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Late Blooms, Part I
October 31st: about the only thing in bloom is this Tansy/Tanacentum vulgare. It’s kinda stinky. And a pollinator magnet: These bees, wasps, and flies were attracting Vespula wasps as well. The activity was intense. I came back the next day…
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Autumn Meadowhawks
Barring late Common Green Darners, the Autumn Meadowhawk/Sympetrum vicinum is usually the last dragonfly of the season. These photos from October 29th, when they were a lot of them around Sylvan Water and, to a lesser degree, Valley Water in Green-Wood. Two days later, an even warmer day, there was much less activity at both…
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Two Nuthatches
This was sweet. Two Red-breasted Nuthatches, so damn small up close. First some shots of the one on the upper right: And now the other one: This second one actually perched in the same spot as the first after the first flew further up in the tree.
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Any Post In A Storm
On the theory that the back door is in the shade, here’s the front door to this European Paperwasp nest site:
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Raptor Wednesday
This young Red-tailed Hawk may have been one of the four I’d seen in the air just a short while earlier. This pose usually means business…
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Behold The Book
Larval development in odonates can last from a few months to as many as five years. They’re aquatic at this stage, so very different from their adult airborne forms. Mostly aquatic, that is—there are always exceptions in the insect world: family Petaluridae, the petaltails, have larvae that are semi-terrestrial. These nymph/naiads capture prey with their…
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