Favorite Shots from 2021
These are some of my favorite pictures of 2021. Some of them are first or unusual sightings for me; some of them are just pretty. 🙂 If you click on any picture, it will bring up a slide show with full-size images.
Another buck, totally unconcerned with our presence.
A Whitetail buck.
Least Grebe — a first sighting on our farm.
Gulf Fritillary floating on the water.
Familiar Bluets
Laughing Gull demonstrates his namesake skill.
Black-necked Stilt
Green Turtle, a marine turtle, at the Port Aransas jetty. A first sighting for me.
Shorebird at the Port Aransas Jetty.
Texas Spiny Lizard
Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Common Wood-nymph.
Monarch on Evergreen Sumac
Sphinx moth at Turk’s Cap
Smeared Dagger moth caterpillar.
Widow Skimmer
Bumelia Borer.
Swallowtail.
Swallowtail on Vitex.
Two young Whitetails, a doe and a buck.
Copes Gray Treefrog
Robber fly, Laphria saffrana, with prey.
Bold Jumping Spider
February snow.
The old barn with snow.
Robins in an oak.
In 2020, I started tracking my observations on iNaturalist, and this past year, I was pretty faithful about recording what I saw on that site. It is incredibly helpful with identifications, and it is fun to sort your observations by location or taxonomy. In 2022, I want to keep that up, and also post more here!
There are so many great images here, and so many of my favorites ( like that metallic bee) but I have to say the robins in snow would be my choice if I had to select only one. I’ve always loved robins, having grown up with them, and I miss them here. The occasional sighting is nice, but it was only last year that the hung around my place before migrating north. It was delicious to listen to them sing every night.
I keep saying I “ought” to post to iNaturalist, but I never have. Maybe this will be the year I do! Here’s to a year of even more learning and sharing!
Yes, I even followed you over there, so you need to add more observations!
I go in spurts, and I will say that there are times that I am really sure of my identification, and then someone will say, “No, that is a ….” and then I am a little gun shy. But over all, it has helped me ID so many species I would never have gotten otherwise.
Good ones. The 2-headed White Tailed deer were funny.
Beautiful work… I Love your images and they are always educational. Thank you
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