Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 10/29/16 (seen from the departing ferry)
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| Cormorants flying south | Big Foot Island just before dawn | A better view of Big Foot Island, showing pelicans and other birds | A similar view, closer to sunrise | Cormorants flying south |
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| Cormorants flying from Big Foot Island toward Ocracoke (south) | The Village of Ocracoke | Big Foot Island | Distant cormorants | Harbor House |
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| Egrets | Another view of these egrets |
Nature Trail, Ocracoke Island, Hyde County, NC 10/28/16
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| Male Brackish-water Fiddler Crab standing his ground |
Ocracoke Island (north end), Hyde County, NC 10/27/16
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| Nonbreeding Black-bellied Plover | Another nonbreeding Black-bellied Plover | Probably first-year Piping Plover, which alternated between walking toward me and facing away | Same Piping Plover, which eventually flew around me. |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 10/27/16
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| Common Starlings | Common Starlings | Double-crested Cormorant | Brown Pelican flying toward setting sun | After sunset |
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| Before sunset | Closer up | Same sunset scene with glare screened out |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 10/26/16
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| Double-crested Cormorant | Eurasian Collared Dove | Grackle | Mallard ducklings | Mystery bird |
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| Interesting street corner | Fishing mistake |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 10/25/16
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| Monarch | Yellow-rumped Warbler | Same Yellow-rumped Warbler | Same Yellow-rumped Warbler | Another Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Springer's Point Nature Preserve, Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 10/25/16
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| Eastern Phoebe | Northern Mockingbird | Hens | Cooper's Hawk | Raccoon sculpture |
Ocracoke Island (north shore), Hyde County, NC 10/24/16
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| Nonbreeding Black-bellied Plover | Same Black-bellied Plover | Cormorants | Ghost Crab | Grasshopper |
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| Great Black-backed Gull | Flock of Great Black-backed Gulls | Four Black-backed Gulls | The north end, where the effects of the Hurricane Matthew are shown | Yellow-rumped Warbler, one of several nearby |
Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Hyde County, NC 10/24/16
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Juvie Yellow-rumped Warbler | Yellow-rumped Warbler in a marsh | Another juvie Yellow-rumped Warbler | Female Red-winged Blackbird |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 10/23/16
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| Double-crested Cormorant | Mallard-American Black Duck hybrid pair | Common flower in the neighborhood | Sunset over Silver Lake | Yellow-rumped Warbler eating berries in a Wax Myrtle bush |
Springer's Point Nature Preserve, Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 10/23/16
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| Northern Mockingbird, actually slightly outside the Preserve | Yellow-rumped Warbler | Another Yellow-rumped Warbler | Remains of a horseshoe crab |
Big Foot Island, Hyde County, NC 10/22/16
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| Double-crested Cormorants and gulls | A longer view of the Double-crested Cormorants and gulls |
Pamlico Sound, Hyde County, NC 10/22/16
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| Royal Tern | Laughing Gull | Laughing Gulls, with fish prey | Juvenile Brown Pelican landing |
Swan Quarter, Hyde County, NC 10/22/16
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| Blowfly | Midge | Royal Tern about to land | What is the one Royal Tern saying? Flying by are a gull, an adult Royal Tern, and a juvenile. | Interspecies conversation (including Laughing Gull) |
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| Royal Terns and Laughing Gulls, both | A quiet scene, during a rare moment when both Royal Terns were looking in the same direction | Sometimes one Royal Tern bumps another one off its perch. In this case, an adult is the one displaying bad manners, while these two juveniles are still unsuspecting. | Another interesting conversation, perhaps, "You can't land here!" | One perched Royal Tern watches two other terns pass through. |
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| More Royal Tern activity: "Don't even think of landing here!" | You can see who's boss, at least on this piling. | It's interesting to see how Royal Terns wriggle their wings when moved in on. | "Sorry, buddy, but we don't think there's a place for you." | An adult Royal Tern flies by, watched by two juveniles. |
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| One Royal Tern scolds another. | "Don't even think of doing that!" |
Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, Southern Pines, Moore County, NC 10/18/16
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| Pine Barrens Gentian, which is federally- and state-listed (G3 and S3). | Same Pine Barrens Gentian with female Zabulon Skipper | Same Pine Barrens Gential with same female Zabulon Skipper | Barklouse | Wildflower with barklouse |
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| Sandhill Chaffhead | Crablike Spiny Orb Weaver | Same Crablike Spiny Orb Weaver | Oak leaf | Eastern Phoebe |
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| Pine Warbler | Pselliopus cinctus | Same Pselliopus cinctus | Snail | Wasp (Campsomeris genus) |
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| Wasp (Campsomeris genus) | White-breasted Nuthatch |
Durham, NC 10/17/16
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| Bees | Jumping spider (female Hentzia palmarum) | Sweetgum leaf | Clouded Skipper | Another Clouded Skipper |
Durham, NC 10/16/16
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| Turkey Vulture | Black Vultures and Turkey Vultures | Black Vultures (including one fledgling) and Turkey Vultures | Turkey Vultures | Turkey Vulture |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, Orange County, NC 10/15/16
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| Cloudless Sulphur |
Jordan Lake (east of 751), Chatham County, NC 10/14/16
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| Northern Cricket Frog | Same Northern Cricket Frog | View from the (new) shore | The lake shore | Exposed roots of a pine tree |
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| Blowfly |
Jordan Lake (west of 751), Chatham County, NC 10/14/16
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| Common Buckeye | Corn cob | Cutleaf Groundcherry fruit | Cutleaf Groundcherry plant | Pearl Crescent on Cutleaf Groundcherry plant |
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| Wolf spider with egg sac | Mystery wildflowers | Toad bug lying in shallow water | Toad bug swimming | Same toad bug swimming |
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| Field Cricket | Mating Spotted Cucumber Beetles | Pearl Crescent | Same Pearl Crescent | Female long-legged fly (Condylostylus caudatus) |
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| Wolf spider in shallow water | Tiny wolf spider running across the water | Lake water, which normally ended on the other side of the trees | Fungus |
Durham, NC 11/13/16
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| Buprestid beetle (maybe Texania campestris) |
Durham, NC 10/11/16
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| Male Eastern Tailed-Blue | Jumping spider (female Hentzia palmarum) with prey | Ocola Skipper | Another Ocola Skipper | Wolf spider |
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| American Robin | American Robin | Saucer Magnolia | Bee fly (11/12) | Bee fly |
Durham, NC 10/10/16
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| Female Eastern Bluebird | Female Fiery Skipper | Pearl Crescent | Sleepy Orange |
Durham, NC 10/9/16
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| Mallards in a temporary large puddle | Antmimic jumping spider | Drone Fly | Same Drone Fly | Eastern Tailed-blue |
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| Honeybee | Male House Finch | Jumping spider | Jumping spider (female Hentzia palmarum) | Same jumping spider (female Hentzia palmarum) |
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| Jumping spider (female Hentzia palmarum) | Predaceous diving beetle | Mystery spider | Warty Leaf Beetle | Water scavenger beetle |
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| Wolf spider |
Durham, NC 10/6/16
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| Carpenter bee | Chipping Sparrow | Chipping Sparrow | Grasshopper | Great Blue Heron |
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| Great Blue Heron | Green Frog | Same Green Frog | Green Treefrog | Northern Mockingbird |
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| Yellow-collared Scape Moth | Pearl Crescent | Northern Cricket Frog | Water Plantain |
Durham, NC 10/4/16
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| Female Northern Cardinal | Same Northern Cardinal | Northern Mockingbird | Same Mockingbird |
Durham, NC 10/3/16
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| Pearl Crescent on White Heath Asters | Checkered skipper | Black-tailed Red Sheetweaver | Bowl-and-Doily Spider | Stink bug |
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| Pearl Crescent | Monarch caterpillar | Monarch caterpillar waving its "tails" | Monarch caterpillar | Stink bug |
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| Stink bug | Eggs? | Caterpillar | Arabesque Orb Weaver | Mourning Dove |
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC 10/1/16
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| Triangulate Orb Weaver | Tiny spider | Purple False Foxglove with insect visitor | Orchard spider | Long-jawed orb weaver |
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| Gemmed Satyr | Variegated Fritillary chrysalis | Another view of the Variegated Fritillary chrysalis | Carolina Satyr | Argiope aurantius spider with katydid prey |
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| Common Buckeye | Another Common Buckeye | Cooper's Hawk | Sleepy Orange |