TomTerriffic77

A short flight in Front of the new Place.

This is two flights as My battery was giving out, so I returned, put in a fresh one and took off again.

I had been flying drones for 3 summers at this point and it never get's old.

A fight around the area where I live.

OK, Vlad is not a bird, but he flies. My brother was working in an empty warehouse and found this little Brown Bat on the cold concrete floor and brought it home to me in a bucket. I was able to rescue him and fed him all winter, then released him near where he was found the next spring.

I have a standup electric box outside my window that I started putting seeds on. It didn't take long for every bird in the neighborhood to find it.

A trick I found by accident when using my Nikon Fluophot Microscope.

This bdelloid rotifer has found himself a nice garden to anchor himself in and whip up a meal. I love watching these guys work. Some rotifers are so big you can see them with just your eyes.

Next time you have rice for dinner, don't think about this video. Ha.

Now this is a very strange critter. A slow moving amoeba.

This guy is looking for new territory to set up shop and get to work. Sometimes they walk and sometimes they swim. It looks like they are flying.

This Bdelloid has found a nce safe spot in some water plant stalks and set up shop.

A summer migrant to La Crosse Wisconsin, always welcome at my feeder.

Various local and migratory birds that have been coming to my bird feeder for years.

A Red Cardinal at my window feeder. He returns here every year.

This is a thief, a halfbreed regular and Black squirrel eating bird food, the little begger.

Hummingbirds are generally the first to come North in spring and the last to leave. I have left my feeder up some years past Christmas, just in case.

Nematodes safely under a microscope slide where they can't get to me. Found these in moss from my yard, where people walk barefoot. Yikes.

A migratory sparrow that returns to my free food buffet every year. Cute little bottomless pits.

Look at a drop of water under a microscope and you just never know what you will find, like the bit of dead plant cells with polorized light.

Just searching around a drop of water and found this. The world is full of mystery.

This microbe has a foot to attach itself to a srface as he has here, then he just sits there and filter feeds, he can also detach and swim to another location.

Goldfinch mother feeding her baby.

He's built a new house and now his twin brother is going to move into it. Fascinating what our earth has developed on it.

This is an odd looking amoeba, living inside a hard shell he builds around himself. A very interesting lifestyle.