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The Numbers Game #93

A Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron fishes — A juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron fishing.

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 215. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

A cow and calf next to a road in North Kohala — Mother and child on the loose!

The lone palm at Keawaiki stands out against a cloudy sky. — Mother and child on the loose!

A hibiscus tiliaceus at the Golden Ponds of Keawaiki on The Big Island of Hawaii — Hibiscus tiliaceus flowers, which change from yellow to red during the day.

Hibiscus tiliaceus flowers, which change from yellow to red during the day.

An itty-bitty Whitemouth Moray Eel

A Whitemouth Moray eel juvenile and red pencil urchin in the waters off Hawaii

This is the smallest Whitemouth Moray Eel I’ve seen here. It was in a hole in the rock high up in the water so I could get quite close. I’ve taken a lot of eel photos over the years and I thought, even as I took these photos, it would be ironic if this little eel shot out and was the first one to bite me. Happily, it remained where it was, next to a Red Pencil Urchin, which gives a sense of scale.

Red Pencil Urchin

I couldn’t finish the month without one of these.

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

The Numbers Game #74

A monument commemorating Ikua Purdy, a Hawaiian paniolo — This statue in Waimea celebrates the role of paniolos in the region. (Original post here.)

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 195. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

A stick swimming crab in the waters off the Big Island, Hawaii — A fascinating, but rarely seen, Stick Swimming Crab. Original post here.

A fascinating, but rarely seen, Stick Swimming Crab. Original post here.

Hebrew Cone and Rock Boring Urchin

A Hebrew Cone perched on the edge of a hole where a Rock Boring Urchin is doing its thing.

Looking back at 2024 – Part 1

A Feather-legged fly on a Tree Heliotrope in Hawaii — January: A Feather-legged Fly (*Trichopoda pennipes*) on a Tree Heliotrope (link).

Sunday Stills challenge theme this week and next week is ‘Your 2024 Year-in-Review.’ See more responses here. As usual, I’m going with a favorite photo from each month of 2024, with a caption and link to the post the photo first appeared in. This week’s post is for January through June. See the rest of the year next week.