The harsh fall weather continues in slower Maryland, with temperatures in the low to mid 70s, breezes raging a 5 mph out of the west, and dark clouds covering, well, part of the sky.
The water is clear, with none of the usual algae and crud that help the fish hide from their predators.
An interesting rock, well, more like a hard lump of clay, with shell fossils embedded in it. Click on the pic to enlarge it.
The comb jelly,
Mnemeopsis leidyi, about to be stranded. Native to our seas, this one in invasive in the Black Sea, where they worry it will eat all the zooplankton. Not strictly a jellyfish (they are a whole separate phylum), they have no stinging cells. They're greatest predators are the
Sea Nettles, which appears to be well into it's autumn decline at this point.
A
Clouded Sulphur butterfly.
UPDATE! Most likely a new butterfly, the
Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme), based on the rows of spots towards the rear of the wings.
A father and son team fishing off one of the groins.
Still here.
Georgia decided to look for teeth the hard way. Apparently, it didn't work much better than walking along and picking them up.
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