2025 · My Texas Garden Journal

Wildlife In Our Photinia Tree 2013

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1) Western Honeybee; 2) Northern Cardinal Babies; 3) Juvenile Grackle

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2025 · Autumn · Connecticut · Throwback Thursday

Echo Lake Park, Watertown, Connecticut In November 2021

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This afternoon, I took another peek at the leaves in Echo Lake Park. And with sadness, I have to say, the β€œLeaf Peeping Peak Season” is over. Here and there are trees still dressed in Autumn leaves. A lot of them are bare, now. I can tell that November has arrived in New England. Well, I will enjoy what is left for the rest of the season, before I experience my first real Winter in almost two decades.

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~ 11/01/2021 ~

2025 · Wildlife Wednesday

American Herring Gull (Larus smithsonianus)

TheΒ American Herring GullΒ orΒ Smithsonian gullΒ (Larus smithsonianusΒ orΒ Larus argentatus smithsonianus) is a largeΒ gullΒ that breeds inΒ North America, where it is treated by theΒ American Ornithological SocietyΒ as a subspecies ofΒ herring gullΒ (Larus argentatus). Adults are white with gray back and wings, black wingtips with white spots, and pink legs. Immature birds are gray-brown and are darker and more uniform thanΒ European herring gulls, with a darker tail. As is common with other gulls, they are colloquially referred to simply asΒ seagulls. It occurs in a variety ofΒ habitats,Β including coasts, lakes, rivers,Β parking lots,Β andΒ garbage dumps. Its broad diet includesΒ invertebrates,Β fish, and many other items. It usuallyΒ nestsΒ near water, laying around threeΒ eggsΒ in a scrape on the ground.

: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_herring_gull

2025 · Autumn · Connecticut · Throwback Thursday

Black Rock State Park, Watertown, Connecticut In October 2021

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Kevin and I hiked in the park for a little bit. Unfortunately, I had the wrong shoes on. We didn’t make it far on the trail before we turned around. But we enjoyed the slow change of leaves. When we walked past a fish pond, Kevin saw a chipmunk and wanted to see where it hid after he went up a small hill. He found an entrance to a den. When he walked down, something jumped against his leg. Kevin looked closer and saw it was a frog. The little Pickerel Frog was patient enough for me to take some photos before it leaped across the trail to get back to the pond. Beautiful critters, we see when we go outdoors.

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~ 10/03/2021 ~

2025 · Summer

Hot Summer DaysΒ (4)

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Baby Grackle in Summer 2011

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