Today, I spotted my lifer snake, an eastern garter snake in my garden. I was checking on my tomatoes, so I wasn’t expecting it and the snake clearly wasn’t expecting me. Needless to say, the snake got away before I could take a photo. I was seconds away from getting one too. I’m just curious to know…

An owl the other day! It soared away majestically as I reached for my camera.

A parasitoid wasp flew into my dad’s car while holding a grasshopper. It was so unexpected, I forgot to take out my phone and get a photo. When I realized that, I pulled out my phone but the wasp grabbed its prey and gracefully flew away…

If it was holding prey, probably a Sphecidae (Prionyx?)

it was a very small black wasp, holding a brown grasshopper slightly bigger than it. And it was seen in Astana, Kazakhstan. I made a drawing after seeing it, but it’s not the most precise

You’re so lucky! The last time I saw a (live) snake was around 5 years ago, when I wasn’t so into snakes.

Could it have been a binturong? That would be an exciting animal to spot!

Three over the summer. Went on a volunteering trip to Costa Rica and took photos of most of the animals I saw, but ran into a coati on the final days of the trip with no camera. I also did a week-long camp in rural Maryland with no cameras or phones allowed… and while alone in the woods, spotted a y…

I actually have a list of species I saw before or missed. Out of it two birds I didn’t photograph because I thought photos will be too bad and distant, it’s a red-necked grebe (saw 3 times) and a whimbrel, 11 years later I still haven’t seen them again.

I missed photo of a gorgeous rainbow :rainbow: on landscape yesterday. I’d stepped out while my phone charged at home. There was no stranger in the vicinity whose phone I could use to take a couple couple of shots and mail to myself. Highly regrettable! Contemplating between returning a 300m to ge…

Regretting Not Taking the Photo

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The time I saw an albino raccoon and I just stared at it like an idiot until it disappeared into the woods…

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Regretting Not Taking the Photo

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