Undeniable Chipmunk
There is no escaping the fact, chipmunks are undeniably cute. I took this photo towards the end of my excursion to Lakeside Park this morning, but I felt that it deserved pride of place in my list of photos. I found this chipmunk on their favourite log pile, sitting there beside the trail, waiting, looking all forlorn. Waiting I think for the sun, which was nowhere to be seen:
This morning I decided to pick up where I was forced to leave off yesterday. With my batteries charged up, I was ready for some macro shots. These black hornets with white markings are always busy hunting. They very rarely pause for a moment and are therefore very hard to photograph. I found this hornet on a leaf in the cool of the morning, unable to move without first warming in the sun which had yet to rise over the trees. It is a bald-faced hornet:
From above though, it looked completely different:
I searched when I came home and found it to be a close relative, a banded garden spider. Here is the larger garden spider in the pollinator meadow:
On the topic of spiders, here is a tiny spider that was waiting for its next meal, deep in the undergrowth on the bank of the lake. The only light source appeared to be coming from the flash on my camera:
I stumbled across a perfectly-trimmed, crescent-shaped hole cut in the grass in the pollinator meadow. I wondered what animal would have shaped the hole. My question was soon answered when I saw wasps flying in and out. I noticed one blade of grass unevenly sticking out, and so did a worker wasp who quickly chopped the blade of grass down to the correct size:
Where there are insects, there are insect eaters although this great crested flycatcher was actually feeding on ripe grapes:
My parting photo from Lakeside Park was taken as I went to unchain my bike. The heron looked more relaxed today with no competition from the great egret:
Copyright © wildlakeside.blogpot.com 2019 Scott Atkinson All Rights Reserved.
This morning I decided to pick up where I was forced to leave off yesterday. With my batteries charged up, I was ready for some macro shots. These black hornets with white markings are always busy hunting. They very rarely pause for a moment and are therefore very hard to photograph. I found this hornet on a leaf in the cool of the morning, unable to move without first warming in the sun which had yet to rise over the trees. It is a bald-faced hornet:
From its underside, this spider looked just like a smaller version of the black and yellow garden spider or zig-zag spider:
I searched when I came home and found it to be a close relative, a banded garden spider. Here is the larger garden spider in the pollinator meadow:
On the topic of spiders, here is a tiny spider that was waiting for its next meal, deep in the undergrowth on the bank of the lake. The only light source appeared to be coming from the flash on my camera:
I stumbled across a perfectly-trimmed, crescent-shaped hole cut in the grass in the pollinator meadow. I wondered what animal would have shaped the hole. My question was soon answered when I saw wasps flying in and out. I noticed one blade of grass unevenly sticking out, and so did a worker wasp who quickly chopped the blade of grass down to the correct size:
Where there are insects, there are insect eaters although this great crested flycatcher was actually feeding on ripe grapes:
My parting photo from Lakeside Park was taken as I went to unchain my bike. The heron looked more relaxed today with no competition from the great egret:
Copyright © wildlakeside.blogpot.com 2019 Scott Atkinson All Rights Reserved.
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