For the second of my 7 “Nature Challenge” images, here’s one of an Owl Butterfly (genus Caligo but there are many species and I’m...
A couple of days ago, Ernie Romer challenged me to post a nature picture each day for the next 7 days so here we go. I’m delving into the archive...
I read a story in the paper this morning about an impasse in the Texas government over whether or not to ban the practice of catching rattlesnakes by flushing...
It’s about time we had another puffin picture, I reckon. Here’s an Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula Arctica) seen on the island of Lunga, part of the Treshnish...
A Flame Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata) seen at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center this past summer.
I’m still delving through collections of unprocessed images from past trips. Today’s photo was taken during our very first NxNW get-together...
A macro shot of the wing of an Owl Butterfly seen at the Cockerell Butterfly Center at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. This was taken with my trusty...
An inquisitive harbour seal keeping watch from the water at Fishermans Wharf in Victoria, British Columbia. Four of five of these seals live in the harbour...
Pedernales Falls State Park has a couple of excellent bird blinds. During our visit on Saturday, however, there were very few excellent birds visiting....
I spent yesterday morning out at Pedernales Falls State Park with a group of kids from our local 4-H club. We had intended shooting in the bird blind but there...
A small group of these sandpipers were running up and down the waterline on French Beach near Victoria, British Columbia when we visited a couple of weeks...
Our most memorable day of hiking during the Vancouver Island trip was around the China Beach/Mystic Beach area where the trails take you from the forest...
I spent some time at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center on Saturday playing with the macro gear and managed to grab a few shots of this Flame Skimmer...
Having fixed the software problems that prevented me from posting a picture yesterday, I reckon today is a good day for another puffin picture. Here’s...
A comb jelly which, I read, is not actually a jellyfish at all, seen at Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi last weekend. I’ve not done a lot of research...
Birds two days in a row – why not? This is a Crested Caracara which is a reasonably common carrion bird in this part of the world (though nothing...
Laughing Gulls (Leucophaeus atricilla) in flight in Corpus Christi, Texas. When I was a kid, we had many seagulls that looked like these back in Scotland...
Spring is springing very quickly here so it’s almost time to get back out with the macro lens and find some bugs and insects to photograph. Here’s...
I love obscure collective nouns and swans are, apparently, fortunate enough to have 4 words to describe them when in groups, none of which I had known...
This is a rather different post from usual. I’ve been challenged by Rob Hanson to take part in the Thomas Cook “Explore the Elements”...
