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| finally a good use for dog hair - a corgi hair provides scale to the right of the whachamacallit |
I saw this creature in the middle of the road while walking the dogs on Saturday morning. It was about two inches long and sporting some pretty cool racing stripes. You can click on any of the photo to view them larger.
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| coming or going? |
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| whachamacallit was on the northbound (right) side of the road |
I live on this beautiful divided boulevard which is planted with live oaks, camellias, azaleas, and a vast dying array of dogwoods. These live oaks are enormous. That is a fairly tall street light in front of it and the bushes behind the tree are about 12 ft. tall. The photo above shows the low spot in the road. An animal path runs from the woods behind the houses on the left (unseen) into the swampy woods on the right. Crossing the road in this spot during the early morning and night, we see fox, coyote, and armadillo (who don't really cross, but just bumble about near the edges of the grass eating bugs). My neighbor swears she has seen a Florida panther cross. We do have bobcat, but she believes it was a panther. Yesterday she told me she bought an infrared camera. I'm looking forward to getting a glimpse of what is lurking at night!
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A very interesting whachamacallit!! That first shot is great, you can see his face and his chompers. He seems to like to follow the cracks. I hope your neighbor catches something with the infared, that woudld be very cool!!
ReplyDeleteoh my...thats a neat whachamacallit....
ReplyDeleteWay cool! The watchamacallit is so cool looking. And the street pic - amazing!!
ReplyDeleteI dont know what it is, but I love it! Very cool. I would love to know what it will turn into.
ReplyDeleteOhh, how pretty! I love his colors and his little face! So cool!
ReplyDeleteWhat great colors! Very cool pictures!
ReplyDeleteLOL! What a great creature this is! A whatchamacallit is a perfect name for him.
ReplyDeleteSo is your whatchamacallit some sort of caterpillar? I will have to show my boys this picture, they will love it! What a vision, imagining all of the animals that you mention being seen crossing the road nearby. And an armadillo! I'd love to see one of those by the bushes...now that's something we don't see in VA! ;-)
ReplyDeleteThat little fella is quite interesting! I love the picture of the tree.
ReplyDeleteGreat images of the whatchamacallit!! :)
ReplyDeleteQuite exiting street you live:) It really would bee great to see infrared pictures what kind of animals go there. Beautiful worm with cool stripes.
ReplyDeleteI didn't even know a whachamacallit could have a mustache! It's amazing what we can learn from macro!
ReplyDelete:) very cute whatchamacallit :)) Could this be a future butterfly ?
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