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mistressofmuses) wrote2025-07-14 10:15 pm
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Sunday, July 06: Roxborough State Park
Last Sunday, after hitting the halfway point of my time off, Alex and I went to Roxborough State Park.
The rock formations are beautiful.
Absolutely huge bumblebee (appropriately) on a bee plant! I love these bees. They're at least an inch long, maybe a little bigger.
Small stripey lizard behind the grass! This must have been a young one, as it was very little.
Neat longhorn beetle on the milkweed in the garden by the ranger station.
We'd been a little afraid that it would be more crowded than usual, since we were going on a weekend day. I'd say we saw maybe a few more groups than usual, but it really wasn't too bad. It was a pretty hot day, and that probably kept some people away.
A little birds nest up on one of the historic house's outbuildings.
The historic house.
The back side of the house.
Down in the trees behind the house there were wrens nesting! They were very cute.
One of the parent wrens. Both were coming and going.
The nest, in the hole in the tree. You can barely see one of the adults' tails.
The wrens were very impressive hunters! We sat and watched for quite a while, so got to see them come back very frequently, with all manner of insects for their very loud little babies.
Lovely red rocks.
A cute little moth. ...I think this type camouflages itself as bird poop, ha.
Looking up the cliffs.
I never got to see it, but we heard a frog while we were on this part of the trail! It was a chirpier sound than the typical bullfrogs, so maybe a chorus frog?
Stormclouds moving in...
We were a bit worried about the storm, but aside from a bit of thunder and a few spits of wind-blown rain, it didn't do anything.
There were so many of the big bumblebees!
I always love the pollen saddlebags.
I like the trees growing on top of the rocks. Scale is really hard to convey, but those are full-sized pine trees up top.
As we were heading back, the stormclouds looked pretty cool.
And then two pictures from the same day, but not from Roxborough:
I'm pretty sure this itty bitty thing on my mom's geranium is a katydid nymph! So tiny!
And then a bit later, even more dramatic storm clouds from our apartment.
The rock formations are beautiful.
Absolutely huge bumblebee (appropriately) on a bee plant! I love these bees. They're at least an inch long, maybe a little bigger.
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Small stripey lizard behind the grass! This must have been a young one, as it was very little.
Neat longhorn beetle on the milkweed in the garden by the ranger station.
We'd been a little afraid that it would be more crowded than usual, since we were going on a weekend day. I'd say we saw maybe a few more groups than usual, but it really wasn't too bad. It was a pretty hot day, and that probably kept some people away.
A little birds nest up on one of the historic house's outbuildings.
The historic house.
The back side of the house.
Down in the trees behind the house there were wrens nesting! They were very cute.
One of the parent wrens. Both were coming and going.
The nest, in the hole in the tree. You can barely see one of the adults' tails.
The wrens were very impressive hunters! We sat and watched for quite a while, so got to see them come back very frequently, with all manner of insects for their very loud little babies.
Lovely red rocks.
A cute little moth. ...I think this type camouflages itself as bird poop, ha.
Looking up the cliffs.
I never got to see it, but we heard a frog while we were on this part of the trail! It was a chirpier sound than the typical bullfrogs, so maybe a chorus frog?
Stormclouds moving in...
We were a bit worried about the storm, but aside from a bit of thunder and a few spits of wind-blown rain, it didn't do anything.
There were so many of the big bumblebees!
I always love the pollen saddlebags.
I like the trees growing on top of the rocks. Scale is really hard to convey, but those are full-sized pine trees up top.
As we were heading back, the stormclouds looked pretty cool.
And then two pictures from the same day, but not from Roxborough:
I'm pretty sure this itty bitty thing on my mom's geranium is a katydid nymph! So tiny!
And then a bit later, even more dramatic storm clouds from our apartment.
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