Last Of The Skimmers

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The top photo is one of the last of a female Widow Skimmer of the 2021 summer. I think there could be a few left, but I am not them now. I want an extention of summer.

The second shot if a male. They were not far apart when I took these photos .. who knows.

~ Rick

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The Annual Gathering?

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It seeme like there should be a joke about a tree full of Starlings. Maybe this is the annual gathering. I only photographed this tree full of them .. there were more in other trees.

~ Rick

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The Beautiful Pearl Crescent

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If butterflies were rated by some kind of beauty score that used size and color, the Pearl Crescent would be highly rated. They are so small, yet so colorful. This time of year it is common to see large numbers of them here in Ohio. ❤️

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Downtown Mantis

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We stayed over night in downtown Des Monies, Iowa recently. What does a couple in love and with a passion for hiking in nature do when they find they have extra time, good weather and a new place to explore? Of course, we took a nice walk.

The brick and mortar of the city is nothing like where we normally hike, but that did not stop use from photographing a little bit of nature. We saw this Chinese Mantis (Praying Mantis) several times. I mean, we waked by this intersection at least 4 times, and he moved around, but not far. Finally, he climbed the walls of the building.

This is an adult chinese mantis. I read a second site with some interesting information. I wanted to confirm some details, including how to identify one. The "adult Chinese mantis is brown in color with brown wings with a green edge" See also this info

Get out and take a walk .. you may be surprised at the variety nature can reveal regardless of where you are.

~ Rick

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Magpie

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We were in Utah this past weekend. Our grandson was in the hospital with a nasty bug. He has Cystic fibrosis (we have three grandchildren with CF). While we were visiting, we had a visitor. What a beautiful Black-billed Magpie. I shot the 1st photo and Teresa captured the second.

The other photos .. well, grandma and grandpa loving on one of the grandchildren. I forgot to remove the mask. They allowed us to visit in the garden which is outdoors. I will not get into a discussion on the C word in this blog.

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