This photo is the last of the batch from my exploration of the Dolph Nature Area last weekend.

 
This weekend, I wandered around the blogosphere instead, and here’s what I found.

Frogs

Bev at Burning Silo found a Gray Treefrog whilst making homestead repairs. Two great pictures, in and of themselves, that show the change in the frog’s color in less than an hour. Over at SwampThings, another Gray Treefrog and also a Green one.

Insects

SwampThings’post mentioned above also featured a bevy of caterpillars and Paul Lester shared an unusual picture of a dragonfly at the zoo.

Fellow Wanderers

The aforementioned posts by Swampy were from her ramble in an unidentified natural area. FC, over at Pure Florida, had a close (but safe) encounter of the deer kind in the Devil’s Hammock Wildlife Management Area. Con Daily of Con’s World took some fabulous RoadRunner pictures while on the road in Texas, and NatureWoman and Mon@rch gave us two different sets of words and pictures from the same outing in Allegany State Park.

The Wonders of Home

Dreams came true for Laura at NurturingNature when she welcomed two beautiful horses onto her property and into her life. Wayne shares a lazy afternoon at home, complete with cat. Susannah of Wanderin’ Weeta has pictures of house spiders (Thanks!) rather than house cats, and I’ve already mentioned Bev’s “home work” and her delightful discovery of a tree frog.

Thank you all for sharing your adventures, your discoveries, and your joys.

I went out walking this morning in the Dolph Nature Area. Sunday mornings are good times to be out and about, because not many people are. The nature area was quiet though not deserted, but I arrived too late in the morning for significant critter pictures. I did see catbirds, chipmunks, red squirrels, blue heron, mallards, and a warbler – mostly at a distance, or partially hidden in the leaves. The insects were equally uncooperative, but the plants were rooted in place and could not hide. So I have pictures of … plants.

I’m particularly fond of trees and shrubs that produce berries, because they are such good food for birds and other wildlife. I’m not sure exactly what these are, other than abundant.