You were lucky. They are vulnerable in your area. I enjoyed the “sleepy kid” look!
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I didn’t even realize it was rare until I got home. It definitely had that “grumpy teenager” air to it!
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It was before noon and a teen Night heron, grumpy seems normal. 
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85 new species in the last week, so I’ll share one plant and one fungus.
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Can I have another favourite Lifer? Pretty unusual to get two new bird lifers in one week.
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/323815607
Yellow tinted honeyeater. Rare in these parts. Not sure what subspecies. Books state vagrants are Tiwi subspecies but from field naturalist group some Mainland birds turned up a few years ago. They tend to be seen in the Reserve we were at.
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Ecuador week four.
Good week for low obs species.
Hudson’s Coffee Snake - Ninia hudsoni (1/43 total obs)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/323813626
Not really sure what this weevil is, reguessing at Compsus latifrons? Super open to corretions on that. Either way its a new weevil to me. (If so 1/45 obs, but could change depending on final ID).
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/323553278
Neischnocolus yupanquii (1/8 total obs).
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/323553284
I was quite happy to see my first sibambea (Sibambea waorani) 1/7 total obs.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/322868751
And because harvestmen are awesome, another. Hexabunus armillatus (1/8 total obs). as an honorable mention, but not in the 5 pics.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/322868754
Tityus cisandinus (I have 2/8 obs, but both from the same week)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/322227184
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Are there any species named “auca” (exonym of Waorani)?
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Quite a few South American taxa it seems.
https://www.inaturalist.org/search?utf8=✓&q="auca"&commit=Go&source[]=taxa
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House sparrow. I’ve actually observed them twice before, but they just got identified to species; before that I had only guessed that they’re Passeriformes, and I’ve also observed corvids and wrens. The ob without sound of a well-camouflaged bird (the one above is at the edge of concrete, and if it were a decimeter to the right it’d be invisible) hasn’t been identified by anyone else. I think they’re staying this late in the season only because of the birdhouses and bird feeder in the tree.
The only other things I observed last week are an ash and a camel cricket; the cricket is probably the same one I observed before, and I observed an ash rampike months ago. It’s getting cold, and there’s less life active.
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My favourite sub-family of the massive leaf-beetle family are the Cryptocephalinae. On the weekend I added another species to my life list of this subfamily
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https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/324744560 first, I must mention these cuties I saw for the first time in the wild (well, sort of)
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Aww, what are these cute, fluffy bundles of joy?
Are these wild cats or maybe a hybrid of them with the domestic cats?
Face patterns look like the ones of a wild cat, but the ears… they look like feral cat ones…
In the end, how many normal kittens sleep in an English Yew at 2 metres from the ground?
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Any idea if I’m right?
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Illosporiopsis christiansenii - A species of fungus (pink) that parasitizes lichen:
Punctularia strigosozonata - Aptly known as ‘Tree Bacon’:
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Gorgeous
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Omg that’s sick! Congrats!
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Thanks! Yesterday was a good day for Hawkwatching, but I didn’t even do that; I was just biking with my camera when this beauty flew over!
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I saw my first bald eagle yesterday riding home from my classes in Sherwood!! No photos; I didn’t have a chance to pull out the camera, but it was very exciting to see!
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