This time of year, in many places animals are reproducing/being born and many plants are flowering, so I thought it would be fun to create a space where we can share observations of buds/blooms, eggs, juvenile/baby animals, as well as observations of spawning and copulation…
During my spring break in Destin, Florida, I was able to see Mottled Seahares congregating to spawn eggs in tide pools. As someone who rarely gets to see the ocean I felt super lucky to witness it! I guess “bunnies” do lay eggs after all Mottled Seahare swimming!
Great topic! I’ll add the obs here later (inat is currently 'catching some z’s), but I did see a male mugger crocodile in a mating display a few weeks back. Spring is the crocodile mating season!
Spring is creeping in slowly by me, and we had a bit of a cold snap recently. So I haven’t seen too many spring organisms. However I did see this Crocus blooming.
I know I have been sharing this photo a LOT over the last week, but the Blue-winged Teal strikes me as such a spring bird (at least in southern Ontario). Even though they don’t stay the summer, I always have amazing luck photographing them through their migration:
Beautiful! I love how the wings are blurred slightly (I don’t know if that was done on purpose or not but still a happy accident), and the birds are still tack sharp!
It think it is best to maintain these criteria; otherwise this could easily become an “anything observed in spring” thread, and rival the existing “favorite lifer” and “best photo” threads – not to mention the birding thread with every spring migrant passing through.
It’s springtime, and morel season has started in the PNW! It was my first time eating these, and they were absolutely delicious. I am excited to hopefully find more tomorrow.
One of the things spring means for me, is going tide-pooling during the big spring tides. Also, the ragworm egg masses start washing up this time of year. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/276069197
