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Durham, NC 3/31/19
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| Female Eastern Hop-hornbeam catkin |
Black Vulture |
Weevil |
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Durham, NC 3/30/19
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| Paperbark Maple (Acer griseum), a species introduced from China |
Purple Dead-nettles |
Sticky Willy (Galium aparine) |
Meadow Hawkweed (Hieracium caespitosum), Durham, NC, 3/30/17 |
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Durham, NC 3/29/19
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| Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle with aphid prey |
Downy Woodpecker |
Small scarab beetle |
Another small scarab beetle |
Song Sparrow at the local pond |
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| Caterpillar |
Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle |
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Durham, NC 3/28/19
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| Blueberry flowers |
Carolina Chickadee with nesting material |
Same Carolina Chickadee |
Chipping Sparrow |
Common Vetch |
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| Confederate Violet |
Male Eastern Bluebird |
Maybe a Winged Elm, but the bark doesn't seem right |
Male Rambur's Forktail |
Virginia Spring Beauty |
Durham, NC 3/27/19
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| Junk caught by a fallen tree on the Third Ford Creek Trail |
More junk farther down the creek |
Possibly a Paperbark Maple |
Same |
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| American Plum flowers |
Sugar Maple flowers |
More Sugar Maple flowers |
Tufted Titmouse |
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Durham, NC 3/26/19
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| Jumping spider |
Jumping spider (Hentzia mitrata) with aphid prey |
March fly |
Male Eastern Hophornbeam Catkin |
Durham, NC 3/25/19
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| Eastern Brownsnake |
Plum tree? |
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Flat River Waterfowl Impoundment, Durham County, NC 3/24/19
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| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
Same Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
Buttercup |
Common Dandelion |
Field Pansies |
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| Henbit |
Purple Dead-nettle |
Wild Mustard? |
Wild Mustard? |
Field Mustard |
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| Eastern Phoebe |
Purple Dead-nettles |
Question Mark |
Same Question Mark |
Red Maple seeds |
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| Sweat bee |
Another sweat bee |
Field Pansy |
Another Field Pansy |
Small Forget-Me-Nots (Myosotis laxa) |
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| Small Forget-Me-Nots (Myosotis laxa) |
Pennsylvania Bittercress |
Bee on Wild Mustard |
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
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| Carolina Chickadee |
Mouse-ear Chickweed |
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Durham, NC 3/23/19
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| White Clover (Trifolium repens) |
Durham, NC 3/22/19
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| White Trout Lily (Erythronium albidum), with flower fly |
Penny's Bend Nature Preserve, Durham County, NC 3/22/19
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| Bee |
Common Blue Violet |
More Common Blue Violets |
Cutleaf Toothwort |
Dutchman's Breeches |
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| Dutchman's Breeches |
Dutchman's Breeches |
Early Saxifrage |
Early Saxifrage |
Flower fly (Toxomerus genus) |
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| Green-and-Gold |
Lesser Celandine |
Little Brown Jug flower bud and some leaves |
Little Brown Jug leaves, apparently injured by recent harsh weather |
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| Mayapple |
Periwinkle |
Persian Speedwell |
Purple Deadnettle |
Round-lobed Hepatica flower |
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| Round-lobed Hepatica (leaf) |
Rue Anemone |
More Rue Anemone |
Another Rue Anemone flower |
Shield-backed Katydid |
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| Virginia Spring Beauty |
Another Virginia Spring Beauty |
Trout Lily |
Yellow Fumewort |
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| Yellow Fumewort |
More Yellow Fumewort |
More Yellow Fumewort |
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Durham, NC 3/18/19
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| American Elm flowers (Ulmus americana) |
American Elm seeds |
Common Blue Violet |
Downy Woodpecker |
Field Pansy |
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| Pennsylvania Bittercress (Cardamine pensylvanica) |
These might be American Elm buds |
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Durham, NC 3/22/19
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| Whitish Trout Lily, with flower fly (Toxomerus genus) |
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Durham, NC 3/17/19
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| American Elm seeds |
Azure Bluets (Houstonia caerulea) |
Field Pansy |
Red Maple seeds |
Winged Elm flowers |
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Carolina Lake, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/15/19
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| Breeding male Greater Scaup |
Same Greater Scaup |
Green Heron |
Pied-billed Grebe |
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| American Coot |
Small aster |
Field Pansy |
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Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC 3/14/19
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| Great Egret |
White Ibises |
More distant White Ibises |
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Carolina Lake, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/14/19
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| Male House Finch |
Killdeer |
Killdeers, maybe parent and offspring |
Mallards after mating |
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| Two Mallard pairs, three male Greater Scaups, and a female Bufflehead |
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| Mallards mating with an interloper perched on top of the male |
Mallard mating proceeding with interloper thrown off |
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| Mallards mating, with interlopers having given up |
Three male Greater Scaups and a female Bufflehead |
Two male Greater Scaups and the same female Bufflehead |
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| Female Bufflehead and three male Greater Scaups |
Mallards and Greater Scaups |
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Carolina Lake, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/13/19
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| Snowy Egret |
Pied-billed Grebe |
Killdeer |
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Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover County, NC 3/13/19
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| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
Teneral or female Blue Corporal |
Another teneral Blue Corporal |
Jessamyn |
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Carolina Lake (golden hour), Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/12/19
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| American Coots |
Canada Geese |
Double-Crested Cormorant |
Eurasian Collared Dove |
Mallard pair |
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| Common Starling |
Same Common Starling |
Turtles (Yellowbelly Sliders?) |
Greater Scaup pair |
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Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC 3/12/19
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| Blackberry flowers |
Forster's Tern |
Forster's Tern |
Forster's Tern |
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| Forster's Tern, resting |
Same Forster's Tern |
Two other Forster's Terns |
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| Forster's Tern landing |
Forster's Terns and a gull |
The same in a different light |
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| Forster's terns coming in for a landing |
Male Boat-tailed Grackle |
Six male Boat-tailed Grackles |
Ruddy Turnstone |
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| Tricolored Heron |
Common Yellow Wood-Sorrel |
Yellow-rumped Warbler |
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Carolina Beach Greenway, New Hanover County, NC 3/12/19
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| Male Northern Cardinal |
Another male Northern Cardinal |
Male Eastern Bluebird |
Same Eastern Bluebird |
Male House Finch |
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| Killdeer |
Juvie Little Blue Heron |
Little Blue Heron |
Northern Mockingbird |
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| Karl at southern greenway entrance |
Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis) |
Blue Jay |
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Carolina Lake, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 3/11/19
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| Belted Kingfisher |
Same Belted Kingfisher |
Green Heron |
Killdeer |
Same Killdeer |
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| Transitional Little Blue Heron |
Female Mallard |
Pied-billed Grebe |
Mystery bush |
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| Common Vetch |
Low Hop Clover (Trifolium campestre) |
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Durham, NC, 3/10/19
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| Beetle |
Jumping spider (Hentzia genus) |
Same spider |
Another jumping spider with what seems to be an aphid prey |
Common Mouseear Chickweed (Cerastium fontanum). This is an introduced plant. |
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| Pine Warbler |
Same Pine Warbler |
Tachinid fly |
Tiny wasp |
White-throated Sparrow |
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| Common Chickweed |
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Durham, NC, 3/7/19
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| Azure Bluets |
Male Northern Cardinal |
Common Blue Violet |
Crane Fly Orchid winter leaf |
Song Sparrow |
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| Red-shouldered Hawk |
Same hawk |
Song Sparrow |
Same Song Sparrow as above |
Trout Lily |
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| White-breasted Nuthatch |
Same White-breasted Nuthatch |
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Durham, NC 3/1/19
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| Northern Mockingbird |
Trout Lilies (Erythronium americanum) |
More Trout Lilies |
Another Trout Lily |
Tufted Titmouse |
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| White-throated Sparrow |
Female Northern Cardinal |
Male Northern Cardinal |
Common Blue Violet |
Common Chickweed (Stellaria media) |
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| Eastern Bluebird |
Mystery flowers |
Confederate Violet |
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