I haven’t done much in the way of sunflower patch updates or pix recently because, well… as we know all good things must come to an end, and the last week or so has seen our sunflower beauties fading as they come to the various ends of their days. Right now there are several of …
Either that or the Moth That Can Touch Its Tail To Its Head: (yeah, you’ll wanna click for the bigger picture) Looking at it from inside the kitchen this afternoon, at first glance I thought it was some shmutz on the window screen (for scale reference it takes about 18 of those screen squares to …
(click here to view the timelapse file) Well I thought all was fine and dandy like cotton candy with the cam and computer, when I powered everything down at 7 a.m. this morning. But instead of some 20 hours of timelapse footage, unbeknownst to me the set-up crapped out after only 2.5 hours — which …
(click for the bigger picture) Known as red skimmers, this dragonfly’s common name is never so inadequate as when one is found in the backyard glowing like an ember sunbathed by the mid-afternoon rays.
For the couple weeks that our sunflowers have been going bloomin’ crazy, I’ve kept saying I should set up the cam all up in one’s face and get me an elongated timelapse — and then promptly ignored myself. Until today. If I were really sharp I would’ve set it up first thing in the morning …
I was alerted to its presence by a scree’ing mockingbird in the vicinity, but it wasn’t until I looked into the boughs of the camphor laurel across the street that I spotted the predator — a juvenile Cooper’s hawk — clutching in its talons what remained of an unfortunate pigeon: The heavily photoshopped image gets …
On my before-bed check of the flower patch last night I found this bee nestled and entirely still in the center of that newly bloomed lemon queen sunflower. As it was well after 10 p.m. and I’ve rarely — if ever — seen bees out after dark, I thought rather sentimentally that it might have …