As I recall, this heron was standing on the off-limits section of the pond shoreline, which the park’s website refers to as a “wildlife refuge” but isn’t particularly big.
Tag: nature
Mallard (at Polliwog Park)
Canada Goose (at Polliwog Park)
Canada Goose
Domestic Duck (brown, swimming in crowd at Polliwog Park)
American Coot (at Polliwog Park)
American Wigeon
Finding animals I didn’t know about in my old photos: This duck might be a wigeon, which is a type of bird I’d never heard of before, but appears to be relatively common.
#ducks #birds #iNaturalist #wigeon
Two crops of the same photo taken on a quick walk around the block…
Two crops of the same photo taken on a quick walk around the block. I really like the landscape crop showing the fiery skipper as it flies from one flower to the next…but after I cropped it, I noticed the bee also flying in the foreground of the original, and I just had to find a way to keep them both in the frame and still draw attention to them.
#nature #butterflies #bees #photo
On Photog.Social
Skipper Close-Up (iNat)
Realized this isn’t iceplant. INat suggests it’s in the Kleinia genus, but I’m not sure beyond that.
Follow-up: The plant is Blue Chalksticks.
Fiery Skipper (blue chalksticks)
Carolina Sphinx Moth or Five-spotted Hawk Moth
Western Fence Lizard (on curb)
Western Gull (white, LB fountain)
Western Gull (gray, LB fountain)
A common buckeye spotted on a walk around the block
Fiery Skipper (ragged)
There were two of these butterflies, the other in much better shape in terms of both wings and color, but that one was too far away to capture a picture with my phone.
Tree Squirrel (climbing a tree)
Western Sycamore
This was in front of an office building that’s currently being remodeled as a hotel. At the time it was still open, but they’d already stopped seriously maintaining the grounds, so seeds from the landscaping trees actually had time to grow.
