Green Heron Looking Up
Here’s a not often seen angle of a green heron. I was standing under a tree at the edge of the pond looking around the pond for the heron which, once spotting me and the camera, had just flown away – as was the usual game he played. When I looked up, the green heron was in the tree above me calmly looking down and a second one in the next tree. Go figure.
Look in the water just in front of the log (click on the image to enlarge).
My best guess for both is yellow-bellied slider. Although, they’re a bit out of their range here.
Yellow-bellied Slider Turtle
Everyone shares the log in this pond.
Turtle and Green Heron Log
Monochrome Mallard
I was fortunate to find Kermit sitting on a lily pad watching the dragonflies, hoping one would come close enough for dinner, when his friend, Mr. Turtle, decided to pop up and photobomb both.
Kermit and Turtle
I’ll run out of turtle pictures pretty quickly. So not to worry!
Turtle
Went out yesterday looking for my Blue Heron which walked on water. Didn’t find him, but found these pretty flowers shot from 19 feet away with a 300mm lens (that’s all I had with me). Added the vignette through GIMP which was so painful (probably would’ve been just as painful for me in any editing software) I had to stop in the middle, go out, climb a ladder and clean my rain gutters. Some day I’ll learn the software and happily watch the rain overflow my gutters.
The flower? My best guess is some sort of Gaillardia (Joe Bell Flower), also known in Sweden as Flower Thingy.
Bouquet and Bee
Baby Turtle Spy Hopping
Turtle Thursday? Why not? And what can be cuter on Turtle Thursday than baby turtles? So here are five photos of them in situ. As these are little guys at best, you may want to click on the images to get a better view.
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