First post in a while on forums, and first time in a while I have visited too. Hello again! Today while I was on a nature walk I noticed something and got very excited over it when I had first seen it. Here is a picture of roughly what I was looking at: [IMG_4433] Looks very interesting and rare…

I have also wondered why ? maybe time to start asking around. Strangely Owls are considered the mount of the Goddess of wealth - Laxmi and are welcomed into homes, which does not show up in the wikipedia page Lakshmi is very often shown with one or two elephants, known as Gajalakshmi , and occasion…

“Hybrids” like this one always fool me. Obviously a rare One, and only one example of Pandorea jasminoides x Pulcaria paludosa : [1661442404014~2] Explanation: There’s a house on the other side of a tall fence dropping flowers on the “weedy” plants I like to observe. Not even in the same genus or …

Some falconers even consider them dumb due to the fact that they tend to not react visually ie. blinking when you clap in front of their face. They rely on their sense of hearing like we rely our sense of sight, and so their sense of sight is secondary like our hearing is.

Today something opposite happened to me, I thought there was a red plastic thing inside a bush when it was a Northern Cardinal!

Kind of similar — I thought I spotted a bright red Summer Tanager in the riverside bosque I hiked this morning but when I aimed my camera at it, it was a Christmas tree ornament. And there were other ones. Someone decided the woods needed a scattering of holiday ornaments.

When I found my first Fulcidacini I instantly recognized it for what it was. Unfortunately, it dropped of the blade of grass it was on before I could grab it. Not long after I spotted another one. Hoping to redeem myself for my clumsiness, I put my hand below it to ensure I did not repeat the same m…

I found the picture again. Man-made metal sculptures used as garden decorations that several of us tried to figure out the plant species for… [medium]

Not manmade but still got tricked. Late one night I waded into a cattail marsh with a headlamp, chasing the clicking call of what sounded like a Yellow Rail calling deep in the vegetation. I sunk up to my waist in the deep muck but kept going, hoping to see a bird I had not seen before. When I final…

Within the same hour: sees a stick … “SNAAAAAKE” sees a broom … “SNAAAAAKE” Also encountered a bunch of funny-looking flowers in the jungle at night…only then to find out that they were fake…

This one tricked me along with several very experienced lichen folks. I had marveled at the tenacity of this beautiful lichen growing on a busy sidewalk. A bit worn from foot traffic, but thriving none the less. Only later, after taking a sample for spot testing and spore examination did its lack of…

I got tricked today

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