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Marie G. Selby Botanical Garden, Sarasota, FL 2/28/18
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Anole |
Bamboo with graffiti |
Banyan tree branches and fruits |
Floss Silk Tree |
Monarch on Butterfly Weed |
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Orchard Spider |
Yellow-rumped Warbler |
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Sarasota, FL 2/27/18
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The side of a local business' truck |
Banners |
Relatively small banyan tree |
Carolina Anole |
Common gallinule |
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Cuban Anole |
(Black) fish |
More (black) fish |
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Flower |
Great Egret |
Same Great Egret |
Sausage Tree (Kigelia africana) fruit |
Pipevine Swallowtail |
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Pipevine Swallowtail |
Same Pipevine Swallowtail |
American White Pelican (with breeding horn) |
American White Pelicans (three with breeding horns) |
Wildflowers seen in the grass |
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Willets |
South Lido County Park, Sarasota County, FL 2/27/18
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Catamaran, beached and apparently a permanent fixture |
Coconut |
Crablike Spined Orb Weaver |
Mystery fish in pond |
Orchard Spider |
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Orchard Spider |
Osprey |
Same Osprey |
Palm flowers |
Snowy Egret |
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Snowy Egret |
Turkey Vulture |
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South Lido County Park, Sarasota County, FL 2/26/18
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
Coconut |
Immature coconut |
Crablike Spined Orb Weaver |
Great Blue Heron |
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Great Blue Heron |
Another Great Blue Heron |
Great Blue Heron in tree |
Great Blue Heron |
Great Blue Heron landing in tree |
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Gulf Fritillary |
Karl with Great Blue Heron |
Discarded rose |
Southern Sarasota (mainland) |
Willet |
Sarasota, FL 2/26/18
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Anole |
Pink Wood-Sorrel |
White Ibis |
Adult and juvie White Ibises |
White Ibis group |
Sarasota, FL 2/25/18
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Blue Dasher |
Brown Pelicans (two juvies) |
Bumble Flower Beetle going under leaf litter |
Butterfly Weed |
Common Gallinule (Ringling Art Museum grounds) |
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Crablike Spined Orb Weaver |
Cuban Anole |
Florida Softshell Turtle |
Forster's Tern |
Forster's Tern with tiny fish |
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Forster's Tern about to dive |
Great Egret |
Great Egret |
Little Blue Heron. Taken by Karl D. Gottschalk |
Osprey in nest |
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Osprey with full nest view |
Osprey aloft |
Osprey landing, with eye visible |
Another view of osprey landing (in shade) |
Osprey |
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Palm Warbler |
Pileated Woodpecker |
Same Pileated Woodpecker |
Pink Trumpet Tree flowers |
Red Silk Cotton Tree flower |
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Female Needham's Skimmer |
Statue being enveloped by a banyan tree |
Royal Tern |
White Ibises |
White Ibis in duckweed-covered pond |
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Wildflowers in the grass |
Yellow-rumped Warbler |
White Ibis |
Juvie and adult White Ibises |
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Durham, NC 2/22/18
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Tiny beetle |
Mating tiny beetles |
Dusky ladybug beetle (Scymnus genus) |
Same dusky ladybug beetle |
Jumping spider (Pelegrina, maybe) |
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Tiny wasp |
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Durham, NC 2/21/18
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Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Chinch Bug (Blissus leucopterus) |
Frog eggs? |
Tiny insect |
Ladybug beetle (Scymnus rubricaudus) |
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Pennsylvania Bittercress |
Persian Speedwell |
Virginia Spring Beauty |
Pileated Woodpecker |
Red-shouldered Hawk |
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Wax Myrtle leaves |
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Durham, NC 2/20/18
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Jumping spider |
Leaf beetle |
Rove beetle, maybe |
Same rove beetle? |
Orb weaver (Mangora genus) |
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Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Brown-headed Nuthatch |
Same brown-headed nuthatch |
Same brown-headed nuthatch |
Globular springtail |
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Same globular springtail |
Spider |
Xyelid sawfly ovipositing |
Same xyelid sawfly |
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Durham, NC 2/18/18
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Female xyelid sawfly. ID thanks to Ken Wolgemuth. |
Same female xyelid sawfly |
Wasp |
Wolf spider |
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Another female xyelid sawfly |
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Durham, NC 2/17/18
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Song Sparrow |
Purple Dead-nettle |
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Durham, NC 2/16/18
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Male Eastern Bluebird |
Same male Eastern Bluebird, in another tree |
Maybe frog eggs? |
Male Red Maple flowers |
Part of a blooming male Red Maple tree |
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White-throated Sparrow |
Streetlamp that went on a little after 3 pm when some dark clouds blew over |
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North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, Orange County, NC 2/15/18
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Tufted Titmouse holding winged ant prey with its feet |
Here, one wing of the prey is visible. |
Here, the prey is held in the bird's beak. |
Another winged ant |
Orb weaver with yet another winged ant |
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Female Northern Cardinal |
Winter leaf of a Cranefly Orchid |
Winter leaves of another Cranefly Orchid |
Goldfish |
Trout Lily leaf |
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Water strider with winged ant prey |
Witchhazel buds |
Blooming Witchhazel |
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Durham, NC 2/10/18
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Billbug |
Jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum) that appeared on a woollen hat left on a trail bollard |
Same jumping spider |
Same jumping spider |
Same jumping spider |
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Same jumping spider |
Same jumping spider |
Another, smaller, jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum) |
A third jumping spider |
Wild carnivore scat, with evidence of eating furry prey |
Durham, NC 2/5/18
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Red-shouldered Hawk |
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Durham, NC 2/3/18
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Male Red Maple flowers |
Red-shouldered Hawk |
Same Red-shouldered Hawk |
Same Red-shouldered Hawk |
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Durham, NC 2/1/18
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet, eating Red Maple flower buds |
Same Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
Same Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
Same Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
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