Since roadside hawk is an actual species in Latin America, I might stick with calling our red-shouldered hawks by their own common name, even if they do tend to be on the roadside a lot! I was excited for a moment since I hadn't heard of a rare raptor in Florida.
I too use peanut oil for cooking nearly everything. So cheap.
I've only just started weighing again. My "big loss" was in 2019, and while I couldn't maintain my lowest weight, I've largely maintained and even built muscle to stay within my healthy range. I've tipped up in the last year after some medical changes and muscle building. There are still bits of me that I'd prefer looked different. CICO worked for a time, but I hate it, so I'm falling back to fasting when possible (which I've basically always done anyway). Just gotta be conscious of the snacks, especially those my new work keeps trying to feed me!
I definitely have my fair share of close crops, especially herps! I also posted a close crop (because it was just that close) of a brown-capped rosy finch to the wildlife photography community today too.
A lot of baby or small snakes can be confusing if you're not sure what you're looking for. Fortunately, in the US, they're all relatively easy to ID with photos of decent enough quality.
In the eastern US, Dekay's brownsnakes are super common, both juveniles and adults. Their range largely overlaps with the eastern copperhead and only slightly overlaps with the cottonmouth. Both the copperhead and cottonmouth will have yellow tail tips as juveniles, and even when young, they are considerably larger than juvenile (and some adult) Dekay's brownsnakes. This brownsnake also usually has a pale neckband as a juvenile in addition to a spotted or chain-link pattern on its backside.
Routine:
Honduras, June 2022
Sometimes I don't even know what I'm photographing. This is a male blue-black grassquit doing a "I'm sexy" dance as he calls.
Harlequin ducks! Ohio, Feburary 2023
Ohio, May 2022
Abundant in the right habitat/locality and handsome as adults, we found quite a few of these. Definitely saw more juveniles/females than adult males, though.
June 2022
This was the biggest millipede I've ever seen. It was at least 6 inches long.
Any large bird is a threat.
Florida, May 2020
Adorable! Yeah, I saw like 8 or so of these guys that one night. Their mannerisms are amusing. These were in dry forest too though just outside the main part of town.
My plants are (mostly) loving the sunshine! Plant lights can only do so much.
Those are ADORABLE. Maybe my next post will be some baby tarantulas trying to figure out how to cross a road (I hear tarantula moms aren't into childcare like SOME arachnids...).
Yes, smaller images work on browser!
Oooo I meant 12 MB for the image I was trying to upload earlier, not GB! That'd be a big image, haha.
I am still getting "network error"/"timeout" errors on Jerboa when uploading smaller images. I can deal with the limit if I know what it is. Even my smallest images (255 KB) are getting this error on Jerboa.
I feel the same way when I see tiny or well-camouflaged things. That's a cool one!
Right? I used a Nikkor 60 mm macro lense. Sometimes it hits just right.
Neverwinter Nights and Roller Coaster Tycoon when I was a little kid. I watched my dad play Neverwinter and had to indulge in my own tiny fantasy to play as a "dragon." Still at it.