From Lakeland - a thunderstorm over Plant City
Moon over Walden Lake
Dragonfly
Female Tetragnatha elongata
Male Tetragnatha elongata
Tetragnatha elongata everywhere
Male (left) approaching the female hiding under the leaf. Her shadow is on the leaf on the right
Male approaching the female
Close view of the male approaching the female
Male Tetragnatha elongata coupled to the female. Note the more complex shadow on the right
Male with right palp free
Male fangs stabilizing the coupled posture
Male with left palp free
Free male right palp
Freel male left palp
Good view of the coupled configuration, female eye pattern and male right free palp
Disengaging
Disengagine - good view of male and female eye patterns
Male after sex
Female returns to her leaf home
Male Tetragnatha elongata, palps and chelicerae
Male Tetragnatha elongata
Another couple - Male and female T. elongata - observing each other
Female Tetragnatha elongata checking me out
Little blue heron
Gallinule
Gallinule chick
Gallinule chick
Mom Gallinule - and chick with baby wings
Mom and chick
Mom and chick
Chick
Mom and Gallinule chick
Three Gallinule chicks
Chicks
Moon over Walden Lake
Moon over Walden Lake
C. Frank Starmer