Summer Posts
The Changing of the Season
August 23rd, 2012Each year around this time I post to this Journal and proclaim the beginning of fall. The calendar says it’s still summer but I’m always about a month ahead of the calendar and, frankly, so is the actual seasonal change. It was sometime during last week when I first felt the change. Maybe it was [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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Where are the Wolves
August 21st, 2012At times, the wolves can be devilishly difficult to locate. They’re the same color as the soil in their enclosure and while they’re lying down and not moving finding them can be problematic. Often they lie down in a hole and dissappear, an ear is sometimes all that’s visible. There are still, however, two fairly reliable [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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My, how they’ve grown!
August 17th, 2012A recent post to this Journal featured two caterpillars, one of those was the larva of a Cloudless Sulphur butterfly on Partridge Pea in Catch the Wind. On August 2, I noticed one of these large yellow sulphurs lay at least one egg on the plant. Fives days later I saw one, then two, caterpillars [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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Finally, Juveniles!
August 16th, 2012I’ve been doing a lot of complaining lately about not being able to find any Green Treefrog juveniles in or around the Wetlands. It’s August, mid-August, and there should be some juveniles clinging to the vegetation surrounding the muddy water of our Wetlands. On Wednesday (8/15), I found two of the little green gems sitting [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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Two caterpillars of vastly different proportions.
August 13th, 2012It was only five days after watching a Cloudless Sulphur lay an egg on the Partridge Pea in Catch the Wind that I saw evidence of caterpillars. As I walked by the plants on Tuesday of last week I noticed one of the flowers had been partially eaten. I didn’t have my camera with me [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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Acadian
August 8th, 2012I’ve seen flycatchers here at the Museum before but except for the Eastern Phoebes and Great-crested Flycatchers that nest here every year, they were passing migrants. What I saw last Saturday was a group of what I think were two or three empidonax flycatchers. “Whoa, what’s an empidonax flycatcher?” Empidonax flycatchers (empids) are a group [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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Three Pictures
August 6th, 2012Just three images from Explore the Wild this past week. —— —— —— —— And that’s all for now. Read the rest of this entry »
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Yellow Jacket and it’s Prey!
August 3rd, 2012I took the above photo a few weeks ago. I was about to enter my vehicle when I spotted the large insect on the ground directly in front of my van door. The large insect is an Annual Cicada (Cicadidae). The cicada has a wasp attached to it. “That’s a mighty small Cicada Killer,” I [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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