Eastern garter enjoying a meal with the full belly
I find shed skins in the grow room from white oak/grey rat snakes. I have them hanging around the veg room along with an assortment of oddities.
I had a skink posing by the flowers this morning. Those things are dropping skink turds on my tile floor. ![]()
This is a female Hercules beetle that I found stuck in a drainage hole on a 3 gallon pot. I took it down from its harness for poses.
Rat snake changing room is always sloppy.
Some are very long lived. I read that the larval stage at the shortest is 3 to 5 years. Some species can be as long as 13 to
17 years. With overlapping years on when they molt, there are always some to listen to their song every year. Very cool insect.
Brown Thrasher
Grackle with a Mayfly
Yellow Shafted Northern Flicker
American Goldfinches
Wood Ducks
When the goldfinches are here they are wearing their winter plumage. They are gorgeous in their summer wear.
Nice man looks like you have a nature sanctuary over there
Hell ya love the beetle i got those guys everywhere. There so cool
It’s the pond. If everyone on the planet had one, there would be peace and harmony and no more wars. Just a stoned thought I get in my head when sitting on the large rock counting the number of fish rises that occurs after tossing out a large Folgers coffee container of floating fish pellets for the bluegills.
Serenity.
Little guy passing through the backyard… rarely see them anymore with nonstop developments popping up left and right.
He enjoyed a nice buffet of greens and a single tomato
Ms. Weenie curious but hesitant to engage
Pure Michigan - Away from the big cities, the rivers, streams,
lakes, and forests are abundant. The wildlife is amazing here.
We lived in the big city environment until we both retired 8 years ago. We now live in a very rural area of the state that has such amazing numbers of wildlife to see just looking out the window.
I’ve been like a kid in a candy store taking pics of the wildlife, as most of my life was spent in the city.
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