All Hallow’s Eve
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Happy Halloween!
Categories: Eccentricities • Tags: All Hallow's Eve, cat, Guava, Halloween, Mara, Ybor City
Monthly Archives: October 2019
Halloween Eve
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A Black Vulture waits patiently for Halloween at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area.
Categories: Eccentricities • Tags: Black Vulture, Coragyps atratus, Halloween, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
The Dark Cypress Forest of Lilliput
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700 sad and lonely potted Bald Cypress trees looking for good homes make for an unusually dark forest at the Lilliputian level. Abandon all hope ye who enter here!
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Bald Cypress, Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift, Lilliput, Tree
Blood Red Atala
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A blood red Atala butterfly caterpillar consumes the Coontie host plant that it needs to eat to survive at this young age. The caterpillar takes up the Coontie’s natural toxins and the brilliant red and yellow coloration is a warning that eating the youngster could be dangerous to would-be predators. The adult Atala butterfly’s coloration is also a warning that it might be toxic to predators. As seen in the Audubon House landscaping at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. UPDATE: […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Atala, butterfly, Coontie, Eumaeus atala, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
PINWR Sunday: Snake Stealth Fail
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An enraged Gray Catbird spits its wrath at the Black Racer stalking it through the Brazilian Pepper at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge. The two agitated Catbirds present did not calm down until the snake finally left the area. The Black Racer’s head is at left partially visible through the leaves while following its body to the right shows it wrapped around a branch. From the OspreyWatch project.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Black Racer, Coluber constrictor priapus, Dumetella carolinensis, Gray Catbird, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, PINWR
Ranch Saturday: Midnight in the cow pens of good and evil
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A couple of strobes illuminate the dark cow pens one night at Treasure Hammock Ranch. The young cattle are being held temporarily in the pens to wean them from their mothers. From the Florida Cattle Ranch project.
Categories: Night Gallery • Tags: cattle, Cow Pens, Heifers, Steers, Treasure Hammock Ranch, Weaning
FRIDAY FLASHBACK: Halloween Sam 2014
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A look back at some of Sam the dog’s Halloween incarnations. Sam claims no familial relationship with werewolves. Sam may sometimes wonder if he lives with a space alien. Maybe it is because he has an affinity for classic science fiction and horror films. Here just in time for Halloween, three of Sam’s many personalities pose with the aliens from the brilliantly titled 1958 Paramount Studios classic I Married A Monster From Outer Space. And below, a little collection of […]
Categories: Eccentricities • Tags: Abbott & Costello Go To Mars, Christopher Lee, collage, Creature from the Black Lagooon, Dr. Smith, Dr. Zachary Smith, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, films, Halloween, Hammer Films, horror, I Married A Monster From Outer Space, Jonathan Harris, Jupiter 2, Lost in Space, Lou Costello, Paramount Studios, Sam, science fiction, space alien, Universal Studios, Werewolf
My Favorite Sam
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A Halloween mixup with a rare look over Uncle Martin’s shoulder as he pilots his spaceship with Sam in the cockpit viewer giving him advice from the future – as if a Martian needs to be given advice! My Favorite Martian ran on CBS from 1963 to 1966 featuring the adventures of a congenial Martian anthropologist, played by Ray Walson, stranded on Earth after his spaceship crashes leaving him to get by as best he can with his new found […]
Categories: Eccentricities • Tags: Bill Bixby, CBS, collage, dog, Halloween, Mars, Martian, My Favorite Martian, Ray Walston, Sam, Tim O’Hara, Uncle Martin
VIDEO: Stop, Look, Forage, Repeat
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A foraging squirrel has to keep an eye out for trouble.
Categories: Nature • Tags: bird feeder, Eastern Gray Squirrel, foraging, Sciurus carolinensis, squirrel
Motion | Painted Bunting Interlude
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A Painted Bunting at the bird feeder. Watch how it expertly dehulls the seeds with its bill.
Categories: Nature • Tags: bird feeder, Birdwatching, Painted Bunting, Passerina ciris
