Insects Lake Sommerville









In addition to birds, photography of insects has greatly enhanced my NEDs (nature exploration days)!!
Was pleased to find 6 examples of my favorite beetle yesterday!









In addition to birds, photography of insects has greatly enhanced my NEDs (nature exploration days)!!
Was pleased to find 6 examples of my favorite beetle yesterday!
I was also very impressed with night crickets going to town at several locations on my walk!!!!!
Started off my morning here in Davis Mountains with some bad iphone pix of Montezuma Quail. Then did a walk on roads south of Davis Mountains — glad to hear lots of singing birds and see water where I’ve not seen it before!!! And finally I thought these (tentatively IDed) Velvet Mites were interesting and…
2 things bringing me joy on morning walk this morning 1) bees swarming all over a flowering bush, 2) upland sandpipers calling overhead come down from points north (u won’t find then in the pix, it’s just for symbolic purposes)
Love these colorful, chunky grasshoppers in Davis Mountains this time of year. They’re called Plains Lubber Grasshoppers. Also a couple of young birds for someone to ID.
Just back from several days in Terlingua, Fort Davis, Big Bend area. Saw about 60 bird species, but overall low in numbers. Best bird probably Townsend Solitaire. Here’s some cool non bird animals we saw — the “B” trifecta — Black Witch, Badger & Bear. That black blob is the bear. We pointed it out…
And here are some additional pix from Davis Mountains in August 2023.