along Victory drive, all flowering.
along Victory drive, all flowering.
only picture I got
Hovering in front of the flowers of yellow jasmine, but of course I did not break my actual digital camera with me...
I have the worst picture ever taken of a bald eagle on my camera now. This is to mark the location. It must live here.
Seen from the car circling the marsh with another bird
the worst picture ever taken has now been added from my camera.
visited flowers of indian shot, didn't get a picture
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/190580994
Edit Feb 21 2024:For those who think it's impossible to identify this to species from this drawing, here are the species in Heliconiinae found in this area:
Gulf fritilary: Note the white and orange striped body and cat eye spot.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/191146193
Variegated fritilary wings:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1091524
Great Spangled fritilary wings, which doesn't even come to this area, and has no cat eye spot, or stripes on the body:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/14559253
Zebra longwing wings:
very quickly scampered off under the dried leaves before I could get a picture. I've seen these before, but they're usually too fast to get a picture.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/149768438
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/142401407
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/118115619
If you're unaware, drawings are permitted as observations, so please do not incorrectly mark down the data quality as "no evidence of organism" or incorrect date or anything like that.
Drawings are allowed as per the official guidelines, and there's even a whole project dedicated to collecting them: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/nature-drawing-and-journaling
This drawing is not very detailed because I did not have the opportunity to sit there drawing it while it held perfectly still for me like a master painter doing a portrait. I drew this one my phone within a minute of it rustling the leaves, drawing my gaze, and running off again before I had time to get my camera out of my pocket.
I drew the important details of the distinctive color markings and noted the very small size, much smaller than any of the other skinks in this area, including juveniles. This was smaller than my finger.
It would be dishonest of me to draw more detail onto this by just looking at pictures of this species, so please don't ask me to.
Dead juvenile on the other side of the road divider, couldn't get a picture since I'm in a car. Might not be there when we get back.
Update: It was indeed gone the next time we went there. There's a lot of turkey and black vultures that live in this area, so it's likely they carried it off somewhere.