Category Archives: NATURE NOTES

Nature Notes (#528)~What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. -C.S. Lewis

Join Nature Notes-What are you or have you seen and enjoyed in nature? It can be from your own backyard, the local park, out on a hike or anywhere. What plants and animals catch your interest? Do you garden? Have you read a good book on nature?

1. Flowers 5. A spirit of simplicity 9. WEB
2. Pat — Colorado 6. betty – NZ 10. Crafty Green Poet
3. Shiju Sugunan 7. orchid( Japan)    
4. Cloudia Honolulu 8. RAIN    

The chipping sparrow is a breeding season visitor. I love these tiny sparrows and love when they bring their babies to one of the bird feeders. The little ball of fluff can be very loud when begging for food.

 

Have a wonderful nature-filled week! Please be safe.

 

Nature Notes (#527)~Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker’s beak making holes in tree trunks! ~Mehmet Murat ildan

Join Nature Notes-What are you or have you seen and enjoyed in nature? It can be from your own backyard, the local park, out on a hike or anywhere. What plants and animals catch your interest? Do you garden? Have you read a good book on nature?

1. Gardens 4. Crafty Green Poet 7. betty – NZ
2. Shiju Sugunan 5. Cloudia Honolulu 8. MOSS
3. Pat — Colorado 6. A Green Ridge 9. BEE

I am missing a photo as one blog site wasn’t loading so I will keep trying….. This is a female red-bellied woodpecker. I have put up a mixed fruit and nut seed and they seem to love it. I call them the most cranky bird in the yard and as nobody, not even a blue jay will mess around with them. They are here all year around and appreciate the suet, peanuts and mixed seed our yard has. Oh and the bird baths too…

Have a wonderful nature-filled week! Please be safe.

Nature Notes (#526)~Fragile Forktail Damselfly

Join Nature Notes-What are you or have you seen and enjoyed in nature? It can be from your own backyard, the local park, out on a hike or anywhere. What plants and animals catch your interest? Do you garden? Have you read a good book on nature?

1. Potting 3. Shiju Sugunan 5. OLD GARAGE
2. Pat — Colorado 4. A spirit of simplicity 6. SPRING
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We only have summer weather here from June-August. This summer was the wettest and hottest on record. When it wasn’t raining, it was so hot and humid and full of mosquitoes. Hubby spent very little time in his hammock and I was not able to be out taking photos….
 
I almost missed this little damselfly in the garden. A fragile forktail damselfly only about an inch long.(2.54 cm)

The Fragile Forktail (Ischnura posita), a very common Eastern pond damselfly, flies from spring to fall.

The broken line on the top of the thorax, or exclamation point as it is often called, serves as the principle field identification clue.

The name “forktail” comes from tiny projections off the tip of males’ abdomens, which help to identify the species”

Males have green to yellow coloration on the thorax, females have blue coloration. 

 

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Fragile Forktails, especially the females, are among the damselflies that eat other damselflies, including those of their own species

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Have a wonderful nature-filled week! Please be safe.