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Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC 3/30/21
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| Mating crane flies |
Brassicaceae family member |
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Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover County, NC 3/30/21
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| American Snout |
Female Comet Darner |
Crane flies mating |
Sand wasp attacking a leafcutter bee |
Sand wasp and leafcutter bee |
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| Leafcutter bee and sand wasp |
Cherry Laurel (Prunus caroliniana) |
Cherry Laurel (Prunus caroliniana), ID by Joshua Giordano-Silliman and Tim Dekle. |
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Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover County, NC 3/29/21
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| Blackberry flowers |
Blowfly |
Hoverfly |
Fly? |
Turkey Oak catkins and new leaves |
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| Turkey Oak catkins and new leaves |
Yellow Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia flava) in bud stage |
Yellow Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia flava), flowering |
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Carolina Beach, including Carolina Lake, New Hanover County, NC 3/29/21
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| Mystery aster |
Same mystery aster |
Double-crested Cormorant |
Same Double-crested Cormorant |
Male Eastern Bluebird |
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| Male Eastern Bluebird |
Eurasian Collared Dove |
Boat-tailed Grackles |
Same Boat-tailed Grackles |
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| Male Mallards |
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Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC 3/28/21
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| Dune Camphorweed (Heterotheca subaxillaris). ID thanks to John Nelson, seconded by Yvonne Nordeen on the FB group Carolina Wildflowers.. |
American Oystercatchers, Dunlins, Forster's Terns, and Brown Pelican in the distance |
American Oystercatchers, Dunlins, and Brown Pelican in the distance |
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| American Oystercatchers and Dunlins |
Brown Pelican and Dunlins |
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| Double-crested Cormorant |
Low-hop Clover with purple spots on leaves |
Bitter Sneezeweed (Helenium amarum) |
Snowy Egret |
Wasp |
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| Willet |
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Carolina Lake, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/28/21
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| Double-crested Cormorant |
False Garlic (actually seen in field on the way to Carolina Lake) |
Green Heron |
Same Green Heron |
Same Green Heron |
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| Henbits |
Laughing Gulls |
Laughing Gull |
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| Laughing Gulls having a good time |
More Laughing Gulls |
Snowy Egret |
Another Snowy Egret |
Laughing Gulls and a Ring-billed Gull |
Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC 3/27/21
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| Bald Eagle holding fish |
Same Bald Eagle |
Same Bald Eagle |
Common Vetch |
Male Boat-tailed Grackle |
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| Same male Boat-tailed Grackle |
Karl |
Low Hop Clover |
Mystery wildflower |
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Durham, NC 3/26/21
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| Northern Cricket Frog |
Female Northern Cardinal |
Confederate Violet |
Confederate Violets |
Field Pansies |
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| Japanese Mazus |
Mock Strawberry |
Another Mock Strawberry |
Mouseear Chickweed |
Northern Red Oak flowers |
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| Northern Red Oak leaf |
Pink magnolia |
Mystery plant |
Plum flowers |
More plum flowers |
Durham, NC 3/25/21
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| Chipping Sparrow |
Same Chipping Sparrow |
Chloropid fly |
Common Blue Violet |
Downy Woodpecker |
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| Ground Ivy |
Warty Spurge |
Varied Carpet Beetle |
Parasitoid wasp |
Female Northern Cardinal |
Nature Trail, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 3/24/21
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| Azure Bluets |
Common Chickweed |
Crane Fly Orchid winter leaf |
Crane Fly Orchid winter leaves |
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| Fibers on leaf |
Green lacewing |
Ivyleaf Speedwell |
Another Ivyleaf Speedwell |
Little Brown Jug bud |
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| Little Brown Jug bud |
Little Brown Jug buds |
Little Brown Jug buds |
Little Brown Jug leaf |
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| Little Sweet Betsy |
Mayapple |
Mock Strawberry |
Moss |
Persian Speedwell |
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| Red Buckeye |
Eastern Redbud |
Another Eastern Redbud |
Rue Anemone |
Another Rue Anemone |
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| More Rue Anemone |
Another Rue Anemone |
Northern Spicebush flowers |
Striped Wintergreen |
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| Dimpled Trout Lily |
Virginia Spring Beauty |
Wasp |
Yellow Fumewort |
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North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 3/24/21
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| Bloodroot |
Bumblebee |
Same bumblebee |
Fetterbush |
Mystery tree flowers |
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| Water strider with prey |
Same water strider |
Same water strider |
Bloodroot |
Golden Ragwort |
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| Green and Gold |
Little Sweet Betsy |
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Durham, NC 3/23/21
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| Confederate Violet (Viola sororia priceana) |
Plum tree |
Dimpled Trout Lilies |
More Dimpled Trout Lilies |
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Durham, NC 3/22/21
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| Box Elder leaves and flowers |
Broad-nosed weevil |
Bug |
Common Chickweed (Stellaria media) |
Male Eastern Bluebird |
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| Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle |
Hairy Bittercress |
Japanese Cherry flowers |
Japanese Cherry flowers |
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| Song Sparrow |
Globular springtail |
Another globular springtail |
Four globular springtails |
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| Two globular springtails |
Globular springtails and other forms of life |
Three globular springtails |
Winged elm seedpods |
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| Wolf spider |
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Durham, NC 3/21/21
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| Azure Bluets |
Jumping spider |
Red-shouldered Hawk |
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| Freshly molted European Earwig (Forficula auricularia) nymph |
Long-jawed orb weaver (Glenognatha foxi) |
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Durham, NC 3/20/21
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| Winged Elm seedpods |
American Hornbeam catkin |
Bradford Pear, a variety of Callery Pear |
Same Bradford Pear, a variety of Callery Pear |
Flower fly |
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| Gall midge |
Ground beetle |
Ivyleaf Speedwell |
Japanese Mazus |
Jumping spider |
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| Orb weaver |
Eastern Phoebe |
Female Red Maple flowers |
Female Red Maple flowers |
Virginia Spring Beauty |
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| Stickywilly |
Sugar Maple flowers |
Same Sugar Maple flowers |
Mystery tree |
Yellow Buckeye buds |
Durham, NC 3/19/21
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| American Elm seedpods |
Female House Sparrow on letter |
Same female House Sparrow |
Male House Sparrow |
Another male House Sparrow on letter |
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| Same Male House Sparrow |
Red Maple samaras |
Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Same Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Another Yellow-rumped Warbler |
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Common Blue Violet |
American Robin |
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Durham, NC 3/18/21
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| Brown Thrasher |
Same Brown Thrasher |
Killdeer |
Osprey aircraft, in airplane mode |
Red Maple samaras |
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| Airliner |
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Durham, NC 3/17/21
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| Sawfly (Xyela middlekauffi), probably much less red than depicted here |
Same sawfly |
White-throated Sparrow |
Bradford Pear (a kind of Callery Pear) |
Part of the same Bradford Pear |
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| Common Vetch (Vicia sativa) |
Hairy Bittercress |
Jumping spider |
Same jumping spider |
Another jumping spider |
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| Mystery plant |
Female Red Maple flowers? |
Dimpled Trout Lilies |
Japanese Cherry flowers |
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| Japanese Cherry flowers |
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Durham, NC 3/15/21
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| American Elm seedheads |
Boxelder flowers |
Common Blue Violet |
Purple Dead-nettle |
Red Maple samaras |
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| Red Maple samaras |
American Robin |
Another American Robin |
Neighborhood swamp making inroads into marsh |
Dimpled Trout Lily |
Durham, NC 3/14/21
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| Callery Pear |
Confederate Violet |
Henbits |
Ivyleaf Speedwell |
Persian Speedwells |
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| Sleepy Orange |
Dimpled Trout Lilies |
More Dimpled Trout Lilies |
Vine Leaves along the ground |
Virginia Spring Beauties |
Durham, NC 3/13/21
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| Beale's Barberry |
Azure Bluets (Houstonia caerulea) |
Brown-headed Nuthatch |
Same Brown-headed Nuthatch |
Common Blue Violet (Viola sororia) |
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| Common Blue Violet (Viola sororia) |
Female Eastern Bluebird |
Male Eastern Bluebird |
Male Eastern Hophornbeam catkin |
Male Mallard |
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| Pennsylvania Bittercress |
Purple Dead-nettle |
Basal leaves of Cutleaf Toothwort |
Wasp |
Wolf spider |
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| Water scavenger beetle (Helophorus genus). ID thanks to Brady Richards. |
Bivalve |
Same bivalve |
Same bivalve |
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| Globular springtail |
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Poduromorpha |
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| Globular springtails |
Trout Lilies, by Karl D. Gottschalk |
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Durham, NC 3/12/21
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| Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Anomalous Dusky Ladybug Beetle? |
Bluet |
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Durham, NC 3/11/21
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| Common Blue Violet |
Same Common Blue Violet |
Field Pansy (Viola bicolor) |
Another field Pansy (Viola bicolor) |
:Little Periwinkle (Vinca minor) |
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| Eastern Phoebe |
Same Eastern Phoebe |
Same Eastern Phoebe |
Red-shouldered Hawk |
Same Red-shouldered Hawk |
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| Trout Lilies |
More Trout Lilies |
Tufted Titmouse |
Another Tufted Titmouse |
White-throated Sparrow |
Durham, NC 3/10/21
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| Ant |
Leaf beetle |
Eastern Brown Snake |
Common Yellow Wood-sorrel (Oxalis stricta) |
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| Male Eastern Bluebird |
Same Male Eastern Bluebird |
Eastern Brown Snake |
Killdeer and two Common Starlings |
American Robin |
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| Tachinid fly |
Tufted Titmouse |
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Penny's Bend Nature Preserve, Durham, NC 3/9/21
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| Bloodroots (Sanguinaria canadensis) |
More Bloodroots (Sanguinaria canadensis) |
Field Pansy (Viola bicolor) |
Green and Gold (Chrysogonum virginianum) |
Another Green and Gold (Chrysogonum virginianum) |
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| Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea) |
Another Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea) |
Ivyleaf Speedwell (Veronica hederifolia) |
Another Ivyleaf Speedwell (Veronica hederifolia), next to Persian Speedwell leaves |
Little Brown Jug (Hexastylis arifolia) bud |
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| Mock Strawberry (Duchesnea indica) |
Big Periwinkles (Vinca major) |
Purple Dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum) |
Dimpled Trout Lily (Erythonium umbilicatum) |
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| Another Dimpled Trout Lily (Erythonium umbilicatum) |
Another Dimpled Trout Lily (Erythonium umbilicatum) |
Virginia Spring Beauties (Claytonia virginica) |
More Virginia Spring Beauties (Claytonia virginica) |
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata) |
Same Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Turkey Vulture in flight |
Another Turkey Vulture |
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Durham, NC 3/8/21
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| Female Northern Cardinal |
Dark-eyed Junco |
Female Eastern Bluebird |
Same female Eastern Bluebird |
American Goldfinch |
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| Song Sparrow |
Same Song Sparrow |
Tufted Titmouse |
Same Tufted Titmouse |
Blue Jay |
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| Henbit |
Ivyleaf Speedwell (Veronica hederifolia) |
Ivyleaf Speedwell (Veronica hederifolia) flower |
Ivyleaf Speedwell (Veronica hederifolia) leaves |
Marsh fly |
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| Maybe scat of a wild carnivore |
Trout Lily |
Another Trout Lily |
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Durham, NC 3/7/21
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| Common Vetch (Vicia sativa) |
Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) |
Female Eastern Bluebird |
Same female Eastern Bluebird |
Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule) |
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| Hermit Thrush |
Pennsylvania Bittercress |
Purple Dead-nettle |
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Durham, NC 3/6/21
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| Bittercress |
Female Eastern Bluebird |
Same female Eastern Bluebird |
Hermit Thrush |
Ivyleaf Speedwell |
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| Ivyleaf Speedwell |
Male Red Maple flowers |
"Golden" male Red Maple flowers |
Song Sparrow |
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Durham, NC 3/5/21
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| Probably Hairy Bittercress |
Carolina Mosquitofern and duckweed in the local swamp |
Carolina Mosquitofern and duckweed in the local swamp, in the sun |
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| Juvie American Goldfinch |
Male House Finch |
Mourning Dove |
Secluded part of local swamp, with Carolina Mosquitofern most evident |
Turkey Vulture |
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler in breeding plumage |
Same Yellow-rumped Warbler in breeding plumage |
Early Buttercup |
Hophornbeam catkin |
Mustard |
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| Field Mustard (Brassica rapa) plants, in refuse heap in community garden |
Persian Speedwell |
Winged Elm flowers |
Male Red-winged Blackbird |
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Durham, NC 3/4/21
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| Jumping spider (female Hentzia palmarum) |
Persian Speedwells (Veronica persica) |
Winged Elm (Ulmus alata) flowers |
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Durham, NC 3/3/21
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| Female Northern Cardinal |
Same female Northern Cardinal |
Same female Northern Cardinal |
Carolina Chickadee |
Same Carolina Chickadee |
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| Carolina Chickadee |
Carolina Chickadee |
Male Downy Woodpecker |
Male Downy Woodpecker |
Hermit Thrush |
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| Ivyleaf Speedwell |
Jumping spider |
Eastern Phoebe |
Male Red Maple flowers |
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| Dwarf spider |
Dwarf spider |
Eastern Gray Squirrel |
Wasp |
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Durham, NC 3/2/21
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| Female Eastern Bluebird |
Carolina Wren |
Periwinkle |
Purple Dead-nettles and Common Chickweed |
Male Red Maple flowers |
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| Male Red-winged Blackbird |
Another male Red-winged Blackbird |
Song Sparrow |
White-throated Sparrow |
China Paper Tree (Edgeworthia chrysantha) |
Durham, NC 3/1/21
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| Common Dandelion |
Jumping spider |
Persian Speedwell |
Wasp |
China Paper Tree (Edgeworthia chrysantha) |
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