Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

From Lakeland - a thunderstorm over Plant City

Moon over Walden Lake

Dragonfly

Female Tetragnatha elongata

Male Tetragnatha elongata

Tetragnatha elongata everywhere

Male (left) approaching the female hiding under the leaf. Her shadow is on the leaf on the right

Male approaching the female

Close view of the male approaching the female

Male Tetragnatha elongata coupled to the female. Note the more complex shadow on the right

Male with right palp free

Male fangs stabilizing the coupled posture

Male with left palp free

Free male right palp

Freel male left palp

Good view of the coupled configuration, female eye pattern and male right free palp

Disengaging

Disengagine - good view of male and female eye patterns

Male after sex

Female returns to her leaf home

Male Tetragnatha elongata, palps and chelicerae

Male Tetragnatha elongata

Another couple - Male and female T. elongata - observing each other

Female Tetragnatha elongata checking me out

Little blue heron

Gallinule

Gallinule chick

Gallinule chick

Mom Gallinule - and chick with baby wings

Mom and chick

Mom and chick

Chick

Mom and Gallinule chick

Three Gallinule chicks

Chicks

Moon over Walden Lake

Moon over Walden Lake

C. Frank Starmer

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