Category Archives: Animals

The Numbers Game #84

Spinner dolphins off the coast of Hawaii Island
Spinner Dolphins swim by.

The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 206. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

A Pacific Golden Plover in summer plumage.
Raindrops on a passion flower in Hawaii
A Passion Flower and raindrops.
The old Kohala Girls School sits on land at ‘Iole in North Kohala.
Colors and shadows at the old Kohala Girls’ School.
A Hawaiian stilt feeding in a pond in Hawaii
A Hawaiian Stilt fishing!
A shadow on the beach.
The roof of Costco in Kailua Kona, Hawaii
From last week, the roof of Costco!

Heading home

A Sonoran Carpenter Bee heads for its nest in Hawaii
A Sonoran Carpenter Bee nest in Hawaii

I was at Lapakahi, after a swim, and walked to the lookout there, to see what was happening in the water. As I stood there, a Sonoran Carpenter Bee rumbled towards me and flew back and forth in my vicinity. It was quickly joined by a second bee, coming from the opposite direction.

They weren’t exactly bothering me, but they were persistent, so I took a step or two backwards. This seemed to satisfy one of the bees and I saw it head to one of the wooden rails and disappear. I realized what was going on. I was too close to their homes.

I didn’t have my camera, but got my phone out, located the home of the second bee and took a couple of photos. These female carpenter bees drill tidy holes into any kind of wood to deposit food and lay eggs there.

Eventually, the second bee was satisfied I wasn’t a threat. I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to capture her making, dare I say it, a beeline for home!

The Numbers Game #83

A Long-tailed blue butterfly on a tasselflower in Hawaii
A Long-tailed Blue Butterfly on a Tasselflower.

The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 205. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

Also posted for Becky’s Squares: Simply Red. See more responses here.

A brown anole keeps watch
Brown Anole.
Full Moon.
Hiking in Kahuku
On a guided hike at the Kahuku section of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
Heliconia Colgantea.
Dwarf Date Palm.
A clerodendrum inerme flower in Hawaii
Clerodendrum Inerme.

The Numbers Game #82

A bee flies to an ohia lehua flower in Hawaii.
A bee approaches an Ohia Lehua flower.

The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 204. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

Also posted for Becky’s Squares: Simply Red. See more responses here.

A cabbage butterfly on a tree heliotrope
A Cabbage Butterfly about to receive a visitor!
An abandoned car that was finally set on fire.
Rolling surf and dark clouds off the North Kohala coast.
A Varicose Phyllidia sea slug.
A day octopus in the waters off Hawaii
A Pacific Day Octopus caught in the open.
A spotted eagle ray
A Spotted Eagle Ray passes below.

The Numbers Game #80

A Coconut Orchid at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden

The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 201. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

Also posted for Becky’s Squares: Simply Red. See more responses here.

A Spinner Dolphin doing its thing.
The firehose of lava entering the sea from Kilauea Volcano
A long exposure of the fire hose of lava.
A shedding anole.
Super blood wolf moon!
Hawaiian Zebra Blennies.
A Potter Wasp on a Tree Heliotrope.