I’m back in Ohio. It’s cold, it lacks large populations of poisonous snakes and crocodiles, and there isn’t anyone around to cook rice and beans for me at 6 am, 12 pm and 6 pm on the dot. There are friends and family though, and at least it’s green here.
My last sunset at Palo Verde:
The Jacana have also constructed nests in the Palo Verde sector.
Two new views of my enclosures and fence… one with me in it (I’m usually alone, making it difficult to take such a photograph) and one from the Guayacan overlook, which was taken at 200 mm on my 4:3 camera (approx. 10x).
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The moth caterpillar that consumed much of the Thalia geniculata in the Catalina sector has come to the Palo Verde sector. I need to develop this…
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Each morning, this anhinga is perched, drying his wings on one of the posts at my fence. Today, he was not dry enough to fly off when I reached the fence, so, after falling into the water, he made his way back up to the top of the post to dry completely. I was able to get about 5 m from him before he started to make a lot of noise….
A few minutes later, some of his feathers had dried, reflecting a lighter color, and he took off.
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I received this message from Excel while working with some data yesterday afternoon. It’s good, because I was sick of getting those pesky error messages. This is an excellent solution to buggy software, Microsoft – elimination of the error message = elimination of the error.
I have no idea if this is really an Africanized Honey Bee, but I have seen a couple of nests. Additionally, while working in the wetland or walking through the forest, large swarms of bees will occasionally fly overhead, presumably headed toward a new patch of flowers. It’s kind of intimidating when you hear the swarm… what if they decide to stop and descend?
