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Durham, NC 4/29/24
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| Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens) flowers |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) |
Leaf rust (Puccinia triticina), a kind of fungus |
Bristly Mallow (Modiola caroliniana) |
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| Striped Lynx Spider |
Sticky Willy |
Bee on Sawtooth Blackberry |
Annual Fleabane |
13-year Periodical Cicadas |
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| 13-year Periodical Cicada |
Southern Blue Flag Iris |
Female Common Whitetail |
Mock Strawberry |
Blowflies |
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| Zebra Swallowtail |
Zebra Swallowtail |
Lyre-leaved Sage |
Azure Bluets |
Male Zabulon Skipper |
Durham, NC 4/28/24
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| Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) |
Lance Wolf Spider (Schizocosa avida) |
Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) |
Might be an Annual Blue-eyed Grass flower, but is anomalous. |
Bristly Mallow (Modiola caroliniana) |
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| Cutleaf Geranium (Geranium dissectum) |
Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass |
13-year Periodical Cicada |
Cutleaf Geranium (Geranium dissectum) |
Grass |
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| Carolina Cranesbill (Geranium carolinianum) |
Wild Garlic (Allium vineale), with flower bud showing) |
Katydid nymph |
Tiny beetle |
Kentucky Bluegrass (Poa pratensis) |
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| Buttercup |
Deertongue |
Another Deertongue |
Hispid Buttercup |
13-year Periodical Cicada |
Jumping spider |
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| Kentucky Bluegrass (Poa pratensis) |
Asian Multi-colored Lady Beetle |
Kentucky Bluegrass (Poa pratensis) with Asian Multi-colored Lady Beetle |
13-year Periodical Cicada |
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Durham, NC 4/26/24
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| Catkin |
Another catkin |
Dovesfoot Geranium and grasses |
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| 13-year periodical cicada |
Another 13-year periodical cicada |
13-year periodical cicada exuvia |
Annual blue-eyed grass flower |
Wild Garlic (Allium vineale) |
Durham, NC 4/25/24
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| 13-year periodical cicada, wings still drying and unfolding |
13-year periodical cicada, wings still drying and unfolding |
13-year periodical cicada, wings still drying and unfolding |
Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) |
Karl |
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| Squash Bug |
Southern Blue Flag Iris |
Another Southern Blue Flag Iris |
Parlin's Pussytoes (Antennaria parlinii) seedheads |
Another Parlin's Pussytoes (Antennaria parlinii) seedheads |
Yet another Parlin's Pussytoes (Antennaria parlinii) seedheads |
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| Three trees joined by roots |
American Lady on Sawtooth Blackberry |
Fallen Tulip Poplar flower |
More Parlin's Pussytoes (Antennaria parlinii) seedheads |
13-year periodical cicada |
Ground beetle |
Durham, NC 4/24/24
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| Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) |
13-year Cicada exuvia |
Green-and-gold |
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| Azalea |
Mapleleaf Viburnum |
Field Madder |
Vriginia Spiderworts |
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Durham, NC 4/23/24
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| Annual Blue-eyed Grass |
Leafhopper (Jikradia olitoria) nymph |
Leafhopper (Jikradia olitoria) nymph |
Creeping Wood-sorrel |
Blue-eyed Grass flower and fruits |
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| Deertongue (Dichanthelium clandestinum) Grass |
Pennsylvania Leatherwing Beetle |
Bigseed Forget-me-not (Myosotis macrosperma) |
Bee on Sawtooth Blackberry |
Wild Garlic (Allium vineale) |
Weedy Dwarf Dandelion (Krigia cespitosa) |
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| Beaked Cornsalad |
Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass |
Jumping spider (male Pelegrina proterva) |
Jumping spider (male Pelegrina proterva) |
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| Jumping spider (male Hentzia mitrata) with prey |
Mock Strawberry (Potentilla indica) |
Buttercup |
Hoverfly (Toxomerus genus) |
Golden-backed Snipe Fly |
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| Jumping spider (male Hentzia mitrata) |
Large Bee Fly (Bombylius major) on Sawtooth Blackberry flower |
Large Bee Fly (Bombylius major) on Sawtooth Blackberry flower |
Large Bee Fly (Bombylius major) on Sawtooth Blackberry flower |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/19/24
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| Anomalous white Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass |
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| Brookweed (Samolus parviflorus) |
Brookweed (Samolus parviflorus), overhead |
Brookweed (Samolus parviflorus) |
Brookweed (Samolus parviflorus) and Hairy Sedge |
Normal blue Blue-eyed Grass flowers |
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| Captains Landing |
Snail shells |
Katydid nymph on fleabane |
Twoflower Melicgrass |
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| Thurston House garden |
View across a Silver Lake inlet |
Male House Sparrow |
Birdfoot Trefoil |
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Ocracoke Island, out of town, Hyde County, NC 4/18/24
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| Rufous-backed Cellophane Bee (Colletes thoracicus) |
Poison Ivy flowers |
Beaked Cornsalad |
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| Thistle |
Grackle |
Thistles |
Teneral Blue Corporal |
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| Teneral Blue Corporal |
Ghost Crab |
Same Ghost Crab |
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| Sanderlings |
Sanderling |
USAF plane going over the beach |
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| Pony eating hay |
Male Red-winged Blackbird |
Same male Red-winged Blackbird |
White Ibis |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/18/24
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| Sunset, 7:38 pm |
Great Egret |
Same Great Egret |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/17/24
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| Small-flower Catchfly (Silene gallica) |
Small-flower Catchflies (Silene gallica) |
Small-flower Catchflies (Silene gallica) |
Small-flower Catchflies (Silene gallica) |
Small-flower Catchflies (Silene gallica) |
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| Male Poison Ivy flowers |
Male Poison Ivy plant branch with flowers |
Roses spreading into tree |
Little Quaking Grass (Briza minor) |
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| Hornet |
Little Quaking Grass (Briza minor) |
Little Quaking Grass (Briza minor) |
Little Quaking Grass (Briza minor) |
Queendevil (Hieracium gronovii) |
Male House Sparrow |
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| Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria) |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/16/24
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| Territorial battle between Northern Mockingbirds |
Victor and vanquished |
Hairy Sedge (Carex pilosa) |
Rooster, wandering around two properties on Howard Street |
Same rooster |
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| Evening Primrose |
Common Starling |
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Springer's Point Nature Preserve, Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/16/24
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| Blue Toadflax |
Eurasian Collared Dove pair |
Common Starling |
Fowler's Toad |
Ghost Crab |
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| Ghost Crab |
Male Eastern Towhee |
Same male Eastern Towhee singing |
Same male Eastern Towhee |
Same male Eastern Towhee singing |
Ocracoke Beach, Hyde County, NC 4/15/24
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| Karl |
Willet |
Willet landing |
Willet landed |
Willet landing |
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| Willet flying |
Willets engaging in a territorial battle |
The battle continues |
More of the battle |
Willet remaining |
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| Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/15/24
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| House Sparrow |
Common Yellow Wood-sorrel |
Rough Clover (Trifolium scabrum) |
Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria) |
Royal Tern |
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| Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass |
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Pamlico Sound, Hyde County, NC 4/14/24
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| Double-crested Cormorants and Brown Pelicans on Big Foot Island |
Double-crested Cormorant fleeing from ferry |
Sand bar |
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| Part of Ocracoke coastline, including the lighthouse |
Another part of Ocracoke coastline, including the water tower |
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| Common Loon |
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Cedar Island, Carteret County, NC 4/14/24
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| Double-crested Cormorant |
Breeding Double-crested Cormorant |
Long view of the beach |
Affectionate Laughing Gull pair |
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| Startled Barn Swallow |
Sanderling stirring the water |
Another Sanderling |
Sanderling probing deeply |
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| Killdeer |
Anemometer and weathervane |
Northern Mockingbird |
Sow Thistle |
Animal tracks |
Bird tracks and other movements |
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| Bird tracks: foot-dragging? |
Sanderlings in flight |
Same group of Sanderlings in flight |
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| Sanderling, Killdeer, and a third larger bird |
Sanderlings |
Laughing Gull and Sanderling, but the reflected sky is the most interesting part. |
Killdeer |
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Same Killdeer
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Double-crested Cormorants, juvie on left, breeding one on right |
Double-crested Cormorants, juvie on left, breeding one on right |
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Morehead City, Carteret County, NC 4/13/24
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| False Garlic, in brush behind a hotel |
Low Hop Clover |
False Garlic, in the hotel parking lot |
European Honeybee on Blackberry flower |
False Garlic |
Nature Trail, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill 4/10/24
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| Buckbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), an aquatic plant, seen in the garden, not on the Nature Trail |
Thymeleaf Speedwell (Veronica serpyllofolia) |
Wild Comfrey (Cynoglossum virginianum) flowers |
Rue Anemone |
Wild Comfrey (Cynoglossum virginianum) flowers |
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| Azure Bluets |
Rock face |
Virginia Pennywort (Obolaria virginiana) |
Silk with dew on it |
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| Dance fly (Empis enoplempis) |
Bumblebee Blackhaw (Viburnum species) |
Bumblebee Blackhaw (Viburnum species) |
Snail |
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| Oak catkin |
Goldenseal, in the garden |
Hooked Buttercup (Ranunculus recurvatus) |
Male Northern Cardinal |
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| Male Northern Cardinal |
Male Northern Cardinal |
Caterpillar in pond |
Wild Comfrey (Cynoglossum virginianum) |
Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium) |
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| Wild Comfrey (Cynoglossum virginianum) |
Catesby's Trillium (Trillium catesbaei) |
Wild Comfrey (Cynoglossum virginianum) |
Wild Comfrey (Cynoglossum virginianum) |
Mayapple with bloom |
Wild Comfrey (Cynoglossum virginianum) |
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| Violet Wood-sorrel |
More Violet Wood-sorrel |
Green and Gold |
Jack-in-the Pulpit |
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Durham, NC 4/8/24
Photos of tree shadows during the 79% totality solar eclipse, taken from 3:20-3:30 pm:
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| Two tree trunks, from the top of the island in the cul-de-sac |
Branches on a tree, taken from the street |
Same, but from a different angle |
Same, but later |
Another angle, later |
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| Two ordinary tree trunks |
Tree with major branches |
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Durham, NC 4/6/24
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| Hearts-a-bustin (Euonymus americanus) |
Azure Bluets |
Virginia Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) |
Dovesfoot Geranium (Geranium molle) |
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| Dovesfoot Geranium (Geranium molle) |
Dovesfoot Geranium (Geranium molle) |
Common Vetch (Vicia sativa) with peapods |
Oriental False Hawksbeard |
Field Madder |
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| Two-lined Leatherwing Beetle |
Hoverfly (Toxomerus marginatus) |
Sticky Willy |
Kwanzan Cherry |
Another Kwanzan Cherry |
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Solitary bee about to enter nest |
Common Vetch (Vicia sativa) |
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Durham, NC 4/5/24
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| Corn Speedwell (Veronica arvensis) |
Corn Speedwell (Veronica arvensis) |
Parlin's Pussytoes (Antennaria parlinii) basal leaves |
Song Sparrow |
Southern Blue Flag Iris (Iris virginica) |
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| Hoverfly (Syrphus rectus) |
Juvenal's Duskwing |
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Durham, NC 4/4/24
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| Tiny Bluets |
Parlin's Pussytoes (Antennaria parlinii) female flowers |
Japanese Maple flowers |
Two-flower Melicgrass (Melica mutica) |
Squash Bug |
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| Sky over street |
Kwanzan Cherry |
Another Kwanzan Cherry |
Parlin's Pussytoes (Antennaria parlinii) female flowers |
Annual Fleabane |
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| Crossvine |
Bird Cherry (Prunus padus) |
Early Saxifrage |
Hearts-a-bustin' |
Male Eastern Bluebird |
Durham, NC 4/2/24
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| River Birch catkins |
Jumping spider (Pelegrina proterva) |
Longhorn beetle (Cyrtophorus verrucosus), a carpenter ant mimic, both in size and movement |
Hairy Sedge |
Mystery spider |
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| Smooth Blackhaw |
River Birch male catkins |
Sassafras flowers |
Hairy Sedge |
Brown Thrasher |
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| Brown Thrasher |
Young White-tailed Deer stag |
Same Young White-tailed Deer stag |
Another Young White-tailed Deer stag |
Same Young White-tailed Deer stag |
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| First Young White-tailed Deer stag |
First Young White-tailed Deer stag |
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