Late afternoon light

Ants at work, late afternoon

Ant parades

Two sizes of ants share a pathway across a paver block in our local park. It looks like the bigger ones are simply steamrolling over the smaller ones. Wild stuff.

Dead things on the beach

Hail!

Not a common occurrence in coastal Uruguay! This was a few days ago. I abruptly stopped shooting in order to turn the glass table on its side, because….

Trippy flowers

In front of Syd and Gundy’s house, low winter afternoon light.

We all have to eat

That’s a pigeon it’s got for dinner, best I can tell. With all the raptors we have here, and all the easy targets, like pigeons, I’ve always expected to see an attack, but never have.

DTOTB

Dead Things on the Beach. A penguin. Near the dunes. I don’t have even the beginning of an explanation.

Forgot to turn off the flash

But I like it 😉

Snake and toad

We ran across this on the trail yesterday

A small snake trying to eat a toad?

Apparently it concluded this wasn’t going to work.

Then it showed the underside of its tail, which allows a 100% identification: a young lystrophis_dorbignyi, or Falsa Crucera de Hocico Respingado. I’ll let you try to figure out what that means in English on your own….

Meanwhile, worth noting that we have never seen a toad before on a dog walk.