Photos from the Houston Arboretum, was fun to spot a green tree frog

I've been busy, haven't been able to get into the wild much lately but I did got to a local pond for a few minutes. Got a snap of a pair of Black Saddlebags in tandem. Got some eye lens detail on some Halloween Skimmer males and a Blue Dasher.

Birds from this morning: Green Heron, Barn Swallows, YCNH

I spotted a nice butterfly garden near the office at work so I went to check it out. I found a lot of butterflies. The highlight was this Lyside Sulphur. Amazing color like a day-glo butterfly.

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

Found a Gulf Coast Toad out there this evening, always a pleasure to see

Red-shouldered hawk taking off

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Juvenile Eastern Bluebirds

Great Horned Owlets seen at Hornsby Bend recently.

Found a Halloween Pennant this morning, we're getting a lot more Odonate diversity emerging now.

Reakirt's Blue laying eggs

Gulf Fritillary in flight

I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan. (thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)

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THIS MORNING I WAS BLESSED BY THE CAMPUS FOXES!! #DoNotFeed #NoTouching #VaccinateYourPets

Good morning! 🪶

There were a lot of wildflowers around, with a bunch of Antelope-horn Milkweed. I found milkweed bugs (lovely to see), but also found this beast, Apiomerus spissipes, an assassin bug that specializes on bees. When I first spotted them they were trying to snag a honeybee.

Photos from birding out in Georgetown, TX today #nature #birding #birds #lepidoptera

Tonight while the USA sleeps, 129 million birds will fly overhead as part of spring migration. Many will be tiny, colorful visitors arriving from South and Central America, such as warblers. Migration modeling is fascinating. Yup, that’s BIRDS on the weather radar. 🌿 🪶 Learn more: birdcast.info

I found a Gulf Coast Toad this evening.

Moon Jelly graphite painting

If you ever thought “man it’d be cool to have an orchid in a greenhouse,” you are correct.

Found a white-lined sphinx moth this morning. Lovely moths, always a delight to find.

Found an emerald moth by the lamps last night. Love finding my green moth pals.

Birding this morning was lovely, especially cool to spot the lark sparrow and see so many bluebirds.

We were out at Lost Pines this morning, lovely area. Mostly saw common birds but they're good birds. Northern mockingbird, mourning dove, northern cardinal, red-winged blackbird.

Found a salt marsh moth, they are so stunning.

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Nice morning birding out there, lots of songbirds singing, tons of ring-necked ducks on the middle pond, I watched a red-bellied woodpecker pecking and calling, and found a few field sparrows among other sparrows.

Common yellowthroat amid ice plant

Song sparrow singing

Birding Crystal Cove State Park was really great

Birding the suburbs of Laguna Beach this morning I found a lot of fun species. Especially cool to spot a Townsend's warbler, and the Swinhoe's white-eye was neat too.

Found a nice nudibranch at the tide pools yesterday

Birding this morning was lovely, always good to get out there. Happy we still have our winter ducks around.

Call Congress: www.congress.gov/contact-us Call your State Governor & Attorney Generals (they are leading a lot of the legal challenges to these Executive Orders) And get embedded in your communities- church events, neighborhood gatherings and talk with your neighbors in REAL, sustaining ways.

This is a tetradrachm from Athens issued 420 BC. When this was issued Socrates is in the agora, Plato is still a kid, Aristophanes is writing comedies, Thucydides is collecting notes for a history, the Erechtheion on the acropolis is being built, Euripides is writing new plays, Sophocles is retired.

Incoming egret

SE/30 in the new cube, running A/UX with an Apple IIGS keyboard, an ImageWriter II for style, and a purple aardvark for flair.

Nice outing birding today.

I have a passion vine in the greenhouse. I found some Gulf fritillary caterpillars out before a freeze so I transferred them onto my vine. I have a bunch of them munching away in there now, should get some nice adults eventually.

I have a passion vine in the greenhouse. I found some Gulf fritillary caterpillars out before a freeze so I transferred them onto my vine. I have a bunch of them munching away in there now, should get some nice adults eventually.

Hi deer

First time out birding with the camera for the year, found a few nice things, and was lovely to get out there. Went out with a couple local birders which was really nice.

Found some fun stuff while cleaning out the garage.

Brown thrasher drinking from the creek. I went out birding on Sunday, there's a bridge over a creek I always like to spend a while on watching the birds come to the creek to drink.

In honor of bsky becoming a butterfly, did you know that insects ARE crustaceans? Their closest living relative is well within the "real" crustaceans (more on that tomorrow) Yes, ALL of bugs are shrimps, and not the other way around! #Crustmas 🧪

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