A slightly bedraggled male Widow Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula luctuosa) seen at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Saturday, August 26th, 2026.
A male Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) feeds on a dried sunflower head at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Saturday, August 26th, 2026.
Let’s go back to some nature pictures this week. Here’s a Swift Setwing dragonfly (Dythemis velox) seen at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Saturday,...
A Four-Spotted Pennant dragonfly (Brachymesia gravida) on a dried sunflower head seen at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Saturday, August 8th, 2026.
A female Comanche Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula comanche) seen at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Saturday, August 26th, 2026. One of the techniques I’ve...
I spent another hour this morning photographing dragonflies over at Nutty Brown Farm and managed to pick up images of three species I hadn’t seen...
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 Swift...
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 Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) on a blue cornflower at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin, Texas on June 20th, 2025.
This tiny moth, perhaps half an inch long, sat on a flower long enough for me to get a few pictures of it during my visit to Nutty Brown Farm last week....
