Sleepy bumblebee chose to sleep on the Sunflower.
Parabéns! What a cool picture!
My parentâs porch, actually. Here he/she is sitting on my fatherâs kneeâŠ
That might qualify as too tame.
Looney tunes on the front lawn!
Beware of falling anvils!
Not sure if overly optimistic or overly ambitiousâŠ
Sigh. Lets try this again wihout my name showing on his tag!
This is our cat visiting his gecko friend. He will spend up to an hour staring, batting at the glass, and chasing the gecko. The gecko doesnât seem to mind.
Thatâs the ambient video I didnât know I needed.
Aww, thanks. That kinda has been my intent with some of this stuff. I lack the personal bandwidth to be a one-man documentarian, and my partner is not really of that type, but we still shouldnât hog all the cute for ourselves, right?
Wow! Macro lens? Or just long zoom?
Just a ridiculously expensive smartphone OnePlus 8 Pro.
And a contest that will award the best pictures of gardens, with a category for photographs of occasional wildlife visitors:
https://www.rhs.org.uk/Promotions/rhs-photo-competition/terms-and-conditions
Ants can be very scary for a little hummingbird.
Thatâs fascinating. I see wasps taking their spots at the feeders all the time, but ants I would not have expected to bug them.
Summer 2020 in our central Texas neighborhood.
No filters used in this pics.
Most life forms here are active early in the morningâŠ
Texas Leopard Frog attempts to hide from sun, photographer, and children
Dappled morning sun = good, temperature is already 95°F at 9am = bad⊠bumblebee on Monarda spp aka âbeebalmâ
Honeybee Apis mellifera working on so-called thornless Acacia blooms, which smell sweet and musky
or after the sun goes down:
White-tailed deer (fawns) Odocoileus virginianus who I call âThing 1â and âThing 2â whoâwhile adorable in this momentâwill grow up to eat every plant in sight including cacti, juniper, and other âdeer-resistantâ plants, which just demonstrates how koyaaniqatsi the land development out here has truly gotten
Green anole Anolis carolinensis climbing a fantastically hot metal cap on a stone pillar: this anole has the ability to change pigmentation from green to brownish; also, a small bagworm caterpillar chrysalis sticks to a metal rib in lower third of this pic
Green anole Anolis carolinensis that is really green this time: they are absurdly green; probably not the same exact lizard as pic above
I understand what it feels. I also have a mild entomophobia