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POTD 8/8/26
SNAKE ON THE POND - An unidentified snake leads with it's tongue as it swims across the pond.
POTD 8/7/26
IT GOT HOT - A great Blue Heron wades in shallow water...hunting fish, while also cooling off.
POTD 8/6/26
POWER OF FLOWERS - A female Ruby-throated Hummingbird is attracted to the red Geranium bloom. Hummers don't seem to prefer sugar water in feeders over flower nectar - as the 4-to-1 sugar water mix mimics real flower nectar and Hummingbirds use both sources and seem to go for the closest or richest food source.
POTD 8/5/26
BOMBER MODE - A Bald Eagle streaks across the beaver pond. It is getting more common to see an Eagle at the beaver pond.
POTD 8/4/26
APPROPRIATE NAME - A male Ruby-throated Hummingbird shows it's namesake ruby throat feathers. Many bird species have iridescent feathers. The iridescent colors of the throat of the male Ruby-throated Hummingbird are among the most refined and spectacular colors in all of nature. The structure of the feather surface amplifies one color of light and the surfaces are angled so that they reflect that color in only one direction.
