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Explore #145, Feb 25, 2009...

 

ID please? Probably from southern Oregon or northern California, but that's a guess... I lost my notes. Taken either by me (Rita) or my ex-husband, Gary Lemon.

 

HBW!!! and HGGT!!!

I'm sure this bird will be ID'd before I can say "ornithologist". ;-)

UPDATE: Within hours of posting to the amazing "ID Please" group, this has been ID'd as a Chinese Goose. Thanks! :-)

 

An archive photo to bide the time until I've taken some new ones. Taken in a zoo, but this one was wandering freely about, so I don't know if its put there by the zoo or just came to the pond like the seagulls. Must be some kind of goose. With that spectacular beak, I'm sure bird lovers will ID it easily. :-)

Full zoom, no cropping.

For the ID Please group:

LOCATION: Kristiansand, Southern Norway, Scandinavia, Europe.

HABITAT: Inside a large, open zoo, but walking freely about. I'm not sure if its a bird placed there by the zoo or one who's flown there because the open ponds are inviting.

SIZE: About the size of a goose or perhaps a large duck. I have a shot with more of it if needed.

 

Explore history (suddenly appeared in the top 100 three weeks after posting!)

 

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Our family inherited (long ago) old glass negatives. Many of these images depict Vienna and Austria at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Finally i find time to scan these old treasures and want to share them.

I am pretty sure that I've seen an image of this man before, if so, he was well known as a mountaineer of sorts.

The photo must have been taken in early summer, the Pasque flowers (at his right leg, so the left in the image) are boasting their seed heads.

 

check!

 

They're some kind of seed pods I found at the Irish South coast (Youghal). Not a clue what kind of plant it's from, I think a succulent, but I could be totally wrong (size approx. 7 x 1 cm)

 

Explore highest position: #150 on Tuesday, August 5, 2008

not sure what language this is. it might be english or latin though. another odd thing is that it has discoloration consistent with ferrous corrosion. Not sure if it's just dirt or if the coin is the source.

 

EDIT: It's greek. But a replica. It's apparently a copy of a Tetradracma. the real thing is made of silver and twice as heavy.

A Swift enjoying evening sun on a wooden fencing.

Looks like a white rumped spinetail, need help to confirm ID.

 

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A close relative to Common Swifts.

news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/swift-bird-10-month-m...

“They feed in the air, they mate in the air, they get nest material in the air,”. “They can land on nest boxes, branches, or houses, but they can’t really land on the ground.”...

Everyday I am walking in the woods, and finding so many species, i cannot keep up! I have been doing at least three spore prints per day, it seems...that's all I can easily manage at one time.

 

Here are some of the species I saw today:

 

The first is unknown to me...very large, thin, and curling up into a large bowl...I saw two of these, near each other.

The widest dimension was at least 7" or about 18 cm....

and the underside is smooth, with very tiny pores.

I do not see anything remotely like it in my Barron book.

ID will be greatly appreciated!

This is a local 野菜 wild vegetable, called 竹叶眉, or "Bamboo Leaf Eyebrows". I doubt that this is bamboo leaf, but a vegetable that looks very similar. The leaves were tender with a distinct crunchy texture.

 

I wonder if anyone in ID Please, knows?

Beresfield, about 20 km north-west of Newcastle, New South Wales.

I was lucky find this snake coiled and resting like this in the middle of the day. I got off two good shots before it suddenly uncoiled itself and slid away rapidly. They are one of the most common snakes in coastal eastern Australia, growing to around 2 metres long and equally at home on land and in shallow water. They feed mostly on frogs and tadpoles. Very timid, they rarely attack humans and their bite has rarely proved fatal.

 

I just came across this shot of the North American Red-bellied Water Snake, Nerodia erythrogaster erythrogaster . . . www.flickr.com/photos/curtzsi/3589051707/in/pool-idplease --and was struck by the resemblance in colouring. Seems likely to be a case of parallel evolution, maybe to do with hunting camouflage or heat absorption, as both are semi-aquatic. They belong to different snake families, the American one in Colubridae, the Australian in Elapidae.

See Wikipedia entry at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerodia_erythrogaster

the first one....I found three examples around here...and it's not in my book....and I 've lost a good internet site for identifying Ontario wildflowers.

Just like the first one.... also not a very good pic....and only one example...of another small intensely blue wildflower...again, new to me....

 

Amd lastly a VERY tiny pink flower seen at an Ohio highway rest stop, last stop when we were travelling...there was a lot of it.

 

Any help will be greatly appreciated !

 

From the internet...wikipedia...

 

Epipactis helleborine :

 

" Epipactis helleborine grows in diverse habitats, from sheltered sandy beaches to open spaces in deciduous or coniferous forests, on roadsides, in meadows, and on moist soils. It is sometimes called the Weed Orchid.

As characteristic of all orchids, Epipactis spp. are dependent on a mycorrhizal symbiosis (see also Orchid mycorrhiza). This allows some species to have reduced leaves and need little chlorophyll. Violet Helleborine (Epipactis viridiflora) can even do without chlorophyll. These forms can be recognized by their purple instead of violet flowers.

Their creeping, fleshy rhizomes grow offshoots, from which then emerge the 20–70 cm long stems during the next spring.

There are four to eight alternate, lanceolate leaves, that grow progressively shorter near the top. The margins are entire, the top is acute. Species with less chlorophyll have blue-purple leaves.

Their bilaterally symmetrical colorful flowers grow from a terminal raceme. The three sepals and the two lateral petals are ovate and acuminate. Their color can vary from greenish-white to violet and purple.

The lip is divided in a bowl-shaped hypochile, with the outer surface greenish-white and threaded with dark veins. The wavy, snow-white epichile is fan-shaped.

The ovary is inferior. It produces a dry capsule with countless minute seeds. '

sunnyvale, ca, usa found in the garden

Just felt like starting early and I need some advice-I am going to order a butterfly i.d. book online (can't always count on I-P-S) but don't know which-Peterson's? Kaufmann? something else?

 

and while I'm soliciting advice-anyone know what this is?

 

Happy Early Fluttery Friday!

Cocoon of a ladybug (thanks for the link and ID, Annelies!)

(Found it on my roof deck)

 

Larva here www.flickr.com/photos/ladymolly/490157203/

two eyes..one green earring, a lot of teeth...and I have a new mushroom book, and still I can't do the ID. My book does not tell me how to do a spore print..apparently, that's important...and I did not see stalks under these...but I did not look very hard...should have !

 

This is my Photo # 1500 on flickr...in one year... some kind of a milestone ! ( 19,000+ in the computer ! ) Where the time goes is obvious...and I am seeing a lot of things I had never seen before...especially in YOUR photos...many thanks to all of you for the fine photos and the kind comments.

 

This will be a busy week, as we get ready to go away for several weeks...on a repositioning cruise...Europe to North America... I am unlikely to do any posting or commenting during that time...but I will do as much as I can before we leave!

  

No idea what these are, but I thought they were neat. I saw one uprooted and oddly, it looked like a bulb of garlic on the other end. Seen at Cox Arboretum, Dayton, Ohio.

Our family inherited (long ago) old glass negatives. Many of these images depict Vienna and Austria at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Finally i find time to scan these old treasures and want to share them.

Thanks for the ID Brennan Mulrooney.

Just so happens there were thousands of its favorite food, the apple snail on the shores of the catch basin where it was.

As far as I know this is a scan I did of an original photo from 100 years ago. If anyone is a real expert at comparing details and would like to tell me, for example, which church that was, it would be really nice. Also, these photos that I have have never been published according to family legend, but if you can prove that not to be true, please tell me. If anyone has any clue as the the photographer's identity, that would be nice also. Whoever he was he had a studio in 1906 in either San Francisco or Oakland, California. After such time as I may do a book, I am thinking of donating them to the museum in the San Francisco Bay Area that is most likely to take care of them and appreciate them.

 

I was only about 2 or 3 when we moved from Texas to San Francisco Bay Area. Right around 1950. My very first memories of life are in San Fancisco. We lived in a home down the peninsula in Belmont, later on, when I was about seven years old, and the home was huge, and still had some cracks in some walls from surviving the earthquake. My mother showed them to me. It was always with great respect that they spoke of the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906. As young children, the small earthquakes we had and felt were sort of laughed at. There is a picture of me and my brothers eating watermelon outside on tv trays, and the earth was shaking and my Mom took the picture anyway. I'll have to double check, but I think I already posted it on my flickr site some time ago.

  

Everytime San Francisco would have a 2 to 3 point earthquake, my favorite Aunt Dorothy (who I was named for) would call from Houston, Texas to be sure we were all OK. My mother thought she was silly. But everytime they had a tornado near Houston, my parents would call her to see if she was OK. I guess people just get used to shrugging off certain dangers, but remaining scared of others that are less familiar.

 

I feel this addresses My Life As the family archivist, who has taken care of special photos for most of my life. I have had these over a quarter of a century, waiting for the 100th Anniversary. The My Story part is finding Flickr, learning about scanners, and having fun learning about the photos I have and those that others have. If These Walls Could Talk group is pretty obvious, but I would say if what is *left* of these walls could talk, wouldn't they have some stories to tell? And for the I've Kept it All these Years group, the photo itself and others that I will be uploading are the items kept for over a quarter of a century, and they were old when I got them. Delina

 

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Tenuous Link: crumbling >> Major Earthquake

 

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ABCs & 123s (group) --- *S* is for San Francisco Earthquake 1906

Santa CRUZ CA USA is the location

If you beg and plead a little bit, I'll tell you which one is me. This would be taken right around 1954. If some of you would like to try your hand at making it nicer, I left the borders uneven and scanned it fairly large with that in mind.

I'm adding this to "ID Please" with hopes that someone might be able to identify some of the other children.

The notes include some inaccurate guesses of which one was me, as well as accurate notes.

 

This picture addresses "My Life As" a little school kid.

 

I'm in the middle row, second one in from the right, between the little boy with the tie on and the little girl with glasses.

This picture has two signs I cannot read. I will put notes where I think they are. There is another indication that this was taken somewhere in the vicinity of Turk and Buchanan. There was a plumbing Co. there, and I am not sure if their sign was advertising another site which was near Turk and Buchanan, or if that building was the actual business site of the plumbing company.

As far as I know this is a scan I did of an original photo from 100 years ago. If anyone is a real expert at comparing details and would like to tell me, for example, which church that was, it would be really nice. Also, these photos that I have have never been published according to family legend, but if you can prove that not to be true, please tell me. If anyone has any clue as the the photographer's identity, that would be nice also. Whoever he was he had a studio in 1906 in either San Francisco or Oakland, California. After such time as I may do a book, I am thinking of donating them to the museum in the San Francisco Bay Area that is most likely to take care of them and appreciate them.

 

I was only about 2 or 3 when we moved from Texas to San Francisco Bay Area. Right around 1950. My very first memories of life are in San Fancisco. We lived in a home down the peninsula in Belmont, later on, when I was about seven years old, and the home was huge, and still had some cracks in some walls from surviving the earthquake. My mother showed them to me. It was always with great respect that they spoke of the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906. As young children, the small earthquakes we had and felt were sort of laughed at. There is a picture of me and my brothers eating watermelon outside on tv trays, and the earth was shaking and my Mom took the picture anyway. I'll have to double check, but I think I already posted in on my flickr site some time ago.

  

Everytime San Francisco would have a 2 to 3 point earthquake, my favorite Aunt Dorothy (who I was named for) would call from Houston, Texas to be sure we were all OK. My mother thought she was silly. But everytime they had a tornado near Houston, my parents would call her to see if she was OK. I guess people just get used to shrugging off certain dangers, but remaining scared of others that are less familiar.

 

I feel this addresses My Life As the family archivist, who has taken care of special photos for most of my life. I have had these over a quarter of a century, waiting for the 100th Anniversary. The My Story part is finding Flickr, learning about scanners, and having fun learning about the photos I have and those that others have. If These Walls Could Talk group is pretty obvious, but I would say if what is *left* of these walls could talk, wouldn't they have some stories to tell? And for the I've Kept it All these Years group, the photo itself and others that I will be uploading are the items kept for over a quarter of a century, and they were old when I got them. Delina

 

I think the hand printed letters on here say 1st grade, and I cannot read for sure if it says 1923 or 1928. Is there someone who knows for sure, and could identify some of the people in this class? And was it a Catholic School? I'm placing a note over the face area of the one little girl that I am pretty sure about her identity. I'm sending this to Found Photos and to ID Please group pools and will explain more in a minute about that.

Can someone tell me who some of these little children are? Oh, one other hint. This picture came in a whole box of genealogy stuff for the Masterson and Surber family.

 

I would say that this photo found me, more than I found it. I do genealogy, and I have MASTERSON in my surnames.

Someone contacted me after finding my name on USGenWeb or Ancestry.com or one of those kinds of places. They had come across a whole box of genealogical information on Margaret "Margie, Marjie, or Margey" Masterson who had married Earl Surber. They were no known living heirs, and they wanted to send the box of stuff to someone who put in writing the best reasons why they should be chosen. They liked my reply; so I got the box. Using information from the rest of the pictures in the box, is how I decided on the clues above.

 

NOTE: On October 29, 2011, I got Margie's birthday of March 31, 1914; so I don't think this was clear into 1928. I think 1923 or even 1920 would fit a routine kindergarten and first grade schedule. I'm thinking that since I can't read the number very well anyway, that this would be about 1920 for a child born in 1914 to be in kindergarten or first grade. I changed the date to 1920, making this photo over 100 years old.

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I hope this is OK for the Saturday for Stairs group, as these kids are definitely standing on steps/stairs that don't show much, but are there for sure. The kids aren't just floating in stair/step fashion. (grin)

 

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Tenuous Link: metal stair railing

 

I never called you stupid. But when I asked you how to spell Mississippi and you asked if I meant the river or the state, it caught me by surprise

A fun capture, this photographer with a media pass stepped into the stage area several times to photograph the performances of the Grand Finale. I saw this same man 3 years ago when I attended the All Souls Procession and wondered at the time about this method of balancing and mounting the camera. Here you can see that his round frame also stabilizes a large microphone.

 

If anyone knows more about this photography technique for handling the camera, please let me know. And an ID on this photographer would be very welcome. Although this image is of course part of my on-going set being worked on for the All Souls Procession, it is a natural image to add to my growing "Cobalt Shoots Photographers" set.

A century ago, on a morning in April, San Francisco was hit with an earthquake, that's death toll and destruction and fire damage was known around the world.

 

As far as I know this is a scan I did of an original photo from 100 years ago. If anyone is a real expert at comparing details and would like to tell me, for example, which church that was, it would be really nice. Also, these photos that I have have never been published according to family legend, but if you can prove that not to be true, please tell me. If anyone has any clue as the the photographer's identity, that would be nice also. Whoever he was he had a studio in 1906 in either San Francisco or Oakland, California. After such time as I may do a book, I am thinking of donating them to the museum in the San Francisco Bay Area that is most likely to take care of them and appreciate them.

 

I was only about 2 or 3 when we moved from Texas to San Francisco Bay Area. Right around 1950. My very first memories of life are in San Fancisco. We lived in a home down the peninsula in Belmont, later on, when I was about seven years old, and the home was huge, and still had some cracks in some walls from surviving the earthquake. My mother showed them to me. It was always with great respect that they spoke of the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906. As young children, the small earthquakes we had and felt were sort of laughed at. There is a picture of me and my brothers eating watermelon outside on tv trays, and the earth was shaking and my Mom took the picture anyway. I'll have to double check, but I think I already posted in on my flickr site some time ago.

  

Everytime San Francisco would have a 2 to 3 point earthquake, my favorite Aunt Dorothy (who I was named for) would call from Houston, Texas to be sure we were all OK. My mother thought she was silly. But everytime they had a tornado near Houston, my parents would call her to see if she was OK. I guess people just get used to shrugging off certain dangers, but remaining scared of others that are less familiar.

 

I feel this addresses My Life As the family archivist, who has taken care of special photos for most of my life. I have had these over a quarter of a century, waiting for the 100th Anniversary. The My Story part is finding Flickr, learning about scanners, and having fun learning about the photos I have and those that others have. If These Walls Could Talk group is pretty obvious, but I would say if what is *left* of these walls could talk, wouldn't they have some stories to tell? And for the I've Kept it All these Years group, the photo itself and others that I will be uploading are the items kept for over a quarter of a century, and they were old when I got them. Delina

 

seen yesterday...a lonely tiny ( about 1cm) greeny brown musroom, fruiting on the ground in our usual mixed woodland. Spore print produced no colour at all... and contrary to what Trykemom suggested in my last mushroom posting... I am not becoming more knowledgeable...just more puzzled and frustrated in my inability to ID these. Many Mycena are slimy...and grow in clusters....this one fits neither category...so once more, it's off to IDPlease.....and thank you !

 

photographed with the arresting leaf that carried this one home...

The must have a name........ any offers?

Saw this in a fresh water lake just outside Rome. Anyone know what kind of snake it is?

Thanks to Goat Mountain for ID. (A wild hibiscus)

Hibiscus Trionum.

Also known by "Flower of the Hour"

Goat Mountain gave me a link to his photo (much better than mine!) and his ID and description. www.flickr.com/photos/goat_mountain/36486001862

Which I'm adding here:

"The blossoms open around 10 a.m. and close about an hour later, depending on sunshine and temperature. And that's why they are sometimes called "Flower-of-the-Hour".

The seed head is remarkable - even more than the blossom! The one that is on the Left, will open in a few days and scatter seeds for another generation.

Grows to 30"x30"

Finally starting to rain a bit... These flowers are so abundant on a bush, and sometimes to difficult to get a proper shot of the details... the rainy weather seemed to help and I used the old tired P&S camera... it still works well...

Currently not sure which species?

Maybe a Cloudy Snail-Eating Snake (Sibon nebulatus)?

Found in the garden of Casa Corcovado, nea San Pedrillo, Pacific coast of Costa Rica.

spiderwort and friend... and maybe ID please would help...I've no idea ! Thank you!

I am away all day...commenting this evening, I hope...if the internet co-operates...recent problems in last couple of days....

For ABCs & 123s Group: *Q* is for Quake

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As far as I know this is a scan I did of an original photo from 100 years ago. If anyone is a real expert at comparing details and would like to tell me, for example, which church that was, it would be really nice. Also, these photos that I have have never been published according to family legend, but if you can prove that not to be true, please tell me. If anyone has any clue as the the photographer's identity, that would be nice also. Whoever he was he had a studio in 1906 in either San Francisco or Oakland, California. After such time as I may do a book, I am thinking of donating them to the museum in the San Francisco Bay Area that is most likely to take care of them and appreciate them.

 

I was only about 2 or 3 when we moved from Texas to San Francisco Bay Area. Right around 1950. My very first memories of life are in San Fancisco. We lived in a home down the peninsula in Belmont, later on, when I was about seven years old, and the home was huge, and still had some cracks in some walls from surviving the earthquake. My mother showed them to me. It was always with great respect that they spoke of the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906. As young children, the small earthquakes we had and felt were sort of laughed at. There is a picture of me and my brothers eating watermelon outside on tv trays, and the earth was shaking and my Mom took the picture anyway. I'll have to double check, but I think I already posted in on my flickr site some time ago.

  

Everytime San Francisco would have a 2 to 3 point earthquake, my favorite Aunt Dorothy (who I was named for) would call from Houston, Texas to be sure we were all OK. My mother thought she was silly. But everytime they had a tornado near Houston, my parents would call her to see if she was OK. I guess people just get used to shrugging off certain dangers, but remaining scared of others that are less familiar.

 

I feel this addresses My Life As the family archivist, who has taken care of special photos for most of my life. I have had these over a quarter of a century, waiting for the 100th Anniversary. The My Story part is finding Flickr, learning about scanners, and having fun learning about the photos I have and those that others have. If These Walls Could Talk group is pretty obvious, but I would say if what is *left* of these walls could talk, wouldn't they have some stories to tell? And for the I've Kept it All these Years group, the photo itself and others that I will be uploading are the items kept for over a quarter of a century, and they were old when I got them. Delina

 

With the help of link AJFranklin sent to me, I was able to identify this picture.

I did come up with an indentity for these two buildings above. The left one was Temple Beth Israel, and the one on the right was Pike's Scottish Rite Temple.

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Sorry for the bad quality, I stupidly didn't check right away.

Thank you to speech path girl, for the identification

This photo was processed on November 17, 1942 at Shewmakers's Camera in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. The address of Shewmaker's was 30 N. Tejon in Colorado Springs. Just because a photo is processed a certain time of year doesn't necessarily rule in or rule out when it was taken. Some people keep film around a long time. It is a starting point for clues, though.

 

In old handwritten notes, on the back, it states that Gary is 5 1/2 years and Cynthia is 2 1/2 years. That means a good guess for Gary would be born May of 1937 and a good guess for Cynthia would be May of 1940. Note that Gary has cowboy boots and belt on.

 

Top left of picture has some evenly spaces strings for vines like Clematis or maybe beans or somesuch.

 

I do genealogy and I have MASTERSON in my family history, but someone who had reached a dead end on their box of photos from MASTERSON & SURBER, gave them to me when they liked my response best about why I thought I should have them. So, they sort of found me, as well as I found them.

 

If you know much about MASTERSONs; SURBERs; the USS Suisun (Navy Ship); Colorado Springs; Victor, Colorado; or Shewmakers Camera Store; please let me know. (garyandcynthiaprobablycoloradospringsq)

Some better shots this morning of the same little bird seen yesterday and posted earlier. I think its a Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus). At first I thought it was a bit small for a Thrush!

Galinsoga quadriradiata -

Thank you martinsanford for onece again helping me with the name of a flower!

 

www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/2008/10/12/page32/

by the rivulet in our backyard in Shutesbury, MA

 

from Wikipedia

"Equisetum is the only living genus in the Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds. They are commonly known as horsetails.

 

Equisetum is a "living fossil," as it is the only known genus of the entire class Equisetopsida, which for over one hundred million years was very diverse and dominated the understory of late Paleozoic forests. Some Equisetopsida were large trees reaching to 30 meters tall"

(littleboyatmillerlake)

This photo was probably taken from 1915 to 1940 or so. I suspect that this boy may be a distant cousin of mine, but I am not sure. Can anyone identify where this Miller's Lake place was, and who the little boy might be? Please show your grandparents, or parents or even great grandparents, and see if they remember it. I'm thinking now it may have been 1930s or 1940s. anyjazz65 has pointed out there is a water tower. Thanks.

Oklahoma or Colorado might be good starting points......

"U" is for Unknown Identity of Child and of Location?

Delaware County Indiana Farm

The Fallow Deer (Dama dama) is a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae.

The male is a buck, the female is a doe, and the young a fawn. Bucks are 140-160 cm long and 90-100 cm shoulder height, and 60-85 kg in weight; does are 130-150 cm long and 75-85 cm shoulder height, and 30-50 kg in weight. Fawns are born in spring at about 30 cm and weigh around 4.5 kg. The life span is around 12-16 years. All of the Fallow deer have white spots on their backs, and black tips at the ends of their tails.

The species has great variations in colour, with four main variants, "common", "menil", "melanistic" and "white" - a genuine colour variety and not a true albinistic which is extremely rare.[2] The common form has a brown coat with white mottles that are most pronounced in summer with a much darker coat in the winter. The white is the lightest coloured, almost white; common and menil are darker, and melanistic is very dark, even black (easily confused with the Sika Deer). Most herds consist of the common form but have menil form and melanistic form animals amongst them (the three groups do not stay separate and interbreed readily).

Only bucks have antlers, these are broad and shovel-shaped. They are grazing animals; their preferred habitat is mixed woodland and open grassland. During the rut bucks will spread out and females move between them, at this time of year fallow deer are relatively ungrouped compared to the rest of the year when they try to stay together in groups of up to 150.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallow_Deer

These are a few of the different butterflies over the past couple of days. Couldn't find an ID yet on this skipper, but will keep trying. I've ruled out what it isn't. LOL. Thanks, Janet, for the ID, and it does look like the female Zabulon skipper.

 

Below are the Eastern Comma, Northern Pearly Eye, and the male Spicebush Swallowtail butterflies.

whatever you do, don't shake, don't stir this pretty one. She might give you the evil glare for mistaking her as a drink, and fly off without warning.

This unusual gecko was about 5 inches long and had rusty-red splots all across his grayish body. His tail was likewise patterened, and his eyes were golden-gray with a black pupil. He was right there at the cave enterance and was rather skittish.

 

The facial structure crosses out the comparatively-smaller wood gecko, as do the stark markings. The closest thing I could find was the indigenous wood slave gecko (Aristelliger praesignis praesignis). But it doesn't quite fit. Wood slave geckos have different markings as adults, and the texture of their skin is very different. In addition, wood slaves (also called house geckos), have golden irises and pupils.

 

I'm going to send emails to the Cayman Wildlife Connection site and see if I can't get an ID. In the meantime, I'm stumped.

  

UPDATE: The Cayman Wildlife Connection AND the National Trust both agree that this is indeed an unidentified new species. Thus, I am the only human being on Planet Earth to have ever photographed this gecko. I am stoked. :D

 

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Visiting a mushroom habitat again today...one that I could not ID last week...after a fair amount of recent rain...I see more. Yesterday's double is currently undergoing the spore test...slowly... the old print was a pale tan..

Today, nearby specimens looked definitely mauve in colour...see below. !!

IDPlease...( and there is a link below to what I posted last week: )

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