We are not missing the storms rolling across the lower Great Lakes. Today the high temperature was just shy of 70F.
This cartoon appeared on my FaceBook stream last night and again this morning. I figured that it was a sign.
This branch would have easily fit into a 12″ circle. It was filled with with so many different things that I could have spent an hour with it. Besides having Spanish moss, there were at least 8-10 different lichens.
There were three different Usnea lichens, including Usnea strigosa on the left. There were several Ramalina and Parmatrema as well as some smaller species. Instead of spending the time necessary to identify everything I grabbed some quick photos and tried to keep up with the group of bird-watchers we were with.
The likelihood of our keeping up with everybody decreased when we found both Butterfly Orchid and Greenfly Orchids.
Here’s the top and bottom photos of Golden polypody an epiphytic fern that grows of the sides of Palms.
Don, Susan and I moved on to our next site where we found this vine that I have photographed before. That said, I still do not know what it is.
I always stop for Polistes wasps. This is Polistes annularis, an attractive and docile wasp.
In one stretch of road we found eight armadillos. It’s difficult to believe that these are really mammals.
Here’s a young Yellow-crowned Night-Heron that we found earlier in the day tucked into the mangroves.
More tomorrow…
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