DSS Part 4: Insects

Dung Beetles (T)
by Jeter Skeet

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (NC)
by Jeter Skeet

Moth on a Tree (CR)
by Jeter Skeet

Ghost Mantid (R)

All we need to do is find this spooky relative of a praying mantis.

DSS Part 2: Birds

Blue Jay (NC)
by Jeter Skeet

One of those birds I’ve been trying to take a good picture of for ten years.

Pine Warbler in a Pine Tree (NC)
by Jeter Skeet

Brown-Hooded Parrot (CR)
by Jeter Skeet

This bird is quite bland, a green bird wearing a brown hood, until it flashes its underarm colors.

Red-Legged Honeycreepers Flitering (CR)
by Jeter Skeet

Isn’t love grand?

Black-Cheeked Woodpecker
Carving a New Home (CR)
by Jeter Skeet

 Grim Grackle

A Common Grackle

with jaundiced eyes

and pitchfork claws

uses his beak as a vice

to pull and pull on

his slimy breakfast

 stuck under a boulder—

   or maybe he’s a Grim Reaper

 disguised as a Grackle.

Common Grackle (NC)
by Jeter Skeet