It rained hard earlier in the day which isn't exactly news. It has rained almost everyday for over three months which is why we are 16 inches over the normal rainfall for the year.
Anyway, I was bored this afternoon so I grabbed the camera with the macro flash and prowled the bushes around the RV.
Let me share a few of the shots I made such as the just mated pair of Sharpshooters, a type of plant hopper.
A Cuckoo Wasp.
Green Darner
I don't recognize this one but will ID it and put the information here soon.
Michael is a former biologist and Texas Master Naturalist. Originally from Newsome, Texas (Between Pittsburg and Winnsboro), educated in Dallas & Garland schools, then off to the University of Texas system where he received a degree in biology and worked as a biologist with the University of Texas system. After many years away from nature and biology, he relocated to the banks of Lake O' the Pines where he has been rediscovering the joys of nature. He is somewhat surprised that he has become a birder. Most of his interest in nature was centered around reptiles. Perhaps just like birds evolved from reptiles starting in the late Jurassic, he has begun his own evolution. During his formal education, his interests in biology/nature grew to include community ecology and population studies, all with a binding of evolutionary processes. He liked birds, but they were secondary at best. All at once he finds them fascinating.
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