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Santee, SC 3/29/15
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| Field Pansy |
Plum flowers |
Possibly
ornamental sumac tree flowers |
Honeybee |
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St. Augustine Beach, St. Johns County, FL 3/29/15
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| A little
swamp, with duckweed and Spanish moss, in a drainage ditch. |
A wild
Lantana |
Royal Terns |
An
interesting house. At first I thought it was clothes
drying on a line. |
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St. Augustine Beach, St. Johns County, FL 3/28/15
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| Juvenile White Ibises,
on a front lawn |
Royal Tern |
Male Boat-tailed Grackle |
Savannah
Sparrow |
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Rookery, Alligator Farm, St. Augustine, FL 3/28/15
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| Great Egret
taking off |
Great Egret
displaying |
Same Great
Egret |
Great Egret in flight |
Another
Great Egret displaying |
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| Roseate Spoonbills |
Same
Roseate Spoonbills |
Same
Roseate Spoonbills |
Great Egrets |
Great Egret |
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| Tricolored Herons |
Tricolored
Heron |
Toucan (not
at rookery) |
Macaw (not
at rookery) |
Great Egret |
Anastasia State Park, St. Johns County, FL 3/28/15
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| Wood Stork |
Common Green Darner |
Common Buckeye |
Tiger
beetle (Cicindela scutellaris). ID thanks to
Ben Coulter. |
Juvenal's
Duskywing, maybe |
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| Juvenile
Little Blue Heron |
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Anastasia State Park, St. Johns County, FL
3/27/15
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| Florida
Softshell Turtle |
Fiddler crab |
Snowy Egret |
Katydid
nymph on a spiderwort leaf |
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St.
Augustine Beach, St. Johns County, FL 3/25/15
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| First-year Brown Booby |
Same
first-year Brown Booby with protective
Brown Pelicans |
Eurasian Collared Dove.
Their call is "Woo-hoo-hoo!" and they bray when they fly. |
Karl with two Brown Pelicans |
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| Breeding Sandwich Tern |
Royal Tern |
Another Royal Tern |
Female
Boat-tailed Grackle |
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Durham,
NC 3/24/15
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| Falcate Orangetip |
Green
Six-spotted Beetle |
Field Pansy |
Saucer Magnolia |
Winged Elm
flowers |
Durham,
NC 3/22/15
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| Sawfly
(Xyelidae family) |
Tiny black
jumping spider |
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Durham,
NC (Marsh) 3/18/15
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| Song Sparrow |
Same Song Sparrow |
Chipping Sparrow |
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Third
Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 3/17/15
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| White-throated Sparrow |
Same
White-throated Sparrow |
A
Red-shouldered Hawk that several crows tried to scare away,
without success. |
Large wolf spider |
Wasps
fighting. The rest is confusion and mystery. |
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| Henbit |
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Johnston
Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC 3/16/15
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| Plasterer
bee (Colletes genus) |
Trout
Lilies and Virginia Spring Beauties |
Crane Fly
Orchid winter leaves |
Round-lobed
Hepatica flowers |
Tiny wildflower, seen in the
middle of the trail, perhaps damaged by a lawn mower. |
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| Northern Brownsnake |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 3/16/15
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| Tiny wasp |
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Penny's Bend Nature Preserve,
Durham County, NC 3/15/15
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| Round-lobed
Hepatica (Hepatica americana) |
Round-lobed Hepatica |
Virginia
Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) |
Trout Lily, mostly unfolded |
Trout Lily |
Another Trout Lily |
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| Trout Lily |
Bloodroot |
Bloodroots |
Periwinkles |
Daffodils |
Durham, NC 3/12/15
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| Northern Brownsnake |
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North Carolina Botanical
Garden, Orange County, NC 3/11/15
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| Minnow, maybe an inch long |
Carolina Wren |
Carp, about an inch long |
Crane Fly Orchid winter leaves |
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| Leatherleaf |
Longleaf
Pine after controlled burn |
Large tadpole in motion |
Large tadpole at rest |
Two trees
grown together |
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| One
blooming Trout Lily |
The other
blooming Trout Lily |
Witchhazel |
Common Water Strider |
Blue Jay |
Durham, NC 3/10/15
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| Jumping spider |
Female
Northern Cardinal |
Male Red Maple flowers |
Purple
Deadnettle flowers |
Dark
Fishing Spider, with two legs missing |
Durham, NC 3/8/15
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| Northern
Mockingbird |
Ring-billed
Gull landing in the parking lot of my local shopping center |
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Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC
3/8/15
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| Rows of trees |
Northern Cardinal |
Siler's Bog |
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Durham, NC 3/7/15
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| Carolina Chickadee |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 3/4/15
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| Cedar Waxwings |
Male Mallard |
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Durham, NC 3/2/15
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| American Robin |
Downy
Woodpecker |
Pine tree down |
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