Off to Hillsborough Upper Tract - near the Florida trail. Found a very cooperative dragonfly. An opportunity to practice sequential photos at different focal planes - for stacking.
Dragonfly eye
Colorful dragonfly eye
Face of a dragonfly
Dragonfly eye
Face of a dragonfly (focus stacked)
Another focus stacked image of dragonfly face
Stabilimenta - sawtooth ellipse. I don't know this spider - initially I thought it was a juvenile Argiope aurantia but I'm uncertain
Ant
Stacked image of ant
Leucauge venusta
Water snake
Long water snake
Turtle
July 11, 2016: Heron Behavior
This is an unhappy great blue heron - with neck retracted. This little guy is stalking another - either a mating dance - or perhaps territorial control
Stalking heron against dawn colors
A great blue heron - taking off in dawn colors
I really like to see the different patterns of wing feathers during takeoff and landing
In flight
In flight
In flight reflections
Stalking heron
Stalked heron - fishing
Grabbing a tastey breakfast
Another lunge for breakfast
Video of stalking
Talking heron
C. Frank Starmer