Durham, NC 3/31/17
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| Male Eastern Towhee | Green Frog (Rana clamitans) | Male Eastern Tailed-Blue |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, Orange County, NC 3/29/17
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| Hummingbird Clearwing Moth | Common Water Strider |
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| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Wildflowers | Large Bee Fly |
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| Blue-eyed Grass | Bowl-and-doily Spider | Same Bowl-and-Doily Spider | Heartleaf Foamflower | Blooming Mayapple |
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| Apple blossoms and buds | Long view of part of apple tree arranged on an espalier |
Durham, NC 3/29/17
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| Male Eastern Tailed-Blue | Flower fly (Toxomerus genus) | Juvenal's Duskywing | Caterpillar Hunter beetle (Calosoma scrutata) | Jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum) with prey |
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| Meadow Hawkweed (Hieracium caespitosum) | Wolf spider | Small scarab beetle, flying around | Same scarab beetle |
Durham, NC 3/28/17
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| Barklouse | Beetle larva, maybe | Ladybug beetle (Chilocorus genus) | Spring beauty, with tiny fly |
Durham, NC 3/27/17
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| Large jumping spider (male Pelegrina proterva) | Small jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum) | Globular springtail | Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle | Ground beetle (Bembidion genus) |
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| Rusty Blackbird | Northern Cardinal | Chipping Sparrow | Common Vetch | Mouseear Chickweed |
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| One of two Green June Beetles that had been partially eaten, though this one was still alive |
Durham, NC 3/26/17
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| Long-jawed orb weaver | Jumping spider | Field Pansy | Nymph |
Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area, Orange County, NC 3/25/17
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| Small scarab beetle | Anothe, playing dead after capture | Same beetle, which flew away when I tossed it. | One bunch of daffodils | Another bunch of daffodils |
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| Teneral Blue Corporal | Another teneral Blue Corporal | Juvenal's Duskywing | Rock | Another rock |
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| Another rock |
Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, NC 3/24/17
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| Cabbage White on mustard flower | Same Cabbage White | Male Northern Cardinal | Clock | Female Eastern Bluebird |
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| Fruits on a bush | American Robin | Street scene | White-throated Sparrow |
Durham, NC 3/23/17
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| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Same Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Male House Finch | Bluets | Carolina Wren |
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| Dark-eyed Junco | Field Pansies | Pearl Crescent | Eastern Phoebe | Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
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| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Same Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Song Sparrow | Tadpoles |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC 3/22/17
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| Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) | Mosquito larva | Mysterious plant, apparently untouched by the controlled burn on March 1. Its appearance hasn't changed in weeks. | Savannah Sparrow | Tufted Titmouse |
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| Water measurer (genus Hydrometra), a kind of water strider | Common Water Strider and mosquito larvae | Another Water Strider | Mating Common Water Striders | Mating Common Water Striders fallen on their sides |
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| Common Water Striders | Wildflowers |
Jordan Lake, Chatham County, NC 3/20/17
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Eastern Phoebe | Female midge | Another female midge | Male midge |
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| Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle | Springtail | Fly | Water boatman nymph under bubbles | Four water boatman nymphs |
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| Water boatman nymph | Another water boatman nymph | Another water boatman nymph (best one!) |
Durham, NC 3/19/17
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| Chipping Sparrow | Another Chipping Sparrow | Chipping Sparrow with seed | Crayfish hole | Fishing spider |
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| Red-bellied Woodpecker | Same Red-bellied Woodpecker | Sparrow | Wasp |
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| Wild blueberries |
Durham, NC 3/18/17
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| Carolina Chickadee | Same Carolina Chickadee | Same Carolina Chickadee | Bug nymph | Same Carolina Chickadee |
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| Damselfly | Flower fly | Redbud | American Robin | Spring Beauty |
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| Tufted Titmouse | Tufted Titmouse | Tufted Titmouse | Common Water Striders |
Durham, NC 3/17/17
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| Male Northern Cardinal | Pennsylvania Bittercress | Catkin | Female Eastern Bluebird | Fly on predated vulture's wing |
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| Male House Finch | Kinglet | Tadpoles and fish | White-throated Sparrow | Another White-throated Sparrow |
Nature Trail, Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover County, NC 3/8/17
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| Red-banded Hairstreak | Red-banded Hairstreak | Same Red-banded Hairstreak | Green Anole | Coastal Fetterbush |
Carolina Lake, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/8/17
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| Male Mallard landing |
Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/8/17
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| Willets | Surfer in training | Same surfer | Same surfer later on | Shrimp boat, moving fast |
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| Osprey aircraft | Jellyfish | Brown Pelicans | Adults Brown Pelican | Juvie Brown Pelican |
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| Small airplane | Sunset |
Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC 3/8/17
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| Green Anole | Green Anole | American Oystercatcher | American Oystercatchers | Question Mark |
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| Snails on dried marsh bed | Heron and egrets |
Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/7/17
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| Wildfire in Brunswick County |
Fort Fisher Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC 3/7/17
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| Route 421 beginning | American Lady | Brown Pelican | Caterpillar | Great Egrets |
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| Feather, maybe of an American Oystercatcher | Firewheel | Buffleheads: two females and a male | Ring-billed Full | Shore |
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| Savannah Sparrow | Maybe the same Savannah Sparrow | Another Savannah Sparrow | Brunswick County wildfire smoke | Perhaps same wildfire, seen from across the Cape Fear River |
Carolina Lake, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/7/17
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| Double-crested Cormorant | Male Boat-tailed Grackle | Same male Boat-tailed Grackle | Male House Sparrow | Crested Pekin(g) Ducks |
Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover County, NC 3/7/17
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| Henry's Elfin (Callophrys henrici) | Cape Fear River |
Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover County, NC 3/6/17
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| Brown-headed Nuthatch | Same Brown-headed Nuthatch | Hermit Thrush | Same Hermit Thrush |
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| Hermit thrush | Northern Mockingbird | Plant with seed pods |
Fort Fisher Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC 3/6/17
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| Snowy Egret | Savannah Sparrow |
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| Oysters | Same oysters | Forster's Tern | Migrating Double-crested Cormorants, north along the Cape Fear River | More migrating Double-crested Cormorants |
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| Mounds of clay, deposited by the Cape Fear River | More mounds of clay | Bumblebee on blackberry flower | Bumblebee |
Carolina Lake, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/6/17
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| White Ibis | Peking Ducks | Killdeer |
Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/6/17
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| Seaweed | Mural downtown that was destroyed the next day | Laughing Gulls | House Sparrow | Kure Pier |
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| Laughing Gulls |
Fort Fisher Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC 3/5/17
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Turkey Vulture |
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| Northern Mockingbird | American Oystercatcher | Tiny click beetles |
Carolina Lake, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/5/17
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| Left for mysterious reasons | Male Boat-tailed Grackle | Same Boat-tailed Grackle bathing | Female Boat-tailed Grackle | Same female Boat-tailed Grackle |
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| Female Boat-tailed Grackle | Male Boat-tailed Grackle flying upward | Male Boat-tailed Grackle hiding in tree | Male Boat-tailed Grackle inserting his upper beak into a piece of junk | A bigger picture of the same |
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| Male Boat-tailed Grackle with small red object | Killdeer | Mallards | Rosebush | Sanderlings |
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| Turtle |
Durham, NC 3/3/17
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| Female Eastern Bluebird | Male Eastern Bluebird | Mallard pair | Red-shouldered Hawk | Another Red-shouldered Hawk |
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| White-breasted Nuthatch |
Durham, NC 3/2/17
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| Male Downy Woodpecker | Same male Downy Woodpecker | Female Eastern Bluebird |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC 3/1/17
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| Carolina Wren | Same Carolina Wren, blinking | Same Carolina Wren, exhaling? | Bloodroot, not part of any exhibit | Coastal Fetterbush, part of the Coastal Plain exhibit |
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| Coastal Fetterbush | More Coastal Fetterbush | Mining bee | Mining bee emerging from a nest | Mining bee just emerged from a nest |
(Wooded trail portion, all natural)
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| Winter leaves of a Crane Orchid | Redbud | Same Redbud | Rue Anemone | Spicebush flowers |
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| Virginia Spring Beauty | Trout Lily | Tufted Titmouse | Water Strider | Yellow Fumewort |
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| Little Sweet Betsy |
Durham, NC 3/1/17
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| Saucer Magnolia | Same Saucer Magnolia | Saucer Magnolia | My Japanese Rose |