Picture a grain of brown rice with wings . . .
flapping and fluttering like a butterfly. That, my friends, is a Flapping Dingbat (Gastropteron chacmol). Occasionally it settles to the bottom, wraps its wings in overlapping on top, and crawls along like other sea slugs. When it did, I managed the photo below. Not one of my best, but these things are tiny and they are fast. I have no idea how Carl even spotted it. With the naked eye, it looked like a dark grain of sand, albeit a grain of sand that was moving against the current. The image at right shows it as I saw it magnified by my lens 1.4X.
Flapping Dingbat (Gastropteron chacmol), Blue Heron Bridge, Riviera Beach FL
It was a busy week including a bit of diving, some birding and a turkey dinner. Here are a few more images from this week around the ‘hood. Click on an image to view it full screen.
