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Durham, NC 12/31/19
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| Aphid |
Aphid |
Flower fly |
Flower fly |
Another flower fly |
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| Nymph |
Red-bellied Woodpecker |
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Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC 12/28/19
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| Yellow Firewheels |
"Normal" Firewheel |
Firewheels |
Flags at the Visit Center |
Plane |
Carolina Lake, New Hanover County, NC 12/28/19
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| Snowy Egret |
Female Ruddy Duck |
Bufflehead pair and scaup pair |
Adam's Needle (Yucca filamentosa) |
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Mural |
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Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover County, NC 12/27/19
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| Female Eastern Bluebird |
Male Eastern Bluebird |
Another female Eastern Bluebird |
Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Another Yellow-rumped Warbler |
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| Turkey Oak |
Long Leaf Pine |
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Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 12/27/19
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| Lantana |
Fog |
Bush |
Honeybee |
Surfer |
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| Roofers |
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Carolina Lake, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 12/27/19
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| Female White-winged Scoter |
Same female White-winged Scoter |
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Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC 12/26/19
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| Cargo ship on the Cape Fear River, far beyond Battery Buchanan (at Fort Fisher), as seen from the Fort Fisher Basin Trail. |
Fallen cedar tree |
Climbing Hempvine |
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| Double-crested Cormorants |
Double-crested Cormorant |
Distant fiddler crabs |
Firewheel |
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| Goldenrod, with a true bug |
Henbit |
Male Hooded Merganser |
Male Hooded Mergansers |
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| Hooded Mergansers |
Hooded Mergansers |
Northern Mockingbird |
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| Plane |
Royal Tern |
Royal Tern |
Snowy Egret and young gull |
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| Snowy Egret |
Another Snowy Egret |
Same Snowy Egret |
Another Snowy Egret |
Song Sparrow |
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| Song Sparrow |
Another Song Sparrow |
Stick insect (Anisomorpha genus) |
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| Mating stick insects (Anisomorpha genus) |
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Carolina Lake, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 12/26/19
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| Common Starling |
Same Common Starling |
Tricolored Heron |
Same Tricolored Heron |
Same Tricolored Heron, in new location |
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| White Ibis |
White-winged Scoter |
American Coot |
American Coots |
Double-crested Cormorant with a Ring-billed Gull |
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| Killdeer |
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Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 12/25/19
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| Brown Pelican flying overhead |
Marina, with condos in the background |
Foam |
Fog, including distant hotel |
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| Ring-billed Gull |
Another Ring-billed Gull |
Sanderling |
Yellow Firewheels |
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Durham, NC 12/24/19
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| Eastern Gray Squirrels |
Same Eastern Gray Squirrels |
Jumping spider |
Another jumping spider |
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Durham, NC 12/21/19
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| Carolina Wren |
Same Carolina Wren |
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Durham, NC 12/20/19
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| Male Downy Woodpecker |
Same Downy Woodpecker |
Same Downy Woodpecker |
Same Downy Woodpecker |
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| Juvie Eastern Phoebe |
Same juvie Eastern Phoebe |
Same juvie Eastern Phoebe |
Deserted wasp nest |
White-breasted Nuthatch |
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| Flower fly (Toxomerus genus) |
Fungi |
Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Another Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
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Basal leaves of Cutleaf Toothwort |
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Durham, NC 12/19/19
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| Blooming Forsythia flower |
White-throated Sparrow |
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Durham, NC 12/18/19
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| Red-shouldered Hawk |
Same Red-shouldered Hawk |
Same Red-shouldered Hawk |
Song Sparrow |
Weevil on log under bark |
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| White-throated Sparrow |
Aquatic snail lifting shell on leaf |
Aquatic snail on leaf |
Aquatic snail swimming upside down |
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| Ground beetle |
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Durham, NC 12/16/19
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| Eastern Phoebe |
Same Eastern Phoebe |
Eastern Brownsnake |
Crane fly |
Durham, NC 12/15/19
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| Springtail (Bourletiella viridescens) |
Globular springtail (Sminthurus bivittatus) |
Globular springtail |
Globular springtail (Sminthurinus atrapallidus) |
Springtail (Onychiuridae family) |
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| Globular springtail (Bourletiella arvalis) |
Globular springtail |
Globular springtails, on the right: (Bourletiella arvalis) |
Globular springtail (Bourletiella arvalis) |
Globular springtails |
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| Globular springtail |
Springtails |
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Durham, NC 12/14/19
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| Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle, darkened, apparently from cold spell |
Same Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle larva |
Bowl-and-doily Spider |
Same Bowl-and-doily Spider |
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| Globular springtail |
Globular springtail |
Horsehair worm, phylum Nematomorpha |
Same horsehair worm |
Same horsehair worm |
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| Same horsehair worm |
Same horsehair worm |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
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Durham, NC 12/12/19
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| Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Aphid |
Bagworm |
Goldenrod |
Hairy White Oldfield Aster |
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| Mystery spider |
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Durham, NC 12/10/19
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| Same aphid and lacewing |
Another aphid |
The lacewing prey, up close |
Jumping spider (Hentzia mitrata) |
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| Another jumping spider |
Lacewing larva, very fast-moving |
Same lacewing larva |
Dwarf spider |
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| Song Sparrow |
Goldenrod |
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Durham, NC 12/8/19
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| Male Red-bellied Woodpecker |
Red-shouldered Hawk |
Maybe the same Red-shouldered Hawk |
Tufted Titmouse |
Same Tufted Titmouse |
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| Tufted Titmouse |
Running crab spider |
Aphid |
Relatively large aphid, perhaps diseased |
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| Tiny aphid |
Same aphid |
Female Downy Woodpecker |
Leaf beetle (Prasocuris phellandri) |
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| Red-shouldered Hawk |
Same Red-shouldered Hawk |
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Durham, NC 12/7/19
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| White-throated Sparrow |
Another White-throated Sparrow |
Same White-throated Sparrow |
Same White-throated Sparrow |
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| Song Sparrow |
Red-shouldered Hawk |
Carolina Wren |
Same Carolina Wren |
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| Same Carolina Wren |
Carolina Wren |
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Durham, NC 12/4/19
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| Red-tailed Hawk |
Red-tailed Hawk |
Red-tailed Hawk |
White-throated Sparrow |
Same White-throated Sparrow |
Durham, NC 12/3/19
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| Female Eastern Bluebird |
Same female Eastern Bluebird |
Another female Eastern Bluebird |
Same female Eastern Bluebird |
Jumping spider (Hentzia mitrata) |
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| Mystery orb weaver |
Spider wasp |
Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle larva |
Barklouse |
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Durham, NC 12/2/19
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| Male Eastern Bluebird |
Hairy White Oldfield Asters |
Male Red-bellied Woodpecker |
Same male Red-bellied Woodpecker |
Same male Red-bellied Woodpecker |
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| Same male Red-bellied Woodpecker |
Same male Red-bellied Woodpecker |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
Sweetgum leaf |
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Durham, NC 12/1/19
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| Female Northern Cardinal |
Dark-eyed Junco |
Hairy White Oldfield Aster |
Song Sparrow |
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