(click it for the bigger picture) An intriguing spider, not quite one centimeter in length and of unknown species found on one of the hammock ropes in the backyard. I’ve not before seen one with such a large and tall cephalothorax in relation to its abdomen. I have an ID request in to the indispensable …
Found this morning hanging out on the snail blossom vine. For a sense of its scale, the insect could have fully stood upon my thumbnail with room to spare (click it for the bigger if grainier picture).
You hang around our backyard long enough and you come to know something’s up when the mockingbirds discard all their calls save for one that fascinatingly mimics the screeeee! of a hawk. Whether or not it’s a raccoon or a squirrel or an actual bird of prey that’s raised their alarm is unknown. All you …
An exceptionally intriguing and accommodating moth hanging out on the edge of a planted pot in our backyard: (click to ginormify)
Be it ironic or coincidental, yesterday — my first as a fully empowered self-employer — also proved to be the first day in a long time (August 25, 2009, to be exact) that I unearthed a new treasure from our endlessly surprising backyard, the area behind our barbecue grill to be exact. And this time …
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Its melancholy call caught my ear while out in the backyard this morning, and this mourning dove obliged me not only by staying put until I could return with my camera, but also by offering up this interesting pose (click image for the bigger picture):