Nature Walk 4/26/20

It was about 85 degrees on this walk today. I originally started out with the plan that my walk would be surrounding plants, specifically any plants I could find that are currently flowering. Starting out, I was able to find and focus on purely flowering plants. However, as the walk progressed I was able to find more and more insects. So, my theme is still flowering plants, but I included a lot of other wildlife as well. These pictures were all taken in California and I was surprised how many different animals I could find. The pictures of the king snakes that I have included I'm assuming that they were mating, although my mother was with me and she believes they were dancing haha. I was able to get pretty close to the snakes for pictures, but eventually I think I made one of them made because it popped up its head at me, most likely warning me to back off. The last lizard picture I included was actually a video. The video was a lizard attacking the bee several times before proceeding to eat it. It was a really cool video and I was really surprised that I was able to get the video from as close as I was. Overall, I was surprised with how many flowering plants I could find this far into spring time. I was also pleasantly surprised over how many of these plants were accompanied by cute little insects and lizards (and some snakes). I went out on the walk with the purpose of snapping a couple of pretty flower pictures and I ended up getting to see a lot of wildlife interactions. The most interesting thing I saw was definitely one of the lizards I saw. It would walk a couple steps and then do a sort of push up action a couple times before then continuing to walk. Overall, an amazing walk with lots of pretty flowers to find.

Publicado el 27 de abril de 2020 por patriciasw23