A carpenter ant herding aphids on a willow leaf
The more-than-human world is really cool, y'all. Look closely!
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo skulking in the batture along the Mississippi River
The batture is a unique ecosystem in this area. Thick woods of water-loving tree species line the river side of the levee in areas where the ground is exposed during lower flow times. Huge cottonwoods, sycamores and willows, tied together with vines of all sorts.
On this day in late April it was teeming with birds. Orioles were singing from every direction, and there would be a flash and suddenly something like the cuckoo above would appear just a few feet away.
Magical
A nice close shot of the beeblossom. It was really hard to get these in focus, glad I got at least one to show off how beautifully delicate they are
Another mushroom friend, and its little insect friends under its cap
