by terranovabay
A female Pileated Woodpecker seen hard at work foraging for insects by tearing the bark off the old oak trees in front of Audubon House. Her raucous pounding and all the debris falling to the ground were hard to miss, which made her easy to find. Dryocopus pileatus about to fly away.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Audubon House, Dryocopus pileatus, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Pileated Woodpecker
by terranovabay
A quick afternoon walk on the first truly cool day of Florida’s short, but desperately appreciated, Fall-WInter season found a lot of insect activity along Oslo Road where it cuts through the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. The insects were out and about appreciating the cool weather just as much as everyone else. White Peacock Butterfly Green Orchid Bee Green Orchid Bee Honey Bee Honey Bee Honey Bee Dragonfly Bumble Bee
Categories: Nature • Tags: Anartia jatrophae, Apis mellifera, Bombus impatiens, Bumble Bee, butterfly, Dragonfly, Euglossa dilemma, green orchid bee, Honey Bee, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, White Peacock
by terranovabay
A bee stretches out her long tongue. Bees often stop to clean themselves, including their tongues as they go about their daily lives. Note all the collected pollen attached to the legs.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Bee, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Pollen, Pollen Basket, Proboscis, Tongue
by terranovabay
After much effort and dashing about, this Tricolored Heron splashes away gripping a little fish for a tiny meal at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge. From the OspreyWatch project.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Egretta tricolor, OspreyWatch, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, PINWR, Tricolored Heron
by terranovabay
A pair of Wood Ducks outside their cavity nest/roost in a dead tree at Treasure Hammock Ranch. The female is the gray bird at top and the male is the colorful one lower down. From the Florida Cattle Ranch project.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Aix sponsa, Treasure Hammock Ranch, Wood Duck
by terranovabay
A Four-spotted Pennant dragonfly basks in the Sun along the South Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area scrub trail.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Brachymesia gravida, Dragonfly, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Scrub. Four-spotted Pennant
by terranovabay
A Mourning Dove forages in the woods at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. A gentle being, indeed.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Mourning Dove, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Zenaida macroura
by terranovabay
A Bee laden with pollen about to land on a clump of flowers.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Bee, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Pollen
by terranovabay
The Moon and Mars come together in the October 2018 sky, though they are nowhere near each other, it’s all just a close alignment for an observer on Earth at that date and time.
Categories: Astrophotography • Tags: conjunction, Earth, Mars, Moon
by terranovabay
A female Katydid, note the brownish ovipositor curling up from the end of the abdomen into the wings, rests on a palm frond along the South Oslo Riverfront Front scrub trail. This is possibly the common Fork-tailed Bush Katydid. Clearly visible on this Katydid’s front leg is the dark oval tympanum surrounded by red. This is the eardrum allowing the Katydid to hear sounds, especially mating calls, and there is a matching one on the other front leg.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Fork-tailed Bush Katydid, Katydid, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, scrub, Scudderia furcate, Tympanum
