Favoritos de whimsyelf

Resting on shore of reflecting pool on the National Mall

With great blue heron

Bald Eagle with chicks

rookery with dozens of black-crowned night herons

Male

pinaúna

Medium Ground-Finch feeding on seeds caked into the mud on a giant tortoise.

Out from their places of winter concealment, hordes of boxelder bugs have appeared on this warm sunny day.

The little guy on the left outracing his cousins :)

Desiccated female and eggs

honey possum or noolbenger
Tarsipes rostratus Gervais & Verreaux, 1842
Tarsipedidae
infraclass: Marsupialia

As soon as it caught its prey, this merganser swam away as quickly and as far away as it could from the other birds.

Red fox; Paul Spring; 1/17/24

Green tree frog blue morph

Roughly 300. Mainly eating berries from eastern red cedar but also from Hackberry tree. And a few possibly ate from young callery pear tree(s).

Olney Manor Recreational Park. Hybrid. Found this reference online: https://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/domgeese.htm

My best naturalist observation ever, on Christmas day

On top of the marine iguanas head

Con una lagartija de lava

Courtship display.

Florida Predatory Stink Bug feeding on a Stink Bug

Predatory stink bug eating (?) invasive brown marmorated stink bug

Thousands of lady beetles! Covering branches and plants, all over the ground. I would love to know what's going on here, if anyone knows!

Two Peregrine Falcons on the tower atop the World Building in downtown Silver Spring, MD. One of them has green leg bands on both legs, not sure whether the other one is banded or not..

Licensed owl banding station

Pine Lake

Peso 210 gr. Macho adulto

Seen ~ 1800’ deep within submersible. Location and exact time is not exact.

I've seen plenty of muskrats before, but I never had a group pose for a family picture!

68m