Southern Maryland Chesapeake Bay - Nature Log July 2010

Have meant to do this for a while - catalog nature as it appears around our house and the bay through the year...

Early July 2010

• Little yellow and green caterpillars eating our Dill
  
• 1-2 yr. old Ospreys sparring in the skies above the nesting Adults with their babies
  
• 8-10 inch diameter Bay turtles eyeballing us
  
• Crabs getting bigger, now all sizes, from rusty 2-inchers to fat 8-inchers
  
• Lots of 2-inch diameter jellyfish, tentacles grown out to almost 2 feet, and stinging!
  
• Trumpet Vines flowering (orange, trumpet-shaped vines)
  
• Shore guppies growing, up to 2-inches now
  
• Fiddler crabs about mid-grown, getting fat
  
• A few Japanese Beetles
  
• 3 black sea snake sightings
  
• Flipping fish more active in the mornings, now, still waiting for our "circus fish", who like to jump over floating sticks
  
• Mosquitos, as usual, big and fat, along with the broadwing large black flies
  
• Little bunnies growing up, active in the mornings/evening eating the lawn
  
• Large Blue Herons are enjoying the big guppies, now