My eldest rescued a praying mantis from a spider web and it sat on this pipe for a full day, looking around, but not leaving. Very interesting!
Preying Mantis
Category: Wildlife
Froggy dress up
Either the old leopard frog found his way back in, or a new leopard frog found the watering hole. Either way, I’m not relocating this one. The chickens leave it alone and he seems to be quite happy living under the foot bath. I just need to be careful when I clean out the water so I don’t squish him. He didn’t really have a choice on costumes either. You can’t be moist and do a runner through the coop right now without picking up a few feathers from the massive drifts across the runs.
Spooky trail cam
We had a couple spooky pictures come from the trail cam. We’ve seen these strange exposures a few times before. I believe they are taken near dusk or dawn, when the light is too dim for a visible light picture and the camera opts for the IR option.
Coyotes, squirrels, and fox, oh my!
Hm. I haven’t checked the trail cam in awhile. There were 445 pictures on there, mostly of raccoons, opossums, and cats. There were some squirrel pictures, which is remarkable in that we haven’t seen squirrels on the trail cam before.
And there was one picture of a coyote, and one of a fox. Apparently that only go through our area in the fall, since we haven’t seen them on the trail cam for a year.
Massive garden spider
My eldest found this large spider while she was out in the woods communing with the neighbor’s cats. Based on the size it is a female, and its markings are more white (or green, depending on how you look at it) than last year’s yellow garden spider, which is interesting. It was hanging on a thread of silk above its web, which had the typical zig zag pattern in the middle. Photo credit to my eldest.
Critters and Craft 