Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

A Sunday morning at the Upper Hillsborouth Tract. Each Sunday morning, Dee (my sister-in-law) visit a different nature preserve in Hillsborough and Polk County. There are more than we can count and for the past several weeks we have visited the different entrances to the Upper Hillsborough Tract. Here is the map.

Maybe male Oxyopes

Female Lyssomanes viridins with interestying black splotches on her celphaothorax

Ventral view of Microthena sagittata connected to her web

Lateral view of Micrathena sagittata

Focus stack experiment with Micrathena sagittata

Focus stack of MIcrathena sagittata

Eyes of Micrathene sagittata

An image of Micrathena sagittata under a celestron microscope (gift from Joseph)

Stabilimenta of Micrathena sagittata

Stabilimenta and dorsal view of Micrathena sagittata

Face of a dragonfly

Nephila clavipes and a fly

Argiope aurantia and stabilimenta

Eyes of Argiope aurantia

Lateral view of Argiope aurantia

Face of a kadydid

Leucauge venusta

Colorfuly kadydid

Roseate Spoonbill and an Ibis

Roseate Spoonbill and an Ibis

Roseate spoonbill fishing

Roseate Spoonbill and an Ibis

July 25, 2016: Raccoons and Upper Hillsborough Tract

My waiting place

After a few minutes - two arrived - here, he is eating something

Eating leaves

Two raccoons

Second raccoon

Sniffing

C. Frank Starmer

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