
I’m here on Bird Island in the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean east of Tanzania. Truly a tropical island and a bird lover’s paradise. I’m here with two of my favorite photographers, Denise Ippolito and Paul McKenzie. It is hotter than hot (at least 100 degrees most days), totally humid, bugs galore, but the…

Mr. Bluebird offering a little treat to his sweetie. This was at Brightside Park near our house in Charlestown Meadows.

Brand new bug for me. And not such a good one. I learned that they hang around flowers that wasps like. Then the female beetle lays her eggs. The eggs hatch and the larvae are carried by the wasp to their own nests. “Instead of eating both the wasp’s egg and the pollen stored…