Pond Happenings

A Blue Dasher has claimed the pond as it's territory. (Though another male has showed up today and has been challenging him.)


We have at least one snail.

Saw a very large Five-lined Skink (Eumeces fasciatus) drinking out of the pond.

Saw a Fowler's Toad (Bufo fowleri) near the pond.

Added a new plant: Lizard's Tail (Saururus cernuus).

Cope's Gray Treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis)

Organpipe Mud Dauber Wasp Nest

Trypoxylon politum

Blue Velvet Spread

Pulcherricium caeruleum, saprobic crust fungus.

Pond Complete

Front Yard Pond in Progress

Collide Escape

No more birds flying into the sliding glass doors!


Here is what it looks like on the outside:


And you can still see through the doors from in the inside:

Collide Escape!

Howell Woods

Warbler trail with cane understory. Heard Swainson's Warbler and saw a Southern Pearly Eye satyr.

Other species of note:
A group of fledged Great Crested Flycatchers, Summer Tanagers, Indigo Buntings, Field Sparrows, 3 Mississippi Kites, Leopard frog.

Spurge nettle (Cnidoscolus stimulosus)




Pencil flower (Stylosanthes biflora)

Longleaf pines (Pinus Palustris)

Beautyberry (Callicarpa ameriana)

Wild sweet potato (Ipomoae pandurata)

Pink evening primrose (Oenthera parviflora)

Piedmont roseling (Callisia rosea)

Brown-eyed susan (Rudbeckia triloba)