
1100 block Park Street, committee of vultures (carthartes aura) catch early morning rays.

photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory

1100 block Park Street, committee of vultures (carthartes aura) catch early morning rays.


I don’t know what is going on here. Any narrative would be me projecting.

(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

Anatomy, Zoology . the bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of the body.–Dictionary.com

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.

Nigerian miniature goats Zinnia and Ella.

C-Ville has the story.