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   Not sure who this fellow is, but my guess was a cicada that overslept and was looking for a place to mount up and molt. Scared the crap of me by crawling up my pant leg and onto my foot while I was letting my dog out before bed. Cute though, I think.
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  Almost ran face first into a big ol' web stretched over my back door. Saw this fellow/lady reeling in a snack   It's hard to get a decent up close fancy shot but it's pretty clear (to me anyway) it's a healthy sized spotted orb weaver. It's like 50 cent piece big. I'll see if it's still there in the morning and let it feast tonight. Maybe scoot it over to the corner near the door if it's still there.
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Enos Shenk posted:
I had a very similar but small visitor in my window while doing yard work. Though I don't have a nice camera though.    Can't really tell what kind it is, and it was quite small. Synnr fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Aug 18, 2021 |
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Aug 18, 2021 23:01
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 It seems this is an Eastern Comma, part of the question mark family (??) Which seems like a prank name. After several videos of it trying to land on my dogs head and him trying to sniff the flying flower it finally chilled out on the fence.
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McGavin posted:
I think you're correct, my partner was quite sure it was as well and very glad someone else agreed with her! Sorbus posted:
A female one? That's a scruffy bird, looks like it just got done toweling off after swimming.  My new place isn't quite as nice to look at birds other than the one (1) very grumpy adolescent bluejay and some little sparrows who refuse to get out of the street, but my trees have many visitors. I don't think I'm ever going to get a look at the very obvious owl living outside my office window, but it was very busy this afternoon. I do love a mockingbird, but I really want a picture of the vireo....  E; and a possum just walked by on my fence but I couldn't get the dang camera up fast enough to take a picture. New goal!
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  Hmm the little video gif I recorded doesn't seem to translate very well. It's a terrible picture and recording, but we don't get gulls very often in Kentucky (rare according to Merlin) and two ring-necked gulls were just hanging out the other morning when I went to work. Took off before I could get a better angle and sassed me from the air. I kinda miss gulls, so I got real excited. They either stopped during migration or recent severe ocean storms will apparently drive them this far inland.
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McGavin posted:There's no such thing as a ring-necked gull. I'm pretty sure those are killdeers. Sorry, ring billed? I misremembered. It's the only thing that comes in this area that really fit the guys I saw. Definitely had that squeaky gull call. I was just happy to see and hear gulls, I'm from the coast. Killdeer don't sqawk like gulls and have grey plumage. These guys were grey and white. E; like so. 
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Coming home the other night there was someone on a neighbors porch eating cat food On my own porch was a hungry lad(y?):   And today she either was still there or came back, but rather irate about me going in and out while doing yard work:  I was happy to see snake friends, though they weren't too pleased to have me interrupt nap (or potentially shedding time? The tail is whitish):  The other two snakes took off before I could get a decent photo, sadly. Hopefully that's tasty...mice? Around, not sure what these guys eat.
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Besides the previous chonky spider who had taken up residence in my office window, the naturalist app I use tells me I appear to have a mild invasion of Heptagonal Orb Weavers? I've certainly never seen these guys before. I like that their butts look almost gold flaked, but they have this weird like dent in it.
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Not my photos but someone in my bird group (I don't have a real camera)    He's a pelican of some variety I never looked up who stopped here in Kentucky after getting a wing injury. I have a photo of the day he arrived somewhere where it's more clear, but he's looking better and flying more. And obviously scarfing up all the blue herons fish. I never realized quite how large they get until I got my binoculars on him. He showed up with cormorants apparently? But I never got an eye on them.
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