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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/30/25
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| Roses |
Pink Wood-sorrel |
Lighthouse |
Courting Laughing Gulls |
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| Courting Laughing Gulls |
Same courting Laughing Gulls |
Mating Laughing Gulls |
Mating Laughing Gulls |
Mating Laughing Gulls |
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| White-colored blue-eyed grass |
Blue and white blue-eyed grass plants |
Black Walnut catkins and leaves |
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Springer's Point, Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/29/25
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| Male Eastern Towhee |
Morning Glory |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/29/25
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| Purple Martin in flight |
Purple Martin pair |
Purple Martins |
Meadow Garlic |
More Meadow Garlic |
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| More Meadow Garlic |
Little Quaking Grass |
Female House Sparrow |
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| Eurasian Collared Dove |
Same Eurasian Collared Dove |
Birdfoot Trefoil |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/28/25
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| Aster, maybe a Desert Dandelion, might not be native |
Sunset at Silver Lake |
Jellyfish |
Breeding Great Egret |
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| Firewheels |
Patch of Firewheels along the side of a boardwalk near the ferry landing |
Firewheel with bee |
Sleepy Catchfly seedheads |
American Lady |
Ocraoke Beach, Hyde County, NC 4/28/25
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| Sanderling with prey |
Other Sanderlings |
Willet |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/27/25
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| Sleepy Catchfly (Silene antirrhina) |
Sleepy Catchflies (Silene antirrhina) |
Sleepy Catchflies (Silene antirrhina) |
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Big Foot Island, Hyde County, NC 4/27/25
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| Terns on sand bars |
Royal Terns in flight |
Brown Pelicans |
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| Brown Pelicans, with the town of Ocracoke in the distance |
Another such view |
Brown Pelicans on a sand bar |
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Swan Quarter, Hyde County, NC 4/27/25
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| Thistle |
Pink Wood-sorrel |
Pink Wood-sorrel |
Mouse-ear chickweed |
Hedge Bindweed (a type of morning glory) |
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| Same Hedge Bindweed (a type of morning glory) |
Hoverfly (Toxomerus genus) on fleabane |
Fleabane with tiny fly |
False garlic |
More false garlic |
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| Double-crested Cormorant |
Blue Pigroot |
Another Blue Pigroot |
Common Blackberry |
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Nature Trail, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill 4/24/25
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| Wild Yam |
White-throated Sparrow |
SameWhite-throated Sparrow |
Common Water Strider |
Same Common Water Strider |
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| Wasp |
Virginia Pennywort |
Virginia Pennywort |
Virginia Pennywort |
Tulip Poplar |
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| Tulip Poplar flower and leaves |
Sweetshrub |
Sweet Cicely close-up |
Southern Wild Comfrey seedheads |
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| Silver-spotted Skipper |
Rue Anemone |
Rattlesnake Weed |
Another Rattlesnake Weed |
Rattlesnake Weed flower |
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| Pileated Woodpecker |
Oak Catkin |
Little Brown Jug flowers |
Midge on fleabane |
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| Fly |
Another fly |
Deerberry (near the parking lot) |
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Durham, NC 4/22/25
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| Yellowbelly Slider |
Yellow wood-sorrel |
Pearl Crescent |
Longhorn beetle (Euderces pini) |
Leafhopper nymph |
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| Same leafhopper |
Jumping spider (male Pelegrina proterva) |
Mystery jumping spider |
Same mystery jumping spider |
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| Herbwilliam |
Golden-backed Snipe Fly |
Egg, hatched out of |
Deertongue |
Crossvine |
Brown lacewing with prey |
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| Green lacewing larva with prey |
Asian Multi-colored Lady Beetle larva |
Antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) |
Antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) |
Antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) |
Allium |
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Durham, NC 4/21/25
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| Mock Strawberry fruit |
Eastern Tailed-blue |
Corn Speedwell |
Another Corn Speedwell |
Mystery bush, maybe American Black Elderberry |
Durham, NC 4/20/25
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| Violet Wood-sorrel |
Little Brown Jug |
Common Dandelion seedhead |
Red Tip Photinia |
Male Brown-headed Cowbird |
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| Hearts-a-bustin' |
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Durham, NC 4/18/25
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| Male Colonus Sylvanus attacking male Hentzia mitrata |
Narrowleaf Blue-eyed grass |
Common Vetch |
Female Hentzia palmarum |
Multiflora Rose |
Atamasco Lilies. Photo by Karl David Gottschalk. |
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| Oak catkin |
Spider |
Orchard Spider |
Close-up of oak catkin |
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Durham, NC 4/16/25
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| Two-flower Melic Grass |
Red Tip Photinia |
More Red Tip Photinia |
Pearl Crescent on trash |
Northern Mockingbird |
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| Hearts-a-bustin' flower and buds |
Hearts-a-bustin' flowers and buds |
Hearts-a-bustin' bud |
Common Cinquefoil |
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| Common Cinquefoil |
Chipping Sparrow |
Chipping Sparrow |
Chipping Sparrow |
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Durham, NC 4/14/25
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| Common Cinquefoil (Potentilla simplex) |
Red Tip |
Post Oak catkins |
Post Oak leaves and catkins |
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| Kentucky Bluegrass |
Red Tip |
Duckweed |
Azure Bluets |
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Durham, NC 4/13/25
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| Carolina Cranesbill |
Mock Strawberry |
Blue-eyed grass |
Mouse-ear chickweed |
Dovefoot Geranium |
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| Hearts-a-bustin' buds |
Hearts-a-bustin' buds |
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Durham, NC 4/12/25
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| Common Groundsel |
Boxelder Maple samaras |
Leafhopper (Sibovia occatoria). This brownish color is typical in spring; the yellow-and-black variety appears only in the summer. |
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle |
Edge of neighborhood swamp |
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| Purple Dead-nettle |
Black scavenger fly (Sepsis genus) |
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North Carolina Botanical Garden, Nature Trail, Chapel Hill, NC 4/9/25
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| Wood Violet (Violet palmata) |
Wood Violet (Violet palmata) |
Star Chickweed |
Southern Wild Comfrey |
Southern Wild comfrey flower |
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| Phlox |
Mayapple flower |
Little Sweet Betsy |
Another Little Sweet Betsy |
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| Jack-in-the-Pulpit |
Crane Fly Orchid |
Male North Carolina |
Blue Dasher |
Big Bee Fly |
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| Another Big Bee Fly |
Another Big Bee Fly |
Another Big Bee Fly |
Two ants? |
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| Azure Bluets |
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North Carolina Botanical Garden, NC 4/9/24
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| Hoverfly (Toxomerus geminatus) |
Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis) |
Goldenseal poster |
Buckbean |
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Durham, NC 4/8/25
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| Thick-legged Hoverfly (Syritta flaviventris) |
Thick-legged Hoverfly (Syritta flaviventris) |
Mock Strawberry |
Little Brown Jug flowers |
Ground Ivy |
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| Fleabane |
Field Madder |
Dovefoot Geranium |
Another Dovefoot Geranium |
Carolina Cranesbill |
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| Parlin's Pussytoes (Antennaria parlinii) |
Same Parlin's Pussytoes |
Two-flower Melic Grass |
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Durham, NC 4/5/25
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| Yellow Passionflower vine |
Virginia Spring Beauty |
Painted Buckeye |
Oak catkin |
Mouse ear chickweed |
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| Mock Strawberry |
Jumping spider (male Pelegrina proterva) |
Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) |
Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) |
Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) |
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| Jumping spider (Hentzia genus) |
Jumping spider (Hentzia genus) |
Jumping spider (Hentzia genus) |
Green Ash |
Local swamp edge |
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| Creeping Wood-sorrel? |
Common Yellow Wood-sorrel? |
Caterpillar |
Burning Bush flowers |
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| Bowl and Doily Spider |
Blueberry flowers |
Barklouse |
Azure Bluets |
More Azure Bluets |
Ebenezer Church State Recreation Area, Chatham County, NC 4/2/25
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| Virginia Spring Beauty |
Another Virginia Spring Beauty |
Pond with pine pollen |
Juvenal's Duskywing |
Field Pansy |
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| Common Blue Violet |
Brown-headed Cowbird |
Blue Corporal |
Hawthorn (Crataegus genus), with two spider webs |
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| Pine pollen on Jordan Lake |
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Durham, NC 4/1/25
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| Sassafras flowers |
Carolina Cherry Laurel |
Sassafras |
Robber fly (Dioctria genus) |
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| One of the first flowers on a new azalea bush |
Bracts on an American Hornbeam catkin |
Plum flower |
Flower fly (Toxomerus geminatus) |
Red Maple samaras |
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