Am I too late for #InternationalJumpingSpiderDay? If not, here's a Magnolia Green Jumper (Lyssomanes viridis).

My only decent photo so far of the Red-femured Spotted Orbweaver (Neoscona domiciliorum) for #Arachtober

Today's #BloomScrolling #ColorADay #OrangeSun is a bit of a cheat because it's not the flowers that are orange this time, but rather the Monarch butterfly who is making a stopover on its migration. Spotted this weekend at Dutch Gap.

Gadwall (Anas strepera) taking to the wing in the Outer Banks. #BirdOfTheDay #Ducks&GeeseInFlight #OBX

Day 11 of #Mushroom #October is featuring one of my favorite mushrooms, Bird's Nest Fungus (Cyathus pallidus). These are tiny mushrooms, their ripened cups filled with "egg" spores.

Noodle has learned that Halloween is this month, to Donut's chagrin. #Caturday

A Jumping Spider (Eris genus) leaps in for #Arachtober

Day 10 of #Mushroom #October and it's a forager favorite, the Golden Chanterelle (Cantharellus cibarius).

The geometric beauty of the Sun Spurge (Euphorbia helioscopia) for #BloomScrolling #ColorADay #GreenSat. Has the unusual alternate common name of Madwoman's Milk.

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme #Green, I've always admired the bold green "eyeshadow" of the male American Wigeon (Anas americana).

For my first #FrogFriday post, our native Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea).

I'm betting a lot of folks here have seen the Black-and-Yellow Argiope (Argiope aurantia). As kids we called them Writing Spiders. #Arachtober

The introduced Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum) grows wild in the city here. Like many introduced plants it prefers cultivated or disturbed areas. #BloomScrolling #ColorADay #BWFri

Day 9 of #Mushroom #October brings an unknown (to me) species of mushroom that looks like it's made out of wood.

Here's a bristly Tachid Fly (Icelia triquetra) for #FlyDay

An American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana) on Pea Island, standing on one leg that looks almost like an aluminum tube. #BirdOfTheDay #Waders

Another of our local orbweavers, the Furrow Orbweaver (Larinioides cornutus), for #Arachtober

Our prolific and helpful Six-spotted Tiger Beetle (Cicindela sexguttata) makes a showing for #InsectThursday

The bright and jolly Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) for #BloomScrolling #ColorADay #YellowThu

Day 8 of #Mushroom #October brings a cluster of Pinwheel Marasmius (Marasmius rotula).

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme #Eating, it's my only decent photo so far of a Canada Warbler (Cardellina canadensis), who here has caught a stonefly in Shenandoah.

As promised, here's another fishing spider for #Arachtober, the Dark Fishing Spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus). This is one of our largest spiders as well, this specimen being about the size of an adult human hand.

Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) is Virginia's only native honeysuckle. It's also known as Trumpet Honeysuckle. #BloomScrolling #ColorADay #RedWed

The purple-lipped fans of a Violet Toothed Polypore (Trichaptum biforme) for day 7 of #Mushroom #October.

The #BirdOfTheDay themes are #BlueWater and #Perched, so this male Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) with his eye on the sky might be a twofer. Either way, I hope he brightens your day!

Here's an Eastern Mud Turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum) for my first #TurtleTuesday post.

Our native Common Bluet (Houstonia caerulea) is one of those joyful little wildflowers that always makes me smile. #BloomScrolling #ColorADay #BlueTue

Day 6 of #Mushroom #October brings the Cedar-apple Rust (Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae), which looks as though it just arrived from an alien world. This is a parasitic rust fungus that grows on Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana).

The maternal side of a female Rabid Wolf Spider (Lycosa rabida) as she totes her babies around for #Arachtober.

A male Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) for #BirdOfTheDay #BirdSupermodel, showing off his profile.