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 |
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 | White Pelican (with breeding horn) | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Durham, NC 2/17/18
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| Song Sparrow | Purple Dead-nettle |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Durham, NC 2/3/18
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| Male Red Maple flowers | Red-shouldered Hawk | Same Red-shouldered Hawk | Same Red-shouldered Hawk |
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 |