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| A newly metamorphosed baby Pacific tree frog clings to water plants in a cattle watering trough on a ranch near Elkton in southwestern Oregon on Sunday, May 29, 2016. The little frog is about the size of the eraser on a the end of a No. 2 pencil. |
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| A frog with a tail (or is it a tadpole with legs?) begins to make the transition to land. Amphibians are animals with spend part of their life in water and part on land. |
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| A newly transformed frog sits in the sun. |
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| A small garter snake catches the last rays of sunshine as it basks on the warm blacktop of a country road near Elkton in southwestern Oregon on Saturday, May 28, 2016. |
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| A crab spider preys on honey from its ambush spot on a blackberry blossom in a thicket along a country road near Elkton in southwestern Oregon on Saturday, May 21, 2016. |
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| A black-tailed deer feeds in a field of tall grass along a rural road near Elkton in southwestern Oregon on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Black-tailed deer, found in the coastal areas of the Pacific Northwest, are considered a subspecies of the mule deer. |
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| A crab spider watches as an unsuspecting ant walks past on the leaf of a hazelnut tree in an orchard on a farm near Elkton in southwestern Oregon on Sunday, May 15, 2016. |
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| The ant was not lunch. |
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| My Macbook Pro was on the fritz for the last week. It's now fixed. To get back into the swing of photography, I headed out this evening looking for bugs. I found a few. This spider was looking good while hiding on a flowering grass stem in a pasture on our ranch near Elkton, Ore., on Thursday, May 12, 2016. |
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| A ladybug reaches the end of the line. |
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| A very small long-legged grasshopper. |
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| A family of wild week-old barn owl owlets look out from their nest box high in the peak of a barn on a farm near Oakland in southwestern Oregon on Sunday, May 1, 2016. |
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| When hunting is good, breeding pairs of barn owls can hatch more than one clutch in a season. When rodent populations are low the owlets will fight for survival and push their smaller siblings out of the nest. |
