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Durham, NC 3/29/26
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| Globular springtail (Bourletiella genus) |
Globular springtail (Bourletiella genus) |
Globular springtail |
Globular springtail (Bourletiella genus) |
Globular springtail (Sminthurinus atrapallidus) |
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| Globular springtail |
Globular springtails (Sminthurinus atrapallidus) and (Bourletiella genus) |
Globular springtails, one (Sminthurinus atrapallidus) and two (Bourletiella genus) |
Seed shrimps |
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| Mystery hopper nymph |
Asian Multi-colored Lady Beetle |
Seed Shrimps, some insides showing |
Parlin's Pussytoes (Antennaria parlinii) buds, closeup |
Parlin's Pussytoes buds |
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| Chipping Sparrow |
Painted Buckeye |
Tufted Titmouse |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
Flowering Dogwood |
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| Common Whitetail |
Pennsylvania Bittercress |
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Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/26/26
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| Sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean |
False Garlic (Nothoscordum bivalve) |
False Garlic (Nothoscordum bivalve) |
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Lake Park, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/26/26
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| Yellowbelly Slider |
Canada Geese |
Pied-billed Grebe |
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| Yellowbelly Sliders |
Creeping Wood-sorrel |
Canada Goose pair |
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| Yellowbelly Sliders |
Male Lesser Scaup |
Juvie Double-crested Cormorant |
Another juvie Double-crested Cormorant |
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Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover County, NC 3/26/26
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| Yellow Pitcher Plants, live and dead |
Yellow Pitcher Plants, live and dead |
Yellow Pitcher Plants, live and dead |
Red Chokeberry flowers and leaves |
Red Chokeberry plant |
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| Fern, with unfurling fronds, unidentifiable |
Inkberry (Ilex glabra) |
Winter-hazel, an evergreen shrub (Distylium genus). |
Maybe a Turkey Oak |
It looks like sand, but in fact was very soft, the way you would expect a pile of dustbunnies to feel. |
Battery Buchanan, Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC 3/25/26
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| Great Blue Heron |
Same Great Blue Heron |
American Oystercatcher landing and Laughing Gulls |
American Oystercatcher with Laughing Gulls |
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| American Oystercatcher about to depart Laughing Gulls |
American Oystercatcher departing |
Double-crested Cormorants |
American Oystercatcher pair |
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| Fly, probably in the Heleomyzidae family |
Aster seedhead |
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Lake Park, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/25/26
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| Yellowbelly Slider and remains of white bird. Is there a causal relationship? |
Yellowbelly Sliders and remains of white bird |
Tricolored Heron |
Lesser Scaup |
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| Yellowbelly Sliders |
Snowy Egret |
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Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/25/26
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| Foam, Atlantic Ocean |
Forster's Tern |
House Sparrow pair |
Dragon kite |
False Garlic (Nothoscordum bivalve) |
Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/24/26
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| Blackberry flowers |
False Garlic (Nothoscordum bivalve) |
Same False Garlic (Nothoscordum bivalve) |
Same False Garlic (Nothoscordum bivalve) |
North Carolina Aquarium, Fort Fisher, New Hanover County, NC 3/24/26
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| Otter |
Atlantic Tarpon |
Alligators |
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| Hermit crab in whelk shell |
Shark |
Yellowbelly Slider |
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Battery Buchanan, Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC 3/23/26
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| American Oystercatcher, near jetty |
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Male Boat-tailed Grackles |
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| Male Boat-tailed Grackle |
Male Boat-tailed Grackles |
Double-crested Cormorant |
Tricolored Heron |
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| Double-crested Cormorant |
Common Vetch |
Ants carrying a crayfish |
Ferry |
Great Egret |
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White Ibises |
Same White Ibises |
Foam along the shore of the "Basin", a shallow area jutting off of the Cape Fear River |
A close-up of that foam |
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| Low Hop Clover |
Tricolored Heron |
Same Tricolored Heron |
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Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/23/26
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| Octopus mural |
Strange foam pattern on the ocean, a day before major cold front |
Male House Sparrow |
Blackberry flower and bud |
Blackberry flowers |
Lake Park, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/23/26
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| Male Mallard |
Boat-tailed Grackle |
Another Boat-tailed Grackle |
Male Lesser Scaup |
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Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/22/26
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| Brown Pelicans, Double-crested Cormorants, Ring-billed Gulls and Laughing Gulls |
Brown Pelicans, two Ring-billed Gulls and a Laughing Gull |
Brown Pelican and fleeing Ring-billed Gulls |
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Durham, NC 3/21/26
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| Male Eastern Bluebird |
Red-shouldered Hawk pair, with inchworm |
Same Red-shouldered Hawk pair, with inchworm obscured by branch |
Hermit Thrush |
Sugar maple flowers and leaves |
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| Common Blue Violets? |
Confederate Violets |
Crabapple tree |
Henbit |
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| Chipping Sparrow |
Painted Buckeye |
Jumping spider (Hentzia genus) |
Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) flowers |
Carolina Cherry Laurel flowers |
False blister beetle (Asclera puncticollis) |
Durham, NC 3/20/26
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| Question Mark |
Same Question Mark on a plum tree |
Common Blue Violets |
Male Eastern Bluebird |
Female Eastern Bluebird |
Durham, NC 3/19/26
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| Mite (Leptus genus) |
Field Pansy |
Jumping spider (Hentzia genus) |
Oak catkins, fallen |
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| Hoverfly (Toxomerus geminatus) |
Hoverfly (Toxomerus geminatus) |
Common Vetch |
Mock Strawberry |
Mouse-ear chickweed |
Durham, NC 3/18/26
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| Blueberry flowers and buds |
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Redbud flowers |
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| Redbud tree |
Maybe walnut catkins |
Painted Buckeye flower and buds |
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Durham, NC 3/15/26
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| Male Downy Woodpecker |
Same male Downy Woodpecker |
Painted Buckeye |
Local TV station (ABC-TV, Channel 11) helicopter |
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Durham, NC 3/15/26
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| White-breasted Nuthatch |
Juvenal's Duskywing |
Common Chickweed |
Pennsylvania Bittercress |
Mock Strawberry |
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| Confederate Violet |
Another Confederate Violet |
Tiny Bluets |
Virginia Spring Beauty |
Peach flowers (cultivated plant) |
Blueberries (cultivated plant) |
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| Common Chickweed flowers |
Field Pansy flower |
Ivyleaf Speedwell |
Little Brown Jug flower bud |
Virginia Spring Beauty |
Durham, NC 3/14/26
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| Red-shouldered Hawk |
Same Red-shouldered Hawk |
Red Maple samaras |
Song Sparrows |
Saucer Magnolia |
Durham, NC 3/12/26
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| Storm coming in |
Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci) |
Begonia flowers, bought at the Krohn Conservatory in Cincinnati, OH, in 1994 |
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Durham, NC 3/11/26
Durham, NC 3/9/26
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| Sugar maple flowers |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
Same Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
Same Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
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| Red Maple samaras |
Eastern Comma |
Same Eastern Comma |
Japanese Mazus |
Common Blue Violet |
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| American Elm seedhead |
Antmimic jumping spider (Synageles genus) |
Crab spider (Synema parvulum) and mite |
Wasp |
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Durham, NC 3/8/26
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| Star Magnolia |
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Durham, NC 3/7/26
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| Henbit |
Springtails (Bourletiella arvalis) |
Springtails: one Sminthurinus atrapallidus and 13Sminthurides bifidus |
Springtail (Sminthurinus atrapallidus) |
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| Springtail |
Springtail |
Springtails (Sminthurinus atrapallidus and Bourletiella arvalis) |
Springtail |
Springtails (Bourletiella genus and Sminthurides bifidus) |
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| Springtails (Bourletiella arvalis and Sminthurides bifidus), right to left |
Seed shrimp |
Horsehair worm (enlarged) with springtails on left |
Horsehair worm |
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Springtail (Sminthurides bifidus) |
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Durham, NC 3/6/26
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Female Red Maple flowers |
Canada Geese |
White-tailed Deer |
Red-shouldered Hawk |
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| Mystery bird on Winged Elm |
A tuft of feathers, one of many from a predation victim |
Song Sparrow |
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Durham, NC 3/4/26
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| Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) |
Antmimic jumping spider (Synageles genus) |
Antmimic jumping spider (Synageles genus) |
Jumping spider (Hentzia genus) |
Red-shouldered Hawk |
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| Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius), dorsal view |
Running crab spider |
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Durham, NC 3/3/26
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| Dimpled Trout Lily |
Dimpled Trout Lily |
Dimpled Trout Lily |
Purple Dead-nettle |
Cooper's Hawk |
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| China Paper Bush |
Henbit |
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Durham, NC 3/1/26
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| Winged Elm flowers |
Winged Elm flowers |
Winged Elm flowers |
Winged Elm flowers |
Ivyleaf Speedwell |
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| Dimpled Trout Lily |
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Song Sparrow |
Persian Speedwells |
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