good Fences #78.

Carmi's Thematic Photographic 350 is Signs. This one has seen a few years:

This is also my contribution to Michelle's Nature Notes (#329):


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Horntail Wasp

My contribution to Eileeninmd's Saturday's Critters #91. This is a Pigeon Tremex Horntail. Horntails are stingless wasps that lay their eggs in hardwood. Their chief natural enemy is the Giant Ichneumon Wasp, which drills its ovipositor into logs to lay an egg on the horntail larvae. (I have pictures of one here.)


These Cardinal flowers grow in sunny spots along the creek beds in W.V.:

And last but not least, a Columbus mourning dove (and my link to Anni's I'd Rather Be Birdin'):

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Sitting On The Porch

My contribution to TexWiscGirl's Good Fences #77. Here's Rory on the porch deck:

This is my sister's hummingbird feeder:

The hummingbirds like to sit on the butterfly wings when they aren't sipping sugar water:

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Who's Afraid of Carolina Wolf Spider?

Carmi's Thematic Photographic 349 is Wildlife. This is also my contribution to Michelle's Nature Notes (#328).

The last time I used this title, the yolk was on me. Turns out my wolf spider was actually a fishing spider, Dolomedes tenebrosus. If this were another fishing spider, I might have tried a picture-in-hand, as this guy did. But I'm pretty sure it's a Carolina Wolf Spider (Hogna carolinensis), and they are not known for being friendly.


It has come to my attention that some readers are not as fond of spiders as meself, so how about a butterfly? I'm used to seeing the Great Spangled Fritillary on the mountain, but this one was noticeably smaller. Perhaps an Aphrodite Fritillary? Or an Atlantis? Or maybe it's a male Great Spangled.


Finally, here's Rory! Definitely not interested in any people food.

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Cacapon Resort State Park Critters 9/04/2015

My contribution to Eileeninmd's Saturday's Critters #90. Here are some critters I saw yesterday at Cacapon Resort State Park.






Last but certainly not least, here are Amelia and Rory:



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Monochrome Theda

My contribution to TexWiscGirl's Good Fences #76. I'm still playing with monochrome...this is Theda on the porch deck.

I startled a cicada in Ashburn and this yellow finch came out after it. Picture isn't too sharp, but...fence!

The Bambi family visited the backyard in W.V. yesterday:


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Arm Spider, etc.

Carmi's Thematic Photographic 348 is Monochrome. The Canon G15 has a monochrome setting, but until now I never got around to finding it. So here we have it: the backyard in monochrome and in color.


This is my contribution to this week's I'd Rather B Birdin'. I thought this Mockingbird might be sick, but Phil suggested it's likely in post-breeding moult:

Michelle quoted the author of Charlotte's Web for Nature Notes (#327). Here we have an Marbled Orb Weaver - (Araneus marmoreus):


Last (but not least), Theda by a creek.

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