My contribution to Eileeninmd's Saturday's Critters #145. I went for a nature walk on the Washington & Old Dominion Trail on Thursday and was promptly greeted by Bambi.
Yesterday, I saw a Monarch Butterfly.
I'm also contributing to Anni's I'd-Rather-B-Birdin. Here's a mockingbird from my sister's backyard.
I passed this mockingbird on the trail. Usually they fly right off, but it kept singing to itself. So I got ready to record...and a string of bicycles came by. Then a plane from Dulles. Then more bikes, another plane...I was about to give up, and then there was a window.
Last but not least, here's Rory!
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I got all backed up with my weekly contributions, this week.
I'm too late for Michelle's Nature Notes (#367). But you should go visit her anyways! Here's another pic of the Black Rat Snake from last week. So cooperative!
Thursday's come and gone. Here's Amelia for TexWiscGirl's Good Fences #117 (I'm too late for that one, too. Just didn't have my blogging shoes on this week :P ).
I'm not too late for Eileeninmd's Saturday's Critters #131. Here's a sweat bee on a thistle flower:
Here's an Ashburn Bambi. Usually they run away when they see me, or shortly after. Not this one! A jogger came by. A plane went overhead. A couple people on the trail behind me stopped their bicycles to watch. And Bambi kept on eating about 10 feet away.
I've got four of these, I'm saving two for later.
I'm also linking to Carmi's Thematic Photographic 373 - In the metal.
After checking my June photos, this is about the only metal I took snaps of. It was rush hour traffic and this car had cut in front of me FOUR times. (Note the four minute difference between the two pics, and this after he'd aggravated me enough to take his picture in the first place.) For an encore, he cut in front of the car behind me a couple more. Obviously, the weaving in traffic approach was getting him no where, but he just kept on doing it.
And now for something pleasant again: Anni's I'd Rather B Birdin'. Some of these are house finches, I'm not sure who that is in front though.
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My contribution to TexWiscGirl's Good Fences #111. This is the fence by the basement stairwell (said basement flooded with the heavy rains we got last week).
Carmi returns to Thematic Photographic with 369 - Feeling Nostalgic. Here's a classic Monty Python sketch.
P.S. Mystery Birdie Bush flowers are coming out. They have four white petals. Possibly a Philadelphus coronarius (mock-orange) or relative?
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My contribution to TexWiscGirl's Good Fences #90.
These people are ready for Christmas:
It's been a while since I posted a video of Theda singing along with an emergency vehicle's siren.
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My contribution to TexWiscGirl's Good Fences #84.
This is also my contribution to Eileeninmd's Saturday's Critters #98. (I've been too busy to do much blogging or commenting this past week. Still plenty to go, too, I'm afraid.)
This video has been on youtube for a while, but I just saw it the first time the other day:
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My contribution to eileeninmd's Saturday's Critters #85. I've been hoping to get pictures of a Luna Moth for many years.
So those were from Wednesday. This morning, I look out the basement sliding glass door and something with a familiar lime-green color is flopping around in the leaves.
What do you know, a slightly smaller Luna.
Another Imperial Moth showed up last night. Therefore: MOTHRA FACE OFF!
That last is my contribution to Weekend Butterfly #08 at Andyslens. Speaking of Imperial Moths, thanks to reallysmallfish for this:
Last but not least (although smallest), here's an Eastern Tailed-blue:
UPDATE: Mothra Song
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The house in West Virginia was built in the early 1970s. For that matter, Theda is around 12 years old.
"The order Odonata ("toothed ones") includes some of the most ancient and beautiful insects that ever roamed Earth, as well as some of the largest flying invertebrates ever to have lived."
And here's a male Common Whitetail:
Also, I have some bumblebee pics to contribute to Michelle's Nature Notes (#318):
UPDATE: Happy B-Day to my sister! Here's one of her wolfhounds, Amelia:
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Funny thing...that stuff used to be around more when I was little. Now most everything is plastic. So here's one of my car tires.
The handle of this paring knife feels like rubber. Maybe it is?
In other birdness, the shadow knows!
I don't think I ever heard Guided By Voices until BLCKDGRD put me on to them.
The last couple of times I've walked to the Scioto Audubon Metro Park, I'd been hoping to see some wading birds up close. No such luck. But I did notice some cranes on the way back, so I took pictures of them instead.
Here are the train tracks that run between the park and downtown:
Brewmasters Gate logo:
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