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February 2011
Durham, NC 2/27/11
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| Male Red Maple flowers | Funnel web spiders overwintering (Barronopsis genus). ID thanks to Jeff Hollenbeck. | Member of same species of funnel web spiders (Barronopsis genus). ID thanks to Jeff Hollenbeck. |
Durham, NC 2/26/11
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| Female Red Maple flowers. This tree seemed to have nothing but, while another Red Maple next to it had nothing but male flowers. | Winged Elm female flowers, producing fruit | Part of a Hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) male catkin, Durham, NC. This structure gradually unfolds (lengthens, really), exposing the anthers. |
Durham, NC 2/25/11
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| One of the few fresh Winged Elm flowers left, with pink anthers | Winged Elm flowers: here the anthers have turned brown. | Winged Elm flowers, again past their prime |
Durham, NC 2/24/11
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| Common Chickweed | Male Red Maple flowers | Common Dandelion |
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC 2/21/11
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| Speedwells | Boxelder Bug | Rockcress | Marsh beetle (Cyphon genus, Scirtidae family). ID thanks to Brad Barnd. |
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| Ant |
Durham, NC 2/21/11
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| Male Red Maple flower | Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule) | Rockcress | Speedwells |
Ebenezer Church Recreational Area, Chatham County, NC 2/20/11
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| Main area, near beach, bathrooms and parking lot. The white mass is thousands of feathers, presumably from Ring-billed Gulls. | A close-up view of some feathers | The rainbow-colored pond in the woods | Male Red Maple flowers |
Durham, NC 2/19/11
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| Male Red Maple flowers, fallen from a tree |
Highway 64, Milepost 491, 2/19/11
This was about 20 miles east of Rocky Mount, Nash County, NC.
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| Tundra Swans, seen from a moving car. If you click on this thumbnail, you can see that they are big white birds with black bills. Trust me, I got a better view than this rather crummy photo! | Close-up of the Tundra Swans on the left. |
Nags Head Woods Ecological Preserve, Kill Devil Hills, Dare County, NC 2/18/11
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| Plasterer Bee (right) with nest. It's a Colletes inaequalis, a member of the Colletidae family. | Partridgeberry, which was abundant in this area | Fallen tree | Holly Tree bark | Karl |
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| Egg case, maybe of a mantid. | These three pictures show duckweed-covered swamps. |
Roanoke Island Marsh Game Land, Dare County, NC 2/17/11
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| Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron. There was grass in the foreground. |
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| Red Admiral on violet, one of at least 3 seen |
Downtown Manteo, Dare County, NC 2/17/11
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| Common Loon | Ring-billed Gull, with berry? | A lovely scene, despite the thumbnail's display of rogue programming in this web-programming software! | Winged ants, with 8 males attending tending to 3 females |
Duke Gardens, Durham, NC 2/14/11
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| Northern Pintail, with another duck looking on | Muscovy Duck | Probably a male Mallard/American Black Duck hybrid | Common Shelduck |
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC 2/13/11
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| American Snout, seen at far end of Beech Trail at 3:31 pm. | Crane Fly Orchid (winter leaf) | New Hope Creek | Spider wasp |
Durham, NC 2/8/11
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| Brown-headed Nuthatch, near scene of (its) destruction |
Flat River Impoundment (actually, near the river itself), Durham County, NC 2/6/11
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| Putty Root Orchid leaf |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 2/2/11
First flower of the year! It was an unusually warm mostly sunny day, with a high of 64 and lots of cirrus clouds.
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| Early Witch Hazel (Hamamelis vernalis) | Witch Hazel branch |
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| Sundog |
Durham, NC 2/1/11
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| Male Eastern Bluebird |
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