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Durham, NC 4/30/15
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| Painted Skimmer |
Ashy Clubtail |
Question Mark |
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Durham, NC 4/29/15
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| Male
Zabulon Skipper |
Male
Eastern Tailed-Blue |
Flower fly
(Toxomerus genus) on Blue-eyed Grass |
Carpenter Bee |
Stink bug
(Menecletes insertus) |
Penny's Bend Nature Preserve,
Durham County, NC 4/28/15
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| Bee fly,
hovering over a Winged Elm seed covering |
Golden-backed Snipe Fly |
Carolina Satyr |
Teneral Blue Corporal |
Male Blue Corporal |
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| Mystery
fly, maybe a snipe fly |
Spider,
something like the Castaneira genus |
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Durham, NC 4/28/15
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| Teneral
Eastern Pondhawk |
Five-lined Skink |
Crab spider
(Xysticus genus) |
Wolf spider |
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Duke Gardens, Durham, NC
4/27/15
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| Mallard ducklings |
Another
view of the ducklings |
Yet another
view, with two of the Mallard ducklings sticking their feet out |
Mallard drake |
Northern
Pintail Duck with Barnacle Goose and another in the background |
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| Turtle |
Another turtle |
Mating turtles, with pine pollen |
Turtle |
Carp |
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Durham, NC 4/24/15
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| Fish Crow |
Mating
Pearl Crescents |
Pearl Crescent |
Same Pearl Crescent |
Same Pearl
Crescent |
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Durham, NC 4/23/15
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| American Lady |
Caterpillar
Hunter with prey |
Three
Caterpillar Hunter beetles, one with prey |
A tiny
jumping spider (about 5 mm long) |
Leafhopper |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County,
NC 4/23/15
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| Bee (Nomada
genus) |
Bee |
Violet
Wood-Sorrel |
Hoary Puccoon (Lithospermum canescens) |
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Durham, NC 4/22/15
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| Caterpillar
hunter beetle (Calosoma scrutata) |
Juvenal's Duskywing |
Eyed Click Beetle |
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Durham, NC 4/21/15
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| Caterpillar
Hunter (Calosoma scrutator) |
Jumping
spider (Phidippus princeps) |
Sleeping
Eastern Tailed-Blue, one of dozens in a grassy area at around
7:30 pm |
Another
Eastern Tailed-Blue |
Fly |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC
4/19/15 (shortly before dawn)
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| Squirrel Treefrog?
This one was much bigger than the one on the right. But
this is a very variable species. |
Squirrel Treefrog.
ID thanks to Randy Emmitt. |
Feral cat.
Actually seen on 4/18, but put here for convenience. |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/18/15
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| Willet |
Sanderlings and a gull |
Sanderlings |
Ghost Crab |
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Springer's Point Nature Preserve, Ocracoke, Hyde
County, NC 4/17/15
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| Great
Crested Flycatcher |
Snake |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC
4/17/15
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| Palamedes Swallowtail |
American Oystercatchers |
Horned Grebes |
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| Grackle
reacting to cat |
Feral cat
eating grass |
Crane flies
mating |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/15/15
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| Sixteen Mallard ducklings |
Karl at
Herons Landing |
Female
Rambur's Forktail, seen at Nature Trail outside of town |
Two Green
Anoles apparently battling for territory; one was biting the
other. |
Green Anole |
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| Tiny caterpillar, seen at Nature
Trail |
Male
Red-winged Blackbird |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC
4/14/15
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| Male House
Sparrow |
American Mink
(Neovison vison) |
Same mink |
Same mink |
Same mink |
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| White Ibis |
Shield-backed bug |
Mallards |
Green Heron |
Eurasian Collared Dove |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/13/15
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| Blue-eyed Grass |
Common
Shore Tiger Beetle |
Cormorants and Royal Terns |
Willet |
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Pamlico Sound, NC 4/12/15
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| Herring Gull |
Juvenile Herring Gull |
Juvie Herring Gulls |
Adult and
juvenile Herring Gulls with a Laughing Gull |
A Laughing
Gull leads two juvenile Herring Gulls. |
Swan Quarter, NC 4/12/15
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| Barn Swallow |
Killdeer |
White Ibises |
Barn Swallow |
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Durham, NC 4/11/15
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| Eastern
Tailed-Blue, with puzzling coloring: male or female? |
March fly |
Teneral Blue Corporal |
Common Vetch |
Sweat bee? |
Durham, NC 4/8/15
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| Blueberry
flowers |
Eastern
Tailed-Blue |
Same (male)
Eastern tailed-blue |
Thick-jawed Orb Weaver (Pachygnatha genus) |
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Durham, NC 4/3/15
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| Eastern Hop-hornbeam
catkins (male) |
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Durham, NC 4/2/15
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| Green
Six-spotted Tiger Beetle |
Red Maple seeds |
Scarab
beetle (Hoplia trivialis) |
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