Wonderful wildlife: Birds and bees

AMIMAL BEHAVIOUR???

surely many of you have already figured out that we are no better or no worse than
plain ole 'parasites' - figure out the math...

Some of these yellow-bellied sunbirds come by occasionally.


named olive-backed sunbird after all.
from TWO BIRDERS TO GO: November 2012

now its rainy season n raining all week, the millipedes abound.

a black n blue butterfly came by the other day, but nt really the euploea sylvester, just one similar.
Pulilan Butterfly Haven

road runner Asheboro zoo. North Carolina USA

Oh I have this photo of a baby robin that wouldn't let me get into my car until I picked it up and moved it...

Search for a mushroom led me to this purple beauty in the site below. I never knew there was so much diversity in this kingdom as well.

from 13 Most bizarre mushrooms : TreeHugger
which reminded me of a classmate's mother in elementary school. She was a professor at the university, a mushroom specialist, and i heard had a collection of mushroom figurines and what. That would have been nice to see.

Thank you Lord for the bees, as they are vital to our well being, please protect them from harm. amen.

these beautiful little caterpillars,
that were eating a bush in the yard a few days ago . . .

i think they will be a type of tiger moth -- a little white moth with black spots?
but they are beautiful now too

These are mushrooms?!
13 Most bizarre mushrooms : TreeHugger

Then below the mushroom pix are links to beautiful but deadly/dangerous frogs and caterpillars you may want to see.

Sorry abt that... i have to delete some bookmarked stuff and realized i have posted those mushrooms before but missed the 5-min. limit. Anyway, arent caterpillars cute too? i saw the io moth caterpillar are 'quirky blobs of green with pom-pom spikes' and others that look like crawling cactus. Meanwhile on 3D, i wish this wasnt what i had to talk abt, but sometimes they just are there, the millipedes that gather in moist places i see in the morning. Had to step on a few dozen earlier or there'll be more if i dont. But do they stink.

Not to end this on stinky millipedes, i think i'll mention some of those courting butterflies, which are among the most graceful things to watch in real life.

[video=youtube;vQZKXgCbKlQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQZKXgCbKlQ[/video]

I like it outdoors, but recently a millipede like this crawling on my toe had me freaking out too.

Yes,
we kind of miss them... Here is a sketch (confession: i really traced-) the fern i picked near a bridge because at the time i hadnt my eyeglasses and thought i might lose the fern if i didnt save or draw it right away.

I like this tropical white weed (ageratum conyzoides) or billy goat weed it's called sometimes. Drawn yrs ago.

I wish I could draw, sketch, paint, whatever..

Sure u can, this vid says: [video=youtube;7TXEZ4tP06c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TXEZ4tP06c[/video]

If that's too hard, you can start with a circle, make a ball, then progress to two circles, for eyeglasses....=). Let an amateur tell u how, when it took such effort and time to make those!

Blue, you know that was jk..

[video=youtube;O-W0SEr9Lsw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-W0SEr9Lsw[/video]Interesting some ppl find time to post stuff like this, and i'm glad even if not the real thing, because we do not have some of these birds here anyway.

we have two bird-feeders right outside of our bedroom windows and often wake
to their lovely voices...we never tire of watching the bird-community as all of the
different species eat together at once...we see many human characteristics contained
in their behavior towards each other...but oh the beauty of their singing...

As a child, when i heard my father sing Mockingbird hill, i thought birds really sang-- like we do=).

Here, a dragonfly that comes to visit at times.