Bogue Banks (Barrier Island), Carteret County, NC
Hoop Pole Creek Trail, leading off Atlantic Station Shopping Center, Atlantic Beach, NC 7/23/08
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| Post-mating Seaside Dragonlets: the male stands on the female's head for a while afterward so she can't mate with any other males. | Adult male Seaside Dragonlet. See other dragonflies. | Young male Seaside Dragonlet |
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| Zebra Heliconian. There were at least 20 near the trail entrance at around noon that day, all in frantic motion. See the Butterfly Index. | Male Yellow-and-Black Argiope. See other spiders. | Spider wasp |
Theodore Roosevelt State Natural Area Nature Trail, Pine Knoll Shores, Carteret County, NC 7/23/08
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| White Ibises. See other wading birds. | Golden Silk Spider | Dog-day Cicada |
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| Fiddler crabs. See other crustaceans. | Mating tiger beetles (Cicindela marginata) | Tachinid Fly |
Pine Knoll Shores, Carteret County, NC 7/23/08
I learned some new things about Northern Mockingbird family dynamics. Fledglings continue to hang out with a parent, behaving a lot like small children. They stray some distance away from the parent, making "Tsee! Tsee!" sounds that I'd learned to associate with baby mockingbirds still in the nest, while their parent comes to investigate things like photographers that alarm them. In the third photo below, an adult is shown checking me out (and at the time decided I was no big deal and flew off.)
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| Fledgling Northern Mockingbird. See other songbirds. | Another fledgling Northern Mockingbird | Adult Northern Mockingbird |
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| Osprey, flying over a dock on the Bogue Sound side. See other raptors. | Mostly Laughing Gulls, with a couple of "black sheep." Photo by Karl D. Gottschalk. | Picture-winged fly |
Pine Knoll Shores, Carteret County, NC 7/22/08
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| Male Red-winged Blackbird | Young European Starling | Male Great Blue Skimmer | Gray Catbird, with prey |
Fort Macon State Park, Atlantic Beach, Carteret County, NC July 21-22, 2008
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| Eastern Beach Tiger Beetle | Zebra Heliconian. There were many of these (at least ten), mostly flying wildly around. | Drone Fly | Bee fly (Chrysanthrax cypris) |
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| Adult sharpshooter (Oncometopia orbona) | Late-instar nymph of the species on left (Oncometopia orbona). I saw an adult try to protect a nymph by moving next to it and placing its leg over it, but lost the photo. | Passionflower |
Pine Knoll Shores, Carteret County, NC 7/21/08
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| Rabbit in swamp, was eating leaves | Glassy-winged Sharpshooter | Willet | Eastern Beach Tiger Beetle |
Atlantic Beach, Carteret County, NC
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| Sand Fiddler Crabs (Uca pugilator) on Bogue Sound side of Atlantic Beach, NC, 3/22/05. Thanks to Garrett Herth for ID. |
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