NG Sneaking Into Event Little Girl With Corn Snake Corn Snake E. Hognose Combo Corn Snake above, E. Hognose Snake Below, Shapes of Adaptation Eastern King Snake European Legless Lizard Blood Python Rainbow Boa My Daughter Celia, Hidden Behind a Clown Nose, Teaching a Young Man About Snakes Black and White Tegu Lizard Pure Wonder Blue...
Mystery 10 Halloween Pendant Dragonfly Well, props go out to Mary Lovein, who did recognize this as a wing of something! But the winner is James Colborn, who correctly ID’d this as a Dragonfly! This is the Halloween Pendent, Celithemis eponina, a very pretty early flier that is common on my property. I shot this...
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Rocks Rock! Folensby, Aprox. South The Thickest Growth of British Soldier Lichens I've Seen View Aprox. West Birch Bark Periscope White Cedar, Leveled, Twisted, Bark seperated by Natural Forces The Phenomena of Plant Fusion Frames The Naturalist Folensby Pond was donted to the Nature Conservcy of New York, and sits within...
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mystery9 This could be easy, this could be hard- not sure. Let’s see. What are these? And what are they on? Now- I’d like the exact name for these naturally occurring objects. GOOD LUCK and HAVE FUN!!  NG.
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Pre Colombian Pottery Stand Plucked off the forest floor on one of our hikes, in the North of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, I marveled at the iconic representation of this piece, most likely the foot of a small table or platform, a leg/stand if you will. I wasn’t sure if this was an effigy of a lizard head, or a turtle...
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Golfe Duce Aerial View Flying into Puerto Jimenez is a REAL experience. The views are breathtaking and the colors vibrant. You do get a feeling that you are descending into another world. As you break away from the central Costa Rica Talmanca mountains, and just break out over the sweet gulf, jetties and land spits of all...
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Waiting for the First Flight My daughter here carefully watches a Monarch, as it is about to launch for the first time. The Monarch Butterfly, now a quintessential learning tool as thousands of children each year, watch, learn and release them. Some are marked on the wing with little numbers, so if they make it to Mexico...
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Testing Water Height For Car Crossing On the Osa If Its Not Too Deep, You Cross the Jeep Small Rivers can get big quickly after heavy rains, and some- well- are just always flowing a bit. Best to chase away the crocodiles by good old sacrifice of your least valuable man (a geeky PhD will do , and have him/her wade across...
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Mystery 7 All Yellow Pelaegic Sea Snake: Pelarmus palustris All Yellow Pelaegic Sea Snake: Pelarmus palustris Photos by Chuck Annicelli, Madison, CT I’m laughing as I type this because Chuck Annicelli was with me when we found a bunch of these, and I lend his pictures to this post. WildlifeNCritters again PULLS IT OFF (not...
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Mike Boston Enjoying Norops capito, the Pug-Nosed Anole Pug-Nosed Anole I didn’t want to name this “Mike Boston Osa Naturalist,’ or “a Biograpy of Mike Boston, Osa Naturalist,” since a lot of bio’s have been written before in part. And also, in this short account I wouldn’t be able...
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