megaster's Journal
Since the coronavirus news, I have not been out on the trails, or hitting up my usual spots to look for bugs and whatnots.
However on some occasion I would find some spider lurking around my house and took pictures of those. I also have dug up around my compost pile in the yard to seek some insect as well.
I wish I could do more, unfortunately I choose to stay home and stay safe with my kids.
As usual I hit up the trails by the Austin High school to find more insects, critters, or to get a good picture of creatures I see in the lake. The ones in the lakes are the hardest for me to get a capture of.
One evening I went out to Hulu Hut to eat with my family. During the take of family pictures, my son and I spotted some spiders that were up in the hut on the decks. Unfortunately the pictures of the spiders didn’t come out clear enough for inaturalist to identify.
There was another afternoon I spent in Elgin with a friend. Upon my way back to my car I spotted a dead baby snake, at least it looked like a snake to me. The app identified it as a squadmate, but I knew it was some kind of snake. I thought it was some kind of garden snake, but now I know it is called an earthsnake, thanks to the friendly people on inaturalist for the identification.
Hopefully in the future I will get better at capturing pictures of creature and critters so I can get an acccurate identification.
February 4th 2020
I was walking along the trail by Austin High school with my dog and son. It was around 5:30 in the afternoon, in the low 50's with some wind chills. During the walk, I spotted 4 ducks and two swans. I was only able to get three decent pictures to upload though. I'm still new and learning how to get a hang of using the seek app. After I uploaded the pictures, I learned that ducks was considered domestic. And that it was most likely brought to the lake, since duck and swan are usually use to make the lake “look good”. Being in Zoology definitely open my eye to be aware of my surrounding and be able to identify thing I never thought I would pay attention to.
