Thank you! There’re many more to see, I try to keep a list of mainly moths I haven’t seen, will link it when iNat is back, there’re some actual nature wonders!
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I got some lifers too today, like this Automeris moth, it was stuck inside a supermarket (couldn’t get any pics showing eyespots, and yes, it was released succesfully)!:
And also saw my first milky tree frog inside a rain drain (horrible photo but at least got something):
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Yeah!
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My favorite lifer from the past two weeks is a common katydid! Not sure whether I really never saw one before or always ignored them, but this one even would hold still and let me take pictures, unlike most animals I encounter. I was just wading through a swamp towards an orchid spot and fighting through a stand of willow trees and at first thought one of the leaves is looking back at me…
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Beautiful!
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Thanks!!
Sweet!
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They look like penguins when flying (hmmmmmmmm)…
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Yes, just like penguins.
https://www.chattnaturecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/650-x-400-Belted-Kingfisher.jpg
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This Tuesday, I found my lifer lizard, a little western banded gecko.
We don’t have any lizards in Rhode Island, so it was exciting to find one.
I should probably specify that I found this in Arizona, not Rhode Island.
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Here it is, I decided it’s easier to show with iNat system https://www.inaturalist.org/lifelists/marina_gorbunova?view=tree&details_view=unobservedSpecies&tree_mode=full_taxonomy&taxon_id=47157&place_id=133612
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Wow. What an absolutely awesome collection. You make me feel very mortal!
“Why, man, she doth bestride the narrow world like a Gobibatyr colossus, and we petty naturalists walk under her huge wings and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves.”
Turquoise Jay
Grey-breasted Mountain Toucan
Sapphire-vented Pufflegs
Purple-backed Thornbill
Ecuadorian Hillstar
Chestnut Antpitta
Tawny Antpitta
Toucans were super awesome, but seeing the Antpittas (though not the rarest) were absolutely incredible.
Can’t express how cool is was actually seeing and hearing these tennis balls with legs, belt their calls across an the paramo and hearing *both the echo off the mountains and then the response from a distant specimen across the valley.
Fotos soon…
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festive tiger beetle., I haven’t uploaded it yet but it looks cool
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Oh, those are species I haven’t seen, so I feel very similar, it seems more beautiful species are evading me.
Sorry for the delayed answer, got sick today.
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What a cute plump girl! There’s nothing like encountering a lifer bird, especially one that is so iconic, it just happens when you least expect it and it’s always so magical. I can feel the magic in your story like I was there myself!
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Monday Aug 29, 2022.
I spend an hour running lengths in my nearby local city pool every morning, and the pool acts as an insect trap. Many of the insects that I find there are quite common, but not all of them. Yesterday I found what was a new beetle species for me. It was dead in the pool, the Asiatic Garden Beetle. It is sort-of chestnut-colored.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1260497-Maladera-formosae
Mine is only the 6th record so far in Manhattan:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/132808500
I don’t often find new beetles.
And wow, I found another individual the next day in the same place!
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Definitely! Mine this week, I couldn’t get a photograph good enough to post as an observation, so instead I made a journal entry: Cherry-headed Conure
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New week, so I suppose I’ll answer. Federally Endangered Tennessee Yellow-eyed Grass https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/132572379
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