Yellow Warbler

Eastern Cotton Tail

Mountain Prairie Sphinx

Smerinthus ophthalmica

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Sitta canadensis

Rufous Hummingbird

Selasphorus rufus

Arched Hooktip Moth

Drepana arcuata

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Rufous Hummingbird

Yellow Warbler

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Highflyers Moth

Hydriomena

Straight-lined Plagodis Moth

Plagodis phlogosaria

Morrison's Pero Moth

Pero morrisonaria

Polyphemus Silkmoth

Antheraea polyphemus One of the two giant silkmoths we get here on the island, the other one is the Ceanothus Silkmoth. Just released this male and another one. Raised them last summer and it's there time to emerge. To attract them put out a black light for the night, they will be flying over the next couple of weeks. They like to fly a couple of hours before sunrise. They don't always hang around the light, they will fly in then out again a few times during the night, sometimes you will find them roosting close by in the morning so you have to look around. First time I seen one I thought it was a bat, that's how big they are.

Glassy Cutworm Moth

Apamea devastator

Giant Water Bug

Lethocerus americanus You never know what's going to drop out of the sky at night.

Suculents

Cuphea Seeds

I like taking seed pictures. I was drawn to these ones by the color variations and texture. I have posted the full resolution picture so you can have a look. 1 x 5 stack and stitch focus stack, 29868 x 9713 pixels, 83" x 27" @360 dpi. Shot with the G9 in High Resolution mode outputting jpg's then stacked with Zerene Stacker and used I.C.E. to combine the pictures. Lens used was the Nikon 200 f4 Micro @ f8.

Brown Hairy

Third year in a row we have had juvenile tan colored Hairy Woodpeckers show up. Picoides villosus

Young Squirrel

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Blind Eyed-sphinx Moth

Paonias excaecata It can be hard to get the hawkmoths to settle down and I haven't had much luck with them this year, this one was roosting for the day and nice and still, didn't even move while I did a stack and stich of 3 x 4.