Under the stoop on the shady side of the yard we discovered a very well fed toad...
An eastern kingbird was sitting atop a pine, keeping an eye on the garden. He eats an amazing number of insects!
Number 33 was on patrol along the path we keep mowed. She is a beauty of a young box turtle. We hope she spends many happy years with us here.
Out on the carport we spied a young praying mantis on the prowl. We have had a bumper crop of mantids this year.
Cruising the edge of the yard, in a section of the property we maintain in an old field succession state, we noticed several spangled skimmers keeping an eye on things. This one is a male.
I love the variety of life just outside my door.
5 comments:
I was going to ask you how you tag your turtles to keep track of them and then I looked more closely at the shell. No need for tagging; it tagged itself :-)
JSK,
This one certainly tagged itself! When I need to keep track of a turtle I take several pictures of it. The good thing about box turtles is they tend to have very distinctive shells. I just can't seem to do the whole marking marginals with a file thing.
What a fascinating yard you must have.
I vicariously live through your pictures! I have affinity for tree frogs, snakes, turtles and swamp life period. I live up in Maryland -Baltimore/Annapolis. So we do not have as much of the species as you do down in the coastal plain. You can never post too many pics, keep'em coming- we love'em! Thank you!
Ryan
I'm always delighted to meet another swamp lover!
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