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POTD 9/3/26
CAN'T DO A THING WITH MY HAIR - A female Ruby-throated Hummingbird with head feathers askew. Lots of things can cause Hummingbird's feathers to get mussed, but primarily accidentally bumping into a branch or something else. I don't think this girl even knew her "do" was messed.
POTD 9/2/26
BEE HERE NOW - We have not seen any Monarch Butterfly caterpillars on the Asclepias blooms (Butterfly Weed) ..,but it seems the bees are loving it.
POTD 9/1/26
GOLDEN SPINDLES - Clavulinopsis fusiformis, commonly known as golden spindles, spindle-shaped yellow coral or spindle-shaped fairy club, is a species of coral fungus in the family of Clavariaceae. Bright little patches of the golden spindles are showing up on the trail to the beaver pond.
POTD 8/31/26
DUDE WITH A SNOOD TUDE - A young male turkey with droopy snood. A turkey's snood - the fleshy, extendable appendage on its forehead - is made of highly vascular erectile tissue. While it famously elongates during courtship displays, its size is actively controlled by blood flow and muscular contraction driven by several non-sexual factors. Maybe he is just happy to see me.
POTD 8/30/26
LATE BLOOMER - A female Ruby-throated Hummingbird extracts nectar from a Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) bloom. The tall, late-summer blooming of the Cimicifuga aligns perfectly with the high-energy demands of Hummingbird pre-migration season when they need extra fuel. The Hummingbirds in our yard kept close attention to the flower spikes as they got close to blooming.
