Photo Break: Gulf fritillary

It’s baaaaack! Photoblogging again, tho’ not yet returning to birdblogging; going to try my hand at bugblogging. Story behind the photo below the break.

Gulf fritillary, on thistle

Photo Break: Black-crowned night heron

Birdblogging with back-to-back night herons. Same genus, different crowns. Story behind the photo below the break.

Black-crowned night heron

Photo Break: Yellow-crowned night heron

Birdblogging with attitude! (Which is what birdblogging looks like with photos taken during breeding season.) Story behind the photo below the break.

Yellow-crowned night heron

Photo Break: Common moorhen

And back to birdblogging! In honor of the election season, denizens of the fetid swamps might be the appropriate theme of the day. Have a marsh bird, then!  Story behind the photo below the break.

Common moorhen

Photo Break: American alligator

Herpetoblogging some more, but on a slightly larger scale.  Full story behind this photo (and you know it must be a doozy) below the break.

American alligator

Photo Break: Green anole

Herpetoblogging: it’s what’s for dinner.  Story behind the photo below the break.

Green anole

McCain-Palin ralliers attacked in Manhattan

Video has gone viral around the Web of a September 21 McCain-Palin rally on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and Gateway Pundit has posted it.  The reaction from the local wildlife was predictable, though no less cringeworthy for it.

I’ve been in their position before myself, and in my case I was just covering the demonstration for a friend, not participating in it.  For my trouble, I came close more than once to getting the crap kicked out of me by indignant Manhattanites and other observers of the demonstration in question.

Gather round, my children, and I’ll tell you about it below the break.

Photo Break: Brown pelicans

Back to birdblogging the marina.  Story behind the photo below the break.

Brown pelicans

Bonus Photo Break: Happy Birthday!

Birthdayblogging!  It’s the anniversary of the night when alien visitors deposited a shutterbug blogger (no, not me; different aliens) on Area 51 of WordPress.  The mind behind Life On The Edges turns an indeterminate number of minutes young today; here’s something straight from Sanibel for her to send back to the mother ship:

White periwinkle

Here’s hoping her chauffeurs are the friendly type.  Happy Birthday, luv!

Photo Break: Brown anole

OK, blogging on reptile photos (herpetoblogging?) would be a first on WitSnapper.  Lizards it is, then.  Story behind the photo below the break.

Brown anole; tailless, displaying

Photo Break: Great blue heron

Not just birdblogging, but bigbirdblogging.  Story behind the photo below the break.

Great blue heron

Photo Break: Hopie

Still sticking to my “not birdblogging every day” oath, so I’m going with kidblogging now.  (Kind of like an alcoholic saying “oh come on, this is just light beer.”)  Story behind the photo below the break.

Hopie