Most of my nature posts have been about plants. There haven’t been many specifically about animals. The reason for that is simple: plants stay still, and animals don’t, so most of my pictures are of plants. But I still manage to capture the occasional insect or critter in a picture. Some I have already included in posts about flowers, such as this one. The stinging insects are usually the easiest to photograph, because they’re not afraid of me (However, one chased me on Saturday, proving that I am afraid of them. I have no idea why it wanted to land on me so badly. I hadn’t done anything to aggravate it!). Snails don’t run away. Deer sometimes freeze. Most other animals, from the tiny to the large, typically run, jump, or fly away from me as fast as possible and before I can get them in focus. It’s incredibly frustrating.
So I don’t have a lot of pictures of animals, and what pictures I do have are not of the best quality. But I will post them anyway, because animals are important, too. After all, something has to eat the plants 😉
These guys are really loud, and I think they do it on purpose, just to get attention. The moment they know you’re watching, they climb as high as they can go so that your picture will be low-resolution. It’s just the way they are.
The rarest of creatures, the red-footed creeper can only be found occasionally in the woods, but it does pause long enough to be photographed.