I know, I’ve got some catchin’ up to do with the pictures. I’ve been out there with the camera, but been a bit preoccupied trying to figure out how to ride a mountain bike.

Speaking of mountain bikes, you can see some odd things along the trails, like this “appliance in the woods” I found beside the Long Cane Horse Trail:

I’d really like to know what that small freezer was doing out in the middle of the woods, and why it’s so celebrated.

Anyway, back to the lake, Great Egrets are here, I usually see them just in the late summer – early autumn.

Feast day for the spiders stringing webs around the bridge:

I don’t recall seeing ducks like these before, but they are ducks:

I’m not sure what drew in these Black Vultures, maybe they just wanted some time at the beach:

Nature’s lesson: just because a tree has died, that doesn’t mean it’s contribution to the forest is at an end:

Now this could be noteworthy, if my identification is correct:

This seems to match pictures and other information for a Limpkin. That is, matches everything except the range maps, which show Limpkins inhabiting no farther north than Florida. Climate change in action?

And, of course the obligatory Great Blue Heron pictures:

And, yes, they do fly in the fog. They must be equipped for IFR.

We’ve had some neat sunrises lately. I’ll leave you with this one: