Peony images gently arted up ...

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From the deep CLM #PenAndInk Archives - baby bird

Bullfrogs: females have smaller eardrums (tympanic membranes) than males ... #Herps 🐸 🌿 Female bullfrogs typically have eardrums that are the same or smaller diameter than their eyes. Males have much larger eardrums (see ALT-txt)

Turtle basking & reflecting #Herps

Bullfrog of the day! Saturday, 16 May 2026

Yellow flag iris ...

Redbud cultivar with red leaves ...

Yellow-green spring light on a fungus lacey log ...

Bullfrog of the day! Friday, 15 May 2026

Gray squirrels scooting up cypress trees - insistent whiny fussy noises - but not "oh my gawd a cat/hawk approaches" - they all seemed to be going to the back yard - I followed on the ground, running with the squirrels! Then, NADA! We turned around & all returned to station. #Sqrlpix

Downy Woodpecker male checking for tiny green inch worms (or 25.4 mm for metric worms) - he's on a large urban cypress tree 🪶 🌿

Woods in Autumn (2022)

Cattails & water twinkles ...

Photographs of reflections - pink swamp rose mallow 🐡

Too early in the season for silver-spotted skippers ... we can reminisce though! 🌿 #Invertebrates

White violet 💚

Northern Cardinal male ... one of my favorite photographs of a front yard visitor 🪶

Autumn maple leaves (2016)

Bullfrog of the day! Thursday, 14 May 2026

@mrsa2003.bsky.social Some zinnias for you - they endure & are beautiful

Collage! Zinnia drying; close-up of bald-faced hornet nest; aged redbud branch; dried allium; sycamore branch close-up; Cooper's Hawk in flight ...

Silver-spotted skipper drinking nectar #Invert

Such a lushness of lichens...

Lichens ... 💚

On my street (2021) - gray day, spruce tree and resting Cooper's Hawk - one foot pulled up ... resting is one part relaxing and one part ready to hunt 🪶🌿

Small ellipses ⬭ in a big world ...

Another dissatisfied customer up a tree ... #Sqrlpix

Sycamore trees, reflecting ...

Bullfrog of the day! Wednesday, 13 May 2026

Flying turtle time again! 😊

Box turtles - from the CLM deep #PenAndInk Archives ##SciArt #Herps

Praying mantis (probably Chinese mantis) with green sweat bee #Invertebrates 🌿

Art of nature ... textures of wood ...

Peonies ...

Bullfrog of the day! Tuesday, 12 May 2026

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Milkweed assassin bugs are punchy, looking for lunchy - they are in an early instar & I found a mob of them on my zinnias - so tiny & intense #Cincinnati

Collage ...

Busy on peony buds - Camponotus castaneus - chestnut carpenter ant aka red hazelnut carpenter ant aka sunrise amber ant These ants are generalist feeders & will eat aphid honeydew, plant nectar as well as dead or living insects #Inverts

American Robin feeding a youngster ... in a large oak tree next to a fabulous lichenful brick wall by a parking lot. No tree, no lichen substrate anymore - instead a scrubbed space in a small commercial area - flower pots with introduced annual plants that cost time & labor to maintain. Choices.

Bullfrog of the day! Monday, 11 May 2026

Female wool carder bees have smooth posteriors. The females scrap fuzzy fiber from plants, forming a small ball to carry on their abdomen. They pick a nest cavity and add the collected fiber - adding the egg, they put pollen and nectar in, ready for the larva once the egg hatches. #Invertebrates 🌿

A mushroom bouquet someone left on the log 😉 🌿 🍄 📷

Log worlds ... collage ...

Juvenile mallard male with fascinating webbed feet ... 🪶

I think this was taken 1 decade ago (10 years seems too long) #SpringGroveCemetery

Our eyes meet ... a precious moment to remember ... "The birds are out of suet again!" #Sqrlpix

Bullfrog of the day! Sunday, 10 May 2026

tfw you are photographing a small bug on flowers and A REALLY BIG BUG flies in for nectar ... I took a step back and >click< Ruby-throated Hummingbird 🪶