nature tales and camera trails

A check in my flower bed this morning revealed this beautiful Pansy blossom in bloom! Yesterday morning it had been rimmed with frost! I ha...

Its that time of year again, late fall and Bird Alley is welcoming its usual fall visitors.  Yesterday I got out my bird list journal and st...

I haven't seen many caterpillars this past spring or summer so I was delighted yesterday to see this yellow fuzzy caterpillar near by my...

Hopefully soon I shall be able to look up and see a flock of geese flying across the sky in a V formation, but for now this small flocking t...

I had not seen any deer for a long time so I was pleasantly surprised to see one on the road in front of my car on Wednesday, but then it mo...

I have a cage bird feeder and it is designed so that only the little son birds can enter the cage through the holes created by the wire ne...

I have had no luck this summer of seeing a Monarch butterfly or a Viceroy.  all I seem to see everywhere are Great-spangled Fritillaries in ...

I have only seen one groat blue heron fairly close so far this summer.  this heron had a lot of white on its head!... does the white indicat...

Update: I haven't been posting much recently.  We have had visitors and my camera has mostly been taking pictures of grandchildren.  I...

It was around 10 p.m. one evening last week and my husband grabbed my camera which was nearby, and he took pictures out  of our window in th...

The ' clearwing' significance of its name is emphasized in these photos of a Clearwing Hummingbird Moth   that was seen feeding on ...

June is snapping turtle egg laying season in my community.  Ever since having discovered a snapping turtle laying eggs in June 2001, we hav...