In what’s becoming an accidental yearly tradition, here’s a selection of creatures big and small I’ve captured.

A tree frog:

A milkweed tiger moth:

An oriental beetle:

A zebra spider:

An ovenbird just chillin’ on our front porch:

A great blue heron:

We’ve encountered more interesting bugs while out and about since doing this last September, so I figured I’d turn this into yet another of my recurring features with its own tag.

Here’s a midge:

And a (much smaller in real life) ground crab spider:

And a yellow woolly bear moth:

And an alder spittlebug:

And a juniper (or jade) stink bug:

And a white plume moth:

And a painted lichen moth:

This summer I managed to snap pics of a few cool and colorful critters spotted around our yard and house. And thanks to my phone’s aforementioned Visual Look Up, I actually know what they are.

Here’s an ailanthus webworm moth:

And a two-striped grasshopper:

And a grapevine beetle:

And some kind of mantis (species unknown):

And a southern sickle bush-cricket or katydid: