At the Wetlands

My professor friend, Dennis McNair, and I spent about three hours at Dunnings Creek Wetlands, a private reserve in Bedford County, this afternoon. And, it was another great biology lesson for me! In addition to a good variety of dragonflies and damselflies, we saw two whitetail deer, a Northern Harrier, a Great Blue Heron, a Lesser Yellowlegs, adult Stink Bugs, a baby Stink Bug, a Coneheaded Katydid, a Praying Mantis, a Toe-Biter, butterflies, and too much more to mention. It was a perfect day, too – sunny, with temperatures in the mid-70s.

A Praying Mantis poses for the camera at Dunnings Creek Wetlands today.

Dennis holds a Sword-bearing Conehead Katydid to examine it more closely.

This pretty frog was very small -- not much more than an inch long. It was in a "pothole" at the Wetlands.

Dennis tries (successfully) to stir up some activity at a pothole. This small area was teeming with all kinds of life -- swimming, crawling, and flying.