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Duke Gardens, Durham, NC 3/28/08
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| Five-lined Skink | Cloudless Sulphur | Carpenter Bee |
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| Mystery exotic duck | Mystery exotic duck | Male Mallard. It's interesting how the lack of reflective light leaves the Mallard's head mostly black, while the one feather is quite purple. |
Durham, NC 3/27/08
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| Pselliopus cinctus (a kind of assassin bug), was in flight and landed just before I took this picture. | Orange Sulphur |
Durham, NC 3/25/08
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| A somewhat faded Cabbage White |
Myrtle Beach (drainage ditch), Horry County, SC 3/19/08
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| Double-crested Cormorant |
Myrtle Beach State Park, Horry County, SC 3/19/08
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| Hermit Thrush, in maritime forest | Rock Dove, on pier |
Huntington Beach State Park, Georgetown County, SC 3/18/08
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| American Alligator |
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| American Alligator | American Alligator |
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| Double-crested Cormorant | Adult (background) and young Double-crested Cormorants | Greater Yellowlegs | Great Egret. Not sure what the stick-like projection from the tail is, but it kept this bird from flying. | Mute Swans | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Myrtle Beach, Horry County, SC 3/17/08
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| Killdeer, seen near a swamp | Bonaparte's Gull, in non-breeding plumage | |||||
Farrington Point, Chatham County, NC 3/16/08
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| Common Buckeye | Mourning Cloak | Dance Fly | Mystery cocoon |
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| Bowl and Doily Spider |
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC 3/14/08
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| Worker termite | Soldier termite | ||||
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| Plasterer Bees (Colletes thoracicus), Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 3/14/08. |
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| Katydid nymph (antennae were truncated) |
Penny's Bend Nature Preserve, Durham County, NC 3/13/08
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| American Snout | This mystery spider had very effective camouflage: only movement (very rapid!) gave it away. What's interesting, though, is that its pattern isn't that close a match to this tree bark (it's green-brown rather than pure brown), but its markings do the job by looking like shadows. | These are probably beetle larvae. Note that they don't have legs. |
Eno River State Park, Old Cole Mill Road access, Durham & Orange Counties 3/6/08
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| Bowl and Doily Spider | Another Bowl and Doily Spider with different coloring. | Eastern Comma, photo taken by Karl D. Gottschalk. To distinguish Eastern Commas from Question Marks, see the Anglewings Page. | Perhaps a midge, found on a Trout Lily petal. |
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC 3/2/08
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| Small Milkweed Bug | Red-eared Slider. Photo taken by Karl D. Gottschalk. |
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