We had a Very Impressive Visitor in our backyard July 23! This buck White Tail Deer looked happy to be here. He stayed in the backyard for a while, sniffing the ground occasionally, watching us from a distance. He eventually strolled off, down a hill into a nearby gully.
Goodness! I didn’t realize I hadn’t posted here since February!! I’ve mostly been making short-form posts to Twitter and Instagram and neglecting this blog. So here we are in July and I’ll make a couple/few quick image posts with captions. These photos are from July 23 and 24 when local wildlife, here in the neighborhood of a small city, paid us extra-close visits.
Another backyard visitor! Mid-afternoon on July 24, a very cooperative Shadow Darner dragonfly alighted on our deck railing allowing me to get up close and personal with my macro lens-equipped DSLR. This is a fairly large insect, ours being 2 3/4 inches long with a wingspan of 4 inches. A guidebook says they’re fairly common in Ohio and fly from about July 4 to November 6.
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