Tag Archives: Geckos

Red and green and nothing in between

A red anthurium flower at Hawaii Tropical Bioreserve and Gardens
Red anthurium flowers with green leaves.

This week’s Sunday Stills color challenge is ‘Red and Green.’ See more responses here. I’ve gone for a mostly plant-based response, except for the last.

A Royal Poincana tree in bloom in Hawaii
A Royal Poincana tree in bloom.
A gold dust day gecko on a red torch ginger in Hawaii
A Gold Dust Day Gecko on a red torch ginger
An ohia flower in Hawaii
An Ohio flower.
A red hibiscus flower in Hawaii
A red hibiscus flower.
Bottlebrush flowers in Hawaii
Bottlebrush flowers and leaves.
Traffic lights showing redTraffic lights showing green
A traffic light going from red to green!

Tropical leaves

A gecko on a heliconia leaf at Hawaii Tropical Bioreserve and Gardens
A Gold Dust Day Gecko on a heliconia leaf.

This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Leaves, Autumn or Spring.’ See more responses here. Here are some leaves from Hawai’i Tropical Bioreserve & Garden with captions on the photos.

Anthurium leaves at Hawaii Tropical Bioreserve and GardensAnthurium leaves at Hawaii Tropical Bioreserve and Gardens
Anthurium leaves seen from both sides.
Fern fronds at Hawaii Tropical Bioreserve and Gardens
If you have ferns, you’ve always got fronds!
Palm frond at Hawaii Tropical Bioreserve and Gardens
A palm frond.
Queen Anthurium leaves at Hawaii Tropical Bioreserve and Gardens
Queen Anthurium leaves
Ti plants at Hawaii Tropical Bioreserve and Gardens
Red Ti leaves
The tree canopy at Hawaii Tropical Bioreserve and Gardens
Looking up into the canopy.

You gotta laugh

Breakfast strikes back
A green anole tries to eat a Chinese Rose Beetle, and loses. Original post here.

This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Comics or Funny Pages (aka silly or funny photos).’ See more responses here.

These are photos that I’ve run before, but quite a while ago. They still make me smile and I hope they do the same for you.

Tight squeeze! Original post here.
A green turtle is temporarily stranded on a rock.
Flipper flapper! Original post here.
If you say so. Original post here.
Whatcha lookin at. Original post here.

Geckos are endlessly entertaining.

A gecko looks out from a Pepsi machine
Change anyone? Original post here.
I don’t want any trouble. Original post here.
Should I or shouldn’t I? Full sequence here.

But they’re not the only ones.

A gray chub in the waters off the Big Island
Want to come along? We’re going fishing! Original post here.

Gecko watching

A gecko peeks out from between the boards of a lanai in Hawaii

I was trying to take photos of this gecko on the lanai at eye level, but by the time I got myself organized, it disappeared between the boards. But I waited, knowing that often times they will just wait a while and then pop up again. Sure enough, this Gold Dust Day Gecko did just that. And then we watched each other for a while, and that was the end of that!

Posted for Bushboy’s Last on the Card photo challenge. See more responses here.

Here comes trouble

Two Black-crowned Night Herons hunting in a pond in Hawaii

This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Double Trouble.’ See more responses here.

A pair of juvenile Black-crowned Night Herons spell trouble for small fish living in the pool behind Pelekane Beach in Kawaihae.

A pair of giant porcupinefish in the waters off Hawaii

Giant Porcupinefish can inflate themselves into a ball. When they do so, long spines along the back become raised and stick out, making them an extremely unpleasant proposition for any predator. Oh, and they’re poisonous, too. Trouble, indeed.

two spotted eagle rays hunting in the waters off Hawaii
A pair of wild pigs snack on mangoes
A pair of cattle egrets and a cow in Hawaii

Spotted Eagle Rays hunt for molluscs and other creatures hiding in the sand. They root out prey with their duck-like bills.

Wild pigs can dig up a garden in no time, searching for worms and the like, but they go bananas over fallen fruit. These two were slurping down fallen mangoes.

This cow looked very suspicious of these cattle egrets, especially the one on its back. But they weren’t up to any trouble, just waiting for the cow to start grazing again and stir up some insects for them.

Two Gold Dust Day Geckos in a territorial dispute in Hawaii

The Gold Dust Day Gecko on the left isn’t licking the paint. He’s sticking out his tongue and leaning to make his body look bigger in a challenge to the other gecko. The other one was singularly unimpressed and chased off his adversary.