This is another of the dragonflies I spotted during my visit to Nutty Brown Farm a week ago. I’m fairly sure this is a female Widow Skimmer (Libellula...
You wouldn’t believe how difficult it is (for me, at least) to identify Crab Spiders. There are so many species and individuals in the same species...
I almost walked right into this Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia) while walking along a shaded row of plants at Nutty Brown Farm last Monday morning....
A Pigweed Flea Beetle (Disonycha glabrata) on a scarlet Amaranth blossom at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Monday, July 27th, 2026.
I’m back to Nutty Brown Farm pictures today after I spent a couple of early morning hours there yesterday hunting bugs and birds. Here’s a Clubskimmer...
A Leafcutter Bee with a heavy load of pollen under her abdomen gathers more on a sunflower at Nutty Brown Farm on Friday, July 10th, 2026.
A male Widow Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula luctuosa) seen at Nutty Brown Farm near Austin, Texas on July 10th, 2026.
A Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) feeding on a millet head at Nutty Brown Farm on Friday, July 10th, 2026.
A Bumble Bee forages in a dense patch of flowers at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin, Texas on Friday, July 10th, 2026.
A female Black-chinned Hummingbird feeding on a sunflower at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin, Texas on Friday, July 10th, 2026.
A male Widow Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula luctuosa) seen at Nutty Brown Farm near Austin, Texas on July 10th, 2026. It turns out that the male and female...
Kim’s flower field over at Nutty Brown Farm is looking amazing right now. I spent a too-short hour there early this morning photographing flowers,...
A Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) seen on South Padre Island, Texas on July 11th, 2025. I love the feather textures in this image and decided they would...
A Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) perched on a post in the bay behind the South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center, Texas, on July 11th,...
An immature Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) preening at the South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center on July 11th, 2025.
A Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) seen at the South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center, Texas on July 11th, 2025.
We’re spending a few days down on the Gulf coast so I got up early (too early, as it happens – sunrise is currently more than an hour earlier...
Apparently today is National Puffin Day so here’s a picture of an Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) I took in Scotland back in July 2014 during...
As usual when I’m up in New Mexico, I took a camera along on my evening walk yesterday and grabbed a few local scenes. High desert flora is fascinating...
Let’s leave space hardware for a while. Here’s a shot I grabbed while out for a walk shortly after sunrise on Monday morning. There were a couple...
