All-around Naturalist Thread

What do you like to observe and learn about?


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Yay! Hello! This seems like a fun thread! I love anoles but sadly don't have any around here. I have fence lizards and whip tails around here! Fun fact: all whip tails are female! They can reproduce! "less-complex organisms—'use all the chromosomes they have' to solitarily produce offspring that are genetic clones, molecular biologist Peter Baumann says. Because the organisms are genetically identical, they're more vulnerable: A disease or an environmental shift that kills one could kill all." (National Geographic)
Wow! Interesting!
 
Birds are probably one of my favorite animals to do stuff with!

Here's a picture of a bushtit I took recently!
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Yea! I've read about that stuff before... Amazing/strange isn't it?
Yeah, definitely!

Wow! Great pic!
Thank you! I took more from yesterday but they were taken through my window and downloaded with only two megapixels. I was just using them for sketching.
 
I've had some similar experiences to yours, PioneerChicks! I was trying to take pictures of the little juncos in a nearby neighbor's bush, then their dogs noticed me and started barking, so the neighbors came out. I pretended to just be walking by. :p I also once found a swallowtail butterfly who had frozen on the road during the night. It looked dead because its wings had been run over by a car and frozen... only its wings were messed up, though. I picked it up(I don't remember why) and when it started to warm up in my hand and start moving I took it home, and obviously named it. :rolleyes: It ended up living a long life without being able to fly... much. One day I took it outside and got excited that it was flying. It ended up crashing in the neighbor's yard. I had to go tell the neighbors that a handicap butterfly had fallen in their yard... it took me like 20 mins to find it's upside down form in the grass. (It was okay, though)
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I've had some similar experiences to yours, PioneerChicks! I was trying to take pictures of the little juncos in a nearby neighbor's bush, then their dogs noticed me and started barking, so the neighbors came out. I pretended to just be walking by. :p I also once found a swallowtail butterfly who had frozen on the road during the night. It looked dead because its wings had been run over by a car and frozen... only its wings were messed up, though. I picked it up(I don't remember why) and when it started to warm up in my hand and start moving I took it home, and obviously named it. :rolleyes: It ended up living a long life without being able to fly... much. One day I took it outside and got excited that it was flying. It ended up crashing in the neighbor's yard. I had to go tell the neighbors that a handicap butterfly had fallen in their yard... it took me like 20 mins to find it's upside down form in the grass. (It was okay, though)
I found a spider in the laundry today right before putting in the washer. I removed and put it on the sink.
 
I found a spider in the laundry today right before putting in the washer. I removed and put it on the sink.
I found an alive wood louse spider in the toilet, I took it out and decided to try getting pics for Crestcrazy... and it escaped in the house. Apparently they are VERY fast.
 

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