A few in the yard, soon to be in the sky.

 My first photo today is a bit of mystery, these look a bit like un-ripe Elderberry's, while they are still green, but the plant itself doesn't look like an Elderberry bush, and I don't actually know what this plant is, I believe these are actually nuts, because they look a bit more hard to me, rather than soft like a berry.

 And here we have some of our actual Elderberry's.  We have a couple of scattered Elderberry bushes around the yard, but I am thinking about maybe harvesting from some of them, and using them for re-planting, and maybe trying to make some Elderberry jelly or Elderberry wine.

 This one is just a bit of a closer photo to accentuate the look of the leaves and berries of the Elderberry bush as opposed to the unknown one in the first photo.

 Got a couple of really nice photos of an Egret that was happily following along as I was doing some mowing out in the pasture.  The Egrets around here really love following the mowers and tractors around because it causes

 all the big grasshoppers and other bugs to go hopping around like crazy, making them easier to for the Egrets to catch, and the Egrets are more than comfortable with following the big machinery around, it almost doesn't even seem to bother them at all.

 Pecans are a really big deal around here in Louisiana.  When Pecan season comes, there is, almost literally, someone on every corner of the city buying pecans, we have a few trees out in the yard, most of which look like the pecans are coming in quite nicely.  These one's are from a tree in our yard that I think wasn't producing yet last year, but has so many that some of the branches are being weighed down.

If you do happen to know what that first plant is, please, leave a comment and let me know, all my google searches just bring up articles about Elderberry's.    I have a few more good photo's that I will be uploading tomorrow, or, at least in another post, to try and make sure this one doesn't get too cluttered.  Have a nice day,  and thank you for stopping by.

The Cardinal in the Coal Mine

 No, I actually don't have any photo's of a coal mine, just a couple today, this one is a blossom from one of our apple trees in our backyard.  We've got some apples on them, one's even starting to redden, we also lost quite a few of them though, but no worries.

 Sorry, this one's a little blurry because I tried to take it to fast, not giving the camera time to focus properly.   He landed on a small power line we have going to a light we have on our property, so I thought I would take advantage.

This one I had a little better timing.  The Cardinal is probably the bird that causes the most bird-watchers to go watching, with a tie to another bird that doesn't seem as common, but I've spotted a few times down here, the Blue-Jay.     

   I hope to get a bit more variety tomorrow, so please look forward to it.

 A nice close-up of a Dragonfly, although I think it's right wing was broken, which is why it's dipped off, but I am not sure.









And here is the promised 'better next time' egret that I keep promising you all :P

A few 'normal' pictures from everyday life around here

This picture is sort of an update, this is a picture of those 'web-ball' caterpillars.  It's actually called the Fall Webworm, and the web-balls is a cocoon for what becomes a white moth, and they tend to nest in pecan trees, among others, and are, mostly, not dangerous, according to the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center at https://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/our_offices/research_stations/Pecan/Features/Pecan_FAQs/index_seriespage-18.htm

 This is a picture of a couple of our 'house-cats' in our screen room, where we put up a few shelves, for them to climb around on, still inside, technically, while also still sort of being outside.

 Saw at least 4 of these girls out in the yard today, the Red Eared Slider, a fairly common turtle that is quite often kept as pets.

 The family across the way has at least 2 horses, as well as their neighbor has at least 2 horses, and also a couple dozen cows.

Sorry for the quality of this Egret, I will definitely do better, this one was done at 32x magnification, so, he was pretty far away.

And here is my favorite one, I call it 'To the Setting Sun'  Even though it was taken at around 8-9 this morning, haha.

Some Egrets

 Had quite a lot of egrets out enjoying the recently mowed grass, easy grub pickings :D

First of the Alexandria Zoo pictures

The Nile Crocodile is one of the most powerful species of crocodile in the world,  and the second largest, after the Saltwater Crocodile, with males averaging around 12 feet, and females around 9 feet. 

 The white tiger is  member of the Bengal Tiger species, and the white hair is a recessive, uncommon trait in their species.

 This one is called a Tamarin monkey, they are small, could fit in the palm of both hands put together.

More pictures coming in the next post, a few more monkeys, a cougar, and more, stay tuned, and thank you for checking out my blog

Some nice pictures today for all

A couple of squirrel pictures and a bird out in the tree singing away.






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