I am particularly fond on this time of year in Virginia, the bones of the world are visible.
One day I’ll have a telephoto lens on the camera when this big bird does a low altitude fly-over.
2012/02/05
bones
2012/01/24
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Walking Sophia in misty Slabtown predawn, saw two bald eagles sitting in a tree. When I fetched my camera they split. Edmond was wondering whether I was seeing turkey vultures but I’ve never seen one of those with white tail feathers.
2012/01/22
2011/12/10
committee of vultures
1100 block Park Street, committee of vultures (carthartes aura) catch early morning rays.
2011/10/03
drive through
I don’t know what is going on here. Any narrative would be me projecting.
2011/09/20
Sciurus carolinensis
(the squirrel) is one of very few mammalian species that can descend a tree head-first. It does this by turning its feet so that the claws of its hindpaws are backward pointing and can grip the tree bark.–Wikipedia
2011/07/27
skeleton
Anatomy, Zoology . the bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of the body.–Dictionary.com
2011/06/02
2011/05/10
2011/05/07
Coluber constrictor
The black snake is the state reptile of Ohio. Sign of spring, the snakes come out. Virginia does not have a state reptile, real estate developers did not want the publicity. However, Virginia did recently name the striped (Stry-Ped) bass as the state salt-water fish.
There are many cool, deserving reptiles in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Lets crown one and make it a crime for it to be run over. You deliberately crush a box turtle? We still have capital punishment in our state.
This black snake lived near the intersection the of Riverview and Woolen Mills Road. This is the snake corner. My last living coluber constrictor photo was taken at the same spot.
