Early morning rendezvous with my raccoon family. This morning, they were waiting for me.
Friendlyl but web - sort of impatiently waiting
Grumpy peter looking at me
Sweet Susan looking somewhere
Eating
Eating
Eating
4 friendly raccoons eating
Susan and grumpy peter
White Egret
Sunrise colors and reflections
Gallinule
Gallinule swimming
June 05, 2016: Exploring the McNeil trail at Green Swamp west tract
Nephila clavipes and exoskeleton
Twinflagged Jumping Spider: Anasaitis canosa
Possibly an assassin bug
Possibly an assassin bug
Possibly an assassin bug
Nephila clavipes
Twinflagged Jumping Spider: Anasaitis canosa
Twinflagged Jumping Spider: Anasaitis canosa
Twinflagged Jumping Spider: Anasaitis canosa
Nephila clavipes
This was fun to watch - A kadydid harvesting pollen from a small flower - then came along an iridescent bee
The bee alights
As the bee harvests pollen, the kadydid watches
The bee inspects the kadydid
and the Kadydid make a hasty retreat
Well - not so hasty
The kadydid thinks she is are enough away - and the bee continues harvesting pollen
Nearby, a green tree frog
Eye of a green frog
Nephila clavipes and golden silk
Hanging on a strand of silk
Skipper
Purple flower
Some sort of stink bug
Golden silk
Nephila clavipes on a strand of golden silk
N. clavipes in her web
Dragonfly
Possibly a fishing spider, Dolomedes sp or funnel web spider, Aglenopsis sp.
C. Frank Starmer