Today's #ForestForensics

Pic 1: a tiny nest that fell out of an 'ohi'a tree (I think). I've seen this kind of nest before, but I don't know who builds it. We have many types of songbirds, so I don't know.

Pic 2: shed gecko tail skin. Given that the main type of gecko we have is the gold dust day gecko, probably one of them. If you look on the right side of the tail, you can see that this gecko had a regrown tail (there's a sharp vertical line about 2/3 of the way along the tail, on the right side. and the color to the right of that line is slightly different too).

The fascination never ends on the forest floor!

#birds #nest #hawaii #nature #NatureLiteracy #environment #gecko