He’s not particularly excited about his new training leader.
Diamondback Terrapin
I found a Diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin, outside of my apartment in May. Well… Amos really found her, but I made the catch and provided the identification.
She was likely gravid and was setting out to lay her eggs outside of the salt marsh adjacent to my apartment. While I prepared my camera, I placed her on the patio with Rocky, my Eastern Box Turtle, who promptly mounted the terrapin…
Amos marks, digs, and waits
Saw Palmetto
Some flowering saw palmetto, Serenoa repens, at Skidaway Island State Park. This low-growing palm is often characterized by sharp, serrated edges along the stems of it’s leaves, and is common in the understory of oak-pine forests in and around Savannah and the rest of the South East.
Some shoreline seapurslane
Shoreline Seapurslane Sesuvium portulacastrum at Estero Bay State Preserve near Cape Coral, Florida.
The heat is back
Wiener dogs bodies are not good regulators of heat.
Sea oxeye
Also known as sea oxeye, Borrichia frutescens is a perrenial sunflower that grows at Skidaway Island State Park and blooms throughout most of June. It grows in abundance adjacent to channels within the salt marsh.
Eastern oyster with imposter
Looks like a clam has invaded an oyster (Crassostrea virginica) bed.
Cherokee Rose
A blooming cherokee rose Rosa laevigata featured at Skidaway Island State Park. A non-native import from south-east asia, the rose is infamously included in a legend about the Trail of Tears; a legend that was paralleled in an episode of Walking Dead.
Gators and all
A brisk walk at Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge with the dogs last November. We encountered a small alligator, but the dogs didn’t notice…
