Larkspur, Marin County, CA 4/29/18
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| Juvie Black-crowned Night Heron | Crow | Same crow | Black Phoebe | Great Blue Heron with small fish prey |
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| Monarch | Maybe a juvie Royal Tern | Same tern | Western Sandpipers | Bridge across bay |
Larkspur, Marin County, CA 4/28/18
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| Monarch | Bridge across bay | Nasturtiums (Tropaeolum majus) |
Issaquah Way, Sausalito, Marin County, CA 4/28/18
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| Female House Finch | Male House Finch | Hydroplane | Houseboat homes | More houseboat homes |
Corte Madera Ecological Reserve, Marin County, CA 4/27/18
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| Avocet | Same Avocet | Black-necked Stilt | Black-necked Stilts | Canada Goose goslings |
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| Canada Goose goslings | Song Sparrow |
Larkspur, Marin County, CA 4/27/18
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| Black-crowned Night Heron | Maybe the same Black-crowned Night Heron, over marsh | California Towhee | Same California Towhee | Another California Towhee |
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| Common Raven | Eurasian Collared Dove | Great Blue Heron | Male House Finch | Same male House Finch |
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| Killdeer | Another Killdeer | First Killdeer | Northern Mockingbird? | Mourning Dove |
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| Mount Tamalpais | Oakland | Another view of Oakland | Snowy Egret | Common Starling |
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| Bird Vetch (Vicia cracca), with some anomalous pink flowers | Mystery wildflower |
Larkspur, Marin County, CA 4/26/18
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| Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus Corniculatus) | Original Birdsfoot Trefoil photo | Abandoned bridge | Crow | Flycatcher |
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| Mt. Tamalpais | Tern | Same tern | Purple Salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius) |
Larkspur, Marin County, CA 4/25/18
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| Snowy Egret stalking a fish | Same Snowy Egret | Song Sparrow | Same Song Sparrow | Western Bluebird |
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| Western Grebe | Western Grebes | Canada Goose | Bee on an Ice Plant (Carpobrotus edulis) flower |
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| Ladybug beetle larva with prey | Male Mallard | Cyclist taking a break |
Durham, NC 4/19/18
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| Common Baskettail (Epitheca genus) | Same dragonfly | Same dragonfly | Same dragonfly | Beetle |
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| Cornsalad, with pachygronthid bug | Jumping spider (male Pelegrina proterva) | Leafhopper nymph (Coelidia olitoria), front view | Same leafhopper nymph, side view | Mite (less than a mm long) |
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| Pine tree showing aftermath of flooding rains (over 4 inches) | Two mystery spiders | Tree flowers, fallen from tree | Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle | Another Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC 4/19/18
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| Stream Cruiser (Didymops transversa) | Blue Corporal | Another Blue Corporal | Carolina Satyr | Gemmed Satyr |
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| Jack-in-the-pulpit, two blooms | Another view of the same Jack-in-the-pulpit. | Lyre-leaved Sage | Violet Wood-Sorrel | Question Mark |
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| Red-banded Hairstreak | Silver-spotted Skipper | Silver-spotted Skipper |
Durham, NC 4/18/18
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| Male Brown-headed Cowbid | Two male Brown-headed Cowbirds | Carpenter bee | Same carpenter bee | Chipping Sparrow |
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| Female or teneral Eastern Pondhawk | Purple Martin in flight | Four Purple Martins | Male Purple Martin taking off and female | Three Purple Martins |
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| Tadpole with (brown) legs | Water scavenger beetle sitting on a bubble | Another water scavenger beetle | Mystery eggs |
Durham, NC 4/17/18
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| Blue-gray gnatcatcher | Same Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Chipping Sparrow | Jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum) | Juvenal's Duskywing |
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| Juvenal's Duskywing | Leafhopper | Mantled Baskettail | Pearl Crescent | Shield-backed Katydid |
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| Mystery spider with prey | Tadpoles | Wasp | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Durham, NC 4/14/18
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| St. Anthony's Turnip (Ranunculus bulbosus), a kind of buttercup | Crab spider (Xysticus genus) | Jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum) | Jumping spider (male Pelegrina proterva) | Leafhopper nymph |
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| Mite | Running crab spider | Viburnum? |
Durham, NC 4/12/18
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| Bluets (Houstonia caerulia) | Buttercup, really St. Anthony's Turnip (Ranunculus bulbosus) | Carolina Chickadee | Chipping Sparrow | Confederate Violet (Viola sororia priceana) |
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| Creeping/Yellow Wood-Sorrel (Oxalis corniculata) | Male Eastern Bluebird | Female Eastern Bluebird with prey | Same bird | Same bird |
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| Female Eastern Bluebird with prey | Hawkweed (Hieracium genus) | Pearl Crescent | Periwinkle | Mystery plant |
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler in breeding plumage |
Southern Pines near Pinehurst, Moore County, NC 4/6/18
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| Belted Kingfisher | Green Heron | Same Green Heron | Blue Toadflax (Nuttallanthus-canadensis, though Linaria is also used as a genus name) | Fallen wasps' nest |
Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, Moore County, NC 4/6/18
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| Atypical Mantled Baskettail? Lynette Elliott photographed one like it at Fort Bragg, just next door in Cumberland County: https://bugguide.net/node/view/47261 | Pinxter Flower plants | Pinxterflower (Rhododendron periclymenoides) | Spicebush (Lindera benzoin) male flowers | Whirligig Beetle |
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| Common Baskettail, maybe, in flight | Birdsfoot Violet (Viola pedata) | Birdsfoot Violets (Viola pedata) | More Birdsfoot Violets (Viola pedata) | Blue Corporal |
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| Fly | Spring Iris (Iris verna) | Another Spring Iris | Long-leaf Pines |
Downtown Southern Pines, Moore County, NC 4/6/18
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| Female House Finch | Male House Finch, singing | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Durham, NC 4/4/18
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| Male House Finch | Chipping Sparrow | Brown Thrasher | Japanese Rose | Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis) |
Durham, NC 4/2/18
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| Springtails | More springtails | More springtails | More springtails | Mock Strawberry flower |
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| Springtail (Poduromorpha order) | Springtails with lots of pine pollen | Springtails | Springtails | Springtails |
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| Globular springtails of various sizes | Virginia Spring Beauty | Field Pansy, unfolding | A new Field Pansy, starting to unfold | Fully unfolded Field Pansy |
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| Field Pansy | Green six-spotted Tiger Beetle | Female Sugar Maple flowers and leaves | Same Sugar Maple flowers |