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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC
12/31/11
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Wasp, Epitetracnemus
genus, Encyrtidae family, Chalcidoidea superfamily. About 1 mm
long. More on ID process on
BugGuide page.
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Jumping
spider (Hentzia palmarum) |
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Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County,
NC 12/30/11
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Well-hidden Brown
Thrasher |
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Durham, NC 12/29/11
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Miniature Rose |
Fall Cankerworm Moth |
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Durham, NC 12/28/11
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Tufted Titmouse |
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Durham, NC 12/25/11
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White-throated Sparrow |
Same sparrow |
Same sparrow |
Eastern Phoebe |
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Black Vulture |
Another
Black Vulture |
Black
Vultures, this time on my street! |
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Happy Holidays Card
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC
12/24/11
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Red-shouldered Hawk |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC
12/23/11
All of the spiders (found on bollards) were very
tiny, 3 mm long at the most. The stink bug and the weevil, found
on a sidewalk, were each about 15 mm long. The weather was
unusually mild, about 60° F max.
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False Black Widow |
Dark Fishing Spider |
Filmy Dome Spider |
Stink bug
(Menecletes insertus) |
Jumping
spider (Hentzia mitrata) |
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Weevil (Lixus genus) |
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Durham, NC 12/23/11
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Two Black
Vultures with opossum road kill. They didn't share for
very long: the one on the left chased the other away. |
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Jordan Lake Dam, Chatham County, NC
12/20/11
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Great Blue
Heron on Haw River |
Cormorant |
Spillway
of the dam, with Ring-billed Gulls |
Creek
branching off of the Haw River |
View of spillway from the top
of the dam |
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Turkey Vultures on the lake
side of the dam |
Turkey Vulture overhead |
Ring-billed Gull in flight over Haw River |
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Durham, NC 12/20/11
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Female
Eastern Bluebird |
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Durham, NC 12/19/11
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Black Vulture |
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Durham, NC 12/17/11
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Pine
Warbler, curious but cautious in the late afternoon |
Same Pine Warbler |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC
12/16/11
Once again, arthropods we don't usually see showed up
on the bollards, as well as a few familiar ones. Most notable:
dozens of False Black Widow spiderlings.
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Adult aphid |
Very young
False Black Widow |
Jumping
spider (Hentzia ) |
Mystery spiderling |
Leafhopper |
Aster, gone to seed |
Durham, NC 12/16/11
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
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Durham, NC 12/15/11
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White-throated Sparrow |
White-throated Sparrow, another view |
Red-winged
Blackbird, one of the migrating swarms of blackbirds passing
through my neighborhood |
Red-shouldered Hawk |
Mystery hawk |
Third Fork Trail, Durham, NC 12/14/11
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Buffalo
Treehopper |
Buffalo
Treehopper and Hentzia mitrata jumping spider |
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Durham, NC 12/13/11
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Vultures
on wireless tower. Note how Black Vultures are really
black, in contrast with the Turkey Vulture on the left. |
Ten
vultures, mostly Turkey Vultures |
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Southpoint Swamp, Durham, NC 12/13/11
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Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Same
Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Same
Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Mallards |
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Durham, NC 12/12/11
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Black Vulture (second from
left), with Turkey Vultures on a power line tower |
White-breasted Nuthatch |
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Durham, NC 12/10/11
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Mostly
Turkey Vultures, with three Black Vultures, on a wireless tower |
Subadult
vulture. It's hard to pin down the species (and genus)
from this photo, in which the nostril size is hard to pin down.
But the reddish coloring suggests Turkey Vulture. Might be
a hybrid, to judge from the activity of two other vultures
photographed that day! |
A Turkey
Vulture on a power line tower |
Turkey
Vulture on top, Black Vulture on bottom: interesting... |
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Female
Northern Cardinal |
American Robin |
Hot and jazzy sunset |
Decidedly
unromantic sunset |
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Durham, NC 12/9/11
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Hermit Thrush |
Carolina Chickadee |
Brown-headed Nuthatch |
Spider |
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Turkey
Vulture |
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Durham, NC 12/6/11
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White-throated Sparrow |
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Durham, NC 12/5/11
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Pine Warbler
| Killdeer landing |
Killdeer resting |
Killdeer in flight |
Shotgun
shell seen near a major road in my neighborhood |
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