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mistressofmuses) wrote2025-09-27 07:31 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2025-09-27 07:31 pm
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Monday, September 15: Belmar Park
We were still in recovery mode from the show on Saturday, and then a late night going out to look for the northern lights on Sunday night, so we wanted something fairly easy, but still taking advantage of the nice weather.
So we headed over to Belmar park, for a fairly short walk down to the turtles, ha.
We did make it down over to the turtle pond area, but the star of the spot was an egret! I love the ridiculously yellow enormous feet. (And a lot of swirly algae, ha.)
Will a day come that I don't take closeups of honeybees? Perhaps, but the day was not this day.
Nice dramatic spider web.
Alas, blurry! But a nice bright red dragonfly.
Around here we also managed to actually spot one of the huge, loud cicadas up in one of the trees. Couldn't get a picture where it was visible, but it was nice to see one, ha.
Boxelder bug on some milkweed seeds.
Pretty good-sized spider in a web on the milkweeds.
A couple very big turtles up on their branch.
The egret over by the turtles and the muskrat lodge, hopping from one branch to another.
I really like the reflection. :)
As we turned around to head back, there was a flock of the tragically-named bushtits.
They're such cute little things.
A beefly! I love them. We saw several, but they were frustratingly hard to get clear pictures of.
It was a nice day and a nice walk. :)
So we headed over to Belmar park, for a fairly short walk down to the turtles, ha.
We did make it down over to the turtle pond area, but the star of the spot was an egret! I love the ridiculously yellow enormous feet. (And a lot of swirly algae, ha.)
Will a day come that I don't take closeups of honeybees? Perhaps, but the day was not this day.
Ten more pictures of insects, spiders, birds, etc.:
Nice dramatic spider web.
Alas, blurry! But a nice bright red dragonfly.
Around here we also managed to actually spot one of the huge, loud cicadas up in one of the trees. Couldn't get a picture where it was visible, but it was nice to see one, ha.
Boxelder bug on some milkweed seeds.
Pretty good-sized spider in a web on the milkweeds.
A couple very big turtles up on their branch.
The egret over by the turtles and the muskrat lodge, hopping from one branch to another.
I really like the reflection. :)
As we turned around to head back, there was a flock of the tragically-named bushtits.
They're such cute little things.
A beefly! I love them. We saw several, but they were frustratingly hard to get clear pictures of.
It was a nice day and a nice walk. :)
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Beeflies are SO adorable! I was delighted to see a few of them, though my camera wasn't as cooperative as I would have liked.
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