Wednesday, January 15, 2025

January 15, 2025

As some of you know, despite retiring from high tech, I have been approximately 10,000,000 times busier now. My latest pet project is being field trip coordinator for the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. I honestly had no idea what I was getting myself into when I first signed up. Right now, we are exactly a week before the festival starts, then, a week after the festival, I will be headed to Costa Rica. I was thinking about pausing the blog for a month, but after 9 years of uninterrupted daily posts, I just couldn't do it.

But then I remembered a project I've had on the back burner for a while. You see, despite my self-delusions, it turns out, I am not infallible (I can hear your gasps of shock from here). Occasionally I have made some errors or accidental omissions on the blog. So, instead of getting out and taking photos, I have gone back through my iNaturalist submissions, and for the next few weeks will be posting some old photos that I either completely misidentified the first time around, or I did not have an ID for and forgot about. Enjoy this walk down memory lane. I will be back with new stuff from Costa Rica in February.

I am known as Mottled Shore Crab
Not Mangrove Tree, one difference is how we eat -
They like to eat Leaves fallen from trees
But I prefer algae or meat.

Photo originally published: October 4, 2019
https://deeateightam.blogspot.com/2019/10/october-4-2019.html

Explanation: This little guy was hanging out with Mangrove Tree Crabs, and I didn't realize that it was a completely different species until a few people on iNaturalist called me out on it.

Location: Jetty Park, Fort Pierce

Sources: https://research.nhm.org/pdfs/31132/31132.pdf

Photo and text © 2025 Dee Fairbanks Simpson

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