Our entry for the challenge, Photo Friday:Activity. Birdwatching and photography are two of our favorite summertime activities. The reward for long hours in the woods: mama or papa Anhinga returns to feed the chicks. By the time they leave the nest, they will be as large as the parents.
St. Augustine Road Fish Management area
Spider with Egg Sac
This week’s Photo Friday challenge is “Structure”. Last week I mentioned small structures on the Bald Cypress trees around the pond at the St Augustine Road Fish Management Area (a.k.a, Earl Johnson Park). They are galls, produced by the Cypress Twig Gall Midge, Taxodiomyia cupressiananassa. One had a tiny spider on it and now that spider has woven…
Cypress Twig Gall Midge
We had never heard of a Cypress Twig Gall Midge until last week. When we stopped for Quinn to take his photo of the sunning turtle, I took a closer look at the Bald Cypress growing at the edge of the pond at the St. Augustine Road Fish Management area. There were quite a few gray growths all…
Photo Friday: What I Found
This week’s Photo Friday Challenge, “What I Found” is perfect for this week’s images from our walk around the ponds at the St. Augustine Road Fish Management Area. Quinn found a turtle sunning itself on a log in the South pond and took quite a photo – the turtle (a cooter or a slider – we…
